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To go for gold, today, tuesday, august 9th, 2016. Murphy took off like a rocket right there. Look at him go. They made it look so effortless. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to a special edition, split edition of today on a Tuesday Morning. Were in Great Company here in Rio De Janeiro. Want to say hi to some folks that have come down to our set to join us. In the background here we have david boudia and Steele Johnson swimmers that took home medals after another intense night at the aquatics. Were back here along copacabana beach on a nice morning and another event today. This one is a birthday. Happy birthday to you. Isnt it fun having these Medal Winners here. Something about turning around and seeing them holding their hardware which is awesome. By the way, were here in ri back in new york city. Savannah, you have a lot cooking there as well. Yesterday you guys had the oiled up flag bearer from tonga and the zumba band. Not to be outdone. This will last all morning long. Raising a glass to you, hoda, for your birthday. Thank you, savannah. Our big story will be another rough morning for delta passengers. Hundreds of Flights Canceled again today. The airline is recovering from that mass outage that grounded travel woes here. Guys, back to you. All right, savannah. Thank you very much. On this Tuesday Morning, lets start with your olympic highlights. Natalie is here with a roundup. Good morning once again. From triumph to heartbreak to new rivalries, team usa had another wild night in rio. This morning two more u. S. Swimmers are basking in the golden spotlight. Lillia king going hea 100 meter breaststroke. King has the lead. Shes going to win it. King taking the gold medal. King took the russian to task mocking her opponent for claiming she was number one. Just moments before last nights race, the women refused to acknowledge each other but after her victory, king didnt hold back. We can compete clean and do murphy stretching to the wall. American ryan murphy dominated earning gold and a place in history. Murphys parents celebrated their sons win cementing him as one of the worlds most elite backstrokers, an achievement the 21 year old had entire life. I hope ill break the world record. I want to be the best swimmer in the world. And tonight Michael Phelps will compete in the 200 butterfly against his nemesis. Monday night phelps shot a nasty look at his rival who was shadow boxing before their semifinal. Phelps doing his best to stay focused. Its like hes going through a boxing routine and phelps is, and the father of olympic diver Steele Johnson was fired up. Watching his son and diving partner david boudia take silver in mike penens siynchronized d. For the u. S. Mens gymnastic team. Heartbreak. Failing to make finishing fifth in the team final. Sticking together despite the fall. And in judo, silva came out on top earning the first gold medal of the games for the host nation. Her victory an inspiration for the hometown crowd growing up in poverty in one of rios most dangerous neighborhoods. A fairy tale ending for the inspirational young woman. So great for her. Katie ledecky qualified while Missy Franklin who dominated in london failed to advance. Looking at the medal count. The United States Holding Strong increasing their lead with 19 total through monday followed by china, japan and russia. Matt, great start. It really is, natalie. Thanks very much. Lets bring in those divers behind the best u. S. Finish ever in mens synchronized 10 meter these are heaviest medals ive seen. Do you mind . My goodness. Those are fantastic. Can i repeat what i just said. The best u. S. Finish ever in this event. How is that . Its great. To do it alongside this guy. Weve trained day in and day out. The venue yesterday. What i like most about this silver medal is you guys had your best score on your last dive so when it was all on the line, you came up with your best dive. Typically thats a dive that doesnt go well in training. Im so tall its hard for me to make. The fact that we were able to do it as well as we did, it was exciting for me. You mentioned your so tall. Would you stand up for a second. I want to show something. At first look, this is Perfect Match physically for synchronized diving. You can sit again. Why does it work so well . I think growing up we had the same coach and how we train at Purdue University and we have the same mechanics and obviously height doesnt matter. We walked away with a silver medal. It works for us. When you get the medal, do you stop and go back to all of the early mornings, all of the late nights, all of the drives sacrifices. Thats whats so hard about training for the Olympic Games. Its a daily sacrifice but this is a reward. My wife and my daughter and my family has been so supportive. Youre a couple hoosiers. Who do you want to say hi to home. Specifically boilermakers. I mean hoosiers as in the state. A lot of my family is here but boilermaker nation is out there and theyve been david boudia and Steele Johnson, great job. Lets go over to hoda. Really great job. Now to some of team usas swimmers who won medals on monday. Kathleen baker took silver in womens 100 meter backstroke. David plummer in mens 100 meter backstroke. Good morning you Medal Winners. How are you . Kathleen, how did it feel . Look up and see your family right there on the railing. What was it like during that moment for you . I think it was just fewpure. I didnt expect a medal at all. It was a complete surprise and happy i swam that well. There was earring gate. When you were swimming in the trials one of your earrings was lost and then some scuba diver found it and it became sort of just a story here. Did you end up earrings for good luck or how did it work . I went to see my sister after prelims 100 back and i asked can i borrow your earrings. I need to swim with pearls. I always do. Congratulations to you. You wanted to be in the olympics for 12 years. I think in london you missed going to the olympics by 0. 012 of a second. How sweet was it winning bronze this year . Greatest team of alltime and its awesome to be here. You have kids. You have two and then a newborn, right . I have two. One and a newborn. Do you think your kids will hop in the hollywopool early . I think we might. Hopefully they enjoy it as much as i do. Katie, first olympics for you. You hit the bronze. Youre on the what was that anthem like . We found out afterwards that no two u. S. Women have been on the podium together in the history of u. S. Womens swimming. We push each other to get better over the last two years. It was cool to experience that with her. Congratulations on your medals. Were so proud of you. Lets turn to gymnastics as we said the u. S. Men finished fifth in the Team Competition. The women will get their turn at gold tonight. And here now with a look back and ahead nbc sports analyst and olympic Gold Medalists. Nice to see you. Let us start with men. Disappointing. A lot of talk they had a chance to get to the podium. They finished fifth. Was this about the other competitors being better or was their performance substandard without a question the u. S. Men were capable of winning a medal and contending even for gold but they started off really rough on the first event on floor exercise and then they kind of got it going and right at the end i never imagined he would come off the bar like that. Hes tremendous there. It just didnt get going. It ended poorly as well. And as i watched and he long, my first thought was he hurt, it was really that he couldnt believe what had just happened. He was in complete shock and devastation because he was the anchor. He was the last one to go up. They thought maybe they had a chance to at least clinch the bronze medal. He had no idea what happened in that moment. Lets talk about the women. Its a big night. So far out in front. Everyone is expecting gold. They finished qualifications ten points ahead of the next country. Thats never been done before. It shows how dominant they are. They continue to be so dominant. Have you ever seen anyone like simone biles . Youve seen it all over the years. How does she rank . She hasnt lost a single competition in her last four years. Just like team usa as a whole, simone biles, the world has been waiting to see her on the olympic stage. She was finally able to do that. Shes expected to win. She delivered when she needed to. Tim, let me ask you about that. If youre coaching the womens team going into this competition tonight, what do you tell them how do you tell them to handle this mentally . Take it one step at a time and do exactly what they did day one. This team from the very beginning they have been put under so many different situations, so much stress, so much pressure. Day in and day out. Its not a new know how to rise to that occasion. They truly are the most dominant team in gymnastics ever. Simone biles is the greatest gymnast that ever walked this planet. No pressure. I think shes going to go away from these games with five gold medals. There are only six to be had. Wow. High praise from a couple of people that know the sport. Thank you so much. Well hear from simone biles just ahead. Womens team go for that gold along with Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky during nbcs prime time coverage at 8 00, 7 00 central here on nbc. Right now lets send it back to new york and savannah. Lets start with the president ial race. Election day now just 90 days away and our new poll just out this morning Shows Hillary clinton opening up a double digit advantage. 