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simone biles. >> and we have a feeling that the anthem simone biles is about to hear, may not be the last time she stands atop the podium in rio. she has three more events. the vault on sunday. the beam on monday. and the floor on tuesday. she could walk out of here, or prance out of here, as the case may be, with five gold medals. aly raisman is back in competition in the floor on tuesday. and she is the defending olympic gold medalist in that event. she won it in london in 2012. >> ladies and gentlemen, the anthem of the united states of america. ♪
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>> teammates, close friends, medalists tonight in rio, biles and raisman. that brings us to a look at the medal count of day six. presented by mcdonald's, supporting athletes on their journeys toward olympic gold. another big day and night for the americans, with five golds overall. while the united states owns more gold medals than any other country in olympic history, fiji won a gold in rugby for its first medal of any kind. a nation with a population less than delaware, fiji loves rugby like no other sport. children grow up with a ball in their hands. entire villages huddle around radios and small tvs to listen to or watch the national team
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play. and today, fans packed the 15,000-seat national stadium. there you see it, in the capital city. and they watched the gold medal match won by their countrymen there tonight. meanwhile, turning back to the headliners here in rio, a group that included aly raisman, winning a silver medal and the performance of her life in the all around. raisman has five medals in her distinguished olympic career, three of them gold. tonight's silver for raisman, came on a night that belonged to a pair of athletes that clearly rank among the best ever in their respective sports. over five olympics, michael phelps has set records that likely will never be broken. maybe not even approached. while over merely five days, simone biles has left an impression that will never be forgotten. two champions who once again tonight, not only won, but truly outdistanced their competition. still, there was another note-worthy champion tonight.
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simone manuel became the first african-american woman to win an individual olympic swimming medal. manuel, a 20-year-old from sugarland, texas, tied for the gold with canadian penny oleksiak, with sarah sjostrom of sweden winning the bronze. a rarity as the canadian and american national anthems are played. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the anthem of the united states of america. ♪
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>> ladies and gentlemen, the anthem of canada. ♪ ♪
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♪ >> and ryan seacrest is coming up on late night. after late local news. and that program will include my interview with simone biles and aly raisman. for now, so long from rio. ♪
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two simones... two golds. two histoirc stories. we'll take you behind the right now on nbc bay area news, two simones, two golds, and two historic stories. we'll take you behind the scenes. but first, what happened to missy franklin? the 2012 olympic darling is struggling in rio. tonight our nbc bay area olympics analyst natalie coughlin looks at what went so wrong. our olympics coverage starts right now. good evening and thanks for being with us. i'm janelle wang. >> and i'm raj mathai. a different tone tonight. a racial barrier was shattered by a stanford swimmer, and lofty expectations are weighing down a cal swimmer. >> we have live team coverage from the bay area to rio. let's begin with nbc bay area's laura melfort. >> it's hard to pinpoint why franklin wasn't at her best, but we all need to keep perspective. she says franklin still swam well. but because she swam so well in london, we all expected a lot
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more. former cal student missy franklin won our hearts and five medals in the london olympics, setting world records. she was the star of the u.s. women's team, lip-synching a video that went viral. but it's a different story in rio. a string of disappointments ending tonight after she finished 14th in the 200 meter backstroke, knocking her out of the games completely. >> it's hard to say why missy isn't at her top form right now. >> reporter: 12-time olympic medalist natalie coughlin says franklin appears to be swimming lower in the water, which may be slowing her down. >> looking at her 200 freestyle, it just doesn't look like it used to. her stroke looks a little different to me than it used to. i think she is not as efficient maybe as she was before. >> reporter: since london, franklin went to uc berkeley and became an ncaa champion. she left berkeley last year to turn professional. franklin moved back home to
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denver to train with her childhood coach, and she has dealt with a back injury. >> all those things definitely come into play. going to college, moving again, having injuries. you know, those are things that all of us have struggled with. i think just missy is much more public. >> reporter: coughlin says she has no doubt franklin will get her mojo back. she says she needs to evaluate what's working and what's not, and be very honest with herself. back to you. >> thank you, laura. this really makes the olympics so special. the compelling and the struggles and the triumph here. joining us with the smiles and tears of joy, collin? >> a lot of both. it's almost as though michael phelps is chasing his own age. 26 olympic medals, 22 of those gold after dispatching good friend and long time rival line lochte in the 200 individual medley. this may well have been the last
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time the two race. lochte in contention the first two legislation. then phelps takes control in the breaststroke. kind of goes aqua man in the freestyle, wins by two seconds, his fourth straight gold in the 200 im. he is just in a league of his own at this point. phelps versus lochte, a tough act to follow. but simone manuel did just that. etching her name in history. manuel becomes the first african american woman to win an individual swim medal. it's gold in the 100 free. she actually tied canadian penny oleksiak. overcome with emotion afterwards. unlike manuel, simone biles was expected to not only win gold the women's all around, but do it in dominating fashion. and she didn't disappoint. 19-year-old biles finished with a dazzling floor routine. her 2.1 margin of victory unprecedented. her teammate aly raisman brilliant as well, but finished a distant second. she took the silver.
