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based on misinformation, the fear these people feel is real. we saw a woman cry real tears at the thought that her child was being taught to be ashamed for being white. >> wow. it's incredible. reports like yours make a difference. thank you so much. >> thank you. thanks very much to all of you for joining us. " "ac 360" starts now. word that elsa is a hurricane. i want to go to tom. what's the latest? >> anderson, within the last hour, hurricane aircraft have taken off to investigate elsa. it hasn't even arrived or just arriving now. even without the valuable information and their data, the national hurricane center went ahead and increased it from tropical storm to a category 1
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hurricane based on information coming from the radar out of tampa. we agree, we knew it was going to happen this evening. it will make landfall as a category 1. more in a minute. we have activity still down to the south. that's going to follow suit. our rain amounts are going to increase. 5 to 10, maybe 15. the first hurricane warning issued for the west coast since hurricane michael three years ago in 2018. for good reason. we are looking at landfall around sunrise in the big bend. the last time we had a july hurricane, for the west coast of florida, it was 134 years ago. that's how rare in july, it was 1886. when you look at the storm surge, big concerns. now that we have a category 1, everything from this parallel north is under the gun as far as a surge of at least three, four, even five feet. when you look at the radar, we have had a lot of lightning around the core. that's another indication that things have been firing up and
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that core is intensifying. the crews at surfside are pretty much in the clear. they may have a passing shower. the rough weather was earlier. now concerns are from around areas of venice up toward tampa bay. notice the tornado watch. that's in effect until 11:00. most likely, they will increase that and take it further to the north as this tracks further to the north. watch, here we are occurrent ti periods. heavy bands. at 3:00 a.m., it's almost directly west from tampa bay. the surge will start to increase about an hour, hour and a half before that and continue at this area. once it moves a little north, let's say 4:00 into 5:00, the winds will continue to pull that water into areas of tampa bay. clearwater will have its closest impact with this. very big concerns with the strong wind gusts. key west, it was up to 70 miles
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an hour. that's enough for damage. once it makes its way through areas of south georgia and carolinas, it will be a depression. friday morning, it's off the coast as a tropical storm. again, we still have the risk of loss of life and property. do not take this just joking matter here, because it was a tropical storm. you are not going to tell the difference between the intensity of a strong tropical storm or hurricane category 1. rare in july. first one here. the season is taking off with quite a punch. nothing that we really wanted to see. that's where we are. >> appreciate it, tom. we will have a live report from florida later in the program. we begin with the insurrection. six months to the day. that's how long since we witnessed the worst attack on our democracy by americans since the civil war. think about that for a moment as you look at new video released from the justice department showing a mob of trump supporters attacking officers six months to the day.
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prosecutors say the defendant in the red maga hat climbed scaffolding around the capitol to get in the building while carrying a baton. this was one of a string of videos released today. his case, one of more than 500 now being prosecuted. here is another clip. we're going to let this run raw so you are reminded of the chaos and violence of the day which is important because some lawmakers, as you know, they want you to believe that what you are seeing didn't really happen. six months to the day. six months since the sicknick family lost their son brian. six months since more than 140 officers were beaten, pepper sprayed, choked, tasers, maimed in what was an attempt to overturn the election. you would think it would have been a wake-up call, just like the 9/11 attacks were. can you imagine anyone of any consequence back then trying to
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downplay what happened? or say we should put it behind us? or argue on the culprits' behalf as the former president did this weekend. >> who shot ashley babbott? how come so many people are in jail over january 6? >> ashley is the woman shot dead as she tried to break into the speaker's lobby. today, six months later to the day, republican congressman paul gosar put out a statement echoing the former president's call for the officer to who shot her to be named. that officer has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. he has been receiving death threats, according to his attorneys. trying to expose him for doing his job is how the congressman is marking this day. six months to the day other people who stood up to the former president and his lies have gotten death threats. not only that, the family of one person who stood up for the truth got them as well. georgia's secretary of state's
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wife telling reuters, she received threatening texts. you and your family will be killed very slowly one of those read. another warned of an unfortunate accident the family would have. still another read, we plan for the death of you and your family every day. don't forget that six months later to the day, the handful of republican law makemakers who s up for the truth have been cast aside. liz cheney stood up and was stripped of her position. six months to the day, it's the lie that won't die. quoting reporting in "the washington post", of the nearly 700 republicans who filed initial paperwork with the federal election commission to run next year for either of the u.s. senate or the house of representatives, at least a third have embraced trump's false claims about his defeat. late this evening, president biden weighed in with a statement. not even during the civil war did insurrectionists breach or capitol. but six months ago today,
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insurrectionists did. the president called it a sad reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. join us, republican law maker wo does not believe in the big lie, congressman kinzinger. do you think your republican colleagues watch those videos or try to stay up to speed on various investigations? >> no, i don't think so. i think they purposely avoid it. i think the vast majority, if not all of them, my colleagues believe that this was a trump incited insurrection. when you are in a tribe and if you say something truthful that gets you kicked out, tribe, you keep your head down and stay in the tribe. i don't think -- if you watch the videos, you get that guilt. teas it's easier to hope this organically just kind of fixes the glitch and nobody is willing to step up. it's disappointing, of course. it's sad.
