life under quarantine. cnn speaks with cruise ship passengers in limbo as the coronavirus hits a tragic milestone. in thailand, police kill a soldier accused of carrying out a dead rly rampage. we'll hear from a survivor what happened there. and turning to the election, gaining momentum in new hampshire ahead of the first u.s. election primary. we look at who leads and who is gaining ground. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now.

5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. we start with the coronavirus and six more cases have been confirmed aboard a quarantined cruise ship in japan. this brings the total number of people taken off the diamond princess for treatment that brings it to a higher number. >> a second cruise ship quarantined in hong kong has been given the all clear. very good news for the people you see dissembarking right there. all the passengers tested negative for the virus and were finally able to get off the ship sunday. no further monitoring will be required for them. >> good news for them. again, the diamond princess, 70 people who were taken off the total number there. this, again, this third ship in

negotiations with two different ports for its passengers to get off. that ship has been stranded at sea after being turned away from several asian ports. the overall death toll has risen to 813. that is more than the entire sars outbreak of 2003. they're sending experts to china to study this new disease. >> cnn is live in japan where matt rivers is on the story. matt, tell us more about what is happening there. >> george, with those six new cases reported this afternoon, cnn overheard an announcement made by the captain of that ship where he informed the passengers that remain onboard that there were those six new cases, as you mentioned, bringing the total number of people infected on that boat to 70. just further reason why japanese officials and other countries are in agreement that the people that remain onboard that haven't shown sickness or signs of illness yet need to stay in

quarantine because maybe not all the information is known yet. still, what that has led to is a life and day-to-day life of boredom and mu naonotony and tension. an early morning takeoff. and a flight to see the diamond princess, the ship where dozens of people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. passengers onboard under mandatory quarantine under february 19th. >> the ship is actually returning to harbor. it was out of the harbor for about 24 hours to take care of some maintenance issues, including the production of fresh water. for the people onboard it had the added affect of breaking up some of the monotonmonotony. >> reporter: people below saw our helicopter flying around. rose shot it on her cell phone. we asked her and husband, greg, to show us their cabin.

>> small mini fridge on the right and desk on the left. swing around, there's rose. and you can see there sure isn't much space in here. >> it's hard being stuck into a small room, but we are keeping ourselves occupied with all kinds of things from watching movies and reading books. >> reporter: breakfast dropped off at the door each morning. yesterday, they were allowed out on deck for an hour, masks on. at least two meters apart from others. all part of the quarantine. health officials say it's the only way to stop the virus from spreading further. some onboard say it's like being in a cage. >> the time i really sense is when the crew comes by and knocks on the door to hand you your food and then the doors close as though somehow it's the feeding of the zoo animals. >> reporter: matthew smith says he gets it and praised the acs of the cruise company and the government. he feels the quarantine will work and is a good idea even as

others onboard say they're afraid of catching the disease and have asked to get off. >> i think they could avoid that fear if they were a little more ramore rational. >> the government says there is no chance the quarantine will end before february 19th. tests will continue. anyone diagnosed will be taken off. if you're not sick, prepare for your room to be disinfected and settle in. >> we're really looking forward to being able to get home. >> as we watch the ship dock in the harbor, hard to think the passengers will not be able to get off. they're so close to land and so far away from being able to be on it. >> now, there was some 428 americans onboard this cruise ship. some of whom have been taken off with this infection. some of whom remain onboard and ask publicly for the state department of the united states and also president trump to maybe intervene and get them off

that ship before this quarantine period ends and the japanese defense ministry saying there is no chance of that happening and they're in lock step with the u.s. government and both governments are in agreement that the safest way, the best way to prevent this infection from spreading, this virus from spreading to the shore of japan is to keep these people in quarantine which means despite those requests, george and natal natalie, this quarantine and people onboard will remain there and go on until february 19th. >> which is certainly not great news for them. waiting to just get on with their lives. matt rivers live for us inioca hom yokohama, japan. the centers for disease control and prevention said four people all tested for coronavirus. >> more on when this cruise ship

is scheduled to leave. >> officials with that cruise line want to make sure that they were not exposed to coronavirus and that's why they have rescheduled the departure to monday with a shortened itinerary. when or if that ship goes out to sea, there will be additional screening protocols and any guest that traveled to or from mainland china, hong kong, macau in the last 15 days will be d y denied boarding as any guest who comes to contact over that same amount of time and all holders of passports from hong kong, and macau and also mandatory health screenings performed on any guest who came into contact with people who traveled to or from the affected region and any guest that feels unwell or shows any flu-like symptoms. this is not just the efforts of

