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call father a former professor and an activist himself says natasha is an activist not a terrorist he says her high profile role in a women's rights collective put her on the police radar he claims she became a target simply for supporting protest against a controversial new citizenship law passed in 200-1000 mug. she was helping people out during the protests. people are facing issues or if they needed food or blankets at the protests there's a reason for the police to book her and others like her also under a law like repeat this was selectively done to terrorize them in. the past few years have seen a rise in the number of cases filed against student activist under these 2 particular laws sedition and the us. the latest mean to join this growing list has been of the shutter the many live an activist describing to no other anti people and say that these are brought to new people under the laws pretrial detention and it seem difficult in getting the many say it's high time these 2 laws get. government supporters on the other hand maintains that it is only the judicially that can deci

everything that natasha just said, do it incrementally. the big, comprehensive immigration reform is the white whale of every administration. however, the dream act for the dreamers, for the people who were brought here as kids through no choice of their own, that one already has bipartisan support. senators dick durbin and lindsey graham just reintroduced their bill from 2017. that already has bipartisan support. i guess i'm confused about the go big or go home model here. why doesn't biden just start with that narrow one? >> i think the answer, alisyn, is that even though they are introducing this big, comprehensive bill, their answer is not go big or go home. in fact, the president making quite clear this week that he would be open to doing things on more of a piecemeal basis and administration officials told us last night on a briefing call about this bill that they were also open to that possibility. they certainly were not shutting the door to that. what the president is doing here is he's making very clear that not only is immigrati

cnn's natasha chen is there for us. natasha, who is getting vaccinated there today? >> reporter: fred, in the last few minutes we just heard the 600th person being called up for a vaccine, 600 before noon and today is all about the employees of local school districts. so fulton county schools, atlanta public schools, also employees who drive for the public transit system here marta, i have with me ron wade, the chief human resources officer of fulton county schools. you've got the eligible people among your employees who can get vaccinated right now. that's people older than 65, health care workers. tell me about how difficult it's been to get them to get vaccinated, and have you had to do some convincing efforts? >> yeah, when we began this partnership with fulton county board of health we recognized we were going to have to inform, provide employees access and incentivize. to make sure employees were properly informed and interested in getting the vaccination we started with information sessions, bringing experts in with virtual sessions whereby employees could get

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her father a former professor and an activist himself says natasha is an activist not a terrorist. he says her high profile role in a women's rights collective put her on the police radar he claims she became a target simply for supporting protest against a controversial new citizenship law in 2001000 mug there. she was helping people out during the protests. people facing issues or if they needed food or blankets put aside there's no reason for the police to book her and others like . this was selectively done to terrorize them as. the past few years have seen a rise in the number of cases filed against a student activist under these 2 particular laws sedition and the us. the latest mean to join this growing list has been of the shutter the many live an activist describing to no other anti people and say that these are brought to new people under the laws law pretrial detention and extreme difficulty in getting many think it's high time these 2 laws get to be a government that borders on the other one maintains that it is only the judicially that can decide on the method of such c

natasha, what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: yeah, fred, you can tell by the number of cars pulling up right behind us, there are a lot of people here who really need bottled water at this time. that's because houston remains under a boil water notice. now, the water pressure here has actually improved over the last few days, but the city says they've sent water samples to the texas commission on environmental quality. that agency needs to approve those test samples and then the boil water notice can be lifted which the city hopes can happen as early as monday. 145 boil water notices across the state have been lifted as of this morning, and that includes now galveston which is about 55 miles southeast of here along the coast. as far as water disruption, still 14 million texans don't have water service right now. that includes a couple homeowners we met yesterday who said they've been hauling water from their neighbor's house four or five times a day just to flush toilets and wash their dishes. >> i think i'm going t

natasha, we will be back to all _ apparently. natasha, we will be back to all of that, i'm sure. - back to all of that, i'm sure. thank you very much. in myanmar, the trial of the detained civilian leader aung san suu kyi has begun, behind closed doors. she appeared in court via video link, accused of violating the natural disaster law, on top of earlier charges of possessing illegal communications. protests against the military coup have continued across myanmar. a military spokesman has claimed aung saan suu kyi is being confined for her own safety. this report from our south east asia correspondent jonathan head. when you have lost the monks in myanmar, you're in trouble. they led the last big uprising against military rule. now some arejoining the protests against the coup. it's the diversity and inventiveness of this civil disobedience movement which has stumped myanmar�*s new military rulers. this impromptu painting shows a young woman who was shot in the head by police last week. the involvement of so many professional g

