jordyn, what was that like?t just waiting to find out whether you had done it. >> i think we knew at that point we were pretty positive that we were going to get the gold, but seeing your country on the top of that scoreboard is an amazing feeling. we were just anticipating that, so it was amazing. >> yeah. it's one thing that really struck me is your camaraderie and your friendship. i have to say even in the stands we could hear you guys yelling for each other. you're loud. how important do you think the friendship was, gabby, in making this team succeed? >> i think it's definitely important to have everyone behind you and cheer for you. that's what this team's about is giving each other pep talks or cheering for each other. i could definitely hear my awesome teammates cheering for me when i needed a pep talk, and we definitely hyped each other up and do the greater and better thing. so it's definitely important to have that, you know, behind you. >>> just ahead, more on gabby douglas' road to gold with the fab

it was jordyn wieber overcoming that disappointment for not qualifying with that all around finals. she and her teammates outscoring the gymnast from russia who struggled with slips and their falls. now after winning that gold wieber talks about her feelings going into those finals. >> i knew that i really had to mentally turn it around and pull it together for the team and just keep the momentum going into this competition. >> next up for the gymnasts, the women's all around finals goes off on thursday. >> it was a huge night in the swimming pool as well. michael phelps won two medals to become the most decorated olympian in history. phelps bringing in the u.s. home with a huge lead, beating second place france by three seconds. gold medal is phelps 19th olympic medal, breaking the record of 18 held for 48 years by soviet gymnast laresa latia. he won a silver medal in the 200 meter butterfly. team usa added two its medal count yesterday. team usa now has 23 medals overall. nine of them gold. china also has 23 medals overall but has four more golds than the u.s. japan is in third wi

so i'm really happy about that. >> hey, jordyn. this is will cain.mpics being a bit of a disappointment to you is because you're the all-around world champion. so the olympics is one year out of a competition for you every year. where does this go for you? are you going to keep competing? >> i'm not sure yet. i would love to stay in the sport of gymnastics. as long as i can. i definitely feel like i have some unfinished business. and hopefully, you know, with the support of kellogg's and the campaign from great starts come great things i can keep moving on to greater and better things. >> jordyn, you're going home with a gold. if it were me, i'd be sleeping in that thing. i don't know how many nights. what do you do with the medal? >> i think it will probably stay in my room somewhere. i'm not sure yet. we'll have to see when i get home. >> jordyn wieber. >> se travels home. >> congratulations on the team gold. job well done. >> thank you. >>> and our "end point" is up next. anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashb

gabby douglas and jordyn wieber.a revealing interview with their moms. >>> and, sam, hope your bags are packed. you're heading downtown to go on a wild ride. just imagine sam screaming. >> he was practicing. >> in tights. >> do i have to point my toes like that? >> what are you going to wear, sam? >> i don't know yet. >> he's wearing it right now. >> it looks safe, though. i was concerned it was over speeding buses. now, i feel much better. >> that should be safe. >> of course that's not what you're going to be doing, but, yeah. >> upside down and spinning. >>> that's coming up. let's get to that teenage con man out of florida. matt gutman is in miami with more of the shocking interrogation tapes. >> reporter: good morning, george. at first, you see matthew scheidt trying to defend himself in that tape. but after three hours of interrogation, police break him down. finally, he tells them how easily it was to pose as a medical professional, roaming the halls. even treating patients in critical condition. he seemed to

the national team coordinator marta karolyi said they chose to put jordyn wieber first.qualify in the individual competition. she said this. we had a lineup meeting and a discussion back and forth over who was best here and who was best there. we all felt like with her character she would come through and put her disappointment behind her and do this for the team. if we doubted that, we would not put her in the lineup. they didn't give her any chance to have nerves, john. they just stuck her right out there and put her first in the rotation. >> there was a lot of talk about how jordyn would do coming into the team finals. i never thought for a second she wasn't going to come out and do what she had to do to help team usa win the gold medal. you know what? they're so good on vault they could put any one of those girls up there on vault and they're going to have a huge score. having a veteran like that, someone who's been under pressure, somebody who knows what it's like to be out on the world stage, being a world champion, i think it was a good call. >> it was so great to

jordyn wieber went first.vault you could see her face was just like the relief was so evident from monday night. we'll try to contact justin bieber to see what he has to say about going on a date with her. >> oh, gosh. >> i don't think selena gomez would like it. >> it might bel illegal. he's 18 now. >> let's move on. >> okay. >> let's talk about cuba gooding, jr. >> yeah. speaking of legal. >> you know him from his line "show me the money." he may have to get a new line. show me the warrant. we'll be right back. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] do you have any idea where you're going ? wherever the wind takes me. this is so off course. nature can surprise you sometimes... next time, you drive. next time, signal your turn. ...that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ f

