gabby douglas. "nightly news" from london gabby douglas. "nightly news" from london begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening once again from london where again tonight these games have made news. more than that they've made history and let's begin with fair warning. even though what happened here late today has been reported and replayed and repeated around the world already we try to supply an ample spoiler alert and this is one of those cases because we're about to report results. in gymnastics, a stunner of a gold medal performance for a young woman who is about to be the talk of our country. gabby douglas, who gutted it out and won on style and grit and poise and sheer talent at age 16, the first african-american ever to do so. and in swimming, this was the long-awaited showdown in the pool with the top two americans locking horns for a gold medal. nbc's kevin tibbles is across town in olympic park with all of it tonight. kevin, good evening. >> reporter: brian, talk about a night of high drama in the pool. the final race of these games betw

her to throw out the first pitch. >> ladies and gentlemen, on your feet for gabby douglas! >> reporter: gabby was thriving. but pangs of home sickness were setting in. you'd been here about a year and a half right? >> yes. >> how many times have you been home? >> zero. >> reporter: at last year's visa championship, she fell off the balance beam three times. feeling the pressure to succeed, in january she wanted to quit. >> i'm like oh, i miss my mom and my family. i even miss my dog. >> i said, if you think you're going to have regrets then don't do it. >> reporter: gabby not only decided to stay in iowa, she roared back in competition. scoring an upset to win the u.s. gymnastics trials. and in london, both families have been in the stands celebrating the team gold medal led by her proud mom. >> she is energetic, caring, compassionate. you know, if i didn't know her i'd want to meet her. >> reporter: now the world is having a chance to meet gabby douglas. gabby really has that star quality. you can't buy it. you can't fake it. you can't teach it. but the whole family is tha

. >> gymnast gabby douglas takes the gold. raj mathai has her story from london. >> reporter: good morning from london. it's friday, bright and early and everyone is buzzing about what we saw with gabby douglas. when she was 14, a couple years ago she left her parents and family in virginia and moved to iowa to train for a better gymnastic center. these girls have an amazing commitment to their sport. we spent time wit gabby on wednesday, we spent time with the entire team. they are growing up so fast just this week alone in london. gabby douglas thrilled to win that team medal. now gold medal number two and bottom line, she was flawless. her individual performance, there was no debate. did you see it? her parents and people from around the world looking on witnessing the birth of a new american superstar. the first african-american to win a gymnastic gold in terms of the individual competition, and she said herself she wants to be a role model for all gymnasts. >> i feel amazing right now. and god has given me this opportunit

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gabby douglas is already beaming out from a cereal box. and this is just the beginning of her endorsement gold. how much does this 16-year-old daughter of a single mother stand to make? >>> you know, it really isn't fair to have to wake up so early after such an amazing night of the olympics. >> ron was up until 3:00 in the morning. >> watching the olympics, yeah. i didn't sleep last night, dan. >> look at this. each of these american swimmers winning gold. and getting them all in 13 minutes. did you watch michael phelps. second-to-last. and then, the surge. >> and here comes phelps to the wall. >> and that, folks, is why he is number one. what a way to finish out his solo career. >> you know it's good when the announcers start to hyperventilate a little bit. that's a good sporting event right there. phelps said he is retiring, which would make that his last solo race ever. if you were on the edge of your seat, if ron was on the edge of his seat, imagine his mother, debbie. not ron's mother. phelps' mother, debbie. this is seconds after he

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we did have gabby douglas, the 16-year-old gymnast winning gold. phelps versus lochte going head to head for the second time in the pool. and if you like the united states crushing the hopes and dreams of helpless african nations you'll love what the dream team did to nigeria, i'll have that for you later. >> gabby douglas is cousin to friend of mine. >> she is amazing. >> we'll see you in a bit. >>> new economic numbers will dominate another day on the presidential trail, with july's jobs reports due out less than an hour from now. mitt romney pointed to his time in massachusetts. he said four years in office stand in sharp contrast to what the president has accomplished in the white house. >> obviously i got to do the grading here today, which is very good. you can check up on me on this. jobs, we added jobs. i added jobs. we've added more jobs than the president has in the entire country. but i added jobs. unemployment rate, i brought the unemployment rate down from 5.6 to 4.7. budget gap, i closed it without raising taxes. and finally -- family

gabby douglas. 16 years old, newly-minted golden girl. third-straight american, first african-american so honored. boy, did she earn it. even though she is just 16, traveled a lot of roads to get there. moves across the country to live with a stranger who she would come to love. there they are. cheering their daughter on. we're going to hear from those two remarkable women in just a moment. speaking of a remarkable woman, robin on vacation. and george also. he'll be back next week. happy to have amy robach here. >> thanks so much. hope they're enjoying themselves. >>> and baseball great, cal ripken jr. asking for your help this morning. he wants to find the man who abducted his mother and held her for 24 hours. we'll talk to him in a moment. >>> and actress jessica biel is with us. she is starring in the blockbuster "total recall." she is going to be in the park with us live. and we have a great crowd already to hear grammy sensation, ne-yo. we'll be there in just moment. hang on, ne-yo. >> that is a packed house. >>> we're going to get t