natasha, how are vaccinations going today? >> well, fred, this site has been open for several weeks now, and today's event is special because it is targeting employees of local school districts, and public transit who happen to fall into the eligib eligible category in georgia and in the last hour since i spoke to you last time they've gotten through another 100 people. every time they hit one of those markers there's a cheer that goes through the room. there's a lot of optimism here and a lot of excitement from people who feel like this is the beginning, the first step of gaining a little bit of normalcy. i can show you what's going on here, when people come in they'll line up on this side and register at these tables over here, then they sit down in a waiting area and wait for their names to be called and so many of them are actually here for their second shots now and so the fulton county schools, a chief human resources officer was telling me that, you know, given that right now we're only looking at people 65 and older wh

thank you, natasha. i appreciate it. thank you so much. >>> before we go to break, can we just put the video up of officer -- capitol police officer eugene goodman? i think it is great -- they gave him a standing ovation today and they're also going to give him the congressional gold medal for his heroics for helping to save everybody's lives, leading mitt romney away and so on. so congratulations to him. well deserved. >>> her lawyer says she is the girl next door, so how did emily hernandez end up in the middle of a riot holding up speaker pelosi's name plate? that's next. (announcer) truecar can help you find the right car and a great price, because truecar knows what people in your area have paid for the car you want and can show you what's a high price, what's a low price, and what's a great price. get your car and a great deal, all from home, with truecar. t your next celebrity cruise is ready for takeoff, with our biggest air offer ever. save on every flight, from every gateway, on every sailing. and, with drinks,

. >> joining us to make sense of it all, alicia johnson, former biden campaign adviser, natasha core ecky and beth fouhy and carlos cabello former republican congressman from the florida district. alicia, president biden put out a statement last night that read while the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute. what are you hearing today coming from the white house? >> well they certainly are on the one hand they tried to stay back from this, tried not to weigh in a lot publicly. they are mainly concerned with moving on. with moving forward. they did not want this impeachment trial to drag out, to distract from their agenda, which is primarily president biden needs to get this covid package across the goal line. it is $1.9 trillion and it will very much dictate the future of his presidency if he does not get this across the goal line and soon, there is going to be a lot of backlash right away. so in that sense, president biden and the white house, they wanted this to play out but they also wanted to wrap it up as quickly as possible. >>

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host: that is natasha. mr. malcolm, are all of those other things she brought up up for consideration? guest: i suppose everything that would speak to what the president's intent was that date or its effect on the people who showed up in washington january 6 could be considered fair game. i appreciate natasha's comments. i'm not going to defend the president's rhetoric. i think his call to raffensperger was inconsiderate to put it lightly. those people believed the election had been stolen and they supported the president. there were many who did not storm the capital and did not have an intention to storm the capital. there were a few hundred people who came with a different intention and the question will come down to did donald trump intent to incite those people to do the horrifying they did january 6. host: elizabeth wydra? guest: i find it super weird to say that not everyone engaged in insurrection so it is not a big deal. the house managers have done a good job of placing all of that into context. she b

macro has a lot to gain if his strategy succeeds but he could also have much to lose if it does not natasha bottler al-jazeera. moment. ice skaters in the netherlands are hoping to get a once in a generation chance to tackle the 11 cities tour it takes place on natural ice and the last time it was called enough was back in 1977 there's a new problem this year. the cracking noise of natural ice is music to the ears of peter becker it's been nearly a decade since dutch waters have been covered with such a layer of ice 24 years peter has been waiting for the tour of all ice skating tourists a journey on skates between 11 cities which takes thousands of ice skaters 200 kilometers to cities in the north of the country. i like the extreme challenge of the tour but also want to enjoy the beautiful landscape skating through fields and cities and a large audience cheering you on at something for this is how peter imagines to it because in reality all he has been doing is practicing because every skater selected by the committee has to be appropriate to go at any time you know it is over the best it