5141 over donald trump. This is clintons largest lead yet in our nbc monkey online tracking poll and shes above 50 . Nbcs Hallie Jackson is in North Carolina where trump has two events today. Hallie, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. As we look at those new numbers, were also looking at donald trump losing more support from inside his own party. Another member of congress now saying she cant back him. Its a move that could open the door for others in the gop to break with their nominee. Collins writing there will be no new donald trump, just the same candidate who will slash and burn and trample everything and everyone. Her scathing oped following Security Experts saying donald trump would be the most reckless president in american history. Making a statement as trump now makes one of his own. Politically motivated, he calls the letter, written by the ones the American People should look to for answers on why the world is a mess. Trump on defense online too attempting to link Hillary Clintons email controversy to the execution of an Iranian Nuclear scientist who spent time in the u. S. Trumps running mate working to mr. Trump to stop saying crazy and offensive things for the next three months . Well, you know, ill tell you, this campaign is head down going after it hard. Trump is going after the middle class vote now in detroit unveiling a new streamlined tax plan with plan to renegotiate trade deals taking aim at his democratic rival. One common feature Hillary Clinton idea is that it punishes you for working and doing business in the United States. Reporter trump is getting more competition in this race today too with a new independent candidate looking to throw his rat into the ring. Former congressional staffer looking to put up a bid but with zero name recognition and ballot deadlines come and gone in half of the country, its a long shot nationally. Hallie jackson in battleground North Carolina for us. Thank you. In the meantime, the parents of two americans killed in the 2012 terrorist attacks in benghazi, libya, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. The parents of sean smith and tyrone woods say her use of the private email server contributed to the in response to the suit, a Clinton Campaign spokesperson says none of the multiple investigations found any evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton. Another big story. Delta canceling nearly 250 more flights this morning as that Airline Tries to recover from a monstrous system outage on monday that saw nearly 900 Flights Canceled. Delta says it will hand out refunds and 200 travel vouchers to affected passengers. The airline urged customers who were flying today to check the status of their flights on their website. Three girls were injured after falling from a ferris wheel in tennessee. The girls fell between 35 and 45 feet. Two of them were taken to the hospital by helicopter. Another one by ambulance. All three are alert this morning and said to hospital staff. Still unclear how this happened. And in the meantime, in kansas city, police say that a boy who was killed sunday while riding down the worlds tallest water slide died from a neck injury. Two adult women who were in the raft with him suffered minor facial injuries. Authorities still dont know what caused that accident. Its 7 18. Youre up to date. Lets send it back to the folks in rio. Sad story, savannah. Weve been talking about whats been going on along the gulf and a real mess. Look at some of this video out of st. Petersburg just in. You can see the flooding just massive amounts of rain. Guy hanging around is going to spend time in the drunken clam because of the heavy rain. Its going to continue. Look at the radar. We have heavy showers and thunderstorms stretching from the big bend area of florida all of the way south of new orleans and its going to continue during the day today into friday. This gulf moisture High Pressure off the east coast pumping up that moisture. We could see rain totals approaching a foot of rain before its over. It continues through tomorrow, thursday, and probably comes to an end around friday. Well get to your local forecast well get to your local forecast poor well get to your local forecast foster kid black small muslim the only label that matters is olympian. Another dr go through the and and evening, we have scattered showers, staying cloudy, a few showers overnight, the rain chance is it 70 and rain chances are 60 and were drier by the end of the week. And thats your latest weather. Something cool just happened. 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Well see rounds of rain rolling in from the gulf. This is from hudson bay to this area. This heavy rain will continue to spread on store, even since the last 12 hours. Weve seen more than an inch of rain in that location. 70 rain chances throughout the westbound i4, those delays starting here about forbes road all the way through mango. This is due to a jackknifed tractortrailer. No lanes are blocked. This is a visual delay. If youre in a hurry use 574 or 92, and northbound 75 near 54th avenue delays and 75 southbound out of pasco, a crash at 52. . . . . . Come seek the Royal Caribbean . Y22why yi0y were back now. 7 30 on a Tuesday Morning, august 9th, 2016. 8 30 in and weve got a great crowd keeping us company on copacabana beach. Yes, we do. Thats a rocking crowd. Theres a woman there, do you see her there with a big cut out face of her daughter . Her daughter is playing basketball for serbia and they are both u. S. Air force vets. Cool story. Thank you for coming down more medals for team usa in swimming last night led by ryan murp murphys gold and a new record in 100 meter backstroke. Lilly king did the same in 100 meter breaststroke. Just down the beach, Kerry Walsh Jennings and mens rug by returns to the olympics. Technically they are the reigning champs. Theyll face argentina. Okay. Weve got a lot to get to. Another american in the spotlight. Katie ledecky swims for another gold medal tonight. Katie ledecky already one of watch in rio. Likely not the last time Katie Ledecky will stand atop the medal podium. Do you mind if i read you some of the things ive read about you lately. Most dominant swimmer in the world. Greatest swimmer of alltime. Greatest athlete on the planet. I dont have a question but whats your reaction to that . Thats kind of crazy for me just having fun in the pool. 15yearold Katie Ledecky. At 15 years old, a young Katie Ledecky made her olympic debut and she remembers it as if it were yesterday. It was amazing being in london. I got to go to opening ceremonies. I walked into that stadium and saw all of the lights and it just took me back to watching on tv the olympics when i was 11 or 7. It was a surreal experience. At age 10 katie was competitive not letting setbacks stand in her way. In fourth grade i broke my arm playing basketball in gym class. One of the first questions i asked can i keep swimming . Can i still be in the water . He gave me this special plastic bag that was tight on my arm and i could wear that and kick with the kick board. She looks like air off in the water. Now 19 and already a twotime Gold Medalist, katie comes to rio with a target on her back. Can you swim fast with that big target attached to your back . I dont think theres a target on my back ill just flick it off. Its not going to weigh me down. But the ledecky threat is real as katie excels in short and Long Distance events. In the 2015 World Championships, 800 and 1,500 meter races. One of the most dominant forces in the world in any sport from any country. I always like to ask athletes before they head off to the olympics, write the headline for me. Write the headline that you would like to read, katie, as you swim your last race in rio. Katie ledecky has fun in i dont know. Thats all i want to do. I want to have fun both competing and just enjoying every moment. Isnt that what its all about . Just having fun. Medals come, great. But just have a good time. It makes you love her. I didnt think i could love her more until that last answer. That was awesome. Katie told me she doesnt have any plans to turn pro after fall and compete at the collegiate level. Wow. That is pretty awesome. Really great. The interesting thing, we consider her a friend of the show, and shes been around a long time. I mean, check out her appearance on today more than 18 years ago. Where is this little one from . Maryland. 