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month for the biden agenda, showing more question marks than check marks so far as the white house tries to light a fire on fighting crime and protecting voting rights. the new reporting this morning on what our sources are telling our team about the strategies. and on the pandemic front, pfizer meeting with top health officials today on the potential need for a booster shot. we're live in one of the nation's hot spots with medical experts standing by. good morning, i'm hallie jackson. garrick and mike, big week for the biden agenda and for politics here in washington. garrick, give us the reality check because congress has to do stuff now to avoid big problems later when we run into the annual fight over government funding, et cetera. >> that's right. the senate is back and they have a laundry list to get done. first they have to turn two of the president's biggest priorities into legislation.

that's the bipartisan infrastructure framework that's been in agreement for two weeks now but not yet legislation. then there's everything else in the president's families plan, everything left out of the bipartisan infrastructure agreement needs to be turned into a reconciliation bill, the bill wisconsin democrats can get something to the president's desk. majority leader schumer's hope is to do both of those things between now and august. you get the bipartisan framework into a bill, get it passed and sent to the house, and get at least the first vote in what is a long series of votes on the reconciliation bill done as well. by the way, they also need to try to find a way to fund the capitol police and pay back the other groups that helped with security here at the capitol in the aftermath of january 6th. and if there's a deal to be had on police reform, tim scott, the republican negotiator, said it needs to come this month as well. all of that is the action just on the senate side here that needs to get done before and if

lawmakers are going to go home for august. >> mike, you are getting some new details today about president biden's meeting on the gun reform strategy. interestingly, the highlight from the white house how they're putting out how democrats are funding the police, inverting one of the talking points the conservatives tried to use against the president's party. >> that's right, hallie. it is the second time in less than a month the president will be talking about crime prevention strategy with an emphasis on using covid relief money states and cities have an opportunity to expand and retain existing police forces. this is a white house mindful of the spike in violent crime over the past 18 months. they're trying to frame this as a gun rights issue, violence prevention issue, and something that democrats should be following the white house's example and talking about the effectiveness of community policing and other strategies. when you talk about the white house's legislative strategy it

is clear there's not much hope for significant gun legislation in the house or senate to reach the president's desk, and that's the case for so much of the president's legislative agenda. what the white house likes to talk about is their focus on being able to do multiple things at once, but so much of their energy is on the infrastructure bill garrett laid out, the human and traditional infrastructure package, but what we're seeing are other things that the president campaigned on including lgbtq rights among other issues. that's an example of things that hopefully in the white house's view be part of the political momentum they can bill by passing significant infrastructure, and if they get the reconciliation package through they can tackle more of the priorities down the road. at the moment that's where the focus of their energy is now. >> mike memoli, garrett haake, thanks to both of you. to cuba and the historic protests happening right now as we told you at the top of the show. the country's president trying to redirect some of the anger and pain towards the united states. here now former congressman

carlos pribello, whose parents fled cuba during the castro good morning. good morning. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> of course. we have to start with the nuts and bolts of what happened. in the last hour, not even, we've heard from leaders in cuba saying let's point the finger at the united states for creating the problems we are seeing demonstrators protest about. give us a couple of things. first, the context of what we've seeing on the ground as someone who has followed cuba for year and the rare nature of this. second, what happens on the political front because we've heard calls for president biden to do more. >> that's right, hallie. it is absolutely historic and extremely dramatic by cuban standards. the last time we saw protests of this scale, and not even this big, was in 1994 when thousands of cubans went to the waterfront

there in havana demanding basic rights and freedoms, protesting against conditions in the country back then. it was limited to havana. these protests are all over the country, and the difference between then and now is not only the size and the magnitude of the protest but the options that are available -- fidel castro, of course, was still alive in power. he is no longer around today. his brother raoul castro has appointed the president. in '94 about 40,000 cubans left in rafts. that option is not available because u.s. immigration policy towards cuba has changed, so that puts even more pressure on the government than what they faced in 1994. it is important to note, hallie, and president biden did express this in his statement today,

these protests are not only about covid and food shortages in the country. they are about basic human rights. the cuban people want the freedoms that we enjoy here in the united states, and certainly president biden did capture that in his statement. >> you also, you know, can't talk about what is happening in cuba right now without talking about the sanctions that the trump administration put in place and the impact on that. there's also the question that some have been asking, you know, about why now, why at this moment. while covid and the pandemic is obviously not to blame for the entirety of these demonstrations, it does seem to be in some ways the spark that lit the match over the last 24 hours or so. >> well, certainly. covid, the food shortages, the regime's mishandling of the pandemic catalyzed these protests, but if you hear the