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like it was for michael phelps in 2004, these games could be just the beginning for biles. the only woman to win the all around in back-to-back games is larisa latynina. she did it in 1966. no reason to think biles can't do it in tokyo in 2020. 18 total medals. 9 were gold. biles, on the other hand, right now she has two medals so far, both gold. but she could leave rio with as many as five. and then the chase of latynina could be on. raj, janelle? >> thank you so much, colin. as we've seen over the past two olympics, aly raisman's parents couldn't sit still in their seats while watching their daughter win silver in the gymnastics all around finals. lynn and rick raisman squirm, look away, hold their breath with every move aly makes. lynn says she gets so nervous because she knows how much hard work aly has put in to be where
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she is. how big is michael phelps in baltimore? big now bring an nfl game to a grinding halt. during the ravens panthers preseason, the game stopped. both teams, the crowd, the referees watching phelps go for gold on the stadium's big screen. once phelps won, the stadium erupted into cheers and chants of usa. there are other headlines in rio. the ongoing concerns over the water quality. is it as bad as it seems? we'll show you a live look now at the famed copacabana beach. later in this newscast, about 15 minutes from now, our own jessica aguirre tells us whether the water issues are overblown. and don't forget, you can follow jessica's adventures in rio. just follow her on twitter or instagram. back here at home, we are learning more tonight about the 28-year-old man found murdered in a stairwell. frank galicia y was a line chef at sons & daughters. cheryl hurd joins us live with more.
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cheryl, the family is asking, pleading for the public's help. >> yes, they are. and san francisco police have is no suspects or cause of death. a maintenance worker found frank galicia's body near bloomingdale's in a stairway yesterday. and now his family wants arranges frank was a free spirit. his persona was very laid back. >> reporter: louis galicia speaking to us by phone tonight. he says he is trying to come to grip with his brother's death. >> he just went with the flow. he never had any kind of quarrels or beef or any kind of disgruntled situations with anyone. >> reporter: that's why his family is having a tough time learning about how he died. with his shirt partially off, scratches on his back, and what the maintenance worker described as numerous injuries to galicia's body. he says he was lying in an emergency exit stairwell. >> he was unresponsive. so that's pretty much when he talked to our boss and asked to
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speak to him in private rather than blurt it over the radio rorschaching details for the family because they say frank was free spirit who loved his family, playing music and cooking. he moved to san francisco about a year ago where a chef position at the popular sons & daughters restaurant. it was his dream job. the restaurant was closed today so his coworkers could mourn. >> i really don't know who could have done this. >> galicia's brother is on his way to san francisco this morning. now police are also combing through surveillance tape looking for clues. reporting live in san francisco, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> cheryl, thank you. another disturbing story, this one in the south bay. someone poisoned the water along a popular trail. this is obviously a concern for hikers and pets. the discovery was made in santa teresa county park in south san jose. rangers say an employee saw a substance in rectangular blocks.
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it was poison often used to kill rodents. so far there have been no reports of any animals or humans being sick. police are searching for a suspect. well, dozens of people came together this evening to remember a popular young athlete on the peninsula. someone shot and killed calvin riley last weekend as he played pokemon go. nbc bay area's jean elle is in san mateo with the emotional goodbye. jean? >> it's not fair. not fair. >> reporter: kim swift can't belief her godson, 20-year-old calvin riley is gone. >> it's the worst nightmare anybody should go through. >> reporter: someone shot and killed riley in san francisco's aquatic park saturday night as he and a friend played pokemon go. >> his dad and him were best friends. i mean, i just can't believe. he'd been wanting me to come out and visit. and this shouldn't be the way i have to come. >> reporter: she and dozens of overs came to say goodbye to the standout baseball player in san mateo tonight.
