New details this morning on how donald trump tried to get his justice department to help overturn the election. And breaking news this morning, a big announcement about simone biles and her future at the olympics after sitting out the last few events. Stand by for news. A very good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world, it is monday, august 2nd. We re beginning with breaking news that gymnastics superstar simone biles announce shed will participate in tomorrow s balance beam final. Usa gymnastics tweeting this we re so excited to confirm you will see two u. S. Athletes in the balance beam final tomorrow, suni lee and simone biles. Can t wait to watch you both. This is going to be something. This announcement comes after biles pulled out of the team and all around competition citing mental health. This is her final opportunity to secure an individual medal at the tokyo olympics. Coy wire live in tokyo with the breaking details. Event after event simone biles
The long awaited and long delayed summer olympic games officially begin a few hours from now. But the director of the opening ceremony, well, he won t be running the show. He was abruptly fired yesterday, the fourth olympics official to be forced out. We are live in tokyo where the games have already been postponed of course for a year because of the pandemic. And covid continues to cast a shadow over them. For the first time, olympic events will be held without spectators in most venues. And only a fraction of the 11,000 athletes scheduled to play will parade in the opening ceremony. The u. S. Will have one of the larger presences with about 200 athletes. As the clock ticks down, covid cases keep ticking up. About 20 athletes have so far tested positive and have been forced to drop out. The olympic village has had at least a dozen cases of people testing positive too. We begin our coverage with blake essig joining me live from tokyo. And despite all of those negatives, the show is goi
team has quit, all of them. a trump adviser saying a final decision on legal strategy has not yet been made. that leads to the trump problem part two. will the former president show up at his trial and personally take part in his own defense? what would that look like? the trump legacy that so many republicans have hitched their futures to is on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination. so to washington we go now and correspondent sunlen serfaty is joining us. sunlen, we are days away from trump s second impeachment trial. we have a mass exit by the lawyers and the clock is ticking. reporter: the clock is ticking, ana. this is such a dramatic development, the fact that you have the entire trump legal team walking away. but the fact that it is also happening so close to the start of the trial. now, if you look at the calendar here, just days away from some of these key deadlines the trump legal team should be needing to set up to meet including legal briefs due in two days.
underneath her body? in the front driver s seat was what appeared to be a note. she had rekindled a relationship with one of the executives. did someone have something to hide? did you murder her? no. did you pull the trigger? no. did you kill her? no. it was like a script. he had answers for everything. your head s spinning. you re. you realize this is it. you re going to hell for what you ve done in this case. it was dark, past 3:00 a.m., a weak hint of crescent moon, struggled to penetrate the night here in the middle of america. kingman, kansas, population 3,000, was asleep. except on a quiet residential street a woman unable to sleep watched a crime show on tv. was that popping noise she heard coming from somewhere in the neighborhood or was it her tv show? or just a remnant of the windy day licking around her windowsill? the silent night closed in again, april 30, 2011, tornado season. oh, and there was a storm that night. the whirlwind even
numbers we have not seen in a year. but my next guest, dr. adjad says cases are no longer the major metric. first, to steve harrigan with the very latest on this. steve? trace, president biden meeting with the white house covid response team along with a number of governors. the president saying the omicron variant was cause for concern but he said it s not a cause for panic. he also said that the federal government needs to do more when it comes to ramping up testing. the lines have gotten very long in some states. that s why i order fema to set up pop-up sites in places with high demand. in many major cities across the u.s., there s huge lines for testing that go around block after block. people waiting for hours to find out whether or not they have the virus. we re traveling tomorrow. we want to make sure that we re clean. we vaccinated and everything. we didn t feel well, so we want to get tested. so the numbers of new cases continues to go up. many states inc