protests they're yelling freedom in the streets. it has been 62 years they've been denied freedoms. they don't have free and fair elections. dissent is not allowed in the island. miguel diaz-canel, the president, has called on cubans to turn against one another, has essentially -- or in order -- their position of power. what a lot of republicans and democrats, hallie, because there won't be much light between bob menendez and marco rubio on this issue, what people are calling for is for the biden administration to make strong statements, to rally diplomatic support from other countries. >> well, on that point -- >> it will even be -- >> congressman, on that point literally as you were delivering that answer, we have a statement now from president biden that was just delivered from the white house. i want to read it to you and i want to read it to our viewers here as we're having this conversation here. the president saying, i will

read it in its entirety. it is like eight sentences, saying, we stand with the cuba pneumonia and their call for relief from the grip of the pandemic and from decades of repression and economic suffering to which they've been rejected by cuba's athousand tarian regime. the cuban people are asserting fundamental rights including the right of peaceful protests and the right to free di determine their own future must be respected. president biden wraps up his statement on the unrest in cuba by saying, the united states calls on the cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves. congressman, that's our statement from president biden coming in to us as we speak here on msnbc "reports." i wonder your reaction on what we heard from the president? >> hallie, it is a strong statement. it captures exactly what is happening in cuba. it sends a message to the world

that the united states stands with the people of cuba, those who are demonstrating peacefully in the street and, again, to the regime which is repressing them, as they typically do, with violence and encouraging cubans to turn against one another. by the way, hallie, this also has important political implications. in 2020 that's a lot of support in south florida from the hispanic community. a statement like this goes a long way toward showing south florida's hispanic community that the administration is paying attention to what is happening in cuba and that they are on the right side of the issue. >> former congressman carlos cribella. thank you for being with us as we follow the developing news. speaking of developing news we have more to get to on this monday morning. you have pfizer meeting with the fda today to talk about the possibility of another booster shot as the number of covid cases around the country goes up. we are talking with one of our medical experts about the

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covid numbers this morning moving in the wrong direction with the seven-day average for new cases up 16% nationally. right now four in every ten people being hospitalized are under 50 years. this as we expect potential movement today from pfizer on the possibility of a booster shot. as we have talked about on this show the politicization of the pandemic having an effect. let's bring in steve patterson in las vegas, the state with one of the highest rates of new covid cases, nevada. also with us is dr. black stock,

founder and ceo of advancing health equity. good morning to you both. steve, talk us through the rising code rates and what is being done in places like vegas where you are for people who have held off on getting the vaccine so far. >> reporter: well, there is a widespread effort to get people vaccinated. the good news, if there is any about the state of covid in nevada, is that people actually do regret not having the vaccine if they haven't in the state. it is because there may be no more dangerous time to not be vaccinated than right now. the delta variant is thought to be the dominant strain here in nevada, and the state is only about 43% fully immunized. it gets worse which it look at areas like the affluent suburbs and poor areas in the inner city. we visited both where here in this area of las vegas you will find subdivisions and zip codes only 25% vaccinated. another subdivision we visited

was 30% vaccinated. there we found a vaccination drive where people were getting shots in their arms. we spoke to u.s. senator who talked about getting to neighborhoods where vaccinations were lesser but also to people getting the shot themselves. i spoke to a pair of women who just got the shot. here is what they told me. do you feel better knowing you are vaccinated, that you will be? >> yes, because we are hosting a wedding last month so we are having a lot of people. >> reporter: what took you guys so long? >> we were just undecided. >> a little scared. wanted to see what would happen first before we actually went ahead and did it. >> reporter: the problem is while there are a significant portion of people that regretted not getting the vaccine that are now getting a shot, there are also an even more significant portion of those people that are in the hospital. hospitalizations are at rates we haven't seen since february. we know the federal government now working with the government here in nevada to put surge teams on the ground. very reminiscent of when we were

