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 StatesHolding 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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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. Ju