as we countdown to the opening ceremony, the covid cloud broke over the olympics, more than 50 cases are linked to the games, and officials admit they can't guarantee tokyo 2020 will be risk free. in england, freedom day finally arrives but boris johnson urges caution as covid cases spike. and germany's angela merkel talks surreal devastation caused by flooding. hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states around the world.

i'm' issa suarez and this is "cnn news room." hello and warm welcome. happy monday. four days to go until the opening ceremony. the number of covid cases linked to the 2020 olympic games has risen to 58. it americans includes the american tennis hopeful who announced she was pulling out of the competition. coronavirus cases are rising in japan. it's raising fears the games, which start on friday, could turn into a global super spreader event. cnn's blake es sick joins us from tokyo. it's a dream but not trouble free to friday's opening ceremony. clearly, as we have outlined being shadowed by the rising tally of covid-19 infections. what is the committee saying in

terms of how they're going to put a stop to this? what protocols are being made or changed? >> yeah, you know, things are not exactly going smoothly. last week olympic committee president thomas back said the risk of covid-19 spreading because of the olympics is zero but a growing number of cases increasingly testing olympic organizers. who promise they'll be able to keep the games safe and secure. take a listen. >> safe place to stay is the olympic village. we cannot say there will be no positive cases within the olympic community. given the situation we have a massive number of people are, you know, engaged within the project. >> reporter: and, you know, when it comes to how they're dealing with the positive cases, so far

58 people involved with the games have tested positive for covid-19 after arriving in japan with the first cases being reported over the weekend from inside the olympic village. that included two players and a video analyst from south africa's football team. anybody that might have been in close contact with those people will enter isolation. there's different lengths of isolation, depending on the close contact and, you know, people will be tested to make sure that they don't potentially spread the infection. there are a number of people, including members of the british olympic team and the people who came into contact with the south africans who tested positive that are right now in isolation. there's no question there are difficult times here in tokyo with cases related to the olympics piling up, as well as cases in general surging. and the capital daily cases exceeded the 1,000 mark for five

straight days and reached the highest daily total in six months. the increases in cases across the board continue to negatively impact public support for the games. it's a reality ioc president acknowledged over the weekend saying he's aware of the skepticism surrounding the olympics. some elite athletes decided not to risk exposure and pulled out of the games. >> i think right now the olympics can weather these losses. in other words the games will move on and the swimming and track and field and so many other sports, gymnastics, of course, with the great simone biles. i think they'll be missed but the overwhelming headlines will be about the athletes here.

if it continues even more, if it gets to the point where there are bigger names yet to come, especially like men's basketball and women's basketball, et. cetera, i think you can see it becoming more of a headline. right now i think the news is important but i don't think it's devastating for the olympic games. today is the start of a risky experiment in i think land. the country has lifted nearly every social distancing restriction despite the fact that the covid cases are spiking across the united kingdom. the reopening has been bumpy starting with the prime minister boris johnson being forced to self-isolate after coming into contact with the british health secretary who tested positive for the virus himself. we'll talk about it with phil black and nick robertson. so many had been looking forward to this freedom day. the reality is, as you well know, the infections are rising. all though the link between

infections -- it hasn't been broken. how is the public critically interpreting the messaging, phil? >> reporter: well, still seeing lots of caution this morning, issa. i would say there are some people in crowds on trains, et. cetera, not wearing masks but they're a minority. the overall mood is one of resignation. the enthusiastic return to normal life, we knew it wasn't going to happen. we knew it sometime ago. instead there's a resignation which very much fits the prime minister boris johnson's message if not now then when? there's no good time to do this. as you said, there are circumstances here that means significant risks are being taken. we're in the situation where there is -- that is already running hot through the population. a population that has significant but not complete levels of immunity through the vaccination program. what happens when you take all the rules away or most of them

away but they're designed to slow the spreetd of the virus. that's the experiment being conducted here and the truth is no one knows for sure. some of the forecasts suggest for some it could be grim. especially for the country's health system. ultimately the country's scientific advisors say they don't know how it will turn out because it comes down to people's behavior and how cautiously they choose to act, given there are no rules telling them precisely what to do. >> phil, do stay with us. we'll go to nick robertson. let's talk about the pandemic. we mentioned the prime minister contacted by nhs and asked to self-isolate because they were taking part in a daily testing pilot. then there was humiliating u-turn. how is that received by the british public and the confusing messaging i think that phil was highlighting there? >> reporter: i think there's a lot of confusion and skepticism,

