good morning, america. flooding fears. tropical storm claudette bearing down on the gulf coast. the state of emergency and flash flooding alerts. up to 8 inches of rain possible. >> waves already crashing along the seawall here. >> our team on the ground, tracking its path. dangerous delta variant. president biden's warning. >> easily transmissible, potentially deadlier. particularly dangerous for young people. >> with the pace of vaccinations slowing, the state is seeing a resurgence and the outbreak shutting down this building. new president in iran. ebrahim raisi. just elected as the new leader. the hardline cleric hand picked. what it means for u.s.

relations. martha raddatz in tehran. dodging the bullets. two small children miraculously escaping harm as a gunman opens fire directly next to them. the deeper look into gun violence that's taken the lives of more than 100 children this year. abc news exclusive, a woman whose husband was shot and killed by police in hawaii speaking out. >> i never thought i would think of honolulu as a bad place, as a dark place. >> with the moments caught on surveillance and what police body camera show. and historic holiday. americans across the country, commemorating the first federally recognized juneteenth. celebrations across the nation. plus, the unveiling of this george floyd statue. what floyd's brother is saying about this tribute.

>> live from abc news in new york, this is "good morning america." good morning, everybody, on this historic june 19th, the first time juneteenth is being commemorated as a national holiday. we'll have much more on this special day in just a few minutes. we'll start with some breaking news. tropical storm claudette bearing down on the west coast. >> heavy rains and winds pounding the coast overnight. louisiana's governor declaring a state of emergency ahead of the storm, as the state ravaged by flooding, braces for more, with alabama and mississippi getting hit this morning. >> we have team coverage. elwyn lopez is on the ground. in new orleans but we begin with rob marciano tracking it all. good morning. >> the center of it is to the west right now. 45 miles per hour. not a strong storm. most of the heavy weather is well east of the system. that doesn't mean it's not going to be easy here over the next 36 hours. flash flood warnings for biloxi

and mobile. that's where the heaviest weather is. you can see the line coming in, that's where all the winds are gusting over 50 miles per hour. rainfall rates, 2 or 3 inches per hour. we could see 5, 6, maybe a foot of rain, over this weekend. the flooding is coming. dan, to you. >> flooding is coming. we know you'll be watching it for us throughout the morning and the weekend, rob. let's go to elwyn lopez on the ground in new orleans, where they are feeling the effects of the approaching storm. they've been feeling them all night. >> reporter: this morning, claudette forming southwest of new orleans, with up to 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts. driving rain pummeling coastal areas. high winds and strong waves moving into mississippi before the storm sweeps inland. louisiana, now under state of emergency. waves crashing along this seawall, as the system came ashore. we're along lake pontchartrain. we're starting to feel the effects of the system that pushes into the gulf coast. millions of people across

several states on alert, as the tropical threat looms. in new orleans, a wall of sandbags lining several businesses. >> put a border right here to keep it from pouring in there. it gets bad but luckily it doesn't last long. as quick as it comes up, it will recede. >> reporter: this family was unaware of the threat, coming into louisiana from tennessee for father's day weekend. you were not expecting this storm? >> no. we weren't. he said, you know what? let's embrace it. and everything will be fine. >> reporter: new orleans making it through this first storm. but the sandbags and floor boards, a sign of what is expected to be a busy hurricane season. eva? >> elwyn lopez in louisiana for us. thank you. now, the pandemic. and growing concerns about the delta variant. vaccinations across the country slow down. nearly 149 million americans are fully vaccinated. that's almost 45% of the total population.