. >> she helped that first 5, jordyn wieber not close to being finished.e'll talk to her about all of her plans for the future. >> welcome back. 6:41. reporters are stepping up saying they want more information about colorado shooting suspect james holmes. today media attorneys including one for nbc will be in court asking for a gag order to be lifted. holmes will be back in court for the hearing. he is charged with opening fire 18 crowded colorado movie theater last month. 12 people were killed, 58 injured. lawyers planning to argue the public has a right to know more about that investigation and the events that led up to the killing. >> in an effort to move past a recent scandal at penn state the football team is changing its uniform. we'll get a look at the new uniforms later. gone are the plain blue and white jerseys. the shirts include the players name and a blue ribbon. >> coming up, a striking more gold. misty may-treanor walsh or kerri walsh compete in london. we'll hear from the gold medalist. >> after helping her team to the top of the podium wha

aly, jordyn, gabby, mckayla and kayla having a great time. mckayla maroney will join us for our eveningnewscast. they can't be more excited about all the support they are getting. the fab five on the "today" show in 15 minute. michael phelps, this is big not just in the pool but also outside of the pool. it's been an up and down few years for him personally speaking. you might recall in 2009 a british tabloid had a big photo on the front page of michael phelps smoking marijuana. he said it's been a tough time in his life. he then said he lost some of his motivation in terms of training but gotten it all together obviously because now here in london he's won two more medals. up to 19 in his medal count which is number one in the history of the olympic games. from phelps we go to one of our local swimmers. how about scott wells. he's looking for medal number one. not at phelps level but trying. scott wells from san jose born and raised in the south bay, he then went to uc davis and at one point was car salesman but now he's thinking about gold,

the disappointment of jordyn wieber seems far in the rear-view. her teammates will be going up against russia. how do you handicap it? >> this is going to be huge. you have victoria kamova of russia. she got second at last year's world championships to jordyn wieber. she is fighting for that gold medal. she's looking spectacular here through the qualifying rounds. she's got to put a floor routine together tonight to seal that gold medal. but she's going to be hot on the heels. gabby douglas, who is looking amazing. she had mishaps on the floor, as well. she could raise her score. and the surprise for many, aly raisman, coming on so strong with a spectacular floor performance right at the very end. knocking jordyn out of the you'll around competition. >> you can only pick one for gold, though. shannon, you're the expert here. who do you like standing on the highest podium? >> it's so tight between the girls. i have to go with gabby douglas. >> all right. what a smile that would be. shannon miller, the most decorated olympian in our history. >>> now

and jordyn and aly's spectacular and flawless floor routines.ca falling in love with them right now? >> you know, this team has such heart. i cried when they won the gold. >> reporter: meet gabby douglas. her nickname, the flying squirrel. when she was 14, she moved out of her virginia beach home and in with a host family just so she could train with the best. >> life is not easy. you have to fight and refuse to quit. >> reporter: now, gabby's on the world stage. and it seems not even she can believe it. just the other day, she tweeted, just talked to the president of the united states. wow. such an honor and an amazing feeling. take it from 1996 gold medalist and member of the magnificent seven, shannon miller, gabby is olympic gold. >> she will be a superstar coming out of these games. >> reporter: another superstar, team cap aly raisman. she trains seven hours a day and has a ritual after every workout. she drinks chocolate milk to replenish her muscles. and it's working. after their big win this week, aly tweeted, can't believe we did it. >>

also a little bit of concern about jordyn wieber.he didn't put in a particularly good performance and then was spotted leaving the arena with a supportive boot on her foot. there's some suggestion jordyn wieber might have aggravated an existing stress fracture. really a sad end to the olympic games for her given everything that's happened over the last couple of weeks as well. >> we were talking about ali raisman and some controversy surrounding her. what was that all about? >> yeah. there was controversy about her score. we'd seen before in the all-around that -- to do with tying of scores. it was -- this time it went in her favor with her performance on the beam. she had gone before and missed out narrowly on a bronze medal. here we are today, she did get the medal. she was very pleased about that. the usa gymnastics were very pleased about that as well. >> no kidding. as were her parents. they've been a big part of these olympics as well. a big day on the track for the americans as well including a photo finish in the women's 100-