the royal caribbean cruise line but norwegian cruise lines as they do these additional measures to keep the spread of corona coronavirus in the united states. >> we'll continue to bring you more updates on the virus as the stories and the developments are, of course, coming in very rapidly. but right now we want to turn to thailand to a shooting rampage that has shaken a nation. shoppers at a mall there were confronted by a gunman saturday. he took hostages and killed dozens of people before police shot him dead. capping an hour's long standoff. >> he was well armed. a well-armed soldier upset over a dispute with a superior officer. still not clear what caused him to drive to the mall and to target civilians. let's bring in cnn kristi lu stout live. what more are you learning from what happened from thai authorities? >> we have learned that the

gunman was heavily armed and had a machine gun and plenty of rounds of ammo and additional weapons and a highly skilled shooter. in fact, he won competitions and the thai prime minister said it was over a land dispute that started first at a military base and ended at a popular shopping center. injuring 57 people and after 12 hours, he was shot dead by police. terrified shoppers run out of the mall as a calm day turned deadly in one of thailand's biggest cities. it is where a thai soldier opened fire at terminal 21 mall killing at least 26 people. hours after the rampage began, images on social media showed people sprinting across the mall as heavily armed thai police and military evacuated them.

john fielding, an english teacher, was inside the mall during the shooting. >> i was just at the mall with a friend and everything was just completely normal and then all of a sudden everyone started running and shouting and panicking and knew something was wrong and immediate reaction was kind of duck down and hide and then everyone was running into the restaurants and barricading the door. and luckily we were right next to the restaurant so we went inside and shut the door. a huge mall. really busy. and there must be thousands of people in the mall. >> reporter: the tragic event unfolded in realtime as security forces published images on social media giving instructions for people trapped in the building to get out. emergency workers live streamed their rescue efforts as they were taking victims on stretchers out of the building.

>> translator: we have been trying to bring out whoever we can and we will gradually save others who are stuck inside. >> reporter: thailand defense ministry said the suspect army sergeant major first class shot and killed his superior and went around shooting his colleagues. he drove to the mall and started shooting civilians. he added the gunman's motive is still unknown. facebook said in a statement it had removed the suspect eed gunman's page although no evidence of videos. we are working to remove any content related to this attack. our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community affected by this tragedy in thailand. authorities confirmed that the gunman was shot dead by police. the gunman's mother was brought in to try to get him to

negotiate and stand down. we also learned the suspect was holding hostages leading to that fateful decision by police to shoot him dead after a 12-hour standoff. george? >> kristi lu stout live on the story, thank you. coming up 2020 presidential hopefuls looking to gain extra momentum in new hampshire and wasting no time to take some jabs at one another as it gets a little more contentious out there. we'll tell you the heat pete buttigieg is taking as he climbs the polls. days after the u.s. president was acquitted, he fired a key witness in the impeachment inquiry. the push back now coming from his own party. you always want to be able to deliver relief for your patients. get them out of pain, get them out of pain fast. we have a new product out there: sensodyne rapid relief.

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all right. vote counting is under way in ireland's general election and exit polls are showing just how tight the result could pbe. the incumbent party the irish national party and the center right each have a little more than 22% support. voters are electing 159 members of the lower house of parliament. we'll tell you how that one turns out. only two days to go now until the new hampshire. voters there will get their first chance to go to the polls. >> and a new cnn poll conducted by the university of new hampshire shows senator bernie sanders holding a narrow lead over his top rival. sanders standing with 28% from likely democratic primary voters. >> but pete buttigieg is quickly gaining ground. he comes in with 21% and followed by joe biden and senator elizabeth warren.

in an attempt to sway last-minute voters candidates spoke at the new hampshire democratic party 100 club dinner. >> despite their differences, they spoke about uniting the party and taking on the u.s. president. however, pete buttigieg was met with harsh criticism from the crowd when he appeared to take a swipe at bernie sanders. >> with the president this divisive, we cannot risk dividing americans' future further saying that you must either be for a revolution or you must be for the status quo. let's make room for everybody in this movement. >> well, before that event, former vice president joe biden set his sights on buttigieg responding to a question from cnn's jeff zellany. >> you serve for a president who was criticized in this very way.