in the height of the pandemic, hallie. >> it is a scary thought. steve patterson live for us in vegas. thank you. dr. black stock, to you now. i know and i am sure you have been talking to folks, some of whom may be vaccine hesitant. when you look at the places in the country where there are lower vaccination rates, they are largely places that trend politically red. this is something born out by the numbers. we've been talking about on this show, seeing that. i wonder, dr. blackstock, how you have those conversations. because dr. fauci, i found it interesting. he was asked a question by john dickerson on cbs about the communication. i'm paraphrasing, it is like they're almost insulted, you don't know enough, you don't know better. how do you communicate to people, perhaps in these more red politically minded communities, about getting the vaccination now, given the notion has been politicized, by

other networks that are propagating misinformation about what the vaccine actually does? >> we have seen the politicization of this pandemic, masking, the vaccine, cause harm. it is costing lives. i think in terms of the areas that are unvaccinated, we are seeing that political divide that you mentioned. some of the surveying is showing that in these populations people are more likely to listen to their health care professional. they're more likely to listen to their employers. so the biden administration -- >> meaning locally, right, the people in their communities and not east or west coast, whatever? >> right. no, absolutely locally. locally, you know, their primary care physicians, their pediatricians, their own employers. that will make the difference. they are less likely to trust government. so we cannot use a one-size-fits-all strategy even for the unvaccinated, but definitely for those who are a definite no at this point we need to really use the approach of, you know, talking to health

care professionals and getting them to really do a lot of outreach during their visits with patients. we have to get employers to offer paid sick leave to encourage vaccination and other incentives to their employees, even to offer vaccines on site to their employees as well. that will make the difference. >> what is the missing link in the tone of the conversations that is happening, dr. blackstock, particularly when you look at the way local health care providers, for example, are speaking to members of their community because obviously the health care providers understand the importance of getting the vaccine, but clearly there's a connection not being made here. what do you think that is? >> right. what we are seeing and in talking to the unvaccinated, people think that the pandemic has been over hyped. they don't believe that, you know, the numbers of deaths, they don't believe it has been as severe. actually, what we're seeing right now in real-time is that those same areas, that's where the upticks are happening.

>> right. >> in missouri we are seeing hospitals being overwhelmed. in arkansas. so, you know, i think now would be a great opportunity to really, you know, accelerate that outreach to show people that if you are unvaccinated you are at risk. this is going to become a pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> i have to ask you about the other news this morning as well which is pfizer, and representatives from that company meeting with top health officials today including the cdc director, talking about the possibility of maybe a third shot. this would be a booster shot. we know that governmental health officials so far have said that's not needed right now, that if you are fully vaccinated, meaning two of the pfizer or moderna shots or one of the j & j, that you are good basically. how do you see the meeting going down? do you think pfizer should potentially get an emergency authorization for a third shot? >> well, first i will say essentially this announcement by press release was a little bit shocking because, you know, we

have never seen the data. the data, hopefully, will be presented at today's meeting with the cdc and fda. we know the study was quite small. all of the data we have so far on all three vaccines, both direct and indetective evidence, show that the vaccines are still effective against symptomatic disease as well as the most important end points, preventing hospitalization and death. but what is important is that there is a sub set of the population that may need a booster shot and those are immuno compromised people and elderly people. both moderna and pfizer are running studies now on those populations but we really need the fda and cdc to get involved because we see israel giving third shots to immuno compromised people at this point. >> doctor, great to have you on the show. thank you for being here. two nbc exclusives, the u.s. commander in afghanistan

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correspondent courtney kube. thank you for being with us live from kabul. i know you are just off this exclusive interview with these men. tell us what they said. >> reporter: yes, that's right. we have heard from both general mackenzie and general scott miller, who is the outgoing commander here in afghanistan. we heard from both today at a ceremony. general miller was pretty reflective. he talked about his time here. he said he has a lifetime of memory from his days in afghanistan. he served here for almost three years, longer than any other military commander in this nearly two-decade-long war. we also heard from general frank mackenzie. he spoke more directly, in addition to praising general miller and his time here. he spoke more directly to the afghan leaders here at the ceremony including the national security leaders, abdullah abdullah was here. general mackenzie spoke to them saying, look, there are difficult and potential dark days ahead for this country, but the u.s. will continue to stay -- will be with you.

