celebrities like ellen and robin roberts writing.u know. >> i knew that i needed to talk to somebody. >> talking to somebody quickly turned into talking with thousands of people online. she calls them her twitter family. >> you have to find a little bit of support for yourself. just something. especially if you are in that dark place. and it's okay to do that. i did it. and it worked so well for me. >> asking for support was the right decision for her and helped her in her grief process. her advice to others, don't hesitate. reach out too. >> a beautiful lesson. >> this is how social media should be used. that's making news in "america this morning." >>> right now on "america this morning." crisis in afghanistan. multiple deaths reported in the chaos at kabul airport. the new images showing people scaling the wall outside the airfield. others cling to a military jet as it takes off. president biden doubling down. >> i stand squarely behind my decision. >> reaction to the president standing by his decision to withdraw troops despite t

i look at robin roberts who did it. she did a great job.gers said he wanted it. >> did you know that? i don't know if he wanted it, but i know he was very good at it. and he's hosted a show before. >> mike richards was very good. he was very good. >> he was my top choice. >> interesting. >> no, he was. >> along with our friend levar. >> yes. >> who i -- >> you were my top choice, vlad. >> you just threw him under the bus. you said he was your top choice. >> love you, levar. love you. >>> here's something else i love -- if you love ikea you can make your house smell like one of its stores. i know. the chain is offering a candle with the aroma of its popular swedish meatballs? who can resist itkikea's meatba? part of a promotion where you can win an ikea store and there's a mcdonald's pack that smells like quarter pounder and a kfc candle. >> up there with macaroni and cheese ice cream. thanks. >>> ahead, "usa today" honoring the top high school sports stars. we'll talk with one of them on "cbs this morning." at toyota's national sales event,

my ear to say hello and then my younger daughter wanted me to like rub -- are we getting -- is robin robertsa bank that gets robbed 355 times a day and shot, stabbed, run over, one day realizes he's a background character in a video game and starts to become d figh in the real ecome agents world so trying to find some way to bridge that because he can't believe he's not real. >> let's take a look at a clip. ♪ >> whoo! oh, giddyap. >> that is car harassment by the way. >> it is so much fun. we need this. we need this right now but i know you said not a video game movie but were you a video game fan especially as a child? >> my parents didn't have the money for like video game -- that kind of stuff so like i would go to the video store which is pop of gold in my neighborhood. it was a video store in the back, the double dragon game so i would use all my paper route money to plug quarters into that sucker and terrible investment in retrospect. [ laughter ] >> led to where you are today, right? >> i guess so. >> talking about how much the critics do like it. one of the critics "deadpool" is a cr

. >> robin roberts, "20 years later: the women of 9/11," the powerful and inspiring all new event specialr up and running. set ac cooler and use big appliances before 4pm. then from 4-9pm reduce use and take it easy on our energy. sign up today. >>> and we are back and listen to this, we are so excited to say this is broadway, broadway is back. one of the shows coming back on september 14th, the one and only everybody the tony award winning musical "chicago" and look at this. we've got some of the cast here to help us celebrate with a live performance but first let's chat with one of the major stars of the show, bianca marroquin. so good to have you. >> thank you. >> i was watching you guys rehearse. i could not take my eyes off you. it must feel so good to be back. >> we are so excited, so thrilled. we've been waiting for this for a long time. broadway is back and it's happening. >> broadway is back and it is happening and you are back. you have been in this show on and off for 20 years, i cannot believe that. congratulations. >> thank you. >> the show is about to hit a huge milestone, 2

loud but i was pretty emotional because i knew what it took to get it done and i am so glad that robin robertstor kenny leon and star danielle brooks. we teamed up for the queen of gospel's lifetime biopic, a huge role to fill but hit close to home for danielle. we're in this beautiful chapel. >> i know. >> mahalia grew up in the church, was her second home. much like yourself. >> very much my first home, i started singing in the church when i was 3. to praise team, to choir, everything. when i saw "mahalia," i saw myself. ♪ elijah, i'm coming home ♪ [ applause ] >> you were full on singing. >> yes. >> full on singing. >> every song, every setup, every take. >> you know what, miss robin, it's easier for me to lean into the singing hiding behind a character, believe it or not, like, if you were to ask me to sing now, i actually would get really shy about it and nervous about it, but if you tell me to sing as mahalia then i'm like okay. >> can you sing now? >> yes. ♪ god is real ♪ ♪ he's real in my soul ♪ >> he's a good musical director. >> reporter: for many it's an introduction to mahalia jack

