imagine a two-hour train ride between atlanta and charlotte going at speeds of 220 miles an hour. and 2 1/2-hour trip between chicago and detroit. or faster and more regular trips between los angeles and las vegas. a route i imagine could be pretty popular on fridays. bill, as you've said, your vision for amtrak calls for a new inner city rail service. up to 160 previously unserved communities being connected. think of what it will mean for opportunities if we can connect milwaukee to green bay to madison. scranton and allentown to new york. indianapolis to louisville. and much, much more. it's going to provide jobs and also accommodate jobs. what this means is that towns and cities that have been in danger of being left out and left behind will be back in the game. it means families don't have to sacrifice the cost of living or quality of access to opportunity to sometimes only occurs if they live in a big city. we have a huge opportunity provide fast, safe, reliable, clean transportation in this country. and transit is part of the infrastructure. and like the rest of our infras

when in atlanta the braves will allow fully packed stands. >> it's going to be great. as you can see just opening up like we have has meant the world, i think, to everybody here. >> reporter: nationwide the average daily new case count lowest it's been in over six months. tennessee declared mission accomplished. i am not renewing any public health orders, tweeted the governor, because covid-19 is no longer a health emergency in our state. jumping the gun? tennessee has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in the land. not quite one-third of americans are now fully vaccinated and the pace is slowing, dropped nearly 20% the past two weeks. >> go get vaccinated, america. get and get the vaccination. they are available. >> supply, no longer the issue. it's demand. in our new poll of the not yet vaccinated, 58% of adults said they won't try to get a shot. think again say the experts. think ahead. >> one critical way to prevent long covid is to prevent covid itself, even for young people who consider their risk of severe covid to be low, the long-term consequences can be q

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. >> reporter: los angeles says they might move into lowest level restrictions next week when, in atlanta, braves will allow fully pack stadiums. >> just opening up like we have has meant the world, i think, to everybody here. >> reporter: nationwhy, average daily new case count, the lowest it's been in over six months. tennessee declared mission accomplished. i am not renewing any public health orders, tweeted the governor, because covid-19 is no longer a health emergency in our state. jumping the gun? tennessee has one of the lowest rates of vaccination in the land. not quite one-third of americans are now fully vaccinated and the pace is slowing, dropped nearly 20% the past two weeks. >> go get vaccinated, america. go and get the vaccination. they're available. >> reporter: supply? no longer the issue. it's demand. in our new poll of the not yet vaccinated 58% of adults said they won't try to get a shot. think again say the experts. think ahead. >> one critical way to prevent long covid is to prevent covid it itself, even for young people who consider their risk of severe covid to be l

any moment he's landing in gwinett county, georgia, suburban atlanta, with the first lady, meeting with former president jimmy carter. they will then hold a rally selling the american people on his nearly $4 trillion of new proposals. this is part of what the white house is calling getting america back on track tour. rallying public support will be crucial for the white house, given that just hours after his address to a joint session of congress last night, he's facing pushback, not just from republicans but also members of his own party. kaitlan collins is live for us in duluth, georgia. what are we expecting to hear from president biden at this rally this evening? >> reporter: jake, first i should say that the white house is not surprised by the pushback they are getting from republicans. they were not exactly expecting them to embrace these trillions in spending that you're seeing president biden roll out, even though he was trying to make the case in a way to blunt their criticism last night, talking about the jobs they would create. and so i think here tonight what you're going to

atlanta set to allow full capacity at two sports stadiums beginning may 7th. disney land is preparing for friday's grand reopening and new york city's mayor just announcing today the city will fully reopen on july 1st. but it's hard to feel too good about this, as we witness what is happening in india. the skyrocketing surge in new cases of covid there, is prompting the u.s. government to urge all americans in india to leave, as soon as possible, coronavirus is spreading so fast. yesterday india hit a new record of more than 3,600 deaths in one day. graphics, apocalyptic images coming in from new delhi that may be difficult to watch. it's important you see the reality, crematoriums are running out of space, forcing them to build makeshift funeral pyres in parks and other public areas. cnn's sam kylie is there. >> reporter: this is a crematorium where the dead have to join a queue. relatives or friends have a take tickets from an office to get access to the crematorium that's dealing with about 150 people a day, almost all of them victims of the covid pandemic,