the u.s. will continue to partner with you. the reality though, hallie, most u.s. troops are out as part of the biden administration's decision to withdraw all u.s. troops by the beginning of september. we can say now most of them are out and general frank mackenzie is in charge of the u.s. forces who are here. most of them are responsible for embassy security though. >> courtney kube, live for us in afghanistan. courtney, thank you for being with us. great reporting and we'll look for more from you throughout the day here on msnbc and tonight on "nbc nightly news." thank you. to another nbc news exclusive, a look inside facebook you will only see here. a company, employees say, bent growth at any cost. that's what they're saying about the social media giant. nbc's jake ward is outside facebook headquarters in menlo park, california. jake, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hallie. that's right. in this explosive new book they say that facebook ignored years of warning that what it had

built was not only divisive, it was even dangerous. to its nearly 3 billion users, facebook's mantra is to connect people. but a new book suggests the truth is much more ugly. >> what is an ugly truth about facebook? >> in order to keep growing in the way that facebook has grown, people are going to continue to get hurt. >> reporter: they are award-winning investigative reporters for "the new york times". in their new book they tell the inside story of facebook between the 2016 and 2020 elections. >> we had over 400 people, mostly employees currently there or who have left, who have confided in us what they think are very, very troubling patterns within the company. >> reporter: they say most of their sources were anonymous because they feared retribution from facebook, and they say the founder, mark zuckerberg, believed in growth at any cost. take donald trump whose inflammatory speech and false claims violated facebook's guidelines but kept users engaged.

>> trump had 30 million followers. he was driving people daily. >> reporter: so they say the company allowed him to remain, creating a no fact-checking for politicians policy because such posts were news worthy. zuckerberg placating the president in person at the white house. >> he asked his advisers to give him something that he could offer to trump, and that was the data that showed that trump had the highest engagement of any other politicians in the world. that little piece of data made trump very happy. >> reporter: facebook counters that zuckerberg routinely meets with world lead ears like any ceo. >> i love you and it is freezing out here. >> reporter: it was only after the capitol riots on january 6th and trump's incendiary speech that facebook banned him for two years. >> this is a criminal enterprise. >> reporter: but the book claims when facebook's own research showed promoting more good news on the site caused people to spend less time there, it decided against making changes that would hurt its bottom line. >> in order to keep being profitable, they need you spending as much time as

possible on facebook. if that means showing you news that's bad for the world, then that's going to be what they show you. >> we've asked for -- numerous times for a copy of the book and were unable to get a copy of it. >> reporter: robert traynham is head of facebook's public affairs. he denies the company relies on bad news to keep us engaged. >> it is not in facebook's interest from a representation standpoint and financial standpoint to push our users to negative content. >> a lot of people complain about how divisive our world has become. do you think facebook bears any responsibility for that? >> what we have seen on our platform is the world coming closer and individuals building community. >> reporter: but these authors say facebook profits from our attention and endangers everyone. >> even if you don't use facebook, viral rumors, conspiracies, misinformation are formed there. you can see how being part of a group where everyone is pushing the same piece of misinformation might make it seem true. >> reporter: now, hallie, facebook says that what it knows

of the book suggests that it has cherry picked the facts and has only spoken to disgruntled individuals. that's something the authors vehemently deny, having spent so much time interviewing more than 400 people inside the company. >> these are quite literally hundreds of sources here. it is interesting, jacob, one of the people mentioned over and over again is former president trump. talk about his role in some of this over the last four years. >> reporter: you know, it is extraordinary in this book how often he comes up. really, the former president is sort of the ultimate test for facebook. you know, a company that came up believing that more information is better, that connecting the world is going to be its own reward, and then along comes president trump. at one point during the height of the covid epidemic when president trump was putting out lies and misinformation about treatments, about all of that, there was a senior executive who told the authors here, you know,

we were prepared for the possibility -- i'm paraphrasing here. we were prepared for the possibility there would be misinformation about covid, but we were not prepared for the possibility it might come from the president of the united states. to see that kind of misinformation coming from a source like that and then all of the ways that facebook evidently according to this book had to really bend over backwards to accommodate the president, to keep him on the platform, it was the ultimate test. according to the book, that test did not go well, hallie. >> yeah. jake ward live for us outside menlo park, california. appreciate your reporting on that. coming up on the show, fbi and homeland security officials on the ground in haiti to assess what happened in the aftermath of the assassination of the president there. next up, new details on the overnight arrest of a third suspect with ties to the u.s. plus, speaking of former president trump, still conservatives' overwhelming choice heading towards 2024. we are live with what you need to know about how this discussion went next.