thank you, natasha. i appreciate it. thank you so much. >>> before we go to break, can we just put the video up of officer -- capitol police officer eugene goodman. they gave him a standing ovation today, and they're also going to give him the congressional gold medal for his heroics, for helping to save everybody's lives, leading mitt romney away and so on. so congratulations to him. well deserved. >>> so her lawyer says that she is the girl next door. so how did emily hernandez end up in the middle of a riot holding up speaker pelosi's nameplate? that's next. >>> court records revealing tonight that federal prosecutors are focused on understanding communications between members of paramilitary groups before the capitol insurrection. we're also learning that prosecutors say one of the alleged oath keepers, whose name is thomas caldwell, kept a death list with the name of an election official written on it, but not everyone facing charges in the wake of the insurrection is allegedly associated with a paramilitary organiz

g natasha? >> the cdc guidance on re-opening schools safely really hinges on the level of transmission in the community where the schools are located. so in a high-transmission area or red zone, the recommendation is to do a hybrid model or virtual learning. but cnn analysis shows 99% of children in the u.s. live in a place that would be a red zone. so the key here is really to clamp down on community spread and get those shots into arms as quickly as possible. headed into valentine's day, fewer than 70,000 people in the u.s. are in the hospital with covid-19, a level we haven't seen in about three months. but looking ahead at the next three months, another 130,000 people in the u.s. are projected to die of the coronavirus by june 1st according to the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation. what could make things worse, analysis of existing research in the uk suggests the variant first identified there makes the virus more severe. >> it makes people more sick, and

cnn's natasha chen is at a food bank in houston. natasha, certainly, you know, a disastrous situation there across the state. what are you seeing and what are you hearing from people there? >> yeah, the desperation right now is really related to the water crisis that's happened since the weather has warmed up a little bit, and the power is starting to come back for a lot of people. now it's all about the burst pipes in people's homes, there are about -- more than 1,300 water systems in the state affected by this. and that's really covering more than 60% of texas counties. we had people yesterday coming up, just showing us pictures of the burst pipes in their apartment homes, the flooded rooms in their homes. and so there's a lot of -- there are a lot of folks who are very concerned about how long it's going to take for those repairs to happen. some of them don't have a place to stay and the food bank where we're at, the three congresswomen, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, representative sheila jackson lee and representative

cnn's natasha chen joins me now. natasha, you have seen your fair share of the vaccination process at the mercedes-benz stadium site. tell us how an emergency use authorization for a third vaccine will change the game here. >> reporter: yes, pamela, that likely third vaccine rollout is going to be welcome news for so many, not just it will put more supply into the system when appointments are so quickly booked up. but in thinking about the -- g 1,100 people who came to mercedes-benz stadium for shots today, about half of them were getting the second doses. and in the future if people get the johnson & johnson vaccine they'll only have to make one trip. a third vaccine could come as soon as next week as the food and drug administration weighs granting johnson & johnson's single dose vaccine for emergency use. >> significantly the vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe covid-19. >> reporter: the jondsen johnson vaccine requires no complex refrigeration and only one dose. the company says it's ready to begin s

cnn's natasha chen is at mercedes benz stadium. what are you seeing? >> reporter: this is a special event today where the vaccinations are targeted for certain groups, employees of two school districts in the area, fulton county schools and atlanta public schools, as well as employees of the public transit system marta. all of the employees of those groups who fall into the phase 1a category right now in georgia, which is people over 65, as well as health care workers, first responders. so to give you a look at what's happening behind me, we've got some people who have lined up here this morning and they are checking in at these tables behind us. this is a little less chaotic than last week because these are controlled groups we're talking about. once they've registered, they will sit in that section over there and wait for their names to be called to get their shot. you can see it sort of in the distance behind them, the empty seats of this arena and so it's a very stark image, of course, of the stadium being used as a vaccination site. a lot of these

