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>> reporter: 91% of new york city's municipal workforce is now vaccinated. police, ems, sanitation workers and the fire department all seeing big gains in vaccination rates since the mayor announced the mandate 12 days ago. >> anyone who hasn't so far, there's still a chance to fix it. come in. get vaccinated. come back to work because we need everyone to do their job, and we need everyone to be safe. >> reporter: 9,000 city workers who didn't get the shot are now at home on unpaid leave. mayor bill de blasio says there have been no disruptions to police, sanizatation and fire houses. the fdny says it's seeing higher than normal numbers of sickouts since the mandate was announced. the firefighters union still opposing the mandate. >> we're hoping fire coverage is not impinged upon but it's hard to say. >> reporter: the battle is playing out against the backdrop of a big milestone. 80% of adults in the u.s. have received their first shot. nearly 70% of adults are now fully vaccinated. new covid cases continue to fall. hospitalizations are under 50,000 for the

in new york city, they elected democrat eric adams as their new mayor. the retired nypd police captain ran on a law and order platform. today, he outlined ways he plans to keep the city safe. meanwhile, in minneapolis, where a police officer killed george floyd last year, voters rejected a ballot measure calling for an overall of the city's police department, which could have implications nationwide. cnn's ryan young has more. >> defund -- >> mpd! >> reporter: the calls for reform were unrelenting as protests spread across the nation in the wake of outrage over the murder of george floyd at the hands of minneapolis police. black lives matter and defund the police became rallying cries for millions protesting police brutality. in minneapolis, there were calls to dismantle the police department entirely. but the actual specifics of defunding or even dismantling by reducing police budgets or reallocating money to other police services have been less clear. >> minneapolis was thinking of doing was simply dissolving it and creating something no one really und

york city? i can tell you 18 fire companies have been taken out of operation. for important context, 18 out of 350. no fire houses have closed to give you an example. the one behind me, you can see how it houses multiple fire companies. simply because one of them is not in operation does not mean the entire house is basically shut down here. authorities here in new york assuring the public they are responding to every call that comes in here. but nonetheless, they are having to move some of their resources around to make sure that everybody is covered here. finally, an important number to share, roughly 9,000 municipal workers were sent home today on unpaid leave. at the end of the day 91% of the entire workforce is in compliance with a mandate. >> polo sandoval, thanks so much. >>> let's bring in the executive vice president of the robert wood johnson foundation for our health lead. from a public health perspective, how should the company weigh the risk of unvaccinated first responders versus t

retired police captain eric adams is the next mayor of new york city. adams promising on cnn earlier today that he will get things done, but in his own way. cnn's gloria borger recently spent time with adams in queens, new york, where he says it all started. >> for eric adams, it's been a long and deliberate trek from his childhood home in blue collar queens to gracie mansion. >> right here was ms. brown. i used to her her papers and errands. >> reporter: not anymore. >> how long have you wanted to be mayor? is this the job you always dreamed of? >> not always dreamed of, but it happened 24 years ago. >> reporter: when a mentor gave him advice about climbing the political ladder, he took it. >> he said if you want to be mayor here are four things you need to do. >> reporter: so he got a masters degree and joined the police department. became a state senator. then brooklyn borough president. >> so i'm on cue exactly where i'm supposed to be. >> i'm the mayor. >> reporter: what exactly happens next is anyone's guess. >> i'm evolving as a man, evolving as

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mayor elect of new york city, democrat and former cop ran on a tough on crime platform and won. eric adams joins you now. mr. mayor elect, i really appreciate you joining us. thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you, anderson, it is great being on with you. >> so i want to ask you first of all about this idea of vigilanteism, where armed citizens operate under the guise of self-appointed security personnel. sometimes as we have seen, with violent and deadly consequences as a former captain of the police force, soon to be mayor, what do you make of it? >> i believe it's unacceptable and there is a clear difference between a block patrol, security patrol, unarmed carrying out public safety in their communities by really understanding their neighborhoods. we have something like that in brooklyn where we have something called the guard squad. a group of pastors that go out and really prevent crime from taking place by interacting with the residents. that's a big difference from those who are carrying weapons, saying they protecting our borders or carrying weapons protecting th