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news out of italy this morning where the pope is being hospitalized a few days longer than expected, recovering from his surgery last week. nbc's molly hunter is posted in rome. molly, we don't know more than that from the vatican, right? tell us what else you have learned. >> reporter: that's right. we know his surgery was last sunday a week ago, and on monday they put out a hallie, and they say he would be in the hospital for about seven days providing there were no complications. so we keep asking the vatican, this is day eight, are there any complications? take a look at the statement they put out this morning. as you said, not a lot of foerp. it says, in order to optimize the medical and rehabilitation therapy, the holy father will remain hospitalized for a few more days. in that statement he also says he sharing the joy, the other big story here is italy's big euro win. hallie, we went back to the

vatican and said are there complications, why is he there? they gave us one more line, they said to start his convalescence in a controlled environment. i saw the pope yesterday. he came out on the tenth floor balcony to have his sunday blessing. hundreds and hundreds of people were below. he stood out for about ten minutes and people were excited. take a quick listen to people i spoke with. >> he actually -- he is in our place, the place where every day we come and study. >> yeah. we thank the doctors and other medical staff so it was amazing for us. >> we came out for, to listen to the pope and it was amazing for the crowd, these special ladies, this special morning. very different from the working days. >> reporter: different than yesterday. >> yes, very different from yesterday. it is -- i will remember for all my life maybe this moment because it is really unique for -- for us.

>> reporter: now, all three of those young people, hallie, they were med students at the hospital. they couldn't believe their luck that the pope was right there speaking at their hospital on a school day. but, hallie, we are going back to the vatican, continue to ask what else don't we know about his condition because he is clearly going to stay past that seven-day mark. hallie. >> yeah, that is for sure. molly hunter, how were the celebrations overnight in rome on that game? you are looking remarkably fresh for what i'm sure was a fun night. >> reporter: voice is a little hoarse. a couple of bags under my eyes. >> that's all right. >> reporter: there's no party like an italian party. this square is actually where one of the biggest parties was. they're cleaning it all up. >> that's awesome. thank you for the live reporting from rome. appreciate it. turning elsewhere overseas with haiti free-falling into a political crisis after the presidential assassination there. the u.s. sending fbi and dhs investigators to assess what is happening on the ground. overnight the arrest of a suspect with ties to the u.s.

a third person with those links. this one a haitian-born florida-based doctor who authorities call one of the intellectual authors of the killing. the president's killing leave a power vacuum. the acting prime minister is calling for international troops to step in. let me bring in gabe gutierrez. how is the administration responding to the question. >> as you mentioned they're sending in fbi and dhs officials to assess the investigation on the ground but right now the biden administration says there's no plans to send in the military just yet. >> we are aware of the request by the haitian government. we are analyzing it like we would any other request for assistance at the pentagon. it is going through a review. i will not get ahead of that process. today an interagency team largely from the department of homeland security and the fbi are heading to haiti to see what we can do to help in the

investigative process. i think that's where our energies are best applied right now. >> and that team met with the political leaders in haiti. hallie, as you mentioned there's a political vacuum going on. there's the interim prime minister, the prime minister that was appointed two days before president moise's death, and then there's also the senate president, also jockeying for power according to nsc statement. those leaders from the fbi and dhs met with those teams. now, hallie, there's also news overnight that the police chief in haiti announced that arrest of a third suspect with american ties. at this point haitian authorities say there have been at least -- there are at least 29 people that were involved in this assassination. so far at least 24 have either been arrested or killed. five of them are still on the run, hallie, and that doctor, haitian doctor who is based in florida, they say that he was even planning to install himself

as the president of that country. there are still many questions though, hallie, about how all of this was financed. that, of course, is part of now an international investigation. hallie. >> gabe gutierrez, appreciate your update. stay on top of the reporting for us from haiti. coming up next on the show, what happened at a conservative gathering headlined by donald trump over the weekend that dr. anthony fauci called horrifying. ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ the instant air purifier removes 99.9% of the virus that causes covid-19 from treated air.

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in michigan right now as we speak a federal judge is considering whether to penalize some of former president trump's lawyers with maybe some fines or something for pushing lies about the 2020 election when they signed on to a lawsuit last year trying to overturn the state's results. we will let you know what happens with lynwood, sidney powell and others as soon as we know. as we said that is happening right now. those election lies front and center at cpac, one of the biggest conservative get-togethers of the year with the former president headlining the final day using that spotlight to resurface his greatest, falsest, conspiracy-est hits. >> the radical left democrats. >> the entire system was rigged.

