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US Olympic Wins & Google Antitrust Decision | Afternoon Update | 8.5.24

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

0:07.0

It's Monday, August 5th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

0:12.0

The Olympics continue in Paris today.

0:15.2

As of this afternoon, the U.S. has won over 75 metals, 20 of them gold.

0:20.3

Daily Wire Senior Editor Joel Needler has more.

0:23.0

Simone Biles won silver in her final day of competition in the floor exercises,

0:28.0

but was shut out on balance beam after falling during her routine.

0:31.0

Still, the pint-sized powerhouse will end the Paris games with

0:34.7

four medals, three golds, and one silver. The U.S. swim team wrapped up their final

0:39.7

day of competition in the pool with a pair of gold medals and world records to boot.

0:44.0

Long-distance freestyler Bobby Fink delivered the first of two gold medals in the

0:48.2

1500 meter freestyle and a new record time. The men's 4 by 100 medley relay team took the silver medal, which was the only time other than the

0:56.2

1980 boycott of the Moscow Olympics that a US men's team has not taken the gold in that event.

1:01.5

The games concluded on another high for Team USA as the

1:05.0

women's medley relay team took the gold by a decisive margin and set another world

1:09.8

record in the process.

1:12.0

Debbie has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, but not before the storm

1:16.7

claimed four people's lives.

1:18.8

Three people lost their lives in accidents attributed to the storm and one boy was killed when a tree fell on his mobile home.

1:25.3

The storm system touched down on Florida's Gulf Coast early this morning were dumping rain caused

1:30.4

catastrophic flooding. At least 300,000 people have lost power in Florida.

1:35.0

Debbie is expected to drop as much as two feet of rain in Georgia and South Carolina

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