16 months. Katie ledecky and michael ledec ledecky. Can we say grandparents . Everybody got hellos. I look like i swallowed Katie Ledecky. Its so cool. I said this a couple times. Katies uncle john, we went to high school together. Dear friend of mine. Thats amazing. Thats how old i am now. People who are adults were were in the womb when they showed up on the today show. Fantastic. All right. Heres your weather. Before they had satellites i was working. Look at the weather were expecting over the next several days here in rio. Gorgeous today. Sunny, 81 degrees. Showers tomorrow about 74. Thursday partly cloudy. Temperature about 71 degrees. Weather any time you need it. Check out the Weather Channel on cable. Up next, gymnastics star simone biles will try to live up to very big expectations as we are live from rio right after this. . Olympic glory doesnt just belong to athletes. And it doesnt just happen every four years. It happens one morning at a time. And one cup at a time. Folgers, proud sponsor of team usa. 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Her near Perfect Performance helped the u. S. Dominate on sunday and even before she goes for gold, shes already being compared to olympic legends like Michael Phelps and usain bolt. You have to represent team usa. Simone biles isnt just conquering the bar, shes raising it. I think the fun of the sports in knowing how wide range it is. We can do anything really. This 19yearold phenom is on fire. The first female gymnast to win three straight World Championships. Threetime World Champion at 19 years old. How do you even get your mind around that . Just because in the gym and outside im still just simone. And just simone is in a league of her own. A 49 powerhouse dominating the field. You were just 6 years old when you got started in this sport. I thought it was kind of cool. And then as our day care field trip we went to the gym and i saw girls in the back working her playground now the olympic stage where a Spring Loaded simone delivered a near flawless performance during rios qualifying session sunday night. A combination of power and precision earning her event high marks on the vault, the beam and the floor where she wowed the crowd with her signature move, the biles. Its a doublea with a half turn so ill flip twice in the air straig b as a little girl her gymnastics prowess stood out and her natural ability was off the charts. Simone started homeschooling at age 13 to go full speed ahead. In 2013, she burst onto the International Stage after winning her first u. S. Championship at 16. My favorite event is floor. Thats where you really shine . That and everyone gets to show a little bit of their personality and everyone can have a different type of music on the vault, simone is considered one of the best ever scoring against gravity. What goes through your mind before you take off on the vault or youre getting ready to do your floor routine . I tell myself confidence and i remind myself how many times ive done this vault and that its kind of autopilot as soon as i start running. I dont overthink anything. Simone trainsh borman. Whats your hardest event . Bars. You can power through it. Since i started late, bars, i didnt have basics that i needed to start. Floor, vault and beam came easier. For all of her strength when simone is out with friends, shed a am its to one big weakness. We all love shopping just because were girls. Thats what we like. Hunk. Tell me about this obsession with zac efron. I think hes hot. He has a good body. Is there somebody you look up to and admire most . My parents. Especially my mom just because im just like her. Thats what my dad tells me. Youre just like your mother. In rio as to add to the journey. What advice would you give someone that wants to be like simone biles . I would say have fun. Thats when your best memories are made. I always kept it fun. I think thats where my passion from the sport comes from. Shes clearly having a lot of fun here already. Mary lou retton calls her the most talented gymnast she has ever seen. One day she may go into the thats in the future. For now, focusing on gold is key for her. Lets focus for a second on her crush. She talked about zac efron. He tweeted her. He wrote so phenomenal. A skills named after her. Congrats on sticking the biles and qualifying for the finals. Im sure she screen saved that one. It appears that she also is head over heels for the brazilian gymnast. The message with a kissy face emoji. By the way, shes also having such a great time. You can tell with her post and with the girls. Shes enjoying herself. 48 and the height she gets off the floor. Crazy. Defies physics. Coming up, billy bush is in the orange room with what people . About an epic theres nothing like trying something new. 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Pascoe county backed up here because of an accident passed 54 well leave you with video of localized flooding in pascoe county between u. S. 19 and little road just a reminder, do not drive through standing water, we want everything to be safe. The today show continues after its 8 00 on today. Coming up, swimmers strike gold. Shes going to win it. She did it american lilly king dominates the 100 ryan murphy takes only the 100 meter backstroke. While divers david boudia and Steele Johnson snag a silver medal for team usa. Now all eyes turn to womens gymnastics tonight as the american women look to take home the gold. Welcoming us with open arms, we take a trip to see rios iconic cooperate . And branching out. Dont look down. Dont look down. Keir simmons explores the country beyond rio with an adventure in the amazon climbing high to get a birdseye view. The view is stunning. Today, tuesday, august 9th, 2016. From new york to rio the today show hi from Rio De Janeiro and the today show. Good morning seattle from the today show in rio. . Happy birthday, hoda all right. Were back now. 2016. Another great crowd on copacabana beach. Beach volleyball in the background. Another sunny, beautiful morning. What happened to your sweater . That sweater seemed like a good idea at 6 30 in the morning. Not a good idea when the sun came out. What is the temp . About 80 degrees. Its gone up. Showers tomorrow. By the way, here in rio, perfect sleeping weather. At night if you open the window, you get the nice volleyball and a temperature of about 65 degrees. Meanwhile, were still in the opening days of these Olympic Games. So far the aquatic stadium proving to be a very cool place for team usa. Lets head over to nbcs Peter Alexander at olympic park. Hes got more on the competition. Peter . Reporter good morning to you. Already a warm one here at olympic park and things are certainly going to get heated at the pool this evening. After a night showcasing the rivalry and settling the stage for the culmination of another. On day three of these Olympic Games, poetry in motion. Ryan murphy clinching gold. The sixth straight time an american has won this event. With his teammate david grabbing the bronze in the race. Plummer is the oldest swimmer in the olympics since 1984. Its awesome to be here. Lilly king powering ahead of russian Yulia Efimova beating her out in a race that was about more than swimming. In sunday nights final, the russian caught up in a doping scandal but cleared to compete. King not holding back after her victory last night. Im just really proud to represent the usa and be successful for them knowing that im competing clean and doing what i know is right. Tonight all eyes will be on Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky. Phelps facing off against chad le clos who tried to psych him out before last night while