. ? dunkin' iced, oh, yeah, in the summertime ? ? livin' in a dunkin' paradise ? good morning. unprecedented. >> still invincible. usain bolt. >> usain bolt proves yet again he's the world's fastest man becoming the first sprinter to capture three straight 100 meter olympic titles. >> and there it is. in gymnastics, simone biles nails it on the vault making it three gold so far with two events still to go. while the swimmers from team usa celebrated an unparalleled medal haul in rio including four for simone manual, five for katie ledecky, another six for michael phelps and we get to bask in their glow when they join us

>> she just flies higher. that's all there is to it. >> it doesn't matter who gets the lead, they are going to get caught. >> and she hammers it home. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is special edition of "today" at the olympic games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and savannah guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this monday morning. another beautiful day at the beach. i'm matt lauer along with hoda kotb. we'll check in with savannah in new york city in just a moment. if you are looking to rub elbows with the greatest swimmers in the world, this is where you want to do it today. >> we are talking about the greatest olympian of all time just arrived a few minutes ago. michael phelps will be with us.

like no other and how about simone manual. so many more of those medal winners will be here from team usa and we'll talk to all of them coming up. >> also we'll talk about that scary incident over the last 24 hours for another group of american swimmers including ryan lochte. they were robbed but unarmed. we'll hear from ryan exclusively. savannah, back to you in new york. >> you look great on the beach. a lot going on at home including a chaotic scene at last night. reports of shots fired led to panic, mass evacuations and grounded flights. a scary scene there. police say those reports were unfounded but it was quite a frightening situation for thousands of passengers. we'll have the latest. wait until you hear what actually caused all of that raucous. back to you in rio. >> all right. we'll see you in a couple minutes. let's begin with natalie and get

>> last night featured glamour event of track and field. men's 100 meter dash and for the third straight olympics, usain bolt reigned supreme. >> here he is. st sill invincible. >> usain bolt destroying the competition in the 100 meter dash, third consecutive gold medal in the event. first prisprinter to ever do so. the crowd in the stadium and his erupted with cheers. after a slow start, bolt passed gatlin in the final seconds. later, bolt embracing south africa's wade who stunned the world sunday. >> they come to the finish.

year old set a new world record beating michael johnson's record set in 1999. his coach, who also happens to be his great grandmother, looking on. in gymnastics, superstar simone biles once again taking gold delivering an amazing performance on vault to become the first american gymnast, male or female, to win three golds in a single game and she could two more competing on balance peop beam today and the floor exercise tomorrow. her teammate, madison, took silver on uneven bars. great britain won its first gold medal in the floor exercise but brazil stole the show on the floor taking silver and bronze. men shed tears of joy in front

in the pool, team usa showing its dominance. american swimmers racked up 33 medals, 16 of them gold, led by superstars michael phelps and katie ledecky. >> she hammers it home. >> overnight, team usa crushed australia in women's beach volleyball. kerri walsh jennings and april ross celebrating their win in front of an ecstatic and the team usa men's basketball team. they move to the semifinals against brazil. in tennis, triumph and disbelief. monica winning olympic gold. first ever for puerto rico. the 22 year old overcome with emotion after her two-hour match. andy murray repeats as men's singles champion becoming the first player to ever win back-to-back gold medals.

>> and checking medal count right now, u.s. with a commanding lead followed by china, great britain and russia. so what can you look forward to today? the final of the women's billion beam featuring simone biles and the men's 800 meter final and women's 400 final and quarterfinals in men's beach volleyball will get under way. >> now the man responsible for six medals you just talked abo in herio. a record setting olympic career. five games in all. 28 total medals including 23 gold. if phelps was a country by himself, he would have more gold medals than all about 32 of the 205 countries competing in these games. michael, good morning. how are you doing? >> good.

everything set in. it won't for a while. it's been pretty awesome the last couple days being able to spend time with boomer and the family and seeing everybody before they took off either this morning or yesterday. it's the best way to finish. >> you know that old expression, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, same on me. we sat in london and you said done, done, done. >> you're going to get the done, done, done. and this time i mean it. i think like we talked early in the year i wanted to come back and finish the career the way i wanted. this was the cherry on top of the cake. >> you told me when we got together that you fell in love with swimming again. so i'm wondering if now you won't miss it more. after london you weren't in love with swimming. i thought i can understand why he would want to get out.

able to -- i think the biggest thing between now and london is i was so much more emotional during these games. i think that showed at times on camera. i think that's the difference because i knew this was the last time. i knew this was the last race i ever had and last olympics that i ever had. everything just really hit hard. and i guess some of it some people saw where as soon as i friday night the tears started filling my eyes. bob and i shared some of those emotional moments together. my last warm up. last warm down. last time putting on a suit. last cold tub. is this the last time we get -- >> i have a feeling not. you always kind of give me the straight arm when i ask you about your olympic goals, which

what do you want to do as a 31 year old leaving swimming behind with a long life ahead of you. >> this is a part of my life where i get to start this whole new chapter. continuing to build a family with nicole and continue to travel and change the sport of swimming in some way that i can. i really want to try to not only in the u.s. drowning race that we have. that's a goal of mine. we've been able to teach thousands of kids. i want numbers higher. we have a full plate of schedule and things. i still have goals. >> ryan lochte has had a rough 24 hours. he's okay. before the incident with the robbery he stopped by here. i want to show you what he said. >> i heard what he said. >> can you look in the camera and say, michael, i will see you