. >> gabby douglas took the gold. more on that big win. >> reporter: oh, what a beauty. virginia beach native gabby douglas gave the performance of her life tonight, being the third gymnast to win the all around and only the fourth ever. setting the bar high with a solid vault and a strong performance on the uneven bars, conquered the balance beam with ease. in the end, she proved she could handle the pressure nailing that performance that wins her the gold. >> i just feel it's amazing to be called the olympic champion. and so many hard work and effort and passion and determination in the gym. every day, you have to push it every day. it definitely feels amazing and i'm so honored to be named that. >> reporter: today, douglas got a personal shoutout from president obama while he praised all the american athletes. >> virginia's own, gabby douglas. usa, usa, usa. >> reporter: tonight, silver spring native and gold medallist herself excid about heroin. she had to change her own web site from only african american to win an individual gymnast medal to first. go, gabby. back

gabby douglas. see her like you've never seen before. >>> think about this as you get ready for dinner. the food you're about to eat picked by children as young as eight. working long hours in the field and it's all perfectly legal. our investigative unit has their story. >>> and happy friday to you. i'm jessica aguirre. >>> i'm janelle yang. we're with you a little earlier and will be during the olympics. >> our daytime bringing you special reports from london. profiles of our athletes. today we start with history making performances. want to show you this. you're watching 13-year-old adzo, the team from toe goe finished second in the heat during a 50-meter race. she shattered her personal best and she is only 13 years old. >> and this year marks the first time every country participating in the olympics has a female athlete. the first saudi arabian woman took the stage today. she wore a tight fitting black cap after officials would not allow her to wear her jab. she lost in 82 seconds. >>> in hist

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uba tweeted gabby douglas. what an inspiration. if not missy franklin, then gabby douglas. rosemary had a smart peek. the people keeping the place clean. who do you think is the star of this year's olympics? keep the tweets coming. tweet me at randi kaye cnn. thanks for starting your morning with us. we have more on this saturday morning that starts right now. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta a this is cnn saturday morning. job numbers are up and so is unemployme unemployment. each puts his spin on the new report, we will give you the faxes and what it means for the econo economy. we are number one here, but nowhere close here. all morning we put education in focus. why in the world is our system ranked lower than ireland, saudi arabia, and uzbekistan. did you see this? the happiest olympic worker has an interesting approach to rousing the crowd. we decided to see if the same trick in london would work in new york. happy saturday, everyone. i'm randi kaye and it's 7:00 on the east coast and 4:00 out west. extreme weather and wildfires and at least four major fires bur

>> gabby douglas the newest olympic all-around champion. he does get the three-peat. >> going to win back-to-back gold. >>> today's olympics start is brought to you by kellogg's. from great starts come great things. >> this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. the misconduct trial for john leopold has been postponed. the county state's attorney's office says the trial will be held in november. a grand jury indicted leopold in >> current satellite pictures shows a couple clouds to our west. for the most part, you will see sunshine. high pressure in control to our north. mostly dry today. isolated thunderstorm in most areas.

we as a black community have to fix gabby douglas's hair. congrats to gabby douglas on her gold metal. wish i could say about that hair. oh, my god. horrible. gabby douglas shouldn't be the standout in those commercials until she gets her hair done. and it goes on and on. gabby douglas is an olympic champion. a title for the best athletes in the world. she's being recognized on the world stage for her ability to outperform her competition in a sport. and to get there she had to break a sweat just like everyone else. that should be the focus. let's check the dyson-ary. priority. according to the twitterverse, noun. petty, shallow, self-hating, disgraceful. let's turn it back to the text poll survey i asked you at the beginning of the show. in the spirit of the olympic games we're going to issue a spoiler alert for those of you who wait until the re-air to learn of the resolutions. mute your televisions now. tonight's survey question was based on the romney campaign's thought that the tax plan analysis is a joke. we asked which is a joke. mitt

