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america's roads and bridges as senators gather for a sunday session. the new timeline this morning. criminal charges. what a sheriff is saying about the sexual harassment allegations against new york governor andrew cuomo. >> i'm not going to rush it because of who he is. i'm not going to delay it because of who he is. >> the latest on the criminal complaint and the governor's lawyers pushing back. fleeing the flames. the third largest wildfire in california history. firefighters now injured and people unaccounted for. while in greece evacuations under way to escape raging flames. four-day work week? why it may not be a fantasy. the companies trying it out. can you work smarter, not harder? go m 44,000 americans are in hospitals being treated for covid-19 right now.

a 30% increase since last week. at the same time the 7-day average of new vaccinations is about 480,000 a day. that's the highest rate since late june. >> some reasons for hope this morning. much more on covid coming up. we begin in japan. the 2020 summer olympics are wrapping up today with the closing ceremony. >> in the final countdown, team usa pulling ahead with the most gold medals of the games and the most medals overall. abc's james longman joins us live from tokyo where the olympic flame will be extinguished to mark the end of competition. james, good morning. >> reporter: hi, whit. good morning. that's right. the culmination of two weeks of competition among the world's best athletes just getting under way right now. it's a subdued atmosphere. the athletes won't be marching in country by country as they did in the opening ceremony. there we go. there's some fireworks kicking off behind me. the athletes will be coming in altogether as a symbol of unity. i think also it's out of

necessity given that most athletes have gone home because of covid rules. when i was last up on these rult because of covid. that seems to have subsided given so many japanese athletes have done so well. the games didn't turn into the great superspreader event many worried about. just 29 athletes here tested positive among the 436 cases inside the olympic bubble. i think the jury is still out on the long-term effects of these games. cases are consistently going up in japan. we still have the paraolympics to come. i think it's hard not to feel sorry for the japanese who have been shut out of their own games despite the massive investment they made. the weather has been a factor here. in a warming climate, these summer games saw some record temperatures that almost that is something paris may have to think about. tonight there will be a hand off to france, the 2024 hosts.

an unprecedented, but i think successful games. tokyo may not have got the olympics it wanted. there were all kinds of moments that made it memorable for all the right reasons too. dan? >> james longman, thank you so much. let's turn fully to the pandemic. just over half of america's population is vaccinated. that is not enough. hospitals along the gulf coast states are filling up as americans continue to debate the merits of masks and vaccines. janai is in times square with the latest. janai, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the last week the u.s. reporting its fourth straight day of over 100,000 new covid cases. for many communities this is deja vu. health experts warning some hospitals are on the verge of collapse. the push to vaccine continues. this morning in a major surge through the deep south and the gulf coast, the contagious delta variant leading to more hospitalizations and death, nearly all among the unvaccinated.

>> i can't believe we're doing this again. >> reporter: one of those hard hit states, florida recording a new pandemic record for number of cases. 23,000 new cases on friday as the state sees these long lines at testing sites and a critical need for hospital beds. >> we need to flatten that curve again because we're getting patients at a higher rate. >> reporter: doctors there also warning the rising number of pediatric patients has caught them by surprise. children left to battle covid alone in the hospital. >> it puts an undo social stress on the child as you can imagine. the child needs their parents here. >> reporter: in florida more children are in the hospital with covid-19 than anywhere else

in the country. with cases rising in children, communities nationwide now grappling with school masking policies. hundreds of cases reported at school districts in the atlanta area. abc affiliate wsb speaking with a mom in a county that had to quarantine its students after an outbreak. >> they said your children are here. they cannot go to class because they were exposed to covid. >> reporter: across the country, as more americans are choosing to get vaccinated, a north carolina health care worker hopes her experience encourages the undecided to get the shot. >> when you're trying to catch your breath and you cannot breathe -- >> reporter: despite working on the front lines she chose not to get vaccinated. covid nearly killed her. >> i should have got vaccinated. now i'm putting my family through this. it's something that i could have prevented. >> reporter: states with some of the lowest levels of vaccination, many of those gulf coast states, louisiana, florida, mississippi, arkansas and alabama, have seen recent increases in first doses.

