sweat on live television. goodness. >> you know its pay back for making me cry all morning long. >> are you welcome. thank you for watching. >> thank you. good morning in the west. good morning we welcome you to "cbs this morning" on wednesday, july 21st, 2021. anthony mason, i'm gayle king. tony is still a baby leave. jeff bezos says his trip is the beginning of a much bigger adventure. what he and his brother mark told us after the flight, seen by critics as a distraction from problems here on earth. >> breaking overnight, flash floods turn deadly inn colorado with torrents destroying homes. how many people escaped with just moments to spare. >> we are in tokyo, with the new uncertainty over the olympic games, as positive covid cases

continue to rise. see how the organizers are trying to keep everyone safe. >> and gold medal winner, allyson felix joins us. how she's giving some of her fellow athletes a leg up in a very personal way. >> first, here's today's eye-opener. it's your world in 90 seconds. >> it's been a 50-year journey, the milwaukee bucks are nba champions! >> we've seen a lot of amazing performances. this ranks as one of the all-time greatest. >> whoo! >> one person is dead and two others are missing now after flash flooding in northern colorado. >> it was scary, because you saw it coming at you. >> wildfires continue to scorch the west coast. >> thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. >> i lost my whole life, everything i've ever had. >> trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people dying around the world from a pandemic. >> on capitol hill, fireworks

over the origin of the coronavirus. >> if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you. >> the chair of former president trump's inaugural committee was arrested, accused of being an agent for the united arab emirates. >> about 40% of the people still don't think we won. >> brady making jokes with biden's election win and nickname. >> i lost track of one down in 21 years of playing and they started calling me sleepy tom. >> a message that was red from our sister. >> i know, i have it, i have it. >> it was beautiful. >> she says, now hurry up and get your -- back down here so i can give you a huge hug. god speed. >> i actually teared up right there in the capsule. >> on "cbs this morning." >> bezos brought some special objects with him on his flight. >> these are amelia earhart's goggles, the ones she flew across the atlantic with solo. >> that's an interesting choice for a good luck charm. [ laughter ] >> we've got amelia earhart's

goggles. we have a chunk of the iceberg from the titanic, and in here i've got abraham lincoln's play bill. let's go! >> this morning's eye-opener is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> that's good, he had a necklace that he wore that he gave to his mom when he landed, which i thought was really nice. it was such an amazing day for all of them, and all of us who were there that got to see it. we welcome you to "cbs this morning" and that's where we'll begin, what it was like up in space for the world's richest man and what he thinks this means for the rest of us here on earth. jeff bezos is his name. his brother mark, wally funk and oliver daemen took off from van horn, texas, just after 9:00 eastern time on a rocket and capsule built by his private company, blue origin. the crew experienced zero gravity while floating about 66 miles above earth. 10 minutes and 10 seconds after

liftoff, they were back on earth safely celebrating with their loved ones. we were there for the historic and somewhat controversial trip and sat down with jeff and his brother mark. we spoke about the venture decades in the making and what they say is a bigger mission still to come. >> i don't think people truly understand what this means and why it's important. >> i think you're right, gayle, most people don't. if you think about it, we are humanity, we're big now, the earth is small and fragile. one of the things you see from space so clearly is how fragile this planet is. you think about the air we're breathing and this atmosphere. it feels big to us, but it's actually -- when you get into space and you can see the earth's atmosphere, it's so thin and fragile looking. so we do have to take care of this planet. this sounds fantastical, what i'm about to tell you, but we

can move all heavy industry and polluting industry off of earth and move it into space. >> it sounds fantastical or crazy. >> yes, and it can't happen today and it will take many decades, but it would be like if somebody in the era of the kitty hawk wright flyer, this tiny little airplane that can fly 100 feet, if you told somebody some day there will be a 787, it would seem fantastical. we've been to all the planets in the solar system with robotic probes. this is the only good one and we have to protect it. and my generation, mark and i are going to be dead before this job is done. it's not about us. it's what we can do, what blue origin can do is build a space vehicle that is so operable and commercial and inexpensive that it becomes the infrastructure that the next generation can use to take those big steps. >> this is how it starts, big steps. but all of you all keep saying this is not a competition, and i

find that so hard to believe because you're all type a personalities. don't you want to be first? it really to you isn't a game of whose is bigger? honestly, it really isn't? >> gayle, i promise you, it really isn't. >> on the outside looking in, even after you announced and richard branson said i'm going up first, then you guys went higher, it's really not a competition? >> it is not a competition. if you want to think about it, there's one first person in space. his name was yuri gagarin and it happened 60 years ago. what we have to do is build a whole industry and it's got to be an ecosystem that's going to be made up of dozens and hundreds and even thousands of companies, just like what you see with the internet today, two kids in a dorm room can start a space company that changes the world. you have to have many companies pulling together. they compete against each other, but there can be many winners. >> jeff bezos believes that big things start small and he says there's room for everybody to try to figure out how to make this work and it's going to take

more than one person, one company to do that, which i thought made a lot of sense. >> i do think this is a moment that will be recognized. in fact, all of these billionaires pushing us out in that direction, they really have put it on their backs in a lot of ways. >> it will be interesting to see, as he says, what it looks like in 50, 100 years from now when we look back at this moment and say that was the moment where this began. >> yeah, it's definitely going to be one for the record books, for sure. we invite you to stay with us. we've got more of our interview with jeff bezos and his brother mark. we talked with them about what it was like and why their trip to space was more emotional than either one of them thought it would be. >> some critics say jeff bezos achievement came at the expense of his workers and american taxpayers. mark strassmann joins us from van horn, texas, with more on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. blue origin is thrilled by its first human space flight and this community is, too. space has given van horn a new identity.