while the president is celebrating a new milestone in doses distributed, his administration may fall short of a key goal. trevor alt is at javits center with the latest. good morning to you, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, eva. president biden announced 300 million vaccine doses administered in the 150 days he's been in office. an accomplishment for the country, to be sure. but the president spent about half his speech pressing the unvaccinated to get their shots. that's because of this still ongoing threat from the virus largely driven now by the delta variant. this morning, the highly transmissible delta variant, drawing concern from top officials, including president biden. >> it's a variant that is more easily transmissible, potentially deadlier and particularly dangerous for young people. >> reporter: the president announcing 300 million vaccine doses administered in the 150

days since he took off. 65% of adults getting one dose. but the nation on track to miss the goal of 70% by the fourth of july, leaving an open window for the virus and the variant to stick around. >> any place with vaccine rates below 70% or 80%, are going to see the variant take over. >> reporter: steve edwards say missouri hospitals have seen covid admissions skyrocket. the state is one of five whose seven-day case average climbed 37% or more in the past two weeks. all five have vaccination rates below the national average. but outbreaks are bubbling up across many parts of the country. late friday, this administrative building in manatee county, florida, abruptly closed because of at least five staffers getting infected, two of them dying. in western new york, respiratory therapist celeste winters says she is treating young people who never thought they would get sick. >> i am still putting patients on life support machines because they are nonvaccinated and

becoming very ill. >> reporter: but communities haven't given up their outreach. this church in atlanta hosting a pop-up clinic, with the cdc director and vice president kamala harris stopping by. >> we can say with confidence, the vaccines are safe. they are safe and free and they are effective. >> reporter: the vice president also said right now in the u.s., virtually every person hospitalized with coronavirus is unvaccinated. and many of the health care workers we talked to said the same thing. whit? >> trevor ault, thank you. joining us now is the director of the cdc for the state of maine. good to have you. want to start with president biden. we heard him sounding the alarm on the delta variant. calling it more transmissible and potentially deadlier. it's been discovered in almost every state now. how much does this variant threaten all of the progress we've made in the pandemic? >> good morning. thank you for having me on.

you're right. president biden is right. the emergence of the delta variant now found in many states across the united states does pose a challenge to our efforts to squash covid once and for all. that being said, we need not react to the delta variant. we can act now. thankfully the vaccines that we have available have shown great effectiveness against -- including the delta variant. the best thing that folks can do right now, who are concerned about this, take the clear step of going out and getting vaccinated and keeping themselves and their families safe. >> that's an important point. the cdc updated a list of symptoms. there's early reports suggesting that with the delta variants, certain symptoms were becoming more prevalent, like headache, sore throat, runny nose. what should people look out for and when should they get tested? >> that's right. it's not so much that the symptoms are new. they are slightly different, from the more classical symptoms that we heard about, like cough

and shortness of breath. but instead as you noted, headaches and runny noses. but the bottom line isn't different. if you're not feeling that well, if you're not vaccinated, the best things to do are to stay home, stay inside, and avoid exposing others. and then second, arrange for yourself to get tested. after you've been recovered, if you have covid-19, the first thing you should do after that, is make sure you get vaccinated. >> there's plenty of testing available right now. we shall point that out. i want to turn to myocarditis. it's the rare heart inflammation in young people. the cdc postponed its emergency meeting until next week. more than 300 cases are being investigated. more cases than first thought. what's your message to parents who are on the fence about getting their kids vaccinated? >> my view right now, based on what we know today, is that the risk of covid-19 still exceeds the risk of getting the vaccine. what we're seeing right now is

science unfolding in action, right before our eyes. and the central question that scientists are trying to figure out is whether these cases of heart inflammation merely happened after folks got vaccinated or whether they happened because they got vaccinated. wherever we land on that question scientifically, based on what we know right now, in light of the delta variant we've been discussing, the risk of covid exceeds the risk of getting vaccinated. what i would indicate to those who haven't been vaccinated or the parents of younger folks is to go ahead and get that shot. >> the vast majority of those patients have recovered with little to no treatment. want to mention that, as well. dr. shah, thank you for your time. dan, over to you. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you both. in other news this morning, u.s. catholic bishops are going against the vatican and moving forward with a plan that could rebuke president joe biden and other politicians about their stance on abortion. american bishops are taking