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the serra high school graduate was pursuing his baseball dreams at delta college in stockton. former teammates say he was gifted on and off the field. >> he really brought a joy to the team. he lit a clubhouse up. he lit a dugout up. he was always positive. >> reporter: as a community mourns, u.s. park police in san francisco are looking for clues that will lead them to the gunman. reporting in san mateo, jean elle, nbc bay area news. the issue is not only. she has helped me and my family. >> well tell you what a campus police officer did to help change the life of a young student. and we investigate why certain schools are using campus police officers for reasons that are angering parents and even officers themselves. that investigation straight ahead. then house history made in the bay area. the one region with never before
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seen home prices drawing attention around the country. i'm meteorologist jeff ranieri. the fog is rolling in right now. but we'll still tell you where you could get a view of the perseid meteor shower this morning. that's just a few minutes. and a hotter forecast. nearly 1 million school-age
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children in the bay area. =raj/2shot= this isn't about t now to a story that impacts nearly one million school aged children in the bay area. >> this isn't about the teachers on campus, it's the police officers. when should an officer be called and could it result in kids getting a criminal record? >> the last five months from getting data from every school district in the area. what did you find? >> reporter: children can be left with criminal records for what some describe as just childish misbehavior. our reporting over the past year has shown that. now we're uncovering which school districts are leaving
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those decisions up to chance, and which are taking real steps to protect not only your children, but also law enforcement. at just 13 years old, aaron gonzalez is already done a lot of growing up here in oakland. >> we really don't have the perfect life i guess you can say. stuff, it happens to us out of nowhere. and when we try doing good, it always end up bad. >> reporter: you feel like it's always one step forward, two steps back. >> yeah. >> reporter: his mother yadira is a single parent of four, but often worries about aaron. at school he got in fights with other children. but one day he met ryan welsh, a campus police officer for the oakland school district who wasn't there to arrest aaron or write him up. instead he offered a helping hand. literally. >> that first time i give him a handshake, that's not how you shake a person's hand. he taught me you have to have a grip to grip with the person. oh, this is a guy that some people can look up to.
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>> reporter: officer welsh then started visiting aaron at school regularly. >> and how are your grades doing this year? >> reporter: he even checks in on aaron at home. and when he saw the family didn't have a dining room table, he gave them his. >> building trust and partnerships with the community is what police work these days is all about. so if i can do the little things that, you know, go a long way, then i will. >> reporter: the role of campus officers across oakland's 83 schools is meticulously defined in an agreement between the school district and law enforcement. the officers are there to address security issues and serve as mentors, not disciplinarians. and argues students is considered a last resort. yadira credits that policy and officer welsh for transforming her son's life. >> it was like night and day. and he did change. >> reporter: he got through to aaron? >> yes. >> reporter: how would you describe what he means to your family?
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>> because he is not only help mid kids, he has helped me and my family in many, many ways. >> reporter: defining the role of law enforcement is considered a best practice by the national association of school resource officers. but across the bay area's nine counties, we discovered many schools get a failing grade. we spent months contacting all 161 school districts in the bay area and found police officers patrol half of all high schools. but of those schools, about 41% failed to define the roles and responsibilities of school officers. in total, more than 243,000 students in the bay area attend a school district that doesn't actually outline what their campus police officers should or should not be doing. >> there will be no consistency across the board. >> reporter: this is the chief of police for the oakland unified school district. >> you have 5 or 6-year-old kids
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being raised by their 12 or 13-year-old sister. and they come to school angry. they come to school with a lot of issues. and those have to be handled in the school, not by the police. >> reporter: at 20 of the largest school districts in the bay area, our reporting has shown that while children with disability make up 10% of the population, they total 27% of all students referred to law enforcement. black children represent 9% of the population. but 16% of all the students referred to police. >> that doesn't sound like an equitable system for those students. >> it's not. >> reporter: california assemblyman tony thurman serves on the state education committee. he is looking into drafting new legislation to potentially require schools across california to outline the roles of law enforcement while on campus. >> we need to rebuild trust between police departments and the community. and one way to really begin that is to make sure that there is good deployment and good uses of
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these officers on school campuses. >> reporter: in oakland, officer welsh is answering that call. how would you describe him? >> like an angel. because he makes me, like, believe in myself more, think of myself as a good person. >> reporter: so instead of wings, your angel has a badge? >> yes. i like that. >> reporter: now to find out which school districts in the bay area actually spell out when police officers should be called and for what reasons, you can log on the our website right now. that's nbcbayarea.com. and guy, there you'll find information for roughly 160 school districts right at your fingertips. back to you. >> okay. thank you. if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call at 888-996-tips. or send us an e-mail directly to the unit@nbcbayarea.com. back to rio now.