and natasha is inserting a fairly lighthearted story. although not for the possum. i recap my experiences of the largest hazardous crime scene in the history of the fbi. i was in charge at the site of the first anthrax murder in u.s. history, interesting happened to be at the america media inc. headquarters in bucca raton florida. we had to go inside a three-story 60000 square-foot building filled with microscopic anthrax spores, my team did. and one day as we are doing this grueling work, the team is inside. there is no ac in that florida building. they are completely in tyvek suits. they are using positive air pressure respirators, it's unprecedented crime scene. out of the corner of my eye i see something, waddling out of the parking garage of the building. i ask an agent next to me, did you see that? he said yes, sir, it is a possum we have seen and he's got in the building and is coming out. i got we've got a problem. here's the problem, the problem is this city and country is on nerve by this toxic building. there's a child's playground down the street and i g

cnn's natasha chen joins me now from houston. so what is the situation there like on the ground, natasha? >> reporter: just a few hours ago this lot was filled with cars. this event just wrapped up. a mass distribution event, 3,600 meals delivered, pallets and pallets of bottled water. even though houston's boil water notice has been lifted along with 145 other boil water notices this weekend, bottled water may still really be necessary as millions of texans are still experiencing disruptions in water service. and people have busted pipes at home. that includes the volunteers who came today. they told me about their busted pipes. but they still came out to help their fellow neighbors who are facing the same challenges. >> so, we lost power on sunday night. and we got it back wednesday. things have defrosted enough that we are able to get in and check out stuff. and we had lines that were just gushing water. so now we've got zero water in the house just due to having to turn it off until somebody can come out here to start fixing

tech companies to effectively form separate local governments while establishing new business parties natasha's sweet as more. state of nevada which is heavily dependent on tourism has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic which is why gov steve says a lot wants to create innovation zones that can run on smart technology funded by blocked change says a lot proposed tech companies should have the power to create their own local governments in his state according to a draft bill obtained by the las vegas review journal it reveals these local governments would be equipped with the same authority as a county this includes everything from collecting taxes government services creating school districts and even courts however there are few requirements so it's not just open to any tech company those applying are required to possess 50000 acres of undeveloped land outside of an existing city or county applicants are to have 250000000. dollars as well as a plan to invest in additional $1000000000.00 to the zone over the next decade governor says a lot outlined the idea during his state of the stat

tech companies to effectively form separate local governments while establishing new business parties natasha this week as more. state of nevada which is heavily dependent on tourism has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic which is why gov steve says a lot wants to create innovation zones that can run on smart technology funded by blocked change he says a lot proposed tech companies should have the power to create their own local governments in his state according to a draft bill obtained by the las vegas review journal it reveals these local governments would be equipped with the same authority as a county this includes everything from collecting taxes government services creating school districts and even courts however there are few requirements so it's not just open to any tech company those applying are required to possess 50000 acres of undeveloped land outside of an existing city or county applicants are to have 250000000. dollars as well as a plan to invest in additional $1000000000.00 to the zone over the next decade governor says a lot outlined the idea during his state of t

tech companies to effectively form separate local governments while establishing new business parties natasha this week as more. state of nevada which is heavily dependent on tourism has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic which is why governor steve says a lot wants to create innovation zones that can run on smart technology funded by blocked change he says a lot proposed tech companies should have the power to create their own local governments in his state according to a draft bill obtained by the las vegas review journal it reveals these local governments would be equipped with the same authority as a county this includes everything from collecting taxes government services creating school districts and even courts however there are fewer acquirements so it's not just open to any tech company those applying are required to possess 50000 acres of undeveloped land outside of an existing city or county applicants are to have 250000000. dollars as well as a plan to invest in additional $1000000000.00 to the zone over the next decade governor says a lot outlined the idea during his sta

joining us now is natasha alford. also with us, eugene daniels, a white house correspondent and co-author of "the political playbook." eugene, i want to begin with you specifically on the iran issue. because that is an understatement. that's a political hot button issue in this country. obama made the iran nuclear deal, trump pulled out of it. biden at least talking about getting back in. and there's a lot between now and then and actually resurrecting this thing. tell us about the politics here. is that going to be a major controversy for this president? >> if not a major, definitely a minor. i think there are a lot of people, especially on the right, who want to make it a huge issue. who don't want this deal to come back. but i think the thing that we know about joe biden that he, first of all, he likes what president obama did. so it's very unlikely that he wouldn't want to be a part of this deal again. but also that he is trying to signal just like jeremy was just saying, to everyone, not only is america back, but