but critics say this billionaire space race is just another example of inequality right here on earth. tuesday's launch was a picture perfect promo for blue origin's "new shepard" rocket and the future of space tourism. >> you have greater space ambitions than going to the edge of it. did this moment motivate you to push deeper into the cosmos? >> hell, yes. [ laughter ] >> billionaire jeff bezos realized a childhood dream, one he shared with his brother mark, 18-year-old dutch student oliver daemen and 82-year-old wally funk. the aviation pioneer finally earned her astronaut wings more than 60 years after nasa denied her chance at space. >> i want to go again fast! >> reporter: but one of bezos's post-launch thank yous stood out. >> i also want to thank every amazon employee and every amazon

customer, because you guys paid for all of this. >> reporter: labor organizers pounced, bashing bezos and amazon for allegedly underpaying and mistreating warehouse workers. in a statement to cbc news, the teamsters union, hoping to unionize amazon, said if jeff bezos really wants to thank amazon workers, he should listen to their demands, rather than perpetuating a highly exploitative business model. other critics pointed to this investigation of irs tax data. it found bezos's personal fortune grew by $127 billion from 2006 to 2018, while paying 1.4 billion in taxes, a tax rate of about 1.1%. bezos intends to use his fortune to build a space empire. critics say that money could be better spent solving problems here on earth. bezos says he can do both. quote, we have lots of problems in the here and now on earth and we need to work on those and we

need to look to the future. we reached out to amazon, the company had no comment. but no question, this era of commercial space flight has launched and it's here to stay. >> mark strassmann in van horn, thank you. one person is dead and two are missing after a flash flood tore through northern colorado overnight. at least five homes were destroyed north of denver. om some people escaped with just moments to spare. >> reporter: social media videos and photos caught the ferre os tee of the rushing waters, which one witness said turned a local river into a torant in a matter of seconds. >> the river was turned up. it was mud, it was rock, it was trees. it was probably 4 or 5 feet above normal state. >> reporter: multiple homes were destroyed and some campers said they had little time to escape. >> huge logs, like trees that

were just going down the river. it was intense, for sure. >> reporter: officials had issued an emergency order to evacuate, after heavy rains hit the area in northern colorado, prone to mudslides and debris flows due to recent wildfires. >> a lot of exposed rock soil, a downpour like that was a recipe for what we saw. when we saw a roof go floating by, it was a pretty good indication this was much worse than just water flowing past us. >> reporter: officials will now survey the damage, with more rain expected later today. for cbs this morning. a growing number of republicans are encouraging americans to get vaccinated, despite misinformation spread by right wing dmcommentators. steve scalise, the number two house republican, announced yesterday that he has received his first pfizer shot, telling the louisiana news site nola.com, that the vaccines are

safe and effective. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is at our lady of the lake medical center in baton rouge, louisiana, where there's been a surge in cases. good morning. >> reporter: anthony, good morning. this is the largest hospital in the state in terms of bed space, and they have more covid patients here than any other hospital in the state. get this, over the weekend they admitted 23 covid patients in a 24-hour period. how big of a deal is that? they filled an entire floor of the hospital with 24 people, an entire floor. we were given unprecedented access to one of the covid units in order to speak to some of the patients. >> honest to god, i thought i walked my last day on this earth. i could not breathe. just all of a sudden, my lungs just didn't work. >> reporter: paula johnson was rushed here by ambulance. >> i have no comorbidities, nothing. never had a lung problem, don't smoke, nothing. and it took my lungs and just -- whew, i don't even know how to

explain it. it's like trying to breathe in and hitting a wall in like a second. >> reporter: johnson is a pharmaceutical researcher who put off getting the covid vaccine, but now she wants it. >> i would say get the vaccine. take the chance. it can't hurt. all it can do is alleviate some of the symptoms, even if it doesn't keep you from getting it. it will at least help you get through it. >> reporter: roughly one in three louisianaens are fully vaccinated. this week the health department reported the highest number of covid-19 hospitalizations since late february. >> here i am recovering, getting out of here finally tomorrow. am i going to get a vaccine? no. >> why not? >> because there's too many issues with these vaccines. >> reporter: this father, former baseball coach, small business owner and hunter, caught covid and then he developed pneumonia. >> before you got sick, if you would have had a chance to get the vaccine and prevent this, would you have taken the

