. >> american dalilah muhammed established herself as the favorite for today's final. bruce beck introduces us to this city. >> tonight is the night for dalilah muhammed. 19 years after she first joined the traffic club in queens, she races for gold and glory inside olympic stadium. in rio, she's been blazing as hot as the south american sun in the middle of the afternoon. she won her preliminary heat and she had the fastest time in the semifinals by o second. now at age 26, dalilah muhammed from jamaica, queens, is ready for stardom. >> i'm feeling good. i'm feeling prepared and ready. i want to excuse what i've been training. >> her family traveled from new york to support her. her mother, father and brother all in rio hoping for a coronation. >> this is a dream come true. overwhelming. we are trying to relax. >> oh, man, that would be exciting, exhilarating. we are enthused and ready and anticipating that moment. >> reporter: the family is proud of her new york roots. she was recently inducted in benjamin cordoza high school hall of fame. >> george taylor is an exce

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we won this. >> dalilah muhammad to win the ?? >> savannah, i don't know if you know how much we miss you. i'm...susan brian gotter... lets get a check of the weather.. dry incident free roadwaysslow eastbound near zippermerge on sunnyslope road, use those ?? >> why not? it's our last day here in rio. back now 8:30. back on the east coast of new york. 9:30 here in rio. we have entertainment here from alexander jackson on vocals. she's put news the mood all morning long. >> if there's music that makes you feel like you have a warm hand on your heart, it's what she's singing right now. that's beautiful. brazilian musical culture for the games playing for the most high profile nation >> coming up, matt and i decided to do shopping. we'll show you what we tried on and purchased. we'll see matt's modeling it right now. we hit the stores with alessandra ambrosio and adriana lima. >> another day shopping with models. >> don't forget good times from these games are heading back to the plaza. we want you to deck yourself out to show us you

americans dalilah muhammad winning their respective races in the 400-meter hurdles. american ashton eaton dominated the decathlon vaulting, hurling, sprinting to the gold for a second straight games. >> the world's greatest athlete. >> eaton talking about his achievement earlier on "today." >> there's these young kids coming up really pushing me and that challenge is what i thrive on and i rose to the challenge and i'm glad i did. >> the first woman to ever win volleyball, brazil hauding to the host country's gold medal count. the dynamic duo of alison and bruno pulling off a stunning victory over italy in front of a raucous hometown crowd. brazil. >> taking back the title for the first time since 2004. so with seven more medals on thursday, team usa brought their total to 100 in all way out in front of china ahead of great britain, ahead of russia as well. 22 more to be handed out today. today women's soccer gold medal game, sweden versus germany. i was at athletes village. swedish king was greeting players. these guys are going home for royal treatment when they're

we won this. >> dalilah muhammad to win the ? >> savannah, i don't know if you know how much we miss you. >> this is 7news now. >> sarah: happy friday, everyone. 8:27 as you take a live look over boston. send it over to chris lambert with a check of your forecast. >> chris: good looking start out there, sarah. 77 in boston. temperatures low to mid and cities. take a look at the satellite and radar composite. we had some batches of clouds especially west out near 495. overall, a warm afternoon, 88 inland. closer to 80 along the coastline thanks to that ocean breeze kicking on in. >> sarah: now to our top stories, one person seriously injured after a stabbing in woburn. it happened late last night in the parking will the of jake n joes restaurant. police do not have any suspects. police are investigating a serious late-night accident in south boston. officers say at least two cars were involved in a crash on old colony avenue in dorchester street. at least one person was taken to boston medical center. their conditions were not kno

dalilah muhammad. and we took one, two in the shot put.oric moment for wrestler hel helen margolis. just a great day for team usa. she took a medal in freestyle wrestling. they want to add more. look for men's basketball, women's basketball, the 4x100 relay. that team allowed to run a rerun because of interference in their qualifier. they'll be in the finals tonight. that's the latest live here in rio. much more a bit later. >> all right, jay, thanks so much. talk to you soon. >>> eight minutes before 6:00. statue controversy. take a look at these figures of donald trump. we'll tell you all about them and the artist who created them. ♪ there's a moment... when you push... past walls... and limits. panting... sweating... smiling. and you realize... you've just pushed past... what you ever thought possible. independence blue cross. live fearless. >>> good morning, everyone. jessica boyington with you watching the roads. we're taking a look at the schuylkill expressway, an accident scene taking out the left lane, left shoulder, one lane squee