tough day for jordyn wieber on the floor. revealed it may have been a stress fractured leg that cost the world champ olympic glory. but a solid routine from aly raisman and successful protest of low scores gave her bronze on the beam. then after an exhilarating show of tumbling, no protest needed to win floor exercise gold going away. on the track, the golden hopes of a billion people were dashed when liu xiang, national hero injured in beijing, crashed into the very first hurdle of the 110 meters. meanwhile the best sprinter of all time was back in the arena, usain bolt cruised through the 200 meters. for a glimpse of the fever he ignited back home, kids were gathered to watch his 100-meter heroic is at his former school in jamaica sunday night when power was cut and panic ensued. someone found a radio. [ cheers and applause ] and this was the reaction. with a win over brazil, on wet sand, april ross and jen kessy set up the final. and jack loughner hushed the home crowd with his angie mishap on the springboard. straight zer

jordyn wieber was team usa's main hope for olympic gold.o far she's been performing in the shadow of her teammates, and spoiler alert for you. put your tv on mute if you don't want to hear. i'm going to tell you. jordyn's teammate aly raisman won gold for her floor exercise. maybe you hit mute. that happened moments ago for the u.s. women's gymnastics team. good news for the u.s. in track and field, american lolo jones is looking for redemption after her stumble in beijing in the women's 100 meters hurdles. she's going to compete in the semifinals. and in the beach volleyball semifinals the money is on the usa's misty-may treanor and kerri walsh jennings to take their third straight gold medal. they've been playing brilliantly. australia has a hope in the 100 meters hurdle. may have a population smaller than texas but my home country sure does know how to breed olympic champions especially in the pool. we did anyway. in sydney and athens australia was fourth in gold medals. in beijing four years ago finished with a haul of 46 medals. days o

. >> aly, jordyn, gabby, mckayla. we don't do last names. we just go with the first names.ak being of the fab five, mckayla maroney will be joining us on our evening newscast. she's going to bring her gold medal with her. so speaking of that gold medal, they also slept with it in their rooms, some put it underneath their pillows some under their mattress. one guy here, he plays for brazil, he's a judo guy and lost his bronze medal. >> how did that happen? >> he was in the shower, it fell and it cracked. it cracked the metal. big headline news today. they are giving him a new one. as for our local bronze medalist also in judo, marty malloy her bronze medal is intact. she was smiling. she's the one from san jose, went to san jose state. we asked her when she comes back to the bay area what is she going to do with mr. held? >> most important question where your going to keep this bronze medal? >> i don't know. i guess i should get a case for it or something. last night i put it on the bedside next to my bed and when i woke up i rolled over and looked at it it wasn't a dream. m

raisman is going to be along part of the floor routine along with jordyn wieber. moving on.et's talk about the only gold medal the u.s. got which is pole vault. yesterday a track and field event shur who won the silver in 2008 won the gold this time around. she cried after she won and fell into the arms of her coach who also happens to be her husband. interestingly, he had encouraged her to raise the bar a bit so she could dwaul fi but the way she won she lowered the bar and, as a result, she cleared it every time where some of her competitors didn't. >> all right. tracie potts, live for us at olympic park. thank you, tracy. >>> we will have much more olympic coverage coming up this morning. in 40 minutes, dan hellie joins us live from london with the impact some local basketball players are making. >> amazing. >>> and they pay -- i mean, the basketball player. dan, too. but kevin durant. >>> they pay the price of bringing home the gold but the olympic athletes could get a financial break. >>> major highway project starts today and could make your commute easier for a price.

for today nbc's prime time olympic coverage feeshs jordyn wieber alongside aly raise man. she will also compete in the balance beam final. and on the track, lolo jones hopes to live up to the hype with a gold medal tonight in the 100 meter hurdles. she will face competition from her own teammate dawn harp er. and on the sand, misty may-treanor and kerri walsh, that duo in the semi final trying to take the next step toward a gold medal three pete. the talk of the games this morning is that usa/canada game last night. >> it's not the judo pot brownie? >> it's a nice one to throw the family under the bus. >> who is this family member? special brownies, don't touch um. >> every family has their recipes. sglsmts coming up at the top of the hour, president obama compares mitt romney to the prince of thooefs suggesting the republicans tax plan is robinhood in reverse. >>> when we come back, reaction to nasa's trip to mars. when "way too early" comes back. fpz [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® l