i think so. i really think so. so michael, i'll see you in tokyo. >> he might be there. i won't be. i'll be there watching. cheering everybody on. i will not be in the pool competing. >> last thing people often wonder about the future of swimming without michael phelps. would you look across there for a second and is the future in good hands with the young lady named katie ledecky. >> we are in great shape. not only team that we have now. katie is doing her thing and she's breaking records every time she gets in the pool. you know, it's been an honor to be part of the team with her and some of the younger guys we have coming up in the sport that are going to take over. i told a bunch of them i won't be far away. if they ever need anything, to reach out. it's been a passion of mine and

guys as much as i can. >> thank you for giving us a front row seat to a great run. congratulations. hoda? >> katie, while michael is still over there, how about if you look at michael and tell us what impact has he had on swimming. i mean, he's been your mentor throughout this. >> a huge impact on a lot of the team this year. we all looked up to him when we were 6 years old and to be on a team -- i didn't mean it like that. i'm sorry. it's just i started watching him when i was 6 years old first starting to get into the sport and to be on a team is an honor and to see his impact in the pool and outside of the pool.

>> matt asked you to write the headline. your headline was katie ledecky had fun. tell us, how much fun did you have when you were at the olympic games? >> i had a ton of fun. i had my goals in the water, but one of those goals was just to have fun. i couldn't have asked for a better time here with my teammates seeing them succeed and the fun we had outside of the water as well. it was the best. >> she looked like she was smiling in the pool sometimes when you were swimming. you had a you were racing? >> it's fun to swim fast, yeah. i'm happy with how this whole week has gone. >> talk about swimming fast in the 800 you crushed the competition and beat your own world record by two seconds. afterwards you said something like i just thought i would go for it. makes it sound like you can drop a world record at will. is that the case these days? >> it's never easy to break a

and giving it my all and it was my last race of the meet here and i wanted to remember it really well. >> a lot of hometown love. you're from maryland. capitals we nationals playing a game against the braves. they decided just to stop and watch you on the big screen. were you able to see a clip of that? >> i saw a clip of that. >> what does that make you feel like knowing the hometown crowd is cheering like that. >> it means so much to me to and the d.c. area. i've received so many messages from everybody back home. i can't wait to get back home and celebrate with them. >> katie, michael over there, the usa is awfully proud. congratulations on great olympic games. michael, thank you, bud. all right. let's go back to savannah in new york city. >> all right, guys. so fun to see those swimmers. we're rooting for them hard here

frightening moments for passengers and workers at new york's jfk airport after reports that shots had been fired. police evacuated terminal a at 9:30 last night. flights were temporarily grounded. multiple emergency agencies rushed to the scene and terminal one was also evacuated. this all started when a woman coming off a plane said she thought she had heard gunfire. it turns out cheering, clapping and loud celebrations from olympics may have been misinterpreted as a fight and gunshots. both terminals were searched and cleared and things are back to normal there. now to politics and major developments in the presidential race this morning. the conservative op-ed page of "the wall street journal" is calling on the republican party to essentially abandon donald trump if he doesn't change his ways on the campaign trail. nbc's hallie jackson with the latest on all of it.

where he stands tweeting he will not change, that he is who he is, pushing back against any talk of a pivot as his campaign hits back now this morning against a new report linking his top adviser to russia. this morning new questions about trump's ties to russia. a "new york times" report linking his top aide to paul manafort's name appears saying he was paid $13 million in cash payments over a five-year period. the report not verified by nbc news. overnight the clinton camp pouncing saying in a statement, trump has a responsibility to disclose any advisers ties to russian or pro-kremlin entities. paul manafort responding saying i never received a single off the books cash payment as

for the governments of ukraine or russia calling the suggestion he accepted cash payments unfounded, silly and nonsensical among a blistering ultimatum by "the wall street journal" saying if by labor day donald trump doesn't shape up, the gop should walk away. trump needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to be president or turn the nomination to mike pence. another round of trump versus the media. >> i'm not running against crooked hillary clinton. i'm running against the crooked media. >> the candidate in a tweet storm argues he would be winning by 20 points if it weren't for what he considers unfair coverage. >> he's appearing before 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people, that

saying. >> trump will be out on the campaign trail focused on foreign policy today. in a security speech, a senior adviser telling nbc trump will paint the fight against isis as an ideological battle. clinton is on the trial and she'll be joined by vice president joe biden in his hometown of scranton saying biden will portray trump as the least prepared nominee ever. >> hallie jackson thank you so much. 7: 7:17. i don't know if i miss you guys, you all look so cute this morning. >> thank you. >> so do you. >> thank you. you look great. let's get a first check of the weather. mr. roker is here after a late night for you. >> i got to tell you, our hearts and thoughts are going out to everybody in louisiana. it is awful there. president declaring a state of emergency. at least 20,000 high water

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>> chris: good monday morning, everyone. starting off dry. staying dry throughout the day. not quite as hot or humid as yesterday, but it will still be plenty warm out there. watching a warm front for tomorrow, that will give us scattered showers and storms, especially in the afternoon and evening. sea breeze along the coastline today, mid-80s there. low 90s inland. again, edge off the humanity. a three-point run into the 60s. some scattered storms around tomorrow in the afternoon. isolated early on wednesday. dry over the weekend. >> that's your latest weather. guys? >> al, thank you very much. don't forget, you can catch nbc's prime time coverage of the olympic games tonight starting at 8:00, 7:00 central with gymnastics and track in the spotlight. comiing up, guess who's her? simone manual is here with us live in the studio and looking

>> also ahead, billy bush's exclusive interview with ryan lochte. what happened when he and three fellow americans were held up at gunpoint here in rio.