is nowhere close to being out of the woods, as natasha chen now reports. natasha. >> reporter: in some ways, americans may feel the beginning of a light at the end of the tunnel. the number of people hospital hospitalized from covid-19 dropped below 100,000 on saturday, for the first time since december 1st. only one state, right now, louisiana, is seeing an increase in new cases compared to the previous week. and more than 30 million doses of the vaccine have been administered, so far. >> i feel i can go see my grandkids. getting a second shot, just has done wonders for me. and it really is boosted my confidence to the point where i feel that i can take on the world. >> reporter: about to turn 89, got both doses of the pfizer vaccine which showed 95% efficacy during trials. >> let me tell you something. there's nothing like having 95% on your side. >> reporter: moderna's trials did similarly well. but these modest signs of progress come amid a troubling development. in the u.s., there are more than 400 cases of the variant, first identified in the uk. >>

. >>> let's bring in natasha lin stet. thank you for joining us. i want to start with the covid relief bill. it will go ahead without any bipartisan support it seems. what difference would that make if they got one or two republicans to go ahead? does that actually matter and who does this hurt more, democrats or republicans? >> honestly i think at this point it doesn't matter because the proposal that some of the republicans had put forward was so far away from what biden's original proposal was that it doesn't -- it just didn't look like they were going to find any common ground here. from biden's perspective he needs to do something pretty immediately, he needs to do something that's very massive because the economy is in disarray and it's just been such a massive crisis with so many people unemployed, people being plunged into poverty and the democrats believe this is going to be very popular. early polling shows that the bill will be popular if it gets implemented fully and so they feel they need to forge ahead because if they don't forge ahea

cnn's natasha chen live in houston with the latest. the power largely back, but the ripple effects of the bad weather and the mismanagement still being felt, natasha. >> yeah, john. most people do have their power back, but right now, the issue is water. more than 8 million texans right now are experiencing a disruption in their water service. there is some improvement. for example, 250 boil water notices have been lifted as of sunday, but that still doesn't mean that people are in the clear. they still need bottled water, which is why we've seen several mass distribution sites to give people pallets of water. we're at a church that's going to start food and water distribution later this morning. and we met some folks who are dealing with busted pipes, no running water at home. yet they still came out to volunteer at one of those events, telling me that all they can do right now is help other people who are in the same boat. >> texans help one another. and so it doesn't matter what's going on in your life, someone may be worse than you

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cnn's natasha chen has more. >> reporter: in some ways americans may feel the beginning of a light at the end of the tunnel. the number of people hospitalized from covid-19 dropped below 100,000 saturday for the first time since december 1st, and more than 30 million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far. >> getting a second shot, it just has done wonders for me and it really has boosted my confidence to the point where i feel i can take on the world. >> reporter: ron yuburdi who is about to turn 89 got both doses of the pfizer vaccine. >> there's nothing like having 95% on your side. >> reporter: moderna's trials did similarly well. the modest signs of progress come amid a troubling development. in the u.s. there are 400 cases of the variant first identified in the u.k. >> the fact is the surmg that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next 6 to 14 weeks. if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we are going to see something like we've never seen. >> variants first identified in south africa and

cnn's natasha chen has the story. >> reporter: fewer than 70,000 people in the u.s. are in the hospital with covid-19, a level we haven't seen in about three months. but looking ahead at the next three months, another 130,000 people are expected to die of coronavirus by june 1st. what could make things worse? analysis of existing research in the u.k. suggests the variant first identified there makes the virus more severe. >> it makes people more sick and it's more likely to lead to serious complications. the somewhat comforting news is that the vaccine that we are now currently distributing, the moderna vaccine and the pfizer vaccine clearly work against this variant. >> reporter: some teachers are now among those receiving the more than 50 million vaccine doses administered across the country, including in colorado where teachers became eligible this week. >> it's very exciting and it's a step closer to what everyone wants which is schools open full time with teachers and students. >> reporter: michelle walensky is a proponent of vaccination, she wants procedures su