across the country we're seeing an increase in vaccination. eva? >> janai norman for us there. her regret so hard to watch. joining us now is dr. darien sutton. thanks for being with us this morning. we heard in janai's piece hospitals are seeing -- texas, florida, louisiana, they're seeing staffing shortages. what are you seeing where you are in l.a.? are there enough people to do the job there? are you worried that might not be the case soon? >> good morning, eva. the issue is nursing. across the united states including in california nursing shortages are causing delays in care and they increase the risk of medical error. as you know, nurses are the backbone of our health care industry. when i talk to nurses about their experiences, many are expressing they're feeling exhausted, unappreciated and tired to be quite honest. it's the driving factors behind why many are leaving bedside nursing. hopefully we'll be able to fix this. it's quite difficult to fix

staffing shortages because nurses are highly skilled and the training takes significant amounts of time. >> you're on the front lines in the er. and i'm curious what you are seeing. who's making up the majority of patients that are coming in, young people, old people, vaccinated, unvaccinated? >> the majority of my patients are unvaccinated, under the age of 50 and predominantly people of color. as the disparities we identified early on in the pandemic seem to be persisting. >> what are a lot of the covid patients saying to you that haven't gotten the vaccine? we saw that woman in janai's story. >> very similar to that woman in janai's story. a lot of patients are expressing regret and shame about their decisions. a lot of patients are also expressing guilt. my patients are young parents unknowingly transmitted to their children and other patients unknowingly transmitted to other family members. i remind them it's an

opportunity to call their family members and friends who are still hesitant. try to get them to understand the severity of this disease. >> a lot of medical personnel are saying this new wave is causing ptsd for them. what do you want people to understand about this virus and what it's like for you as doctors and also your colleagues, nurses, there on the front lines? >> i want them to understand number one, i'm tired, but i've not lost hope. we've been seeing vaccination rates increase. if people can understand one thing, it's not a question if you'll be exposed to the virus, it's a question of when. when you're exposed, you want the highest level of protection possible. you get that protection by being vaccinated. remember, it's never too late to get vaccinated. >> dr. darien sutton, have a good day. whit? we move to washington now. the battle over president biden's trillion dollar infrastructure plan, a small victory for the president this weekend. the senate with bipartisan support as they try to hammer out a deal.

maryalice parks is on capitol hill with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. senate majority leader chuck schumer said they could get this done the easy way or hard way. either way they're going to stay in session until this passes. it's looking more and more like it will be the hard way. they've not reached an agreement to limit discussion over all these amendments. so we could see votes and debate over this stretch into early next week. the senate is back at noon today to keep working. in the end, this is expected to pass. that key vote yesterday 67 senators including 18 republicans voted to advance this bill. a sign that the support is there. of course the provisions in this bill are popular. billions for roads, bridges and rural broadband.day vice presid here on e n rson. she met with senators behind closed doors. so much on the line for this administration. the senators i spoke to yesterday were optimistic that passing in the senate would be

the major hurdle and that private investments and momentum for this bill would come once they get it done here, dan. >> maryalice parks on the capitol, thank you so much. let's bring in abc news deputy political director averi harper. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this is likely to pass the senate. do you think it will pass the house and make it to the president's desk? >> there's a long way to go until it gets to the president's desk, the house being a major hurdle. the first thing is that the house is on recess. nancy pelosi has not said she would bring the house back to vote on this bipartisan infrastructure plan. she has said she's not going to bring that deal to a vote on the floor unless the democrats' human infrastructure plan passes in the senate. in order for that to happen, democrats need to be in lock step. in short, they're not. there are progressives who have threatened not to support it. the thing that's different about infrastructure is the fact that there is political will to get this done. lawmakers on both sides of the

aisle know infrastructure is crumbling from coast to coast. i think it's possible we'll see this happen. jt a matter of whe. >> thorny, possible but thorny. let's go back to covid. the biden administration is under enormous pressure to bring the pandemic under control. given how polarized the debate is on things like masking and vaccines, how much power does the president have to push for progress here? >> we saw the president call on governors who are defying cdc guidance to get out of the way. since he's made that call, we've seen republican governors double down on that defiance. we know the biden administration is looking for ways to incentivize institutions to follow cdc guidance and get folks vaccinated. we know they're exploring things like trying to figure out how to withhold funding from institutions in order to incentivize. these conversations are in the early stages. it's unlikely we'll see any immediate movement on that. >> also thorny. >> uh-huh. >> that seems to be the common

denominator. averi harper, great to see you. i want to remind everybody that "this week" is coming up later this morning with george stephanopoulos. he's going to go one on one with dr. francis collins about the delta variant and possible boosters for americans. plus, with the west coast ablaze and wildfires raging around the world, george will talk to two experts about the dire consequences of climate change. eva, over to you. now to the battle of wildfires in the west. california fighting its third largest fire ever, the dixie fire. hundreds of homes are gone. 14,000 buildings are threatened. a number of people are unaccounted for with firefighters injured. abc's zohreen shah has the latest. good morning, zohreen. >> reporter: good morning, eva. every single home in this community looks like this one. just brought to the ground. through this destruction we're seeing remnants of people's everyday lives. you can see kitchen appliances. the car is still in the driveway.