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7:30 on a monday morning. it's the 15th day of august, 2016. look at the scenery. just unbelievable down on the bottom of the screen at the end of the beach, that's you are a copacabana beach on a beautiful day. here's what happens when you take an olympic legend and put him in the crowd. >> that's pretty awesome. selfies, autographs. >> a great moment for a lot of these people who have been coming to olympic games for probably 10, 20, 25 years and now they get to meet michael phelps and other stars of team usa in the flesh and get a picture and autograph and we thank them for coming down and doing that.

crowd just starts going for it. all right. we'll begin this half hour with your olympic headlines. usain bolt proved once again that he is the fastest man in the world. he sprinted into history last night capturing an unprecedented third straight gold in the 100 meter dash. american justin took silver in >> and bronze in over 75 kilograms category. >> and great britain's justin rose captured the first gold medal in golf in 120 years. stenson took silver and matt kutchcu kuchar took bronze. and women's golf starts on wednesday. >> let's turn to an incident

four american swimmers including ryan lochte held up at gunpoint over the weekend. ryan is opening up about what happened exclusively. nbc's keir simmons has more on that. keir, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. ryan lochte was on "today" friday morning. within 48 hours he had a gun put to his head. we retraced the route he took and there are still many questions. where is the taxi driver they were with? why did ryan lochte partying just hours before he was robbed at gunpoint saying overnight we are safe and unharmed telling "today's" billy bush in an exclusive interview the robbers pretended to be police. >> we got pulled over in our taxi and these guys came out with a police badge. no lights, no nothing. just a police badge.

they pulled out their guns. they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground. they got down on the ground. >> reporter: forced to the ground, says lochte. they had been celebrating. >> i refused. we didn't do anything wrong. so i'm not getting down on the ground. and then the guy pulled out his gun. he cocked it and put it to my forehead. i put my whatever. he took our money. he took my wallet. >> reporter: witnesses say ryan lochte left club france in the early hours of the morning and got in a cab. they had bought popcorn just outside of the club. and looked normal, she says. then heading home to the athletes village. somewhere on this route lochte says he and his three teammates were forced off the road. it was near a gas station.

>> he left my cell phone and my credential but took my wallet and all of the cash. >> reporter: this former police chief knows the area. you think it's possible whoever stopped the vehicle knew who was in the vehicle. >> it's possible. >> reporter: the athletes will be interviewed, police say, investigating a high profile armed robbery after a largely crime-free olympics. overnight, gunny tweeting tha and ryan lochte is looking forward to getting home to map out a route to represent usa in tokyo. he stood up to these guys. it was a brave and dangerous thing to do. >> no question about it. they tell you to do just the opposite. no matter what country you're in. keir, thank you very much. we should mention billy will have more with ryan lochte tonight on "access hollywood." >> let's get a check of the weather from mr. roker. >> the heat is the other big

we'll see relief but it won't come number later this week. you can see the jet stream up to the north and so that keeps the heat and humidity locked in from charleston to indianapolis. behind there you have cooler air. look at temperatures. tomorrow in the 80s as you get around the great lakes. the 90s feeling like 100 degrees along the coast. it's not until the latter part of the week that we get below 990 in the east and humid >> chris: good monday morning, everyone. starting off dry. staying dry throughout the day. not quite asot or humid as yesterday, but it will still be plenty warm out there. watching a warm front for tomorrow, that will give us scattered showers and storms, especially in the afternoon and evening. sea breeze along the coastline today, mid-80s there. low 90s inland. again, edge off the humanity. a three-point run into the 60s. some scattered storms around tomorrow in the afternoon. isolated early on wednesday.

>> don't forget to always get your forecast when you need it. go to the weather channel on cable. u.s. gymnastics star simone biles was back in action last night along with several members of the final five. >> and once again biles struck gold. natalie is here with more on that. >> biles as you said won gold in that vault final adding two more records to her name. the first american woman to win that event three gold medals in one olympics. the question now, can she complete here quest five golds overall. >> five olympic gold medals is the most that simone biles can win. >> simone biles vaulting her way toward olympic history sunday. russia's 2015 world champion was leading the pack. >> the new leader is russia.

her first vault spectacular. >> she flies higher. that's all there is to it. >> she could do better and she did. >> and there it is. >> biles winning her third gold medal. >> this is the first time an american woman wins a gold medal in vault. >> on the uneven bars, it was teammates madison ckocian and gabby douglas. >> there's no r >> and russia went first. >> super hard routine done super well. >> followed by team usa's kocian. >> gorgeous. >> despite nearly flawless execution, the level of difficulty reigned supreme. >> madison kocian is going to come up short. >> team usa stunned as kocian walked away with a silver.

medal quest with two more events to go. she goes for number four today on the beam. >> thanks, nat. >> let's bring in tim daggett and nastia of liukin. is simone biles in that area right now? >> without question. she's physically unbelievable but she's so unaffected by all to thrive under the biggest circumstances and deliver. she's one of a kind. >> nastia, we think she has a couple events coming up. do you expect the same results here? >> i think after all-around competition and two events she had beam and floor to go. those are two event finals still to come and she's 3 for 3. no pressure or anything.