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i think what's even more sad, anderson, is not that so many people that aren't acknowledging the truth, it's that there are millions of people, base voters, republican voters, many in my dir district that believe the big lie. it's not their fault. everybody is responsible for doing research. every leader is telling them it's a big lie. everything they see on cnn or read in the paper is a lie, and it's a coverup. that's what i think the biggest tragedy is. not to mention what it's doing to our republic. >> we are so polarized now as a nation in terms of the information we are willing to believe or accept or the facts we are willing to see. if those videos were police on the capitol being attacked by muslims or black lives matter protesters, the very people who
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deny what actually happened would be arguing the exact opposite. they would be outraged. they would be using this -- they would be talking about this every day and wanting to launch investigations. it is sad we're in this time when because of the people who call themselves patriots who attacked police, who attacked the capitol, this is what we are now dealing with. >> it's the other thing is that what are they doing to the trm p term patriot? i feel like it puts you in the league with insurrectionists. you know darn well that if this was blm or if this was actually antifa or muslims that did this, if the equivalent of ashley had been shot, because by the way, when she breached that door, she put every lawmaker that was present at risk and frankly, if she hadn't been shot, as sad as it is that she was, that she was misled, could you have seen more people breach and more deaths.
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i tell you, guarantee you, paul gosar would be defending the action of the officer instead of calling that officer who in my mind is a hero a murderer. this is why i think it's so important for us to have conversation again. it's going to take -- my friends on the left, being willing to reach out and not constantly point in and say, you didn't do enough then. restoring that conversation, that's why i started country first, which is to say, learn to talk to each other. we will not yell our way out of this. we need to take those lying to the american people and make sure they never win an election again. >> what is it like being one of the only people in your party willing to actually speak out about what happened on january 6, stand up to the big lie publically? you alluded to the threat it may pose to your career. you say that's not what concerns you. things are more important than that. does it frustrate you at all
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that this could get you voted out of congress? >> look, it makes me sad. sad because i know this is true. all my colleagues know this is true. it's confusing, because i thought so many of the people i know, like kevin mccarthy, had a red line that they just wouldn't cross, that there would be no payoff worth crossing that line. it feels isolating. but i'm going to tell you seriously, it actually is very peaceful. because i know i can say what's true. i know that even if i'm standing alone with liz cheney and a few others like those that voted with me to impeach and some of the senators, i know that history will judge it correctly. i know that it's a very important thing. there's never been a moment in congress, anderson, no matter any vote i have taken, any speech i have given, that has been more cut and dry and clear in more of a demanding desire and need, even to stand alone to
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tell that truth, because i really believe -- i'm not being emotional or dramatic. i believe that the future of this country and the republic rests on telling people the truth. until we accept that, this -- there is real danielmage done tt just america but america's reputation with the putin-type tactics happening. >> i want to ask you about afghanistan. we talked about this the last time you were on. not only did you serve there in the air force, you are currently serving in the air national guard. you disagree with president biden on his decision to withdraw forces. it has been made. are you surprised -- i assume you are not surprised at what's happening there. the taliban is capturing new territory. we see afghan troops giving up in some places. obviously, a lot of afghan forces, soldiers, police have been killed fighting the taliban. is this just -- how bad do you think it's going to get?
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>> i think this is going to be atro atrocious. you will cover terrible scenes out of afghanistan. the afghan army has collapsed. by the way, they were doing 99% of the fighting when we were there. we were just using that base basically to stiffen their spine and do counterterrorism. i hope we can get the translators out. that's the only sense of maybe light we can have out of the dark moment. >> congressman adam kinzinger, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> any time. coming up, dr. fauci joins us to talk about breaking news on covid and how quickly that new delta variant has spread across the united states and other countries around the world. live reporting from surfside on the search, as rough weather brushes the area.
