Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Tuesday, August 3rd. Joe, we've got a lot going on today, including breaking news from Tokyo.

We really do. And Willie and I, speaking of Tokyo, back last night on the Red Eye,

we were one of these old-timers things, you know, for synchronized swimmers that were gold

medalists in the late 80s. You still fit in that bathing suit, Joe, which is very impressive,

that little, I don't know what they call it nowadays, but it's small.

No, there's speedo. There's still speedos. But Willie and I, I mean, crowd favorites. Way too for that. Remember we did the 1988 games. I think it was so. I don't know. It's all a blur, the summer of love and all that. But Willie, we have breaking news items lining up. I know. I know we wanted to stay for another day of the fun and festivities, but had to come back because big breaking news, of course, wrongly convicted, deeply misunderstood, former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. Yes, yes, the man who considers himself the Mandela of our time, is actually suing so he can run for office again, Willie. It's just like, it's the end of Horton

hears a boo. Just a little sound coming out from the distance of hope. Maybe somebody like Blago is there to save American politics from itself. There's a name, a blast from the past. You haven't heard in a while. Yeah, he said on our set, I don't know what the year was 10 years ago and said, I'm the Abraham Lincoln of our time. He said, they're throwing me in jail for trying to get health care to little kids. And if that's a crime, I'll happily march my own way into prison. So Blago, in a previous time, we would laugh, but maybe

in our current political climate, Blago will rear his head once again. We have some actual

breaking news. Our viewers can see it on the bottom. Bottom of the screen there, Simone Biles,

who returned and to participate in the balance beam, just won a bronze medal.

So she medals after sitting out the games.

Everyone knows the story by now.

The four-time Olympic gold medal is considered the greatest gymnast in the world.

24 years old withdrew from the team competition, then withdrew from the individual all around

and all the events up till today when she announced she would participate despite still

having the problem with what is known in the world of gymnastics as twisties where you can't

tell up from down said she's still suffering from that despite that hit her routine pretty well

a couple of wobbles, but goes home

with a bronze medal from these Tokyo games where she has been the focus, despite not

participating until today. Wow. Okay. Well, we are following several developments surrounding

the coronavirus this morning. The Biden administration reached its goal of getting 70% of

American adults, at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. But COVID cases across the country are

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