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good morning, america. breaking overnight, the cdc looking into reports that some teenagers and young adults who received covid-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation. we'll speak live with brown university's dr. ashish jha even as the race to vaccinate ramps up with more airports offering shots., the chesor how to take advantage of some lucrative incentives. desperate plea. the mother speaking out after her 6-year-old son was shot and killed in an apparent road rage incident. >> you killed him for no reason. >> this morning, the search for the shooter as we address gun vin america ringarply dung the i
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the cease-fire between israel and hamas holding overnight even as new clashes break out and aid heads to palestinians. matt gutman on the ground in gaza again this morning with the latest. breaking overnight, martin bashir speaking for the first time since he was found to have obtained his interview with princess diana by deception. telling princes william and harry he's deeply sorry. our report from london this morning. >> here we go. and vaulting into history. simone biles pulling off the yurchenko double pike, a move never performed by a woman in competition. the champ apparently ready to rack up more olympic gold. >> unbelievable! good morning. this mor all numberf cases where rans.
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teenagers and young adults may have developed an inflammation of the heart known as myocarditis after receiving moderna or pfizer vaccinations. most cases appear to be mild, and the cdc has not determined whether the vaccine are related to this heart condition. as they continue their investigation, officials still recommend that americans 12 and older get vaccinated. >> at the same time, states are looking for creative ways to bring those vaccination numbers back up. here in new york, that includes free lottery tickets and popup vaccination clinics at airports. abc's maggie rulli joins us from laguardia airport with the very latest. maggie, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. we're seeing a major push here to vaccinate not just new yorkers, but really all americans with this new take a flight, take a shot campaign. starting tomorrow anyone flying through this or many other new york airports will be offered a vaccine.
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and whit, with so many people day, we are starting to see some real changes happening here in new york city. overnight, the state of new yor. more than 10,000 fans inside packing the barclays center making it the largest crowd in new york city since the start of the pandemic. >> tonight's break was a change of pace from what we have been dealing with. >> reporter: the nets kicking off their first game of the nba playoffs with special sections for vaccinated fans. >> i feel good about it. i'm vaccinated as well. so i trust in the nba that they're doing the right thing. >> reporter: the vaccine also being offered up to anyone at the game who wants it. and something else we haven't seen, coaches without masks. just hours before the playoffs got under way, the nba announcing coaches could ditch their masks if vaccinated. the empire state's push to vaccinate every new yorker they can is expanding to everyone in america. starting monday, the state launches their take a flight, take a shot campaign.
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that will be open to any u.s. resident as they fly in or out. this push to vaccinate america is working. as this weekend, rhode island became the eighth state to hit more than 70% of first doses in adults. it's a life-saving achievement, but health experts say we still have a long way to go. just under 40% of adults are fully vaccinated. the u.s. is averaging just over 1.8 million vaccine doses per day, down more than 12% from last week, and nearly 45% from the peak. >> i wouldn't wish anything like this on anybody. >> reporter: kyle barnes says at just 42 years old, she decided not to get the vaccine, but eventually barnes got covid, ending up on a ventilator. now she's on oxygen and needs a walker to get around. >> after everything i've gone through, i would give a lot to have been able to get that vaccine. >> reporter: guys, hearing that emotional plea is hard to ignore, but with the cdc now recommending the vaccine to anyone over 12, and with popup sites like this one offering vaccines across the country, et.
