Heatwave in more than 30 years. The argentine football star lionel messi is emotional as he confirms that he is leaving barcelona after 20 years at the club and thousands take to the streets of amsterdam as the city marks the 25th anniversary of its first gay pride parade. Lucy, over to you. Lucy, overto you. Hello, and lucy, over to you. Hello, and a very warm welcome to tokyo where it has been a memorable games many reasons. Inside and outside the sporting arena all set against the backdrop of the pandemic and, you are right, the closing ceremony is coming to a close shortly but let s bring you up to date with the biggest sporting action at the last day because it has been a good final hole for team gb which started with a gold medal forjason kenny in the men s keirin cycling event in the velodrome and now makes him the most successful with a total of nine olympic medals in all. In the boxing ring, a gold for love in price the women s boxing middleweight final. She beat china s athle
Protect their kids education. I protect jobs by not letting the federal government lock us down. Regarding the insurrection, preparing to send out subpoenas any day now, this as another republican joins. We can t worry whether we have an r or d next to our name. It s time to look at it in a factbased way on what happened january 6th. U. S. Men s basketball winning their fourth straight gold. We ll also talk to an olympian trail blazer, who s helped pave the way for big changes. And for only a second time in its history, the peace corps is being mobilized for a mission right here in the united states. Good morning, everybody. It s saturday, august 7th. I m lindsey reiser. And i m kendis gibson. It s the last weekend we get to look at the beautiful shots of tokyo as the sun sets right there. It looks beautiful, but there s a tropical system that s expected to impact on these last 24 hours. Can they get a break. Not much of a break at all. It s the second time we ve had a tropical system
Edit the spread of the delta variance. Sandra: but we begin with a new 911 tape and police in atlanta asking for help at this hour from the public in the search for witnesses who may have any information on an especially brutal stabbing happening and a very popular park. Hello and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. I m john roberts in washington. A woman in atlanta making it gut wrenching call to police after she found her partner catherine janice dead in a park last week. Police found and janice died of multiple stab wounds and what they called a gruesome scene. We are now hearing some of that housebreaking phone call after police received the audio of the initial calls. I m at the park, i was searching for my girlfriend because i couldn t find her and she s dead. Please help. Jonathan, what s the latest from where you are. Makeshift memorial has been set out outside of the main entrance of piedmont park, a combination of joggers and pedestrians seen in or near the park a
For the safe upcoming school year. Now, earlier at the white house today, the covid response team released new numbers showing that 83% of all counties in the country are reporting a substantial or high transmission rate. And this is all counties. But there s also a spike in vaccinations. 864,000 over the last 24 hours, the most in more than month. Clearly americans are seeing the impact of being unvaccinated and unprotected. And the response is doing their part by rolling up the sleeve and getting vaccinated. And that is where we start with heidi prybylia, and the director of the national preparedness leonard and also our national correspondent on health, and so i apologize ahead of time if i have to cut you off with the speaker who makes it to the podium. What did we learn, heidi? well, he is clearly concerned with the politics of the parents who won t go along with it. The administration is through a number of pediatricians, and the american academy of pediatricians working in conce
Don t be the reason why schools are disrupted because of the polarization of this effort to reopen schools. The white house says florida and texas account for a third of the entire country s new cases and hospitalizations. Texas governor abbott partly blames it on the border crisis. We re awaiting an update from texas officials on that issue. First, dr. Jay from stanford university who has been working with florida governor desantis on covid mitigation. Great to have you on. You re an informal adviser for the governor of florida now for the past 18 months. During that time as evidence shows, he s made many of the right calls. Now you have covid cases exploding again in florida. The death rate is still down. Would you advise governor desantis to change his guidance at all? no, i think he s done many of the right decisions. The key thing about what you just mentioned, it s a very important point. What we once thought that when covid cases went up, deaths would follow. But because of gove