we won this. >> dalilah muhammad to win the ?? >> savannah, i don't know if you know how much we miss you. >> it is 8:26 a.m. on this friday morning. i'm kim wagner coming to you live from the ksnv studio. you have an update on the fire, the blue cut fire stillburning in southern california. yesterday morning at this time it was only four percent contained. enter update , it's at 22 percent and even better for people trying to get down to la or vice versa. it's i-15 is open in both directions just in time for the weekend. when it comes to our localair last time we were chatting about this and advisory was stillin effect but the quality definitely on the improve . >>> the advisory is still in place. look at the cameras , we can see the mountains. there is a little bit of hayes out there. i think there is still smoke lingering at its heavenly an improvement over what we've seen over the last few days. a lot of clouds out there this morning. that's keeping temperatures down. showers and understand later today. high of 103. more wet w

. >> in the 400-meter hurdles, dalilah muhammad taking gold in the event and teammate ashley spenceraking the bronze. on the men's side, kerron clement improved on his silver in beijing, winning gold in the 400 hurdles. >> ah! >> in the shot put, american ryan crouser also grabbing gold, hurling the 16-pound shot put over 73 feet for a new olympic record. team usa's joe kovacs gets the silver, delivering a one-two punch in the event. in women's wrestling, another gold. helen maroulis overcoming the olympic champion from japan, crying tears of joy on the podium. >> i did not start as, like, a tough girl. i lacked a lot of self-confidence, and that wrestling has given me that. >> and seimone augustus drills it. >> on the court, the american women steam-rolled france, winning their semifinal match 86-67, now getting set to face spain on saturday in the gold medal round. finally, a relay redo for the american women, initially failing to qualify in the 4x100-meter relay after a brazilian runner made contact with allyson felix. >> and they've dropped the stick. >> they dropped it. >> causi

we won this. >> dalilah muhammad to win the ? >> savannah, i don't know if you know how much we miss you. >>> good friday morning. i am gene ramirez. all that sunshine. 79 is your current temperature at sun city center. we have sun pop-up thunderstorms in the forecast for this afternoon, 92 for the high, 90 degrees over the weekend and 30 to 40% -- 30% to 40% chances for rain through next week >>> we have some pop-up accidents but most of them are on the shoulder. we are look minutes, the vets freeway, 18 minutes. we have an accident tying up some lanes a year at southbound seminal and washington. >>> they are looking for a man who beat up a victim. this is looking for him. his license plate is on the ? >> not? it's our last day here in rio. back now 8:30. back on the east coast of new york. 9:30 here in rio. we have entertainment here from alexander jackson on vocals. she's put news the mood all morning long. >> if there's music that makes you feel like you have a warm hand on your heart, it's what she's singing right now. that'

dalilah muhammad from jamaica queens captured america's first ever gold in the hurdles. denmark took the silver, another american, ashley spencer won the bronze. >> was a celebration in muhammad's hometown. >> they watched her make history. [ cheers ] getting a little excited. that's her family, friends and coaches roars with excitement as she crossed the finish line. she set records in hurdling at then left home to attend college at usc. >> it's beautiful. that's what she told us a year ago. she said i know i can beat the olympics. i know i can get the gold. she did it. >> mayor deblasio was keeping an eye on the race and tweeted deliliah did it. nyc's pantheon of heroes just gained a new member. check out nbcnewyork.com for the four to watch today. highlights include jordan burroughs going for gold in freestyle wrestling. read up on the athletes, get highlights and details on the must-see match-ups ahead. >>> a multimillion dollar plan to transform the ohika castle may get scrapped. the castle's owner has been in talks with jack nicklaus and a developer but news day sa

and more history -- as dalilah muhummad takes the 400 meter hurdle gold. it's the first time an american woman has ever done that. it's a perfect 100 for team u-s-a -- nearly doubling the runner up on the medal count. the u-s has 35 gold, 33 silver, and 32 bronze medals -- 100 in total. china is next with great britain with 56... russia has 44... and japan behind with 36. you know the flowering plant alfalfa? used as an herbal drug.. and one neighborhood used to be known for it's alfalfa fields back in the 1800's. 9neighborhoods today visits berkely, that's coming up. but first-- a family desperately searching for their missing son. just how much the flooding is unrelenting -- rising waters in louisiana now moving south. at least 13 dead thousands of homes threatened. and here in colorado scientists have a new way to predict such devastation... seven months later and still no new leads. a family-- now offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to find their missing son... and to rio -- the olympics winding down but the olympic spirit hasn't left the city. w