i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >>> in the mailbag tonight gabby douglas, the amazing 16- year-old who apparently has another nickname, the flying squirrel, i love that, she also won the gold medal for the individual gymnastics in london but a rather nasty undercurrent of chatter has cropped up on the web criticizing little gabby's hair-do. at 6:00 our lesli foster eloquently applied a verbal slapdown to those guilty of such antics and in the mailbag joyce can't even believe we're having that conversation. anyone who dares to complain about her hair needs to stop and look at theirself and what is really important. hair is not. this time last year i was bald because of effects from chemo and it took me a long time to be able to walk out of my house without a covering, but guess, what i did it and i learned hair is so overrated. what matters is that this young lady did something she set her mind to and with the help of many and who cares what her hair looks like she is a beautiful young woman inside and out. i couldn't have said it better, joyce, and i, too, know but for vas

chelsea, i have to ask about gabby douglas. that was simply awesome. >> it was amazinamazing, i'm shd of what she was able to do. she started with a bang with vault and finished just like that on floor. >> she is the third american woman to actually end up with the all-around -- fourth american woman to end up with the all-around gold medal. mary l mary lou retton, nastia liukin. what's in store for gabby? >> i think she's going to be on april high for quite a while. she still has an event. she could get another medal. there's the post olympic tour she'll be a part of it. it will be amazing for her after the olympics. >> do you think she's thinking about that right now? how hard for her will it be to keep her head in the competition? >> it is hard especially after winning the all-around gold and team gold. she has a good selt of teammates and coaches to help her stay focused until the end. >> reading about the journey she has taken. she left her house in virginia beach two years ago and left her family to train in des moines, l

let's talk about the olympics, it was as jonathan said, all about gabby douglas last night. the 16-year-old from virginia beach, virginia, winning gold. the fourth american women ever to win gold in the all-around gymnastics competition. she left virginia beach at the age of 14 to train in iowa with famed coach who was with her last night. a difficult decision for her and her family but it paid off last night as gabby douglas becomes the first african-american to win the title. she is only 16 years old. a pair of russians took silver and bronze, aly raisman of the united states actually tied for third place. but by a tiebreaker she was bumped down to fourth. but gabby douglas the story in the gym yesterday. >>> in the pool, the much-anticipated rivalry between michael phelps and ryan lochte. we saw chapter two of that. two of two. it was phelps winning the gold medal in the 200 i.m., his 20th career olympic medal. ryan lochte settled for the silver, phelps' first individual gold of these games, he says it's a relief to win an individual gold. it's something pretty cool and s

gabby douglas said that dominique and '96 team are her role models. christine has a look at the top story this morning. >> the u.n. general assembly will vote later today to denounce the syrian government for attacking andkying its own citizens in aleppo and damascus as the peace-keeping chief warns the main battle is about to begin in aleppo. at semably will warn the assad regime to keep strict control over its chemical and biological weapons. the resolution coming one day after former u.n. secretary kofi annan resigned his position and saying he's frustrating by finger pointing at the unite the nations while syrians are being slaughtered. >>> ernesto could head into the gulf of mexico. rob has the latest on the storm's track. >> good morning. just past barbados and lashing s stluca this is cruising. it has dry air and head winds to encounter as well. we don't expect it to explode, but it has a lot of warm water to work with over the next several days. the official forecast shoots it through the caribbean over the weekend develop and potentially into

gabby douglas. how about that. last night she wins the all around individual in terms of gymnastics. she won two gold medals, the gold for the team and gold for the individual. gabby douglas near flawless to watch her. 1 sykes years young. she moved away from her home to see if she could find a better training facility. these girls are so young. they are so composed and come across so mature but she is the golden girl. we have a lot more coming up. i'll let you catch your breath again. >> i'd say. can you top that. >> interesting after ryan lochte said he was going to take a vacation, i saw you on line looking at bali reservations. >> no, i was not. >> i imagined that. >> a true sports man. >> you like his profile. >> a pretty nice profile. >> that's not the only thing. let's check out the weather. it looks pretty as well. >> yeah, not just the profile we're looking at. starting with a live look here, this is gorgeous conditions to start you out on -- let me say it one more time -- friday morning. you made it to th

a great day for gabby douglas. aly raisman, i am sure she's disappointed, supremely talented girl, jordan weiber. what do you think about the americans? >> gabby douglas, first time a woman of color has won the individual all around gold medal in the olympics. this is the prized medal, you could say, especially if an american in the entire olympic games. won by an african-american the first time ever. gabby won also the team gold. other women that won that all around, including mary lou retton, carly patterson, they were not part of a team gold, the americans didn't win the gold. so we may well see the most decorate gymnast ever for the united states in gabby douglas, a 16-year-old, just unbelievably calm, comfortable, confident athlete who a year ago we never heard of her. >> amazing talent. the sprint to come. usain bolt and others. how do you see it all with the americans in track and field? >> swimming is bread and butter for the united states. that's where the u.s. should do well and medal count shows it. trac

