live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to you here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we begin with signs that the coronavirus vaccine supply in the u.s. may soon outstrip demand. according to the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention, more than 93 million people have been fully vaccinated. but over the past few weeks, average daily vaccination rates have started to fall. cnn's polo sandoval takes a look at what might be behind the drop. >> reporter: as johnson & johnson's covid-19 vaccine is cleared to go into arms again, a slight but ongoing drop in overall shots being administered a day. that average number, according to the cdc, dipped below 3 million this week. the biden administration attributing it to vaccine hesitancy. it's a trend that the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation has been closely watching, even before j&j's pause. >> facebook runs a survey every day. and we look at that data on a daily basis. and that's shown that vaccine confidence in the u.s.

evoke, virginia, fephiladelphia twice, aliceville, boulder, houston, new orleans, gresham, stockton, atlanta, georgia. >> it's a stunning list. i thought you were going to stop saying cities and it keeps going and going. >> it's exhausting to read it. it's exhausting to live through it at this point. >> and some of these don't even register. so for a lot of people as they're watching all of this, now they know. >>> still ahead, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene's short lived plan to launch her own policy. why she suddenly decided to scrap her idea. >>> republicans are supposed to be the parties of big business, right? new reporting on some trouble in paradise behind the scenes. >> and half of the adults in the united states have now received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. what will it take to convince everybody else? the u.s. attorney general joins us live coming up. ♪ ♪ smooth driving pays off. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate. click or call for a quote today. allstate. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love

way back when she was the deputy city attorney in my hometown of atlanta, georgia, and she saw a group of -- she referred to them as secretaries with like all this brilliant, you know, legal knowledge, and they just weren't getting paid. she essentially said to the city we need to do something about this, and she huddled with these women to get them more training once she had access to power. then of course they got higher salaries. cut to she's the house minority leader in georgia, and what do you have to do? you learn how to fund-raise. she has this sort of jedi fund-raising skill. more recently as we were all covering the election and you see how women and specifically black women really showed up to help flip georgia and then of course the senate runoffs in january, stacey literally shared the wealth from all of her fund-raising with a lot of other women, a lot of other women groups, women of color. the narrative in our culture likes to pit women against one another, but we need to be like the stacey abrams of the world and we need to huddle. >> you're one of the bravest people i k

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. >> reporter: i'm lick valencia in atlanta. atlanta public schools says the district will hold its second dose covid vaccine event for all staff and contractors at mercedes-benz stadium. the district says they've secured enough of the two-dose pfizer vaccines for up to 8,000 staff and contractors of the district. meanwhile, the atlanta journal constitution reports that an employee vaccination event for the district scheduled for april 21st in which they had planned to use the j&j vaccine has been canceled. the event was canceled by the district after the u.s. cdc and fda recommended that the j&j vaccine be put on pause. >> reporter: i'm dan simon. the battle over so-called vaccine passports is intensifying with another republican governor coming out against them. the montana governor joins governors from the states of florida, texas and missouri who have preemptively banned them citing privacy concerns. no government entity has come up with a passport system yet and the white house says it's not trying to come up with a nationa

. >> reporter: i'm martin savidge in atlanta. the georgia emergency management and homeland security agency or as we know it gma says it is closing its remaining covid-19 mass vaccination sites beginning next month. the eight locations will close may 21st including the metro atlanta location at the delta flight museum next to hartsfield-jackson international airport. gema says the reason for the shutdown is because the sites continue to see less and less demand. >> reporter: i'm alexandra field in new york city. for the first time some people will be able to go to their primary care doctor's office to get the covid vaccine. the vaccine is being rolled out at 40 different physicians offices across the city, that number will climb to 100 by the end of the week. it's part of a plan announced by governor andrew cuomo back in march to send about a million doses to physicians in order to try to target new yorkers who have been harder to reach. >> reporter: i'm ed lavandera in dallas. the houston methodist hospital system is mandating t