hillary clinton said, barack obama, you don't have the experience to be president. he went on to become president. is this a desperate act -- >> barack obama united states senator and he laid out a clear vision what the economic society should look like and barack obama had laid out in detail what he thought should happen with regard to the economy. >> let's talk about the developments in new jersey with professional international politics at sydney university of london and also visiting professor at the london school of business economics. always good to have you on. >> good to be here. >> let's talk about new hampshire. did you, could you have guessed that sanders and buttigieg would be at the top of the polls there? >> it is interesting, isn't it, which everybody is sort of

realigning and looks like biden is losing out to buttigieg. and elizabeth warren who slated to be doing much better out to bernie sanders. it looks like a big struggle, an epic struggle for the party. where is it heading? it is squaring to be a very big year in american politics more generally. >> that has been the big question. you have your progressives and your moderates and it appeared iowa, you know, talked about having moderates and, you know, it's still kind of up in the air who's coming out ahead there. let's talk about joe biden who came in kind of a disaster with fourth in iowa and now you see him pushing back. buttigieg vying for the lead. biden doesn't normally go on personal attacks, but we heard him say this guy is not barack

obama. what did you think of biden's strategy here? >> biden has only one strategy left really and he has to get back the votes he lost and i think joe biden will go on the attack a lot more because the target is much clearer for his way forward and that is pete buttigieg. it looks like buttigieg has taken off the mantle of the moderates, the kind of right or centrist democrats and claimed he is the only one that can beat president trump in november. i think joe biden has got to do that. unfortunately, in a history where he is compromised on a number of issues anita hill, iraq war and so on. very difficult for him to be able to claw that back, i think. >> and what about sanders? he is appealing to younger voters, according to the polls. what is this 78-year-old candidate saying to younger

americans, do you think? >> how interesting is that. joe biden in his 70s but going in a different direction as in downwards but bernie sanders, who is older than joe biden is basically winning the young. and among workers, as well. and i think in a way the past plays different roles. for sanders, the past is that he stood for women's rights, for civil rights, for young people and against war and milterism for many decades. he's seen as someone who has not compromised his positions and principles and he is offering them a brighter future and tapped into a wave of adrift or socialism or conviction towards socialism which is quite surprising, but very interesting where joe biden, i think, is still steeped in that older politics. so, bernie sanders seems to be offering that future. so, it looks like there is a

kind of big struggle between the past and present on a number of fronts and between a kind of vision that president trump offers and the vision that bernie sanders offers and i think it is squaring up to be an epic year up to november in this country's politics. >> well, let's talk about klobuchar. she had a very strong debate in new hampshire, picking up some momentum there. but warren, as you mentioned, falling back. >> well, she's raised $2 million in very, very short space of time since the debate. >> klobuchar. >> correct. but she has not been able to do too much on the campaign trail itself. so, she seems to be having good debating skills, but not so great in terms of wowing the crowds and so on. i think she stands for the right of the party and very much into the big money politics and i think she's probably going to be around for a while. but i'm not sure she can really

kind of, if you like, when this divide is coming. this big divide within the party is coming and whether she has enough distinctiveness to offer the party an alternative to buttigieg or to biden, actually. >> we always appreciate you coming on and your perspectives. we'll talk with you, again, thank you inderjeet. >> thank you very much. bernie sanders and pete buttigieg will be joining jake tapper on "state of the union." you can watch that 9:00 a.m. atlanta and 2:00 p.m. london right here on cnn. sources tell cnn that a handple han handful of republican senators tried to stop firing gordon sondland. they warned it may look bad for mr. trump to not let him leave on his own terms. >> the top ukraine expert at the national security council also

fired by mr. trump and both were key witnesses in the inquiry. >> this is clearly a president who has been empowered by his acquittal. for months we saw the president angry on twitter and lashing out at democrats, the impeachment process and those witnesses. now, it seems as though we are in a new phase and that is acting out on that discontent. of course, firing those two prominent witnesses within the impeachment inquiry, lieutenant colonel vindman getting escorted off the property here at the white house. i want to read you a statement from his attorney. he was asked to leave for telling the truth. his honor and commitment to write frightened the powerful. truth is not partisan. if we allow truthful voices to be silenced, if we ignore their warnings, eventually there will be no one left. his twin brother who was also a lawyer at the national security

counsel was fired yesterday and on top of that, he had nothing to do with the impeachment. he was just related to colonel vindman. if you have crossed me or if i perceive you will cross me, then you will be punished. not just these big firings. we're also hearing as early as next week the national security adviser robert o'brien will cut jobs that national security counc council. those damaging leaks were coming from the national security council and the career employees that they believe did not have his best interest at heart. and it certainly seems the white house is cleaning house. kirsten holmes, cnn, the white house. next, multiple u.s. troops are dead after a shootout in afghanistan. we'll go live to kabul for the latest on what happened there. travel restrictions due to

