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Lester holt. Reporting tonight from tokyo. Good evening, everyone great to be with you from japan on the eve of the olympic opening ceremony we are more than a dozen time zones ahead of the u. S. , a 13hour flight from new york, but it is not lost on any of us here that neither time nor distance offer escape from the scourge of covid. We will update the situation here in tokyo and its impact on these games in a few moments. But back in the u. S. , tonight the cdc charting a rapidly worsening covid crisis tens of thousands of new cases a day, some hospitals revisiting days they thought were firmly behind them, but also signs more people may be starting to roll up their sleeves for covid vaccinations as officials warn this delta variant is both dangerous and efficient in making the unvaccinated sick. Miguel almaguer has the latest reporter: painting a grim picture of the new reality inside some hospitals, tonight the numbers from the cdc reflect our nation slowly slipping back towards cr