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>> maggie rulli for us there at the airport. let's bring in dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thanks so much for being with us. let's start with those latest reports of heart issues in teenagers and young adults who have gotten the vaccine. i know that's something that's going to concern a lot of people this morning. the cdc says it's a small number. what should we know here, and should we be concerned? >> good morning, eva. thanks for having me here. look, one of the things we have with this vaccine is a really robust system to look for even the rarest of events. we're finding a few. we don't know if it's even connected to the vaccine. it's a very small number, and thankfully all of those are mild. right now it's very clear to me that kids should continue to get vaccinated. i have two teenagers and they have both gotten their first shot. we just don't know if this is even related and if it is, it's probably -- it all looks like it's very mild, thank goodness. >> we also just heard in maggie's report rhode island has
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become the eighth state with more than 70% of adults with their first doses. you recently tweeted that's not enough. so my question to you is how many more people need to get vaccinated? >> yeah. so i think for the new england states that are doing very well, again, we've got to keep going. getting into the 80s would be good. there are a lot of states where a majority of adults have not yet gotten vaccinated and so those are the states i'm most worried about. but, you know, luckily more than 60% of all american adults have gotten their first shot, so a vast majority. we have to encourage and help the other 40% get up there. once we get into 70s and 80s, it will make a big difference bringing this pandemic to a close. >> one of the groups that can't, are kids. even if they wanted to, kids under 12 can't. what should parents be doing at this point to keep their kids safe especially as we enter the summer and things like camp start? >> yeah. so what we know is that the single best way to prevent
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infections in kids is to get adults vaccinated, because once adults around them are fully vaccinated, then the virus really goes -- it doesn't completely disappear, but it really goes down in terms of those communities. one is get adults vaccinated. second is kids are thankfully -- they don't get very sick from this virus. i think kids can very much go to camp, have a pretty much normal summer. maybe avoid large indoor crowded gatherings. i would do that. if you have to go to them, get the kids to wear masks. otherwise i think we will have a pretty normal summer for kids. >> that is good news for a lot of parents out there. dr. jha, thanks for being with us. dan? >> eva, thank you. we turn to the hunt this mornilhe was riding in the backseat of his mom's car in southern california. this is a case of suspected road rage, and this morning the mother is speaking out. abc's zohreen shah has the latest. >> reporter: this morning, a grief-stricken mother's desperate plea after the person who shot at her car killing her 6-year-old son still remains at large.
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>> what are your words to the person who did this? >> they took my son's life away. he was beautiful, and he was kind and he was precious. you killed him for no reason. and i want to find them, and i want there to be justice to be served for my son. >> reporter: joanna cloonan was taken aiden to early in the morning, driving along the i-55 freeway when the white sedan. >> i was driving on the freeway, and there was a car behind me that cut me off abruptly. i was in the carpool lane with my son, and as i started to merge away from them, i heard a
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really loud noise, and my son said, ow, and i had to pull over, and he got shot. >> reporter: officials say it's unclear what sparked this incident, but say the bullet went through the trunk hitting the toddler in a back booster seat. joanna frantically trying to save her child. >> i pulled over and i took him out of the car, and i -- i tried to put my hand on his wounds while calling 911 because he was losing a lot of blood. >> reporter: aidan dying a short while later. >> he sang all the time, and the children at the preschool, everybody loved him. >> he's a once in a lifetime kid. >> i miss him, and the person that did this can't get away with it. >> reporter: you can see the growing memorial behind me. i was out here yesterday. people who were complete strangers were coming to give their condolences. the family says they feel the support, and they feel, quote, the world wrapping their arms
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around them. whit? >> you can hear the pain in that mother and that entire family. all right, zohreen shah for us, thank you. that shooting there in southern california is just 1 of more than 7,000 gun deaths in the u.s. so far this year. the numbers rising significantly during the pandemic. janai joins us with more on the increasing violence. janai, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. i'm out here in times square that was the scene of a shooting just a few weekend ago. in an example of a troubling trend, a surge of gun violence around the country. look at this. the total number of deaths by gun violence, not including suicide, you can see a moderate raise from 2018 to 2019, but in 2020, more than 4,000 americans died by gun violence. that's roughly a 25% increase in a single year and already this . obviously that is changing constantly. for example, one of the last mass shootings friday night in minneapolis, and with that
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alarming rise in gun violence, the impact on innocent children has been devastating. 6-year-old aniya allen was riding in her mom's car in minneapolis, and she was 1 of 3 children recently shot in that city. this past week, three children shot in as many days in the d.c. metro area, and in chicago 108 children have been the victim of shootings this year alone. 16 of them have died, and in the shooting here in times square earlier this month, a 4-year-old girl was 1 of 3 people hit by a stray bullet. they all fortunately survived, but when we hear those staggering figures, you have to remember they are not just numbers. each one of those are victims and for those who died, they leave behind family members like s toriing you just heard fami members. the number of members impacted by gun violence is exponential. eva? >> janai, thank you for that report.