that's according to a letter obtained by the "atlanta journal-constitution." this comes after coke publicly criticized georgia's new election law passed by the republican-controlled legislature. critics, of course, say the law unfairly restricts voting access, particularly to minorities. coke, as well as the atlanta-based delta airlines and more than a hundred other companies have publicly come out against the law. and major league baseball has pulled this year's all-star game from the state of course. the corporate fight against georgia's new election law got started when dozens of current and former black corporate executives joined forces to challenge the law and lawmakers. tony west is the chief legal officer at uber and one of those 72 black executives who signed a letter pledging to protect voter rights. he spoke to cnn about the responsibility corporate america has on the issue. >> well, look, i think, you know, american businesses have always made their voices heard in our democracy on all kinds of critical issues, right, whether it's tax policy or h1-

mlb has said that they'll continue to invest in local organizations in atlanta as part of the all star legacy project as originally planned. natasha chen. cnn, cobb county, georgia. >> george floyd's sister is joining calls for police reform in texas. >> bridget floyd joined democrats calling for passage of several bills related to the george floyd justice and policing act. according to cnn affiliate, kxan, one of the bills would ban choke holds and require police officers to intervene if another officer uses excessive force. talking to supporters, floyd said the family is mourning the loss of her brother who she described as a family man. >> we go through a lot of pain. we go through a lot of grief. every single day. nobody knows what my niece goes through not having her father anymore. that officer didn't know that he had a daughter that he didn't go home to. he would never see again. >> testimony resumes tomorrow, in the trial of derek chauvin. one of the officers charged in connection with george floyd's death. >> coming up, why nasa is celebrating that its tiny helicopter is now o

this is the whole atlanta contingency right here for all of the shows. >> i know. i had to wish my fellow howard university brother the ultimate best and you'll be fantastic. continue to soar. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> and, christi, i'm here with you, arms locked always. >> yes, together always. >> have a great day. >> you, too. >> that's what we say in atlanta, y'all. >>> all right, the "cnn newsroom" begins right now. thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin today with new warnings from the cdc as cases of the coronavirus are on the rise and michigan is now seeing the worst of it. the governor begging the white house for more vaccines to help stop the spread in her state. michigan leads the nation in cases with a positivity rate now of 18%, and there are new concerns this morning about the johnson & johnson vaccine. the cdc saying it is aware of a adverse side effects being reported in four states, dizziness, rapid breathing and sweating seem to be the most common complaints and now johnson & johnson shots in some states are being pul

much as you saw in atlanta with them pulling the all star game in response to georgia's law. tell us the importance about that and why they're opposing the measures. >> well, the business community here in arizona is still very cognizant of the damage done to our state when we passed 1070, the country's most far reaching anti-immigration law by far. and so they are often reluctant to step into this fray. but when they do, it's because they're looking out for the arizona's image across the country, the economic impact that's something like this could have. and obviously seeing that across the country, this -- these kind of bills are happening and it's going to taint our image across the country. and so their voice very, very important. i'm glad they decided to lend it in this regard. >> all right. so what's going to happen very soon in your state is a big election audit. it is under way led by senate republicans in maricopa county, 2.1 million ballots done by outside organizations you say are biassed. to be clear, we should note that there have been previous official audits do

six of them, asian women in the atlanta area spa shooting. ten people, including a police officer, killed at a supermarket in boulder. and now, eight people dead, at that fedex facility in indianapolis. >> we have an active shooter, currently, at fedex. they're reporting at least five people shot. >> multiple people shot at fedex. information only at this time only one shooter, gunshot wound to the head. he is down. >> eight people, dead, in atlanta. ten in boulder. eight more in indianapolis. 26 people dead. 26 american families, mourning loved ones who went to work, to the supermarket, never came back. >>> president joe biden frustrated. angry. calling gun violence in america, a national embarrassment. >> this has to end. it's a national embarrassment. it is a national embarrassment, what's going on. and it's not only these mass shootings that are occurring, every single day. every single day, there's a mass shooting in this -- in the united states, if you count all those who were killed out in the streets of our cities and our rural areas.

i'm robyn curnow live from atlanta. it is 28 minutes past the hour. so myanmar's deposed of its civilian leaders exported to appear at another court hearing in the coming hours. aung san suu kyi is facing six charges from the military, which stole power back in february. meanwhile, the junta leader attended the asean summit this weekend, his first international appearance since the coup. the summit ended with the consensus agreement that the violent crackdowns on protesters must come to an end. but pro-democracy activists tell us that is not nearly good enough. paula hancocks has the details live from bangkok. paula, tell us what this agreement means. is this a concession to the military junta? if. >> well, robyn, what this means is they have agreed on a five-step plan at this point, which is a little more than some were expecting them to do. but what it does not do according to malaysia's ministers is put the blame on the military junta for the violence. the prime minister told reporters that in fact the violence must stop but didn't point out it was