then he's coming to atlanta for this strive it rally, it's been rescheduled. he's touting the infrastructure plan and also the american families plan that he unveiled last night. and, of course, those are these big transformational packages that also have another "t," trillion attached to their. that is something he's trying to sell here after doing so last night in washington, unveiling that package. as you were saying, not just trying to sell it to republicans in the room but even those moderate democrats, people like senator joe manchin who says these proposals the president is putting out, they are going to have a lot of scrutiny throughout congress before you see them getting anywhere, gaining any traction and that's what president biden said last night. he said he wanted to introduce them before they got deep into the details so they can have those negotiations with lawmakers. but the other part that you're going to see them embarking on this week and next is selling it to the american people. because that was something they relied on when they talked ab

. >> and, kate, the president will continue to make that case today as he heads to atlanta where he's holding a drive in rally. one other thing we heard from the president yesterday he is was framing the issues including the trillions of dollars in spending as matters of domestic importance and also in terms of national security. and the global competition between democracies and awe to beingcies. i spent time with the national security adviser jake sullivan what they've been telling me is this is something that president biden is framing. it is something he sees as central to the mission as president of the united states. he believes that the united states and the world really are at an inflection point and history will judge the united states as well as his presidency over how he is able to answer this question of can democracy work in the 21st century and compete with these autocracies? it is something that is on his mind. he brings it up in all kinds of meetings whether it is talking to the team of nasa engineers or if he is talking about car batteries, electronic vehicle batterie

two of atlanta's professional sports teams, the braves and atlanta united say they're returning to pre-pandemic seating levels next month. starting may 7th the braves saying they will increase their fan capacity to 100%, about 41,000 seats when they play the philadelphia phillies. atlanta united are going to 100% of a typical soccer configuration at mercedes-benz stadium with a match against montreal. both teams went to 50% capacity last week. >> reporter: i'm jacqueline howard in atlanta. a new cdc study shows more evidence that the pfizer and moderna vaccines really do work. they cut the risk of being hospitalized for covid-19 in the real world among older adults. data showed that being fully vaccinated was tied to a 94% reduced risk of hospitalization and being partially vaccinated so only receiving the first dose of a vaccine was died to a 64% reduced risk of hospitalization. >> translator: i'm alexandra field in new york where governor andrew cuomo has announced the next step forwards easing restrictions. the state planning to lift the midnight curfew on restaurants and bars. that goes int

live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ >>> joe biden calls it the american families plan, a sweeping multi-billion dollar agenda meant to help with things like child care, preschool education, paid family leave and free community college. he outlined his vision last night in a address to joint members of congress. they say no one making $400,000 a year will see their taxes go up and says investing now in america's future will create millions of new jobs and trillions in economic growth. biden delivered his speech with two women sitting behind him, a historic first. vice president kamala harris and house speaker nancy pelosi became the first women to lead both the senate and the house during a presidential address to congress and president biden didn't let it pass unnoticed. >> madam speaker, madam vice president. no president has ever said those words from this podium. no president has ever said those words and it's about time. >> biden also comme

. >> three shootings atlanta area spas where at least seven people have been killed. >> breaking overnight, another mass shoot manage the u.s. >> at least eight people were killed at a fed ex warehouse near the airport in indianapolis. >> i think it's difficult to not be numb. the numbers are so huge, it's almost unimaginable. >> reporter: almost unimaginable, and yet increasinglily predictable. >> on average, probably at least 20 times the likelihood that someone in the united states will die of a gun death than people in other developed countries. >> reporter: it's not just mass shooting events, which are only a small fraction of gun-related deaths in the u.s. in 2019, more than 60% were suicides. and every day an average of over 300 people are injured by a firearm, according to researchers at penn and columbia. our gun violence epidemic is a uniquely american problem. but the firearm holds a different place in our american mythology and history than it does in any other country. and we have to be able to hold up both of those things as true. >> reporter: which is why in a nation that no