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to the middle east now, and that cease-fire in hamas with protests in jerusalem and gaza. abc's matt gutman is in gaza what latest this morning. >> reporter: good morning, eva. that cease-fire is holding for the third day, and here in gaza, the cleanup has begun in earnest. you can see the debris dumped from that building there. this was not the building targeted here. this is that building. 15 stories, we're told that there were two hamas political offices somewhere inside there. israeli air strikes completely demolishing this building and the one next to it. now overnight in east jerusalem, clashes again between israeli police forces and palestinian protesters right outside that contested neighborhood. stunt grenades lobbed by israeli police. this is the neighborhood where six palestinians faced possible eviction. it was one of the triggers for this conflict. still it is holding this truce, and today and yesterday convoys of trucks coming in carrying aid to palestinians. there have been dozens of those. now because it has been quiet t
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conflict began, hamas and its militants out in force here in gaza brandishing weapons, marching through the streets in those convoys with marshall music in the background, but we're carefully minded in what we're able to see here. earlier today we tried to go see one of the tunnel networks that israeli air strikes took out nine palestinian special forces from hamas they were called were killed in there, and as soon as we got out of the car, we were told we had to leave the area. now egyptian mediators back here in gaza today, and secretary of state blinken will be here midweek. he'll be talking to israelis, palestinians, egyptians, but will not be speaking with >> matt gutman on the ground for us once again. matt, thank you. for much more on this, let's bring in abc news political director, rick klein. rick, good morning. as you know the biden administration has tried to exercise quiet diplomacy here, but given that the situation is still delicate, and the fundamental issues have not been
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resolved, do you think the u.s. might have to lean in in a more robust way? >> yeah, dan, the question is does quiet diplomacy work in an increasingly noisy and messy world? the biden administration. how little it takes for tensions to turn into violence, how difficult it is to end that violence, and the changed political situation back home. there was a lot more support inside biden's own democratic party for the palestinian people, and a lot more pressure on the biden administration to deliver humanitarian aid at the very least, and try to temper israelis, and all this will be wrapped up in the biden administration's attempt to get the iran deal back. the israelis have also been skeptical about that. we know about iran's support of hamas. this is a difficult situation, and will press biden in new ways. right now he doesn't even have an ambassador to israel named. >> he would like to focus on china and climate, but keeps getting pulled back into the middle east. let's talk about domestic politics for a moment. the white house has set a
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memorial day deadline for bipartisan deals on infrastructure and police reform. after that, he's said the democrats will go it alone. do you think there is hope here for compromise on either of these big issues? >> those windows are closing and closing fast. right now the two sides are more than a trillion dollars apart when it comes to infrastructure. there will be some additional meetings on both of these issues both police reform and infrastructure through the memorial day holiday. those deadlines are definitely not going to be met, and in some ways the democrats feel like this clock has been ticking back to the obama years. they feel like democrats have been making a mistake for more than a decade of hoping and praying for republican support when it's just not going to be there. so you're going to see more pressure on biden to pull up stakes in all of these negotiations and decide, what can we do on our own? they haven't given up hope yet, but it is not looking good yet for that big gamble biden had at the beginning of his presidency of getting republicans to work with him. >> as you said, the window is closing fast. rick klein, thank you very much.
