after a one-year delay, much of the competition overshadowed by covid-19, these fireworks marked the end of the summer games in tokyo. the u.s., of course, reigned supreme, winning the medal count for the seventh straight summer games. american athletes scored 113 medals. but these games were about so much more than sports. coy wire has more on the significance of the summer in tokyo. the closing ceremony of these tokyo olympics marks the end of one of the most unique, polarizing and inspiring olympic games ever. sportsmanship was on full display. athletes showed respect for one another and celebrated each other. it s tough to make it to the olympics in normal times. amid a pandemic, even more so. by the time the caldron was lit,
protesters outside his office here in new york city, calling for him to resign. and a banner flying over albany today reading, the report is in. remove cuomo now. so, how long can the governor hang on? abc s erielle reshef is in albany. reporter: tonight, across new york, four separate district attorneys now launching criminal probes into governor andrew cuomo after a scathing state investigation found he sexually harassed 11 women and turned his office into a caldron of fear and abuse. words that witnesses have used repeatedly to describe it include toxic, hostile, abusive. others used words like fear, intimidation, bullying, vindictive. reporter: in the skies over at banny, this banner declaring, the report is in. remove cuomo now. cuomo s got to go. cuomo s got to go. reporter: not a single prominent new york democrat is
pumping a whole lot of money. those things are not going to go away. they are absolutely insidious. raw material. higher wages, an economy where people don t have to work. they have the luxury of tell employers, small employers particularly no thank you. i will stay at home and make more money. it is insidious and now we toss another 3.5 trillion into this caldron, the irony, of course, the same people are saying no thank you, i will stay at home, they are making more but it doesn t go as far. i want to point one thing out. this year, wages have gone up every month until you factor in inflation. month over month, every single month this year, wages, real wages in real life have gone down. steve: absolutely. during this pandemic and then when you look at something else we were just talking about in the introduction about how top some of america s biggest cities, america s three biggest cities all lag in job recovery whether it comes to l.a., new
awesome, john, 17-year-old girl living the olympic dream and born on leap day 2004, lydia jacoby is technically only 4 years old, the first olympic swimmer from alaska has won gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke, the daughter of two tour boat captains. she learned to swim so she could stay safe. there s one 50 meter pool in the entire state of alaska, so she has had to train on 25 meter pools at times during the yearlong pandemic delay. her family moved two hours away to anchorage to find an open pool. she doesn t think she would have been ready had the games gone on in time. she grew in that extra year, and the people back home who were growing with them, look at this, one of the best videos of the olympics so far, a watch party turned to a whole new level. lydia making her home state and her home nation proud. now, just days after lighting the caldron at the opening
reporter: some of those workers going door to door tell me they re still encountering people who are hesitant because they don t trust the vaccine and others say it s just inconvenient for them to do so and that s why it s so important to take both the information and the shots to their communities. norah. o donnell: lilia luciano, thank you. and the 32nd summer olympics are officially underway in tokyo tonight amid a worsening covid emergency and like many things in this pandemic, it was an unprecedented opening ceremony. cbs jamie yuccas is in tokyo. reporter: inside the olympic stadium, the stands were mostly empty, a unique scene of pageantry amid a pandemic. japanese tennis star naomi osaka lit the caldron to start the games but covid restrictions kept away all by 900 v.i.p.s and guests, compared to the more than 80,000 who filled stadiums. and there was new controversy as organizers said a test kit shortage inside the olympic village earlier this week