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. >> yeah, the game was set to take place at the atlanta braves stadium in july. but georgia governor brian kemp did not back down saying baseball caved to fear, political opportunism and liberal lies. andy scholes is live in indianapolis with more. good morning, andy. where does baseball go from here? >> reporter: well, good morning, guys, now, they have to decide where to hold the game. they have not made an announcement yet. and this is not the first time we've seen a sports league make a statement by pulling a game from a city. back in 1993, the super bowl pulled from arizona, by the nfl, after voters in that state failed to recognize martin luther king jr. day as a holiday. in 2017, the nba pulled the all-star game from charlotte after the new transgender bathroom law. this time rob manfred saying that major league baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all americans opposes restrictions at the ballot box. fair access to voting continues to have our game's unwavering support. the braves, meanwhile very disappointed about the decision. saying this w

this is the whole atlanta contingency right here for all of the shows. >> i know. i had to wish my fellow howard university brother the ultimate best and you'll be fantastic. continue to soar. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> and, christi, i'm here with you, arms locked always. >> yes, together always. >> have a great day. >> you, too. >> that's what we say in atlanta, y'all. >>> all right, the "cnn newsroom" begins right now. thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield.

. >> reporter: i'm martin savidge in atlanta. the governor of tennessee says it's time for all covid restrictions in his state to end. governor lee says he's removing the authority of most tennessee county to impose mask mandates and is urging the few remaining large cities with mandates to lift them by the end of may. he says a widely available vaccine changes everything and as a result he claims covid-19 is no longer a health knowledge in tennessee. it should be noted per the cdc tennessee has one of the slowest vaccination rollouts in the country and is near the bottom when it comes to rankings for shots given. >> reporter: i'm brynn gingras in new york city. new york state is making a big step when it comes to vaccinations. the governor andrew cuomo announcing starting thursday state run mass vaccination sites will accept walk-ins, that means no longer having to go online to make an appointment to get your vaccination. the appointments are not necessary. this will be on a first come first served basis and it's for new yorkers

i think it would be better to keep it in atlanta and use it as a platform. >>> finally, the women's final four tipping off tonight. and coach tara van der veer and stanford keeping the moves light with foosball. they go against south carolina tonight. and then the night cap, uconn in their newly crowned player of the year, paige beckers. they tip off against arizona at 9:30. >> i did not know that foosball was a final four pregame ritual. you got to work the wrist a different way. >> foosball is really hard. so are just sports in general. foosball is really hard. >> this is what you're copping to a sports deficiency in? >> the left hand, it's tough. that's all i can tell you. >>> all right, well, "new day" continues right now. >>> first responders who treated george floyd testifying floyd seemed to be gone before they were able to help him. >> he was, i guess, limp. >> i believe you told me that they had tried to put mr. floyd in the car. he'd become combative. struggling with him. he suffered a medical emergency. >> new details on the sex trafficking investigation into representative mat

since the atlanta massacre march 16th. that's more than one per day. >> at the same time as this renewed conversation about gun violence fbi background checks for firearm purchases soaring in march. the fbi says about 4.7 million americans initiated a background check last month, that's a 36% increase over february. >>> police arresting a woman in ohio after possibly the worst april fools' joke you have ever heard. authorities say pamela cisco texted her sister that a man who had been fired from the manufacturing plant where she works returned with a gun and that they were all hiding. her sister then called police who scrambled to the scene and found no threat. cisco is charged with inducing panic and disrupting public service. >>> over a year after the death of breonna taylor kentucky lawmakers approving a bill that restricts but doesn't outlaw so-called no knock warrants. the louisville emt was killed by police after they executed a no knock warrant at her home breaking down the door in the middle of the night and exchan

major road going through atlanta, obviously. about 40 miles away from the city of atlanta itself. carol co carroll county, can you see the car in the background there. it's an active investigation going on still. what we're told that car was on the highway when a georgia state patrol trooper tried to get behind it and stop it at that high rate of speed. at some point, the trooper tried to use a pit maneuver. they take the front end of the car and try to hit the back end to put it out of control. at that point, according to georgia state patrol, someone in the car started shooting. the move over a little bit so you can see the investigation. you can see the officers down the way here still collecting evidence. from what we're told, when the shots were fired, one officer was hit during that. one suspect has been killed. another has been captured after negotiation. so they're still trying to sort this out. we're told two other officers were shot. there is a back and forth whether or not the car crashed, one of the officer's cars crashed while this speed chase was going on. so all thi