vaccine? >> nope. >> so you would have gone through this? >> i would have gone through this, yes, sir. don't shove it down my throat. that's what local, state, federal administration is trying to do, is shove it down your throat. >> what are they shoving, the science? >> no, they're shoving the fact that that's their agenda. their agenda is to get you vaccinated. >> do you know who mr. scalise is? >> i know who he is very well. >> he had not heard that steve scalise, the second ranking house republican in congress, had stepped into the forefront yesterday as a vaccine proponent. we asked him to read the congressman's statement. >> he thinks it's safe and effective. >> and what's your reaction? >> not proven. >> but does his opinion change yours? >> no, it does not. >> we are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic, or we are going to accept death. >> dr. catherine o'neill, chief medical officer at our lady of the lake medical center here in

baton rouge does not mince words. >> we are a proud state, we are a state of people full of grit. if you're pro vax, you're going to tell everybody. if not, you're going to do the same thing. so how do we help find something that helps them come to the understanding that your community is going to die? >> reporter: dr. o'neill made the point, when it comes to talking to vaccine hesitant or anti-vaxx folks, you can't stop talking to them. you can't talk down to them, you can't talk at them, but you've got to keep talking, telling them the stories of the people who are sick in this hospital and sticking solely to the facts. >> very good advice. thank you very much, david. the man who ran former president trump's inaugural committee has now been arrested on charges of acting as an agent of foreign government. tom barrack, a long-time friend and adviser to mr. trump is also charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal agents. nancy cordes has more on the

story. >> reporter: tom barrack listened in court as prosecutors listed off the charges, conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the fbi. >> donald trump is one of my closest friends for 40 years. >> reporter: barrack allegedly used that friendship to advance the interests of the united arab emirates, an oil rich middle eastern country. according to the indictment, barrack provided the uae with information about meetings that occurred at the white house, and he pushed the white house to make the president's speeches more favorable to the uae. >> we'll work with our gulf allies to develop a positive energy relationship. >> reporter: that speech in 2016 won barrack praise from his main uae contact, who emailed him to say, amazing, congrats on the great job today. >> it's not about power, it's about cash, and a lot of it. >> harry litman is a former u.s.

attorney. he says barrack never registered as a foreign agent, even as his company raked in millions from the uae. >> what's really going on here is there was influence by a foreign government on the president and the country just didn't know about it. >> reporter: former president trump thought so highly of barrack, he tapped him to run the inauguration in 2016. now barrack joins a long list of former trump associates who were indicted after working with or for him. barrack's lawyers say he is not not guilty and that he's been cooperating with investigators from the beginning, but prosecutors argue that the wealthy california investor is a flight risk, so he'll be held in jail until a bail hearing next week. >> nancy, thank you very much. coming up, olympic events have already begun in tokyo, but a key official is not ruling out

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>> you did that. >> we did. >> what was that like? did you have a moment where you looked at each other -- i saw the "hi, mom" signs, whose idea was that? >> it was mark's idea. i helped execute. >> hint of -- >> it says wow now, but upside down in zero g it says "hi, mom." >> you said it was more emotional than you thought it was going to be. the reason that struck me is because i felt that, too, mark. then i figured out it's because i was afraid. where were you so emotional? >> i imagine that there was some of that in there. i know that before we went to the launchpad we had moments to sort of get our heads straight before we left the training center. and i actually took a minute and went into the crew capsule and just sort of closed my eyes and, you know, i was thinking about my kids. >> yeah. >> and you know, i -- i know how

inherently safe this vehicle is, how much work has gone into it the redundancies, all of the safety systems. at the end of the day there's still risk involved. >> jeff, you had said all along you were not afraid, you were not nervous. i'm thinking traveling at 2,233 miles per hour doesn't scare you. what does scare you? >> well, i had -- i wasn't nervous -- i really wasn't, i kept thinking i'll be nervous the morning of, i'll be nervous ahead of launch. it never happened. i know exactly that emotion you're talking about. i felt it reflected from my kids and mom and dad who were nervous for us. >> yes. >> they were afraid. and i could see that. no matter what we did to try and settle them down and calm them and -- we really couldn't get there. and then to see their relief, they were more tearful after we landed and came out the capsule, that's when they broke down. >> yeah. >> and they were just so relieved, and they could finally let it all out.