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great to have you with us on a sunday morning. one quick programming note here. check out "this week" this morning. george stephanopoulos will go one-on-one with republican senator susan collins about the ongoing infrastructure negotiations. plus, he'll speak with secretary of state antony blinken about the israel/hamas situation. that's coming up here on abc. whit, over to you. turning now to breaking news overnight. journalist martin bashir is speaking out for the first time since that infamous 1995 interview with princess diana by deception. that according to an inquiry. lama hasan joins us with the message he has to princes william and harry. lama, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, whit. yeah, breaking his silence, martin bashir speaking for the first time since that bbc investigation into how he secured that exclusive and explosive interview with princess diana back in 1995. talking to "the sunday times" newspaper saying he never wanted to harm the princess saying, quote, i don't believe we did,
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adding, everything we did in terms of the interview was actually wanted from when she wanted to alert the palace to when it was broadcast to its contents. my family and i loved her. also in the article, bashir apologizes to the princes saying he is, quote, deeply sorry. now "the times" reporter said he sounded like a broken man, but that he could not quite bring himself to admit he wronged the princess. now at the time of the interview, it was known as the scoop of the century, getting princess diana to pull back the curtain on her marriage famously saying, well, there were three of us in this mar a bit crowded. the bbc finding that bashir use stements in effore diana believe royal family were paying people to spy on her. now the inquiry found it was an
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effort to play into her fears and loneliness to get her to talk. after the bbc's findings, the two princes issued powerful and scathing statements. prince william blaming the interview for making his parents' relationship worse, and prince harry launching a blistering attack saying, our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed. some pretty powerful statements there. dan? >> a lot of strong feelings. lama hasan weighing in from london. thank you very much. time now for the weather. over to rob marciano. rob, good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. all right. y we hit about 90 degrees yesterday, a little bit toasty. getting ready for summer. a lot of folks heading to the beach, and the waves the surf. my producer is a surfer now, and he got out there and took on some of the waves. 5, 6-footers and these are all swells from tropical storm ana. it was a sub tropical storm. now it's a tropical storm, but a small one, and it's the way we characterize things, and it's drifting away from bermuda, so it shouldn't be much of a problem other than the waves continuing back off towards the east coast. more besrom dewy beach all the way up to cape cod, up to 6 feet of wave action there.
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how about some heat? we're looking at temperatures today that will be near 90 degrees in some spots and as a cold front comes through, we could see strong storms here, and a 30-degree cool-off as we head towards tomorrow. that's a check on what's happening nationally. good sunday morning. what a gorgeous shot from our exploratorium camera. the fog scattering. we have a sunny day on the way. sea breeze kicks up in the afternoon and we have a bit of a warming trend into monday, then temperatures dip slightly on tuesday. upper 60s today, san mateo. 77, santa rosa. 79, antioch park accuweather 60s tomorrow.accuweather are you guys all right with that? >> easy now. easy now, killer. >> it's warmer here than miami. how does that happen?
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that time of year. >> it's not going to last. that's the part i'm upset about. thank you, rob. check this out. olympic gold medal winner simone biles making history this weekend at the u.s. classic gymnastics meet. take a look. >> wow. unbelievable. >> oh, yeah. biles nailing and became the first woman in history to land a yurchenko double pike vault in competition. the gymnast competing for the first time since october 2019, showed everyone just why she has a rhinestone goat sewn onto her leotard after acing her beam and floor exercise. she had a hiccup op her uneven bars, but still took home the all around title. that is nuts. >> i like the rhinestoned goat. >> greatest of all time. got it. i was like goat, okay. she really is the greatest of all time. amazing. amazing feat.
