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i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. the final competitions of the 2020 summer olympics are wrapping up with the united states winning the most gold medals and the most medals overall. only a few hours remain before the closing ceremony brings the games to an end. the u.s. has clinched the win in the gold medal count and overall medal counts. let s get the latest on all this with andy scholes of cnn sports. the u.s. was behind the gold medals for almost the whole games here. how did they pull out the win in the snend. it was a complete team effort. track and field grabbed seven golds. on sunday, u.s. women s basketball captured their seventh straight gold medal. and then the u.s. women s volleyball team making some history, winning their first-ever gold medal. and there were tons of tears on the court after they scored that final point to beat brazil in straight sets. women s olympic volleyball, it started back in 1964. the u.s. had medaled five times before m ....
with the aim of driving down infections. anything we can do to improve vaccination rates, including going to below the age of18, 16, 17 year olds, clearly will be a good thing, to get as many people vaccinated as possible, with both doses of the vaccine. if you want to get in touch with your views on any of today s stories including the idea of giving vaccines to children i m. lebanon is holding a day of national mourning to mark the first anniversary of a massive warehouse explosion that killed over 200 people and injured thousands. the belarusian 0lympic sprinter who sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy in tokyo has now left japan, boarding a flight to vienna this morning. and coming up this hour, professor barbie. the scientist who designed the oxford coronavirus, vaccine has been honoured with her very own doll. a warm welcome to tokyo and it s been another incredible day on the athletics track, with another extraordinary 400 metres hurdles final and another di ....
sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, which he denies doing. we ll talk to a new york state assemblyman about what comes next for the governor. protesters took to the streets of beirut to mark one year since that massive explosion ripped through the city killing more than 200 people and exacerbating the economic, political and health crisis facing lebanon. we re going to have a live report on the ground from beirut later this hour. also at this hour, president biden visiting a plummer s union training facility in maryland just outside of washington, d.c. the visit comes as the senate makes progress on the bipartisan infrastructure bill in hopes of finishing work on the legislation in the coming days. the democratic senator leading the debate says that he s pleased with how the debate is going so far. the debate is in good spirit and i think we re getting a good project, a large project for the infrastructure bill. we re actually making it better and doing it in a ....
for illness after the attack. their injuries are non-life threatening. he says authorities are investigating further to figure out what this is. the pentagon monitoring this development, we re told in an urgent investigation by the uk is already under way. then breaking moments ago, new video shows fierce fighting in mariupol. plumes of smoke from shelling seen in residential areas on the hills above a shipping yard near the city s port. even though russian forces have retreated from the kyiv area there is still danger in northern ukraine. president zelenskyy describing the region as one of the most contaminated by mines in the world. he says retreating russian troops deliberately targeted civils, an an he says is a war crime. translator: the invaders left mines everywhere. they mined people s property. mined cars, doors. they deliberately did everything to ensure the return to these areas after deoccupation was as dangerous as possible due to the actions of the ....
ukraine, with john berman in new york. investigations are under way this morning to determine whether russian forces might have used chemical weapons in the battered southern city of mariupol. the head of the military there in the donetsk region telling cnn that three people are being treated for a nonlife threatening illness, or symptoms, after a russian drone dropped something from the air. cnn cannot independently verify that claim. but the pentagon says it is monitoring this development, and the uk has launched an urgent investigation. and breaking moments ago, fierce new fighting there in mariupol, we have a new video that shows plumes of smoke rising from a residential area on the hills above a shipping yard near the city s port. and even though russian forces have retreated from the kyiv area in the north, there is still danger lurking in northern ukraine. president zelenskyy describing the region as one of the most contaminated by mines in the world. translato ....