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nastia liukin, alice willoughby, and can you watch it at 8:00. who's your money on?man got to do. >> the gymnastics will be entertaining for sure. >> that's pretty good right there. >> thanks for watching. >>> tonight, new worries about the spread of the de >>> tonight, new worries about the spread of the delta variant. the controversial study raising concern about the effectiveness of the johnson & johnson with so many still not protected. >>> and with hospitals seeing a surge of the unvaccinated, we return to one center where most of the covid patients are young. >>> also, the heartbreaking loss of a 5-year-old boy >>> our alarming look at the wildfire and climate emergency, more intense than ever a smoky haze spreading across the country the threat only increasing what can be done to help slow the extreme effects. >>> plus, incredible scenes of people trapped in deadly and unprecedented flooding >>> the bombshell today from house speaker nancy pelosi a new battle in congress over the committee to investigate the deadly january riot >>> olympic countdown. competiti

john torres and also 2008 olympic gold medalist nastia liukin. have you been in touch with any members of the gymnastics team here in tokyo? how are they handling this >> it's actually a tough situation. i got a chance to talk to simone last night she's in really good spirits i think the thing that helps team usa is actually her, being the veteran, being the leader. each and every single time she's gone out on to the competition floor, she has had to overcome different obstacles. not that anyone has ever been in this situation, but she really girls. >> you have been an olympic champion, you've been in the olympic bubble, so to speak. obviously, not in a pandemic, but how much interaction would you have expected these gymnasts and the alternates to have had >> every single olympics, it's different. we don't know what to expect before you make that olympic team so i do know that they were training in the same facility here, although they were not in the same rotations, they were not training on the same events. they took the right precautions and g

what to expect over the next couple of weeks with our expert analysts, rowdy gaines on swimming, nastiaeboarding. i am fired up about that if you want to watch the action, 7,000 hours of programming -- not kidding. i didn't make that up. 7,000 hours -- tune into the networks of nbc and streaming on peacock if you didn't catch all that and want more info, go to today.com. >> 7,000 hours >> guys, before i go, can i just say one thing? i did not want to let this morning go by without wishing a happy birthday to a towering figure in american politics and our good friend senator bob dole he's turning 98 years old today. i actually just talked to senator bob and senator elizabeth before i left for the olympics they're going great. he's in cancer treatment now but told me, keep an eye on the quarter miler, which was, of course, his event back at the university of kansas, before the war, in the '40s said he ran pretty fast back then so happy birthday, senator bob dole. >> i know how much they mean to you, savannah. beautiful. all right. we're going to see you tomorrow. see you tomorrow, and can