>> your mom was the first one you hugged when you got off. >> yeah. >> clearly it's a bonding moment for the two of you. did you have a moment with the two of you up there? >> we did. my brother and in-- we picked seats so that we could see each other from our seats. so we could look over and -- and we had -- we did. >> you sit in the jeff bezos chair. >> okay. >> i'm going to sit in chair number five. we got a chance to see what those seats were like. the bezos brothers gave me a ground-level view of their training capsule. >> i think we were a little surprised by how intense the g forces were on the kind of ascent. your skin's all being pulled back into your face and pushed into your seat. mark, they tried to do a coms or status check with mark while we were at max gs on return. it was bad timing. by the time it got the -- they went through oliver and wally. by the time we got to me we were at 5 gs, what it said. they're like, how are you doing?

i'm doing all right. i had a hard time responding to that one. >> what's next? because jeff, you don't have to do anything, but you choose to do one of the hardest things. >> well, you do the things that you're passionate about, gayle. if you're lucky in life, you know, you can have a job, you can have a career, if you're really lucky you get to have a calling. >> i want people that besides being a successful businessman, you are still a volunteer firefighter. and but a ted talk. people have to look at it, it's about kindness. jeff said since you already have the kind not and success gene, he said that this changed him. how did it change you? >> i think that -- i'm still processing a lot of that. i will tell you in the -- in the best sense, i've never felt smaller than i did today. and it was -- it was just an incredibly humbling and beautiful sense of personal scale, right.

that i am such a small part of all of this. >> i know. >> look at the earth from up there, and it will make you more humble. >> yeah. i can't imagine what it was like. i thought it was great that we got to go in the capsule. i call that a bezos sandwich, look at us, we're a bezos sandwich, i'm the filling. >> i don't know if i would call it that, but okay. >> no. i thought that was funny. they thought it was funny, too, vlad. >> all right. >> listen, there's been a lot of talk about all the money that was spent, how he spends his money. i love people trying to tell him how to spend his own money. yesterday he did something that was also jaw-dropping -- >> it sure was. >> courage and civility award. that's getting lost in the coverage of the space launch which is monumental. he gave the courage and civility award, the first, to two people -- van jones and chef jose andres. and it's to give to them to distribute to charities and nonprofits of their choice. singling out people that he thinks are doing hard work and doing it with civility. it was jaw-dropping yesterday.

>> he gave them $100 million -- >> did i think say that part? thank you. >> $100 million -- >> each. >> that was the jaw-dropping part. >> they can do whatever they want with it. >> no strings attached. you decide. van has done work with criminal justice reform. issy. we know jose's -- chef josie's work in feeding the hungry and going into emergency situations. i just thought i loved jeff bezos' point, you can do both. you can look to the future, and you can look to what's happening here, and you can do both and do good things. they certainly aring do that. >> they really are. with the olympic ceremonies two days away, covid concerns cloud the games. what the head of the tokyo organizing committee is say, hinting a last-minute cancelation is still possible. and a reminder -- can you believe it -- >> no. >> by subscribing to the "cbs this morning" podcast. hear the top stories in less than 20 minutes. gayle alsoso that thatat a deal. >> a d deal.

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5,500-mile trip to tokyo. you have to stay at your hotel for 14 days. the only places you're allowed to go are work spaces, preapproved venues, or the convenience store around the corner. the protocols are just as strict for olympic athletes. although athletes are not required to be vaccinated, the safety protocols are strict and involve rigorous testing for anyone connected to the games. spectators have been barred from most events. any athlete who has come in close contact with someone testing positive must test daily, and quarantine in a single dorm room, including for meals. with the opening ceremony only two days away, uncertainty surrounding this year's games continues. the ceo of tokyo 2020 said officials will continue to monitor the situation as it unfolds. "usa today's" sport columnist nancy armour. when you hear there could be a last-minute cancelation -- >> no, that's not going to happen. that train left the stations a long, long time ago. these games are happening. >> reporter: yet the number of

positive cases continues to rise. more than 70 people from athletes to staff have been infected with the virus. nba star bradley beal was forced to miss the olympics after being placed in health and safety protocols. fellow usa basketball star katie lou samuelson tested before. and coco gauff and kara eaker returned positive tests. eaker traveled and trained with usa gymnastics in japan. >> now every morning i'm checking social media to see if the women have posted photos of them at training. i'm checking with the usa gymnastics and the u.s. opc to see did nerve test negative again people is not a small number, jamie. to be continued. thank you so much. up next, the stories we

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forced thousands from their homes, torched more than 388,000 acres, about half the size of rhode island. >> wow. >> i didn't realize it was coming all the way from california. >> a red sun in the sky. very, very eerie. let's get to good news here. triumph on the basketball court. the milwaukee bucks are champs. >> yeah. >> they bet the phoenix suns last night. game six of the nba fienlnals, first championship in 50 years. >> and that will do it. it's over. the bucks have done it! >> there it is. rasesh pgiannis antetokounmpo l way. he had 50 points, steering the team to victory. get this -- he was actually challenged by kobe bryant before he passed away to win the mvp. this was back in 2017, kobe challenged him. in '19 he won. he also challenged him to win

the championship, and bryant's former teammate, lakers buddy pau gasol, tweeted that he did it, brother. mamba mentality. this started as this amazing back and forth. >> gives me chills. and you saw giannis at the end of the game he facetimed his brother, also on the team, but had to miss the last two games because of covid protocols. it was amazing. >> it was. small market teams -- >> i love that story. you don't see a lot of that in sports, as you know. you want to stay on a small team. >> you could see how much the town loves him. >> yes. >> the incredible turn yount around the arena. >> it was like 80,000 people outside the arena that were cheering them on. they had fireworks afterwards even. it is -- i worked in sacramento for a long time, another nba small market team. to explain what a team means to a city like it -- and i know milwaukee obviously also has baseball. but this is just everything for them. >> it's got to make the team feel good to know that people care about them so much.

