tennis phenom cocoa goff now out of the games after testing positive for covid-19. two athletes in tokyo s olympic village testing positive now. in all, at least 58 cases of coronavirus have been found among athletes, officials, and contractors there. the number of olympic participants falls, the number of cases in japan is climbing fast. a big spike shows no signs of slowing ahead of friday s opening ceremony. cnn s blake essig is live in tokyo, japan. what are officials saying this morning? reporter: well, you know, laura and julia, with a few days to go before the start of the olympics, it s fair to say things are not exactly going smoothly. as you mentioned, so far 58 people involved with the games have tested positive for covid-19 after arriving in japan. there s also a growing list of athletes and olympic-related personnel who have been forced into isolation after being considered close contacts with people who tested positive. despite that, olympic officials
professor talking about the monumental failure of the system. she went on it say it was a obviously a direct consequence of climate change. she s part of the academic team that set that group up and runs it that did warn germany and other countries across europe that the flash floods were going to happen. by that, the flash flood is the key element here. we re talking about 8 inches dropped in 24 hours in this area. 6 inches in 24 hours in other areas. huge amounts of rainfall that results in this kind of scene, laura. these are fully mature trees. some of them older snapped over like broccoli sticks. you look at the level of the water here on the river, it s up almost three times my height. it s the kind of debris these rivers were carrying away as a consequence of these flash floods. these flash floods actually raced down off the agricultural areas from the cashman areas to
calling anti-sex beds in the olympic village. tell us more. reporter: yeah. these beds that are being used by athletes inside the olympic village are made of recycled materials. in the beg athlete tweets came out saying they were anti-sex and would collapse under the weight of more than one person or would break at any sudden movements. that theory was somewhat put to the test and disproved by an irish gymnast who posted this video on twitter of him jumping on the bed. organizers said the beds are not anti-sex and can support up to 440 pounds of weight. these beds will be turned into recycled paper after the games. laura? oh, my gosh. late night have a field day with this. i appreciate your reporting, blake essig. there s a reason the cdc director calls it a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
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99.5% of virus deaths in the united states right now are among the up vaccinated. combatting more misinformation remains a struggle. even one republican governor this weekend said he s had enough. we have these talking heads who have gotten the vaccine and telling other people not to get the vaccine. that kind of stuff is just ridiculous. it s daerjous. it s damaging. it s killing people. it s literally killing their supporters and that makes no sense to me. alabama is one of the states with the lowest vaccination rates now. at least one vaccine clinic over the weekend, get this, only 11 people showed up there. cnn s natasha chen is there and she reports from fairfield, alabama. reporter: laura and julia, new cases of covid-19 are increasing in all 50 states and washington, d.c. most people becoming hospitalized are unvaccinated. dr. scot gottlieb said he