steps that could allow some priests that would deny the president communion for his public stance on abortion rights, that clashes with the teaching of the church. the pope and the vatican have warned american bishops against this declaration, saying the current pope is focusing on poverty, refugees and equality. president biden said it's a quote private matter and i don't think that is going to happen. iran announcing this ebrahim raisi has won. its presidential election, one in which more than half of the voters stayed away from the polls. martha raddatz is in iran with what this could mean for relations with the u.s. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning. the voter turnout was very small despite a get-out-the-vote campaign push. this morning, the first images of newly elected president hardline cleric, ebrahim raisi,

alongside the outgoing president hassan rouhani. but it was clear that raisi would be the winner. can i ask who you voted for? >> raisi. >> reporter: and why? >> because i thought it's a true choice, to change our situation. >> reporter: raisi, who has the backing of iran's supreme leader, will be the first-ever serving iranian president sanctioned by the u.s. government before entering office. raisi was placed on a sanctions list in 2019 for human rights abuses. he has voiced support for the iran nuclear deal, his strong anti-western attitude may make it difficult for president biden to achieve the longer and tougher deal he is hoping for. >> one of the key foreign policy

platforms of candidate biden was to reinstitute the obama era nuclear course with iran. it will continue to be a hardline iranian regime. which will make it a challenge. >> reporter: the win comes as no surprise, in an election that many believe was already decided. there were more than 500 candidates that wanted to run for president. but the majority of them were disqualified. a few dropped out and it was narrowed down to only four. this morning, the iranian government saying less than 50% of voter cast ballots. down from 73% in 2017. >> this is the feeling of many, millions of iranians that our vote simply doesn't matter. >> reporter: overnight, these voters lining up at mosques and schools to cast their ballots. raisi, tasked with rebuilding i ran's failing economy as daily essentials are now at least doubled in price.

the cost of milk up by 90%. and basic household items like fruit and vegetables, now seen as luxuries. raisi does not take over for several months, leaving that nuclear deal in limbo. whit? >> an important vote. martha raddatz in iran. thank you so much. we appreciate it. now, to a frightening encounter caught on camera. two kids diving for cover as a gunman opens fire, narrowly escaping the bullets. janai norman has more on how this is a series of incidents, involving children caught in involving children caught in the gunfire. >> reporter: this morning, terrifying surveillance video, of two children dodging bullets. police searching for the gunman who opened fire on a bronx sidewalk, leaving a 10-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother, unharmed, as the shooter unloads about a dozen bullets on his apparent target. the 24-year-old victim hit three times in the back and legs but is expected to survive.

>> i'm disgusted. i'm going to be honest with you. it's very alarming. >> reporter: this shooting, just the latest in a wave of gun violence across the country. >> subject with a gun, in the areas, firing off several rounds. >> reporter: a gunman in arizona, going on a highway shooting spree that left one dead thursday. and multiple people, including a 4-year-old girl, was shot in a crowded times square last month when an argument erupted into gunfire. gun violence spiking since the pandemic began. there were 4,000 more shooting deaths in 2020 than the year before, a 25% increase. and too often, children are caught in the crossfire. so far this year, at least 119 children age 11 and under have been killed in gun violence, not including suicide, and roughly 300 injured. >> there are ways that we can stop gun violence in this country. funding violence prevention programs to encouraging secure

storage among gun owners to requiring a background check on every gun sale. >> law enforcement agencies are tasked with finding ways to address the rising crime and gun violence, especially as we typically see a rise in those crimes during the summertime. >> people will be watching as we head into summer, for sure. thanks to janai. let's switch gears and check the weather again. it is rob marciano. good morning again, sir. >> let's talk about the severe weather yesterday. 114 reports of damaging weather including 4 tornadoes. here's one of them in joy county, indiana. this one did do a lot of damage to some communities here and some homes and structures. you see the drone footage. it is striking. nobody seriously injured there. and we're thankful for that. another tornado touching down northwest of columbus, ohio, doing damage to trees and roofs and other structures. not nearly the damage we saw in indiana. today, we expect to see storms from eastern colorado all the way to louisville. that's where we see the slice of more in the way of tornadoes. a pretty big area.

