stop in or book an appointment to shop safely with peace of mind at your local xfinity store. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn news room and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, world leaders developing a coup in myanmar after the military seized power and launched early morning raids. january set a tragic record in the u.s. for covid-19. there are positive trends in hospitalizations and vaccines. we'll share that with you. plus, a powerful nor'easter rolls in bringing up to 18 inches of snow in new york city.

a full forecast ahead this hour. good to have you with us. myanmar's army is facing global backlash after ousting civilian leaders in a surprise coup. the military announced it declared a state of emergency taking power from the ruling party and handing it to a top general. these are some of the most recent images from inside myanmar. the scenes overnight were dramatic as military personnel arrested parliament. the spokesman for her party said de facto leader aung sun suu kyi

was detained. boris johnson posted this message on twitter just moments ago. he writes he condemns the coup and unlawful imprisonment. the vote of the people must be respected and civilian leaders released. cnn's will ripley is following from hong kong. good to see you, will. talk to us more about what you're learning about the military coup and how damaging it could prove to be for myanmar's future particularly when you hear the responses from world leaders. >> reporter: the con tris not responding with condemnation include china and russia. china, in fact, according to journalists on the ground working with cnn said there were meetings within the last few days with chinese officials in

myanmar. they hope for a political solution. they have had a mixed record of working with myanmar's military dictatorship that was in place up until five years ago when they helped the civilian leadership take control. now it seems as if they are taking that control back or at least being quite overt about it because a lot of people suspected for quite some time that the generals were indeed the ones calling the shots particularly when the leader was celebrated as being a beacon of democracy was at the united nations defending the military's treatment of the row hinge ga muslims. now you have the elected leader of myanmar whose party gained

more seats in parliament whose popularity domestically is arguably at an all-time high detained by the military along with all of her top officials and you have military propaganda playing on television screens, internet, free tv channels other than state propaganda showing fears of unrest, banks closed, fears that the country's very fragile democracy, the military helped write the constitution, now using that constitution to seize back control, declare a state of emergency for the next year. a lot of questions whether this will be a return to military dictatorship. >> will ripley, many thanks for bringing us up to date on that. appreciate it. the u.s. has just marked its deadliest month yet in the coronavirus pandemic. more than 95,000 people died

from covid-19 in january. the previous high set in december. there is an encouraging trend. covid hospitalizations dipped below 100,000 this weekend for the first time in nearly two months. when it comes to the vaccine rollout, more than 31 million moderna and pfizer biontech doses have been administered across the united states. this week johnson & johnson is expected to file for emergency use authorization for its vaccine. even with more vaccinations and fewer hospitalizations, the country is far from out of the woods and one expert says he expects a variant of the coronavirus to impact the u.s. in a way the nation hasn't seen since the pandemic began. 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 brazil have turned up in the united states. >> my primary concern is that we need to do more surveillance in this nation. we actually trail our peers on this. we need to do more genomic sequencing. there are u.s. variants, we just don't know because we don't do the work to identify them. >> while new research is promising, it's not clear if people could die from the new variants. we close january with the most deaths than any month from a year ago. >> that's been hard, too. she's asking every day, where's my daddy. >> some families have asked more than one relative. in her case her husband and father-in-law died of covid-19 within 24 hours of each other. >> every day i wake up and i

think this nightmare is going to be over and unfortunately it continues on. >> reporter: natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. and in los angeles county, california, a glimmer of hope in the battle against the coronavirus. we are following reports of covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are dropping while vaccinations are going up. >> i'm paul bercammen on the campus of cal state university where they had 2400 appointments for the pfizer vaccination on sunday. things seemed to move swimmingly. we got good news from l.a. county. we cannot definitively say interest wasn't a gap in reporting of numbers, but we saw a drop in the number of cases by about 1,000. huge plunge in the number of deaths. we also saw a drop of 1600 hospitalizations. this seemed to be the reason why

l.a. county officials were so optimistic and eased up on some of the restrictions. back here at northridge we saw mostly senior citizens getting their first shot and were they ever ecstatic. >> never has anybody felt so happy to be stuck by a needle i would imagine. >> i didn't feel it. i'm not sure she gave it to me. it was smooth as could be. everybody was cheerful, pleasant. boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: this is one of five sites where they hope to give 2400 vaccinations a day. that would be 7 days a week by los angeles. this is a lot better scenario than we saw a short time ago where it was much more chaotic. joining me now is cnn medical analyst dr. esther chu, professor of emergency medicine at oregon health and science university. thank you for being with us and

