for the love of people. for the love of community. for the love of progress. citi. good evening again. chris is off tonight. a big victory for the president and bipartisanship on infrastructure. with millions of kids going back to the classroom, we ll speak to superintendent of the one of the largest school districts. we begin though with new york governor andrew cuomo. in our last hour david axelrod describes him as swung who wakes up every morning in a fighting mood. this morning he decided his fight to remain in office was over. the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. reporter: governor andrew cuomo announces he is stepping down, telling new yorkers he is a fighter but it s time.
believe her. reporter: and apologizing. it was a mistake. plain and simple. i have no other words to explain it. i want to personally apologize to her and her family. reporter: it was a dramatic fall from grace for the three-material governor who cnn was actively fundraising for a fourth term but bringing relief to those accusing him of sexual misconduct. saying they felt vindicated. two of them say they remain grateful that their voices and experiences were heard and substantiated by the ag s investigators and feel solidarity with all women who continue to be abused by men in power. at least today, one of them has faced some consequences. do we know if the lieutenant governor has spoken to governor cuomo? reporter: yeah, anderson, we know that they spoke before he gave the remarks in new york city and they believe they spoke again after those remarks were made. she was given the heads up about
place to where they re caught up and highly qualified college and career ready students. appreciate it. thank you. florida is obviously the epicenter. of a huge surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. in jacksonville, a tragedy unimaginable for a church congregation. one that can be trace in the part to covid miseducation. we need to understand, we re waking up into a battle zone. reporter: at his church in florida, pastor george davis is praying for higher vaccination rates. over a reason ten-day period, he said otherwise healthy members of his church died from covid. none of them were vaccinated. we had experienced six people last week within a ten-day stretch that passed away from covid. four were under the age of 35. yesterday we had a seventh person who passed away. these are all people we care about dearly. one young man, i ve known him cynic he was a toddler.
with cures and fixes for the body without a divine presence. god all mighty, giving them wisdom and insight to figure it out. reporter: so far impact church has held two vaccination drives. the most recent one this past sunday at church. making it easier for those who came to pray to get vaccinated, too. andriy and rodney got vaccinated early on. though andrea was hesitant at first. i would say, do it so you don t have to be in the hospital. do it so no one has to hear you struggling to breathe on your last days. do it so nobody is having to say, thfls preventible when something happens. and losing members of their congregation was a wake-up call. these aren t people you just to go church with on sunday. these are people we do life with. we saw two weeks ago at a gathering.
attorney laid out the faults she fwounld the a.g. s report referencing some accusers by name and said the governor wasn t given a fair process. this investigation took every possible negative thing that could be said about the governor and they put it in. and they disregarded the positive, the things that would balance it, and the things that would undermine what some people were saying about the governor. and that s not right. reporter: the governor also offering an apology to his accusers, again, attributing some of his actions as generational. cuomo specifically addressing his actions to the claims made by a trooper in his detail. the trooper also said in an elevator, i touched her back. when i was walking past her in a doorway, i touched her stomach. now, i don t recall doing it. but if she said i did it, i