. >> the mlb moved it after the league's draft from atlanta moved it out of atlanta last week of course in response to georgia's recently passed restrictive voting law that was put in place. major league baseball's decision to move that all-star game is prompting texas governor greg abbott to boycott the texas rangers home opener on monday. >> yeah. he was supposed to throw out first pitch. he's not doing it now. dianne, governor abbott refusing to throw that out. comes as texas republicans moving ahead. their own big slate of voting restriction laws. >> that's right. and, look, texas governor greg abbott said this has nothing to do with the texas rangers organization. he said he could not in good conscious throw out that opening pitch as he said that major league baseball was perpetuating false narratives about georgia's new voting law. he said that he was not going to seek out the all star game in the state of texas either. obviously, it appears that is a mute point. the all-star game is moving to the state of colorado. you're right. texas is seeing voting legislation move through its

i'm robyn curnow live from atlanta. now, the 93rd annual academy awards is set to air on sunday. hollywood's big night will look different this year due to the ongoing pandemic. so with that in mind let's see what we can expect. the oscars will be staged at union station in los angeles. that red carpet will be closed to most media. and the backstage interview room will be virtual. the films with the most oscar buzz this year include "ma rainey's black bottom" with the late chadwick bozeman nominated for best lead actor. he of course passed away from cancer last year at the age of 43. >> what a beautiful family. glad you're here. >> "minari" is another film with plenty of oscar buzz. it depicts a family of south korean immigrants who move to arkansas and start a farm. "minari" was inspired by the real-life story of its director, lee isaac chung. and "nomadland" is another big film to keep an eye on. "nomadland" is nominated for six academy awards including best picture, best director and also best lead actress for frances mcdormand. and while "nomadland" is considered an oscar fro

since the atlanta massacre on march 16th. an average of one per day. the governor signed a new law in iowa allowing people to carry guns in public without a permit and private sellers like websites, gun shows, and individuals will no longer have to run background checks. >>> a personal data of half a billion facebook users used by hackers. it includes full names, locations, birthdays, e-mails, addresses, phone numbers, and relationship statuses of people. facebook said the issue was fixed in 2019, the information could be a value to hackers and cyber criminals. >>> top seeded stanford holds off arizona to win the women's college national basketball for the first time in 29 years. andy sholes has this morning's bleacher report from indianapolis. the site of tonight's title game for the men. hey, andy. >> yeah. good morning. it had been quite the journey this season for stanford because the entire women's tournament was held there in texas and because of covid protocols in their home state of california. the stanford women's team spent a whopping 87 nigh

but the atlanta braves say they are, quote, deeply disappointed. adding, this was neither our decision, nor our recommendation. the team says it had hoped our city could use this event as a platform to enhance the discussion. >>> republican governor brian kemp, who signed that controversial law, of course, ripped the decision. saying, the league, in his words, caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies. now, the game will still honor braves' legend hank aaron, who died back in january. but no word, yet, on where the all-star game will now be held. hall-of-fame broadcaster, bob costas, who is a cnn contributor, says this is the latest example of sports leagues and fairness, equity, and politics. >> until relatively recently, baseball was not as apt as a sport to weigh in on social issues, as perhaps the nba, the wnba, the nfl. but that all changed. i mean, last year was obviously a time of reckoning, and it continues. there is a players' alliance now, in baseball. made up, primarily, of players of color. primarily, african-american playe

a month ago we watched the horrible images from two mass shootings in and around atlanta. seems along time ago, doesn't it? mass shootings are so common it may be soon hard for one not to fall on the anniversary of another. this is a map of mass shootings in just the last month, which were defining as four or more people shot, wounded or killed excludeing the gunman. one other thing to note, there is only room on the map to show a little less than half. the full count, again, over just a single month since the atlanta shootings is 45 and the map is profound as it might be doesn't do justice to the story. doesn't capture the horror. doesn't capture the wounds and the deaths of so many americans. the map doesn't tell the story of the five people who were shot and wounded on march 17th in stockton, california, or the four shot in gresham oregon a day later. in houston on the 20th five shot at a nightclub in dallas, eight shot and one killed in philadelphia that night someone opened fire at a party killing one and wounding five, at least 150 others fled for their lives and on