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coming up on the show this morning, one year later. the death of george floyd, and the global movement that resulted from his murder. abc's zachary kiesch on the ground in minneapolis to see what has changed. how help wanted businesses are getting creative as they try to lure workers back on the job. and good-bye, charlie. one of the first viral videos ever to go viral may be removed from youtube as it becomes an nft. that of course, is a non-fungible token. we've talked a lot about those here. more on that. >> using the google machine this morning. >> exactly. we'll be back in a minute. "good morning america" is sponsored by state farm. like a good neighbor, state farm is there. ♪ oh, just one. jake from state farm, it's the least i can do. you really did me a solid with that “maya markdown” on my insurance. here's the deal maya, state farm offers everyone surprisingly great rates. right. there's no mar just great rates.
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now that worshipers are being welcomed back inside, the men of the cathedral choir will return for live singing. grace cathedral is required masques and capacity is limited to ensure social distancing. let's get a check on the weather. a little patchy fog. this is what we call a beauty shop from our exploratorium camera. 51, downtown. 52, at the coast. you can see the clouds, but they will clear. 53, concord. sea breeze on the way with numbers or 60 downtown. mid to upper 70s inland.
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♪ welcome back to "gma" on this sunday morning. that is rock band maneskin winning this eurovision song contest for italy. last night's finale held in the netherlands was the biggest in-person entertainment event held in europe since the pandemic began after last year's concert was canceled. france came in second. switzerland came in third. always fun to watch that competition. >> outfits, costumes. something else. >> yeah. >> i wanted a translation of what maneskin was singing. so many things coming to mind right now that would end my career. let's take a look at the other stories we're following on this sunday morning. happening right now, the
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pandemic numbers across the country this morning are looking encouraging. the seven-day case average that has now fallen to 28,000, dropping close to 28% in the last week alone, but unfortunately the pace of vaccinations, just under 40% of the u.s. population has been fully vaccinated. also right now at the stroke of midnight, the national guard will complete its mission at the u.s. capitol after some four months. the d.c. national guard will return to normal operations and out of state troops will return home as well. more than 2,000 national guard troops have been deployed to support capitol police. and virgin galactic is one step closer to bringing paying customers into space. the company's rocket-powered plane carrying two pilots reached an altitude of 55 miles before gliding safely back to earth. the 50-mile mark is considered the edge of space by the u.s.
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government. virgin galactic hope to begin commercial operations by next year. >> very cool. we are going to start this half hour with the country ready to mark the one-year anniversary this week of the murder of george floyd. as we all remember, george floyd died under the knee of a police officer in a case that brought the issue of racism to the forefront. there will be rallies and marches in minneapolis where this murder transpired starting today, and abc's zachary kiesch is there with much more. zachary, good morning to you. >> reporter: dan, good morning to you as well. you know the markers in this field are a painful reminder of the price of progress in this country. some of their names are known. some of their stories have never been told. you know, george floyd lived a life as an ordinary black man, but in his passing, he has been able to do something most have not. he's been able to transcend the barriers that stand between us, and he's been able to elevate important conversations. [ chanting ] >> reporter: a year ago this week, minneapolis was on fire. entire buildings and in some cases, blocks. hearts were broken and any sense of innocence the city had was
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lost. what shattered in may of 2020 was the willingness to accept that things were okay. >> i was pretty much just frustrated, scared to a certain extent. i'm thinking about my children. >> reporter: george floyd, a 46-year-old black man killed by police over an alleged miss misdemeanor a calibration of how we think about race, and a critique on those empowered to provide safety. >> i've come to tell you, america, this is the time of building accountability in the criminal justice system. >> when george floyd cried out mama, and when he called out, people from all over the nation came, and those people showed up here. >> reporter: george floyd's death was different. it was undeniable. nobody could ignore what that
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cell phone video said about us. >> my daddy changed the world. >> reporter: george floyd's fight others, and his daughter. >> i know what i want to be when i grow up. >> what? >> i want to be -- i want to be a doctor. >> you want to be a doctor? >> mm-hmm. >> that's a lot of school. >> mm-hmm. i want to take care of people. >> reporter: right here in the twin cities, but also on both coasts and eventually the globe, through te fire, through the grief, the black community found its footing and found allies. >> people have to want change, and have to be willing to sacrifice privilege and talk about the things that are uncomfortable. >> reporter: last month, former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin was convicted of murder. his abuse of power has had far-reaching impacts on policing here and around the country. in minneapolis, budgets were cut, policies revisited, and the idea of safety and security were re-imagined. out of necessity, minneapolis has become a place of healing and introspection.