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other female athletes in their race for gold. plus, here's the opener at 8:00. we're going to begin with what it was like up in space for the world's richest man. >> this sounds spectacular what i'm going to tell you. we can move all heavy and polluting industry off earth and operate it in space. >> blue origin is thrilled by the first human space flight. but people say this is just another example of inequality on earth. a flash flood tore through northern colorado overnight. a growing number of republicans are encouraging republicans to get vaccinated. >> if you would have had a chance to get the vaccine and prevent this, would you get the vaccine? so you'd go through this? >> yes, sir. >> i don't know how it's going

to change me but i know it's going to and i'm excited to find out how. >> let's see how he changed. >> oh, my god, a cowboy hat? a cowboy hat? so, he went to space and became extra divorced. >> no, no, no, steve. i did ask was the cowboy hat a new look? he had that on when they did the first successful launch and it's sprayed with champagne. so, when he wears that t brings back all the memories. nothing to do with divorce. we're going to begin this hour with the alarming spike in coronavirus cases around the country. 35,000 cases a day in the past week. that's tripthal nule the number a month ago. and says this variant includes

breakthrough cases. means people who have gotten the vaccine are getting covid. and now multiple white house staff members contracted the virus after being fully vaccinated. at the white house with more on the story. what are you hearing about this? >> good morning. we know yesterday a white house official confirmed that somebody who was fully vaccinated tested positive for covid-19. and then the press secretary revealed there had been other breakthrough cases as well, although she didn't say how many staffers were impacted or when. this is unfolding as six lawmakers from texas are vizting washington and contracted the virus, despite being fully vaccinated. along with house speaker, nancy pelosi, who met with the delegation. and vern buchanan revealed he tested positive for a breakthrough case.

these create more concern for the unvaccinated nationwide. phil murphy begged people to get their shots and says he's not ruling out reimplementing restrictions like a mask mandate. the surge has prompted republican leaders to speak out. senate minority leader urged people to ignore demonstrably bad advice against the vaccine. and sculease pointing to the power of the delta variant. even conservative news personalities are urging americans to get vaccinated. back on capitol hill, the attending physicians said it's a dire health risk to those unvaccinated. and for people fully vaccinated, they might want to take additional protective mesers, like wearing a mask inside or in a crowd. >> we're joined by republican senator, marco rubio.

i want to pick up on what she was just talking about. cases are particularly surging in your state, florida. 20% of all the new cases in the country are in florida. are you satsified with the way florida is handling this? >> i'm not satisfied with the outcome. ultimately, people should get vaccinated. the government's been telling people for a long time not to smoke. it causes heart disease and cancer. they still do it. they tell us to watch our weight but it still happens. my whole point is everyone should get vaccinated. i'm vaccinated. my family's vaccinated. people shouldn't listen to people telling them not to. all these things out here are not accurate. but it's up to people to make the decision. in a free society such as ours, we can provide information d

bunk things that aren't true and provide access. it is ultimately up to people, individually too, make that decision. >> you're saying get vaccinated. we're hearing steve sculease got vaccinated over the weekend. do you think republicans should do more? >> i don't think the skepticism is just among republicans. i don't see vices i don't think are even ideological. >> we just showed a graphic. among people who say they're not going to get vaccinated, 29% of republicans say they won't get vaccinated and 6% of democrats. which is why i'm asking the question. >> i would say some african-american hispanic communities where there's a hesitancy as well for a lot of different reasons. i don't care what the polling says. it's a human thing and you take

it or you don't and there's people who don't want to be vaccinated. i have family members, friends, smart, educated people who just refuse to do it. >> i know. i have family members like that too. and i have to tell you it's extremely irritating. there was so much anxiety about covid and where it came from. i want your take on the gym that inices, both accusing the other of being untruthful. >> i didn't see that exchange. >> but you heard about it. >> no, but it's not the first one they've had. so, i can comment in general. i don't know about the exchange. i don't know what inexchange was. i'm going to echo back to the

words, and an open hearing of the committee i'm vice chairman on. it's the assessm of the intelligence community, that it was a natural occurring event or a mistake. someone in the lab was infected and that person took it to the general population and spread it to the world. i think there are some, in my view, circumstantial educators about the fact that this broke out in the city where there's a very lab that conducts experiments where they take viruses that are not infectious and make them infectious so they can create vaccines for them. coincidental? maybe. but frankly, no one knows. and we probably would know if there was more cooperation from the chinese communist party. >> there's disagreement about

how to resbaund topond to the p in cuba. >> a vast majority believe if you have a different opinion from the government, the response shouldn't be you're tortured in jail, that your family is stuck at home and they kick down your door and grab people in the middle of the night. i think our response should be what i've asked president biden to do. first, let's do a diplomatic search. why haven't we convened an emergency meeting of the organization of american states. if a multilateral organization of democracies cannot condemn what's happened in cuba, what good is it? and the documenting human rights violations. and this is bipartisan, we should continue to develop the technology that can allow the people of cuba to have unfettered access to the internet.