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welcome back to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you're still watching "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. a soldier took hostages while carrying out a shooting rampage at a shopping mall. police ended this 12-hour long standoff by shooting and killing the gunman. he killed 26 people and wounded 57 others.

the shooting spree started at a military base before he drove to that crowded mall. thousands of cruise ship passengers in hong kong, can you imagine how happy they are. look at that. they are leaving the ship. finally able to leave on sunday. that ship is called "the world dream" and quarantined since february 5th over fears of the coronavirus. but everyone tested negative and were allowed to leave without further monitoring. but a different story in japan. six more cases of the wuhan coronavirus aboard a quarantined cruise ship there and all 70 people were taken off the diamond princess for treatment. a third cruiseship is in negotiations with two different ports for its passengers to get off. the ship has been stranded at sea after being turned away from several asian ports. a u.s. family has spent the past two years preparing to adopt a small girl from china. she was abandoned when she was

just six months old and had no family. >> but just as the parents were about to head to china to bring their new daughter home, the virus ruined those plans, at least for now. natasha chen has their story. >> reporter: noah and ivy cleveland were supposed to be on a flight to china to pick up their adopted daughter. >> we had this made for her to wear on her adoption day. >> reporter: instead, they and their two sons spent friday evening showing us the baby room they spent months preparing for ruby faith's homecoming. >> what we also got is dolls right here. >> reporter: the clevelands spent two years in an often unpredictable adoption process. they got plane tickets and hotel rooms for the agency to tell them that plans were on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak. this was just days before the u.s. announced restrictions on people traveling from china. >> the first time in my life that i truly wept to the point

of being sick in my body. i just laid over her bed. over her crib that i had prepared for her and looked at the pictures on the wall and the clothes in her closet and understanding that this is not happening right now. >> reporter: the state department says adoption cases are still being processed, although they advise adoptive parents not to travel to china for the time being. >> our two boys were staying here and so i had six different babysitters lined up to care for them for the 14 days we would be gone. >> our suitcase all over the country as we have traveled. >> reporter: because plans in this house also involve noah cleveland's out of town tours providing christian music, the change is costly. more importantly, it's stretching their faith. >> i know by my story and my life that there's many things i wouldn't have signed up to go through. but at the end, the way that god

works it out, i would never trade it. and i know this is just a part of our story. it's a part of ruby's story and how incredible will it be to be able to tell her, look what we did to fight for you. >> what they did to fight for a girl who they say was abandoned in a hospital bathroom when she was six months old. a girl who is diagnosed with hydros hydrocephalous. a girl whose middle name is faith. >> what would you want her to know from you? >> mom and daddy's coming. just wait. we'll be there soon. >> we'll have to look at following up on that story when they do get their daughter to her new home. cnn dr. sanjay gupta has a look at health officials as they try to contain the virus. >> what public health officials are focusing on the most are two

things. let me show you this box. look at the x access there that is and the y access is how transmissible. what you want to avoid, what you hope not to have happen is that this ends up in the d box where it's both highly transmissible and highly lethal. right now, thankfully, this new coronavirus seems to be more in the a box. it's a wide range. we still don't know exactly how contagious this is and we don't know how lethal, but it's looking like this may end up feeling more like a bad cold or flu versus a lethal pandemic that spreads throughout the world. these are questions that still need to be answered. one more thing i just want to point out, a lot of discussion about these masks and other types of personal, protective equipment. the demand for these types of masks have gone up 100 times. the price has gone up 20 times. %-pn china, there's probably not a

real role for these masks. i mean, if you look at it, you probably wouldn't be surprised to know that viral particles could go through the mask. they could certainly come around the edges. for the most part, they're really not going to provide much benefit and may be a reminder to avoid people who are sick and not touch your own nose or mouth and the same thing to do to avoid the flu. stay away from sick people, wash your hands as much as possible and don't touch your face as much as you can, as well. hope that helps and a lot of news coming in as we get new information and certainly bring it to you. >> never just wash your hands and good, basic advice here. >> no one realizes how much they touch their face. something else to try to think about. >> absolutely. another story that we're following. two u.s. troops are dead and six more wounded after a fire fight in eastern afghanistan. >> reports indicate someone wearing an afghan uniform opened fire on u.s. and afghan forces