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first, react to the news of mlb not coming to atlanta. >> he is frozen. all right. what a shame. then i'll just have to waste a little time until we get him back. i may as well tell you what i think about this. what i find -- put up the ed bastian, jeff, if you could put up the full screen we had from the delta chief executive. here is what the delta chief executive says. that strikes me as accurate, insofar as, i think the brennan center, i'm doing this from memory, have said there are like 24 different states that are cracking down on widespread election fraud based on the presidential race. there was no documentation of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. so i've said in the past, is this all a solution in search of a problem? having said that, when i scrutinize the georgia law and brake it down by its component parts, i do think that the demonization of it is being inflated. and, you know, the sound bite, you saw that i just had to go through the reading of the law, what it used to be and what it is now. it's complicated stuff to wade through and it's fa

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republican lawmakers declare war on major league baseball after it moves to atlanta over georgia's voting restrictions. we begin with important testimony in the testimony of fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin taking the stand today, the doctor who tried but could not save george floyd's lifer and the police chief who told jurors what chauvin did to floyd went against department policy, training, ethics and values. omar jimenez joins us for coverage. >> reporter: the start of week two of testimony and the current minneapolis police chief takes the stand in the trial of derek chauvin, his former officer. >> do you have a belief as to when this restraint, restraint on the ground that you viewed should have stopped? >> once mr. floyd had stopped resisting and certainly, once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back, that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy and is not part of our training and it is certainly not part of our ethics or values. >> reporter: in late m

. >> reporter: i'm martin savidge in atlanta. u.s. customs and border protection officers in houston intercepted a shipment of counterfeit n95 masks with an estimated value of $350,000. the ship originated in china, was headed for new york when the phoney masks arrived officers found many had a logo from the national institute for occupational safety and health. but when officers checked with the trademark owner, they were told the shipment wasn't licensed. cbp says in the first three months of 2021 officers have seized 18 million counterfeit face masks. >> reporter: i'm stephanie elam in los angeles. universal studios hollywood is reopening today, but for now only to california residents. they're saying most of the rides will be available with some opening at a later date to comply with government restrictions. they're also working with health officials to make sure that they keep capacity controlled and also physical distancing and masks will be required throughout the park. guests can also expect to have their temperature taken upo

makes it difficult to vote in the state and major league baseball has moved its all-star game from atlanta to denver as a result of that. now some of the best golfers in the world are having their say. >> it really targets, you know, certain black communities and makes it harder for them to vote which to me is everybody's right to vote. to see that was very shocking and obviously with mlb and what they did moving the all-star game was a big statement. >> this voter stuff and voters for american citizens is very important. i think that's the topic that we should all be talking about, we shouldn't be talking about whether we're here or not. the masters, the pga tour, we do such a good job and we are trying to help communities out and i think that's our main focus for the week. >> as for the event itself reigning masters winner dustin johnson host one of the world's most exclusive dinner parties on tuesday night, a tradition for past winners. on his menu, lobster and corn fritters, filet mignon, seabass with peach cobble letter and apple pie. tiger woods unable to attend as he continues to re

he again assailed major league baseball for moving its all-star game out of atlanta in protest to the law, a move he said was, quote, irritating one hell of a lot of republican fans. he also made a reference to delta airlines and coca-cola, both headquartered in atlanta, both which have opposed the law. >> republicans buy stock and fly on planes and drink coca-cola, too. so what i'm saying here is i think this is quite stupid to jump in the middle of a highly controversial issue particularly when they have their facts wrong. >> keeping them honest, mcconnell hasn't always felt that way. back in 2012 in a speech to the american enterprise institute, he said that all corporations, quote shore, be free to express themselves on the issues of the day. again, quoting i mean who is afraid here? let's all have a conversation he said about the future of the country. meanwhile, the former president has weighed in, as well, in a statement over the weekend he called for a boycott of delta and coke among others but in a phone interview with a conservative cable news network newsmax, he directed so

