john torres, and dr. john, our first question is a timely one, here it is. >> hi, i'm abilene and this is my brother, we have a question about ice cream. why sometimes when you eat a whole lot of ice cream do you get a big old ice cream headache >> i'm getting a little bit of a headache, i've got to tell you, doc. >> we've all been there before even in the medical community. we like to make things complicated. it has medical terms, cold stimulus headache, or -- it basically means that it is affecting your brain through your mouth what happens is on the roof of your mouth, when you look at the roof of your mouth if that area starts getting cold because you have a popsicle and you have it in your mouth. you have some ice cream that you have up against the roof of your mouth and it's making it cold, or even more so, a smoothie because the straw goes right to that area, if that roof of your mouth gets cold very quickly that can cause the headache to move into your brain area and that can cause you to have tha

john torres, nbc news, denver. >>> still ahead, how this athlete beat the odds against covid and what'snspiring him to keep running. >>> there is good news tonight about an athlete making an incredible comeback and winning the fight of his life against all odds about this time last year 39-year-old ben o'donnell was struggling to recover from a near-fatal case of covid. >> it was the sickest that i've been i felt -- i couldn't move i almost didn't make it >> reporter: the former college fullback and iron man athlete was minnesota's first critically ill covid patient in march 2020. he was intubated on life support and not expected to survive. were you ever fearful of the future? >> i had a lot of questions about the future, about what's going to change. from that point on it's been how can i be better tomorrow than i am today >> reporter: but to be better he first had to get better >> you can see i've got another big first today. i'm taking my walk and i'm doing my pt without any oxygen >> reporter: and so inspired by his wife deanna and 5-year-old daughter ben decided to recommit to his

john torres joins me now. he is an owner at a condo in the condo building but he wasn't there.it is still standing but everything around it is gone. john, thank you. sorry about your neighbors and friends there. appreciate you join us this evening. you've had this condo for, what, 16 years now? >> 16 years in may. >> you were down there when you got the april letter from the condo board talking about the damage to the building accelerating and explaining there was going to be a $15 million assessment. was it clear to you between the letter and what you seen firsthand that the building was in bad shape? what did you think? >> yeah, i really thought the building was in bad shape. new year's eve of 2018 it was brought to my attention by somebody that said it was a contractor and showed me structural cracks on my side of the building. he blamed it on the building next door when they were putting pilings in. he showed me there was cracks on the side wall on the side of the pool and he was mapping this out for me in the sand. it was new year's eve and that was the last time i saw thi

john torres and dr. peggy hamburg. thank you to both of you. dr.st to you, what does this landmark decision mean to the 6 million americans that suffer from alzheimer's and their families. how does it work? >> the hope is what it means for them and that's what they're talking about right now, is how much hope it gives them not because of this medicine, but because it opens the door to more research and more medicines down the line. you mentioned a couple of points there. this is not a cure for alzheimer's and it doesn't reverse some of the cognitive decline they get with alzheimer's, but what is does is it's a monoclonal antibody that attacks the amyloid plaque and it is alzheimer's disease ask alzheimer's dementia. it doesn't reverse anything that could have happened before and it has to be done early on and that's why it is so controversial and that's why experts say it should not have been approved to at least give the family some hope and we talked to the patients themselves and they say that's exactly what it's done and given them hope and giv

john torres. mike, this is something if you've been tracking the numbers and looking at where the country is, many experts said it was very ambitious to look at that july 4th deadline for 70% of americans and now the white house it seems, mike, is getting ready to acknowledge that very fact. >> reporter: yes, that's right, hallie. we've seen this over the course of the biden administration so far. it's been a real feature. the president likes to set these ambitious goals and very often they've been able to clear them and when we heard though the president on friday touting sort of a milestone we hadn't been talking about, 300 million vaccine doses in 150 days, it made me wonder if they were looking at the math right about 65% of adults with one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and really starting to lay the groundwork for missing what goal he set two months ago of getting to 70% by the fourth of july. so indeed, we are reporting that at the covid briefing later today, jeff sainz will acknowledge th

john torres is with us now. dr. john, good to have you on. this means for people, right, where things go from here. especially as we seem to becorn kind of normalcy. >> this is a significant step because what this means is they're now looking for full approval. up until now johnson and johnson, pfizer, moderna have had emergency authorization. it is temporary in times of an emergency like a pandemic. two months of data after the second shot on patients. so they're getting that data and they're going to submit it on a rolling basis. that's what happens when they apply for approval. they will sit down and look at the application. that could mean a few changes for them. they will be able to have commercials. they can advertise it, they can get it into doctor's offices, and perhaps most significantly entities with the military once it gets full approval will be able to mandate it instead of recommend it. i think that will be a big change in a big paradigm shift in their way of thinking. once it gets approval i think people will have more confiden

john torres explains more people with antibodies means fewer cases and chance of spread. >> we have actuallyttened the curve. even though you might see the numbers creep up a little bit, you will not see the huge spikes that we have seen before. you will see little waves and ripples in those waves because of the high vaccination rates. that means a couple things will have to happen. we will keep having to impose some restrictions if those numbers do start going up just to make sure we don't get to those spikes. number two, make sure more people get vaccinated so we keep that curve coming down. >>> you can check out more of this story and others like it on our new platform, nbc lx. it is all day online at lx.com or on your tv. it is channel 185 if you have xfinity cable. now to san francisco where the cloud cover is present. but the longest running outdoor festival in the bay area is set to kick off today. hopefully the weather will cooperate. it is the 84th season. this year it will feature gospel, punk, classical music. the festival will open with oakland grammy winner. doors open at noon.