as phil said, it's one of the factors coming through. the idea that the prime minister and the chancellor should, over the weekend, announce they were part of a new program that hadn't been heard about before that would allow them having had that extended contact before the weekend with the health secretary who has got covid-19 now. they would be part of this program that would allow them to do some daily testing but to continue working in place essentially. within hours of changing their minds, i think it's the biggest indication of just how quickly through social media the backlash came. it was again seen as more privileged taking and exceptions to the rule by the government by boris johnson, you know, political manipulations, if you

will. playing the rules of the game to his own advantage. and that's why we're now seeing him following the rules that everyone else in the country, except for the national health service, who now have the new qualifications and things they can do to -- if they have been measured. this is a broader concern in the uk at the moment. this system where by if you have been in contact with somebody who has covid-19 proven, even if you've had two vaccinations, you still have to remove yourself from society for ten days and remain there until you either -- until that ten days is up or, indeed, you have covid and have to continue isolating longer. this is a concern for business

with the high infection rates. business is going to be impacted. workers are going to be forced to take time off. the delta variant is driving numbers higher. take a look at the map showing increases week over week. the dark red indicates states where case numbers are up at least 15%. it's well over half the country. health experts warn that the delta variant is hitting unvaccinated americans particularly hard. take a listen. >> and the virus is so contagious. the variant is so contagious, it will infect the majority that most people will get vaccinated or previously infected or get the delta variant. for most people who get the delta variant, it will be the most serious virus they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the

hospital. >> according to data from the cdc, 46.6% of u.s. population was vaccinated on sunday. alabama is at the bottom of the u.s. vaccination list. the cdc said the vaccination rate in alabama is not quite 34%. community groups are pushing improved vaccine message but it's a tough sell. natasha chen has more. >> take it from me. get the vaccine. >> reporter: the effort to get covid-19 vaccines into arms in alabama is an uphill battle. >> reporter: the pastor has passed out fliers in his community but sometimes gets pushback from people who bring up the infamous tuskegee experiment. he warns it's not the same. >> reporter: the rampant spread of misinformation on social media is the biggest hurdle, according to health officials. some are buying into false

narratives including people under 30 who are the least vaccinated in alabama. birmingham city schools have been hosting vaccine clinics at their high schools getting the band to play and cheerleaders to perform. but some members of the pep squad need a pep talk. half the girls told cnn they're too scared to get vaccinated. they don't want the virus injected into them, which is not how the vaccines work. the pfizer and moderna vaccines use a small piece of the virus' genetic sequence to create a specialized protein which prompts our immune system to create anti-bodies to protect itself against the virus. just like snapchat, the message then disappears. still some distrust in african-american communities looms. >> i'm hearing i'm not sure i want to wait a little longer. i want to see how it affects my family and my friends. >> reporter: kennedy brown and her mother both became infected

with coronavirus and it motivated them to get their vaccine shots on saturday. >> most of their friends their parents don't make them do anything. so it's their choice. but my mom made me come get it. >> reporter: since april 1st, 529 people who died of covid-19 in alabama, more than 96% of them were unvaccinated. around 34% of people in the state are fully vaccinated. since peaking in march and april, the number of doses administered has been dropping dramatically. now the state is seeing another surge with more than double the new case numbers last week compared to the week before. and the first baptist church announced it would be postponing events and all in-person services are cancelled for the rest of july. people commented on the post

asking for prayers for loved ones who have gotten covid-19. >> yesterday i got a call from my father about my uncle who didn't get the vaccine. he's in the hospital now. >> reporter: anthony gardner is the crow of alabama regional medical services. he can't convince his family to get vaccinated. he said he won't give up. >> it's not an uphill battle. it's not mission or purpose for being here. >> reporter: only about a dozen people came through this vaccine clinic in a church on sunday. an example of the challenge and convincing people across the state to get vaccinated. this church is set to start condensed in-person services in the beginning of august but the pastor tells me he'll monitor the spread of the virus in the community in the coming weeks to determine whether those plans should be modified. natasha chen, cnn. angela merkel calls it terrifying as well as surreal. what she's saying about her