what did you think? >> as an athlete, a gymnast, certainly you dream of going into the olympic games and you just hope and pray that somehow you can have the greatest routine of your life on your biggest day. that's exactly what he did. he had to wait four years for it. he was an alternate in 2012 in london. he sure got the job done. >> congrats to madison kocian. she got silver by a sliver and gabby didn't have her best. >> she didn't have her i talked to madison this morning at 6:00 a.m. why are you awake? i couldn't sleep i was so excited. she obviously did an amazing routine. the best she could have done. silver medal is a cherry on top. >> why are you awake? you called me. that's why. thank you as always. great to cover this with us. up next, the world's newest swimming sensation, simone manual is here to talk about the

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medal and i'm so blessed. >> simone manual, the first african-american woman to win gold in an individual swimming event. >> this gold means so much. it means so much more for our sport. i can't begin to tell you. >> in breaking through the sport's underwater ceiling, manual was just getting started. >> in she goes with a second lead over denm the 4x100 medley relay, she made history again. >> give her a lead and there's no way she'll give it up. >> giving team usa its 1,000th ever gold medal. the journey to the podium starting at age four. her talent and determination taking her to stanford and then to rio where along with her gold, she's taken two silvers. not to mention a selfie with her

lebron games giving them both an instagram shout-out that says it all. inspiring for so many especially young black girls. my daughter was watching with me. how happy are we to have simone manual with us this morning. hi, simone. >> hi. >> okay. how crazy was it to see lebron james tweet like that realizing that his daughter is looking up to you? >> it was amazing. i looked up to him for time. just after watching him win the finals and hearing his postgame interview, it inspired me a lot. that's something i took with me the whole time in rio. >> random tweet from someone. this is from a mom with her daughter and do you see that little girl standing up front saying my little swimmer says i got next. do you realize how historic this win is not just for you but for a lot of people in the

>> i didn't have that many people to look up to when i was younger so hopefully it inspires other african-americans to get involved in the sport. >> do you see this -- i know it's historic. for you as a swimmer, was this something you were conscious of or were you just swimming your races? >> i swim for myself. i love it. i have fun. just representing my country is the greatest honor i could ever had. i went out and had fun. >> i can'tat crying. after your last race when you made that historic moment, you won the 1,000th gold medal. you were looking for your family. that must be so important just to see them and to get that support from them. >> my family means everything to me. i have such a great support system. i wouldn't be here without them. i definitely have to thank them for everything they've done. >> can we bring in your posse. we have lilly king and kathleen baker here. dana vollmer had to head home.

medal. you get this framed picture that will be hung up by usoc. how does that feel to know that you made history together. >> it's pretty special. relay medals mean more to us and to bring home 1,000th goal for usa happened by chance but a special moment for us. >> i saw you guys dancing when i was watching you after you were doing interviews. you were hanging out and dancing. do we have a little something. i a little shoulder. can i hold this? we'll go out on break. ? >> thank you, guys. coming up -- congratulations to these ladies. why al says i'm to blame for a lonely night in rio. i don't know what that's about

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>> this is 7news now. >> christa: good morning. 7:57 your time right now. here's chris lambert with a check of your forecast on this monday. >> chris: christa, sunny skies. 77 in boston. 74 in norwood right now. dew point so it's taken the edge off the humidity. a little bit of mugginess out there. i do expect more sunshine than clouds today. sea breezes kicking inch should reach the lower 90s inland. scattered storms returning for tomorrow afternoon. >> christa: a check of your top stories. the wake for a woman who was murdered while out for a jog in princeton will be held today in fitchburg. police say 27-year-old have a negligence is a marcotte was killed eight days ago. right now police say they don't have any suspects. and police in salem, new

flasher. they say this man exposed himself at a coffee shop twice last week. witnesses called police after both of those incidents. so if anyone recognizes this man, they're asked to get in contact with police. now back to the "today show" live in rio after this quick check of your local weather. introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. america runs on dunkin'. two years ago, silvertech had 40 to 50 employees. now we have 60 to 70. we took a big hit in the recession, but we're back, strong. we had about 70 employees a few years ago, we have over a hundred today. chynoweth: businesses like mine see how maggie hassan keeps this economy moving. mary collins: she's controlled spending and she's balanced the budget. narrator: and cnbc named new hampshire

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it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, third time is the charm. >> here he is. still invincible. >> usain bolt does the unthinkable winning his third straight gold in the 100 meter dash. the first sprinter so. as simone biles dominates the vault winning her third gold of the games with a shot at more and after an unprecedented haul in the pool, michael phelps and his teammates join us live at the beach and hitting her stride. lester catches up with four-time gold medallist allyson felix about gearing up for her next

aggressive place and turn into someone else when it's time to compete. and al by himself. >> amazing match so far, isn't it? hoda, you're enjoying it, right? >> roker calls out willie and hoda on their olympic no show. will he get over the olympic size snub, "today," august 15th, 2016. ? >> i'm happy to be in rio supporting team usa. >> shout out to my two children. sending you love from rio. ?

? >> we are back now 8:00 on a monday morning, august 15th, 2016. look what's happened here on copacabana beach. first week we're at the olympics to get a few people here. mostly looking for doughnuts. and now this second week starts and look what we've gathered here. >> can we s >> let's take a walk. >> uncle sam is here. >> why are they here? this looks like the waiting room at the olympic cupping therapy room. greatest swimmers in the world here meeting with some of their fans and our fans and we can't thank you guys enough. we'll talk to all of them again in just a couple minutes.