. >> three shootings in atlanta-area spas where at least seven people have been killed. >> breaking overnight, another mass shooting in the u.s. >> at least eight people were killed at a fedex warehouse near the airport in indianapolis. >> i think it's difficult to not be numb. the numbers are so huge, it's almost unimaginable. >> reporter: almost unimaginable and yet increasingly predictable. >> on average there's probably at least 20 times the likelihood that someone in the united states will die of a gun death than people in other developed countries. >> reporter: it's not just mass shooting events which are only a small fraction of gun-related deaths in the u.s. in 2019 more than 60% were suicides, and every day an average of over 300 people are injured by a firearm according to researchers at pen and columbia. our gun violence epidemic is a uniquely american problem but firearm holds a different place in our american mythology and history than it does in any other country, and we have to be able to hold both of those things as true. >> reporter: which is why in a nation that now has more

>> the asian-american community on edge as hate escalates and there's a mass shooting spree across atlanta. >> vicious hate crimes against asian-americans who have been attacked, harassed, blamed, and scape-goated. it's wrong, it's un-american, and it must stop. >> but days later, another mass shooting, this one at a grocery store in colorado. >> i don't need to wait another minute let alone an hour to take commonsense steps to save the lives in the future. >> the urgency boils for action on guns as more dmitri carats support the filibuster to pass some kind of needed reform, but while biden reflects on it, he does seem to be warming. >> it's being abused in a gigantic way. >> the filibuster debate may tip his hand when it comes to voting rights, the republicans turning the big lie into laws. >>> this is the governor of georgia signing and clapping, we hear, among some of these laws. >> 250 bills in 45 states making it hard to vote, the battle now turns to the senate. >> the senate will once again be the fore where civil rights are debated. >>> the derek chauvin trial begins and ends in th

. >> 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

atlanta journal constitution. >> hi, i'd like to go back to the question about -- for states that do not have yet the national rate that are below average should there be different guidance for us? i'm calling from georgia. >> i think the general guidance is to ensure that people start getting vaccinated. we do know that if you are vaccinated it is safe to be outdoors without masks. >> next question. >> kristen welker, nbc. >> hi, everyone, thank you so much. firstly, can you address if the risk of being outdoors is so low why doesn't this guidance apply to everyone? and secondly, while rates of vaccine hesitancy are dropping you still have about four in ten americans who say maybe or no, they're not going to get the vaccine. how do you deal with that hesitancy? are there any new strategies you're looking forward? >> dr. walensky. >> you know, we still believe as people are in small gatherings, medium size gatherings, when they are unvaccinated you're at risk, you have people who are at risk of severe disease so we do believe in those settings masks should still occur. certainly any

. >> 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

whether it is the young white man who shot up the atlanta spa, they can take him alive? or there's dylan roof who shot up the church in south carolina. not only did they take him alive, but they took him to get a burger and fries. yet when andrew brown tries to get away, they say they have to use deadly force. jacob blake jr., use deadly force. it's terrence crutcher walking with his hands up in tulsa, oklahoma. they said we have to use deadly force. if it's walter scott running away, deadly force. christopher hall in pennsylvania, deadly force. anthony mclain in pasadena, california, deadly force. these are all black men within the last year that have been shot by police in the back. when are we going to say we can't keep killing innocent black people? can we just have one week where police don't shoot black people unjustly, chris cuomo, just one week? >> i hear your frustration. mr. freeman, are you able to hear mr. crump and myself? >> i am. >> looking at the video in north carolina, if the prosecutor had released this body cam footage, nobody was coming after him to

confirmed mass murders like in parkland or the young man who killed the people at the asian spa in atlanta or dylann roof who killed the people in the church in south carolina, they somehow managed to take all those young white men alive, but you have black people who don't kill anybody. they're just running, but they use deadly force. we can't continue to have this epidemic of them killing unarmed black people. can we go just one week in america without them killing a black person unjustly? >> you and i have had this conversation over the years way too many times. do you believe, ben, that there is some kind of specific direct coverup going on right now where you are in north carolina, that there's something in the full, unredacted video that they don't want the american people to see? >> andrew brown jr.'s family certainly think it's a coverup. they think that the reason they aren't showing that video to the public is because they're trying to conspire to conceal this unjustifiable killing. the truth is going to come out. they've got to release the video. they might as well go ahead and