for all that you do. >> thanks for having me on, rosemary. >> the johnson & johnson vaccine is expected to get emergency use authorization in a matter of days. it doesn't have as high of an efficacy rate as pfizer and moderna vaccines. it's a single shot which is a benefit here. how big a difference could this vaccine option make once it's made available? >> this is really a game changer in many ways. the efficacy for severe disease doesn't match the extremely impressive numbers of the mrna vaccines, but on the other hand it seems to have 100% efficacy for hospitalizations and deaths. that is a number we can all stand behind. add on to that the fact it's a single shot, it doesn't require the ultracold freezing temperatures. those things make it such a practically easy vaccine to

disseminate. places where there aren't a lot of clinics or pharmacies. it will just be easier to use the vaccine as we don't have the storage requirements. >> doctor, it has fallen below 2,000 and cases are down which is good news. the new variants pose a threat to that encouraging trend. how concerned are you about that? and be what should we all be doing about it? >> yeah, i think we need a little more time to really see what the impact of the variants are. they certainly have arrived on u.s. shores but you're right. the second half of january, those were not record-breaking days, which is really encouraging. it looks like we're really cresting the hill coming out of the holidays. what we have in front of us is looking to see how much these variants that at least the u.s.

variants seems to be spread much more easily and then the other variants coming out will look to see what the impact is in terms of how easily it is and whether it changes the severity and efficacy of the vaccine. they really thrive on the element of time. we give viruses more time to mutate and they will do that. they are survivors. the faster we move on vaccines, the better we are at interrupting the chain of viruses from person to person with really good mask wearing and social distancing, those are things that still will win against this virus no matter which variant we're talking about. >> doctor, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. u.s. president biden is set to be open to some negotiation on his covid relief package. later today he'll sit down with

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senate republicans are set to meet with president biden to discuss the latest coronavirus relief package. over the weekend they pitched a much more scaled down version of the president's nearly $2 trillion plan. cnn's arlitt saenz has the details now from washington. >> reporter: the white house is indicating they are open to negotiating with senate republicans on the $1.9 trillion covid relief package. republican senators over the weekend introduced their own proposal which was much smaller in scale. about $600 billion in funding compared to that almost $2 trillion bill from the president. one thing that they are pushing for is more targeted checks to go out to american families who need it most. now a senior administration official said that $600 billion price tag is not going to scratch the itch of what they need to accomplish, but one area where they are willing to negotiate and have discussions are those targeted checks to

american families. right now the white house is pushing for $1400 checks to go out to american families while one republican senator suggested they could go down to 1,000. now one question going forward is how long president biden will give these republicans to negotiate. the president has also made his preference clear that he wants to pursue this in a bipartisan manner but he has left open the possibility of moving this without republican support. he is adamant that he wants action on this measure fast. arlitt saenz, cnn, the white house. with just about a week to go before donald trump's historic second impeachment trial begins in the senate, the former president has announced two new lawyers will head his legal team. his impeachment defense team quit after a disagreement in legal strategy. >> reporter: president trump really having to rebuild his

legal team from scratch announcing on sunday evening two new members of his legal team, david schoen and bruise l. castor jr. this announcement by the former president comes just a few days after he split ways, after all five members of his legal team walked out and left. there had been a disagreement over the legal direction they were taking. president trump was pushing for them to make the central part of their defense the wrong claim that the election was stolen, the wrong claim about the le leeltly. as the former president moves to make the new legal team part of his team is will they follow his lead? will they take his advice on

what he wants the central theme of the defense to be? time is very short and the wheels on capitol hill are already going to start turning this week. legal briefs will be due in the next few days. of course, the trial set to begin in the senate next two. sunday land serfaty, cnn, washington. republican senator rob portman is calling on his party's leaders to stand up against representative marjorie taylor greene, both for her controversial actions and for recently resurfaced incendiary comments. the newly elected congresswoman's extremist believes have some calling for h her. >> how do you get people to give up their guns? maybe you perform that by a mass

shooting into a crowd. you make them victims and you change their mind set. >> i'm an american citizen, i have a conceal carry permit. i carry a gun for protection for myself and you are using your lobby and the money behind it and the kids to try to take away my second amendment rights. you tonight have anything to say. guilty of treason. crime punishable by death. >> so-called plane crashed into the pent gob. never any evidence of a plane in the pentagon. >> people across the globe, cnn's martin savidge traveled to greene's district in georgia and he met with residents who support her and don't want her to back down. >> i want to hear that she'll continue to be the woman we elected and take the fight to the left while in washington. she's the most serious candidate

