hello and welcome, everyone. i'm michael holmes. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," newly discovered videos that could play an important role in donald trump's impeachment trial. new concerns about one of the covid vaccines and how much protection it provides against the fast-spreading coronavirus variant. plus marching in myanmar. protesters voice their opposition to this week's military coup.

appreciate your company, everyone. democratic lawmakers say they have strong evidence against donald trump with his second impeachment trial about to begin in just a couple of days. evidence like the new video of one of the capitol rioters that we're about to show you. cnn's donia sullivan has details, but first listen to what the man known as the qanon shaman has to say about the former president. >> how did you get out? >> of the senate? >> yeah. >> cops walked out with me. >> they just let you go? >> yeah. >> ha ha! what's your message to everybody now? >> oh, donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said it, just put out a tweet. it's a minute long, asked everybody to go home. >> why do you think so?

>> lose [ bleep ] one day [ bleep ]. >> how did you win? >> we won by sending a message to senators and congressmen, by sending a message to pence, if they don't uphold the constitution, we'll remove them from office, one way or the other. >> this guy recording you, he's not on our side. >> i'm fine with being recorded. all i can say is, we won the [ bleep ] day. donald trump is still our president. >> i do have one more question. there's a lot of people that doubt that you were able to just go in there and come out. what do you have to say to them that doubt you just walked out? >> well, a lot of people doubted a lot of prophets, saints and sages. a lot of people doubted christ, you know? >> that video was originally posted to parler, a social media website that was very popular among trump supporters around the time of the insurrection. parler is temporarily closed

down, it's been taken offline. but a computer programmer was able to download thousands of the videos that were shot in the washington, d.c. that day, many of which were at the insurrection itself and were posted on parler. you saw there in the video jacob chancely, the so-called qanon shaman. we've seen him at multiple events leading up to the insurrection. we were at a qanon convention back in october where trump's praise of qanon supporters was celebrated. we saw chancely there. we also saw him 48 hours before the insurrection on monday, january 4th, in dalton, georgia, outside a trump rally on the eve of the senate runoff elections. now, as we go into the impeachment trial which is beginning this week, very important what we heard there from chancely. clearly he was somebody who said he was taking his cues from president trump. back to you.

>> donnie o'sullivan, our thanks. we still don't know what the underrules for the senate impeachment trial will be, but 17 republicans would have to join democrats in order to get a conviction. now that's a tall order, of course. but there has been some division in the republican party ahead of proceedings. jessica dean with the latest. >> reporter: the wyoming republican party voted to censure congresswoman liz cheney in response to her vote to impeach former president donald trump. that resolution had a number of inaccuracies in it. congresswoman cheney did respond saying that she was compelled by the oath i swore to the constitution when she took that vote to impeach former president trump. now all of this, of course, coming on the eve of former president trump's second impeachment trial, which is scheduled to start on tuesday. there are still a number of unknowns surrounding that trial, namely how long it will take, we don't know exactly at this point

how long this will go on. and also if witnesses will be called. in this case, it's a very unique situation in that the 100 senators who will be serving as jurors were also witnesses in this case. they experienced the insurrection here on january 6th. house impeachment managers have also requested former president trump to testify. he said he will not be doing that. and right now there's just not an appetite for a subpoena to compel him to testify. we're told house impeachment managers instead intend to say his refusal to testify here at the capitol for the senate impeachment trial underscores his guilt as being singularly responsible for the insurrection on january 6th. cnn white house correspondent john harwood joins me now. good to see you, john. you look back over the last few months, the big lie, obviously, about the election, marjorie taylor greene, her emergence. so many things, really. does the republican party

resemble the party of reagan, let alone the party of lincoln? what has happened? you've covered this for a long time. where's it headed? >> reporter: it is not at all the party of reagan or lincoln. what has happened, michael, is that over the last couple of decades, the republican party has become increasingly radicalized as it's become more and more dependant on a particular segment of the electorate. that is, white working-class voters, particularly white christians, evangelical christians, in small towns, in rural areas, who fear the way that the country is changing. america's becoming more diverse, more globally connected, the economy's changing. and they feel that culturally and economically, they're being left behind. they're angered by that, and they express their anger through republican politics, and that is -- has caused the party to become increasingly militant. we saw that during the obama

years. very confrontational stance with barack obama. those voters saw donald trump as their champion. and were enraged with the prospect of him being defeated, and that resulted in that insurrection on january the 6th. and republican leaders in congress don't have the strength right now to stand up and tell the base of the party that it was a big lie, that donald trump actually did lose the election. >> the thing is, the democratic -- the demographics that you point out, it is a juggernaut, isn't it? those demographics are going to happen. why then pander to an inevitably shrinking base? there seems to be a little bit of a shortage of for-ward thinking there. >> well, exactly. and you know, republican leaders understand where the thing's headed in the long run. so do those voters, in fact. the anxiety of many of those

