this is cape verde's para—athlete keula nidreia pereira semedo — who, afterfinishing last in her 200mor the race, surprised her with a wedding proposal. thankfully she says yes — so she gets to take something shiny home after all. here's a quick round—up of some of the day's other sports stories and... we're getting to the business end of the vuelta a espana — colombia's miguel angel lopez won the hardest, steepest stage of the race. while primoz roglic keeps a healthy overall lead as he goes for a hat—trick of red jerseys. switzerland's marlen reusser won the opening stage of the women's vuelta. britain's anna henderson in yellow on the left was sixth. the race has expanded to four days this year. tomorrow's stage is a mountain time trial. great britain's show—jumpers are in 8th place going into the final round of the team competition at the european championships. new olympic champion ben maher isn't taking part. instead william whittaker, georgia tame, joe stockdale and emily moffitt make up the foursome who are a long way off the medals. the bad weather in america has been affecti

but the result of the day was in the 200 metres, a paralympic proposal from for cape verde's keula nidreiael. and to everyone's delight she said yes. talk about a fairy tale finish. andy swiss, bbc news. the us federal aviation administration has grounded virgin galactic flights as it investigates the course of sir richard branson�*s recent journey to the edge of space. injuly, space ship two, carrying the british billionaire, landed safely but it's emerged the flight deviated from its planned trajectory. a journalist who alleges she was sexually assaulted while working undercoverfor the bbc on an expose about the fashion industry has given a statement to french police about the incident, more than two decades later. lisa brinkworth says she was attacked by one the world's biggest model agents, gerald marie, who has denied the allegations and says they are false and defamatory. our correspondent chi chi izundu has the story. i wantjustice for the women who were very, very young at the time, who have spoken to me, have told me about how being a model was a dream, it was a dream come true, a

a paralympic proposal for cape verde's keula nidreia pereira semedo from her guide runner manuel, and fairy tale finish! a nice surprise in the athletics and in the pool, ellie simmonds has announced this will be her last paralympics. she has had a remarkable career, winning five gold medals, but she says she won't be competing at the next games in three years time. andy, thank you. andy swiss in tokyo. and we stay in tokyo. stephen park is gb cycling's performance director. hello, thank you so much, and let's talk about sarah storey, what an achievement, what determination. your thoughts about what she has achieved? just your thoughts about what she has achieved? , , . , achieved? just incredible, dame sarah storey. — achieved? just incredible, dame sarah storey, 28 _ achieved? just incredible, dame sarah storey, 28 medals, - achieved? just incredible, dame sarah storey, 28 medals, 17 - achieved? just incredible, dame | sarah storey, 28 medals, 17 gold medals, 12 of them were cycling. but also, previous medals, five gold, eight silver and three bronze medals with swimming before the

this one, hurricane larry, 970 miles west of the cape verde islands.arly next week. right now, it's nothing we have to worry about here in the united states, but we will see. temperatures warm out west, cooler than average down to the gulf coast, into the mississippi river valley and precipitation-wise, it looks wetter than average into the northeast, the mid-atlantic states down into the gulf, southwest, as well. dryer than average. that's not great news for the pacific nort >> northwest. >> good friday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. temperatures will start to heat up today for our inland areas reaching into the upper 80 and that warmup continues into the weekend. we'll see more drifts of smoke coming in so moderate air quality expected and by labor day looking at temperatures reaching into the upper 90 and a slow cool down by the middle of next week. san francisco won't have that significant warmup. temperatures in the 70s and hazy sky with at times patchy fog. >>> and that is your latest weather. >>> just ahead, a timely story that many peopl