figure out a way to do it and let us get it done. those three points, i think, can make a big difference. >> they're expected to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure. what type of deal would you be willing to support? >> what they're voting on is a shell vote. it's no bill. literally a shell vote. no details tied to it. it's basically to start the process. i don't know how anybody can be asked to vote on a bill that doesn't exist yet. i want to support an infrastructure teal. what i want it to be? i want it to help against mitigating against sea level rise, build roads, build bridges. broadband access. and invest in infrastructure and if we can come up with something

like that and it's paid for in a responsible way, then it's something i can be supportive of it. i want to be supportive of something and i hope we come up with something that's reasonable. i can't give my opinion on a bill that i haven't seen and hasn't been written yet. >> fair point when you said i didn't see that exchange, i'm working on other things. i get it. >> please get vaccinated. evil fn you get the disease, you don't go to the hospital, you don't get into baited and you don't die. >> no matter how many times people are told, they don't believe the vaccine is safe. >> my high school football teammate just died. >> sorry to hear that. a new study says johnson & johnson's vaccine may be more

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we should point out to you that this study's based on experiments done in a lab and not from real-world examples. plus, it has not been peer reviewed and is not conclusive. johnson & johnson responded saying the company data shows a single dose of its vaccine had a strong, persistent response against the delta variant. this comes as the cdc says the delta variant accounts for 83% of infections in this country. cbs news medical contributor, there he is, dr. david agus, joins us this morning to discuss. hey, dr. david agus. if you've gotten the j&j vaccine, should you be worried? >> hey, gayle. no. it is a study that should not have gotten media attention. it only looked at the antibodies in the lab. it didn't look at t cells which are the dominant way you respond to vaccines. it's kind of a meaningless study that got a lot of headlines that it shouldn't have. >> this is frustrating. why is it getting the headlines? there's already so many people freaked out to begin with to get the vaccine in any form.

then you see a headline like this and, see, i'm not getting it. very frustrating. >> it's trufrustrated and inappropriate. they're putting this out in a non-we're review. if you are driving and you think it's going to take two hours and ten minutes, you forget the bladder size of the driver. >> i like that. but it is -- what is troubling are these breakthrough cases of people who have gotten the vaccine. have there been more breakthrough cases in people who had the j and jj vaccine because it's troubling to think i can get it even though i got the vaccine. >> you hit it. the way you know a vaccine works is in the real world. if there were more breakthroughs

with j&j, we're not seeing more serious cases or hospitalizations with j&j or with pfizer/mod. they're all about the same. the very, very rare serious ones and the very, very rare hospitalizations. there are some that get some mild symptoms after exposure to the delta variant, but they're rather mild symptoms in almost all cases. >> do you think there's a possibility that the people who received the j&j vaccine might need a booster shot sooner than others? >> i think everybody who received a vaccine and who is elderly or has issues with their immune system at some point will need a booster. i don't think it's j&j specific. going into this, we knew that two shots were better than one for an immune response. make a more potent immune response. j&j is one shot. they did a, a remarkable thing. there are a cohort who don't

want one shot. individuals who would never show up for the second one. there was a need for it. it was an effective vaccine that worked. a little bit lower immune response, but it's worked on every variant to date. >> real quick, reiterate, if you've been vaccinated and you do become infected with covid-19, what are the chances that you end on a ventilator or possible dying? >> it's near zero. literally near zero. all of the current vaccines work against the delta variant and every variant out there. and that is why every day i thank science and somebody up there for doing this because we are safe at the present time. >> all right. dr. david agus with words of wisdom as always. thank you, doctor. appreciate it. we'll be right back.

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there's a family text, and we were sending messages back and forth just sort of checking in with each other. then i don't know, maybe 90 minutes went by, and i still hadn't fallen asleep. i look at the family text and this guy is messaging everybody -- go to sleep. we agreed you were going to go to sleep. >> hey, you're supposed to be asleep. what are you doing? >> go to bed. we're going to space in the morning. >> i finally slept. did you finally sleep a little bit? >> yeah. >> we woke up early, too. >> they woke up for severally. i thought, how can you sleep -- jeff is 57, his brother is 53. his mom and dad were there. i talked to them. mom said she wasn't nervous because she has great confidence. dad said, now i can breathe. he was very nervous. they were there. it is dangerous, i guess that's why i was interested -- i kept thinking of "challenger." and think ing please don't let this happen. it didn't.

it was very tense. i was checking the thing, my heart rate was going up. >> we could tell. you were super nervous the whole time. >> kirby said, mom, were you thinking you were up in the thing? >> in spirit you were there with them. >> in spirit i was. >> that's really funny. for my story, did you ever wake up and brush your teeth and get dressed and get ready for work, and then you figure out it's a saturday and you don't have to work? that happens sometimes. never happened to you, gayle? >> no. it's a saturday? >> all right. so -- for my story, a new jersey man, he's going viral on tiktok because he cleaned the wrong condo. here's what happened -- louis angelino iii arrived at what he thought was his friend's home. he vacuumed, dusted, fluffed the pillows. turns out he wasn't at mark's home at all. watch. >> he calls like, yo, where are you? i was like, i'm in your living room waiting for you to walk in. i'm playing with your cat.