with a machine gun, that according to the u.s. military. last year saw a record high number of attacks by the taliban and other groups. there are up to 13,000 u.s. troops still serving in afghanistan. >> live in kabul this morning we have journalist jennifer glass reporting on what happened there. tell us more on what you learned. >> the u.s. and afghan officials are investigating this incident which happened in eastern afghanistan on saturday night. we understand that u.s. special forces from the seven special forces group airborne along with afghan forces were just finishing what they call a key engagement meeting when this person in a military uniform opened fire with a machine gun killing two americans wounding six. one afghan soldier was also killed and three others injured in this incident. the americans say they are not sure what the cause or the motive of this incident is and they're looking into it. >> we know that reports of the

shooter that he had an afghan uniform but, again, that doesn't exactly mean that the fwgunman s an afghan soldier. these insider attacks that we've seen in the past. the insider attacks that have killed so many people. >> that's right, george. this was a really big problem. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 when there were many more american and nato forces in the country. in 2012, 15% of all coalition deaths were because of these insider attacks where people inside, in afghan army uniforms and security forces uniforms turn their weapons on american and coalition forces. the problem has subsided a bit, but we saw two american deaths last year from an insider attack and a number of injuries from a different insider attack. this we're not exactly sure as you said whether the shooter was

actually an afghanistan soldier or whether he was in a stolen military uniform but either way it goes to the question, how can these american forces work alongside these afghan forces with any degree of trust when you have these attacks happening. >> it goes deeper into the question of security at the same time. isis and taliban still quite active in that part of the world. jennifer glass with the reporting, thank you. next here. australia has seen so much heat, so much fire and now this. a cyclone. derrick will have the latest on it coming up. record cold temperatures at one of the coldest places on earth. find out why scientists are worried. could it be global warming? yeah. plummet you to extreme lows. (crying) lift you to intense highs. (muffled arguing) or, make you feel both at once.

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parts of australia are getting soaked with wet weather. new south wales is getting some of the heaviest rainfall in nearly 20 years. >> the area was under severe weather and flash flood warnings. officials hope the downpours will help contain some of the more than 35 active bush fires still burning. now a tropical cyclone. derek van dam, what a mix. >> no rest for the wary and now this. you have to see what happened in western australia about 12 hours ago, a new tropical cyclone. we shouldn't say new, we knew it was coming.

it made landfalls and created scenes like this. 200 kilometer sustained winds which is equivalent to an atlantic category 3 hurricane. you can see just bending trees over, snapping, you know, limbs and also taking down some electrical poles and minor structural damage, as well. this is on the west coast of the continent and trying to get some of the details here. you'll be able to see that while really incredible scene taking place. the good news is the storm system is peter out and rain itself out. but before it does that, it has packed quite a punch. 162 millimeter at the airport. this is in extreme northwestern sections of australia. highest gusts there 185 kilometers per hour. the storm system loses its moisture source which is the ocean. once it moves over land it no longer strengthen or has the ability to strengthen. it starts to rain itself out. that is what we expect it to do.

sparsely part of australia and, nonetheless, heavy rainfall and the inland communities. let me take you to the east coast where you saw some of the visuals of the flooding that has been taking place there. remember, if you reverse a month, two months ago, we were talking about this area so frequently because of the bush fire. now we have rain put out the fire but coming too quickly and too much at the same time. look at this, over 300 millimeters for some locations across new south wales and just outside of sydney and that is where the radar has been lighting up lately. a lot of intense thunderstorms moving across the region and this is quelling the bush fires but also creating its own set of hazards including localized flooding. damaging wind, high tides and damaging surf along the coastal areas, as well. lots of rain still to come. this is going to help with the firefighting efforts there. 54 on the screen, that is the active fires going. last week and the week before,

that was in the hundreds. quite a difference with all this rain. >> 54 sounds good, but not too much. we get it. >> take it with a grain of salt. >> thank you. well, now we want to turn to a disturbing development in antarctica. this last thursday the continent reached its highest temperature ever recorded. 65 degrees fahrenheit. that's over 18 degrees celsius. >> we're talking antarctica. many of the glaciers are melting because of global warming. our robin curnow looks at the coldest platce on the planet. >> reporter: recorded the hottest temperature on record for the continent. scientists say a remote station in the northwest tip near south american reached over 18 degrees celsius on thursday, almost a full degree higher than the previous record measured five