patio seating or what's left of it. this fire moving through this area incredibly fast. authorities fear that not everyone made it out. this morning officials are desperately searching for people, four people, who are unaccounted for in the california dixie fire. we spoke to a close friend of one of the missing people last night who says they're urgently trying to track down their friend but haven't been able to get in touch with them. dixie is the third largest fire in california history, raging on with no relief in sight. an area the size of houston. yet only 21% contained. 14,000 structures are still threatened. close to 400 destroyed. authorities say four firefighters were injured fighting the blaze. one still recovering in the hospital. pg&e has said it's possible their equipment may have had a role in starting the dixie fire. overnight a federal judge ruled the company has one week to

explain how it might have had a role and where exactly they believe the fire started. they want a list of every fire pg&e may have been responsible for this season. here in greenville, evacuees are saying they just don't know how they're going to get buy. they didn't just lose their homes. they lost their entire community. so many of them were born here. they were raised here. they just don't know what they're going to do next. whit? >> we've seen this year after year in california and other states in the west. zohreen shah for us, thank you. wildfires are also tearing through europe this weekend. greece being hit especially hard. three major fires burning there, threatening whole towns and forcing evacuations by sea. ines de la cuetara has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, whit. we've got thousands of residents being forced to evacuate as fires in greece continue to burn for six straight days. this island completely covered in smoke. we're about two hours from downtown athens. this is one of the hardest hit

areas. this is where residents are being told to get to the beach to be evacuated on boats. that's what these residents are doing. lining up here to get on to that ferry to get to the mainland and get to safety. those boats are the only way out for people. the government commandeering some of these boats to get residents to safety. we were on that ferry last night and spoke to one resident who was in the process of evacuating. she was on the verge of tears. she said she had her bags packed for two days. she wanted to get her children to safety. her husband stayed behind and was planning on fighting those flames to protect their homes. officials are reporting at least two casualties linked to these fires and at least a dozen residents taken to the hospital with serious injuries. these as europe faces one of its worst heat waves in decades. some good news. help did arrive. other countries have sent in assistance.

the u.s. joining in that effort. temperatures dipping slightly this weekend. they're expected to pick back up again next week. dan? >> ines, thank you very much. stay safe out there. weather is of course a huge variable. let's bring in rob marciano in d stanfo, connecticut this morning. rob, good morning. >> reporter: hi, dan. good morning to you. we're getting rain here in coastal connecticut. would love to get rain in these fire zones. that would certainly help. it's not the way it works as you know. with the exception of the northwest, that's where you've got a little bit of a respite. elsewhere the fires continue to burn and the most widespread impact across america has been the smoke. we're seeing smoke from redding, california, all the way to green bay, wisconsin. that covers 1,700 miles. washington, down to phoenix and that's another thousand miles, and the entire state of colorado is under air quality alerts from the smoke and haze. the heat is rebuilding into the west. temperatures up and over 100

degrees today and will stay that way throuh monday or tuesday. some of that heat stretching into the central plains. that's a look at what's happening nationally we are here in stanford, connecticut, to highlight the swim across america events. 1 of 21 to raise money for cancer gene therapy. 200 swimmers will be getting in the water to do a three-mile

swim here this morning to raise money. they've raised over $100 million in the last 30 years. good news story, at least for raising the money. we'll see these swimmers in a little bit. back over to you. >> good luck to them. it's drizzly in new york this morning. we all woke up to the rain. we were like did rob tell us it was going to rain? >> of course he didn't. >> i made note of that too. >> you never asked. >> love you, rob. back to tokyo with team usa's victories during the final competitions. abc's kenneth moton joins us with the latest on those grabs for gold. good morning to you, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, eva. the big story is the dominant dynasty of team usa women's basketball. this time under the legendary dawn staley. the university of south carolina coach is the first black head coach of the u.s. women's basketball olympic team. they impressed, broke records and made history.

this morning the u.s. women's basketball team on top of the world once again, defeating the japanese 90-75 for their 55th consecutive win at the olympics and 7th gold medal. legends sue bird and diana taurasi making history as the first basketball players to walk away with five gold medals. brittney griner the leading scorer with 30 points. wnba superstar a'ja wilson, 19 points. the first olympic gold a nice birthday gift. the u.s. women's volleyball serving up defeat against brazil for their first ever olympic gold. a gold medal win for american cyclist jennifer valente. in track and field the americans dominating the 4 by 400 meter relay, the men and women winning gold. allyson felix earned an 11th olympic medal, making her the most decorated american track and field athlete in history.

