. >> reporter: while lilly king and lazor their race unfolded exactly as they planned. >> lilly king ushing to the wall for silver and lazor gets the bronze. >> reporter: when lazor's father passed away unexpectedly in april, king vowed to make this moment happen. >> when that actually happened, i don't think anyone prepares you for that emotion. >> tom, we have at least one american here who thought she was done competing but may give it another shot. >> the urn biles has creat another stay in japan and m replace biles on the vault for sunday. >> thank you very much. >>> in western colorado, everyone is safe after a storm caused mud slides on i-70. dozens of vehicles got stuck, trapping more than 100 people in glenwood canyon. 29 of them had to spend the night in a tunnel and were rescued this morning. >>> and severe weather including tornadoes ripped across at least five other states, killing one person a injuring several others. at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in the past two days. here is rehema ellis. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, a path of destruction. >> we've got a ma

lilly king had been undefeated since 2015, and was the current world record holder. lly getting bronze this morning. as a typhoon sweeps over tokyo, surfing is under way. the storm is expected to bring strong winds and nearly six inches of rain. surfing final scheduled for later today, weather permitting. also in the pool, british diver tom daly winning the first of his career. his son cheering him in from abroad. >> hi, papa. >> i hope that any young lgbt person out there can see, no matter how alone you feel right now, you are not alone. and you can achieve anything. >> reporter: and the german women's gymnastic team sporting these full-body euna tards instead of the usual bikini cut version. the gymnast saying, that every woman, every body, should decide what to wear. and pita taufatofua being the first athlete in nearly a century to compete in three consecutive olympic games. tae kwon do in the summer games and cross country skiing in the winter. >> and finishing out of first place for the first time since the 2010 world championships, the u.s. women's gymnastics

medal haul >> lilly king, is pushing into the wall for silver.nnie lazor, gets the bronze >> reporter: the two americans finishing behind tatjana schoenmaker, who set a world record in the 200 breaststroke the competitors celebrating this historic moment together in men's bmx, a scary scene. defending gold medalist, conner fields, crashing seconds into his semifinal. he was put on a stretcher. olympic officials say he is awake and awaiting further medical evaluation now, we will stay on top of that news concerning conner fields as he recovers. one more note on suni lee. her day is getting better and better she wins the gold medal in the all-around and her home state of minnesota and the twin cities do this -- they proclaim today, july 30th, as suni lee day, for the incredible night she had, winning the gold medal for team usa and also, quote, for inspiring us all she has inspired this entire country. back to you, hoda. >> tom, thank you. i think every day should be suni lee day. that's what we decided here. welcome, suni lee. you have your gold m

lilly king wins silver. >> just to be able to do that together it's what we've always dreamed of and what we've always looked for. >> reporter: ryan murphy comes up short defending his 2016 goal, earning silver behind the russian. >> 49.5. >> reporter: the u.s. has a chance for even more medals in the final swimming races this weekend. >> i still got to take care of some business here and get my mind right and keep going. >> reporter: baseball makes its return after 13 years, the an 8 against israel. serbian novak against the germ. and in fields out of the finals. he's now awake and stable after being rushed to the hospital. and some drama for team usa on the track. they were disqualified during prelims for the 4 by 4 mixed team relay. but overnight there was an appeal and that decision was overturned. so, they'll still be in the running for that gold medal. live in tokyo, i'm liz mclaughlin, janelle, back to you. >> thanks so much, liz. >>> this is what to watch for in prime time. at 6:30, tom shields goes for gold in the 100 meter butterfly. 16 minutes later, katie ledecky looks fo

. >> 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,

lilly king is swimming today. expect her to do well in the pool. she's in the breaststroke.o coming up later tonight here in tokyo, the women's gymnastics final where all eyes will be on team usa, but specifically on some own bile. so right now in the medal count team usa second as a country expect those numbers to climb in just a few hours. so now i know simone biles as she is a star from which competition committee. can we expect more gold 14 us am assuming gymnastics has to be one of them. >> well, yes. and the u.s. women's gymnastics team has won gold in the last 2 olympics. they're going for a three-peat simone biles already considered the best gymnast of our time. she's going to compete in all 5 events and what's crazy about her is crazy in a good way. of course, as talented as she is, she still leads in the all around after having not her best day in the qualifying round where she stepped out of bounds. she tripped. it wasn't her best. but because the range of difficulty is so up there on the scale. she just blew everybody away. so simone biles should take gold and pr