and now you're going to hear from another great civil rights lawyer who hails out of atlanta, georgia, who has actually been in communications with the county attorney for days trying to get this process set. and he's litigated matters all over the country. and never has he been disrespected like he was today. he's going to tell you his perspective before i bring on attorney lassiter. attorney harry daniels who has been dotting is and crossing ts for the family. >> thank you, ben. 1965, selma, alabama, it was bloody sunday. a resistance for fundamental rights to vote. rights to vote. this family had a fundamental right for transparency that was denied, denied by the county officials of pasquetank county. his position that you had to be authorized -- licensed attorney in the state of north carolina to represent folks. i offered him the ability to read the state bar rules, the rules of the bar. he didn't want to read it. we offered him the attorney general. he didn't want to talk to him. we offered him the governor. he told bakari, he's not going to be bullied. 20 seconds, 20 seconds is

you think about the young man who went and shot up the people in the asian spa in atlanta, they took him alive. and then, my lord, not too far from here in bacari's home state this young white boy named dylan roof went and shot up the whole church and literally, they chased him across state lines into north carolina, and they not only took him alive, but they took him to burger king to get a burger and a fry. but andrew brown they shoot him in the back. and we're going to see the video to know what they're trying to hide from all y'all. because the truth can't hide forever, and a lie cannot live forever. >> i gave you all an signment. i wanted to follow through. i've got joe manchin's number right here, it's 202-224-3954. >> one more time. >> 202-224-3954. call his office and tell him we're tired of black folk dying. and then kyrsten sinema's number is 202 -- >> the number one more time for joe manchin. >> 202-224-3954. and kyrsten sinema is 202-224-4521. just call the office and tell them how you feel. let me turn it over to harry. he has an update for you. >> so let me be clear. we

madison bumgarner allowing no hits in the second game in atlanta. all games are being shortened to seven innings due to covid-19. here's the catch. major league baseball wrote in 1991, no games shorter than nine innings or those broken up by extra innings would be considered official. the diamondbacks are saying, hey, this counts in our boochlkt note in pear enparentheses, non-official. >>> and in nascar, joey logano's car went airborne over bubba wallace's. wallace's car had minor damage to the roof. more importantly, logano able to walk away from the wreck uninjured. >>> final the ufc put on its first event with a full capacity crowd since the pandemic started last march. more than 15,000 fans packing into the arena in jacksonville on saturday night without social distancing. not many masks being worn. many fight fans were excited about the atmosphere while critics are concerned it might become a potential supercoronavirus spreader. >>> three of california's major league baseball teams setting a new trend into the year of the pandemic setting sect

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

i'm robyn curnow live from cnn world news headquarters here in atlanta. so after more than a year of the covid pandemic, america's health care workers are running on empty. there's no other way to say it. a new poll from "the washington post" and the kaiser family foundation lays out some troubling signs. i want you to have a look at this. roughly 3 in 10 health care workers say they've weighed up leaving the profession. more than half are burned out, and about 6 in 10 say stress from the pandemic has harmed their mental health. to talk about that, i want to bring in dr. mona massoud, an outpatient psychiatrist and the finder of the physician support line. doctor, thank you very much for joining us. what kind of pressure are frontline health workers under at the moment? >> frontline workers, physicians, nurses, everyone on the actual front lines of covid as well as kind of behind the scenes in our clinics and outpatient settings are all under a tremendous amount of pressure being called heroes and being expected to kind of fight a battle or a war that the

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

math thew with us now, pick health specialist in atlanta. you just heard that reporting from paul there about this special seating of fully vaccinated baseball fans. i talked with larry bear yesterday, the president of the san francisco giants about this. listen to what his team is doing. >> for socially distant sections, you have to have either a proof of a negative test or a vaccine 14 days out. then the vaccinated sections you just need the proof of the vaccination. and, you know, in may we're going up to about 50% capacity. right now we're effectively at 25%. this will just allow a lot more people to attend, and our view is april, may is going to be better than april, june better than may, and let's get back to a full ballpark before the end of the season. >> obviously this is all part of trying to get us back to some sort of normalcy, is it dr. sagu matthew approved. >> listen, three strikes you're out, and two shots you're in. i think that overall the analogy or just this whole premise that if you're vaccinated that you'll be safer mak

live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here, in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. 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. 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 health institutes. >> facebook runs a survey every day and we look at that day that on a daily basis. and that's shown that vaccine confidence, in the u.s., has been slowly but steadily going down, since february