and i would follow her more than any other congressman or senator i've ever seen in office. >> that's one voice. while republicans debate over greene, another republican lawmaker is pushing back on the party's continued allegiance to donald trump. adam kin zinger has launched a new committee to battle the conspiracy lies. he's a representative from illinois and says the republican party has lost its way but he admits not everyone supports his view. >> i've gotten a letter, certified letter twice from the same people disowning me claiming i'm possessed by the devil. the reality is this. this is it. it's a time to choose. my goal in launching country first.com is to say let's take a

look at how far we have come in a bad way, how much we peddle darkness and division. that's not the party i signed up for and i think most republicans didn't sign up for that. >> joining me now from los angeles is cnn's senior political analyst, ron brownstein. senior editor at "the atlantic." >> rosemary. >> donald trump's entire legal team quit days before the impeachment trial. now he has assembled a new team. sources say he wanted to argue a stolen election. where do you see all of this going? will trump get acquitted anyway given most senate republicans still appear to stand behind him? >> i think the legal team is running into the same problems as the senate republicans. there's no way to defend trump's behavior on the merits, so the senate republicans have stepped

into this very questionable legal dodge, that you can hold an impeachment trial after they have left office. i think most of them will stick to this. as a result, he is highly unlikely to get convicted. it's equally unlikely you'll see much substantive defense of his behavi behavior. >> seems indefensible. >> yeah. >> what is going on within the republican party right now? we are seeing the knives out for liz cheney who dared to vote to impeach trump for his role in the capitol riot while the party seemed happy to embrace whacky qa qanon decent dynamic underway.

among republican leaders and officials, it's the same pattern we have seen throughout the trump presidency. essentially a capitulation to the president. in the immediate aftermath of the riot and the assault on the capitol there were signs that there would be -- you know, some thought this was finally the moment where they would use the leverage they had to try to break out from being under his thumb. liz cheney came out, mcconnell hinted he would be willing to convict the president. what happened? it melted away and you see the overwhelming majority of republican elected officials again are finding ways to avoid holding trump accountable for his behavior and are finding ways to look the other way and avoid drawing a bright line between the party and the kind of extremism that marjorie taylor greene symbolizes, that trump has allowed into the party. all of that at the elite level

is clear that they are sticking with this behavior that we saw throughout his presidency. on the other hand, polls are consistent between 1/5, 1/4, 1/3 of the voters are uneasy with how the party has been behaving. this decision to bind themselves to trump may not be without consequence in terms of reinforcing the movement away from the gop. >> with that, ron brownstein, always a pleasure to have you with us. >> thank you. well, it is a cold and stormy start to february for millions of americans. a powerful nor'easter is bringing heavy snow and dangerous winds along the east coast. many cities could be impacted in the coming days. new york city and the surrounding region to get well over 18 inches of snow. let's turn to meteorologist

pedram javaheri. how bad could this get and who's affected? >> you know, quite a bit of people here. when you look at the northeastern u.s. we have 1,000 stretch land, 1600 kilometers where the is he vert of the impacts. that area is highlighted for the extreme zones, west of the city, northern new jersey as well. areas in red are major category. on a scale of 1 to 5, a 4. expansive area for strong winds, blizzard like conditions, power outages and major disruptions. the airlines are canceling upwards of 1300 flights for the early morning hours. preemptive lights for monday morning. between jfk, newark, laguardia,

75, 80% of the flights have been canceled. wind speeds gusting 40 to 50-mile-an-hour throughout monday afternoon and evening. you can see it pushing through the northern portion of this region around boston and portland, maine. all of this happens with heavy snowfall coming down for an extended period for much of monday into early tuesday morning. at this hour right along the immediate coast it initializes. we expect all of this to become heavy snowfall throughout much of the day. a multi-day long duration event which is concerning because this is the most densely populated areas. which would be a top set of snowstorms. this would be potentially the top 10 of the most heavy snow

we've seen on record in new york. pretty impressive run in the next couple of days. >> absolutely. a lot of snow. pedram javaheri, many thanks. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," protesters in capitols across europe vent their frustrations even amid protest in distributing vaccines. we'll have a live report from london and paris just ahead.