and it was another day for jordyn wieber after the floor.might have been a stress fractured leg that cost olympic glory. but a solid performance gave her bronze on the beam and then after an exhilarating show of tumbling, no protest needed to win floor exercise gold going away. on the track, the golden hopes of a billion people were dashed when the chinese national hero injured in beijing crashed into the very first hurdle of the 110 meters. meanwhile, the best sprinter of all time was back in the arena tonight. usain bolt cruised from the 200 meters and from the glimpse of the fever he's ignited back home, kids were gathered to watch his 100-meter heroics at his former school in jamaica when power was cut and panic ensued. someone found a radio, and this was the reaction. with the win over brazil on wet sand, april ross and jen kesse set up an all-american final on beach voluleyball. and the uk diver hushed the crowd with the angry mishap on the springboard. and then dropping out of competition after this painful back slap. hmm. occasionall

jordyn wieber, handstand, pen in the toes? well done.wed you yesterday how vice president biden got a little mixed up on tuesday during a stump speech in the state of virginia. >> with you, we can win north carolina. again and if we do, we win the election, if we win you. >> all right. he's off by a state. north carolina is close by. to his credit, he was just a few miles away from the north carolina border. yesterday it wasn't geography that posed a problem, it was knowing what century you're in. >> folks, where is it written we cannot lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles? >> in fairness that was a clip from 1912. when he was talking with henry ford and some others. 20th century, ended 12 years ago. still ahead on way too early, your 20th century texts tweets and emails are next and "morning joe" is just moments away. whoa, look at all those toys. insuring that stuff must be a pain. nah, he's probably got... [ dennis' voice ] allstate. they can bundle all your policies together. lot of paperwork. [ doug's voice ] act

. >> jordyn? >> for my birthday one year, i remember watching it over and over again and dream of going to the olympics. >> gab? >> i was watching it in 2004, watching carly patterson on bars and i realized that i wanted to go there and do what she was doing, and, you know, be like her. she's great on bars, wow, i can do that. i realized that i really wanted to be at the olympics and just exciting moment. >> ah, youth, earliest memories, 2004. take a good look. they made some memories today. this is america's fab five. >>> nbc's coverage of the games of the xxx olympiad continues tomorrow from london. wednesday in daytime, key qualifying races in swimming. michael phelps, missy franklin, and ryan lochte are all back in the pool at the aquatics centre. the u.s. women's volleyball team taking on china continues its run at a first-ever olympic gold medal and americans on the court on beach volleyball. playing for a place in the elimination round. then in primetime, more swimming. ryan lochte races to

and a dramatic comeback for jordyn wieber, the world champion who was in tears sunday night when she missed qualifying for her all around event. she proved what she was made of tonight. >> i think this is good redemption for me. and just the fact that we all came together and put all our hard work in and came out with a gold medal is amazing. and i'm really proud of everybody. >> reporter: as for china, the defending olympic champions, the team missed the podium all together, finishing fourth. they're calling the fab five the greatest u.s. women's gymnastics team ever. well, when it comes to michael phelps, you really can't argue with that at all. already the u.k. papers have him on the front page saying the greatest olympian, period. >> wow! a lot of emotion out of these games here today. kevin tibbles wrapping it all up. >>> we have an update on a story we told about you last night. the chinese swimming sensation, who smashed the world record in the 400 meter individual medley over the weekend and put in times faster than ryan lochte of the u.s., raising all kinds of doping specula

jordyn wieber did not medal in that floor exercise. >>> right now to the continuing coverage on that richmond refinery fire. hundreds of angry residents demanding answers at a community meeting with chevron on tuesday night. christie smith is live at that refinery with what they came away with from that meeting. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the investigation and repair work is expected to continue today, but at thp point we don't know what caused the leak that led to that huge fire in the first place. it was kind of a lack of solid answers. that was just one that upset the residents that came out last night. there was a very large and angry crowd that showed up last night for a town hall meeting at the richmond auditorium to hear from the panel that included chevron's refinery manager, the air quality management district and the health department. chevron held the forum andhey tried to apologize to the crowd and at least inform them of what they knew after monday's fire that sent a huge plume of black smoke across parts of the bay area and prompted a shelter in place for

also, jordyn wieber placed seventh on the floor. is likely dealing with a stress fracture in her leg. >> and give the tough guy award to german weightlifter, maathth stein es. he eventually got up and walked off under his own power. he had some x-rays and didn't attempt another lift. that looks painful. >> that's why i don't weightlift. there are 16 medal events today. here's a check on the all-important medal count. china leads the u.s. by three medals overall. >> much further back are the host nation, great britain, and russia. >>> today in london, the u.s. men's basketball team takes on australia in a quarterfinal game. it's the first day of the decathlon. >> very cool here. >>> back here at home, still baseball time. highlights, now, from espn. >> doug kezirian with your espn news update. since 2000, the yanks have a losing record at two baseball stadiums. one of which, comerica park. tigers hosted the yanks. nobody on for eric chavez. he's confused. umpire signals a homer. chavez finishes the trot. 2-2, in the fifth. miguel cab