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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

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. >> natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. >>> hello, again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with more questions swirling around the deadly shooting of a black man in north carolina. this morn, elizabeth city officials are revealing that they don't have any details about what happened wednesday morning to andrew brown jr. officials are making a clear distinction that the shooting and the warrants involved, county sheriff deputies and not the city's police force, but the sheriff's county's office is tight lipped about the shooting of brown, and nor has the county released any body camera footage, and calls for the release of that footage is calling louder, and the governor is tweeting that he calls for the footage to be released as quickly as possible. and there is an emergency council meeting to have that released as quickly as possible, and the request will be formally filed monday. natasha chen was at that briefing involving the city mayor and manager, and natasha, the family of andrew brown is expected to hold a press confere

charlotte, atlanta, raleigh, all of those cities having at some point pretty heavy rain today. we have tornado watches in effect across the southeast. some of the counties on the far west side will drop off after 3:00 p.m. eastern time. some of the eastern counties will not expire until 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight. there will be ongoing threats of hail especially in the origange areas here. you will notice what we call back building, storms piling up in some of the same places they already had them this morning. not only is that a concern for the strongest, severe thunderstorms but also potential for flooding. a lot of these areas, if you just keep getting rain over and over again, it's going to start to pond. the areas of biggest concerns are going to be southern alabama as well as southern georgia, where we could pick up widespread 2 to 4 inches, some spots 6 inches of rain. >> wow, that's a lot. allison chinchar, thank you very much. >>> a new report this week is raising serious concerns about the response to hurricane maria and how that impacted puerto rico. an investigation

sure, we have rain for places like atlanta and birmingham. the bigger threat for severe weather exists closer to the gulf coast. you're looking at active tornado watches that we have. nplace. the county on the far western side is valid until 10:00 a.m. eastern time today. the counties on the eastern side of the map will stick around until at least 3:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon. we will see multiple rounds of this. the main area for severe storms this morning may exist along the gulf coast but for the rest of the day it spreads east. the potential for very large hail bigger than golf ball-sized and tornadoes and damaging winds. tornadoes, biggest threat in the orange shaded area and potential for ef-2 or larger type of thorneds this afternoon. here is where the storms are this morning. you can see we have active ones but back building where storms build back up over the same places that already had storms this morning and will continue into the evening hours as well. not only does that mean severe thunderstorms are back building but the pot

hand to the homeless on her beat. >> reporter: when she's not responding to 911 calls, 25-year-old atlanta police officer mali nalimb starts every day checks in on businesses. >> there have been times i walk into a robbery at these locations before. >> reporter: it's the stop near the end of her day that brings a smile to her face. >> i really think so much of her. >> reporter: shortly before the pandemic, lin drove by doc on the side of the road. and noticed his sign. >> he wasn't begging for money, he was smiling, holding a sign, waving at everyone. i went to get my lunch and got two lunches today. >> 61-year-old doc who told us his drinking and drug addictions have cost him jobs in the past, remembers the first time she stopped to talk. he wondered if he had a warrant and thought she was going to take him to jail. >> i was afraid but she quickly eases the relationship. and basically says, what do you need? >> reporter: when george floyd was killed in minneapolis last year, their connection strengthened at a time when police and community relations were strained. >> he is problm, and i w

. >> reporter: i'm jacqueline howard in atlanta. pregnant women with covid-19 face an increased risk of severe complications and even death. that's according to a new study published in the journal jam ma pediatrics. researchers look at more than 2,000 pregnant women this 18 countries, those who had covid-19 while pregnant were at a higher risk of preeclampsia, preterm birth and were 22 times more likely to die. this news comes one day after new data published in the new england journal of medicine saying that pfizer and moderna covid-19 vaccines do not appear to pose a serious risk during pregnancy, though more long-term studies are needed. >>> i'm pete muntean in washington. federal officials are considering an extension of the transportation mask mandate. it is set to expire in three weeks on may 11th. the tsa issued an order that everyone must wear a mask on planes, trains, buses, boats, also in transportation terminals and hubs back in february. the tsa says it's received about 2,000 reports of violators ever since, but it cann