throw out the first home pitch at the rangers, angry that major league baseball moving the game out of atlanta. governor abbott is taking a standby not showing up. being angry at mlb for making the same decision. as i said -- it makes absolutely no sense. figure it out republicans! what do you do? cancel or not? capitalism or not? trump does not lie but joe biden does? we see you. that's why it does not stick. people are not buying the b.s. they see you. >>> george floyd's brother, and attorney ben crump is here. they'll tell me what they think of the police chief. >> it means a lot because the first time we interacted with the community members may be the only time they had an interaction so that has to count for something. "cnn tonight" brought to you by scotts -- triple actions, kills weeds and prevents. ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... the world's first six-function multipro tailgate. available on the gmc sierra. are you managing your diabetes... the ...using fingersticks?tio

. ♪ ♪ >>> otters at the georgia aquarium in atlanta tested positive for covid-19. this comes as michigan post its eight weeks of surging cases and exhausting healthcare workers and leaving hospitals little space to treat the sick. sounds familiar, huh? cnn's paulo sandoval has the latest. >> reporter: monday is the day to open vaccines to all adults. a drop in the number of vaccines administered. the drop was not unexpected due to allocation issues but now discrimination of johnson & johnson vaccines is on pause due to blood clot. >> i don't want to get ahead of the cdc and the fda and the advisory committee but i would imagine what we'll see is that it will come back and come back in some sort of either warning or restriction. i don't know and i don't want to be ahead of them. >> reporter: about 40% of americans have received at least one dose of covid-19, a quarter of the u.s. population vaccinated according to the cdc cdc. in ohio vaccine apsupply outpac demand. >> people are tired and dropping protocols. >> reporter: at beaumont health, healthcare workers are t

six of them asian women in the atlanta area spa shooting. ten people including a police officer killed at a super market in boulder and now eight people dead at that fedex facility in indianapolis. >> we have an active shooter at fedex. five people shot. >> they have an active shooter currently at fedex. >> multiple people shot at fedex at 8951. >> eight more in indianapolis, 26 people dead. 26 american families mourning loved ones who went to work to the super market and never came back. president joe biden frustrated and angry, calling gun violence in america a national embarrassment. >> this has to end. it is a national embarrassment. it is a national embarrassment is what's going on. it is not only these mass shootings that are occurring every single day. every single day there is a mass shooting in the united states, if you count all those who are killed out of the states of our cities in rural areas. it is a national embarrassment and must come to an end. the folks who own weapons and guns, they support universal background checks. maj

and live from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i'm michael holmes. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> and our top story this hour, an influential covid-19 model warns americans not to put their masks away yet, as cases surge in michigan. let's have a look at that spike there. you can see it at the right of the graph. the state reporting nearly 7,000 new cases on saturday. the federal government sending 160 extra vags nayccinators to get shots into arms. some hospitals there are delaying nonemergency procedures on a case by case basis because they're getting full. officials calling it a last resort. medical experts say pandemic fatigue combined with the spread of coronavirus variants are behind the surge in michigan. cnn's evan mcmorris-santoro with more. >> reporter: even if vaccination rates rise in places like new york, where i'm standing, there's still a concern that america is in the grip of this pandemic, especially in the state of michigan, where the viral numbers are rising at a dangerous and scary rate. >> the second we let our guard down, it comes

. >> and major league baseball now open to discussing moving the all-star game out of atlanta. president biden addressing that just moments ago. >> i would strongly support them doing that. this is jim crow on steroids, what they're doing in georgia and 40 other states. >> there are more than 250 proposed bills and at least 43 states that are aimed at restricting access to the ballot. it is being called the new jim crow. here's cnn's joe johns. >> jim crow is making a comeback. the fictional black faced character from shows that dime symbolize second class citizenship for millions of america. ♪ >> jim crow is also the name used to describe unequal racial segregation rules that banned black people from eating at white owned restaurants, staying in white owned hotels, and fully participating in the election process. now as hundreds of new proposals to scale back voter participation, the parallels with the past are inescapable. elizabeth johnson writes, in jail 61 years ago as a college student at virginia union university. she and 33 other students were locked up for a sit-in a