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>> hopefully one day our world will change, and there will be and continue to be blind justice. i really want that to happen before i die. >> reporter: progress is hard to measure, but we do know it's often birthed from a painful place. there's a lot of healing here in minneapolis, and around the country this week. we also know president biden is scheduled to host george floyd's family at the white house on tuesday. dan? >> well said. progress often comes out of to pain. zachary kiesch, thank you very much. i want to remind you, do not miss our "soul of a nation" special. "after floyd: the year that shook the world." our janai will be a part of this important program. that's tuesday at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on abc. >> and eva, i remember that interview you did with floyd's daughter. >> such a sweet, innocent young girl. >> bright eyes looking towards the future. we want to turn now and get a check of the weather.
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rob marciano? >> severe weather threat today. one of eight tornados touching down. this in lincoln county, colorado. no damage here. these high level low precipitation tornados can be beautiful. snow across parts of san juan county. this is durango and telluride. we're tapping into moisture from the gulf of mexico. today looks like rapid city could see a tornado or two possibly. that moisture from the gulf will good morning. the camera is shaking on top of mt. tam. you can see the low cloud deck. you can see the low cloud deck. this weather report sponsored by allegra which i actually use this time of year.
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pollen has been a huge issue. >> i've seen that in my house for sure, absolutely. >> i have been crying outside for no reason other than being outside. >> i thought it was because of dan. that usually does it. >> that's the crying inside. >> totally different. >> internal tears. >> thanks, rob. coming up on "good morning america," the creative ways businesses are trying to attract new employees. and bts breaking records ahead of their appearance right here on "gma." that's coming up in "pop news" with janai.
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back now o back now on "gma," and a look at the state of the job market. a number of businesses struggling to fill positions. there's some debate over why, but no matter the reason, it's forcing employers to get creative. abc's deirdre bolton has more. >> reporter: this morning, laid off workers are in a pinch. >> i do have five weeks' worth of bills added up. >> reporter: danyelle anderson is a furloughed ford auto factory worker waiting to be recalled. she receives unemployment benefits, but the payments are behind. >> i've waited this long already.
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it's expensive, and i'm about five weeks behind on the car payment. >> reporter: some states are cutting unemployment benefits starting next month. critics arguing those payments are a disincentive to people going back to work. peaps is a perception of what's really going on in terms of the labor market. >> reporter: in danyelle's case, she's on hold until her ford factory gets a shipment of semi conductor chips that goes into the cars that she helps assemble. >> i always worked one or two jobs. i love the people that i work with. >> reporter: experts say there are numerous reasons for people not going back. >> number one is probably the virus and the health situation. number two, you also have child care issues which are still not addressed. number three, you also have the fact that a lot of older individuals took early retirement during the pandemic. >> reporter: workers are challeng challenged. so are businesses. massachusetts.wned owned od,
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welcome back to "gma." welcome back to "gma." now to one of the original viral videos with nearly 900 million hits. the odds are good you've seen it, but if you haven't, you better hurry. it may be about to vanish into the latest trend in the high stakes digital art world. >> charlie bit me. >> reporter: those famous lines. it was one of the first videos to ever go viral. quite literally breaking the internet as one of the most watched videos in youtube history, and amassing almost 900 million views. >> we covered the boys when it wasn't, like, a thing. >> reporter: now 14 years later, the 55-second clip is biting
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into a new endeavor. the family behind the popular home video now auctioning it off to the highest bidder as an nft, vowing to remove it from youtube altogether. >> it was always intended to go up and then come down after a few people had seen it. it was very much the beginning of the journey of youtube, and now we're very much at the beginning of nfts. >> reporter: nft, or a non-fungible token is a digital asset such as pictures or music, allowing users to collect and own a digital record of the product similar to owning a trading card. >> it can never be changed, never be altered, can never be damaged. >> if the nft winner really wants this video to stay on youtube, they can make it so. if they don't want the video to be on youtube, they can make that decision. >> reporter: as for the original charlie bit my finger video, it might be erased online forever.