ledecky goes for gold. Missy franklin failing to make the cut. In gymnastics, agonizing loss for the mens team missing the podium for a fifth place finish. A heartbreaking fall off the high bar. The 24 year old staying on his knees for a few moments before remounting and finishing his routine and in mens beach austria has upset the United States. Can you believe it . They lost their second Beach Volleyball preliminary match to austria. The women finished strong. Threetime olympic Gold Medalist kerri Walsh Jennings and april ross beating china in straight sets. We appreciate this match. Im proud of us but now we go. He doesnt compete until saturday but the worlds fastest man is usain bolt announcing that the rio games will be his last olympics. I think this is the last one for sure. Ive done enough. Ive proven myself over and over again. Im looking forward to this one also. One of the best moments of the games happened late yesterday. Brazils first gold in judo. Thats how she celebrated rios most dangerous neighborhoods. Right now lets look at where the medal count stands at the time. Team usa fortifying their lead now well ahead of china, japan and russia and there is a full plate of action in store today including some of americas biggest names. U. S. Womens gymnastics squad are todays favorite for gold in the Team Competition and back to swimming. Katie ledecky in the fr freestyle and 200 meter butterfly for Michael Phelps. And mens 4x200 freestyle relay as well. U. S. Favored for gold there as well. Back to you. Thank you very much. We have more from rio in just a moment. First, savannah is back in new york with the mornings top stories. Good morning again. With only 90 days until the president ial election, hillary tenpoint lead over donald trump and our online tracking poll it is just out this morning. On monday trump unveiled the latest version of his plan to overall t overhaul the tax code. It would reduce taxing for everyone. This morning, maine senator Susan Collins became the latest republican to say she would not support trump and 50 Top Republicans including two former Homeland Security circulated a letter saying they wont vote for trump. Three girls are recovering after falling from a ferris wheel in tennessee on monday night. The victims plunged 35 feet before hitting the ground. All three were taken to the hospital where they were conscious and answering questions for investigators. Firefighters had to rescue other riders stranded on that ferris wheel when it was shutdown. Kansas city police say that a boy who was killed on sunday neck injury. They also revealed that the body of 10yearold kaleb schwab was found in the pool. The park has not released any other details about what caused that accident. Other news now, its hard to tell who enjoyed this golf outing more, president obama or his guest. The president , of course, well known basketball man hosted vineyard. Curry joked he was distracted by all of the secret Service Agents and by the president s trash talking. And dopey the dwarf is never going to shake off that name with video youre about to see. Dopey, that was dopey in green on upper deck of a steamboat stumbling down during a Hollywood Studios in florida. Goofy was there to break his fall. Both cast members were checked at the scene and released. Tell me that al roker is there for daffy ducks reaction. Donald duck. Wrong studios. Does anybody know what this duck is saying . After the fall was he checked out by doc . He was feeling a little grumpy. There you go. You could have gon farther, savannah. We obviously did. Thank you very much. Up next, the Science Behind simone biless dominance in gymnastics. Plus, what happened when team today took a trip to the christ the redeemer statue. Christ the redeemer statue. Why am i hanging 200 there are a lot of phone deals out there. But its not a good deal if its on a bad network. 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Were back now. This is a great time for a rio edition of trending. Absolutely. All the talk in rio has been about simone biles and her the New York Times took a look at the Science Behind the superstar gymnast. She designed a move thats one of the most difficult seen in the sports. Its called the biles. Its a double lay out with a half twist and blind landing. Simone first performed it back in 2013. No other gymnast has even tried it in competition. So, hoda, how does she do it . Simones starting run is harder and faster than others so she can take fewer steps and generate more power. That en and do more with her routine. While she stands at only 48, simone reaches double that height in her floor program. Experts also say she has probably better wiring in her nervous system giving her better motor skills. Incredible. My system gets nervous when i watch her. Exactly. Did you happen to see that sweet on social media. It shows his grandma back home in a nursing home. Shes 95 years old. Look at what shes carrying. Her very own olympic torch. Ryan saying shes representing team usa and no doubt she is going to be watching tomorrow night when ryan swims the 200 meter individual medley. Proud grandma right there. Diving a trending topic this morning not just because team usa won silver in the synchronized event. Look at thesema competition. Do you notice anything unusual . Just hold that for a second. Anything unusual back in the crowd . Anything. Theyre nude. It looks like censorship thanks to strategically placed graphics. It makes it look like theyre nude. Music change here. Al, you would go there. Whats nice is that some of them needed larger graphics than others. I know i said it, al, but you were thinking it. Not about the size of the graphics. Speaking of diving, earlier we talk to david boudia and Steele Johnson. Theyre back with us and they have a surprise. Guys . . Look at the coaster. David, come around here. Steele, come back here also. Can i try it on . Its your birthday. Are you allowed . Still competing. Thank you. Hoda is not having any fun in rio. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Our pleasure. Thank you. Happy birthday. I need that. Ill take that back. Right about now. Share the wealth. Have you met her . She cant run far. Billy, you want to pop start. Talked about yesterday. Leslie jones has become the most spirited cheerleader of team usa and now all of her hard work has paid off. Guess who is going to rio . Guess who is going to rio . Shes not lying. Leslie is rio bound. Shes formally accepted an invitation from nbc olympics leslie, when you get here. Come on by. Say hello. And the girl from ep epenama streamed more than 30,000 times a day. 1,200 increase for a song released in 1964. Cant get it out of my head. Thats the second most recorded song. Very relaxing. I need to calm down. You have another competition when . 11 days from now. Well be rooting for you. I dont know the song. Tan and lovely. Does it ring a bell . No. Youth. Isnt that great. Billy, thank you. Al, a check of the weather. Lets show you what we have happening for you today. We are looking at more gorgeous weather here for the womens Beach Volleyball. Usa versus brazil today. That will be a big one. 3 30. Sunshine and 76 degrees. A spectacular day. Weve also got heavy rain through the gulf. We all have to go through the gulf. Rainfall amounts could see another 12 inches of rain along the big bend of florida and just to the east of new orleans. Were watching a lot of heavy rain through that area. Thats whats going on around announcer todays rio is sponsored by cocacola. Open a coke and this morning on todays rio, the most iconic image of this city. Thats right. Of course were talking about christ the redeemer. Hoda, al, natalie and i were scheduled to take a trip there on monday and while the forecast did not look so good, we decided to take a chance and we just may have witnessed a miracle in the making. Take a look. It is the jewel of the Rio De Janeiro skyline. Famous statue of jesus. It rises 125 feet in the air surrounded by a spectacular view of the city. Except on this day. Lets do a starting selfie. Natalie. When we got to the tram down below, little did we know at that moment there was no view at the top. Im good. Im good. A rail separating us. Im not kidding. Look at that. The racetrack. Wow. Were right on the edge of clouds. Lean back. Dont lean weight this way. We made it. The foggy reality started to sink in. Just in time to be completely fogged out. Fogged in. You can almost see it. How about over there . Thats more fog over there. If you look up there, that should be christ the redeemer. What