Perhaps the greatest ever female gymnast, recipient of four olympic golds and 19 world championship titles. She left the women s gymnastics team finals at the tokyo olympics citing a need to protect her own mental health. Afterward she appeared alongside her teammates and discussed her reasons in more detail. I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat, work on my mindfulness and i knew the girls would do an absolutely great job and i didn t want to risk the team a medal for kind of my screw ups because they ve worked way too hard for that. One former teammate commended biles for her, quote, bravery. Senator mitt romney who ran the 2002 winter games wrote on twitter, quote, i love and admire simone biles. Biles was noncommittal when asked whether she would compete in her remaining events. The next one the women s individual allaround final is thursday. The news continues right now. Let s turn things over to chris for cuomo primetime. Few things give me hope, co
Direct energy attacks. We have the latest from the pentagon. Welcome to tuesday. It is mtp daily. I am garrett haake in for chuck todd. We begin with some fireworks on capitol hill, the white house top public health experts testified before the senate about the alarming surge in covid infections, just as the public learned about break through infections at the white house and speaker pelosi s office. At the hearing that wrapped moments ago, the two top doctors, the president s chief medical adviser, dr. Fauci, and cdc chief dr. Walensky warned the spread of the delta variant is spiking dramatically. It is now more than 80% of all sequenced cases in the u. S. Perhaps the most important testimony from every public health official that testified today came as an answer to this question from senate health committee chair woman, patty murray, democrat. I want to ask each of you, what is the one thing everyone can do to help keep us from returning to the early days of this pandemic. Dr. Wale
Alternate gymnast who reportedly had close contact with her. We were talking with her last night. She s had multiple covid tests come back positive. She has no symptoms. She s been vaccinated, and because of the tests coming back positive, they went ahead and isolated her by herself in her hotel room, and she s under quarantine. So this news comes just a day after tennis star coco gauff tested positive here in the u. S. Forcing her to withdraw from the games. In japan, the international olympic committee says there are now 61 cases linked to the tokyo games, and that includes staffers. Cnn s selina wang joins us now from tokyo. Let s start with kara eaker, how is she doing? reporter: it s a huge disappointment for her, after training, preparing for so long, going through all of the covid restrictions, finally gets to japan, a big disappointment. As you heard her father say there, she was fully vaccinated, thankfully not showing any symptoms. Take a listen to what else he had to say to
Cnn the president will layout the, quote, moral case for voting rights. There is president biden at this is the last hour. That s him at joint base andrews. He will be heading to philly soon. He also will launch a pressure campaign against voting restriction laws enacted by mostly republicanled state legislatures across the country, fuelled by the big lie that donald trump did not lose the election, though he lost by 7 million votes. Since the november election, state lawmakers have passed 28 laws in 17 states that restrict ballot access. This is according to the brennan center for justice. President biden s speech comes after senate republicans blocked even beginning debate on a sweeping federal election reform bill. That was just a few weeks ago. Cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is in philadelphia. Kaitlan, what else is the white house saying about the speech that is coming? reporter: well, a lot of this has to do with those calls that have come from civil rights l
With president biden which unlike a summit with bush 43 did not have any spontaneous shoulder rubs. All that and more on this friday, july 16th. That bush/merkel shoulder rub never gets old. A little shoulder rub diplomacy from the 43rd. We do begin with the growing fears of a new covid wave as cases climb, nations plateau. Now los angeles is turning back the pandemic clock, issuing a new mask mandate. Reporter: los angeles, the nation s largest county taking a step back requiring masks indoors even for the vaccinated starting sunday. Breaking with cdc guidance, it s a clear signal concern is growing over the highly contagious delta variant. Meantime, for some of the 48 million children under 12 and their parents who were hoping to get them vaccinated this fall, a longer wait. The fda will now review several additional months of safety data. Meaning a vaccine for kids won t likely be available until early next year. It makes it a very stressful time to be a parent, educator and a child