live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom. " the future of the johnson & johnson coronavirus vaccine in the u.s. could be decided in the coming hours. vaccine advisers to the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention will discuss how to move forward with the one-dose shot. now, this comes after a handful of rare blood clot cases were reported. the nation's top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci says he expects u.s. regulators to follow europe's lead and allow the shot to be used, but with a warning or restriction. cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta also weighed in. >> it's rare. it's still rare, you know. maybe there is a couple more people who develop this, but not significant numbers. i don't know what they're going to sort of recommend tomorrow as part of this advisory committee. it is likely if you look at what happened in europe, europe medicine association, agency, they basically said we're going to put a caution with t

. >> and also just before that, he was in atlanta trying to comfort the grieving families of the mass shooting there. >> i know they feel that there is a black hole in their chest and being sucked into and things will never get better. but our prayers are with you. and i assure you, the one you lost will always be with you. >> joining me right now for more on this is staff writer from "the new yorker" and a thou of "joe biden, the life, the run, and what matters now." everyone, they called this ability to comfort and connect with people in their loss his superpower. what do you call it? >> well, it is in a way . >> well, in a way it's a reluctant super power. when he got into politics he didn't want to be known as someone with a personal acquaintance with grief but in the foreign policy or judiciary committee. it took him a while. he was young. it took him a while people expected something from him because they looked at him and said you've been through this, you've survived it. and over the years he set up language of healing that he's used in private and now increasingly in public.

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

cooler down in atlanta with rain showers early in the morning and by saturday, all the way to 71. heat is on the horizon. "new day" continues right now. >>> i'm john berman alongside brianna keilar on this, "new day." policing the police. restricting oversight after the death of george floyd. >> a verdict politicized. some suggest the derek chauvin jury was afraid to acquit him. >>> keep your head up. a veteran police officer fired for his support of the teenager charged with killing two people at a black lives matter protest. >>> and a new revelation from january 6th, officers allegedly told to ignore trump supporters in the hours before they stomped the capitol. . >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it's thursday, april 22nd, and the biden administration is putting police on notice. the department of justice is launching a federal several probe of the minneapolis police department to determine if there's a pattern of unlawful policing. >>> and the issue is just so much larger than george floyd. today family and friends will say good-bye to d

cooler down in atlanta with rain showers early in the morning and by saturday, all the way to 71. heat is on the horizon. "new day" continues right now. >>> i'm john berman alongside brianna keilar on this, "new day." policing the police. restricting oversight after the death of george floyd. >> a verdict politicized. some suggest the derek chauvin jury was afraid to acquit him. >>> keep your head up. a veteran police officer fired for his support of the teenager charged with killing two people at a black lives matter protest. >>> and a new revelation from january 6th, officers allegedly told to ignore trump supporters in the hours before they stomped the capitol.

atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms whose husband works for home depot said a boycott will be an economic blow to all georgians and said there is a more effective way to bring about change. >> my concern about a boycott not just home depot but the 30 fortune 500 companies head kwaurtd erred in atlanta is that you will impact families like ours. they have a real impact in our communities in addition to the thousands of people who work for them. so i think that our best chance right now is federal legislation but certainly still pressing forward and making changes come election year in states across this country. >> the mayor also says she understands why they did t but says she's disappointed major league baseball pulled this year's all-star game out of atlanta. >>> one area that warring political parties seem to agree, space travel. president biden's pick for nasa administrator says he will try to stick to president trump's timetable to get astronauts back on the moon as soon as possible possible. former senator bill nelson who flew on the shuttle in 1986 says the program transcends polit

live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> the u.s. justice department has now opened a sweeping civil investigation into the policing practices of the minneapolis police department. that announcement from the attorney general comes one day after former police officer derek chauvin was convicted of murder in the death of george floyd. >> the investigation i am announcing today will assess whether the minneapolis police department engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, including during protests. the investigation will also assess whether the mpd engages in discriminatory conduct and whether its treatment of those with behavioral health disabilities is unlawful. >> this investigation comes in the wake of a verdict welcomed by many across the u.s., and now derek chauvin sits in a maximum security prison in minnesota after his conviction. the latest now from cnn's omar jimenez. >> find the defendant guilty. >> reporter: with a guilty v