why can't they just get out there and do what you're doing, what natasha brown is doing and try to get as many people to the polling places as possible instead of trying to limit people? >> first of all, the constitution doesn't actually guarantee us the right to vote. what the constitution does is preclude certain categories of voters from being denied the right to vote. and so the 15th amendment guarantees that blacks have the right to vote. the 19th amendment said the same for women. it was the 26th amendment that said that for young people between the ages of 18 and 21. but the reality is we have a system that is fractured and divisive that delegates to the state and relegates the power to the state to determine who actually has access to the ballot. what we see happening with kelly loeffler and her ilk is that they're returning to what has worked for so many in times when demographics are changing and when power is shifting. instead of updating their beliefs and their policies to meet the moment, they instead try to remove people from participation. that's why those who run the ne

cnn's natasha chen at mercedes benz stadium, mass vaccination site. ana? >> reporter: hosting vaccination events here since early january. today's event is targeted specifically for employees of local school systems and the public transit system here who fall into eligible categories. they're over 65 or work as health care workers or first responders in a school or transportation setting. mercedes benz is one of seven nfl stadiums operating as the vaccination site with more about to come online now as nfl commissioner roger goodell has written a letter to president biden offering all 32 team stadiums for this purpose. even with more vaccines becoming available to people, still some pockets of the community are hesitant to get a shot. i talked to the fulton county resource officer about making that effort to talk to school employees who might be hesitant. here's what he said. >> i think our objective and our goal is to continue to try to educate and inform. but we're not able to convince certain people. it's just not the moment for them to do that. that's w

natasha chin with more. >> reporter: in some ways americans may be feeling the beginning of the light at end of the tunnel, the number of people hospitalized from covid-19 dropped below 100,000 for the first time since december 1. only louisiana is seeing an increase in new cases compared to the previous week. more than 30 million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far. >> i feel now i can see my grandkids. getting a second shot has done wonders for me and has really boosted my confidence to the point i feel i can take on the world. >> ron yabroudy is about to turn 89 and got both doses of the vaccine which showed 95 efficacy in the trials. >> there's nothing like having 95% on your side. >> moderna's trial did similarly well. modern signs of progress come amid a you troubling development, in the u.s. more than 400 cases of the variant first identified in the uk. >> the surge likely to occur with the new variant from england is going to happen in the next six to 14 weeks. if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we'll see something like we'

is dropping dramatically as natasha chen reports. >> reporter: the u.s. is now averaging under 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day. the seven-day moving average hasn't dropped this low since election day. and more than 48 million doses of the vaccine have been administered. but the daily death count is still bleak. in the meantime, new details surrounding a report out of new york could spell trouble for governor cuomo. the state's attorney general said in late january, new york's department of health undercounted the deaths in nursing homes by about 50%. on a call with lawmakers, the governor's top aide says the administration delayed the release of data on covid-19 deaths of long-term care facility residents because of concerns about a potential federal investigation. 14 state senators are calling for governor andrew cuomo's emergency powers to be repealed. and people like rosemary morrissey, who lost a parent in a nursing home to covid-19, are angry. >> i think we've been lied to since day one. and it is very upsetting. because a lot of us have lost o

natasha chen explains. >> this has been the biggest trial of my life. >> reporter: pa vtricia bowman says she hasn't received rent from her tenant in nearly a year. >> my savings is going down. >> reporter: and small investors own about 16.5 single family rental properties in the usz and a rough estimate from hud suggests some 1.3 million of those mom and pop owners are struggling to pay their mortgages due to missed rental payments. with the moratorium on evictions, bowman was stuck unable to evict the tenant, but she finally got a court hearing in early february. >> judgment in your favor for $7650 plus court costs. >> reporter: a judge ordered tenant out in seven days. >> will the marshall come out? >> they will once the moratorium is lifted. >> reporter: but that is now extended until of the end of september. and so her tenant could stay in her house for another six months even if he continues to not pay rent. with her own medical bills piling up from a recent bout with breast cancer, it is something that she just can't afford. >> it has been a perfect storm of events that have h

natasha, thank you for being there. >>> there are hospitals across texas dealing with this disaster. you can imagine what it means for them. they're trying to care for patients, carry the weight of this pandemic. some hospitals are being forced to do all of that with no water. i'm joined by the medical director of emergency medicine at houston methodist hospital. thank you for being here. i can imagine, you know, you've been up most of the night all week trying to help everyone there. so thank you, and good morning. as of yesterday -- >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> -- your hospital network, houston methodist west and houston methodist baytown hospitals were still operating without water. is that still the scenario this morning, and if it is, how do you function? >> you know, it is, and if we -- some hospitals do have water, the pressure is quite low. and so we're functioning like we have all year, by being agile and getting our leadership together and within an hour, standing up spaces that are not normally housing patients to keep them warm and evaluate whether there's cr