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>> in today's briefing, we discussed how the delta variant is responsible for half of all cases in many parts of this country. it's more easily transmissible, potentially more dangerous. it should be because of reconsideration. look, let me put it another way. it seems to me it should cause everybody to think twice. >> the president's warning comes in the wake of word from the israeli government the delta variant spread there. the efficacy of the pfizer vaccine has fallen. joining us now is dr. fauci, director of the national instit infectious diseases. the cdc announced it makes up more than half of the coronavirus cases in the united states. can you put this in perspective amid the dire warnings that it's doubling about every two weeks, what concerns you the most?
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>> well, what concerns me, anderson, are the people not vaccinated. clearly, the vaccines that we use in this country do quite well against the delta variant, particularly with regard to protecting against serious advanced disease requiring hospitalization. there have been a number of studies that show variable degrees of protection against initial infection. when it comes to serious consequences, the vaccines that we use are really quite effective in preventing advancement to severe disease. for that reason alone, as the president had alluded to a moment ago in the clip you played, people really need to reconsider those who don't want to get vaccinated. we have a situation in the united states, anderson, where we have more vaccine than we need. we have vaccines for everyone and anyone who needs it. and there are places in the world where people would do anything to get vaccine. and yet, we have a substantial
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proportion of people in very specific regions of the country who just do not want to get vaccinated despite the fact that we have a significant threat, as you mentioned in the piece, from a virus that has a greater degree of capability of spreading from person to person, no doubt about that. we have seen that in multiple countries. actually can cause more severe disease. so if ever there was a reason to get vaccinated, this is it. >> the israeli government released a statement yesterday saying that it found a drop in protection from the fpfizer vaccine and linked it to the spread of the delta variant. the pfizer vaccine provided 64% protection against all protections. 93% efficacy in preventing severe disease and hospitalization, as you indicated earlier. 93 is a high number.
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when i saw this headline, i got very concerned. then once you read it more, it's basically saying, there's not people being hospitalized and dying from the delta variant who have been vaccinated in israel, but some are still -- the efficacy drops. you are more likely to get infected with the delta variant even if you have been vaccinated. it will just be mild, is that correct? >> yeah. well, according to the announcement from the israelis, what you said, anderson, is correct. the data is sparse. we are all trying very hard to get more specific granular data about that. these israelis know what they are doing. we are not doubting them. we want to make sure exactly what the circumstances were of their drop from 94% protection against asymptomatic infection down to 64%. is that a reflection that they are more aggressively testing everybody and anybody who has
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come into contact with the person who has an asymptomatic infection? i don't know. we need to know that. we need to watch it carefully. we need to get more specific data from the israelis. >> last year, every time there was a holiday or long weekend, the number of new infections went up. i know the tsa is reporting more than 10 million people passed through airports this weekend. do you have a sense yet of what the case numbers may look like? >> no. not yet, anderson. that's going to take a couple of weeks at least before we find that out. very clearly, as i have said before, the risk is significant if you are not vaccinated. if you are vaccinated, you dramatically -- dramatically diminish your risk of getting infected in the first place and extraordinarily dramatically diminish the risk of you getting severe disease. again, just -- i don't want to seem like a broken record,
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anderson, but it is what it is. that's what's happening. if we get surges, they will be regional among those areas of the country where the level of vaccination is low. we still have some areas of the country where the percent of vaccinated people is like 30%. which is very, very low. we have to get it up above that. otherwise, people in those particular locations are going to wind up having a higher degree of risk of infection and you are going to see more infections and more hospitalizations and, unfortunately, in some cases maybe increase in deaths. >> even people who are currently getting infected, who haven't been vaccinated, even if they have mild cases, they are still at risk for -- whether you call it long haul symptoms or -- >> long covid. absolutely. i'm glad you brought that up, anderson. that's one of the things that people really don't have a good appreciation of. if you get infected -- a lot of
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young people understandably but unfortunately feel that way. they say, well, you know, i don't want to get vaccinated. if i get infected, the chances are that i will have mild or no symptoms at all. they are correct. statistically, the likelihood of them getting severe disease is much less than in an elderly person or a person who has an underlying condition. but what we are starting to see now more of are people who get very mild infection who have this long covid, which is a persistence of symptoms, sometimes debilitating, that can go on for many, many weeks. even though you clear the acute infection, you have things like profound fatigue, muscle aches, temperature disregulation, lack of ability to concentrate. it's something that needs to be taken seriously. that's the reason why we alert young people, don't think you are exempt from serious issues, including something that you may not have even thought of,
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namely, long covid, after you clear the infection. >> again, the key, getting vaccinated. dr. fauci, appreciate it. thank you. >> good to be with you, anderson. coming up next, we will go live to florida for more breaking news there. elsa a category 1 hurricane. how elsa may affect the search for victims in surfside, florida. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ oh! are you using liberty mutual's coverage customizer tool? sorry? well, since you asked. it finds discounts and policy recommendations, so you only pay for what you need. limu, you're an animal! who's got the bird legs now?
