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welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am brianna keilar alongside john berman, and it is tuesday, august 3rd, and we have some good breaking news from tokyo. simone biles fighting through mental health challenges to capture the bronze medal on the balance beam, closing out her roller coaster olympic experience on a high note. i m going with she won the bronze. biles performance was a kind of victory for her and for the millions of people who suffer from mental health issues. in a moment, we re going to discuss what biles accomplished this morning with olympic gold medalist dominique dawes. bringing in coy wire in the room where it happened. oh, what a morning, coy. this was really really dramatic. john, you re a big tom brady fan, and this was like him pulling out in the first half of the game saying he didn t feel well mentally. fourth quarter, game on, i ve got my mentals right, as simone biles called it. and the world was waitin ....
we have reporting this morning from tehran, london, tokyo and washington. and this morning the u.s. has finally hit president biden s goal to have 70% of adults vaccinated against covid-19. one month too late. one month too late for the hundreds of americans who have died during the surge of the delta variant, a surge forcing some cities and states to face facts, moonk them louisiana which has had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. governor bel edwards has reinstated a mask mandate and space is running out at hospitals. there are no more beds left. those 23 patients are a glimpse of what we ve been doing the last two weeks while we ve been trying to get everybody vaccinated. this is having an adverse impact on people s lives today as we speak. and the least we can do is put a mask on. at the same time vaccine demand is rebounding, first shots are up 76% in the last three weeks and shots are happening where they are most needed, up 171% in the ei ....
comeback performance. and iran confirms a new president as the crisis in the persian gulf worsens foreign relations. good to have you with us. the u.s. once again is ramping up its vaccination efforts as the delta variant sends covid cases soaring. later today president biden will deliver a speech about boosting vaccination rates at home and around the world. it comes one day after the u.s. reported that 70% of all americans have received at least one vaccine dose. meeting the biden administration s goal about a month late. but even with vaccination rates on the rise, officials say that the danger is hardly over. there are still about 90 million eligible americans who are unvaccinated. and we need them do their part, roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated. while we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, covid-19 is clearly not done with us. and so our battle mist last a little longer. and it is clear the u.s. is not out of the woods yet. the cdc says ....
that s a goal that president biden had hoped to reach on july 4th. this milestone happening as the delta covid variant ravages through the unvaccinated. we re also learning more than 99% of the fully vaccinated aren t getting breakthrough cases of any kind. that s according to a new analysis by the kaiser family foundation. so, the breakdown here is that breakthrough cases are extremely rare if you re vaccinated. many city and state health officials are trying to urge precautions without forcing them because it could get much worse before it gets better. reporter: across the nation, more vaccines are going into arms. as of sunday more than 700,000 doses administered daily for five days straight. the good news, health experts say rising vaccination rates could help avoid winter lockdowns. the bad news, there may be rough weeks ahead. we re looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we re seeing the cases go up. we want to avoid lockdowns at all costs. ....
Environment. it was another weekend of deadly gun violence in america. police are searching for four people in connection a mass shooting in queens, new york that left ten people injured. nine people were shot early sunday morning at a club in columbia, south carolina. and last week, a california mother died after being shot in front of her 6-year-old daughter as she sat in her car. police are calling it a possible case of mistaken identity. police in alaska have been waiting months for death certificates after a cyberattack shutdown the state s online system. the department of health and social services says its vital records system was taken off line in may to prevent further disruption. now those records are being processed by hand. the department says it is doing everything it can to resume normal services but it does not have a time frame. big breaking news, simone biles taking bronze in the olympic balance beam competition finishing behind two chinese ....