years ago. >> among the fastest warming regions of the planet. we hear a lot about the arctic, but this particular part of the antarctic peninsula is warming very quickly. over the past 50 years, it warmed almost three degrees s l celsi celsius. >> reporter: it's known for its frozen tundra conditions with some of the coldest temperatures on earth. when it clocked in with temperatures similar to those in southern california, climate activists raised the alarm. >> it's important when we remind ourselves that we look at the bigger picture. what worries me the increasing temperatures that we are seeing around the world. >> reporter: it is technically summer in the southern hemisphere and plan to verify the data. but record-breaking heat is being felt all around the world. forecasters saying the global temperature was warmer than every previous january on record and if rising temperatures weren't enough, tour operators say the number of people traveling to antarctica has

increased by 50% in the past four years. >> translator: i'm a tourist who feels a certain degree of guilt who remembers i flew here and traveling on a boat even though it consums less than others and no more plastic bottles, we leave a footprint you can't really ignore. >> reporter: spectators with a view of one of the most remote places in the world that could be irretrievably loss if current trends continue. robyn curnow, cnn, atlanta. we are just hours away from one of hollywood's biggest award shows. >> we will find out next what to expect and who to watch at this year's oscars. now there's new dawn powerwash dish spray. the faster, easier way to clean as you go. it cleans grease five times faster. on easy messes, just spray, wipe, and rinse. on tough messes, the spray-activated suds cut through grease on contact, without water.

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all right then. hollywood's biggest night tonight the oscars and all the beautiful dresses on the red carpet and two movies slugging it out for the best film award "1917" and korean black comedy "parasite." >> choosing the winner won't be as cut and dry as you might think. stephanie elam takes a look at the contenders. >> and the winner is -- >> and the actor goes to --

>> come get your bright, shiny thing so i can go home to bed. >> reporter: the oscar show down is set, a best picture faceoff between "parasite" and "1917." why these two? "1917" won the producer guild award which predicted 21 of the last 30 oscar winners and the film unique style as if shot in one long take has impressed hollywood. >> that nice, relaxed period where you sit around with a cup of coffee and discuss whether you want to keep the scene or take it out and everything we shot was in the movie. >> reporter: "parasite" has momentum after the screen actor's guild made it the first foreign film to win a sag award for best ensemble. it could do the same at the oscars where actors make up the largest voting bloc. >> blurring the lines between east and west and providing hope that everyone on this earth could co-exist and that is why we must win best picture.

>> reporter: oscar can surprise, thanks in part to a best picture voting method similar to a caucus. voters rank nominees from one to nine. films with few number one votes are disqualified and those ballots instead count for the number two choice until one film has over 50% of all ballots. >> we didn't expect it, honestly. >> reporter: something "greenbook" benefited from that weighted ballot last year. at the oscars, always a chance for a plot twist. >> in this town, that could all change like that. >> reporter: stephanie elam, hollywood. last hour i spoke with film critic richard fitzwilliam on who he thought might take home an oscar. >> we know joaquin phoenix will play in "joker." indelibly etched on the memory. slam dunk. no doubt about it.

renee zellweger all but got that award and i mean it is an amazing performance. judy garland never won an oscar, this will be an opportunity to pay tribute to her. brad pitt for best supporting actor, no question at all for "once upon a time in hollywood" and no doubt at all for laura dern as a reptilian lawyer in the wonderful "marriage story." those we know. >> i want to show a clip to our audience in case they haven't seen a bit of "marriage story." let's watch that now with laura dern. >> fathers are expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish and we can all say we want them to be different. but on same basic level, we accept them. we love them for their fallibles but people don't accept those same feelings in mothers. we don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually because the basis is

mary, mother of jesus. she's perfect. she's a virgin who gives birth. unwavering supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. >> she called this role her most fun ever. and you could tell she's having a blast there, richard. >> oh, she is, indeed. this is my favorite movie because you played the clip from it and i think "marriage story" is fabulous. really remarkable and it's auto bigraphical. it's nominated for best picture. it's not goegto wing to win. this is the big question mark that will keep listeners and viewers absolutely riveted. >> all right. we'll have more on the oscars in a few hours. >> a lot of people will be watching for sure. and for the first time, a woman will start the olympic torch relay. olympic shooting champion anna

korakaki will start the tour from greece to japan and the tokyo 2020 game. >> korakaki won gold for and is returning to defend her title. the final carrier of the flame will also be a woman, 2016 pole vault champion. >> the torch relay will end in traditional form with the flame being carried into the national stadium before lighting the main cauldron at the opening ceremony. tokyo 2020 will start july 24th. >> we're getting an early start telling you about it. that came out of no where. thanks for watching, i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. for viewers in the united states "new day" is next and for international viewers. - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker,

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