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our breaking news. elsa, a category 1 hurricane. we will get a live report on the storm in a moment. first, elsa is a major concern for the search and rescue mission in surfside, florida, where officials a short time ago said four more victims have been located, bringing the total to 36 with 109 unaccounted for. three more victims identified as well. rosa flores joins us from surfside. she was given access to the search and rescue mission. what's the scene like? >> reporter: you know,anderson, you can feel the urgency because you are surrounded by heavy machinery and by first responders. you can feel the pain. just the thought that under the pile of debris, there could still be either people alive or people buried under the rubble.
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so many lives that have been cut short and dreams that have been cut short. i want to take you through pictures we took from the ground. i also want to warn our viewers, because i know so many families around the country and the world quite frankly know people who lived in this building. i want to take you through it. we were across the street. the first portion of the debris pile that we see is actually part of the controlled demolition. that is what is called the alpha portion of the search grid. beyond that, where you see the heavy machinery, you see the cranes shooting up into the sky, that's the portion of the original collapse. we know that about 200 brave men and women are working on that pile of debris at any given time. they are following voids. they are trying to find survivors. for the first time, from the ground, we were actually able to see some of the sophistication
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that's being used to make sure that these brave men and women are safe. in the neighboring buildings, we could see some of the support staff, that some of the sport teams are monitoring the actual collapse area. we could see it on both sides. the other thing that we were able to see up close were also the dangers that these men and women are facing just by looking at some of that debris. the giant pieces of concrete and the mangled rebar as well. anderson, we were able to see pieces debris across the street where we were standing. one of the things that really stood out to me was a piece of what appeared to be either a blind or wallpaper. i couldn't help but thinking, anybody who could recognize this, it could be from somebody's -- belong to somebody's mom or somebody's grandmother. it was a floral pattern. think of just so many things
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that cross your mind as we have covered this story and just the humanity of this, just so many people that either have lost loved ones there or are hoping that their loved ones who are still missing are still alive. anderson? >> on the original collapsed section of the area now that they are looking through, are they using heavy equipment? are they still kind of going slowly with individuals hoping to find somebody still maybe alive? >> reporter: it's both. according to one of the captains that i talked to who is on the scene, he says that they still go very methodically through the grid pattern. they shore up any areas that they can. they support that system. they put in the cameras in any voids or holes to try to get further view. they also are using canines. once they clear the area,
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anderson, they know that they can move the bigger pieces of concrete, that's when they bring the big machinery in. the captain explained this. he wanted to make sure that's not confused with using heavy equipment and just moving the pieces of debris without first looking for survivors and first looking for signs of life. that is still happening. they are still de-layering. there's 12 floors they have to de-layer through. they are going floor by floor, peeling the layers, still looking for survivors. >> rosa, i appreciate it. thank you. perspective on the mission there. lieutenant, thank you for being with us and for the work you have been doing. how has the operation been going at this stage? how do you see this part of the operation? >> hi.
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thank you for having me here. the operation -- we have been here for 12 days. it's a very tough job. we are looking for the missing people, beloved people of the families of the missing people. it's very tough. we're collaborating with the american emergency forces. very brave, good people. work is processing very well. it took us some time to gather the data and the information. but now as the building -- the other part has been demolished, we are working very fast, going through the site. i think it's going in a very good pace. >> one of the things early on was that there was hope that there may be voids, spaces in the rubble where someone might be. obviously, there was a lot of pancaking of floors. it was late at night. people were in their beds. have you found many void spaces? >> to be honest, not at all.