." >> reporter: the alaskan assassin, lydia jacoby, upsetting teammate lilly king in the 100-meter breast stroke. will simone biles compete in the individual competition? she's taking it one day at a time. >> james, thank you. >>> when we come back tonight, the newest heat wave now set to the newest heat wave now set to grip much of the country.usiness have a black owner. that needs to change. so, i did something. i created a black business accelerator at amazon. and now we have a program that's dedicated to making tomorrow a better day for black businesses. ♪ ♪ i am tiffany. and this is just the beginning. ♪ ♪ we were alone when my husband had the heart attack. he's the most important thing in my life. i'm so lucky to get him back. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. press start and consider the job finished. finish quantum's three-chamber detergent works with bosch's precisionwash technology to clean, degrease and shined. for a sparkling clean, from bosch to finish. nicorette knows, quitting smok

200 metres breaststroke, with a new world record time of 2:18.95, pipping america's golden girl, lilly kingr in the 100m and now has a gold to take back tojohannesberg. she came to swimming having been a netball star. and all those stories and all the olympic updates and action. the chief midwife for england, jacqueline dunkley—bent, has written to gp practices, obstetricians and midwives, stressing the need to encourage pregnant women to be vaccinated against coronavirus. estimates suggest that about nine out of ten have not had the jab, as the bbc�*s ellie price reports. it is a message that could not be clearer. expectant mothers should take action to protect themselves and their babies by getting the covid vaccine. any midwife not encouraging pregnant women to do so will now be going against official advice. at the antenatal clinic at the chelsea and westminster hospital, most of the pregnant women we spoke to had been jabbed. it is just for their safety. i think i started getting worried, especially in my third trimester. luckily i haven't had covid at all, i've been very lucky that wa

jacoby beat south africa's tatjana schoenmaker and pushed the favourite, her team mate lilly king intos are both sailers, wanted her to learn to swim as a child so she would be safe on the family boat. that has paid off, hasn't it? it's been an incredible day in the gymnastics. for the first time in almost 100 years, team gb won a medal in the women's team gymnastics. amelie morgan, alice kinsella and 16—year—old twinsjessica and jennifer gadirova were in tears after getting the bronze. there was another first though — for the first time in a decade, team usa were not top of the podium, beaten into silver by the russian olympic committee after their star, simone biles, withdrew from the competition because of a medical issue. john watson has more from tokyo. what drama here this evening. not least of course for gp pots a women gymnast who won the bronze medal but also for the us team and simone biles who won silver here this evening but simone biles after that opening faults and that this meant that followed, she took no further part in the women's team final competition. the us gymnas

and lilly king led until the 150 meter turn but then the south african powered away to that famous victory but king with the silver medal. >>> and the 24-year-old not representing the united states to win gold, this in the 200 meter backstroke. get this, since 1992. his winning time, 1:53.27. ryan murphy taking silver. >>> and in the bmx bike racing, we've been following this closely. connor fields was involved in a crash earlier today. failing to finish during the third round of the men's semis. fields taken away in an ambulance. we've learned that the 28-year-old is now awake thankfully and awaiting further medical evaluation. the final for the record won by the young dutchman, despite the fact he may have suffered a fractured knee en route to his gold medal. flori >> and another crash in the third round of the first women's semi final, the us a australian competitor did not finish the run. according to team australia, she did initially show signs of a mild concussion. but has since been medically cleared. and how about this for a great story. great britain's 22-year-old who needed crowd

lilly king is swimming today. expect her to do well in the pool. she's in the breaststroke.n's 100 also coming up later tonight here in tokyo, the women's gymnastics final where all eyes will be on team usa, but specifically on simone biles. so right now in the medal count team usa second as a country expect those numbers to climb in just a few hours. so now i know simone biles as she is a star from which competition company. can we expect more gold 14 us am assuming gymnastics has to be one of them. well, yes. and the u.s. women's gymnastics team has won gold in the last 2 olympics. they're going for a three-peat simone biles already considered the best gymnast of our time. she's going to compete in all 5 events and what's crazy about her is crazy in a good way. of course, as talented as she is, she still leads in the all around after having not her best day in the qualifying round where she stepped out of bounds. she tripped. it wasn't her best. but because the range of difficulty is so up there on the scale. she just blew everybody away. so simone biles should take gold a

and position lilly king in the end settling for bronze. in the 100 meter backstroke, australia taking gold and setting an olympic record as well. an emotional victory for kaylee. and for the first time since 1992, america's men have lost a backstroke race at the olympics. the russian claiming gold. and ryan murphy the world record holder getting bronze. and great britain in the machine's 200 meter free style as tom dean and duncan scott finishing first and second. first time since 1908 that two male british swimmers have ended up on the olympic podium together. back to you. our congrats to that duo. what a story. >> some records being broken right now. thanks very much. let's head live now to tokyo and blake essig. athletes have so much to contend with, a tropical storm on the way, staying focused on the job at hand, but also the rise in covid cases. >> reporter: yeah, we just learned within the last few minutes that today in tokyo more than 2800 cases were reported. to put that in perspective, that is the highest case count that has been