he goes, man, i don't have a cat. >> i don't have a cat. turns out he was at beth motzel's house and her husband's home. the company had left the key under their mat for their contractor. she said she got a nervous call from her husband saying someone broke in -- someone broke into the house and also cleaned it from top to bottom. >> instead of being a cleaning man, he was a criminal. >> exactly. >> breaking and entering. >> that's a good one. >> they lot to laugh about. i think i'm getting broken into, but he's also doing a really good job cleaning the house. >> yeah. i i don't think he was paid for the t2.5 hours. i love the moment of i don't have a cat. my story is about norway's women's handball team speaking out after the sport's disciplinary commission fined the athletes for not wearing bikini bottoms. >> what? >> the team decided to wear thigh-length shorts at a tournament to protest the rules. this is what they were supposed

to wear -- midriff-baring tops and bikini bottoms. they had to pay more than $1,700 for, quote, improper clothing. male players can play in tank tops and shorts, leading to charges of sexism among those weighing in. >> no kidding. >> legend billie jean king said the sexualization of women's athletes must stop. it's -- you know -- >> looking at that picture. can we put that up again? >> that's very stark. >> it tells the story. >> here's the exact wording from the international handball federation. "women have to wear bikini bottoms" with, quote, a close fit and cut at an upward angle toward the top of the leg. who knew how specific that would be? the nor kwwegian federation sai women should have the right attire for competing in a sport. norway's been asking for the change for years and nothing has happened. the international federation says we don't know why the rule is there.

>> yeah, exactly. 2021. get with the program. >> right. turning back to the olympics now, our next guest is the most-decorated u.s. olympian in women's track and field. but allyson felix is also helping some fellow female athletes achieve their olympic dreams. the nine time, nine-time medalist with her sister athleta and women's sports organization are launching a $200,000 grant program to cover childcare costs for competing athletes. nine have already been chosen. six of whom will compete in tokyo, including hammer thrower gwen berry. each will receive $10,000. >> great. >> allyson felix is joining us now to talk about this. >> yay. >> welcome, we're so excited to talk to you. >> yes. we are. >> thank you. thank you so much for having me. >> so how did this idea -- i think a lot of folks probably don't think about this, those of white house us who watch sports. why was it important to

accomplish? >> well, being a mom myself, you know, i really understood the -- the challenges that mom athletes face. and my partnership with athleta, we wanted to do things differently and really bring some change to the industry. so this is an area where we felt like, you know, we could do something. >> so six of the nine inaugural recipients are headed to tokyo with you. how are they chose senior citizen -- chosen? what's the process? >> yeah. you can apply through the women's sports foundation. and as long as you have a child who's under 18, you can tell a little bit more about your financial situation, and you know, we just want to help. you know, i know obviously the burden of childcare, and we just really want mom athletes not to have to focus on making a choice between competition and motherhood. >> i love seeing the pictures of you and cameron, 2 years old. she is adorable. is it because of what you went through yourself that you thought i know this can help other people? i'm curious for people to hear

exactly how you were affected by this. does cameron understand what you do for a living? >> cammie definitely understands a lot more now what i do. she's definitely into cheering and, you know, run, mama, run, all of that. but yeah, it was really difficult. you know, when i just had her and i was back competing and i was on the circuit. and so many things that people just really don't think about, some of the practical things and the logistics, and a lot of barriers that women face when they have children and they want to compete. and so knowing these hardships and feeling like we can do something about this, and also really wanting to spur some change industry-wide really, you know, allowed myself, athleta, women's sports foundation, to create this power of she fund. >> you're heading to your fifth olympics. this one's different, no fans this year. tokyo even talking about possibly canceling the olympics at the last minute. how is that affecting the way

you feel about the olympics this year? >> i mean, it's definitely been challenging. i think obviously this year in general for everyone, you know, has been. there's been so much uncertainty and so it just seems like, you know, it keeps going. all i can do is focus on myself and all the preparation that has gone into this. and you know, i'm going to give it my all as long as i'm begin the opportunity. >> are you a little worried, though, as you head out? >> i think, you know, obviously that -- my health and everyone else's health is, you know, kind of on the forefront of my mind. and i want everyone to be safe. yeah, there's no running from that. >> you're one medal away from being the most decorated woman in track and field. >> woohoo. yeah. >> are you thinking about that? >> yeah. do you feel pressure? >> you know what, that -- that record is not really, you know, on top of mind. really my individual goals are, you know, it would be amazing for that to happen.