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welcome back, everyone. a dispute between the u.k. and the e.u. over vaccine supplies seems to have cooled down for now at least.

european commission president ursula vandeline says astrazeneca has agreed to deliver 9 million additional doses to the block in the first part of the year. the british government says almost 9 million people across the u.k. have received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. nearly 500,000 people have had both doses. cnn's selma abdelaziz has been tracking this live from london. good to see you, selma. great news. 9 million doses of the vaccine already administered. you have some more good news to share with us. what's been happening at the age care homes? >> reporter: rosemary, so rare when i can talk about a triumph, talk about a moment of positivity but we have that today. all care home residents across england have been offered the first dose of their vaccine or received it. that's 10,000 care homes throughout england. job done.

major crucial milestone the prime minister said. this was an area of concerns. care homes are where there was an outbreak during the pandemic. the death toll, 1/3 were care home residents. they were a priority. among the first people to receive the vaccination. the goal was to get all care home residents vaccinated by the end of january. this means it is on time. on saturday the u.k. reaching a milestone number. a record number of vaccinations in a single day, about 600,000 people vaccinated. the sense is, rosemary, the vaccination program is moving at break neck speed. moving very quickly. they are trying. they are at a race trying to beat the pace of a variant of covid-19 that's been prevalent in the u.k. that sent a huge number of patients, a sue namm any of coronavirus patients into the hospitals. the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals is still dangerously high.

that's why all the focus has to go into the vaccination program. get all the key priority groups. care home residents, clinically vulnerable people. all of those over 70 and front line health care workers and staff. that's the goal. get all of the key priority groups. really, rosemary, this is the only weapon against the variant that's been brought tall in causing so much death and anguish. >> thank you so much for sharing that positive news. all across europe frustration is growing over covid restrictions. the capitol cities of vienna, bought da pest and brussels all saw lockdown measures on sunday. for more on that, want to bring in cnn's melissa bell joining us live from paris. as the e.u. struggles to get vaccine supplies distributed across the continent, it has to deal with pro tests. what is the latest? >> reporter: that's right. the protests that we saw on

sunday and so many parts of europe have in common is they were essentially banned by authorities. yet people turned up, arrests were made, and it is a measure of the anger that there is in so many parts of the european union now with the length and cost of the restrictions that remain in place. protesters versus police. demonstrators filled the streets of some european cities on sunday to vent their anger over coronavirus lockdowns they say have gone on too long. in brussels riot police carrying batons and shields detained at least 200 people for gathering at what officials deemed an unauthorized assembly. protesters say restrictions like a nighttime curfew and a ban on nonessential travel in and out of the country are more destructive than the virus. >> reporter: i am here because i think it's not right at all what's going on. just because of a virus that doesn't kill that many people. now people are dying, starving.

they can't work and earn money. >> reporter: thousands of people marched in vienna despite a ban on the rally. the crowds waived austrian flags, some calling for the people to resign. >> re >> translator: we have to get rid of these nonsense sickal measures which are just destroying our economy and don't make any sense. >> reporter: restaurant owners packed the city square as their businesses are empty. they can only serve takeout which is a fraction of what they need to survive. police turned water cannons and tear gas on rioters where people looted stores. scenes officials don't want repeated. rosemary, i think it is in the

light of those sorts of pictures that you need to think of that rau that we saw between the european union and astrazeneca. governments under pressure for populations that have been under restrictions. the vaccination rollout has been at a stand still and although there is good news after the meeting between ursula and big pharma groups, the extra doses promised by astrazeneca and biontech stmpt and an ambitious target of 70% of its population that the e.u. wants vaccinated by the summer. we're a long way off from that. >> so close with this vaccine but unfortunately supplies are not living up to all of these expectations. melissa bell joining us live. thanks. world health organization investigators on the ground in wuhan, china, have access to months of chinese flu data.

they are hoping it can help trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. cnn's international security editor, nick peyton walsh has been tracking this story for us. he joins us now live from london. so, nick, a year has passed, of course, since the start of this pandemic. how much can we expect this investigation to achieve? and how much access and cooperation will the w.h.o. team get from china? >> the panel on the ground refer to how the chinese are being transparent and they get to see what they want to see. i think you're right to point out the year long gap typified to the hue than seaed efood mar. the place that was the start of the coronavirus outbreak even though some have suggested it may well have emerged elsewhere. they toured a facility that had long for months been shuttered, heavily disinfected.

it's interesting to see how it could have abted as a main vector during the pandemic. it's believed today and the next two days they'll visit key facilities in wuhan. the cdc's there and the wuhan center for technology. the allegations from the trump administration say it was the leak that caused the outbreak to start. as you mentioned, rosemary, a key thing that we heard from yesterday from the team from the who, they have months of data from chinese officials about influenza in the areas around wuhan and also in the months before december 2019 when this began. that's key. it may show possible

flashpoints, indications as to when and where exactly the virus initiated. remember in many countries around the world they've seen a rise in inexplicable flu symptoms in the months ahead from when they first recorded the first coronavirus. you may remember, too, a cnn investigation in december last year revealed unreported spike in two cities near wuhan, in very realized we it particular spike. perhaps to the coronavirus, to the include as to where it came from. potentially humanity and china could stop that again. >> nick peyton walsh live from london. just ahead, cnn talked to a north korean defector.