>> talk about heavy medal. let's go back to savannah patiently waiting back in new york city. savannah, this is an impressive sight. >> i'm glad they have that upper body strength to carry their medals around their next. we'll tell you about a new report that claims donald trump's campaign manager got multimillion dollar cash payments from pro-russian forces. we'll tell you what the trump campaign has to say about that this morning. back to you for now. >> swimmers here there's an election going on back in the united states. >> they had forgotten. >> is that still going on? >> let's start this half hour with the latest olympic action including the highly anticipated crowning of the world's fastest man. nbc's peter alexander has more on that. hey, peter. >> good morning to you. lightning may not strike twice but usain bolt has now done it

solidifying his place among the greatest olympians ever. >> here comes bolt. >> jamaica's usain bolt torching the track proving once again he's the world's fastest man. bolt overcoming a slow start surging past his american rival justin gatlin winning gold in the 100 meters for the third straight olympics. bolt's celebration included snapping selfies with fans. have fun. it goes together for me. >> in gymnastics, that girl is on fire. simone biles vaulting her way to victory. >> and there it is. she just flies higher. that's all there is to it. >> becoming the first american gymnast, male or female, to win three golds in a single olympics. her teammate, madison kocian taking silver on uneven bars. for the men, the bronze on

at the olympic games. he did it. >> the first u.s. men's gymnastics medal in rio and the first u.s. pummel horse medal since 1984. >> michael phelps. >> after collecting his record 23rd gold medal saturday, michael phelps is vowing this olympics is his last. >> phelps grabbed the lead. >> leaving fans with an epic finale, part of the men's 4x100 medley team t record. phelps talking about his olympic achievements earlier on "today." >> i was more emotional during these games. that showed at times on camera. that's the difference because i knew this was the last time. >> another record setter, katie ledecky, is the first woman to sweep 200, 400 and 800 meter freestyle events in 48 years taking home four golds and a silver.

in their 4x100 medley relay. simone manual also winning silver in 50 meter freestyle. >> justin rose under pressure coming up huge. >> in golf, great britain's justin rose securing gold in the first olympic tournament since 1904. the 36 year old squeezing by henrik and matt kuchar takes bronze and these games not without controversy after ryan lochte and three other american swimmers were robbed at gunpoint. lochte telling "today's" billy bush in an exclusive interview the robbers posed as police. >> i refused. we didn't do anything wrong. i'm not getting down on the ground. the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it. put it to my forehead and said get down.

whatever. he took our money. he took my wallet. >> the good news most importantly the men and their medals are all safe this morning. brazilian police are now investigating. you can see more of billy's interview with ryan lochte tonight on "access hollywood." here's your medal count. team usa bolstering its lead. we have a full day including simone biles going for gold and allyson felix expected to add to her medal count and quickly back to usain bolt, this man is worth every second. the j he made $32 million while running just 274 seconds in competition so by our count,

$120,000 per second. not bad work if you can get it. matt and hoda? >> that's cool. peter, thank you. >> billy bush here with the scoop on this ryan lochte interview. how did that happen? >> i was shopping. i came down from christ the redeemer. went over to the usa house to do shopping. things have gone back and forth. we heard something happened to lochte and other guys and ioc said it didn't happen. then i see lochte as i walk out of happen? he said, yeah, it did. i same come with me. come with me. we went across the street. i pulled out the iphone and talked about it and he confirmed it. >> more on "access hollywood." did he say any more guaranteeing phelps would be in tokyo? he didn't mention it.

there it goes. we've seen that before. savannah has the other headlines. >> good morning, guys. we'll start with the presidential race and this morning donald trump's campaign manager denying a report in "the new york times" that raises questions about his ties to russia. it appears to link manager paul manafort to almost $13 million in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-russian political party in ukraine where manafort was a consultant for many years. this report has not been verified by nbc news independeny. received a single off the books cash payment. trump meanwhile is making a foreign policy speech today in ohio. hillary clinton campaigns with vice president joe biden in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. one more note, we'll sit down with democratic vice presidential nominee tim kaine and his wife for an exclusive interview that airs wednesday morning on "today." now to this growing flood emergency in the deep south. there were more water rescues in louisiana overnight but the

let's get right to nbc's gabe gutierrez in baton rouge for us. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. president obama has declared several parishes here in louisiana federal disaster areas. at least four people are confirmed dead so far. it was a weekend filled with dramatic water rescues. more than 20,000 people rescued so far. about 10,000 or so spent part of the weekend in emergency shelters. as we take a look at live drone video, you can see this inundated. residents say it's unlike anything they had ever seen. several rivers in louisiana have just crested. that means the waters in some places are beginning to recede. the governor says this disaster is far from over. a piece of this storm system is bringing rain and a flooding threat to other states like missouri and illinois. here in louisiana, one area got more than 31 inches of rain and residents here are continuing,

assessment from this growing disaster will take quite a while. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. a wildfire 90 miles north of san francisco has forced more than 4,000 people from their homes. the so-called clayton fire started saturday afternoon and by sunday it had spread to 3,000 acres. it jumped over a road and burned along main street in the historic town of lower lake destroying at least ten homes and businesses there. there are no reports of any wildfires burning across that state right now. finally, grammy award winning singer adele is not ready for football. adele said she turned down an offer to perform at the 2017 super bowl halftime show. she told a los angeles audience over the weekend "come on. that show is not about music. i can't dance or anything like that." she added, i'm sorry but maybe next time."

back to matt and hoda, gold medallist swimmers, al. >> we do have an impressive sight. we'll look over here. coming up next in presence of greatness, the stars of the u.s. swim team take over copacabana beach. >> we love them being here. meet the athlete who left the medal stand with a silver and a diamond. the sweet story after these messages. poor foster kid black immigrant cancer patient small muslim the only label that matters is olympian.