are we looking at . I think this is a good time for a team photo. We had come all this way to see o magnificent monuments. Hes there. We decided to just keep doing what we had planned to do. Take pictures. Enjoy the scenery. Lay down on the ground and take in the view. And wave to the helicopter camera we hired which couldnt see us. Chopper. Come closer. Up higher. And just when we were about to happened. My goodness. Look at that. Its perfect. How perfect is that . We were welcomed high above rio with open arms. Thats unbelievable. Unbelievable. Whoa. It was great. Perfect timing. See what happens when we all get together and it works. I told beautiful. You have to pay more for that. Thats phenomenal. Now to todays olympic moment. Announcer todays olympic moment is sponsored by walmart. Save money, live better. With a few quick steps and flash of her blade, muhammad fenced her way into history becoming the First American olympics while wearing a hijab. The Muslim American became an instant star leading into the games bringing new diversity to team usa. Her defining moment monday as she stepped on the strip and donned her mask and sealed her first bout with a victory. Muhammad comes up with the touch to move on to the table of 16. And got off to a strong start in great fighting spirit. The hole just got deeper. Her dreams of gold quickly came to an end with a devastating loss to france. Shes off the strip. She got driven out of bounds. Her dream of an olympic medal comes to a halt. Something bigger. Keeping the faith for a new generation of olympians. Lovely young la im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. How do we make the economy work for everyone . Hillary clintons plan starts here. Orations and those at the top finally pay their fair share in taxes. And those companies that move overseas . Shed charge them an exit tax. Then shed use that money to make the largest investment in creating good paying jobs since world war ii. Millions of jobs. You can read the plan here. In florida, people are working hard, just to get by. But in washington o stopped showing up for work. Let us down. Im Patrick Murphy and enoughs enough. Im proud to work with president obama. To protect Social Security and a womans right to choose. And grow this economy so it works for all of us. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message because ill never stop working for you. It has been another rainy and more consistently has pushed farther to the north. We dont need much more rain. We have this flood watch in effect. North and heading through spring hill and southern portions of hernando county, the rain is beginning continuing to push offshore. So much rain has fallen in this area over the last 24 hours. A 70 chance of rain today, 60 was found i for ifor an through mango we have a backup on i4 all the to an accident all due to an accident. Vehicle caught fire in sarasota county, south down 75 is shut down Near University parkway, . Were back now 8 30 on this Tuesday Morning. Its the 9th of august, 2016. Those are some of the team welcome dancers who perform for athletes at the Olympic Village around here. Were happy to have them with us on copacabana beach. By the way, they have moves. Look at where we are. Were right here. Im good. See how cold it is. Its not that cold. Find out. It feels great. How are you . Nice to see you. Thats lovely. Fantastic. Coming up, i hear you guys are going to experience cupping, right . Cupping is this thing that leaves these round welts or bruises on some of the athletes. Its a form of physical therapy and were going to figure out exactly what its all yes, we may be trying it as well. Also, keir simmons is going to take us to the amazon. The nut goes 200 feet up in a tree. Looks beautiful. Heres something to get excited about. Its time for als portuguese class. All right. So team usa doing so well, how if you want to say i won gold, its el ganhei ouro. To cheer on team usa. Natalie . And thats todays lesson. We should call this natalies lesson. Ho the weather. Lets see whats happening as far as today is concerned. First of all, womens soccer will usa taking on colombia. 87 degrees. Closer to home, a lot of wet weather from the southeast, gulf coast, florida. Could be upwards of 12 inches of northwest. Tomorrow we have more wet weather moving into the northeast. Some monsoonal moisture continues in the southwest and sunshine returns on the Pacific Northwest as well. That thats your latest weather. Can you believe this is where we do our show every morning. We have a surfer. Beautiful. Slightly smaller than the u. S. And population of about 200 million, theres a lot to see in brazil. We sent nbcs keir simmons out to explore the country beyond rio. How was it . I was genuinely scared filming this. Honestly frightened. Our trip began in the amazon. The heart of the jungle. Our goal to get a birdseye view of trees but what we got was the amazon. A vast 2 million square miles of awesome, largely untamed nature. An estimated 390 billion trees. Im setting out to climb just one. Its a monster. How tall is the tree were going to climb . 180 feet. My guide, leo, knows the forest well. Of preventing insect bites. I can smell it. Covering yourself with dead ants. They bite you. They do bite you while youre trying to stop other insects from biting you. And the jungles predators. Thats where jaguars climbed the tree. Dont think if you want to run from a jaguar if you climb a not exactly reassuring. I dont think i climbed a tree since i was a boy. Definitely not like this. And dont look down, right . You can look if you want. This is halfway. Soon leos 9yearold daughter talking to me like this is a good way to stop me from thinking of the fact im hanging from a rope about 100 feet in the air. Leo was born in the wrong place high up in the french alps. We found his true home here in the jungle with his wife, vanessa. Their children were born on this deck. All three homeschooled. They playfully call their dad the guru but hes worried. Last summer was the driest ever, he says. He fears his forest is global warming. And youre teaching all of this to your daughter. Sure. Back in the tree, shes confident. Im increasingly not. Im officially quite frightened. Finally reaching the top. Dont look down. Dont look down. I cant actually believe that i have got up here. Honestly my legs are shaking even though i have this rope attached to me. With the sounds and smells of life. Look around. Just look around. The experience of a lifetime, exhilarating and a little exhausting. Later in the week well go prana fishing. Great. Thank you. Up next, billy bush, al and i are going to get cupped live. Really . That doesnt sound right. Lets walk back to the tent. . . . . Come seek the Royal Caribbean were back in rio with large circles that are talk of the town. Were not talking about Olympic Rings but bruises you see on a lot of athletes as a result of a healing technique called cupping. Dr. Kevin pierce is with the u. S. Olympic medical team. Dr. Pierce, good morning. Quite a phenomenon this is. Does it really work . The idea behind it is that promotes blood flow to the area. Its for healing. So the athletes using it today if they have restriction of motion, they use it. It could be for soreness or just feeling tight. A lot of it is more for healing effects. We see bruises. Is it painful . Sometimes its painful. Seconds. It intensifies. That does not look good. I have a legitimate calf cramp from running the other day. I hope this is good for it. This will give it relief and reduce tension thats on there. The accumulation of tissue is rising to the surface is blood flowing to the area. It will leave a nice little bruise. Sometimes a bit of accumulation of blood in the area. Thats the dark circle you get. It can through motion that intensifies the feeling you feel currently. It brings where are you going . Right there . We use cream first. This is more traditional now. Traditional chinese at first. Its more modern because we dont use cups. These are plastic. More durable. Easier for us to transport. A little cream. Sho soothing massage. We find a place of stiffness. We can cup it and control the amount of tissue that comes into the cup. How long do you leave them on for . Two to three minutes up to ten. If we do a static hold, it could be up to ten. How long does the bruise or welt last . Three to seven days. Depends on the duration its on for. F wouldnt leave a bruise . Take it off. Look at billys. Thats going to leave a nice bruise. I will walk down copacabana and he must be on the something