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not so many voids. almost no voids at all. the pancake, as you said, is very, very stacked. stacked concrete. this is something we have seen in the past in several places. no voids. sorry to tell you. >> you have been speaking with families who have loved ones in the building. one of the things that i know you are doing is trying to get details of the apartment. can you talk a little bit about why that is so important? things like where the bed was, how they slept, what was in the apartment, the color of a carpet, things like that. why does that help? >> right. we are talking about a very, very large site. very high stacked concrete. thousands of square meters. if we start searching in a blind way, it can take up to weeks to start piling off the concrete and finding the beloved ones. what we do is we use a tec
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technique. we gather information. we gather specific data from them. we took the apartment plan of the building. we showed it to them. we asked them on every detail. what does the apartment look like? where is the master bedroom? where is the regular bedroom? what octobers were in the room? did you have a mirror or a statue? some people had bikes in their apartment. any object that could help us give us sign where we are when we are digging and searching. once we have this data, the people themselves, birth mmarks jewelry, pendants, anything, even the direction where their head is on the bed. once we have that, we take the plan of the building and we look at the site itself and we can maximize efforts, make them more specific. we can aim the digging and make it faster to find beloved ones. >> it's extraordinary what you do and how do you it and the expertise that you bring to
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this. there's a lot of families who are grateful. thank you so much. we will have more on the impact of the hurricane with randi kaye who joins us from clearwater beach, florida, on the west coast near tampa. randy, what are you seeing where you are? >> anderson, we are just getting just as you just tossed to us, we are getting the first bits of rain here coming across right here in clearwater beach. it's clearwater harbor behind me. i don't know if you can see that, but there's a couple of boats tied up out there. hopefully, they are tied up tightly. you can see the rain is picking up, the wind is picking up. we are expecting 50 to 70 mile per hour wind gusts. there are hurricane warnings here and 34 other counties in the state of florida. also, there are tornado warnings. the real concern at least right now is the rain, first of all, where we expect four to six
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inches here. also the storm surge. because the impact of the storm, greatest impact is expected overnight from midnight until 8:00 a.m., and they expect the storm surge will then coincide with the high tide, which is supposed to hit around 3:00 a.m. that would push a lot of the water into tampa bay, into the tampa area and also into parts of clearwater here. anderson, as the rain is starting to come in, we have been waiting for it all day long, it's been staying closer to the center of the storm, but now it's starting to hit us. i should just note that the last time a major hurricane hit the tampa bay area, this is not a major hurricane, it's cat 1, and it's not expected to hit here, but it's worth noting, it was 100 years ago, 1921, anderson. >> appreciate you being there. just ahead, cnn made a call in the race for the democratic nomination for mayor in new york city. that news when we continue.
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just moments ago, cnn called the race for the democratic nomination for new york city mayor. former police officer eric adams has won what was a hard-fought tense contest that swung on the issue of crime. joining us is harry antin. cnn projects eric adams wins the primary. take us through the totals. >> this was a long, confusing
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process. we will go through it. we had the initial preferences, which was who are people's first choices? eric adams led on election night. he led when all the absentees came in. he was at nearly 31% of the vote. remember, anderson, we spoke about this. this was the first election in which voters would use rank choice voting. what happened when we put in the rank choice voting and everyone who weren't the top two candidates, you had the votes reallocated. what was the result? look at this. eric adams wins by a single percentage point, less than 10,000 votes that he was able to win by. you know what? a little less than 10,000 votes is good enough. that's why we are projecting what we are. >> much of this election has centered on crime in the city, which has been -- violent crime, which has been a rising concern in cities nationwide.
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how much of that do you think factored into the win for adams who i believe retired as a police captain? >> when it's less than 10,000 votes, a lot of things can make a big difference. eric adams didn't just retire as a captain, but also really focused in on crime in the campaign. he had this video up where he was finding the stuff in his children's bedrooms and trying to instruct parents how to look. if you look at the polling, what do we see? what do we see? what we saw was that when you looked at whether or not folks wants more cops on the subways, 69% of democratic primary voters agreed with that. this is really the first new york city democratic primary that i can really recall that was determined by crime since probably 1977 when the incumbent was defeated. that's how long ago my father was first into the judgeship. crime is still a big issue, at least in democratic primary
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voters' minds. you see it in the results. >> people aren't used to seeing this kind of -- these levels of crime in new york city over the last couple decades. i understand the board of elections, which has been criticized for botching how they rolled out results over the past couple weeks, they had a timing issue today. right? >> they had -- yeah, i would say they had a timing issue, anderson. look at this tweet that they put up. this was earlier on. this is insane. we promise today's release is more a brunch special versus club hours. i'm not a fancy man. i don't eat brunch. my understanding is it runs maybe to 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon. these results were not hoisted up until the early evening hours. the board of elections, they have been terrible throughout the entire process. even today when they were basically cleaning it up, they were still terrible.