. >> reporter: and former new york city police commissioner bernard kerik, all four of them, stepien, miller, eastman and kerik among those gathered at a d.c. hotel for what is described as a war room to overturn the election. kerik already warning that he does not plan to comply. i will not be threatened, intimidated, forced into bankruptcy or silenced at the hands of this committee who are not looking for truth but targeting patriots and members of the president's legal team that wanted nothing more to investigate and expose those irregularities. kerik said in a statement. his confrontational tone an example of the difficult time the committee is having getting trump allies to cooperate. their ability to get witnesses to cooperate hinging in part on a decision by the department of justice which has yet to weigh in on a crimical contempt referral of steve bannon who has openly defied a subpoena. merrick garland refusing to shed any light on how the doj plans to respond. >> we evaluate these in the normal way we do. facts and the law. and applying the principles of prosecution. >> rep

york city's mayor bill de blasio said his vaccination rate is working with 91% municipal employees vaccinated with at least one dose of covid vaccine and said there's no disruptions of city services despite 2,300 firefighters calling in sick today. many union leaders taking sick days as a result of the vaccine. but saying irresponsible bogus sick leaves making it dangerous for the workers and they are at 77%, emt at 88%, 85% of the pd vaccinated and the remaining requesting accommodations for religious and medical reasons. city department of sanitation vaccination rate up to 83% from 62%. news continues, let's hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time >> here's our first question. how can president biden say this -- >> -- i believe we'll see bit end of next week at home that's passed. >> -- when he had to know senator joe manchin would say this -- >> political games have to stop and holding this bill hostage is not going to work, getting my support for reck simple ratio bill. none of us should ever misrepresent to the american people what the real cost of legislation is. >> doesn't sound lik

malcolm x, one of the most powerful voices for the fight against racism, was murdered in new york city where hundreds had gathered to hear him speak. let's hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." chris? >>> hey, everybody, i'm chris cuomo. welcome to a special edition of "prime time." bill maher is our guest for the full hour. the world's different, right, since we last got together in 2019. maher is a voice that does what we need.

powell and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani were part of the public push by trump allies to spread the big lie and sow doubt in the 2020 election results. new video obtained by cnn shows powell and giuliani testifying under oath in a deposition as part of a lawsuit filed by dominion voting systems in august. at one point, giuliani concedes that he often had no proof to back up his wild claims about the election. >> it's not my job in a fast-moving case to go out and investigate every piece of evidence that's given to me. wizz you'll never write a story. you'll never come to a conclusion. >> reporter: the january 6th select committee as a lot of decisions to make. they're huddled behind closed doors hashing out many of these including the next steps toward jeffrey clark. there's a possibility that criminal contempt could be on the table for clark. they're also trying to bring in information from other witnesses. thompson has said there are as many as 20 subpoenas could go out to people that they need information from as soon as next week. jake? >> lots going on, on the hill. ryan on

i know the incoming new york city mayor is considering this. the kids are vaccinated. should a bonus be that you can take off the mask? >> it is a great question. i certainly think getting vaccinated takes us one step closer to that. what the cdc has said in areas that have higher substantial amount of transmission, they want people to still wear a mask for the time being but as cases come down, certainly it will become a possibility for us to take off our mask. so we have just got to keep going in terms of taking safety precautions as cases come down and stay down, we will be able to remove a lot of restrictions we have been dealing with. >> it's very nice to see you and in person, of course, here in our studio. nice to have some of these things start to return. thank you. >> absolutely. thank you. >> >>. >> outfront next, the alarming warning two men claim they told police during the chaos at the astroworld music festival. >> there's just people in there and i -- they're -- they're going to die. >>> and a republican senate candidate facing domestic abuse allegations