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the uniform change came a day after the mlb announced they'll move the summer all-star game out of atlanta in respond to the controversial new voting laws. if you think that's a small deal, think again. the move will cost georgia more than $100 million. georgia's republicans are not backing down. when the ceo of coca-cola joined the chorus, a group of gop lawmakers wrote to the company demanding coke products be removed from their offices. here to discuss is the executive director, david becker and joining us douglas brinkley to put this all into perspective. what is playing out across the country. >> david, to you, the georgia's laws, the latest fallout. you agreed of the conservative bill being across the state like texas right now. tell us about that. >> in several states including texas and georgia and arizona and michigan and other places, there are laws that are based first on foremost on the big lie that the election was not secure and when in fact we know this election was the most secure election we ever had. you see places like texas where a bill is passed out of the senate. that

in the span of six days two public mass shootings in atlanta and colorado. >> is the whining down of the pandemic making mass shooting more? >> reporter: the texas shootings came after biden announced executive actions on gun control. kits that people can buy to build untraceable guns at home. >> anyone from a criminal or terrorists can buy this kit. >> reporter: biden's executive action have limited impact. analyst says he got an uphill to climb to get tough on guns. >> it is going to be difficult to put forward major assault weapons banned in the united states. president biden wants to ban high-capacity magazines. there is little appetite among republicans or democrats in congress to enact stricter gun laws. wolf. >> brian, thank you, we'll have more news after this. # that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a little differently. hey, i'll take one, please! wait, this isn't a hot-dog stand? no, can't you see the sign? wet. teddy. bears. get ya' wet teddy bears! one-hundred percent wet, guaranteed! or

is taking his first executive action on guns in the wake of the deadly mass shootings last month in atlanta and boulder. and the derek chauvin murder trial in police use of force, that chauvin used deadly force by kneeling on george floyd's tech when it was no longer necessary. that floyd was on the ground, hand cuffed and not resisting. i want to bring in my guests. good evening to you both. john, let's start with you. the president is really tuning out the noise, pushing ahead on guns, infrastructure, speeding up vaccinations. while the gop goes all in on trump and the culture wars. is this just the way it is now? biden is on his own, getting things done and the gop is talking about things are irrelevant? >> i think it is a snap shot of how it is. this is consistent with the joe biden campaign. he did not overindex twitter talk. he focused on where the real votes were. you have some polarization in congress where you have the republican party dispro disproportionately dominated. where being a troll is a siphon success rather than getting anything done. biden is betting on his proposals ar

new georgia voting law, the president is wearing in about the all-star game scheduled to be played in atlanta. he said he's okay with the conversation about moving the game because of that law. the georgia governor called that ridiculous. >> phil, thank you very much. just ahead, a truly damning internal report finds the capitol police unprepared for the january 6 riot and failed to act on intelligence suggesting the protest would turn violent. we didn't stop at computers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your business, you know we'll stop at nothing. zbloo well, well, well. look at you. you mastered the master bath. you created your own style. and you - yes, you! turned a sourdough starter. into a sourdough finisher. so when you learn your chronic dry eye is actually caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation ...you take it on by talking to your eyecare professional about rest

lynda kinkade, cnn, atlanta. >>> an astronaut and two russian cosmonauts are back home. nasa's kate rubins lived on the international space station for six months, completing two space walks bringing her career total to four. she has the fourth-most days in space by a female u.s. astronaut. she used her time to work on heart research and microbiology. her next mission is set to last more than half a year. >>> i'm robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me. follow me on twitter and instagram @robyncurnowcnn. >>> with vaccines becoming more available, why are covid cases surging? parting of the u.s. and around the world. plus remembering the victims of a mass shooting in indianapolis, indiana. welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada, and around the world. this is

. >> i have been instructed to disrupt, discredit, the atlanta organization to the best of my ability. >> and to get the information, was it necessary to participate in the violent acts itself? >> some of the information, yes, and some i would say no, sir. >> in connection with the freedom riders incident that you mentioned, did the birmingham police give you the time to perform the beating? >> yes, sir. we were promised 15 minutes with absolutely no intervention from me police officer whatsoever. >> and then were they beaten? >> they were beaten very badly, yes. >> gary thomas rowe, he was able to connect the dots between the klan and the violence of the klan during that time. >> so we had this man tied to a whole series of acts, and it was read to the jury. it was very, very powerful. he was behind the beating of the freedom riders. >> the 16th street baptist church bombing in birmingham. >> the killing of viola liuzzo. robert shelton, the leader, was behind it all. hey! it's me! your dry skin! i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natura