back to you. >> thanks, natasha. >>> new zealand's largest city aukland remains on lockdown until the end of wednesday. two of three new cases there are from the variant first found in the uk. new zealand's prime minister acted immediately to stop the spread. will ripley gives us more on what's been playing out in new zealand. >> for some people on the ground, hello, it's on again/off again with these lockdowns that they just get a handful of cases. six months ago, auckland went into this massive lockdown where people have to stay home unless they're going to the supermarket or pharmacy. essential workers can work but everybody else is not allowed. and some may say, look, when you just have three cases confined to a mother, a dad and teenage daughter, why disrupt this many people? but the message from the prime minister is that this is the formula that has worked that has helped new zealand if not eradicate covid-19, drastically reduce it to the point they don't have community transmission for weeks and weeks on end or months on end. and that allows life to return to normal quickly. l

. >>> let's get to cnn's natasha chen near atlanta. we heard there were shipping delays with the vaccines because of the weather. how are things going now? >> reporter: yeah, victor and christi, this is a vaccination site outside of atlanta, dekalb county, and it would typically be running on a saturday until about noon. today it's running until 4:00. you see people lined up around the tent behind us. they're getting the moderna vaccine, another tent is offering the pfizer vaccine. and, yes, there were shipping delays because of the winter storm that affected texas and the midwest. of course this part of the country saw none of that weather, but they're feeling the effects of it nonetheless. they had to delay about six days worth of scheduled appointments, most of them second doses of the moderna vaccine. so they're playing catchup right now. the public information officer for the dekalb county board of health tells me that, luckily, none of these second doses are being administered beyond the cdc's recommended time window. here's what

he's not going no get off completely. >> john harwood, natasha, thank you both. the alarm going off right there. when the buzzer sounds, we got to go. >> sorry. >> thank you both. >>> so nearly 3 million customers without power this morning. you are looking at live pictures from dallas right now. rose, you can see there covered with ice. this is not a typical picture. >> that does not look like dallas. >> if you know dallas, texas, you would watch the show "dallas," i don't think there was an episode snow-covered the road. the snow is there. wind chill, at negative 11. are you cold? >> and you need a hat. >> yeah, i don't really know what i'm dock. so bear with me as we try to plow through this report here this morning. this is incredibly strange. but on a serious note, a great deal of concern across the state as power outages, rolling power outages are being rolled out across the state to conserve electrical power here. that is major news so everyone across the state of texas is being urged to conserve as much electricity as possible. because this could be a tre

. >> cnn's natasha chen is there. we know the state's energy power said it's over but what are you waking up to? >> reporter: yeah, ercot, the agency that monitoring the power for most of the state announced that the emergency was over yesterday. really now, the crisis is the water. we're under a boil water notice. there are lots of people who still don't have water and a food bank where there's distribution today. we're seeing a lot of bottled water distribution events. this is a problem for hospitals in the state. some going without water for days. one saying they had to use rain water to flush their toilets. here in houston as of last night, there were 5,000 calls or so into the city about burst pipes. this is going to take quite some time for people to recover. we asked the mayor about this problem, this immediate threat, he's concerned about the people who don't have any means to stay somewhere else. >> we are already on the margin, you don't have the means to go into the grocery stores and buying a whole lot of

cnn's natasha chen is in houston. she's at a bottled water distribution event. they are just lifting the boil water advisory. what more do we know about that? that's a fairly significant step. >> reporter: erica, there are improvements happening all the time. we've been seeing cars coming through past us nonstop since early this afternoon. there is still going to be a need for bottled water. i can show you this push alert i actually got on my phone. it's saying that effective immediately, houston's main water system has lifted its boil water notice and asking people to flush their water system by running cold water faucets for at least a minute. making and discarding several batches of ice and running water softener through a cycle. i spoke to the houston mayor who has been here volunteering. he says more than 2 million bottles of water have been given out across the city in the last couple of days. he also talked to me about the key in this still being a necessity even after the boil water notice has been lifted. >> we're starting to turn the corner a little bi