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what's going to happen, alexey navalny's legal troubles are going to continue. he has a hearing tomorrow. his supporters have called for people to come out and protest outside the court where that is to take place. that most probably is not going to be as big as what we saw yesterday. what we saw yesterday unfolded in the entire country and really tens of thousands of people across russia took to the streets, not just the streets, there were some people protesting on ice sheets and on frozen lakes throughout this very vast and of course in many places very cold country. as you mentioned, more than 5,000 people taken into detention according to an independent monitoring group. one of the things we saw, rosemary, especially at the beginning of the protests here in moscow, it seemed as though the authorities were trying to stop the protests from even taking hold. i was live in one of our shows yesterday morning and i think during one of our live shots

like seven or eight people were detained just in that span of time. also a lot of journalists detained by the way as well throughout russia. this is according to an independent monitoring group, more than 80 journalists detained. anthony blinken, he came out early in the game yesterday and he condemned what he called harsh tactics against both protesters and journalists. just a couple minutes ago the press secretary came out and said russia would have none of it. they don't need to be lectured by the united states and other countries and claimed that the work of journalists was not interfered with at those protests that took place in russia yesterday. certainly seemed to us there were a lot of journalists taken into custody from what we could see, rosemary. >> fred pleitgen bringing us up to date. many thanks.

>> u.s. president joe biden was set to give a major foreign policy speech on monday, but a coming winter storm forced him to postpone it. cnn's paula hancock spoke with a high level north korean diplomat defected and found out what advice he would give the new u.s. president. >> reporter: he told his teenage daughter he would drive her to school. instead he drove to the south korean embassy and claimed asylum. >> i told her, come with mom and dad to find freedom. she was shocked and said, okay. that's all she said. >> he was acting north korean ambassador to kuwait until he defected. it was a life woo and his wife were desperate to save his daughter from. in his first ever interview he reveals how agee niezing the decision was to make.

his voice cracks when he thinks of his 83-year-old mother, his wife's elderly parents and his siblings all back in pyongyang. >> translator: i just want to see them live long. any thought of them being punished for what i have done just hurts my heart. >> reporter: north korea and kim jong-un punishes the families. woo said he watched the 2018 summit between then u.s. president donald trump and kim jong-un while in kuwait. >> translator: as a diplomat i thought this might be a political photo op. the u.s. can't back down from denuclearization and kim jong-un can't denuclearize. this is directly linked to the regime. i can't imagine they abolished this. >> reporter: as for vice he cited biden's lengthy foreign

policy experience but he believes north korea will only agree to reducing not giving them up completely. >> reporter: what does kim jong-un want from president biden? >> removing sanctions. >> reporter: a move he does not want to happen. he sees biden's nuclear deal with iran hope. >> translator: north korea is going to be more difficult than iran. >> paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. just last week they helped send gamestop shares soaring. now amateur investors have sell the their sites on a new target. details next. commission fees so you can start investing today, wherever you are — even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.

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casino and they're doing all kinds of market na nip pew lags, pump and dump, companies that buy back shares of their own stock so that they can inflate the stock prices. we need a market that's transparent, that's level and that is open to individual investors. it's time for the sec to get off their duffs and do their jobs. >> there you go. finally, the white house dogs are taking advantage of the snow in washington. u.s. president joe biden's granddaughter naomi tweeted this picture of champ and major playing in the snow on the white house lawn. you can see the washington monument in the background. they're the first pets to live in the white house since the obama administration. thanks so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. have yourselves a great day.

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or trade in for extra savings. stop in or book an appointment to shop safely with peace of mind at your local xfinity store. good morning and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is "early start." we have reports from six continents today as only cnn can. we're in brazil, paris, melbourne, moscow, johannesburg and of course at the white house and more. i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm boris sanchez in for christine romans. it is monday, february 1st. it is 5 a.m. in new york where you are, laura, snow already coming down fast there. here in d.c. it's been coming down for a little under 24 hours an