She just flies higher. Thats all there is to it. It doesnt matter who gets the lead, they are going to get caught. And she hammers it home. Announcer from nbc news, this is special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this monday morning. Another Beautiful Day at the beach. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Well check in with savannah in new york city in just a moment. If you are looking to rub elbows with the greatest swimmers in the world, this is where you want to do it today. We are talking about the greatest olympian of all time just arrived a few minutes ago. Michael phelps will be with us. Simone manual. So many more of those Medal Winners will be here from team usa and well talk to all of them coming up. Also well talk about that scary incident over the last 24 hours for another group of american swimmers including ryan lochte. They were robbed but unarmed. Well hear from ryan exclusively. Savannah, back to you in new york. You look great on the beach. A lot going on at home including a chaotic scene at jfks airport reports of shots fired led to panic, Mass Evacuations and grounded flights. A scary scene there. Police say those reports were unfounded but it was quite a frightening situation for thousands of passengers. Well have the latest. Wait until you hear what actually caused all of that raucous. Back to you in rio. All right. Well see you in a couple minutes. Lets begin with natalie and get a full wrapup of the olympic action from rio. Event of track and field. Mens 100 meter dash and for the Third Straight olympics, usain bolt reigned supreme. Here he is. S sill invincible. Usain bolt destroying the competition in the 100 meter dash, third consecutive gold medal in the event. First prsprinter to ever do so. The crowd in the stadium and his hometown erupted with cheers. After a slow start, bolt passed gatlin in the final seconds. Later, bolt embracing south africas wade who stunned the world sunday. They come to the finish. In his first olympics, the 24 beating Michael Johnsons record set in 1999. His coach, who also happens to be his great grandmother, looking on. In gymnastics, superstar simone biles once again taking gold delivering an amazing performance on vault to become the First American gymnast, male or female, to win three golds in a single game and she could pe beam today and the floor exercise tomorrow. Her teammate, madison, took silver on uneven bars. Great britain won its first gold medal in the floor exercise but brazil stole the show on the floor taking silver and bronze. Men shed tears of joy in front of a hometown crowd. American swimmers racked up 33 medals, 16 of them gold, led by superstars Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky. She hammers it home. Overnight, team usa crushed australia in womens Beach Volleyball. Kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross celebrating their win in front of an ecstatic crowd including snls leslie jones basketball team. They move to the semifinals against brazil. In tennis, triumph and disbelief. Monica winning olympic gold. First ever for puerto rico. The 22 year old overcome with emotion after her twohour match. Andy murray repeats as mens singles champion becoming the first player to ever win backtoback gold medals. Right now, u. S. With a commanding lead followed by china, Great Britain and russia. So what can you look forward to today . The final of the womens billion beam featuring simone biles and the mens 800 meter final and womens 400 final and quarterfinals in mens Beach Volleyball will get under way. Now the man responsible for six medals you just talked about in hrio. A record setting olympic career. Five games in all. 28 total medals including 23 gold. If phelps was a country by himself, he would have more gold medals than all about 32 of the 205 countries competing in these games. Michael, good morning. How are you doing . Good. Just kind of trying to let everything set in. Its been pretty awesome the last couple days being able to spend time with boomer and the family and seeing everybody before they took off either this morning or yesterday. Its the best way to finish. You know that old expression, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, same on me. We sat in london and you said done, done, done. Youre going to get the same response here. Done, done, i think like we talked early in the year i wanted to come back and finish the career the way i wanted. This was the cherry on top of the cake. You told me when we got together that you fell in love with swimming again. So im wondering if now you wont miss it more. After london you werent in love with swimming. I thought i can understand why he would want to get out. What about now . Thing between now and london is i was so much more emotional during these games. I think that showed at times on camera. I think thats the difference because i knew this was the last time. I knew this was the last race i ever had and last olympics that i ever had. Everything just really hit hard. And i guess some of it some people saw where as soon as i walked