the most anticipated matchup raisman goes head to head against jordyn wieber in the floor event finalh of you. >> good morning. >> let me start with you, with mckayla maroney, it's hard to over state how shocking this was. this is a woman who executed this vault near flawlessly time and time and time again and she faltered sunday. do you think it was a simple case of nerves. >> i think it was a little bit of nerves. first of all, her first vault wasn't as great as she's capable of doing. she really wanted to rock the landing on the second one. it's a very risky thing to do when you're doing that forward landing to try to stick it. every vault that i've seen her do in the last years, the worst two you put together, she would have been an olympic champion easily but didn't happen. >> when she was standing on the podium with silver. let's talk about gabby douglas, obviously a total rock star performance last week. on the bars in this event competition, was she expected to medal? >> no. i think for gabby what she was expected to do was what she did at the all around competition, which was

like jordyn wieber, when the favorite to be all around gymnastics champion shockingly failed to qualify for the finals, she ceded the spotlight with grace, celebrating when gabby douglas won gold. it was hard not to cheer from the rower from niger. the olympian named the sculling sloth finished last but he had only been training three months on a fishing dinghy. it's the kind of sportsmanship sebastian treasured as an olympian and hopes for as an organizer. >> i think it's a fantastic opportunity for all our nations to start celebrating the things we hold dear. the priceless, the irreplaceable. >> reporter: the courage of china's national hero, lu xiang. he failed to clear a single hurdle, but hopping on one leg in pain symbolically finished the race, helped by runners from britain and spain. grenada's first ever gold grenada's first ever gold medalist kirani james helped us all feel good exchanging name tags with the first amputee ever in the olympics, oscar pistorius. >> this is how much it means to olympic athletes. >> it's what olympic movement is about. he's such a true sportsman.

. >> jordyn? >> for my birthday one year, i remember watching it over and over again and dream of going to the olympics. >> gab? >> i was watching it in 2004, watching carly patterson on bars and i realized that i wanted to go there and do what she was doing, and, you know, be like her. she's great on bars, wow, i can do that. i realized that i really wanted to be at the olympics and just exciting moment. >> ah, youth, earliest memories, 2004. take a good look. they made some memories today. this is america's fab five. >>> nbc's coverage of the games of the xxx olympiad continues tomorrow from london. wednesday in daytime, key qualifying races in swimming. michael phelps, missy franklin, and ryan lochte are all back in the pool at the aquatics centre. the u.s. women's volleyball team taking on china continues its run at a first-ever olympic gold medal and americans on the court on beach volleyball. playing for a place in the elimination round. then in primetime, more swimming. ryan lochte races to

gymnastics team-- mckayla maroney, kyla ross, allie raisman, gabby douglas, and jordyn weiber. all told, the ladies brought home five medals in london. in tonight's beyond the scoreboard, translating those medals into advertising dollars. here's rick horrow. >> reporter: the most valuable gold medal is the one worn by gymnast gabby douglas. she's poised to be the biggest marketing winner from the olympics. she could expect to earn up to $12 million over the next four years. procter and gamble may have gotten a relative bargain. the company signed douglas to a deal before the london games. kellogg's pre-olympic deal was contingent on her winning gold. she did, and now gets the cereal box. nbc/comcast also deserves gold. despite complaints about tape- delaying high-profile contests, nbc averaged more than 30 million viewers per night in primetime, and likely generated a profit, despite the over- $1 billion cost for the games. the biggest disappointment of the london olympics was the ticketing process. the international olympic committee saw an embarrassing number of vacant v.i.p.

before that, gabby douglas, jordyn wieber, tyler ross and aly raisman visited the empire state build. they talked about pain, corn flakes and of course the face. we're talking about the one maroney made when she got silver instead of gold in the vault. >> after i did it, the girls pointed it out like you're doing the face again. >> every time she does it, we're like there it is. >> can i see it again? >> we've all been working on it. >> we can all do it now. >> i taught them. >> everybody. >> and at the end of the interview, dave gave them each a beautiful red rose. >> coming up next, another look at this morning's top stories and caught on video, a harrowing plane crash in a cornfield. we'll tell you what happened to the pilot and passenger. [ female announcer ] how do you define your moment? the blissful pause just before that rich sweetness touches your lips. the delightful discovery, the mid-sweetening realization that you have the house all to yourself. well, almost. the sweet reward, making a delicious choice that's also a smart choice. splenda no-calorie sweetener. with the ori