voter-suppression laws. 250 laws in atlanta have been changed since the election. it's happening in michigan. it's happening 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. let me tell you this. i mean it. you are welcome back here, anytime. i love watching you. i love -- >> thank you. >> -- what you are contributing, what you are doing, and your perspective. please, come back. thank you for your time. okay? >> my pleasure. i appreciate the love. >> and i want those glasses. thank you. jalen rose, thank you very much. >>> americans demanding justice and equal treatment. they don't just want action in the courtroom. they want action in congress. but is any legislation or police reform possible, when republicans have become the party of obstruction? -free life. honey, i'm home from my really important job! scuff defense. honey! scuff defense. [ chuckles ] scuff! -defense! i love our scuff-free life. you too, scruff defense. today let's paint with the

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

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home one night, and police officers saw me parked in front of my apartment in midtown, atlanta. they confronted me, shined their light on me. they got out of their car and i got out of my car. he said, move, and i'll blow your brains out. i had to say, it's okay, all right, okay. i had to calm them down. they threw me on the back of the car and did an illegal search. the painful thing i realized is if that happened to me ten years earlier, i might have run. i might not have had the skill to judge and navigate that safely. when i walked around that community and saw young black kids, i feared their rationality. i had to go up to them and tell them, this is what you have to do. we haven't confronted the police changes and equality. >> bryan, thank you. i've been looking forward to this conversation. big fan of your book. thank you. >> he's such an inspiration. my son read his book and i think it changed the way that at that point a 13-year-old looks at the world. >> exactly. that is the difference. he and his team have pored over these cases. they have skpaully exonerated more tha

. >> understandable emotion there in atlanta, and we saw and heard similar things across the u.s. after the verdicts in the trial of derek chauvin. a jury on tuesday found the former minneapolis police officer guilty of all three charges against him, including murder in george floyd's death. after that, this group gathered at the georgia capitol next to a mural of floyd. earlier george floyd's brother and his family's attorney spoke with cnn's don lemon about their satisfaction with the verdict and the relief that they felt. >> oh, man, it was -- it was just so much of a relief, don. just constant nights of me just being up constantly getting three and four hours of sleep. but today i won't get that time to sleep because i'm going to stay up and celebrate because to me, this is a day of celebration. i'm happy, man. i'm really happy. >> i want to take you back to the courtroom if you will allow me because this verdict, as you know, was historic. what was it like for you to be there? >> oh, it was one of the times that i actually panicked. i was walking back and forth, pacing back a

he hails from atlanta, georgia. attorney chris stewart. his law partner, attorney justice miller. attorney madelyn simmons. a great minnesota lawyer, attorney jeff storms. raise your hand, jeff! attorney michelle guaido. anybody else? we have attorney scott masterson, who's not present. i said michelle. we got michelle. all right. and just a great group of lawyers. i want to let you know who we have present here with the family here in minneapolis for this historic day. we have george floyd's brothers. we have philones floyd, we have rodney floyd, we have brandon williams, who's george floyd's nephew, but was more like a son to him. they called him woo back in the third ward. >> woo, woo, woo, woo! [ laughter ] >> we have philones' wife. we have his sisters who are not with us, but we should absolutely acknowledge bridget floyd, who hails from north carolina, his sisters latonya and zaza who hail from houston, texas. we have sharita mcgee, tira mcgee and tara brown. we have the mother of his daughter. we have roxy washington and we have gianna. and so i'll make some brief remarks

since the atlanta area spa shootings on march 16th, there have been at least 50 mass shootings reported in the united states. >> when you see people getting killed, i mean, in this last month it's just been horrifying what's happened. how can you say that's not a public health issue? >> reporter: what also has health professionals and public officials worried is the idea of americans simply accepting this kind of mass gun violence. >> we must guard against resignation or even despair. the assumption that this is simply how it must be and that we might as well set used to it. >> reporter: president biden has in recent weeks announced some executive actions on gun control, including a measure to eliminate kits that people can buy to build untraceable guns at home. the president also wants to ban assault-style weapons and high capacity magazines and establish stricter background checks for gun purchases, but despite all the mass shootings just since president biden has been in office there's little appetite among republicans and even some moderate democrats in congress to pass stricter gun