a pocket across pockets of western pennsylvania and western new york, where damaging hail will be possible. we'll track it. time for a look at your local good saturday morning. temperatures are cooler compared to yesterday. san francisco, high of -- half- moon bay 63. san jose 90. triple digit heat in inland areas like antioch, the cooling trend continues tomorrow to father's day and then below average by tuesday. >> countdown is on. less than a week for whit's birthday and my birthday. >> we do have our birthday on the same day. >> really? did i know that? >> that explains so much. twinning from different generations. >> there's a 20-year difference, right?

>> at least. at least. >> not that much. >> the world is on notice. we'll get your birthday celebration ready. >> good. >> all right, guys. turning now, americans are celebrating the first-ever juneteenth national holiday this morning with a tribute to a man whose death accelerated a movement to make the day federally recognized. abc's zachary keith is in brooklyn with the unveiling of a statue of george floyd. good morning, zachary. >> reporter: you see the silhouette of the statue behind me. there's reason for celebration across country this morning. the story of george floyd and the story of juneteenth are intertwined if not synonymous. one hand you have this story of juneteenth, some 250,000 black people who waited more than 2 years the find out they were free and then george floyd. a man who moved north for more in hopes to find better. he was murdered but in some ways

it seems that he is able to make an incremental step towards the freedom of all black people in this country. ♪ true freedom has been elusive for black america. this morning, there's joy across the country. all of it in celebration of the federal holiday acknowledging juneteenth, a national independence day. in florida, kids from summer camp programs join the community for a peaceful half-mile march. that as nearly 200 pre-k students in kansas city, missouri, paraded to commemorate the importance of juneteenth. and in brooklyn, new york, a new five-foot-tall sculpture months in the make willing be unveiled. george floyd has come to embody america's promise and painful past. with a stroke of the pen, president biden wrote history this week. juneteenth marks the day that federal troops moved into galveston, texas, to free the last remaining slaves in 1865. advocates had been fighting for

decades. 94-year-old miss opal lee is one of them. often referred to as the grandmother of the movement, she marched in the street for years pushing to make this a national holiday. opal speaking out on "gma3" on friday. >> i just know the time has come for us to work together to dispel the disparities we have and disparities we do have. >> reporter: following the murder of george floyd in a year of protests and unrest, there's been a conversation and to a degree, a confrontation around the issue of race, something george floyd's brother, terence, and i spoke about. >> i believe my brother gave us a voice. we helped us realize, we have to wake up. >> reporter: this artist hopes his work honors george floyd's life and legacy. a source of strength and resilience.

>> for me the sculpture represents understanding. from understanding comes action. and action comes change. >> reporter: before his brother moved north to minnesota, he called and said he was in search of more why calls to mind the journey of former slaves took in search of opportunity in the north. so today is a celebration and also an acknowledgement of what so many have endured. whit? >> history and recognition, a long time in the making. zachary kiesch, thank you for your reporting. still ahead here, the wife of a man shot and killed by police in hawaii is speaking out. what she is saying in an abc news exclusive. tsa shortage and a court ruing involving cruises and vaccinations. what you can expect this summer. and tackling anxiety. tips that will help you cope with your uncomfortable emotions. we'll be right back.

