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it is 4:29. live pictures coming out of the strip on this august 8. what a day at the olympics yesterday. >> kim: some of the local sports books have a line on some of the big races and history made on this very channel, very exciting as we are well into the olympics at this point. >> michael phelps getting another medal and the williams out in doubles in >> kim: let's see if the weather forecast gets a gold medal by checking in with kelly in the weather center. >> kelly: lots of sunshine in the area but the winds are going to be picking up and it's going to be warm out there. at 9:00 a.m. lots of sunshine, 91. by noon 100 and 4:00 106. wind gusts today to 25 miles per hour and even stronger overnight
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>> kim: breaking overnight, delta airlines grounded all of its planes after what they are calling a system wide outage that. means there is going to be trouble if you are heading in and out of our local airport. we take you live to the airport for this story. as you see the computer is still spinning and in a tweet the airline apologizing to passengers for the inconvenience and saying that the airline hoped to have the problem we're going to have a lot more on this developing story throughout the morning as craig hustled over to to the airport to join us live in just a bit. >> dana: speaking of mccarron airport, we're talking about southwest airlines and the flight attendants are planning what they are calling an
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picture out of the airport this morning. they are going to picket around the country this morning. flight attendants are doing this to educate the public about deteriorating working conditions at the airline. some of their frustrations come as a result of the recent outage that left tens of thousands of passengers stranded. morning. >> kim: more town halls are planned around town to give local parents to talk about the planned break up of the clark county school district. what does that mean? that means they are trying to get a quality education for every single student in every corner of our community. they had the first town hall in henderson two weeks ago. the district and officials
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their reorganization plan. they have one tonight at 6:30 at the desert breeze community center on durango and spring mountain and tomorrow at the clark county government building within their commission cam bit. all of this information on our website at news3lv.com. hit the find it page when you get there. >> dana: local woman in her 70's murdered. police believe that her murder was the result of domestic in this neighborhood. woman's roommate found her in a pool of blood in her home. the woman suffered severe head trauma massachusetts witnesses told police that the victim's estranged husband had been seen at the home earlier in the day. detectives say ha the two were in the middle of getting a divorce. police looking at the estranged husband as a person of interest.
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n. it's unclear how the woman was killed or with what. no suspects in custody. detectives have been interviewing neighbors all night. >> kim: we're starting the first full week of competition in rio. we're going to see team u.s.a. women's basketball team taking to the court 8:00 this morning our time. the guys hit the hardwood by 3:00 this afternoon. big names will take to the missy franklin, katie in the women's 200-meter free style heat and she just burst her own world record hours ago in rio. for the guys it's the 200 individual medially. action gets under way at 9:30 our time. talk about a weekend of victories. and also a shocker. we continue to take you live to rio.
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the flame fully burning and what an exciting moment it was on friday night to see the calderon lit. let's focus on michael phelps. he's sporting a gold medal he won with his squad. he now has 19 career gold medals. katie, a huge star winning gold and setting a new record. and then the shocker , the williams sisters knocked out of e republic. their hope for gold dashed. when we talk about women's gymnastic who are favored to win gold. simon is now probably going to be a household name by tend of
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her flip and twist during a brilliant floor routine tapped finals are going to be on tuesday night. before we move on, i want to let people know why we've focused on the flame as i've been giving the menu and the big victories of late. because of the olympics and nbc sports we're only allowed two minutes every morning of highlights. we wanted to focus but we had to focus on the flame because of restrictions of olympic coverage. >> dana: this guy is cody. he swam for the sand piper club here in las vegas. last night he won the bonds
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stroke. without a lot of people i wouldn't be here. i'm so happy. >> on the verge of tears. ready to scream. everything all balled up in one. >> you set a record along the way. >> yeah, i did. >> how does that feel? >> just awesome. >> dana: it was an american record that he set last night so congratulations to cody miller. and don't forget we have our own chloend the games for us. there is reed with bob costas and standing next to our photographer on the right ledge understand rio bob costas truth, i'm holding a burger behind his back. we will chat with clear clove
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photos and interviews, a look that the beautiful country happening only on news 3. >> kim: we're recapping the must see moments from rio from friday night. a billion people caught that cat walk. we have more of that must see moment and what she said about it after headed your way. >> dana: nasa released pictures from space. what are we looking at here? answers ahead. >> kim: as we send to you break, welcome aboard. not so fast. live pictures out of atlanta this morning this. is one of the busiest airports on planet earth. because of a delta outage, we have a lot of people hanging out at the airport with nowhere to go today. you know the ripple effect being felt here in las vegas.
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>> dana: jaw dropping images from nasa. it is raining plasma on the sun's surface. a solar flair can cause material to cascade down in big they form a super hot mix that rapidly cools as it falls. the bright picksles in the video not cause bedty solar flair. they cause when high energy particles bombard the camera. >> kim: let's rate this show versus the opening ceremony in rio. maybe a tie. they are both pretty dramatic.