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the citi double cash card. double means double. >> announcer: "today's" athlete to watch is sponsored by citi, proud partner of team usa, proud sponsor >> "today's" athlete to watch this morning, members of the winningest u.s. swim team in more than three decades. good morning to all of you. how are you? who wants to start off with the best moment of your olympics. nathan, why don't you start? >> best moment of my olympics? >> of the olympics for you? >> i think maybe it's selfish

split getting me in the lead and finish it off was great. >> anyone else? >> for me i think the team has been fun and my favorite moment was probably blasting music in the locker room and just really all of the countries staring at us. we had so much fun doing it. >> connor? >> the first time i saw the video of michael doing the face in the ready room. >> i don't even know what >> did you have any idea how viral that thing was going to go? >> as soon as i heard somebody ask me about it, i thought, the camera is up there definitely getting all of this footage right now. i'm sure i have a couple looks on my face that aren't pretty. >> katie, you and simone are roommates. when you look back at how you'll remember these games, how are you going to remember them? >> i'm going to remember the collective effort by our team and how much fun we had doing

village watching on tv. i pretty much lost my voice and was so excited for her to get back to the dorm and give her a big hug. >> simone, for you? >> i have to agree with katie. the memories i've had. these are some of my best friends and to do it in a sport i love is the most amazing thing. >> can we ask a dumb question. ryan, you set a world record in the first leg of the 4x100 medley. does that count as the world record right now even though it's a relay? >> yeah. it was super special to do it relay with cody, michael and nathan gave me that extra adrenaline i needed to finish that off. >> michael says he's done, done, done. raise your hand if you believe it? >> we have a finger wag here. >> what's the over/under on this? >> i don't know. >> we hope not. >> guys, thanks for great

>> let's go over to al now for a check of the weather. >> here it comes. all right, jimmy running all of the way over. show those nice people. show more people. there you go. what's what's going -- show more people. that's what's going on around the country. >> chris: good monday morning, everyone. starting off dry. staying dry throughout the day. not quite asot or humid as yesterday, but it will still be plenty warm out there. watching a warm scattered showers and storms, especially in the afternoon and evening. sea breeze along the coastline today, mid-80s there. low 90s inland. again, edge off the humanity. a three-point run into the 60s. some scattered storms around tomorrow in the afternoon. isolated early on wednesday. dry over the weekend. >> sorry. >> all righty, gang. you know what it's time for?

edition of "what's trending today." >> what's the first rule of athletics help your teammates, right? there was a soccer game. women's soccer. australia one of the teams. player goes down injured. they were tending to that player on the field when this happened. take a look. the team captain at the far right of the screen goes for a water bottle. there's the player down. the team captain at the far right of the screen asked for a water bottle. er watch. you might want to drink out it the correct way or you squirt your teammate. >> that's a good save. >> americans falling in love with laurie hernandez nicknamed the human emoji. there was a time she mouthed to herself i got this before the routine and went to the judges

making the rounds on facebook shows her at an even younger age performing her little heart out. you can see that she had talent even back then. the video from flow gymnastics has been viewed more than 1.5 million times. she's always had it that little one. >> look at her. >> al, you were up late last night. >> went to team usa's beach volleyball. >> who did you go with? >> i was waiting for billy and we were going over there together to watch kerri and april. >> you know where i was. >> i didn't know at the time. >> he was under the weather. >> it was midnight when it started. i got a text that said i guess you're not coming at 11:58. >> is the segment called standing up al? >> what happened to supporting your team. >> i got to tell you this is an amazing match so far, isn't it,

i guess they couldn't stay up late. >> al, we have men 4:30 local. >> natalie, we weren't invited. >> i was. >> so i wasn't invited. great. >> billy, take it away. "pop starts." >> all right. we're talking about the stars getting into the olympic spirit. here is salma hayek. she has a cousin competing in rio in she's playing for mexico. they have never met but on instagram salma wished her cousin good luck. >> i like it. >> earlier we talked about puerto rico winning its first olympic gold medal thanks to tennis star monica puig. so she celebrated along with

and down posting this video and writing congratulations. >> first gold for puerto rico. and next to floyd mayweather. he's scouting. found time to do sightseeing visit christ the redeemer snapping this selfie at the top. >> everybody has to go through christ the redeemer at some point and finally gisele showing everyone how it's done posting this stun capturing rio in all its glory. terrific and for more pop culture news, head to "today's" facebook page. >> thanks, billy. >> announcer: "today's" olympic moment is sponsored by walmart, save money, live better. >> all right. it's time for "today's" olympic moment. this morning a diver who got more than she bargained for on the medal stand.

china's he zi was all smiles after receiving her medal for springboard diving but then came the real surprise of her life. suddenly appearing with a glass encased rose and red box, boyfriend and teammate qin kai who won a bronze medal in his event last week getting down on one knee he took his biggest dive yet. >> wow. marriage. >> a proposal to cap off a gold medal performance. >> the proposal itself an olympic event. would she say yes? zi spent 57 seconds on bended knee before he got his answer. a head nod. the two met six years ago matching the second high profile proposal of these olympic games. last week olympics volunteer

girlfriend, a member of brazil's rugby 7's women's team. >> everyone is crying. >> love taking over the olympics for an unforgettable moment. >> so sweet. >> she waited a long time. >> i think she was overcome. a lot going on. >> just ahead, team usa's men's golf team on the sports return to >> we'll catch up with allyson