>> it's been a special games for women. in our sport, outside of our sport, it's been really inspiring for me to see just performance after performance getting it done. >> reporter: american boxers keyshaun davis and richard torrez both picked up silver on the final day of these games. 113 medals for americans. the most gold for an unprecedented delayed olympics. an impressive run by team usa, guys. >> it really has. despite everything that's went on with these games, it's been fun to watch and cheer on team usa. kenneth, it's been fun to cheer on you. great work as always. >> i love you got a gamecock shout out this morning. >> reporter: thank you, guys. always represent. still ahead on "gma," under fire, what could be next for new york's embattled governor as he faces sexual harassment allegations and possible impeachment.

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♪ ♪ is this what recreational drugs feel like? >> family viewing on a sunday morning. welcome back to "gma." we are getting a sneak peek at the ryan reynolds film called "free guy." it debuts next friday, august 13th. its release was pushed back three times from a july 2020 release date due of course, to the covid-19 pandemic. let's look at the other big stories we're following. for the first time since the worst of the winter the u.s. has recorded more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases on saturday. 44,000 americans are in hospitals being treated for covid-19. a 30% increase since last week.

this as just over half the nation's population is fully vaccinated. that's seemingly not enough to hold off the new surge in cases. also, body cam footage shows dallas police officers running into a burning home to save people and pets inside. the video shows the officers struggling as they inhaled smoke. but they tried to make it to the third floor where they heard that a woman was trapped. one of the officers that suffered smoke inhalation says he would do it again. >> incredible video. heroic action. guys, i want to tell you about sports news. for the first time, sunday night baseball presented by taco bell will air on abc at 7:00 p.m. eastern. the matchup will feature the chicago cubs and the first place chicago white sox. check my twitter feed for live analysis. >> play by play. >> sometimes i think our producers like to have a giggle. she told me true in my ear.

it is true. we start this half hour with what we know about the potential charges against new york governor andrew cuomo following those allegations of sexual harassment. abc's trevor ault has more. >> reporter: this morning, new york governor andrew cuomo already staring down a possible impeachment now possibly facing criminal charges. authorities investigating a criminal complaint lodged by one of the 11 women who accused the governor of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior. >> she filed a formal report against the governor. the conduct was sexual in nature. it would probably be a misdemeanor. >> reporter: that complaint filed by a former staffer referred to in the attorney general's report as executive assistant number one. seen here in a selfie with cuomo. she claims her interactions with the governor escalated to more

intimate physical contact that was unwanted with the governor hugging her at the executive mansion, then reaching under her blouse to grab her breast. the staffer telling cbs what he did to me was a crime. he broke the law. the sheriff's office said they reached out to the attorney general's office for evidence and spoke to the accuser thursday, but they have not yet interviewed the governor. >> we have a lot of interviews to do. i'm not going to rush it because of who he is and i'm not going to delay it because of who he is. >> reporter: cuomo has acknowledged being playful and at times insensitive, but denies all accusations of sexual harassment. or unwanted advances. on saturday his attorney blasting the attorney general's investigation and some of the allegations against him. >> i want to clear up, no one has called all 11 of those women liars. the point that we made yesterday about the attorney general's report is that there are facts they got wrong. >> reporter: cuomo's legal team has until friday to submit the

evidence to the new york judiciary committee which is set to begin considering articles of impeachment against the governor monday. >> i'm not aware of the governor having plans to resign. >> reporter: the new york attorney general's office said they'll fully cooperate with the albany sheriff and turn over all evidence of this complaint from executive number one. seeing as how that's one of cuomo's accusers, they're saying they would cooperate with other law enforcement agencies when appropriate. guys? >> trevor, thank you. joining us now with some legal insight on all of this is attorney shana lloyd, managing partner of the cochran firm. good morning to you. good to have you this morning. let's start off with the albany county sheriff who said governor cuomo could face misdemeanor charges if he's found guilty of these crimes. what could hat mean in terms of punishment or jail time? >> when we're looking at a misdemeanor, we're looking at

one year in imprisonment or a f- fine. it's not going to rise to the level of a felony because a misdemeanor is lesser charge. >> the governor maintains he never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. his attorney called the ag's report one-sided and said he was ambushed. what do you make of his defense so far? >> so far it's not a legal defense. we'll have to wait to see what he presents legally. that will be based on the charges we're seeing. it's going to be different if it's a civil sexual harassment which is more of a workplace discrimination charge versus the criminal charge of some sort of forcible touching. the defenses on both are different. we'll have to wait to see what the final charge is and then we'll see more about his defense. >> his defense tried to pick apart the report. they even named some of the