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it's terrifying. i would say there's no word in the german language to describe this devastation. german chancellor angela merkel speaking after touring one of her country's worst hit flood zones. it killed at least 19 had people in germany and belgium. flood waters also impacted the netherlands. the military and volunteers are joining efforts to clear debris. in neighboring belgium, officials said the floods have killed 31 people with 163 missing. gas leaks and power outages have been hindering clean up efforts. we'll get more on this. cnn in is belgium and northwest germany. i know german chancellor angela merkel had been touring sholes, one of the worst-hit areas in germany. has her message of solidarity and support helped those on the ground? what have you been hearing?

>> reporter: well, definitely we've seen a lot of solidarity and community volunteers pitching in to recovery effort. the operation there is massive. i mean, you see volunteer farmers with their backhoes trying to clear the area operating alongside armored recovery vehicles with the military. to be honest, it looks like a war zone. the kind of thing you would expect to see there. it's an incredible operation. the problem is that all along the river there are little towns and villages just like shoal. we're a little way down the river, and there are several bridges along here that usually connect it to the other communities here. all of the bridges have either been washed out or unusable. you can see behind me that excavator is trying to clear the debris from the partially collapsed bridge. there's only one bridge in this area that connects the towns. this is a critical part of getting a recovery is getting

the infrastructure back online. the problem is, merkel has said she promises more financial aid. she promises more help but a lot of local communities aren't seeing that yet. so there is bubbling anger here at the government. >> and, you know, it's incredible and heartbreaking, i think, at the same time to hear that so many people are still missing. the last number i saw 163. what can you tell us about the search for survivors? >> reporter: i'm hearing the search is for bodies, at this point. there's very little hope they'll find any survivors. yesterday we were watching as they were digging and looking for survivors and going through the rubble but they had to stop. they were hampered by gas leaks. we were evacuated because of

that. it's wrenching, for many people here, also, because of the terror they lived through. just across the river here was a woman we talked to and said somebody tapped on her window when she was deep asleep last thursday night and the water was up to her window. she ran up to the first floor and alerted her neighbor there. she was in the window a second ago and they went to the second floor to survive the floor. there's also a debate over whether it could have been avoided. there is an engineer at the university who says there should be a parliament i are inquiry about this. that the dam just up the river here should have released water days ahead because of the weather forecast and that more should have been done to release the water ahead of time. i talked to the government official who told me that, no, there wasn't enough time to do it. there was a debate going on and that professor is calling for a

parliament inquiry. he said ministerial heads should roll on this, isa. >> yeah. clearly simmering anger and frustrations and many questions, i believe, still need to be answered. thank you very much to you both. now pope francis, let me get that story. pope francis is keeping the flood victims in his prayers in his first public appearance at the vatican after 11 day hospital stay. the 84-year-old had part of his colon removed earlier this month. hundreds cheered as he made a speaking address in saint peter's square. he talked about the unrest in south africa and cuba and he also urged people to slow down and just enjoy life. in a lighter moment. >> translator: let us put a halt to the frantic running around dictated by the agendas. let us learn how to take a break. turn off the mobile phone. to contemplate nature. to regenerate ourselves in dialogue with god. >> brazil's president is also

recovering after his own hospital stay. jay bolsonaro was released on sunday after being treated for inte intestinal obstruction. he was hospitalized. the president did not require surgery. still to come, a series of shootings across several american cities to the renewed focus on gun violence in the u.s. we'll bring you the details after a short break.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and right around the world. i'm isa warsoares. three people were injured in a shooting outside the nationals park during a baseball game in washington on saturday. it was some frightening moments for fans and players inside. people fled their seats and sought shelter after hearing gunfire during the middle of the sixth inning. once everything was safe, fans returned to watch the rest of the game between the nationals and the padres. the manager of the nationals got emotional while talking about the shooting. take a listen. >> i love this city, you know, this city is my home. it can get crazy. we all know that. you know, we all want to feel safe. i can tell you that inside of

