perhaps the day's touching moment belonged to annie lazor >> annie lazor gets the bronze >> reporter:sed away, months before olympic trials her teammate, lilly king, was annie's rock after her father's death, once promising her mom to keep her on track to tokyo now, the two celebrating >> i wouldn't have done it without her next to me this is what we've been working for. i'm so proud >> reporter: and also in swimming, ryan murphy won the silver in the 200 meter backstroke and then made comments that sent shock waves through the sports world. he said, and i quote, i do believe there is doping in swimming and he does not believe his races were clean murphy did not, however, implicate or accuse his russian opponent who won the race. nor did that opponent test positive savannah, back to you. >> interesting sam we'll follow that. >>> let's do more on suni's golden moment capturing the all-around title in the face of an unprecedented situation >> a historic victory. a victory that could have a lasting impact on the sport of gymnastics stephanie gosk is here with that part of the story. >> s

. >> lilly king and annie lazor took silver and bronze respectively in the 200-meter breslinstroke. south africa's tatjana schoenmaker setting a world record as she took gold. >>> a sight in bmx, connor fields taken off the track on a stretcher after a crash. doctors saying fields is alert. >>> and suni lee became the first asian-american to win the women's all-around gold and marks the fifth consecutive gol. >> lee taking center stage after simone biles dropped out of the event citing mental health. overnight biles posting videos of her training showing she is just unable to fully compete her dismount. in the text she says, my mind and body are simply not in sync. >>> all right. time now for a look at your friday morning weather. >>> good morning. a noticeable change coming on friday to the northeast, and it's a change for the better. less humid conditions and cooler weather and no thunderstorms in the forecast. check out these temps on friday. 70s and 80s. that's going to feel good. what's not going to feel good is accuweather real feel temperatures, well over 100 degrees, though,

a special moment for annie lazor a and lilly king who snagged bronze and silver in the breaststroke.i wouldn't have done that if she wasn't next to me. >> reporter: the two embracing the gold medal champion, tatjana schoenmaker, whose race time set a new world record. the americans have 14 gold medals so far in these games. that places the u.s. third behind china and japan. but team usa is leading in the overall medal count with 41 and guess what, we're not done yet. the big breakout star of the games, suni lee, expected to compete once again next week and we'll have a lot more in the next half hour, michael. >> we look forward to that and watching her compete further on in the olympics. amy, thank you so much for that. >>> in tokyo covid is still looming large with cases on the rise. this morning, other parts of japan are going into a state of emergency. james longman is live in tokyo with the latest. good morning, james. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, michael. we now have 3,300 cases of covid reported in the last 24 hours in tokyo. that is 180% rise on this day last week and othe