team. Any studies about ethicacy of this . Research is inconclusive. Athletes are seeing an increase in range of motion. Or leave it on . Theres some psychological effect. You can torture billy more if you would like. Take it off. One, two. Thats lovely. I want wait to go for a walk today. Cant wait. Arent you part of the womens Beach Volleyball team. Thank you so much. You thi a will go crazy . There are many professional teams that use this therapy. Its been going on. Thousands of years. A lot of professional sports use it today. Wait until you see what happens now that this guy has it. Thanks so much. Coming up, we have your Morning Coffee fix. Best brews that brazil has to when i decided to write a ton of world famous music after id lost my hearing, people thought i was crazy. Just like the other day when i wanted chicken for breakfast, people thought i was crazy again. How did everything play out . Perfectly. I went to chickfila for their new egg white grill. And as for the music stuff. singing . Ill bet you ten bucks that you have heard the tune im singing now. . Chicken for breakfast. Its not as crazy as you think. Welcome back, everybody. Did you know that more coffee comes from brazil than from anywhere else in the world . The good reason for that, rich soil, High Altitude areas that makes the perfect bean. Many grown on family owned farms. Jenna bush hager is here with more. Its an ieg brazilian culture. The land of coffee where java flows like water. Roasted, brewed, bold or flavored, close to 500 billion cups of joe will be consumed worldwide this year and vast majority of it comes from brazils many coffee farms like this. This harvest season beans are processed into a Million Pounds of coffee. Brought to brazil in the 18th century, brazil has led the world in production for close to 200 years. The farms here harvest coffee beans which are served on cafe counters across the country where brazilians grab, drink and go. The taste, sweet and nutty with a hint of chocolate brewing brazils best in every coffee cup. I did a shoot yesterday. The coffee was lovely. It was strong, which we need. They like it sweet. Not as sweet as we like it. She likes coffee mate in hers. A lot of people drink it black. Better. Dont you think its great . Its a smooth cup. Think of it as a birthday present. Coffee for birthday. Were back in a moment. When al and i come to the olympics, we like to try out an olympic sport. Two years ago in susochi, we we to the luge. The next sport that al and matt should do is synchronized diving. They would be a perfect pair to goff i would say matt and al should try bmx but they may not make it into work the next day if they tried it. Either judo or volleyball. Those are two of the biggest sports for brazil. It would be interesting to see volleyball. I also would love to see one of them throw each other. Gymnastics would be a funny one to get in tight little uniforms. I would be bias and say soccer. Shorts. You can stick with the spandex theme. We are going to be in rio. Beach volleyball is very iconic and there is some spandex involved. Definitely artistic gymnastics. Thats what i do. Thats just more tights for them to wear. It would be fun. It would be the funniest thing is if they did swimming and they were in a speedo. I probably would not want to see it, but i would love to hear go. All right. I dont know about those. What do you think . I cant wait to do this. Synchronized diving in theory would be fantastic. Are you crazy . What if we did a jump with hand gestures. Go off the middle one. Theyre not that high. Still pretty high. Synchronized cannon ball. Thats it. Been entertaining us this morning. Welcome dancers. They entertain athletes and fans all over the Olympic Village. This is the group. When you walk into the Olympic Village, you get to see them dance. Will you show us a little bit of your dance moves. Will you show us . Youre going to show us. Basic one. This is hoda and natalie. Come on, side, front, side, back. Do it again. Side, front, side, back. Side, front, side, back. Side, front, side, back. All day long i got this. If we could just do this . Do we go left . Were ready. Were ready. Lets get music. Now what . Swiveling and hip shaking. Now we do a jump. Are you guys with us in the back . Come on you guys. What i can do that. Lets see you go. Go this way. We want to thank the team welcome dancers from the Olympic Village and the athletes here on copacabana beach. Lots going on in terms of competition today. Gymnastics, Beach Volleyball and much more. Well see you tomorrow from . Weve got a great crowd keeping us company on copacabana beach. Happy birthday. Can i try it on for a little take that back. Right about now. . . Maybe almond breeze tastes so good because its the only almondmilk made with californiagrown blue diamond almonds. Almond growers. Theres no maybe about it. . Almond breeze. The best almonds make the best almondmilk. We just got some updated rainfall totals. More than it 5. 5 inches in spring hill, holiday more than 5 1 2 inches of rain, valrico nearly 4 inches of rain. More rain is still planning to come in sure. We are about to see some of the southern portions a Pinellas County hit by this rain. I am keeping the rain chances at 70 today. The traffic is improving along i4 but still slow was found near mcintosh road due to an earlier tractortrailer that jackknifed. Things are Getting Better as we hit the tail end of the morning drive. We still have a dig jam knew the manateesarasota county line in this area. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of todays take with al roker, natalie morales, and billy bush live from the Olympic Games in rio de welcome to today on this Tuesday Morning, august 9th, 2016. Im billy bush with al and nat live in rio. I got one for you. Are you ready . Morning jam. I get this from my kids. Closer. You have simone biles closer to her gold medal. You can pronounce it closer if you want to close the job when youre in the pool. Phelps is on tonight. Ledecky is on tonight. Womens u. S. Volleyball versus brazil. This is the biggest match. They biggest competition. I love the usa russian showdown. How about the lovely lilly king in the breaststroke going up against yulia of efimova. Efimova gives the finger wave. Im number one. Wait. How do you answer that . It. She does her race and finishes first and gives number one. It came down to it last night. There can only be one number one and it was lilly king. The russian swimmer just cleared. She was accused of doping and found guilty of doping earlier last year. A 16month ban and they clear her on saturday. She races her prelim on sunday. But i love what lilly king said. She says youre shaking your finger number one. Yo b cheating . Im not a fan. Good to her. You answer back with a gold medal. How about ryan murphy . He writes a letter. Hes just 8 years old to his parents. I want to be an olympic swimmer. A champion when im older. Last night he takes gold in backstroke. Theres the note he wrote to his parents. And with his gold medal around his neck. Talk to olympic athletes and say when did you first have that dream . When did you think a lot of parents will tell you they said when they were six, eight, that they wanted to be an olympic athlete. I always tell my kids, if you want to be an olympic athlete, you better start now. Youre nine. Youre slacking. Get in the pool. She started late. Simone biles did. He started late for her. Clearlui made up for it. Did you see this hashtag is the best thing going. 200 meter butterfly semifinal, a glimpse into the ready room with athletes prepped for the event. So south africas chad le clos was warming up doing shadow boxing. Look at phelps. The staredown. When you pour a bowl of cereal and realize theres no milk. You walk into a Movie Theater and its empty and someone sits in front of you. Michaels son boomer matching his dads glare from the stands. Thats gas. Gas. With headphones on. Almost bigger than his head. Adorable. Speaking of babies, we to think of Katie Ledecky as a friend of the show. She started off earlier. 18 years ago shes a toddler on the plaza with her mom and brother. Take a look. Shes from maryland. 