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♪ i knew you were trouble when you walked in ♪ ♪ shame on me ♪ welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. that's taylor swift's hit song "i knew you were trouble" from her "red" album released in 2012. we're going to have big news about the song's re-release and much more taylor swift music that we're going to hear for the first time. stay with us. >> "i knew you were trouble" is my theme song. >> i knew you were a swifty, mr. harris. >> when i walk into the room i have them play that. fan blowing at me. it's awesome. let's look at some of the other big stories we're following. happening right now, the couple accused of killing a 6-year-old boy in an apparent road rage incident, pleading not guilty in court. 24-year-old

marcus anthony ariz, and wynn lee, appearing in court. the pretrial hearing is for august 27th. right now danish soccer star christian erickson has released from the hospital after undergoing surgery to implant a pacemaker. this follows a collapse on the field during his team's game against finland in the euro 2020 soccer tournament a week ago. and a capitol police officer, eugene goodman, throwing out the first pitch at the washington nationals home game overnight against the new york mets. officer goodman, of course, has become a familiar face after he risked his own life to save lawmakers during the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol. we start this half hour with the wife of a man fatally shot by police in hawaii, speaking exclusively to "gma." lindsay says surveillance video and body camera footage show her unarmed husband was never a threat. this morning, a wife demanding justice for her husband after he

was shot and killed by police. >> ever forget. hear wind in the background as if he's explaining looking at something. and when -- according to my phone call and later when i find the police report, only 18 minutes later, they had 4 bullets in him. >> reporter: lindsay says when they moved from south africa to her home state of hawaii, thinking it was a warm, welcoming place to live, similar to the community-driven life they had in his zulu homeland. >> i just never thought i would think of honolulu as a bad place, a dark place. it's my home. i love it. >> reporter: on april 14th lindsay says when danny went on a drive, telling his wife he was going to a nearby temple. but when he plugged the location into his phone, it didn't take him to the temple, but a home right next door to the temple. this ring cam video made public by the bakerton law group who is representing the family you see him taking his shoes off before he walks into the house, later coming back out. the couple inside, tourists who were renting in the building,

calling 911. myeni, apologizing. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> reporter: police pull up and head toward him. on their body cam video, you can hear myeni seemingly confused. you can hear shouting. police use a taser on him. [ gunshots ] and then, gunshots. police shot him four times. >> police. >> reporter: it's then that you hear police identify themselves. the myeni family says this video shows that police used excessive force. myeni was unarmed. honolulu police are investigating the shooting telling abc news, the officers involved have been placed on restrictive duty, on desk assignment for now. lindsay, filing a wrongful death lawsuit, saying that police shot him because he was a black man. >> 100%. i know if it's a white man, an asian man, if it was me, i would still be alive. >> the professional had the

responsibility to control the situation. oftentimes, if you are able to control that emotion and the pace of the response, you're able to effectively save lives. >> reporter: lindsay says she hasn't watched the videos. >> i can't visually just watch them murder my husband. that can't be my last memory of him. >> reporter: the now single mom of a 2-year-old son and 7-month-old daughter, says she is holding on to her last moments with her husband. >> i kissed him good-bye in the kitchen. that's my last interaction. that was my last moment with him. >> lindsay told me, she wants the people involved to be held accountable. she also hopes that one day, she can sit down and have dinner with the officers and the couple calling 911 saying, she hopes they can see each other as human because she really wants to forgive them. >> that's an incredible impulse. thank you very much for that reporting, eva. let's get it upstairs to rob

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100 of the nation's airports will experience tsa staffing shortages this month, leading up to the incredibly busy fourth of july weekend. >> they are overwhelmed. part of it is they're having to deal with the fact that so many travelers don't want to wear masks. >> reporter: the tsa, now asking office employees to volunteer as airports for up to 45 days to handle nonscreening functions. >> they said they'd hire 6,000 new agents. they have been able to hire about 3,000. we think it's highly impossible to hire the remainder before this fourth of july holiday. >> reporter: still, the tsa says it is well-positioned to meet rising traveler volume. as summer travel picks up, there may be different rules for the vaccinated versus those who aren't. late friday, a federal judge gave florida governor ron desantis a win for now. saying the cdc overstepped its

authority in requiring vaccines on cruises. and that florida is highly likely to prevail. royal caribbean says for the first florida cruises only, vaccines are optional. but the experience won't be the same. >> ultimately, passengers may have a different experience if they're vaccinated or not. there might be different rules in place for people on board. >> reporter: royal caribbean says it will charge unvaccinated passengers 16 and up, $136 for covid tests onboard. masks will be required indoors. and some shows and events will be just for the vaccinated. and the first u.s. cruise is actually next saturday. celebrity cruises said it was originally requiring proof of vaccination. now, they say, because of the judge's order, they cannot do that. still, they say, almost all of the passengers onboard will be fully vaccinated. >> sounds like they can say, you can't see carrottop unless you're vaccinated. >> that's right.