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>> this is 7news now. >> sarah: good monday morning, everybody. 8:27 as you take a live look over braintree. send it over the chris lambert for more on your forecast. >> chris: a lot of sunshine. a lot of traffic. 77 in boston. 77 in plymouth. note the difference: humanity not quite as high. it's taking the edge off. it will be a warm day, mid-80s at the coastline. sea breezes kicking in. should reach the low 90s inland. scattered thunderstorms returning tomorrow. mostly heavy rain and gusty winds. seasonable next weekend. >> sarah: now to your top stories, the former uber driver who is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl from everett will be back in court for a dangerousness hearing. 36-year-old darnell booth is being held without bail. prosecutors say booth raped the

snapchat and then offered to give her a ride. police in salem, new hampshire, are searching for this man, who they say exposed himself at a coffee shop twice last week. witnesses called police after the incident. a family is looking for answers after they say staff at a dialysis clinic in methuen left their 86-year-old grandmother alone in a dark room for three hours. the family says when staff from the rehab facility say she is staying at went to pick her up, the door was lights were off. "today in new england" returns at 9:00. we hope to see you then. introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on.

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super spike, here comes the boom here comes the boom, boom, boom! so very nice. now she's terrific. come here, please, hoda kotb. >> hit me! very nice, guys. now, guy over there, so amazing, come here and join us, al roker. ladies and gentlemen, please let it go, let it go, natalie morales! >> all right. we are back. 8:30 on this monday morning.

announcer of any sport anywhere in the world. >> we hear him every night from our hotel room. spectacular. >> phenomenal. >> good to have you here. we're going to take on a different type of sport in a while. footvolley. it's like beach volleyball but you can use everything but your hands. >> you can head it. >> what can go wrong with that? here we go. >> also ahead, sprinter allyson felix about her big race tonight and challenging her alter ego as she goes for gold. >> salty, smoky and grilled for hours. hoda got the tough assignment of getting to go tracing it back to its birth place. >> can we do something and bring in four guys standing patiently in the background. golf made it back to the olympics for the first time.

>> matt kuchar won the bronze. good morning, guys. good to have you. >> so did golf do itself proud after 112 years? what do you think? >> it was awesome. the event went so well. fan support was incredible. blown away by how many people turned out and to make the podium, just amazing. >> bubba, we got to see you a lot not only on the links but you were out and about with other athletes having fun. you really did enjoy your olympic experience. >> the greatestpo every four years to now be a part of it, to see other athletes. >> who did you love? >> the boxer said that i was kind of a big deal. when a boxer says that you're kind of a big deal, that's when you know you made it. >> he's known as booba in rio. >> have you made rahoda.

we got here and it felt surreal. you're an olympian onsite and golf hasn't been here for 100 and some years so just being part of it is amazing. >> rickie, what did you like? >> everything. i mean, i was the only one down here for opening ceremonies. i wish these guys would been able to join me for that. that was pretty special. bubba and i got a cool opportunity seeing some of the swimmers before one of the big gh walked away from the warmup pool. it was pretty cool to look back and hear them chanting usa for us. >> staying in the village. my wife wasn't here. rickie was in the village. for us to stay in the village and meet other athletes and hang on the floor where we all gather, healthy snacks there. we didn't eat much. got to hang out with other athletes and learn from them and talk to them and support them. it was really fun. really amazing.

aren't you? >> i'm left handed. you have to come in there. >> bubba watson. >> here we go. >> all right. thanks. great to have you. >> here comes the boom. >> congratulations. rickie, great to see you. patri patrick, way to go. >> now, it's time for al and as natalie's portuguese class. olympic golf version. we thought we would figure out how to say hole in one. >> fore! >> you probably know this by now. buraco emum. >> everyone knew that. >> we talked about large rodents running around the olympic golf

capybaras. you thought you were ordering a drink. >> they're big, right? >> they were big. >> billy bush was riding one. >> and finally we heard so much about golfers that didn't come to rio. you might want to tell them wish you were here. there you go. that's al and natalie's -- mostly natalie's portuguese class. >> mr. rock ker, check of the weather? >> here comes the boom. let's show you what we have happening for you. for today looking ahead to the weekend, it's going to be a wet one. eastern half of the u.s. a real mess. heavy showers and thunderstorms. flooding makes its way into the mid mississippi river valley. as we get to midweek period, looking at the week ahead, we'll look by late week more wet weather mid mississippi river

sunshine in the northeast. toasty out west. you can see above normal temperatures early part of the weekend out west along the eastern seaboard. below normal midsection of the country as we get to the midweek period. on the cool side because it's raining so much in the lower mississippi river valley and by latter part. week we have plenty of sunshine and heat returns out west especially into the pacific northwest. >> chris: good monday morning, everyone. starting off dry. staying dry throughout the day. yesterday, but it will still be plenty warm out there. watching a warm front for tomorrow, that will give us scattered showers and storms, especially in the afternoon and evening. sea breeze along the coastline today, mid-80s there. low 90s inland. again, edge off the humanity. a three-point run into the 60s. some scattered storms around tomorrow in the afternoon. isolated early on wednesday.