16 months. Katie ledecky and michael ledecky. Can we say hi to our grandparents in north dakota. You just did. And we have a grandmother we want to say hello to. Everybody got the hellos. Thats whats going on around look at you, roker. My gosh. Youre quarter of the man you were. You know, its all good living and coconut oil. I thought you were sexy then. Now, overwhelming. Honored to share bunk beds with you in rio. Exciting. Weve had a number of athletes and a number of people who have come by our window in the time weve been down there how do you find that . Amazing. When her mom was there, katie was here on and found it. We have our way of digging through our archives. Love it or hate it. Well find you some way or another. Okay. We all like our phones. We all have our phones. Sadly. Look at 24yearold french fencer. He has an embarrassing moment during his olympic competition against the german player. His cell phone falls out of his pocket. Whats he doing with a phone . Event . And by the way, he can call home and tell everybody he lost. 1513. He got distracted. Have somebody hold the phone for you. More concerned about whether the screen cracked. Youve been busy. Yesterday billy had the brozilian. Today youre taking up t i go back with i happen to be a very good speed walker. Youre a fast walker. Im not going to lie about that. I have manly big cavs and propel me in speed walking. I took on usain bolt four or five years ago. Fastest man alive. This is old foofootage right he those are beefy. Look at bolt. No idea. Doesnt know what to do. Beside himself with confusion. We go across. Photo finish. I take gold. Now you have to take it to the next level. People love to play that virtual game, okay, if you were competing now against bolt, who would win . Carl will never be a legend. Nine golds all together. Long jump. Sprinter. Hell never be able to compete against bolt but he can compete against the and if he beats that guy, then he is better than bolt. Youll compete against carl lewis today . I got him out there yesterday. We cant give away results yet. I will tell you something right now, i cant results are coming later. Its a resounding walloping on one guy. One guy walloped the other guy with a huge crowd gathering on copacabana. I know bush. I know the bush man. I would never bring it up if results were bad . Exactly. You cant even keep a straight face. Hes a good sport. There are many things its okay. Listen, bush. I know you. I got 20 that says you beat him. I know the results. Im not going to say anything. I know what you have inside information. It will be on access on friday. Christ the receideemer was watching. We have had awesome assignment of exploring rio. We went to christ the redeemer. Greatest landmarks, one of the best greatest landmarks in the world but certainly here in brazil and rio. Completely fogged in. Then all of a sudden, lets just wait. Just give it a couple seconds. The mist cleared and, boom, the perfect picture. It was magical. You guys were up there for an hour, right . Nothing was happening. We couldnt see rio. Normally you can see 360degree view of this incredible looking city. We got up there. It was like milk. At one point matt lauer was lying down. They put pads down so you can take shotstr its very hard to get a picture of christ the redeemer without it being up the nose shot. How big is 98 feet. 98 feet tall. On a 30foot pedestal. 92 feet is the arm span. There are 220 stairs to get up to the top. Its a good workout speed walking. Just to get from the tram to i have done sugarloaf tram right. Nice views. Ive been waiting for the call. You can hike up the mountain. You can speed walk up. Get those pistons going. Get those calves. Theres the Cleveland Cavaliers and then the bush calves. Im strong. No question. Thats why i know you won. Lets look at the weather. Ai i know these things. Okay. So rio next several days, today will be spectacular. Gorgeous weather. Showers tomorrow. 74. Then clears up for thursday. Temperature of 71 degrees. Closer to home, were talking a ton of rain. We started talking about this last friday because it was going to set up and it has. Heavy rain developing from Central Florida through the big bend and on into parts of the western gulf where we could be west as new orleans. Upwards again by friday a total of 12 inches of rain in some spots. 12 inches possible. So a flash flood will be a problem as we watch this unfold through the week. Th thats your latest weather. The bush man starting to sweat through. Coconut. Strategically placed. Too much. The u. S. Swims team, a good night for baker, plummer and katie. 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Kathleen baker of North Carolina earned her spot in sports history after coming in second in the womens 100 meter backstroke scoring her personal best time along the way. So cool. In the mens 100 meter backstroke David Plummer got his spot on the podium scoring a bronze medal. Also bronze for katie miley in the womens 100 meter congrats. Those hemedals are heavy around the neck but worth it. Youre in lane four. Did you have the feeling before that this is my race . Im going to go strong and win this thing . I was definitely thinking i was the underdog. I was coming in not in the top three originally. I had the meet of my life which is great time to be doing that. So i was really nervous. Probably one of the most fun races i ever swam and really you went up against a legend in the pool. Did you do a Little Finger waving . No, no, no. Shes incredible to swim with. Ive never seen so many swim so many races at such a competitive level. The fact is you have gone public about dealing with Crohns Disease while competing which is such an inspiration. I definitely feel like its helped me love the sport even more knowing something that can be taken away from you and helped me appreciate it and really just enjoy everything about it. You got into it at 13 years old. Does it affect you now at all when you swim . Whats it like daytoday . It affects me on a daily basis with energy or in the back of my mind. Its hard to control it sometimes. I do have a really good support system of doctors and nurses who help me along the way. Youre an inspiration. You must be super proud of her and the accomplishment you achieved. Kathleen is like my little sister. Weve been attached at the hip for the last month because we train very similarly since we train similar disciplines and we have to race the same day. I said we might as well be zip tied together. Lilly got gold. The finger wag back and forth. I was behind the curtain. I stayed out of it. Let them wag their finger. David, for you, first olympics. It took you a while to get here. Youre 30 now. Its been a lifelong goal for you to make it here. Some people call you old man, right . Getting a little of that. The gray hair is betraying me here. Whats it compete at this level and at 30 . Its been amazing. Im so happy to be here and happy to be at my best this year and to keep up tradition in american backstroke. Its been amazing. Qualifiers, athens, beijing, london. You tried to qualify at the olympics at all three. You missed by 0. 012 of a second last time around in london. Here you come. Bring that up again . Its an absolute great story of a guy that just wont give four olympics later you come here and you wear that medal around your neck. Man, way to go, bud. That has to be thank you. Thank you. A great lesson to learn from that. Thank you. I appreciate that. Dont give up. Love that, man. Thats my guy right there. Olympian of the day. 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Time to shine. Orbit. Its another exciting day of main events kicking off in rio today. Check out where we are. The current medal count. We are doing quite well thank there. Yes, we are. Chinese right behind. 15 medals up for grabs. Lets get this what Everyone Wants to know is the rio romance. Its the olympic connection. Theres a lot of love on the Playing Field because there are quite a few couples competing here. In fact, so many that it has caused buzz feed to create a whole list. One couple already celebrating is a couple that both play home the gold over new zealand and today its her boyfriends turn to go for the gold in the two matches that he has coming up. Then theres italian swimmers who have been dating since 2011. His brother will be swimming later. This is a list of people off the market in Olympic Village. Captured peoples attention, american sweetheart gymnast simone biles receiving a tweet from her crush actor zac efron wishing her luck at the olympic trials. Simone tweeted back i think im going to pass out. He sent her another tweet. So hes watching how she does here today. Very nice the. Simone, hop in line behind my wife. She qualified for the mens rugby team hoping to make mystery. Hell miss part of the patriots Training Camp while hes here. Could be worth it. Theyll compete in two matches later today. Tough. Big teams out there. London phelps placed second to south africas chad le clos. The swimmer phelps reacted to while sitting in the ready room. Phelps was thinking of retiring from the event but after remarks that le clos made in 2015, i when people ask me what its like that le clos made in 2015, i dont think so. To win an olympic medal, i tell them, you already know. Your bronze. Your silver. Your gold. And Liberty Mutual insures them all. Liberty mutual is proud to insure every team usa medal won in rio, just like we protect the medals youve earned in life. Liberty stands with you. Liberty mutual insurance. 