i m alison kosik in new york, and this is cnn newsroom. olympic competitions are in full swing in tokyo with the long-awaited start of the 2020 summer games. china has claimed the first two gold medals in women s ten-meter air rifle and women s a s weightlifting. even as fireworks opened the games the virus that stopped them a year ago remains as dangerous as ever. officials have documented 127 cases connected to the games including 17 in the past day. a dutch rower and portuguese surfer are latest forced out by a positive test. cnn is live in japan, and world sport from atlanta. hello, let s start with, blake. i know that you are at one of the few places japanese people can actually go to watch. talk about what they re saying. reporter: you know, it s not what anyone was hoping for, but some people want to experience the olympic atmosphere any way possible. for the people behind me, it means sitting in an auditorium on a beautiful day here to watch the games on a big
that at the county level. and we will be working with our municipalities to do the same. here s new reporting from npr moments ago that a surfside official said the building was safe. the report says, quote, minutes of a november 2018 meeting show a surfside town inspector met with residents of the building and assured them the building was, quote n very good shape. and then, just in the last hour i spoke with rachel speigle, whose mom remains unaccounted for. here s what she told me. obviously, i am disappointed that there were red flags that were made and brought to light and there there wasn t action that was taken. yes, they said that there were issues, but no one said that it was unsafe to live there. well, the death toll is now at nine. 156 people remain unaccounted for. let s go to nbc s antonia hilton joining me from surfside. you are getting word that families may soon be headed to the collapsed site? that s right alex. we are hearing that families have ask
the predawn attack, another instance in the crossfire between hamas and israel that began last monday comes as u.s. envoy are on the ground there today to help cool the fire. nbc news corn correspondent raf sanchez is in beirut with more details. jonathan, in just the last few minutes, hamas followed through on that threat and fired a large and heavy barrage of rockets against israeli cities. as we speak, israeli families are in bomb shelters. parents holding their children close and hoping that the iron dome missile defense system will keep them safe. ten people have been killed in israel in the last week. we have no immediate reports of injuries from this latest rocket fire. but that comes in response to that deadly overnight israeli air strike in gaza city killing at least eight children. we now have more than 50 children killed in gaza, in the last week. i have asked the israeli military this morning, what was the target? what were you aiming at in gaza city? they have
monitoring the vote on hr1. if it s signed in to law it would destroy the integrity of our elections in this country forever. it will institutionalize and pretty much guarantee fraud in the future elections. first, no matter how the biden administration tries to spin it, there is a real and a growing crisis on our southern board. lured by the amnesty promise, loosening of border restrictions there is a surge of new illegal immigrants pouring across the border. many of them are decked out in the full biden campaign gear. i never saw it on the campaign trail but you are seeing it here. some are wearing t-shirts and carrying signs that are saying, biden, please let us in. my of the migrants are unaccompanied minor. last week, 2,000 of the kids were intercepted by the border patrol. according to the d.h.s., a record get this 117,000 unaccompanied children are expected at the border this year. 117,000. of course, the biden administration totally, completely unprepared. now t