into friday night the tears started filling my eyes. Bob and i shared some of those emotional moments together. My last warm up. Last warm down. Last time putting on a suit. Last cold tub. Is this the last time we get i have a feeling not. You always kind of give me the straight arm when i ask you about your olympic goals, which i understood. Year old leaving swimming behind with a long life ahead of you. This is a part of my life where i get to start this whole new chapter. Continuing to build a family with nicole and continue to travel and change the sport of swimming in some way that i can. I really want to try to not only in the u. S. But also change drowning race that we have. Thats a goal of mine. Weve been able to teach thousands of kids. I want numbers higher. We have a full plate of schedule and things. I still have goals. Ryan lochte has had a rough 24 hours. Hes okay. Before the incident with the robbery he stopped by here. I want to show you what he can you look in the camera and say, michael, i will see you in tokyo . You know, i can definitely do you really . I think so. I really think so. So michael, ill see you in tokyo. He might be there. I wont be. Ill be there watching. Cheering everybody on. But i will not be in the pool competing. Last thing people often wonder about the future of swimming without Michael Phelps. Would you look across there for a second and is the future in good hands with the young lady named Katie Ledecky . We are in great shape. Not only with katie but with the team that we have now. Shes breaking records every time she gets in the pool. You know, its been an honor to be part of the team with her and some of the younger guys we have coming up in the sport that are going to take over. I told a bunch of them i wont be far away. If they ever need anything, to reach out. This has been such a passion of guys as much as i can. Thank you for giving us a front row seat to a great run. Congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] hoda . Katie, while michael is still over there hes taking his victory lap. How about you look at michael and tell us what impact has he had on swimming. I mean, hes been your mentor throughout this. A huge impact on a lot of the young swimmers that are on the team this year. We all looked up to him when we were 6 years old and to be on a team i didnt mean it like that. Im sorry. I started watching him when i was 6 years old first starting to get into the sport and to be on a team with him is such an hand nor, and to see his impact in the pool and outside of the pool. Thats why we came away with headline before you leave the olympics. Your headline was Katie Ledecky had fun. Tell us, how much fun did you have when you were at the Olympic Games . I had a ton of fun. I had my goals in the water, but one of those goals was also just to have fun. I couldnt have asked for a better time here with my teammates seeing them succeed and the fun we had outside of the water as well. It was the best. Matt, she looked like she was smiling in the pool sometimes when you were swimming. You had a smile. Were you feeling that good wn its fun to swim fast, yeah. Im happy with how this whole week has gone. Talk about swimming fast in the 800 you crushed the competition and you beat your own world record by two seconds. Afterwards you said Something Like i just thought i would go for it. Makes it sound like you can drop a world record at will. Is that the case these days . I mean, its never easy to break a world record, and it takes a lot of hard work and every day getting into the pool and i wanted to remember it really well. Theres a lot of hometown love. Youre from maryland. The capitals are playing against the braves. The nationals are playing against the braves. They decided to just stop and watch you on the big screen. Were you able to see a clip of that . I saw a clip of that. What does that make you feel like knowing the hometown crowd is cheering like that . It means so much to me to t ive received so many messages from everybody back home. I cant wait to get back home and celebrate with them. Katie, michael over there, the usa is awfully proud. Awfully, awfully proud. Congratulations on great Olympic Games. Michael, thank you, bud. All right. Lets go back to savannah in new york city. All right, guys. So fun to see those swimmers. Were rooting for them hard here for sure. Lets turn to the news now. New yorks jfk airport after reports that shots had been fired. Police evacuated terminal a at 9 30 last night. Flights were temporarily grounded. Multiple emergency agencies rushed to the scene and about 45 minutes after that, a second terminal, terminal one was also evacuated. This all started when a woman coming off a plane said she thought she had heard gunfire. It turns out cheering, clapping and loud celebrations from people watching, yes, the olympics may have been gunshots. Both terminals were searched and eventually cleared and things are back to normal there. Now to politics and major developments in the president ial race this morning. The conservative oped page of the wall street