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they got mir eals confused. >> i gotta say, i'm not a person who brunches. is it early in the morning? is it before lunch or is it after lunch? you seem to indicate it's after. i don't know. can you walk us through in layman's terms this saga? it's been bungled from the beginning, hasn't it? they miscounted votes. >> yeah. i have no idea when brunch is. i will eat dinner. i hope it arriverrives soon. we had election day on june 22. i remember it. i believe i was on your program with the former speaker of the city council christine quinn. then on june 29, they were supposed to -- there was initial results released. on june 29, they were supposed to release the rank choice results without the absentees. they did that but they included
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135,000 test ballots. oh, my god, clean out the machine. this is not -- you are supposed to be doing this for a living. you had one job and they couldn't do that. then you finally get the results right with the rank choice voting without the absentees on june 30th. they corrected it. then you jump forward to today, july 6. the new york city board of elections promises rank choice with absentees close to brunch. they released it in early evening. i'm looking forward to my dinner. >> i look forward to your dinner as well. >> thank you, that's very kind. coming up, an update from georgia on the murder of a golf pro and two others found dead at a country club outside of atlanta. that's next.
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authorities are still searching for the suspect who shot to death a golf pro and left two others dead in a pickup truck at a golf club outside atlanta. here's the new developments. ro
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>> reporter: a killer remains on the loose, and grief remains at the golf club in georgia. the pickup truck was driven on the 10th green of the golf course. but before those victims were discovered, the resident golf pro gene siller went to see why there was a truck on the green. he was shot in the head and killed, police declaring it does not appear he was targeted but rather he was killed because he witnessed an active crime taking place. brian was a friend of siller and a member of the club. >> this is still an act of shock. >> reporter: one of the victims identified is the owner of the truck. the other victim has not been identified. >> the fact that this happened in the fashion that it did, we could have lost gene, we could have lost any of our friends in a number of ways that day and in just as quick a fashion.
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>> reporter: tire tracks remain on that 10th green, which has become a memorial to siller. family members and friends paid their respects to that memorial on monday. the pastor was also gene slill ler's friend. >> he helped in the community and built solace. it's a hole left in our community. >> reporter: police are not asking nearby residents to take any out of the ordinary precautions. there is not an active threat to the public at large and there was not a directed threat to residents of the neighborhood. so if police know that, do they have an idea of what led to the killings of the first two victims? all they will say is that it's too early to speculate. >> gary joins us now. so, gary, do we know why police
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are indicating there is no threat to the community. >> he's not telling us, anderson, but the hypothesis is somehow the gunman knew too many were shot and then targeted him. that's why police don't think there is a threat to the neighborhood. it's important to point out that this third man, the golf pro, mr. siller, was not targeted. he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. also a lot of our viewers might be wondering what the heck was this truck doing on the golf course? why did that happen? that's bizarre. we don't know the answer to that. there was some speculation he was trying to cut through the golf course to get away from something, but we don't know. anderson, the club itself has been closed. it's reopening tomorrow. the golfers have been told they can golf holes 1 to 9, and at 10 that will remain closed. that's a memorial. they can pay their respects at 10 and continue eight holes by going to 11. anderson? >> thank you. up next what the track and
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you may remember that track star sha'carri richardson has been suspended in the olympics because of a drug test that found marijuana in her system. she was not on the list which means she also will not be able to compete in the 4x100 relay. the olympics said they were sympathetic to richardson but also said this. quote, as our heart goes out to sha'carri, we must realize that all of the olympians are competing to be on the track team. s
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sha'carri used marijuana after learning her mother died. >> that situation stinks. it stinks for her, but it stinks for the country to have arguably not on the team for something that's not a performance-enhancing drugs. rules matter, standards matter, but there is supposed to be some type of balance and subjectivity. i'm actually surprised this country and its leadership in that arena of olympic sports has been as quiet as it has in defense of her. anderson, appreciate kbyour reporting. i'm chris cuomo. we just celebrated the birth of our nation. we are all free. we are about independence and it's beautiful. it's a big part of what makes america beautiful. as an extension of that pride, there should be a nod to the profound sense of purpose that the american experiment requires. this is hard work. and in this country we have to learn to choose our hard now. it's hard to do things the right way, it's hard to do them the wrong way. look, the sha'carri richardson
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