All by herself down the stretch. You are seeing the greatest of all time. Thats going to give them a significant lead. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live plaza. . It is a party on the beach in rio. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Take a look and listen to some of the performers from the third olde as if hoda needed another excuse to dance. Wait a minute. I want to point something out. Theres something for you. And then theres something for the girls. Do you remember on Opening Ceremony night the guy who kind of stole it. Oiled up and beautiful man from conga. That was friday night. And this is monday morning. Wait. We come here. Come to mama. How about this guy, right . We knew there was a lot of oil on there. He looks beautiful. Beautiful. Wait a second, give me your hand. You know you wanted to do that. Oh my. He exploded into a sensation. Everybody was talking about this theres really nowhere to put the mike so well talk to him later. Congratulations. Is that canola oil with high heat . Lot to get to in rio including a number of athletes that won medals joining us here live and savannah is back in new york, and i know you have a busy morning with a huge travel story. We dont have an oiled guy from conga but well try to survive. A big travel nightmare. Delta system crashed overnight so coming up well t delta flight booked today. Back to the party in rio for now. Thanks. We miss you here. Lets begin with a very big night in rio. Big teams on team usa. Natalie has all of the action. Good morning to you. Sorry im not the conga guy myself. Huge night for the u. S. Olympic swim team. Michael phelps returning to the olympic gauge and Katie Ledecky world. Nobody loves the relays more than Michael Phelps. Michael phelps made his rio debut in spectacular finish swimming second leg of the relay phelps burst tgh team after an incredible turn off the wall giving his team the lead and the gold. His mother, fiance and newborn son, boomer, cheering from the stands. On the womens side, superstar Katie Ledecky made it look easy smashing her own record and it wont even close finishing world record. Her world record just one of many sunday night. And breaking the record for 100 meter butterfly defeating the previous champion who came in third. To be at the olympics again is amazing and all i wanted was to get a medal. Im extremely happy with that. And earlier in the day it was the end of an era on the court. For the first time in their olym william sisters lose. Venus and Serena Williams losing their first ever olympic match as a duo. The threetime gold Medal Winners falling in the opening round to the czech republic. Theres a little bit of moisture starting to appear on the camera lens. This morning one olympian is recovering after suffering severe injuries flipping over her handle bars in a terrifying accident. Shes down. The 33yearold dutch cyclist time. The wet pavement a possible cause of her horrific crash tweeting from her hospital bed, she says im now in the hospital with injuries and fractures but will be fine. Most of all super disappointed after best race of my career and this week all eyes are on the u. S. Gymnastics team led by simone biles who even has a move named after her. Shell be competing along with all ali aly raisman in the finals later this week. Team usa leading by a lot followed by china, italy and japan. Right now a lot of olympic action. Were just getting started. Thats awesome. We like that. Michael phelps and Katie Ledecky entered the games with huge expectations and so far so good. How awesome was that with your team . The young bucks brought tears to our eyes. I was trying to hold back as much as i could. He started shedding tears and then ryan started shedding tears and thats one of the coolest races to be part of. Being part of the 400 free relay was a dream of mine and ive been on the good side and bad side of it. Im happy we were able to win that relay as a team. Win gold in the 400 relay again. Your son was in the audience. How awesome was that . I was trying to find him during the awards ceremony. I finally found him. He was asleep for the race. If not, ill replay it when hes old enough. Does it make this that much sweeter . More emotional. Thinking of him constantly and pictures every day. Its an inspiration to have him here. Are you ready for them . See you tomorrow. Katie ledecky smashes her own world record. How does this medal feel . Feels good. Its great to be up there on the podium. When youre out there beating your own world record and racing against yourself, what does that feel like . I dont know. I just focus on how im feeling personally and let the race play out as it will. I focus on what i want to accomplish. Congratulations. Thank thanks so much. Doesnt that make you feel so good. Both phelps and ledecky will be back in the pool today. Let us bring in ryan. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, matt. You were just saying to me First International competition, first race, you got a gold. 100 . I should just quit now. You swam the third leg of this, right . Yes. When you were standing there watching your teammate tap that wall and you watch number one pop up, tell us what went through you at that moment. Initial moment was i was exhausted. My legs were killing me. My body was in so much pain but the split second was, like, yes, gold medal. We finally won. We brought gold medal back to team usa. French won this event in the last two Olympic Games. Team usa really wanted this. Y then i want to take you to the medal ceremony, ryan. They start to play the National Anthem and the flag goes up and for all of the right reasons, you lost it. Ive heard the National Anthem plenty of times before and ive received awards before as they played the National Anthem but this was different. Just the emotions kind of manifested themselves on the podium and the tears started rolling. How did it feel knowing that not only were you doing something amazing for this wonderful relay team, for Michael Phelps, he got number 18 thanks to a group effort with you guys. Phenomenal. Hes a great leader and a great athlete. He kind of gives a sense of confidence to other swimmers so when im around him i feel stronger and stand a little bit taller. Feel a little bit more confident. Can we go back to that medal ceremony one more time in the control room. People ask us all the time, ryan, why do we love covering the olympics. Can i tell you, your face during that ceremony, thats why we love covering the olympics. That emotion of an athlete and being able to let out that kind of emotion. Its so great. Congratulations. We love you. Thank you. Can i just touch the gold. Be careful. She has grease on her hand from the conga guy. Congratulations. That was really awesome. Where are you from . Springfield, illinois. Say hi to the folks from springfield. Hi, springfield. 217. Wereoi tirico. Thats what its about. I bring no oil bodied or no gold medal but im glad to be here this morning. Matt is right. When he points out that one moment, it does crystallize everything. I was getting emotional watching it a second and third time around. The first gold medal of these games won in shooting. Shooting career started five hunting trip with her grandfather and now is a gold medallist. Thats the essence. Games. We talked to ryan. We know what phelps did this weekend. We know what Katie Ledecky did this weekend. Its looking good for the u. S. Swim team. Were used to seeing them bring home gold medals. What ledecky did. Natalie said it. She shattered the world record and thats the start her world record. The start of what people think will be gold for her. Can we talk gymnastics for a second. If you look at the beginning portion, the u. S. Is so far out in front. Tenpoint spread with china. How do you see this playing out . The great thing is internal competition. We know they have the best of the world. Simone biles incredible. It forces everyone to perform at when you watch them at qualification yesterday. You saw that. Everyone encouraging each other and pushing each other. They could have a massive win coming up not just tomorrow night but the next several days as well. I get why theres so much attention on womens Gymnastics Team but lets give the men credit as well. They had a strong weekend. Youre right. They have a legitimate chance to medal in team coming up tonight. They put themselves in great position with qualifying over the weekend. Can we talk about venus and was the other team dominant . Venus lost her singles match over the weekend and didnt play well. Serena struggled in her singles match yesterday. Venus kept going in tennis. She said she wanted to be here. Got her. Disappointing for them. Novak djokovic also lost yesterday. A lot of quality in there. By the way, we have the body no gold medal. Coming up, well take a closer look at that impressive debut for the womens Gymnastics Team and you can catch nbcs prime time coverage with phelps, ledecky and Missy Franklin all in action tonight at 7 00, 6 00 central here on nbc. Lets go back to savannah in new york. Breaking news that will cause problems at airports all day long. Delta is dealing with a computer outage this morning that forced the airline to ground flights worldwide. Lets get gutierrez at Hartsfield Jackson international in atlanta. Good morning. Reporter this has been a big travel mess throughout the night. Long lines at hartsfield but within the last few minutes, the check in kiosks have been back up and running so now some of these lines have thinned out. The main problem here is the check in area. Luckily security lines are still going just fine. The problem has been the delta we have live pictures from the lines over at dfw and reagan in d. C. This all started over night with the worldwide outage causing problems from rome to l. A. X. Delta has not said what caused the problem or how long it would take to get fixed but at hartsfield they say flights are delayed until 7 30 a. M. Eastern time and we heard that from several airports. Delta statement urging all passengers to check the status of their flights while the issue is being assessed. As you mentioned, this could cause ripple effects