lydia jacoby from alaska the eyes on lilly king for that race comes out of nowhere winning that raceptions happen at watch parties across america including in seward alaska only one 50-meter paul in all of alaska where she trains. she's only 17 years, the first gold medal winner from alaska in swimming, so we are so happy for her and incredible moment also today in the pool, katie ledecky who gold medals in the first time ever the 1500 meter a mile-long swim but her strength is she's a long hauler so this could be another gold medal for team usa we're watching the action from tokyo, shep and bring it to you. >> tom, can't wait thank you. >> gymnastics legend shannon miller has experienced that immense pressure of competing on the world stage. she's the most deck tated woman gymnast in olympics history with a total of seven medals in barcelona and atlanta and look who's here, shannon miller herself. most of us can never relate to the pressure that's on biles you can. help us understand >> it's always hard to put yourself in a position of another athlete because every athlete comes to

. >> yeah, we've got metals lilly king any laser. they get the silver and bronze in the 200 breaststroke. ryan murphy, the silver in the 200 back and also i'm caleb dressel hewitt was a qualifying event. so he didn't medal yet, but he broke in a limb pick record. so he does that in the final he's looking at getting his 5th gold medal. several medals just for this. this games in particular, katie ledecky, we're expecting big things from her as well tonight. so a lot of excitement as always in the poll. they just continue to dominate continue to rake in those medals to shots of the pool. i know. so so much, melissa. take care. we'll see you again tomorrow. that. turn >> 6.25 is the time right now. turning to our wildfire coverage because we know that those fires are still raging. the dixie fire. we want to bring up today. >> it's just royds 60 structures, 221,000 acres influence and butte counties evacuation orders and warnings are in effect and it's 23% contained. then there is the shasta county district attorney saying that pg and e

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

you defeated the reigning olympic champion, lilly king, your idol. she's also your teammate. looked genuinely happy and thrilled for you. what does that mean to you? >> it meant a lot to me. it meant -- that's tough. she's the reigning olympic champion. and the reaction could have been very different. so i was just so happy that she was so gracious and so amazing. just -- that really shows how much, like, team usa comes together to, like, really all support each other. and at the end of the day, you just want to get team usa on the podium. >> she was proud of you. maybe not as proud as the party that was going on in your hometown. can we just roll the videotape of what was happening in -- these are all just a few hundred of your closest friends in alaska. going crazy. what did you think when you first saw that? >> yeah. it's so funny. i haven't really watched it in detail yet, but, yeah, it's definitely some of my best friends in the front there. >> do you recognize some of these people? >> oh, yeah, yeah. definitely. we all grew up together. so it means a lot that they're su

world, which measures success in hundreds of seconds and clearly expected long-time record breaker lilly kingment for the united states and just as i say, the very best kind of story we want to see coming out of this. dagen: ryan, what do you say? ryan? oh, okay, we lost ryan. ryan: i'm back. dagen: i'm tearing up. you've got two seconds. what do you say? ryan: i would say from a town of 2,700 people, amazing, 100 people at the bar, it's like a jazz concert. not many people there but it's a small town. dagen: there's more in that room than i grew up with. still ahead, a big day on tap for big tech. stay with us. ds to change. so, i did something. i created a black business accelerator at amazon. and now we have a program that's dedicated to making tomorrow a better day for black businesses. ♪ ♪ i am tiffany. and this is just the beginning. ♪ ♪ age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision loss. so the national eye institute did 20 years of clinical studies on a formula only found in preservision. if it were my vision, i'd ask my doctor about preservision. it's the most studied ey

king dodgers giants playoff atmosphere in july. >> you can't beat it and it was a packed house check out lillie mae la willie mays plaza. >> a littletoo much dodger blue. but you get that in the regional robbery. bottom of the 6 guys down a run buster posey changes. all that will one crack of the bat. run comes into score and we're tied up. top of the 8th. now tyler rogers in with runners on the corners and he gives justin turner to fly out right here. that ends the inning. clutch pitching for riders. and in the bottom of the franchise with a couple runners on darin he grounds out to second. cody bellinger. that's not the 3rd base that actually the giants dugout. they take the lead on that pitch. you don't see that from bellinger very often giants win 2 to one. there are now 3 games up on la in the national league west. they take on the dodgers again tomorrow night. all right. adrian san diego taking on the padres quick two-game bottom of the 3rd a's up by 3. one offer from to tease junior. no doubt about that one to shot puts the padres with in a run. let's go to the bottom of the 5th bases loaded for jake. cronenworth and he flic