accusers and gone after them directly and questioned their motives. do you think that strategy could backfire in some way? >> absolutely. i think it's always dangerous to try anything in the court of public opinion because it's not factual. it taints a lot of what's happening. a lot of times those things you're saying can be used against you later because you've made a public statement. you have to be careful when you start having this sort of response to any allegations that are coming out. it really should be handled within the courtroom once the charges have come down. >> this is just the beginning of a long process ahead. channa lloyd, thank you for your time this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you, whit. let's check the forecast. rob marciano out there in stanford, connecticut, where there's a big three-mile swim race going on right now. three miles is a lot of swimming. >> reporter: some former olympians taking part in that three miler. i could never do it. a half mile and mile and a halfer as well later. all to raise money for cancer gene therapy research.

rain is coming down here, but not like what it was like in nebraska. omaha seeing between four and five inches of rainfall. flash flooding there. there was one water rescue. see that car stranded. that's some frightening stuff. also severe weather reports including two tornados. this is a funnel cloud that may have touched down near that flash flooding event in omaha. severe thunderstorms cranking up in missouri, illinois, wisconsin, milwaukee. chicago, you might be in it as well. maybe not tornados, but large hail. an isolated tornado not out of the question. we will track it. that's the latest across the country. time for a look at your local forecast.

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welcome back to "gma." the growing movement towards four-day work weeks as was recently discussed in "the wall street journal," more companies are giving this a go as they rethink what returning to the office looks like. abc's deirdre bolton has more. >> reporter: the pandemic is changing almost every aspect of work. it might even make our weekends longer. this morning the idea of a four-day work week is picking up steam. >> working 40 hours a week really came from henry ford.hat

100 hours a week in factories. >> reporter: this week this california congressman introduced legislation to shorten the work week. >> on the fifth day they'll have to pay overtime. for most workers this will amount to a 10% pay increase. >> reporter: spain's government is paying companies to test out this idea. other countries have tried not only a four-day work week, but shorter workdays. the push for a newly re-imagined work space comes as many working americans are deserate to find a better work/life balance. some companies trying this say what they started as a clearly stated experiment has increased revenues and profits. industry experts say working more hours does not always make a country more productive. the key is working smarter, not harder. >> we only do maybe four or five

hours of meaningful work in any given workday. >> countries which can afford people working less over the week or over the year. >> reporter: the u.s. ranks near the top of hours worked in a year, according to data compiled by industrialized countries, but only devote 14.4 hours to personal care like eating and sleeping and leisure. 3% less than the average of 15 full hours. the last time we changed our work schedule was almost 100 years ago with henry ford and the model t factories. some experts and business owners say it's time for an update. dan? >> deidre, thank you so much. we'll be right back with "pop news" and janai.

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are you sure i don't know you? the doctor, said can you guess? julie took her hair tie out and shook her head and stood in front of me like that waiting for me to guess. i said i hit my head. i can't remember. her sister said "modern family." >> aft a stches se. mend and thankful for their kindness. "bridgerton" fans, rege-jean page may be learning to like his martinis shaken not stirred. surveys favoring page as the next james bond, giving him four to five odds. page gaining loads of fans for his role in the "bridgerton" series. he won't be back on "bridgerton" next season. tom hardy also a strong possibility with favorable odds, and also mentioned, james norton, luke evans and idris

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i love abc news. i've been here for 21 years. i became an adult here. although my co-hosts may dispute that. i can't tell you what kind of ball they use to play hockey, but now i have time to improve. in particular this show, weekend "gma," has been one of the highlights of my life. my colleagues on and off the air have become like a family. i really love these people. i'll miss them horribly, even janai, despite the fact that she mocks me with so much skill and so little mercy. i've got two more months and i plan to enjoy every moment. thank you all. >> dan, i know this is not the official good-bye because we'll have a full ticker tape parade later on. just from all of us, i mean, you welcomed us all. you've been an inspiration and a mentor to all of us. you've fostered this atmosphere of friendship and family here. for that we're truly grateful. we're definitely going to miss

you. >> you're our yoda. >> you are. baby yoda. you are. >> the all-knowing. >> dan, you just made me -- >> what's that robby? >> you just made me 90% less happy. the next two months, we're not going to let you off easy. it's going to be full on hazing. >> thanks, rob. thank you, everybody. see you next weekend. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 eyewitness news. julian: good sunday morning. i am julian glover. there is a new cash offer to get people vaccinated, california offering up to $50 apiece to more than 11 million people in the state who get their insurance through medicaid, part of a new $350 million plan to

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