in the newsroom, lian menendez, abc 7 news. >> thank you. if you want to get tested for covid-19, we have a link to verified covid sites on our website. you can find that on abc7news.com/vaccine. >> students return to classrooms today. parents dropped off their young ones at the mary farmer elementary school. masks are mandatory and officials are taking precautions to keep everyone safe from covid-19. the district is offering vaccinations for students 12 and older, though vaccinations are not mandatory for students. last will have windows open, lunch periods will be spent outdoors. >> new developments in the santa clara county sheriff's battle to keep her job, a day after san jose mayor sam liccardo danette -- demanded she resign, laurie smith called a news conference. she did not just let issue Ñ i team dan noyes asked her about it. reporter: santa clara county sheriff had her command staff stand behind her for this news conference, one day after san jose mayor called on her to resign. >> time for concern is long past. sheriff smith must re

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liane moriarty is a wonderful writer. i loved these characters.ing they need some help, that everyone's kind of weird and damaged in their own ways. i loved the thought of not only you can get help, but you can get help from strangers. it doesn't have to just be your close group. then it was all these amazing actors. to be in australia with these people, just being around people we were all like we had been in lockdown. everyone was so nice. there's a newcomer, nicole kidman i think everyone will like. >> let's take a look at a clip right here. >> i'm masha. >> you're her. >> why are you crying, francis? >> oh, you know, just a little bit of my career is over kind of thing. bit of menopause. mix in a little bad relationship. a dash of crippling shame. >> we're going to get you well. >> that was off script. that wasn't even part of the show. that's just me and nicole. >> is it true she stayed in character through the whole shoot? >> she really did. she was doing this accent. i think she did one weekenwhen she was -- went back to her normal voice an

. >> this is the second collaboration between kidman and novelist liane moriarty who also wrote the bookguages, but for me it was just such a different character, i was quite nervous at first about playing it and then once i settled into it i didn't come out of character for pretty much the whole shoot and when a lot of the actors who were in it with me said, oh, my gosh, that's what you sound like because i stayed in character for most of the shoot. >> reporter: the series was shot on site at a real luxury resort in australia last summer. kidman and her family including country music star keith urban will return to their home in nashville when their daughter starts school in the fall. up next, though, she'll be starring as iconic comedian lucille ball. you told me you were nervous playing masha but playing such an iconic role as lucille ball, what is that like? >> she was a revelation to me. she is so extraordinary. she was such a trail blazer as a business woman, as a comedian, and it was just fascinating to explore her. >> reporter: for "good morning america," t.j. holmes, abc news, n

lian jarvis, thank you for your time this morning.re, she is in afghanistan, and we havejust lost that line. let's show you the pictures coming into us this morning. this is the scene at kabul airport. it has been like this over the past few hours. people desperately trying to get on board planes. many hundreds at the airport trying to get on board planes. to give you a sense of the timeline. there are around two and a half hours ahead in kabul. this is mid—morning. and during the morning more and more people have been arriving at the airport. this is one of the stills you can see. you immediately get a sense of the sheer numbers of people who have gone to the airport to try and get on those flights. no commercial aircraft flying. so these are the flights that have been organised by various governments. that process, as you can see, has led to many, many thousands of people simply arriving at the airport and trying to get on the aircraft. at the airport and trying to get on the aircraft-— the aircraft. let's speak to our ruest the air