the park, i feel safer than ever. i really do. we care about each other. we don't want anybody getting hurt. like i said, for me, yesterday, we tried to protect as many people as possible. >> police say their investigation is ongoing but it appears the shooting involved a dispute between individuals in two vehicles. they did not believe the washington nationals, the ballpark, or fans were the target. we're following another shooting in d.c. gun violence across several american cities. polo sandoval has that part of the story for you. >> reporter: another violent weekend in countries throughout the united states. one of them leaving a community heart broken and outraged in southeast washington, d.c., as a 6-year-old, supposed to start first grade this fall, was shot and killed during a drive by shooting. now investigators offering up to $60,000 for any information that leads to arrests and convictions in this case. investigators over the weekend identified this little girl as

nya courtney. that vehicle seen in surveillance video released by investigators over the weekend. in it, you see the car cross the intersection and, at one point, an occupant there opening fire. d.c.'s police chief said the officers were nearby and responded and celebrate -- sepa desperately tried to save the little girl. five other people were injured, as well. the d.c.'s police chief frustrated here. he's sick but tired of being sick and tired when more of the cases happen not just in his community but throughout over parts of the country, including in chicago which saw another violent weekend. look at the numbers. police are investigating 30 dozen shootings between friday evening and sunday morning resulting in 48 injured, five of them fatally, one of the shootings outside a party in which fourteen girls and a 12-year-old was injured there. and in west philadelphia a

1-year-old boy in stable condition after being shot in the leg. the cases happening throughout the country while they're each different, they have something in common. the families, their lives have been changed. in some cases, the horrible shooting in washington, d.c., their lives changed forever. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. now the acting u.s. ambassador in kabul is calling for an investigation into the taliban murder of 22 surrendering afghan commanders. ross wilson met with the defense minister on sunday. he tweeted the taliban committed possible war crimes. this crime must be investigated and those responsible held accountable. cnn was the first report -- of the report from a few days ago and a warning it contains graphic images. >> reporter: after over two hours of heavy fighting, all ammunitions spent. afghan commanders walk out with hands in the air.

surrender, commander, surrender. the rules of war don't exist on this battlefield. seconds later, more than a dozen members of the elite special forces have been executed. sources confirmed the bodies of 22 commanders were retrieved. a village of pleas with the taliban to stop shooting. cnn has spoken to five witnesses to many masksacre which occurre last month in northern afghanistan. all confirm these events took place. >> the taliban denied the alleged excuse saying the video was fake and the accusations, quote, fictitious.

cubans living outside the island nation are showing solidarity with protesters at home with uniquely cuban flair. have a look. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the demonstration took place on sunday in the dominican republic. cuba recently has seen the most significant inunrest in decades. thousands have taken to the streets. now the wife of haiti's assassinated president has returned home as the country prepares for the funeral for her husband. the first lady survived the attack making her one of the only witnesses. we questions skirl swirling around the murder, investigators are egger to speak with her. matt rivers has more. >> reporter: the first lady of haiti is now back here on the island. she came back over the weekend. remember, she was critically injured during the assassination

that took the life of her husband. he was assassinated in the presidential residence more than one week ago. during the attack, she was critically injured and taken to the airport here in port-au-prince. she was flown to miami where she recovered in a hospital in miami for more than one week. obviously, now feeling well enough to have returned to the island. she's a surviving witness of the attack. investigators want to hear what she has to say and so, too, do members of the public. because so many questions still surround the investigation into the assassination of president moi years. it's unclear if or when she plans to speak out publicly. she'll be attending funeral events taking place this week. some events will take place here in port-au-prince and his official funeral on friday in a town on the northern part of the

island. that's where he's from and where his official funeral will take place on friday. matt rivers, cnn. coming up on cnn news room, the indigenous tribe in brazil are fighting for their survival and the survival of the rain forest. how illegal mining is threatening their lives. dry conditions could spark more fires in the u.s. we'll get you the latest on the weather. lay someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger.