>> that is your latest weather. >> announcer: "today's" athlete to watch is sponsored by bount y, the quicker pick upper. >> another athlete to watch, allyson felix. lester holt is here with her story. lester, good to see you at the beach. >> good to see you. allyson felix heads to 400 meter final aer the semifinals despite the fact she's still recovering from an injury, one she told me already cost her a race she badly wanted to run here. some wait years to hit their stride. for allyson felix, it takes just 20 seconds. >> i'm a super laid back person in my real life. you have to get to that aggressive place and kind of turn into someone else when it's time to compete. >> that time is now.

challenge herself like never before. >> the 200 has always been my favorite race. i always call it my baby. 400 is a new challenge to me. i'm not as comfortable with it. definitely outside of my usual realm. >> i caught up with her at ucla's drake stadium this past spring. for people who only follow track every four years of the olympics, to be clear 400 is one time around. >> one time around. >> doesn't look that hard. >> for anyone who has ever 400 slow or fast, it's one of the most gruelling events out there. you just don't feel good in it. >> rio will be bittersweet though. at the olympic track and field events last night, felix nursing an ankle injury from april saw her hopes of a golden repeat in the 200 come to an end. she placed fourth losing by the narrowest of margins. how many times have you run that

>> so many times. i mean, it was so close. it was unfortunate about the whole ankle thing and not quite enough time. >> the gun sends them on their way. >> a fierce competitor, felix has raced since 2004 collecting four gold medals and two silvers along the way. describe the moment when you >> sometimes you don't know until the very, very end. when you know at that final moment and you zip for the line and you think you have it, it's just joy that all of the hard work has paid off. >> felix was known as chicken legs in high school but her parents call her by a sweeter moniker. >> shug. >> short for sugar? >> short for sugar. >> is she hard on herself?

and she hates losing, but i think she loses gracefully. >> her brother, wes, has always been by her side both at home and on her track. he's her agent. wes, how have you helped try to keep your sister focused given all she's been through? >> she has done the hard work. i keep her focused on her goals and all you have to do is break it down and stay focused on one step at a time and do the best >> do you two ever bicker? >> we used to growing up but not anymore. >> we are close now. our mom loves that word bicker. we heard that a lot growing up. >> felix aims for the sky in rio. ? happy birthday to you ? >> her close and deeply spiritual family keeps her grounded. >> we have a tradition before the competition she does call if i'm not with her and we have prayer together and talk about

terms of the outcome of the race. >> it helps me put everything in perspective. i love to have that prayer with her and know that it's bigger than track. it's bigger than winning a race. it's good to remember that. >> allyson felix will be on the track tonight. if she wins gold, she'll have more gold than any other female track olympian. >> i like the fact that it's a family affair too. >> very close. all hanging out together here. >> up next, meat, meat and more meat.

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here? we're back at 8:44. time for "today's" rio. this morning there is a whole lot of meat on the menu. >> meat is on the menu. we took a trip to the birth place of beef, chicken, lamb and pork. it's a tradition spread all over brazil and beyond. meat is >> it's a simple way to cook meat on charcoal open fire. >> the tiny brazilian village of 3,500 people is thought to be the birth place. >> most is all over the country and abroad came from families

city. >> the tradition of salting meat and grilling it for hours over hot coals was brought to southern brazil in the 1800s by the south american cowboys and ranchers. >> the guys stop any place and put a fire in the ground and they cooked and have a meat and they keep going working and traveling. >> a the country, it's just as important as religion. >> it is the most popular male in southern brazil. it's part of who they are, upbringing, for every family gathering, every festivity, it's present. it's part of their culture and tradition and their way of life. >> where you can find the restaurants on every corner and city block slicing up beef,

giving family and friends a chance to try a little bit of everything along with vegetables, rice and beans. an experience that's been brought to the united states with restaurants. >> it's now part of the lifestyle of brazilians from north to southeast and west. it brings people together. it's a celebration of life. >> >> where is the meat? >> exactly. >> we went the other night. >> how was it? >> we had meat sweats. >> took me four days to recover. >> best ever. >> we're going to try our hand and make that our feet at the brazilian introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches

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we're back now in rio with a sport we first saw a couple weeks ago. we were walking down and hoda said there are guys in speedos. i said, wait, they're playing an interesting sport. it's called footvolley. not an olympic sport but you will see it on the beaches around here. >> we require different attire here. it was invented on copacabana beach in the '60s and these guys are actually going to teach us footvolley. you are the top drawer footvolley player, right? and what's your name? >> roberto. >> you'll show us how to. >> no hands. >> no hands. use your chest. knees. foot. >> your head? shoulders. everything. >> no hands. >> how about your arms? >> no.

regular beach volleyball, right. that's good for us, right? >> 2.2 meters so about 6 1/2 feet. >> in the beginning, it was much higher. now, smaller. >> how do you serve since you can't use your hands. >> like this. >> show us. >> you make a mound like a sand tee and put the ball on top. are we playing for real? >> we're going to see him serve here >> got to make the mound. >> right here. >> stay with me. get it. >> hoda, you went right for the hands there. >> try again. come on. let's play. >> i'm with you. >> use your head, hoda. >> that can't end well.

>> go, matt! >> you got it. you made contact. >> you serve to him. >> get ready. >> natalie, come on in. >> that's you why see these little mounds. >> these guys are good. >> come on. >> go, hoda! >> good try. >> all right. by he does something very special, right? >> do it. >> take the ball. throw it in the air. >> higher. >> give me the ball.

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