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kamala harris and donald trump agreeing to a debate on september 10th. the former president saying he is willing to do two more. how the harris campaign is responding this morning. new details in thefoiled concert terror plot in vienna. three teenaged suspects being questioned by police. and the confession one of them allegedly made about the nature of the attack. we have a live report for the latest. tropical depression debby making its way up the east coast this morning after unleashing massive flooding and spawning tornados in the carolinas. meteorologist angie lassman is tracking debby's latest threats. and team usa now into the triple digits on the medal count after earning more hardware on the track. and an epic comeback from the men's basketball team launches them into the gold medal final against host country france. plus one of the underdog stories, from picking up a bike to two-time medalist in seven

years. it's august 9. "early today" starts right now. good morning. happy friday. i'm frances rivera. noah lyles' remarkable run in paris came to an end on thursday. >> lyles in the middle of the track! noah lyles says this is where he gets to show his speed. >> the men's 100 winner couldn't win the cover eted double gold, instead taking bronze in the 200 meter. he later revealed he ran the race after being diagnosed with covid. he said the 200 would be his last event at these olympics. but team usa's gold rush on the track couldn't be stopped thursday. american athletes claimed three more golds, including sydney mclo

mcloughlin leverone. and there was no neddmedal on t line for the men's basketball team, but they played like it. they'll play france for the gold on saturday. the u.s. officially cracked triple digit medals, as the paris games head into their homestretch. they sit at 103 total, including 30 golds. let's turn now to the political showdown leahere at h. the presidential candidates seem to have agreed to at least one debate in september. the former president says he's willing to do three. garrett haake is falfollowing t campaigns. >> reporter: trump announcing in a news conference he's accepted debate invitations from two more networks and challenged harris to commit as well. >> we'd like to do three debates. we think we should do three

debates. >> reporter: harris telling shaquille brewster she has committed to just one. >> will you be participating in all three? >> i have always been on record, i'm looking forward to debating donald trump. we have a date on september 10th. >> what about the other two? >> reporter: trump criticizing the vice president for not holding any interviews in the 18 days since president biden stepped aside. >> she should be doing interviews. she doesn't want to do interviews. and the reason she doesn't, number one, her policies are so bad. >> reporter: harris and tim walz would like to do a joint interview in a few weeks. while trump was also asked about abortion rights, repeating his false claim most americans wanted roe versus wade overturned when polls showed the opposite. >> i think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. i don't think it's a big factor anymore, really. we've brought it back to the states. everybody wanted it in the states. >> reporter: harris and walz in michigan meeting union voters.

>> you know, when you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for. >> reporter: a new cnbc poll shows trump leading harris nationally by two points, within the margin of error. the same slim lead he had over president biden. but democratic enthusiasm has spiked. 81% of democrats now satisfied with harris as their nominee. compared to 33% who were satisfied with biden. >> to what do you attribute her rising in the polls, it's becoming a more competitive race. >> she's a woman. she represents certain groups of people, but i will say this. when people find out about her, i think she'll be much less. >> our thanks to garrett for that report. we are learning new, disturbing details about that alleged foiled terror attack in austria targeting a taylor swift concert. according to authorities, the alleged main plotter has confessed he intended it to be a suicide mission, and a third suspect is now being questioned.

all three taylor swift shows in vienna have since been canceled. what more are police saying? >> reporter: we've learned a good deal more about the suspects over the past 24 hours. first and foremost, the 19-year-old suspect yesterday confessed to planning a suicide attack in which he planned to kill a number of people at the event with both knives and explosive devices. according to austrian law enforcement, the suspect had downloaded manuals for bomb construction and procured a number of chemicals and other parts to create them. some devices had been assembled. the suspect has given a, quote, full confession to the planned knife and bomb attack. they said the plot was hatched within the last few months. in the last 24 hours we've learned more about the other suspects. the second suspect is a 17-year-old, and a search of his home found materials from isis and al qaeda. some of those were photos of

home laboratories for bomb construction. this is something groups are known to send out. the second suspect had been employed for a few days by a company that was contracted to provide services to the venue where swift was set to perform. and there is a third suspect as well. he is 15 years old and in police custody. austrian police say they are not looking for any other suspects. we've also learned a little bit more about the intelligence gathering that led to the plot being foiled. u.s. intelligence saying they tipped off the austrians that something was brewing on their soil and gave them a sense of what to look for. tropical depression debby is bringing major flooding to the virginias. that's after making a second landfall thursday and unleashing deadly tornados. marissa parra is in the storm sh zone. >> reporter: after days of widespread flooding wand whippig

wind, a tornado wreaking havoc, destroying this middle school and these nearby homes. 85-year-old regina holley's granddaughters say she was inside when the tornado tore through. >> she was in this bed right here. >> she survived? >> yes. >> reporter: now they're trying to salvage what they can. >> that's my word of the day. everything is overwhelming. >> reporter: their neighbor died after his home collapsed on top of him. >> right now we're just trying to get the job done. >> reporter: in north carolina and virginia the threat of both tornados and flooding remains high. priscilla thompson is about 30 miles south of fayetteville. with nowhere to go, water is now gushing out of manholes, flooding roads and now threatening homes. shivering in blankets, three children described a rescue from a creek in raleigh as floodwaters rose. >> it was very scary. it was just rushing on. and there were a bunch of sticks. and they were, they were hitting

us. >> reporter: further south, riehli reeling from the rush of rain they couldn't handle. >> let's turn to angie lassman for the latest on where debby is heading and what debby is bringing. >> we made it to friday, and we're we're finally starting to see things winds down. we still see tropical depression debby and a big batch of rain working over the appalachians where we've seen plenty of reports of some flooding. those flood alerts are up from new england down to the carolinas. notice the flash flood warnings in effect this morning. the rain is going to continue working to the north and east. we'll see soaking conditions for folks across this area through the day today. but notice what happens. by the later parts of your saturday, things really start to clear out across new england. we'll wake up to a little bit of rain in the morning hours, but

much improved by the afternoon. tornados to develop, that will be possible from albany to 0 des high. 97 for new orleans. and that's a look at your forecast, frances, back to you. >> thank you, angie. coming up, how we are breaking down the sport of breaking. how they will be scored as ty he make their debut at the olympics. with chewy, it's never been easier to get their favorite toy delivered again, come on, let go. and again,