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raising the risk of larger and more frequent wild fires in the u.s. at least 18 major fires are burning across the region now consuming more than a million acres. the bulk of them are in montana

with 18 active fires. oregon has seen the most land charred thanks, in part, to the largest fire in the u.s. this year. officials are warning more residents to prepare to evacuate. it sported more than 300,000 acres. joining me now is our meteorologist. as we look at the images just in staggering the damage it's causing. is there any relief in sight for the firefighters fighting this blaze? how is the forecast looking for them? >> i wish we had better hope for the firefighters. there are so many elements that go beyond battling the fire. for firefighters, yes, extreme drought. low relative humidity. we've got some gusty winds up around 35 to 40 miles per hour. it's relentless. this is kind of the satellite

imagery of the bootleg fire. it's the biggest fire across the united states. it's burning in excess of already 300,000 plus acres. for our international viewers, it's about 12 -- 122,000 hectares. you can see the major blazes across the western state. where you see the blue, that's where we're looking at the rainfall. remember, this is monsoonal moisture. it's hit or miss. they also can produce dry thunderstorms, so it's the lightning you have to worry about. they make the winds erratic. there's nothing that firefighters really can do to battle these blazes unless they just get lucky every now and then. now the bootleg fire is just about 25% contained. take a look at the temperatures. they're running about 5 to 10 degrees above normal. in montana, where they have the most blazes, that's where we're looking at the searing heat. we saw record-setting temperatures on sunday. take a look at the smoke coming up the next several days. i know it's colorful but it's

meaningful because this is where we're looking at the smoke. a lot of people affected deeply by this. we know this from fires in the past with the smoke is just suffocating. any large fires, major fires across the west, what is it going to take to help firefighters? well, half an inch of rain would be profound! it would really kind of tamp down the fires. what would knock it out? it's going to take essentially an event the magnitude of what you would see in the fall. these big changes. cold air, snow, rain, but we just aren't looking anything like that. fire season still has many more weeks, if not months, ahead. isa, back to you. >> imagine the half inch of rain is not coming any time soon. thank you very much for that. now authorities say nearly two dozen new wild fires are burning in russia. they've already scorched about 11,000 acres or 4500 hectares.

nearly 200 forest fires burning across the region driving up pollutants as well as reducing visibilities. wild fires are more intense this year because of unusually high temperatures. now in the skies above the amazon rain forest, the brazilian military is struggling and trying to root out illegal gold mining. and the indigenous tribe said their land has been stolen. >> reporter: under the jungle, they are for battle. it's a rallying cry as a cry for help. the approximately 27,000 is under attack from an elusive but old enemy. miners with a thirst for gold and hand for destruction. with only bones and spears at their defense, they're here to protect their river banks from boats like this one. illegal gold miners exploiting

and destroying the rivers and land and doing so intimidating and firing at the tribe. in may of this year, a half hour shootout between the miners and the tribe was on camera. women and children are seen desperately running for cover and the speedboat of gold miners fires at them. with the violence on the rise, the police and army have been sent in to investigate the deadly clashes that left four dead, including two indigenous children. one of the leaders tells me what they've been enduring for months now. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: the problem is the miners who are pass at night. there are always a lot of them. >> reporter: the entire community has been put to work. converting bamboo into spears. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: this is a spear. this one pierces criminals. you'll die fast. it goes through everything.

this one made from bamboo has v venom. lots of venom. >> reporter: they said they've had no choice but to step up over the last few years under the president who said some will exploit the rain forest for the resources. naturely they're furious. >> translator: bolsonaro, you are i tgnorant. these people have come and killed us and we want you to remove them quickly. >> reporter: with 30% of the land at the hands of illegal gold miners, their plea is clear and loud. get the miners out. all they ever wanted, they said, is to protect the children and their already vulnerable way of life. they're guardians of the amazon. from above, the challenge is made clearer. the reserve almost 24 million acres sits deep in the dense

jungle. fighting miners an estimated 20,000 here becomes a game of cat and mouse. this boat knows what is lurking above and speeds away from the authorities. the police persist and follow the trail of devastation. they spot an opening. this is as much about catching the criminals as it is understanding how they work. who pays them and funds the devastation? >> reporter: the gold rush is not what they imagined. and they struggled to pay it

back. miners, too, become disillusioned at the dream of striking it rich fails to materialize. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: i've been here for three months. i came here because they told us it would be good. until now, we haven't seen any gains. >> reporter: yet a destruction is clear for all to see. the presence of raising the forest, the thirst for gold contaminating rivers with mud and mercury. the police go deeper and find several barges full of heavy machinery to dredge for gold. [ speaking in a foreign language ] the police know this is a losing battle. there's too many miners and the area is too vast to patrol. so all they can do is slow them down by destroying their equipment.