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it. knit anytime we get into the triple digits, that borders on hot for sure but it wasn't horrible. >> kelly: yesterday 106 so we got over the 105 barrier. today is expected to be warm too. cooler temperatures are on the way. let's take a look at this time lapse from yesterday. a ton of traffic out there, especially the motocycles. yesterday up in the municipalitieser 70's. fantastic conditions. here is a look at the temperatures heading out the door. north las vegas 79. henderson you are coming in at 86. lakes 85 and summerlin you are at 81. the wind as you are heading out the door, not much of an issue. gusts to 25 and they are going to get even stronger during the overnight. take a look at our satellite picture.
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our south tropical storm maximum wind speeds around 50. we could see moisture out of this storm system later in the week, maybe a few showers and storms and definitely cooler temperatures. today is going to be warm. 107 is our expected high. winds gusting to 25 this afternoon. tonight gusts of 30 miles per hour. the trees b house makes it hard to sleep. 81 for the low. we expect a chance of showers wednesday. 98-degrees is the expected high so a little bit of a cooldown. going to be short lived as temperatures going right back up for the weekend. >> kim: a tragedy to talk about. three people are gone, two others critically hurt and it happened just hours ago. it takes to us about 3:00
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south bound lanes of the 15. veneer the valley of fire. according to highway patrol this was a single vehicle rollover where the car crossed over two lanes of traffic rolling over. four of the five people inside ejected. three of them dying at the scene. the other two air lifting to umc in critical condition. university medical center our only trauma center in the state of nevada. e henderson. officials have yet to confirm the identity to us. once we have confirmation we'll pass it on to you. >> dana: when tires visit las vegas in the summer a lot of them check out another popular spot not far from here, death valley. the hottest temperature 134 in 1913. while the heat is an appeal for
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>> it's the largest national park outside alaska. death valley in the summer can live up to its name. my special report death valley dangers. >> we'll take a look at why so many visitors are drawn to death valley during the heat of summer. >> it's very hot. park rangers say the s sun does not discriminate. >> quite often that temperature will be 120, 125 for the summer i've been here we've hit 129. >> death valley records at least one heat related death per year. it was one of the harshest environments on earth. tune in tonight at 6:00 for my report. >> kim: to decision 2016 where
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campaign stop on behalf of his wife. that means he'll be in our fine city by friday of this week. he will be addressing thousands of people. he's here for the asian pacific islander forum at cesar's palace. when he is in place, that forum will mark the first time that a major presidential campaign will speak directly to this community at this asian american and islander and community leaders and professionals will be in attendance. libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson is scheduled to speak as well. >> dana: george p bush is making a break from his father and supporting donald trump.
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donald trump. saying it's a bitter pill to swallow but you get back up and make sure we stop hillary clinton. .trump goes to detroit to lay ot oh his economic plan. trump is expected to focus on taxes, energy, government regulation and trade. >> our country is its jobs, our trade deficits are massive all over the colder. hillary will be in tried on thursday. she's expected to focus on her jobs package. a new abc washington post poll puts her eighty points ahead of donald trump nationally but they
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trust to deal with the economy. >> kim: the sheriff's office is investigating the death of a three-year-old child this morning. we don't have a lot to go on but from what we understand it was dramatic in nature. authorities say it happened inside of a home in youngstown. there were five kids ages 17 and younger inside that home at the time. the mom at work when something deadly happened. one man saying deputies told that a toddler inside had been stabbed along with another child. more information on this tragic story should be released at some point today. >> dana: this water park in kansas shut down after a state lawmaker's son died tragically yesterday while riding the world's tallest water slide. just 10 years of age killed while riding the towering 17
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they released a statement since the day he was born he brought abun dent joy to our family. they indicated yesterday the cause of the tragedy not yet clear. state authorities have taken over the investigation. no word on when this water park will reopen. >> kim: we know that hoda i excited because mr. tonga is live on "the today show" this morning. here is what else you can expect. >> coming from rio on a monday morning we will catch up with u.s. swimming superstars michael phelps and katie after their gold winning performances last night. could it be team golds for the u.s. mens and women gymnastics teams. we'll talk about their chances
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grounded flights overnight and will impact their travel all day long. that seasoned much more ahead from rio as we see you on a monday morning. >> dana: this guy is getting a lot of attention right here. this is the tonga man who came in during the opening ceremonies glistening. he had a lot of oil onis there. >> dana: he will be on "the
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>> dana: a live look at mccarron airport this morning. a major airline forced to ground flights around the world this morning. we'll tell you why ahead. >> dana: good welcome in. it is 5:00 on this monday augus. what a day at the olympics yesterday. records broken and in katie's case in the pool, she broke her own world record. >> dana: she won a race in the pool by almost five seconds. it's unheard of. best swimmer on the planet right now and michael phelps getting another gold medal.
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