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judging criteria that define this sport. >> reporter: making its debut at the paris games this summer as an olympic sport, breaking, aka break dancing. if you're like me, when i first heard about it, you're probably wondering right nouhou do you keep score in break dancing? so why don't we break down breaking. where did breaking come from? it's about a half century old. started in the 1970s in the south bronx, took off like wildfire from there. professional competitions and street battles, and now breaking is on the biggest stage of them all in the olympics. 16 men and 16 women, they're called b-boys and b-girls, are going to compete for the first-ever medals in olympic breaking. breaking competitions are known as battles. they're one on one. each breaker trying to score points with the judges. and they go best of three. in the battles, the breakers

take turns. when one of them finishes their routine, the opponent immediately begins theirs. in each of these individual rounds within the battles is called a throwdown. each one lasts one minute. one skill of paramount importance here is improvisation, because this isn't like figure skating or gymnastics. these breakers do not know ahead of time what music they're going to be dancing to. all right, how the competition works, on both the men's and women's side, 16 breakers have qualified to compete at the games. those 16 are going to be split into four groups. this is round robin style. that means that each of breaker is going to have a battle with the other three breakers in their group. top two from each group, when all of that is over, will advance to the knockout stage. and here, it's one battle at a time. you either win and advance or you go home. so you have eight, which quickly becomes four, which quickly becomes two. and, in that final battle, the ultimate battle, the winner

takes home the gold. there is countless moves that these breakers can make, but all of those moves can basically be grouped into four main elements. this is called top rock. then you've got down rock. check this one out. power moves. finally, you've got breezes. top rock refers to the moves that breakers do while they're standing. most breaking rounds stop in top rock where breakers establish their personality and charisma. down rock is the part of breaking that's performed on the floor using hands and feet. power moves are the bigger, flashier moves that are more technically difficult to pull off. things like windmills and spins. freezes involve performing a total stop, in difficult-to-hold positions. this is often used as a punctuation after fast movement. of the key to victory in breaking is be able to perform a variety of moves from all four of these elements.

there are judges in breaking. and the judges are assigning scores to each breaker in five distinct categories. each one of these categories is weighted equally. you've got technique. you've got vocabulary, you've got execution, musicality and the fifth one, originality. five categories. each 20% of the breaker's final score. when you look at this, they've got an ipad with this, the five categories here, and they've got a slider for each one of those categories, and there's an overall slider that combines them all at the top. let me show you how this works. as the competition is unfolding, the judges that slider around. is breaker one doing better on originality. you take the balance of that, and it's reflected up here. in this judge's scoring, breaker two beats breaker one. there it is. that's how breaking works at the

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team usa's kristin faulkner didn't even try cycling until seven years ago. and now she is a two-time olympic gold medallist. nbc's lester holt spoke with faulkner about her remarkable run. >> reporter: at an age when many olympic athletes are considering retirement, kristin faulkner instead found her passion. it seems to be a moral of this story for other people that it's never too late to pursue your dreams. am i making this up? >> yeah, definitely. i was in my 20s when i discovered cycling, and i was in my late 20s when i became a professional cyclist and in my 30s at the olympics. if you are passion in the about something and willing to work hard and take feedback and learn quickly, it's never too late to start anything. >> reporter: we introduced you to the homer, alaska native a few days ago. she first tried cycling as a hobby when she was living in new york city, working in finance. is this how you saw the movie playing out, you with two gold

medals at the end? >> absolutely not. it was something i dreamed about, but i never anticipated two medals and two golds. >> she is about to offer the upset of a lifetime. >> reporter: her first gold came in sunday's road raice, which fau faulkner actually didn't qualify for. a teammate gave up her place to she could race. she made a move and never looked back. >> she is the genuine article. >> reporter: what was going through your mind? >> honestly, i knew i wanted to attack there, from the moment i saw the course, actually. and i saw the course several months before the road race. i knew if i got to a group of five and we were close to the end i wanted to attack there. then on wednesday she struck gold again, this time in the team pursuit. i was going to ask you, if you keep looking down to make sure they're still there and they're still gold. >> i feel them, they're quite heavy. my niece and nephew said what ddo the silver and bronze look like?

we haven't seen one of them yet. >> reporter: what's the word in homer, alaska? >> i hear they want to do a parade for me, but i'm going home in the winter. i don't know how they're going to do a bike parade when there's two feet of snow on the ground, but we'll make it work. >> yeah, they will. our thanks to lester for that. coming up this morning, sydney mclaughlin-levrone broke her own world record. she completed the race in 50.37 seconds. the three-time gold medallist who celebrated her birthday on wednesday joins "today" live from paris to talk about her history-making run. thanks for watching "early today" and ending your week with us. i'm frances rivera, have a great weekend.