but 1st let's cross over to couple where we've got correspond robert, bright and robin sultan back acknowledging the speed of collapse. if not, the failure of the mission. yeah, absolutely. and the quite interesting stuff back there saying that it was a failure of leadership that many of the afghan forces had full bravely. i think that was a distinction that may be joe biden didn't quite come in. i may have missed something, but joe biden, that the president united states in his estimation, his, his conclusions with was saying that this is a failure on the part of all the african military rather than just being the leadership. and i'm sure there's a lot of soldiers full but soldiers now because they've mostly been off a lot of them and simply discarded their uniforms. who would be quite hurt by what? by and said they're not. they're not got the recognition that they deserve, that there are no awful lot of african soldiers now for the soldiers who fought very bravely who lost literally thousands of comrades in the fight against the taliban. and didn't want to give up that fight in the end. and so

the idea of recon is there from the balloons but has the story and robert hines, robin hi marie had said, no one had a clear idea about what they wanted. out of an airplane. it's gonna be a time of experimentation. this is true across the board, when it comes to training, because nobody has any idea of what we're gonna do with these, training for pilots at the beginning of world war i, it is on focus to say the least, even if it exists at all. the average pilot is going to have about 17 hours of flight training. some of the really good ones are going to have close to 50, 50 hours of training would be a lot for world war i pilots. compare that to the second world war pilots, we have about 300 hours of training, at least, early on in the war. so, a lot of pilots are actually dying in training. this is fairly common to, because these things are experimental. this is cutting edge technology. right? it is wood and canvas, in a little wire. and that does not sound very technological, what makes this technologically advanced is the engines in them, and how cutting edge the engines are, how ligh

. >> i'm so delighted to have this opportunity to sit down and talk with you robert d'angelo if i may call you robin . it's so exciting . >> it's an honor

. >> i'm so delighted to have this opportunity to sit down and talk with you robert d'angelo if i may call you robin . it's so exciting . >> it's an honor. >> i want to begin with it seems like a basic question but it's a moment in the book where you are actually dealing with the kind of tension between class and race and you told your story. and i thought it's really important to begin with

. >> i'm so delighted to have this opportunity to sit down and talk with you robert d'angelo if i may call you robin . it's so exciting . >> it's an honor. >> i want to begin with it seems like a basic question but it's a moment in the book where you are actually dealing with the kind of tension between class and race and you told your story. and i thought it's really important to begin with your journey to this work. tell a little bit about you and the way in which your upbringing shapes how you approach antiracist education . >> i'll talk about the aspects of my life and upper trainingi think is so relevant to the work i do today . what two pieces and one i'm not sure i write about in the book and that is that my mother died when i was 11 years old. she died of leukemia. this was the late 50s, early 60s. at that time you didn't talk about those things. it's probably seems shocking to people today cancer was a shameful thing and we were told not to speak about it and when she died we were told not to talk about it. afterwards either. so it was a traumatic experience for me but i don't think it had

robin? >> victor, thank you. >>> joining us now is dr. richard besser, president of the robertd johnson foundation, and former acting director of the cdc. rich, you're a pediatrician. do you agree with the growing call from the american academy of pediatricians urging the fda to authorize vaccines for children under 12 as soon as possible? >> well, i think the key there, robin, is as soon as possible. you know, as a pediatrician i want to make sure that they are getting all the safety data that they need to know that, if i'm recommending these for my patients, they truly are safe. hopefully they'll have that information soon, but we can't count on vaccines for children protecting our children in schools this fall. >> and, rich, we're also hearing about children dealing with long covid, ongoing symptoms even after recovering. how concerned are you about this? >> well, you know, what it says to me is that there's a lot we don't know about this virus and its effect on everybody, in particular in children. and, because of that, i urge parents, i urge schools, i urge governors not t

guy: robert hayes, jetblue ceo, talking to me earlier at heathrow after the company's maiden flight from kennedy to heathrow. with us now is helane becker, cowan managing director. robinmined to drive prices down. helane: thanks for having me on the show. jetblue lowers fares to more affordable levels for people to travel, and i think the way to think about it is not only do they make it affordable for people to buy tickets and travel comfortably in their mid class, but also corporations who may not have deals with the bigger airlines, and may be small and medium-sized companies where you are paying for it out-of-pocket. those folks are likely to use jetblue as well. i think it was the number one requested market but they didn't fly by their corporates. so that makes a whole lot of sense, and since they have the aircraft to do it, why not? kailey: given the spread of the delta variant, given guy can't come visit me in the u.s. even though i can technically go visit guy in london, given that landscape, did jetblue make this move at the wrong time? helane: i don't think so. what it does is give them a really good opportunity to build a market on this side of the atlanti