but it's just so special for me to be able to make this team. it's been such a fight and a challenge to get here. for me, it's so successful to say that, you know, i'm a five-time olympian. >> you've launched a shoe and lifestyle brand. let ae's tell people about that. what was the inspiration behind it? >> what is it called? >> sashe. >> i wear size ten shoe. and i wear a size ten on the dot -- 12 on the bottom. do with that what you will. >> got you. >> what's it called? >> sashe. >> it's sashe. a lifestyle brand for and by women. and it really came into existence just through my own experience and feeling overlooked. a lot of times women's shoes are made for men and we're an afterthought. i felt like instead of constantly asking for change, you know, i wanted to create it. and i'm so proud that i'll be able to compete in my own brand

in the olympics. >> we are, too. before you go, what do you think about the story we had from norway about the women volleyball players, you know, being fined -- what is it? >> handball players -- >> handball players, being fined because they're wearing bikini bottoms -- >> they want to wear shorts. >> you tell it, anthony. you tell it. >> i think she heard it. >> yeah. i heard it. crazy. i mean, i can't believe that's actually a thing. i mean, it's -- it's absolutely insane. >> we all feel the same way. >> insane. that's the word. >> be the change you want to see, allyson felix. you're doing that. thank you so much for spending time with us. good luck! good luck in tokyo!

aw. the olympics have a long way to go, and there is still high expectations for this team. not to worry. features the first pair of sisters to play on the same u.s. women's soccer olympic roster. that's fun. "cbs this morning saturday's" dana jacobson spoke to both of them. good morning to you again. >> good morning to you again. for any athlete achieving

olympic status isn't easy. for the mewis family it's what sibling rivalry is all about. even before sisters sam and kristie were headed for tokyo they had become a duo known just by their last name looking to bring home the gold. so is it mewis, mewis -- >> we decided on mewis. >> reporter: no matter the name, sam and kristie mewis have been making headlines as sisters and teammates on the u.s. women's national soccer team. [ cheers ] >> three in the back -- the u.s. -- >> the pass and goal. another from the u.s. -- >> we were scoring one after another after another. [ cheers ] oh, my god. i have to win this game and score. it's embarrassing if i don't score now. >> across in front of it -- mewis.

>> reporter: the mewis taking sibling rivalry to a new level. >> we were giggling. >> reporter: the joy in each other's success wasn't always the case. what was it like in the mewis household when you were kids? >> it was a lost losing for me. >> reporter: sam, the younger of the two with 20 months between them -- >> i'm sure it was annoying for kristie to have me treeing to beat her. -- trying to beat her. it was the best challenge i think i could have asked for. >> it has molded us into like the competitive psycho that's we are now because of like everything we would compete against. like everything, like for the tv remote. >> kristie always had to take the first bite of pizza even though she would burn her mouth. i'm taking the first bite. >> my parents, i don't know how they dealt with it. >> reporter: that would be bob and medicalates who back up their -- melissa who back up their daughters' account. >> they were a handful. >> we had some knock down, drag-out easter egg hunts over the years. it was hilarious. >> reporter: in 2008 the duo

became the first sisters to make a u.s. soccer world cup roster as part of the under 17 team. each eventually set off on her own path with sam surpassing her big sis in 2019 winning world cup gold. kristie, it's a spot you want to be inment you weren't. >> it was such an incredible feeling like for my sister. it was obviously like i was slightly jealous because, of course, like i want to be there. but i feel like i had an impact in my sister's life. so it almost felt like i had a little bit of success from it, too. >> reporter: mom melissa says there's no doubt about kristie's impact. >> they wanted the same things, and kristie was protective of her territory. sam has become the player that she has because of kristie never giving her a break ever. >> reporter: and just like their childhood days, sam's win helped reignite kristie's competitive fire. >> i got cut from the national team. i ended up tearing my acl that

year which was obviously devastating. it's like one of the best things that's ever happened because it just truly woke me up. and sieeing sam win the world cup, there is no way in this world that i'm not getting back on that team. >> mewis, the shot -- goal! welcome back, kristie mewis. >> reporter: she not only played her way back on to the national team but made the olympic roster alongside sam. another first for siblings in the sport. can you kind of remember when you both found out your daughters were both going to be olympians? bob, you're already smiling. >> i heard melissa's phone ring, and it was a facetime call. >> i said, we both made it! we had tears. it was just -- such a relief. >> while sam got to the world cup, for kristie to be able to join her made it so much more

rewarding for all of us. >> mewis on the turn. received it well to her sister sam -- shop and will goal. sam mewis from kristie mewis! [ cheers ] >> reporter: do you have moments now where you sort of sit back and think, is this for real? >> we said that we wanted to do this in 1999 when we watched our first women's world cup. and it's like here we are 20-something years later, and we're like doing what we said we'd do. >> it does feel natural that like we are just playing together again. but then there are other times when i'm like we need to get a picture. like we're -- we're going care about this. some other times i look like, oh, my god, that's my sister there doing what we have loved to do together for however many years it is. >> we're all mewis now. >> love mom and dad in the back yard. all of it. >> such an interesting relationship. pushing each other on. >> go mewis. >> we'll be right back. stay with us.

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