john torres explains more people with antibodies means fewer cases and the chance of spread. >> even creep up a little bit you're not going to see the huge spikes we saw before. you'll see little waves and little ripples in the waves of cases going up because of the high vaccination rate. but that means a couple things will have to happen. number one, we're going to keep having to impose some restrictions if those numbers do start going up just to make sure we don't get to those spikes and then, number two, make sure people get vaccinated and we keep the curve coming down. >> check out the full story and others like it on our news platform 11-15 over the air, channel 185 on xfinity cable or anytime you want on lx.com. >>> no mask, no ride. that's uber's policy despite california's grand reopening this week as participate of the ride share company's door-to-door safety standard. the mask policy applies even if you're vaccinated. uber says it's to make everyone feel safe. now the company also announced drivers can cancel trips without penalty if they don't feel safe because a rider isn

john torres for more. let's start with the moderna news. of a deal would it be to have another potentially approved shot for kids between 12 and 17? >> it's like you said, it would greatly expand the amount of vaccines available right now. it looks like this could be happening hopefully over the next month or so. if you look at pfizer, they applied april 9th. got notified on may 10th. it took around a month. they are applying on june 10th. more than likely, early july. you have to remember, children are going to need two shots a month apart. they get the first the second or third week of july. the next one second or third week of august. they have to wait two weeks to be fully vaccinated. the goal is to get the supply so they can be vaccinated by the time they go back to school in the fall. around 7 million children in the 12 to 17 age group have ended up getting vaccines. 3 million are fully vaccinated out of 25 million kids in the age group. it's important we get more vaccine out there, it's more available. this is going to help do that.

john torres has more in our sunday focus. >> reporter: the sounds of crowds cheering are starting toy for the first time in two years. >> amusement parks now packed, restaurants full, and coldplay live on a "today" plaza to kick off the city concert ♪♪ ♪♪ >> in front of a fully vaccinated audience. >> i haven't seen a real human person for about four years. >> life is starting to get back to normal with california and new york formerly the epicenters of the virus fully reopening this week? california is coming roaring back. >> this is a momentous day, and we deserve it. >> but it's not all smooth sailing ahead. a covid strain first seen in india called the delta variant, could soon become the dominant strain in the u.s. >> it is more transmissible and possibly more dangerous in terms of causing severe disease. >> the same variant is responsible for the surge of coronavirus cases in the united kingdom that has the government pumping the brakes on its plan to re-open. >> uk is having a big issue with the delta variant right now. is that a precursor to what could happen here or is that

john torres were you surprised that the fda gave this conditional approval to the drug, given the uncertaintyprove it because they didn't think it worked >> savannah, i was surprised a little bit, because like you mentioned, a couple years ago it was denied because it didn't prove to be working. they went back and looked at the data, when they filtered through the data, they found for a certain subset of patients who got high dosing, it seemed to work in at least one of the trials they did an exact trial like it and it didn't work in that one there's a lot of confusion experts are going back and forth with those in the alzheimer's community, particularly alzheimer's association saying we really need this drug, like stephanie had mentioned, but other experts saying this is not the one we need to have right now. we need to keep doing research i think that's one of the big reasons they went ahead and approved it. it is giving families hope, it does give us one tool we can use and it's opening the door to more research, which i think is something we really need. >> dr. torres, here's the thing. i

torres and bounce back? the city hoping to cash in after taking a financial beating. >>> i'm john ramos in healdsburg. first blood to >>> a desperate situation in sonoma county. lake mendocino a major water source continues to dry up. there being told to shut down all outdoor watering systems. john ramos is in the north bay with just how bad things are. >> reporter: on saturday the city of healdsburg was slapped with immediate mandatory emergency water rationing. today, we thought we would show you why. healdsburg has a major drought problem. it began asking its residents to cut water use by 20%, clear back on may 3rd, when there was still as some hope of rain. but now, all automated landscape irrigation is banned and residents are limited to 74 gallons per day. and here's why. the city gets its water exclusively from lake mendocino, northeast of ukiah, and it is in a world of hurt. at the percent of capacity, the boat ramp is far from the water's edge and fishermen have quite a hike to get to anything resembling moisture. >> i want to say within the last month, it has gotten a couple of feet, you kno