new york city's mayor-elect eric adams says he hopes to lift it by the end of the year. considering that not all kids 5 to 11 are vaccinated yet, just a minority are, is this a good idea? is it premature? frmth >> i think it may be. this is not magic. let's show the map of what is going on right now with regard to covid spread. i realize people want to be optimistic. i do as well. and the numbers like i said are largely heading in the right direction. that was a weather map, jake. we're still getting drenched in coronavirus. there's still a lot of it out there. masks may offer some protection in terms of actually decreasing the spread. so we're probably not there yet. i think we've also seen, jake, with the stutter stepping about masks, if you do this, and then you have to reimplement mask policy each time you do that it gets harder. you have to be very clear on if you're going to lift these mask requirements what the criteria are, why you're doing it. like i said, dr. fauci put a number on it for the country, 10,000 cases per day for the country. what does that translat

and also new tonight >>> the former new york city police commissioner, bernie kerik, demanding an apology from the january 6th select committee. this is after the committee subpoenaed him. they said the committee was wrong when he attended a meeting with rudy giuliani, steve bannon, and pro-trump lawyer john eastman on january 5th with the topic of overturning the election. however, carrick's lawyer also says his client with comply with the subpoena. and this comes as the select committee is issuing a now round of subpoenas. whitney wild is out front on that. and, whitney, they have been actually -- i know they have talked to 200 people but a lot of subpoenas coming out here. who are the latest targets of the committee and why? >> the latest targets of the committee are people the committee believes are directly linked to the violence. this is a round of subpoenas we have been waiting for because we know that the committee is building up to trying to figure out what were the connections between all these different areas, the white house, the money, the rally, and eventually, erin, the vio

york city deviating from cdc guidance, opening up covid booster shots to anyone over the age of 18 who wants one. this comes, after governors in at least four states have taken steps to expand access to boosters, including colorado and new mexico where there is a major covid surge right now. colorado surpassing 1,500 covid patients in hospitals for the first time this year. outfront now, dr. robert, chair of the department of medicine at uc-san francisco. doctor, obviously, we have talked through this -- through this virus. let me ask you about, you know, as we see these covid hot spots continuing to pop up. and we are now basically two years into the pandemic. you are saying it's time for people to stop organizing their lives around covid, and to start resuming normal activities. tell us why. >> well, i guess, i wouldn't say normal activities because my normal activities in 2019 did not include wearing a mask indoors. but what i have come to believe and it's true for most of the experts is that covid is going to be around our world for the foreseeable future -- maybe forever. it will

. >> today new york city made masks highly recommended. we're now in the thick of holiday gatherings, people spending more time indoors because of the cold weather. would you urge cities and states to reinstate mask mandates and social distancing measures, and what do you say to those people and i've seen republican members of congress say they don't think masking does anything. >> well, masking certainly does something. i don't think there's any doubt about that. the idea about mandates again, depends on where you are and the circumstances you're in. one thing for sure that if you are an indoor congregate setting where you don't know their vaccination status of the people around you, you should wear a mask. we're going to be traveling soon. people will be traveling for the upcoming holidays. you'll be in airports that are generally crowded. keep that mask on. i know when people go eat at the food courts, to the best of your ability, stay away from that and keep your mask on. you have to have a mask on when you're on the plane. but make su

in the meantime, in new york, city officials there, highly recommending now that people wear masks indoors in public places to try to get ahead of this new variant. kate. >> amara, thanks so much. outfront be me now is dr. ashish jha. dean of brown university school of public health and dr. jonathan reiner. he has advised the white house medical team under president george w. bush. thanks both for being here. dr. jha, you say that this variant is not likely to set us back to square one in this pandemic. i saw you say this is not going to be march of 2020, which is very promising, i have to say, when i saw that. so, what concerns you then most about this new variant? >> yeah. so first, thanks for having me back. look. what concerns me about this -- the variant is two things. one, is pretty good circumstantial but good evidence that it is highly contagious. maybe, more contagious than the delta variant. and then, all of those mutations on the spike protein and areas tha our antibodies target, which really worries me about vaccine efficacy, i am not worried the vaccines won't work at all but