natasha chen has more on the race to vaccinate as many people as possible. >> in some ways, americans may feel the beginning of a light at the end of the tunnel. the number of people hospitalized from covid-19 dropped below 100,000 on saturday for the first time since december 1st. only one state right now, louisiana, is seeing an increase in new cases compared to the previous week. and more than 30 million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far. >> i feel bad that i can go see my grandkids. getting a second shot, it just has done wonders for me, and it really has boosted my confidence to the point where i feel that i can take on the world. >> ron, who is about to turn 89, got both doses of the pfizer vaccine, which shows 95% efficacy during trials. >> let me tell you something, there's nothing like having 95% on your side. >> moderna's trials did similarly well, but these modest signs of progress come amid a troubling development. in the u.s., there are more than 400 cases of the variant first identified in the uk. >> the fact is that the surge that is likely to occur wit

. >> cnn's natasha chen is in houston watching what's happening there. close to 125,000 people were without power yesterday. about 4.3 million outages were reported during the peak of the storm. what numbers do you have now? >> reporter: well, victor and christi, things are improving greatly. and right now, we are looking at texas outages at just under 83,000 customers out of power right now. but you can see, though, there are a lot of other states on that list continuing to deal with power outages as well as the storm has affected so many across the country. and now that the power is coming back, the problem turns to the water crisis, as you're talking about. more than 1300 water systems affecting 62% of texas have been affected, lots of people calling in to their cities about burst water pipes. and really, this concern that a lot of folks don't have the means to go and purchase bottled water. maybe if they still don't have power, they can't even boil their water. that's why we're at a food bank right now that is expected to do a distribution today. now

. >> cnn's natasha chen is in houston right now. good morning to you. i know power is being restored to a lot of the people in texas, but how are they holding out? >> reporter: yeah, this has really become a water crisis. and when you talk about boiling water, that can be hard for those who still don't have power. and there is also concern for the people who are, you know, on the margins, cannot afford bottled water or to go someplace else to stay as there are burst pipes in people's homes. we're at the houston food bank and we have three congresswoman speaking right now to the press, sheila jackson lee and sylvia garcia representing this area here and representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, who flew into texas to help out. they're talking right now about the millions of dollars they're raising to help the people still struggling right now, and then after they're done speaking to the press they'll be going inside to volunteer with the food bank for a bit. so this is one of many distribution site events that we're seeing throughout the weekend, food and

cnn's natasha chen is in atlanta with more. >>referee: in the past week, more than 9 million covid-19 vaccines were administered in the u.s. that outpaced the number of new covid cases 10 to 11. in the number the days. the number lopezed came under 90,000 since last november. zoit the trends, health officials warn not to let guards down. >> at best we are at halftime and things seem quiet in the locker room. but when we come out the team we are facing is tougher than the team we faced in the first half. >> as both the pandemic and super bowl on people's minds, a source familiar with the plan told cnn president joe biden will take advantage of the large national audience sunday to thank health care workers. an administration official said the white house hopes to combat vaccine hesitancy and speak to the african-american, latino and white rural non-mask wearing communities in particular. >>> meanwhile americans are discouraged from doing what so many typically do this weekend, attending super bowl parties. >> it's the super bowl

cnn's natasha chen explains. >> this has been the biggest trial of my life. >> reporter: patricia bowman says she hasn't seen rent from her tenant in a year. >> i saw my savings dwindle down month by month. >> reporter: small investors like bowman own 16.5 million single family rental properties in the u.s. some 1.3 million of those mom and pop owners are struggling to pay their mortgages due to missed rental payments. with the cdc moratorium on evictions during the pandemic, bowman was stuck, unable to evict the tenant. she finally got a court hearing in february. >> judgment is in your favor, ms. bowman. >> reporter: a judge in dekalb county, georgia, ordered the tenant out in seven days, with one catch. >> after the writ has been filed, will the marshals still come out to actually do the eviction? >> they will once the moratorium has been lifted by the cdc. >> reporter: biden's american rescue plan now passed by the house would extend the moratorium until the end of september. her tenant hasn't left since the judge ordered him out and this means he could stay in her house for another