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hello and a warm welcome to the programme. it s day three of the olympics in tokyo, and already the medals are starting to come in thick and fast. it was an early start for the men s triathlon, which was won by norway s kristian blummenfelt. he broke away on the final lap of the 10k run to take the title. alex yee of britain took silver with hayden wilde of new zealand taking bronze. in the pool, canada s margaret macneil took gold in the women s hundred metres butterfly finishing just ahead of china s yufei zhang. team gb s adam peaty is a red hot favourite to win gold in the men s hundred metres breaststroke. and the rugby sevens tournament has got under way. defending gold medallists fiji beat hosts japan in their first group game. we also have skateboarding coming up, sarah mulkerrins in tokyo has more on that. we also know we will have the we also know we will have the women s event of street skateboarding take place. we saw the skateboarding take place. - saw the men
we re going to go to tokyo for the latest. but we must begin this morning with, of course, the coronavirus. the very disturbing trend that keeps heading, unfortunately, in the very wrong direction. overnight, the u.s. hit more than 35 million cases overall, but it is the rate of new cases that have officials on edge. they re up nearly 150% in the last two weeks, according to the new york times. hospitalizations, they re up too. overwhelming some places that thought they were over the worst of this. now finding themselves flooded with unvaccinated people who have gotten very, very sick. here s what dr. anthony fauci says about where we re headed next. we re looking not, i believe, to lockdown, but to some pain and suffering in the future, because we re seeing the cases go up. which is the reason why we keep saying over and over again is, the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening. but it is happening now. and the question is, what are we doi
hello. day three at the tokyo olympics is now well underway, and the medals are coming in thick and fast. tea m team gb have picked up their first gold through adam peaty. but, they are not the only country celebrating. it was a great day at the pool, let s cross over to sarah. yes, welcome to tokyo bay, a brilliant monday morning in the pool for some great drama. let s start with adam peaty, unbeaten in that breaststroke and seven years. there was so much pressure on him coming into this. he was the defending champion from rio five years ago, and he started really well. usually, the start is where he can be slower but he got a very good start, and once he touched the wall he really moved on, ramped up, turned the gears for his final 15. he was roaring withjoy and gears for his final 15. he was roaring with joy and happiness. you could almost see the weight of pressure lifting off hemmant, so a brilliant win for adam peaty, as expected, in the pool adam peaty, as expected, in
who watched his entire town burn to the ground. he s now facing the danger of yet another fire. we are much better prepared. the new u.s. capitol police chief sitting down with cnn on his first day on the job, sharing whether he s concerned about another capitol attack. and better late than never. after a year long delay, the tokyo olympics officially under way. we re live from the games. newsroom starts now. good morning. thanks so much for joining us this saturday, july 24th. i m boris sanchez. i m kaitlin collins in for christi paul. this morning, communities across the country are bringing back pandemic safety measures as the u.s. deals with a dangerous summer surge of covid-19. case rates are climbing, fueled by the spread of the delta variant which is highly co cont contagious. while the rate of people getting fully vaccinated is falling. yeah. the rate of new infections is now four times higher than it was just a month ago. look at all the red on that map