Physically couldn t do it safely. i was getting so lost in the air. reporter: the superstar gymnast withdrew from five events at the tokyo games, prioritizing her mental health, over her medal count. to bring the topic of mental health, i think, it should be talked about a lot more, especially with athletes, because i know some of us are going through the same things and we re always told to push through it. reporter: after returning home from tokyo an emotional biles testified before the senate yjudiciary committee abot the fbi s handling of the sexual abuse case against nassar. to be clear i blame larry i blame an entire system
Story. i guess i would describe myself as confident. reporter: flying high after five olympic medals in rio. i m always in awe when i watch her. sometimes i think she s unhuman because she s just so amazing. reporter: no one could have predicted how human simone biles would be five years later. the superstar gymnast withdrawing from five events at the tokyo games, prioritizing her mental health over her medal count. to bring the topic of mental health, i think it should be talked about a lot more, especially with athletes, because i know some of us are going through the same things and we re always told to push through it. we don t know what s going on in our head, so it was probably the most devastating thing that happened to her. reporter: biles says she s been in therapy weekly since stepping away. now she s ready for a comeback. this weekend marks her first elite competition since 2021, she s aware of how influential
2021. carolyn man now has more. i guess i would describe myself as confident. reporter: flying high i m always in awe when i watch her. sometimes i just think she s unhuman just because she s so amazing. reporter: no one could have predicted just how human simone biles would be five years later. the superstar gymnast withdrawing from five events during the tokyo games prioritizing her mental health over the medal count. to bring the topic of mental health i think it should be talked about a lot more especially with athletes because some of us are going through the same things and we re always told to push through it. we don t know what s going on in her head so it was probably the most devastating thing that happened to her. reporter: biles says she s been in therapy weekly since stepping away. now she s ready for a comeback. this weekend marks her first elite competition since 2021.
Flooding, maybe a little lower tomorrow but if i take you into the weekend, there is going to be another round of rain that s going to move through the area. the ground already saturated so we could see perhaps a smaller chance but another chance of flooding towards the weekend. so, certainly soggy across new england. john: folks need to watch out, the water can come up very quickly. adam, thank you. sandra. sandra: superstar gymnast from lsu olivia dunn is one of the high paid in the country and she wants to lead by example. the livi fund to help other female athletes deals. and taylor and brian. this has a lot of people talking. these are athletes who work really, really hard, she s an amazing gymnast. wildly popular, successful for
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Be able to step back from it in order to protect yourself. simone biles is this superstar gymnast, in the sport she is highly and widely regarded and also outside of sporting circles, lots of people all over the world know who she is. and usually when you see her competing, she competes with an effervescence, energy, big smile on herface and it has been a little bit apparent she has been struggling at these 0lympic has been struggling at these olympic games. we had seen her in qualifying a couple of days ago and she was a little bit tense, the smile was not as big on herface, there was tense, the smile was not as big on her face, there was some uncharacteristic errors from her, she did not speak to the media afterwards and she then took to social media to say sometimes she feels the weight of the world on her as she was posting pictures of her competing in those preliminary events. so you could understand and sense perhaps the superstar simone biles that we are used to seeing was feeling it a
What about children even younger what pfizer ceo is saying also the debate over booster, can you mix and match them dr. fauci here to answer your questions. plus, the battle over vaccines in the nba. what lebron james revealed today also, tonight president biden contradicted by his own military advisers after he claimed none of them warned him to keep a small number of troops in afghanistan to prevent a taliban takeover what the generals told congress and how the white house is responding the battle lines being drawn among democrats. the president leadin negotiations to save his agenda what the government shutdown potentially just days away new clues in the deadly amtrak derailment, what investigators hope to learn from the train s black box. simone biles is speaking out is the superstar gymnast done with the sport? barack obama breaking ground on his presidential library in chicago after a year s long fight. the heartwarming best friend reunion caught on camera
Have died. it s not like he doesn t know. he does know. and, you know, i have been struck, john, by how many people we have had on this show here in the last couple of weeks who said they were vaccine hesitant and decided to go forward and get the vaccine. a lot of them talked about prayer, leadership in their church. these are influential people. and he, with that kind of language, is doing a huge disservice to his flock. it s crazy. tomorrow we re going to answer your coronavirus questions in our 8:00 hour. a lot of them. tweet your questions to our directly. i have some. i know you all have some. you can submit them online at cnn.com/coronavirusquestions. okay. so we haven t seen the last of simone biels after all. the superstar gymnast announced she will participate in tomorrow s balance beam final. usa gym navengs tweeted out we re so excited to confirm
She s been there since friday night. speaker pelosi just put out a new letter to her colleagues once again calling on the white house to do something and saying that treasury secretary janet yellen about brief democrats tomorrow on why tens of billions of dollars for rent relief has not been allocated or has not been spent. so we could get an update on that process after that meeting tomorrow, andrea. thanks to you, leigh ann, and phil rucker. congratulations again on i alone can fix it . and also checking in on the tokyo olympics. simone biles is back after taking time off to focus on her mental health, understandably. the superstar gymnast announced today she will compete tomorrow in the final gymnastics event. her teammate jade carey brought home gold today and mykayla