>> gabby douglas the newest olympic all-around champion. he does get the three-peat. >> going to win back-to-back gold. >>> today's olympics start is brought to you by kellogg's. from great starts come great things. >>> 8:56. i'm laura garcia-cannon with breaking news out of san francisco where the golden gate bridge was briefly shut down. it has just reopened. we're told there was police activity relating to an unstable perp climbing on the bridge towers. mike inouye has the latest. >>> as you see, beau directions recently reopened, so a big glut of traffic heading out of and into the city a problem. now, cars and trucks are allowed, but we understand they're still blocking bicycle traffic across the span. keep that in mind. there's law enforcement activity going on somewhere across there but the vehicles are traveling through the area. 101 along the peninsula and palo alto where the accident and gravel spill at whipple has cleared a few minutes ago. very slow from palo alto through whipple. >>> bolt has the lead, all by himself, across th

still on cloud 9 for gabby douglas. joining the chorus, oprah winfrey tweeted omg i'm so thrill forward gabby. flowing happy tears. >> tweets from all over. plenty of accolades for michael phelps. he continues his golden streak with his latest duel in the pool. phelps and lochte side by side. phelps taking that gold, edging lochte close behind for the silver. and phelps is not done. he has two more events to go. he could rack up more medals for his history in the making. coming up at 5:45, raj mathai, reports live from london with a preview of what will hopefully be phelps' grand finale. >> b.a.r.t. is loosening up its rules and could make your commute more cramped. christie smith is live in oakland where for the first time people can bring their pike bikes on trains. >> good morning. this may end up being the opposite of friday light. b.a.r.t. is conducting an experiment. every friday in august they are allowing people to bring bicycles on the train into the stations, what's different is you can do that during the peak

and gabby douglas was just dominating. just like the u.s. team, two days earlier, gabby douglas performed individually just like that team did without a mistake. and to think about this for a moment this is the gold medal that mary lou receipton did, of nasdaqia lukin four years ago and now it belongs to gabby douglas who one year ago, most of us had never heard of. she has had a meteoric rise through the sport, tough as nails competitor. she told me a few months ago, she said bring it on, i love the pressure. and we have seen a terrific athlete, very small in stature but huge in heart and confidence. and i think it's a great breakthrough win not only for her but for those who look at the sport and kind of see this eastern european or lily white dominance of gymnastics. no more. gabby douglas is going to be a very different and very popular champion. >> brown: great story there in gymnastics. and now to swimming with the story line up to today had been well, a somewhat more mortal michael phelps but there he was today at the finish line. >>

gabby douglas, that face we've all come to love. she said recently she wants little girls who might be watching to know, if she can do it, they can do it too. >> usa! >> reporter: they are the girls who won the gold and our hearts. there's gabby flying on the uneven bars. kyla and her perfect lines on the beam. >> and kyra's amazingly perfect vault. and jordyn and aly's spectacular and flawless floor routines. powerhouse gymnasts, known simply as the fab five. what is it about this team that has america 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

gabby douglas slipped off the beam. jordyn wieber may have suffered a stress fracture in her right leg. >> the 100-meter hurdles, americans were edged out by sally pearson. they took silver and bronze. and lolo jones, my ex-wife, she finished fourth despite being the favorite. >> some of the big events on tap, track and field, 400 hurdles, women's 200 meter. women's beach volleyball where the two american team will face off for the gold. >> back to lolo, "the new york times" did a scathing profile of her saying she is more about hype than talent. you wonder, took fourth in the event, does that lend credence to the article. that's my girl. >> i thought she did pretty well. it was a scathing article. coming out during the olympics. come on. >> next, remembering the life of a celebrated american composer. and harshness of bleach. and free ourselves from worrying about the ones we love. new lysol power & free has more cleaning power than bleach. how? the secret is hydrogen peroxide. it attacks tough stains and kills 99.9% o

