Aiming for Gold in Rio
NOBLES: American swimmers poised to win more gold on day four of the Rio Summer Olympics with Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky back in the pool. The women's gymnastics team looking to do something the U.S. has never done before. Win back-to-back team gold medals. Monday is another big night for the USA at the swimming venue, six medals, including two golds.</s>KOSIK: CNN's Coy Wire following the action. He's live in Rio. Good morning, Coy.</s>COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Alison and Ryan. You could feel the intensity to the build up to the 100 meter breast stroke final. Here you have American swimmer, Lilly King, publicly condemning rival Russian Yulia Efimova who has been caught doping twice in her career. And the Russian swimmer getting booed big time last night by the crowd. Once they hit the water, King did exactly what she set out to do. The 19-year-old setting a new Olympic record. Efimova in the next lane takes silver. King afterwards says she hopes she made a big statement by completing clean and winning. How about American swimmer Ryan Murphy accomplishing his life long goal last night, winning gold in the 100-meter backstroke. Murphy knew he wanted to be an Olympian since the age of 8. He wrote a letter to his mom with a self-portrait saying, quote, "I home my swimming life continues and I become an Olympian when I grow up. I hope I will break the world record. I want to be the best swimmer in the world," unquote. Now, that is calling your shot. Guys, listen, you heard of the saying don't poke the bear. Never a good idea to give a champion motivation if you are the competition. Check out the South African Chad le Clos before yesterday's the 200 meter butterfly qualifying. He is shadow boxing in Michael Phelps general direction. Phelps not impressed. Look at the death stare. I mean, it's just straight eyes, Star Wars or what? Phelps and Le Clos finished second and third qualifying heats. They face-off tonight to see who stands at the top of the podium. Don't forget, Le Clos actually beat Phelps in the last Olympics in this event. You know who probably will not get beat in the Olympics? The U.S. women's and men's basketball teams. I was at the men's game last night against Venezuela. You think Venezuela has a chance. Down only two with five minutes to go in the second half. But, no. Five minutes later, they were down 22. They rolled on Venezuela. They get Australia next. That could be their toughest opponent in the field. Let's take a little check into the medal count, guys. USA all day, leading all countries with 19. China is in second with 13. You also have Japan, Russia tied for third with ten apiece. It's going to be must-see TV tonight. America's sweethearts, the U.S. women's gymnastics team going for gold led by phenom Simone Biles. You have Aly Raisman. Those competing in the all around, names like Phelps and Ledecky letting it done in the pool. There's been some great competition, guys, and I love seeing a little trash talking and competiveness not hidden by these Olympians this year.</s>KOSIK: Oh, competition.</s>NOBLES: I was telling, Alison, I need my mother to find the letter I wrote when I was a kid that said that someday I'm going to be sitting in the anchor desk with Alison Kosik, and I called my shot as well.</s>KOSIK: She was already predicting.</s>NOBLES: I get my mom to find that. But, Coy, tell us about Lilly King's background? She's got a pretty amazing story.</s>WIRE: She really does. You know, when she was in high school, she had a dear friend competing in the Indiana state Special Olympics. Her name was Melanie. If you look at Lilly King's Twitter bio, it says melanieisthebum.com. that directs you to a web site that was set up that goes to support some of the charities that were near and dear to Melanie's heart. And then last night, after that gold medal and Olympic record-breaking swim, Lilly King tweeted out, she's been with me all the way. This one's for Mel. So, an incredible story, guys there. A back story, you hear about the things that inspire and motivate athletes to be the best. This is one heartfelt story from Lilly King.</s>KOSIK: You know, as we lose your signal, Coy, thank you very much. It is interesting to hear the back stories and find they are not there just to compete and trash talk each other. You've got inspiring back stories.</s>NOBLES: Yes, definitely, a lot of amazing and inspirational stories of the Olympic every year.</s>KOSIK: Of course. All right. The Zika virus may be spreading across a wider section of South Florida. Palm Beach County reporting the first suspected case that is believed to be contracted locally. The patient recently traveled to Miami-Dade County, but it's not clear yet where he acquired the virus. The total number of non travel related Zika patients in south Florida is now 17. With another 357 travel related cases statewide.</s>NOBLES: It's going to be a rough day ahead for air passengers flying on Delta. The Atlanta-based carrier announcing 100 flight cancellations today and at least 200 flight delays. And they are warning those numbers could go higher. Delta was forced to cancel over 1,000 flights on Monday because of the computer outage, stranding tens of thousands of customers.</s>KOSIK: All right. Heavy rain, flash flooding in the forecast this morning. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the latest. Good morning.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Hey, good seeing you, Alison and Ryan. This is a really story that's going to develop quickly over the next couple days and we've already seen what's transpired right over the open waters in the past several days, in fact the heavy rainfall -- the estimation have brought down at least 15 inches of rainfall right offshore of the big bend of Florida. So, the concern is that the storm system responsible for this rain meanders a little far to the north, the flood concern is going to be elevated very quickly across this region. In fact, the watches have already been issued across the area. Notice, there is the storm, it's forecasted to move back toward the west very slowly in the next couple of days. The gulf moisture begins really being pulled toward this region of the Florida panhandle. So, the models still want to bring down at least six to 10 inches in a pretty widespread area from say, work your way just east of Mobile, to Tallahassee, and certainly Pensacola, Panama City as well, even New Orleans, one of those areas that could see at least four to six inches of rainfall inside the next week. So, your temperatures, you look as such, will go with the upper 80s around Kansas City, around 90 degrees in St. Louis. Steamy conditions down around Nashville. New York City about 87. Boston not too bad at all, around 80, guys.</s>NOBLES: All right. Pedram, thank you. Safety concerns at a Kansas water park where this 10-year-old boy died on its tallest water slide. What police are saying next.