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The victim fell 35 feet before hitting the ground. All three were taken to the hospital where they were ci firefighters had to rescue other riders stranded on the ferris wheel when it was shut down. Delta is canceling 250 more flights today as the airlines tries to recover from a monstrous system outage on monday that saw nearly 900 Flights Canceled and tens of thousands of passengers stranded. A power outage at its atlanta headquarters caused many Computer Systems to crash. Delta will hand out refunds and 200 travel vouchers to affected passengers. Check the status of flights before heading to the airport. San Francisco Giants catcher buster posey getting some unwanted attention this morning from last nights face to face meeting with third base. Take a look. 11th inning in game between giants and miami marlins. Posey goes straight into third base with his face leading the way. You wont see that in baseball instructional videos. Good news is he was safe and giants won 87. Orlando got a soggy surprise when she got too close to the water. A dolphin jumped up an yanked the ipad out of her hands. The woman was able to snatch is back but the other dolphin started splashing her and the rest of the crowd. We never know if the dolphin was curious or maybe wanted to play angry birds. All right. Lets head back to rio for a check of the weather from al. And thats why you dont he wanted a selfie. Get a disposable camera. Stick it in rice. It doesnt work. Lets show you whats going on as far as your weather is concerned. A nice match of womens volleyball. Usa versus switzerland tonight. This is tomorrow night i should say. Tomorrow night. Clouds, maybe some showers. Temperature of 70 degrees. Rest of the country for today were looking at plenty of showers through the southeast into thef wet weather through the southwest. Slight risk of strong storms in the northern plains. Tomorrow monsoonal moisture expands into the rockies. Look for the west coast to have spectacular weather. Rain continues, heavy rain, along the western gulf and a few showers overnight and rain chances 72 . That is your latest weather. We were talking about what were going to do today and what were going to go see and its all about team finals competitions heating up here in rio. Who is going to take it . Its 3 00 in new york time. Disappointing night for the men yesterday. Here to talk about that and look ahead to tonights big event, nbc analyst and olympic gold medali medalist. Lets start with guys for a second. Disappointing they came in fifth. They had a chance there. How big did they blow it . Think back four years ago in london the same exact thing happened. After qualifications they were in first. Went to item finals and got fifth. In rio, second after qualifications. Ended up in fifth. It wasnt that they werent good enough because they were good enough to end on the podium. They just had way too many mistakes last night. Consistency thing they cant get. A moment there where he fell off. Especially for him. This is h he anchored the team. You could just tell on his face he was in complete shock. St chances . They do have great chances especially if they have the hig medal. If he can be consistent. Lets take a look at the women. Gold. Right now ten points ahead of japan. Put that in perspective for us. I dont know how. I dont know how to put it in perspective. Tim commentates with me and put it into football terms of maybe like 100 to something. I dont know. Im not sure how to put it in perspective. Ive never seen anything like this. China would be our rival. To be ten points ahead of them is unheard of. Is this the best womens gymnastics team, i know you have been on a couple, that weve ever had . The absolute best. The results prove it. When youre in the lead by ten points, i mean, to put it in perspective, a fall is worth one point. They could have fallen eight or nine times and still possibly been in the lead. You look at simone biles, i mean, people run out of words to talk about her. She has no competition. Competition. She could walk away from rio with five olympic gold medals. Not just five medals but gold medals. The team. Allaround vault, balance beam and the floor exercise. We mentioned china in second right now. Who are we looking out for . Who could come up and be on that podium as well . I think china of course and russia. They were a little bit inconsistent in the training and in the first day of competition they had some falls. They really h back up there on the podium. Great britain is that dark horse. They were great in london. Great these last four years. If anybody can sneak in there but brazil had such an amazing competition, too, and home crowd advantage was fun to watch. For our team, do we have a nickname in londorio . Theyre not telling anyone until after tonight. They have one made up. 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Unlikely corner of rio and into the spotlight. More now from anne thompson. This is their game of catch. Father and son. Us opportunities are few. How has badminton changed your life . I learned english. I travel around the world. I get new friends. And made him a hero here. Sebastian built this club to offer a way out. Too often when children reach for help, hand that reaches back reeling them in. The clubs rise from the ambitions to International Competition is chronicled in a new documentary. Hes created another world within the chaos where they can see that its possible to have a different world or create a imagine it. Sebastian uses rhythms and sounds of the street to build their strength. Samba is a better training tool than jumping rope for the fa fastefa fastefa fastest rack in the sport. Lightning fast reflexes propelled by quicker feet. Skills that extend beyond the lines of the court. Not just in badminton but also in life. Do you feel like a champion in life . Yes. Because of my situation. This is good. This is good. Representing his country, his neighborhood and his family. Can you beat igor anymore . Only he says in his dreams. Some of the students. Good morning. Good morning. How proud are you of your son and competing in this olympics . Ill translate. [ speaking portuguese ] hes saying for these youngsters he believes they definitely will have a chance some day competing because the samba and moves they learn help them compete. Lets see some of the moves. Theyre going to teach us. My gosh. Get in here, guys. Lets go. Lets do the dance. . . This way now. This way, billy. This way. . Thank you very much for bringing us these amazing dancers. If you would like to learn more out their documentary at the rio festival. Coming up next, three people competing here in rio who arent olympians. Me, billy and natalie going for gold in a fun rio trivia game hydrate even the thirstiest hair with wholesome, quenching moisture. New whole blends by garnier. 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I would like one of you to translate something for me. Rios nickname marvelous city. Dance. I important part. You know so much. Okay. Im fighting for bronze right now. Im not fighting at all. Everyone is a winner in this game. Which of these countries does brazil not border. A bonus if you can answer this. I got to dance. I got silver. That was ecuador. Were out of time. I want to see your dance. Thats it . Thats all you got. Another winning day her rio. Big day ahead. Michael phelps and Katie Ledecky swim for gold. Womens gymnastics. The fierce five could clinch another gold. If they win, it would be the two gold never happened here. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Letterman has a line of clothing, now where were these made . Trump these were made, i dont know where theyre made. But they were made someplace. But theyre great. Its ties, shirts, cufflinks, everything sold at macys and theyre doing great. . Letterman . Where are the shirts made . . Offcamera voice . 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