the american one is gabby douglas. she's famous now, but there are only so many firsts left in sports and the term pioneer is often thrown around lightly, but with gabby douglas, the first gold medal to be awarded to an african-american woman at age 16, that's a first and a big step in a sport where the demographics shift is going in a new direction and the international one, it's usain bolt. our calendar in america is so overwhelmed by the nba, mlb, it turns out being the fastest man in a world still means something. he was still a biggest start in london. >> he really got the crowd going. we were showing some pictures of gabby douglas, but the one thing i love watching the olympics is just the spirit of these young athletes who just overcome incredible odds and who sacrifice so much of their time and to see her win gold is just so remarkable. the other thing, you know, will we remember any of these a athletes a year from now? do they go on to have lucrative endorsement careers? >> that's a fair question because the r

less joy in the gym for gabby douglas. she showed us in her golden all-around, she earned the flying squirm nickname for the way she spins and soars on the uneven bars. her flying wasn't good enough to beat any one, and drained sunny took last and will take one more crack at medal on the balance team. on the track, three americans started, but michael tinsley leaves w with a medal, surging r silver behind felix sanchez. all of london buzzling over usain bolt's record setting 100 meter sprint. partly for the fan who threw a beer bottle at the sprinters before the start. before security could hustle him out, he got a taste of this. you see, a dutch judo champion was seated nearby. she whacked him on the back and later tweeted, a drunk dude in front of me throws a bottle on the track. i beat him. unbelievable. but still vying for the most interesting tweet of the night, was bolt flashing his symbol for winning with the swedish handball team at 3:45 a.m. after giving up in the 800 meters an algerian runner became the latest@ly

a look at what it took for gabby douglas to get that gold. but first a very good morning to a foggy new york city. folks are waking up and grad you are with us, new york. . they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. . >> gabby douglas. if you didn't know her name last week, you do now. the 16-year-old gymnast is america's new golden girl, winning the most coveted title in women's gymnastics. she has the distinction of being the first african-american woman to win the gold in the alaround competition. she didn't make olympic history without years of sacrifice. her mom told us what it took for gaby to get to the top. >> the competition started a long time ago. who could run the fastest. who could jump the farthest. who could jump higher on the couch. when she started really expressing an interest to do gymnastics, her sister ariel kept saying she is really good, mom. she wants to try it. you have t

gabby douglas about to make history. and michael phelps, uft just when it was too good to be true, it gets better. >> good evening. on this thursday night, we start with breaking news on an illinois highway tonight. looka the pictures just coming in. a double-decker bus careening out of control, slamming into a pillar supporting the bridge. the front of the bus collapsing like an accordion. ambulances and helicopters rushing to the scene and lisa stark leads us off. >> reporter: it was a violent crash. the mega bus traveling at highway speeds rammed into the concrete pillar of an overpass. investigators say it may have been a blown tire, causing the driver to lose control. there were more than 60 passengers on board. at least one died. rescuers had to use ladders to reach those on the upper deck. dozens of ambulances and life flight helicopters raced the injured, at least 25 people, to local hospitals, some critically hurt. the bus was traveling interstate 55 from chicago to st. louis, and scheduled to continue on to kan

after their gold medal performances for team usa tuesday night, aly raisman and gabby douglas hope to capture gold again in tonight's individual all around. elsie and tim, good morning to you guys. >> good morning. >> let's start it out with the practice earlier today. how are they looking? have you been able to see them out there yet? >> we haven't actually seen them in training today. they are pretty much locked down at this point. but i have no doubt how they're going to be feeling. as a team, each one of these five athletes on the women's side, they are so well conditioned and so prepared physically that they could keep going for weeks and weeks, whereas other teams are already looking to fade a little bit. aly raisman and gabby douglas, they will be strong and ready for this without a doubt. >> elsie, clearly there's a huge confidence boost that comes with winning a team gold. but now they're competing against each other. are nerves really the concern with gabby and with aly? >> well, i don't really see that as being a problem anymore. we were concerned about gabby coming into th

douglas as in gabby equals usa gold. it sure did yesterday for gabby douglas. you could watch the olympics every moment of every day and never catch up with every sport. there are such great dramas and moments and great characters and astounding back stories of just getting here. there is so much detail we thought we'd try to catch up with some of it tonight as the week comes to an end beginning with some of the adornments on the athletes that are almost impossible not to notice. you may have noticed the athletic tape as art work on the athletes' bodies. many of them are sporting it either as shoulder art or racing stripes. it has a name. it's called kinesio tape and while the inventor says it decreases pain and supports muscles and joints, others say it's just a fad. less elaborate but more fun and intricate are the fingernail designs in the olympic spirit. there is genuine artistry riding along with the best athletes in the world. >> phelps holding him off! >> and a word here about michael phelps. his lifetime olympic medal count just going into today's compe