>> partisan persecution. it is persecution. >> the fake news media cheats. >> the silicon valley tyrants. >> the left wing cancel culture. >> the critical race theorists. jenga but for culture wars. let me go to ali vitali in dallas. ali, more things that weren't from the former president there, but the reason why you go, right, and i'm curious what it was like for you this weekend is as the cpac straw poll found, very obviously unscientific but gives a poll so people at the base not surprising, overwhelmingly favor donald trump for 2024. he still has significant hold with a decent portion of the american population right now. >> yeah, a decent hold with the party in washington and certainly this is a self-selecting group of conservatives, but cpac for many, many years was the vision of where the heart of the

republican party was. so when you look at the straw poll of the few thousand people that came here, it is very clear that trump's hold on this part of the party, the vocal part of the party, is strong. 70% of the people who were at cpac said they would vote for him if he ran again in 2024, but the very fact cpac is doing a poll with trump in the 2024 field and also without trump in the 2024 field is telling about the balancing act the party has had to do since he left office and that they have to do over the course of next few years. they literally had to two it two ways because they don't know what is going to happen. we're watching wait that dance played out in washington. you have people like liz cheney and adam kinsinger saying they want to be an alternate path for people. that don't believe the election was stolen. on the other side you have the majority of the party falling in line with former president donald trump. that is the balancing act.

he took the show on the road. he said he will be vocal about the midterms. he is ramping up his public appearances. and in the public appearances we're seeing conspiracy theories and lies about 2020 election. there is real consequences for that as we saw on january 26th. >> the former president headlines the cpac gathering, it should read that the former president's lies and conspiracies take center stage at cpac because is that s what we have seen happen. there was a significant moment herereflective. that is what is happening in the link to the pandemic. dr. anthony fauci calling that horrifying. that is a sentiment that we have to acknowledge. and we don't do a lot of gazing things here, but that comes from what you see if you watch prime

time fox news and a number of anchors that are smearing these shots basically. >> that's exactly right. all of this misinformation percolates into the base. there are places that affirm these theories, like you mentioned, fox. so there is people in the room, i was at both of them and the first was in february in orlando, florida. at that point vaccinations were not widely prevalent. here at the same time, they're saying you should be vaccinated but they're caveating it saying it is personal choice. >> ali, live for us there, thank

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on a dangerous rise in new cases. tom yamas is there. some athletes may feel like they went back a year ago with the city in lock down. they have to wear masks everywhere they go, tested every day, and it's an added challenge as they prepare mentally and physically to prove they're the best in the world. >> tokyo under a state of emergency and olympians feeling it the moment they land. from long waits to apps that track their every movement. travel limited to the olympic village and event locations. no visiting local sites or restaurants around. >> i'm not going to sugar coat it. it's very hard being out here, staying focused because we're quarantining and we can't go

nowhere. >> athletes are not required to be vaccinated. >> i didn't want to put anything in my body that i didn't know how i would react to. michael andrew competing in three events saying he is not vaccinated and doesn't plan on it in the near future. >> all of us have been through a strict protocol. >> restrictions like no fans have stars like novak djokovic thinking twice about competing. fresh off of his victory at wimbledon he is on track to be the first man to win a golden slam. a grand slam and an olympic medal. >> i was going to go to the olympic games but now i'm divided. it's kind of 50/50 because of what i heard in the last couple

days. for some events, the competition is heating up. team usa suffering a stunning loss to nigeria in basketball in the first olympic exhibition game. >> kevin durant getting stuffed at the rim by precious achua, one of seven nba pros playing for nigeria. the american team also stacked with stars including damien lilliard and jason tatum. >> we have not played together before so we're trying to figure it out. this is good for us and we're going to regroup. >> there is hope that some events outside of tokyo would have spectators, but local leaders in fukushima and others where they had baseball events they will not allow fans either.

tom yamas for us in tokyo. thank you, that does it for us this hour. for now craig melvin picks up our coverage right now. a busy hour with significant developments and several challenges facing the united states. first in the fight against the pandemic, the threat now posed by the highly contagious delta variant has never been clearer. the seven-day average of new cases is up double digits in the united states. so what does it mean for people that have not gotten the vaccine yet? and what could it mean for those of us that have. meanwhile in the best, consequences of climate change have rarely been this visible. exploding wildfires, expanding droughts, and dwindling supplies. i'm going to be joine