journal is calling on the Republican Party to essentially abandon donald trump if he doesnt change his ways on the campaign trail. Nbcs Hallie Jackson with the latest on all of it. Good morning. Reporter hi, savannah. Good morning. Not change, that he is who he is, pushing back against any talk of a pivot as his Campaign Hits back now this morning against a new report linking his top adviser to russia. This morning new questions about trumps ties to russia. A New York Times report linking his top d to a pro Russian Party in ukraine. Paul manaforts name appears 13 times in a ledger, saying he was paid 13 million in Cash Payments over a fiveyear period. The report not verified by nbc news. Overnight the clinton camp pouncing saying in a statement, trump has a responsibility to disclose any advisers ties to russian or prokremlin entities. Paul manafort responding saying to nbc news, i never received a single off the books cash payment as falsely reported by the New York Times nor have i done work or russia, calling the suggestion he accepted Cash Payments unfounded, silly and nonsensical. Among a blistering ultimatum by the wall street journal saying if by labor day donald trump doesnt shape up, the gop should give up, to focus instead on keeping its senate majority. The editorial wraps up with a warning. Quote, trump needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he want president or turn the nomination over to mike pence. Another round of trump versus the media. Im not running against crooked hillary clinton. Im running against the crooked media. Reporter the candidate in a tweet storm argues he would be winning by 20 points if it werent for what he considers unfair coverage. Hes appearing before 10,000, working contrary to what the media is saying. Trump will be out on the campaign trail focused on Foreign Policy today. In a Major National security speech, a Senior Adviser telling nbc trump will paint the fight against isis as an ideological battle. Clinton is on the trial and shell be joined by Vice President joe biden in his hometown of scranton saying biden will portray trump as the least prepared nominee ever. Savannah. Hallie jackson in washington. Thank you so much. 7 17. Back to rio. You all look so cute this morning. Thank you. So do you. Thank you. You look great. Lets get a first check of the weather. Mr. Roker is here after a late night for you. I got to tell you, our hearts and thoughts are going out to everybody in louisiana. It is awful there. President declaring a state of emergency. At least 20,000 high water rescues. At least five deaths blamed on more heavy rain and floodwaters will continue to rise. And weve got this misery coming for other parts of the country. That tropical moisture gets pulled up into the midwest as wave after wave of upper level low pressure systems develop and push their way in. Rainfall amounts will equal anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain stretching from texas into louisiana and parts of arkansas as well. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next . Especially when it comes to snacking. With the laughing cows nine flavorful varieties of creamy cheese, theres no end to what you can discover. And once you get a taste for the new, chances are you wont stop there. Thats your latest weather. Guys . Al, thank you very much. Dont forget, you can catch nbcs prime time coverage of the Olympic Games tonight starting at 8 00, 7 00 central with gymnastics and track in the spotlight. Comiing up, guess whos her . Simone manual is here with us live in the studio and looking good. Exclusive interview with ryan lochte. What happened when he and three fellow americans were held up at gunpoint here in rio. Just ahead, just ahead, this is your moment, this is your time. I believe in you. Congratulations bro on a job well done. Im so proud of you. 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Beyond that, the potential rain across the state is very, very limited, most of us at well less than 1 10 inch even if you manage to get a shower today, which a lot of us wont. 80s, 90s around here today with mainly sunny sky, brief wind producing thunderstorms today, tomorrow, wednesday and 7 30 on a monday morning. . 7 30 on a monday morning. The 15th day of august, 2016. How can you beat this . Stunning. Unbelievable. Down there on the end of the screen, thats our home away a Beautiful Day. Heres what happens when you take an olympic legend and put him into the crowd. A great moment for people coming to the Olympic Games for 10, 20 years, and now they get to meet Michael Phelps in the flesh. And we thank them for coming down and doing that. The minute steps out, the crowd just starts going for it. All right. Well begin this half hour with your olympic headlines. Usain bolt proved once again that he is the fastest man in the world. Capturing a Third Straight gold in the 100 meter dash. Justin gatlin took silver in that one. And sarah robles won the first weightlifting medal for the u. S. In 16 years. She got a bronze inhe kilograms category. Con gradgratulations to her. And Gr