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says about how you can imagine -- manage it. let's define anxiety. as we know, the word does get thrown around a lot. the american heritage dictionary defines anxiety as a state of uneasiness and apprehension about future uncertainties. according to the experts we've spoken to anxiety really boils down to overestimating a potential threat or underestimating your ability to cope with that threat. i have struggled with anxiety for most of my life. and for me, at least, it's especially bad when i'm in a small space. infamously, i had a panic attack on live television right here on "gma" back in 2004. >> health news, now. one of the world's most commonly prescribed medications may be providing a big bonus. researchers report people who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statens, may lower their risk for cancer. it's too early to prescribe statins for cancer reduction. that does it for news.

we're going to go back now to robin and charlie. >> reporter: some define it as muscle tension or headaches. for others, it's in avoidant behaviors. and for some people, it's showing up as obsessive worrying thoughts about job loss or romantic rejection or something bad happening to somebody you love. >> when we get anxious, two parts of our brain are competing for attention. the amygdala, immediately scans for danger which in turn turns off the prefrontal cortex, our thinking brain. what happens is we start to misinterpret information as threat. >> reporter: i suspect we all know that feeling, that moment, when anxiety sets in and sends us spinning. but here's the good news. you do actually have the power to stop it. it's learning how to pause. to take a moment and examine what is actually going on in your mind and in your body. dr. luana marquez calls this process of self-assessment the teb cycle.

>> stand for thoughts, emotions and behavior. it's a way to understand what is happening in our brain, for exploring the teb psych. pressing a pause button. practice, is getting comfortably uncomfortable thing is in meditation. >> in our meditation practice, we're not diving into the deep end. we're not going to the biggest fear we have and are like, show me what you got. we're feeling into what it feels to be a little bit uncomfortable. >> reporter: one of the most promising ways to manage anxiety is, it turns out, other people. study after study shows how strong social connections are one of the most important predictors of long-term health and happiness. but even in the face of overwhelming evidence, leaning on the people close to us can be hard. >> social support is known to be the strongest buffer against any mental illness. >> reporter: even intentionally spending some time out in nature. according to one study, taking 15-minute so-called awe walks

where you intentionally shift your attention out ward can really reduce anxiety. >> just inside our own bodies, we have anxieties and these fears. and then, they pass, just like this wind is passing through right now. >> reporter: so, if you want to gain the skills to manage your own anxiety and do life a little bit better, you can sign up for a free meditation challenge on the 10% happier app wherever you get your apps. you can download it. as i said, it's free. i expect whit to be doing it every day and reporting in. >> of course. share any updates. i thought it was interesting what you said about the importance of social connections. especially now we've been missing that for so long. starting to get a little bit back. >> an important message to share. i like seeing your old hairstyle. >> eva turned to me while that was on and said, your hair was so much darker back then. >> what happened? >> what happened? i forgot to use the grecian formula. we'll be back with our "play of the day," while i suffer some

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"gma" two hours on saturday. coming up, tropical storm claudette is bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the gulf coast. the road to juneteenth, now a national holiday. and the groups looking to promote a culture of inclusion. and then, it's "deals & steals." the world may feel out of your control, but your happiness doesn't have to be. learn the secrets to happiness. listen to the ten percent happier podcast, free on apple podcasts. nt happier podcast, free on apple podcasts. this is abc7 news. >> good morning, i'm jobina fortson from abc7 news mornings, guided tours return to san jose's winchester mystery house. they were offering outdoor gardening tours, including access to the mansion's third

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