back when she was in my hometown of atlanta, georgia, and she saw a group of -- she referred to them as secretaries with all this brilliant-legal knowledge that just weren't getting paid. she essentially said to the city, hey, we need to do something about this. and she huddled with these women to get them more training when she had access to power. and then, of course, they had -- they got higher salaries. cut to, she is the house-minority leader in georgia. and what do you have to do? you learn how to fund raise. and so, she has this, sort of, jedi-fundraising skill. and so, more recently, as we were all covering the election. and you see how women, and specifically, black women, really lshowed up to help flip georgia and then, of course, the senate runoffs in january. stacey shared all of her wealth with a lot of other women group, women of color, the narrative in our culture likes to pit ibm women against one another. but, no, we need to be like the stacey abrams of the world and we need to huddle. >> you are one of the bravest people i know because you are leaving a comfortable

but before the pandemic, this stadium, the mercedes-benz stadium in atlanta, on any given sunday would have been filled with 70,000-plus fans sitting side by side, cheering, shoulder to shoulder. but those stands and this feel are empty. no longer a sports stadium, t now a mass vaccination side for covid-19. what they're doing here and in maces like it across the country is key to getting us out of this devastating pandemic that has taken more than half a million american lives. despite that incredible loss of life, polls are showing about a third of americans are still hesitant or downright unwilling to get a covid-19 vaccine. the anti-vaccine movement has had a long history. before covid history we were invested in filming a documentary about vaccine hesitan hesitancy. now more than a year in the pandemic, we thought that was more important than ever for you to see. this is a cnn special report" the truth about vaccines." >>> measles is making a come back. >> the nations is in a public health emergency. >> this is the epicenter. >> akin to taking a pipe bomb and throwing it in a busy

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this is not cancel culture because the democrats didn't want the mlb to take this game away from atlanta. stacey abrams and senator warnock both said don't do it. it was the corporations saying this is inconsistent with our beliefs. it's the same thing with dr. seuss. it was the company and the family behind dr. seuss who removed the books. it wasn't democrats or joe biden even though republicans are trying to make this a joe biden thing, that he's the one canceling or somehow democrats are the ones canceling mlb and dr. seuss. go on, john. sorry. >> that's an important point, right? a lot of this is the outrage olympics is a distraction play by republicans to try to keep folks' eyes off the ball about underlying policy. we could have great big debates. the reason that corporations are stepping up on an issue is this isn't a question of policy anymore. this is about, do you believe in democracy and making it easier or harder for folks to vote? we can say that mcconnell believed all these years that corporations should play a greater role in plongs. he put his name on an fec complaint. wh

voter suppression laws. 250 laws in atlanta have been changed since the election. it's happening in michigan, in texas. it continues to happen. so smartphones, protests, and the ability to vote. those three things have been game-changers. let's continue to do each. >> jalen, i mean it, you're welcome back here any time. i love watching you, i love -- >> thank you. >> what you're contributing, and your perspective. please come back. thank you for your time, okay? >> my pleasure. >> and i want those glasses. >> i got your back. >> jalen rose, thank you. >>> americans don't just want action in the courtroom, they want action in congress. but is any legislative reform possible when republicans have become the party of obstruction? ride a horse on the moon. you can framebridge just about anything. and we have. uncle murray's medals. a lucky pencil. man with peach. words of wisdom. a million custom framed pieces and counting. you can framebridge just about anything. >>> for republicans who don't think there is anything wrong with the current state of the party, they may

it's 31 minutes past the hour, live from atlanta. police barriers at the center in jerusalem came down. what is the situation right now? >> reporter: robyn, i am standing outside in a plaza, and this is the main entrance for muslim worshippers to enter the old city, and it's calm right now but that has not been the case since the beginning of ramadan. palestinians have been protesting the erection of barricades, and a popular place for young people at night during ramadan. they have thrown rocks and glass bottles, and the stench of foul smelling water, the stench that remains in the plaza to this day. hundreds of palestinians cheered when the barricades came down. those tensions also have spread down south to gaza where over the course of the last three days, more than 40 rockets have been fired by gaza militants into israel, including five last night. the israeli army says they have responded with air strikes and s closed the fishing zones near gaza as well, and authorities are hoping the removal of the barricades here last night wi