throughout the day for delta passengers. Best advice, check your flight before you head to the airport and give yourself enough time. Savannah . Takes a long time to work that out of the system. Gabe, thank you. Lets do politics now. President ial race and new National Poll showing that rough week for Donald Trumps campaign has put him further behind Hillary Clinton. Morni morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The new numbers confirming the controversies over the last week have hurt donald trump as he looks to change the subject. Hell head from new york to detroit for a speech on the economy, what a Senior Campaign source tells me is something that will stitch together trumps vision on taxes and the economy. All of it as trump looks to change the subject and turn the page. In the motor cit trump hoping to rev up his stalled campaign now getting new backing from a member of a president ial family thats so far stayed sidelined. Jeb bushs son, george p. Bush, telling texan republicans time to rally around the nominee though stopping short of an endorsement. New polls now show a trump slump solidifying. Doesnt have the temperament and personality to be president. Trump focusing on different numbers today. Ive employed tens of thousands of people. Reporter the billionaire businessman talking jobs ain wht a top adviser describes to nbc news as a vision speech outlining his plan for taxes, trade, energy and Regulatory Reform expected to offer parents a deduction or child care expenses and plan to cut the Corporate Tax rate to hoping to rebound after fresh fallout from a week of controversies hitting Hillary Clinton with a new line of attack. Honestly, i dont think shes all there. His democratic rivals still knocked off message over emails and knocked by Fact Checkers for how shes responded to questions about the controversy. I may have short circuited and for that i will try to to short circuit up here. Trumps top aide promising a pivot that so far hasnt materialized. Im confident that hes going to start doing it and eventually the media will start having to cover it. Reporter part of that message not just a focus on jobs but a focus on national security. Something thats been a cornerstone of Trumps Campaign but those new poll numbers show potentially signs of concerns trump now trailing clinton by few points on the topic of who would make america safer. Thank you so much. Guys, well send it back to you, al if you are shirtless and oiled up, im not even looking. No danger there. America breathes a sigh of relief. Thats a work in progress. Mr. Roker does have a first check of the world. We have sad news to talk about coming out of mexico. This remnants of hurricane earl destroying a school. A real mess. They have another system that will push in causing more misery there. Lets look in the southeast and into the gulf coast. They have just been getting dumped on. We told you about this setting up back on friday. Look at all of the heavy rain. Still pushing in. It continues again for today. Abundant moisture repeating rounds of storms. Over the next several days this is going to go friday. Look at rainfall totals. Some areas may talk about 15 inches of rain or more between cedar key and pensacola and that will be a big mess. Well get to your local forecast coming . What makes a woman feel beautiful . Its about her presence. A radiance that shines, deep inside. A je ne sais quoi. A youthful aura. Advanced g . Nifique by lanc . Me. Patented until 2029. Advanced g . Nifique. Lanc . Me. Receive a free 7piece gift. Only at macys, your skincare destination. Chris good monday morning. We are starting out very comfortable. A lot of nine in place. Mostly sunny skies throughout the day. Light sea breezes across the immediate coastline. Especially across cape ann and cape cod. Otherwise temperatures running mid to upper 80s in place. Low humidity the next couple days. Then we jump up the humidity. It does feel quite oppressive by the end of the week. Humidity and heat. Isolated storms around on wednesday. 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Chris beautiful sun out there, sarah. A lot of sunshine in the city suburbs. Very comfortable start to the day. Well keep that sunshine and low humidity through this afternoon as temperatures top off in the mid to upper 80s. Localized sea breezes especially around cape cod and cape ann. 7 on 7 forecast, bringing the heat and humidity and occasionally a thunderstorm by midtolate week. Sarah police are looking to the person who left a disturbing message at park in tewksbury. Investigators say someone wrote kill cops on a skate ramp on wednesday. Crews have since painted over the message. Police have arrested the father of a new bedford last month. According to the connecticut post, the man was arrested after evading questioning about his daughters death. 19yearold sabrina that sylvia was killed outside of her home while carrying groceries last month. Were back in 25 minutes with another update. Hope to see you then. Welcome to the wonder of the Olympic Games. 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