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but for the millions it reached and the now teenaged brothers harry and charlie, it will always be a treasured moment in internet history. >> charlie bit me. >> i do love that video. so the move to turn that memable moment into money, it's not new. it's part of a growing trend with classic internet memes churning huge profits and we just checked. the current bid is $95,000. >> whoa. >> yeah. that's just the beginning though. >> i don't understand these. i'm just going to be honest. >> you want to keep making money, charlie better sharpen those teeth. >> and that would be something entirely different. >> yeah. all right. we'll be right back with "pop news." living with metastatic breast cancer means being relentless. because every day matters. and having more of them is possible with verzenio. the only one of its kind proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant, regardless of menopause. verzenio + fulvestrant is for hr+, r2- metasr diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection.
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♪ there you have it. the k-pop group debuted their second english track called "butter" for the start of the weekend, and fans are melting. the video with the group showing off some smooth dance moves in different scenarios, had nearly 4 million fans tuning in at the same time. breaking a youtube record they set with last year's "dynamite." it stands at 160 million views total right now. holy cow. we are excited, bts kicks off our summer concert series on friday. yeah, lots to look forward to. >> oh, yeah. bts fans are die hard. now to alex rodriguez, teaming up with the wellness company to launch a makeup line for man. he said he needed something to conceal.
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it's a blur stick. he may be onto something. 30% of men ages 18 to 29 might be open to trying makeup. you better not say anything. you're both wearing makeup right now. >> i don't know what you're talking about, janai. i just wake up like this. >> yet, there are things i would like to conceal. >> that's right. finally, from makeup to hair, everything old that is new again, including haircuts. a new survey conducted by one poll on behalf of sports clips, hair cuts found that 20% of men asked said they're in favor of bringing back the mullet. celebrities like john travolta and patrick swayze had it back in the '90s. we wondered what our guys would look like. >> oh, no >> take a look. >> what?an. co all right. he'sotthe shag >> i like that hair cut. >> i think they're just going to bring rob back out.
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we've seen your mullet. >> oh yeah. >> mullets aren't only for the men. >> i love that. eva ray cyrus. >> you guys did me too? >> i like it. >> oh, those are atrocious. no more. >> now that we've humiliated ourselves, enjoy the rest of your sunday. stay tuned for "this week." good morning. i'm liz kreutz. a rental assistant pop-up to help those experiencing hardship because of the pandemic. this went from 10:00 until 3:00 at the marin county fairgrounds. registration is not required
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that you need to bring documents including your i.d., proof of income like a w-2 or bank statement, and proof of tenancy. the county will have vaccines if you haven't got your shot and applications for assistance with pg&e. oh, my gosh. there's hundreds moving across the sky. >> if you saw this strange site against the sky last night, don't be alarmed. they appear to be spacex starling satellites. of you were sent us this video and others called us, reporting seeing a couple dozen satellites. highway patrol dispatchers said people were calling them also. starlike, launched satellites into space and beam internet to earth. let's get a check on with the weather. there's fog in the city. it is scattered about the bay. a little bit over in hayward and fremont. the skies will clear.
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from mt. tam, the marine layer, 85 in oakland. morgan hills, 50. golden gate bridge, we have some clouds. afternoon sea breeze. mid-50s in concord. temperatures in a narrow range this morning but they will spread out as the microclimates arrive with 50s at the shoreline. mid-60s, oakland. 78, concord. numbers near 80s by the delta. slightly warmer tomorrow.
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