this isn't a solution that the tribe has been pleading for, but until president bols their row changes the environmental policies, the cries will continue to fall on deaf ears and this burden of riches -- >> reporter: in response to the reporting with the brazilian government said itself committed to promoting and protecting the rights of the people who said the alleged violation by illegal miners are being investigated by federal authorities in multiple operations. still to come right here on "cnn news room." making history. colin morikawa enters the records books at one of the most prestigious courses. next. plus, new evidence of industrial spying that targeted activists, journalists, and government officials. we'll bring you the details ahead. not touching is still touching protection.

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into -- by using spy ware sold by an israeli cyber intelligence company. this is pretty massive as well as a global leak. how exactly were people targeted? what is the israeli company saying about the allegations? >> reporter: yeah, this is a sprawling investigation. it was done by an international alliance of 17 organizations, including human rights groups like amnesty international as well as media organizations "wa more. they received an elite list of 50,000 numbers known to be targets by governments known to use the software called pegasus. a cybersecurity spy ware that can infect people's cell phones and use, get their data, and track them. it's developed by an israeli security company called nso which licenses the software for the use of good. but among the list of 50,000

numbers, these media organizations said they found phone numbers belonging to members of an arab royal family, business executives, human rights activists, politicians, and government officials and journalists, including several cnn reporters. now the group said they were able to find traces of this pegasus software on 37 phones. they were able to forensically analyze. cnn hasn't independently verified the findings of the investigation, which was organized by a group called forbidden stories. the report is bringing scrutiny back to the company and also to the israeli government for allowing this software to be licensed by governments who may be misusing it and targeting people it shouldn't be targeting like journalists and human rights activists. now the company nso is strongly pushing back against the report. a senior source at the company telling us that they deny the findings. they said they haven't seen the list of 50,000 numbers. they don't believe it's possible that all those numbers could be targets of their clients who they said targeted an average of

4,000 a year but don't operate the software for their clients and don't have visibility into the data. however, the source said they will investigate any claims of misuse and are willing to and have in the past cut up contracts with clients who they said misuse their software. >> keep us on top of the story. i'm sure we'll hear more in the coming days. now american golfer colin morikawa made history. he's the first golfer to win two different majors in the first attempt. patrick snell that has that and more. >> reporter: thank you so much. we'll start at golf's open championship this monday. 24 american golf star colin morikawa celebrating the fact he's champion golfer of the year. calling it, by far, one of the best moments of his life. last year the californian winning the pga championship on his debut and now wins the coveted claret jug at the first time of asking to.

finishing two spots clear of jordan spieth. the british grand prix over the weekend after hamilton and verstappen collided. the young dutchman went spinning into the wall. he was released in hospital. they called the move on the track dangerous. ahead of the tokyo olympics, six british athletes and two staff members now self-isolating after being identified as close contacts of an individual who tested positive for coronavirus on their flight into japan. another tour de france on sunday. a second straight title for the slovenian star. congratulations to him. with that, back to you. >> thank you very much, patrick snell. on tuesday amazon founder jeff bezos hoping to join the ranks of billionaire astronauts. he's scheduled to rocket to the edge of space and back with his

company blue origin. on board is his brother and 18-year-old and 82-year-old aviator. they'll be the youngest as well as the oldest people ever to travel into space. the dutch team was added after the team's original owner took a rain check due to a scheduling conflict. the trip comes nine days after richard branson became the first billionaire to travel to space in his own company's spacecraft. liftoff started at 9:00 a.m. u.s. eastern time. and that wraps up this hour of "cnn news room." thank you for watching. i'm isa soares. i'm back tomorrow with you. "early start" is next.

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welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports this morning from japan, alabama, germany, los angeles, washington, hong kong, and london. as only cnn can. this is "early start." i'm laura jarret. >> i'm julia chatterly. it's 5:00 a.m. in new york. >> great to have you here extra early, julia. >> yeah. >> the whole week. four days and counting to the start of the tokyo olympics, and things are anything but smooth another top american athlete won't be making th