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the water worries are back in the headlines. a belgian sailor says he became sick after racing on polluted guanabara bay. >> despite the polluted water, the gameses go on. and so does the tourism. so what exactly is in that water? here is our own jessica aguirre from rio. jessica? >> reporter: raj and janelle, it is not surprising. even though rio is known for its beaches, copacabana being the most famous, lately they have garnered a lot of attention over the issue of contamination, and whether athletes going into the water will be safe. ♪ >> reporter: they are the very soul of brazilian life. sun kissed sand playgrounds that stretch across 23 beaches in rio for 45 miles. a year-round mecca for care oio
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and people alive. jennifer came to copacabana to see the famed beaches for herself. and they did not disappoint. the california beach girl was surprised to find how pristine this paradise appears. >> i never thought it would be this beautiful and how clean the water is there. is no rocks like in los angeles. so i'm amazed at how pretty. it's not that dirty compared to santa monica. >> reporter: the famous beaches of copacabana and ipanema are certainly sexy and beautiful. but they're also dirty and potentially dangerous. scientists have found a drug-resistant super bacteria in the water in the beaches and in the lagoons where olympic athletes will be competing. so just how dangerous is it? >> the danger is we have something in our body called gram negative rods as part of our normal flora. and over a period of time because of unnecessary usage of antibiotics, they have created multi-drug resistance for these type of bacteria. now the sewage from the rio hospitals are actually going into the bay, which has posed a
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big problem that there are multiple of these organizisms in the bay. >> i love the view. >> reporter: but florencia and her fellow argentinean olympic volunteers the allure too much to resist. >> not here. i think it's safe. >> reporter: but maybe not safe enough for elite international athletes. now some of them have started to take antibiotics before arriving here in rio. and some of them will be wearing special suits to make sure they don't get any contamination. the doctor suggests his best advice, keep their mouths shut when they're in the water and take a long, hot shower when they get out. back to you. >> okay. it is a concern there in rio. thank you, jessica. let's talk about our weather here in the bay area. a bit of a warm-up coming. >> the weekend is here. >> it is friday, right? yes, we're on early. it's 12:30 in the morning. and we do have some warmer temperatures for today. but before we get to the heat, we want the take you into something that is going to be happening over the next couple of hours. that is the perseid meteor
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shower. as we take a look, you're going to be able to see the best location will be inland away from any fog in santa clara, contra costa and alameda counties. possibly 200 per hour. it's kind of like a supercharged event of this annual meteor shower. peak viewing right after our news until 5:30 in the morning. okay. let's get you into the morning forecast. if you're staying up late to get a few of those meteor shower, you're going to get some fog here in san francisco and the drizzle. so again, not the best viewing there. run it back here towards the peninsula, 54 and a little bit of sun in the morning. and for the south bay, 59 degrees and clouds on the early side. we have high pressure building offshore. that's helping to produce the heat as we head throughout friday, saturday, sunday's forecast. it's also dragging up some hotter air from the desert southwest. while we have all of this hot air moving in throughout california, we still have our microclimate effects here of the fog at the immediate coastline. is it's a really battle of the
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hot air from the desert southwest and immediate fog is at the coastline. well can handle it. anywhere from 60s to low 90s expected for tomorrow. now somewhere in between will be san jose at 88 degrees. cupertino 86. for the peninsula, there is your 61 degrees. throughout our beaches. back to palo alto, 80. san francisco also mid 60s in the financial district and 62 in the marina. we'll have a little bit of sun expected by the afternoon. north bay, for the tri-valley, my hottest temperature tomorrow livermore at 93. my most comfortable weather oakland and 74. let's get you into the seven-day forecast in san francisco. we'll get into the upper 60s and early next week. that's just about it there. but hold on for the inland valleys. we have warmed up the forecast just a little bit more. you can see by sunday, 96. and then as we head into next wednesday and thursday potentially some upper 90s coming our way. so it's hot. it's summer. it's what we're used to. go to the fog if you're not a fan of that. >> we have options here in the bay area.
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>> thanks, jeff. >> thanks, jeff. we all know home prices are sky-high in the bay area. but now history has been made, and the country is taking notice. ounty may shut down this weekend -- as the "soberanes fire" extends into big sur. happening now on our home page, highway 1 in monterey county may shut down this weekend as the soberanes fire continues to extend into big sur. this fire is 55% contained. the freeway closure could happen in the next 24 to 48 hours. and on our twitter page, our tech reporter scott budman is periscoping the moon, waiting for the perseid meteor shower to begin. it's supposed to peak tonight as jeff was mentioning. see for yourself. back in a moment. crystal geyser alpine spring water from here to there ♪
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