voters is fueled by the closer we get to the point, which will happen in 20 or 25 years, that america will be a majority minority country. whites will not be the majority of the population. after barack obama won a second term in 2012, the republican party had what they called an autopsy of the election, came out and said, we've got to change course, we've got to be more broadly appealing to nonwhite voters, to women, to young people. then what happened was, donald trump just bowled over that recommendation, ran a campaign heavy on racial resentment, won the nomination, won the election, and set back those efforts by the republican party to move the party forward, to modernize the party. it's not clear when they're going to get back to that. when we saw what happened with marjorie taylor greene, the republican party was unable to itself discipline marjorie taylor greene, and you can see the concern from none other than mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee who lost to barack

obama, who said last week, our big tent is not big enough for conservatives and kooks. the problem is, right now the republican party depends on a lot of those people who are angry and out of touch with reality, and they don't know how to get past that. >> you have the senate and the house passing budget resolutions on covid relief, zero republican votes in either house. when bipartisan rubber meets the road, who's going to get hurt, or worse? does it hurt biden to go it alone or republicans to vote against it? >> i don't think it hurts biden to go alone. it probably doesn't hurt republicans to vote against it. the good news for the american people is that there will be a covid relief bill passed. joe biden, because of the budget rules, he's able to take advantage of, with fellow democrats who control the congress, does not need republican votes. he temperamentally and by his history, 36 years in the senate,

eight years as vice president, respects congress, has good relationships with many republicans, is willing to talk to them. but they are so far apart, as he said at the end of the week, that they simply can't come up to compromise at a level that i think is sufficient, therefore, he's going to move ahead. it appears that's the path we're on. that doesn't mean that some republicans may not sign on. a small number at the end, if they see that the package is popular. it does have some bipartisan support in the public. that is a significant chunk of republican rank and file republicans around the country like the idea of the package. but not republican lawmakers so far. >> john harwood, always a pleasure. great to get your thoughts, thank you. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, another winter storm set to hit parts of the u.s. in the coming hours. we'll check in with our meteorologist, derek van dam, for the latest.

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a nor'easter set to batter the east coast of the u.s. in a matter of hours. the latest winter storm expected to dump more heavy snow on the same regions still recovering from another nor'easter just days ago. let's bring in meteorologist derek van dam. a lot of snow, getting a bit chilly, fill us in. >> yeah, without a doubt. that's the major headlines, job done, right, michael? >> all right, we'll check in with you next hour. i'm kidding. >> you take it from here. it was literally seven days ago that this storm, a nor'easter, brought over 30 inches of snow to the east coast. parts of new jersey, new york city, got just over 17 inches. so they're still digging out from that. now to add misery to that, there's additional snow in the forecast. 70 million americans under winter storm warnings as we speak. that lines the entire east coast and stretches south along the

carolinas, right along the spine of the appalachian mountains. the national weather service has this really handy tool. it projects the potential impacts for metropolitan areas. you see that shading of orange right along long island, new jersey, new york city? i'll expand it so you can see. connecticut, massachusetts, boston, the nation's capital, all areas in orange is where we're anticipating moderate to major impacts from this particular storm. snowfall rates 1 to 2 inches per hour, blowing snow possible. this would drift over the roadways, making travel very treacherous. this will be a quick-hitting storm. only about six hours of maximum intensity snowfall, compared to 36 hours from the previous storm earlier this week. 6 to 8 inches for the greater new york city region. as you alluded to, the big chill settling in behind it. this is incredible. windchill warnings all the way down past chicago. this is not a typo.

international falls, it feels like negative 42 degrees fahrenheit as you step outside. that is so cold that the antifreeze within your vehicle's engine could start to thicken, sludge up, make your car unusable. it's so cold, if you step outside, you can get frostbite in less than 10 minutes. this cold means business. it's here to stick around for a while, because we anticipate the computer models showing us the next ten days will be below average for the eastern two-thirds of the country, bundle up. >> wow, man. what do we say in australia? cold as a mother-in-law's kiss. >> my favorite saying of all-time. >> yeah, you can use it. >> she's watching. >> don't use it, you might get into trouble. derek van dam, you're a legend, we'll check in with you next hour, thanks so much. some worrying news on the vaccine front. astrazeneca telling us its coronavirus shot seems less

effective against the variant first spotted in south africa when it is a case of mild illness. the pharmaceutical company says it believes its vaccine could work against severe disease, and it is hoping to deliver shots better suited to the variant by the northern hemisphere autumn. even in places where there's been an impressive vaccine rollout, though, hospitals still under pressure in the uk, for example. a top doctor says intensive care units are, quote, full to the rafters. he says it's because patients are staying there for long periods of time, even though, of course, new case numbers have mercifully been going down. in wuhan, china, people are honoring the whistle-blower doctor a year after his death. chinese authorities told him to stop spreading rumors shortly after he sounded the alarm about the coronavirus. he died after contracting covid-19. now a source telling cnn that u.s. president joe biden plans on using the super bowl,

which of course is happening in a few hours, to share a message on vaccines. we're expecting him to speak to those who are hesitant about getting their shot in the arm, as cnn's natasha chen explains. >> reporter: in the past week, more than 9 million covid-19 vaccines were administered in the rust are that outpaced the number of new covid cases 10-1. in the last two days, the number of people hospitalized came under 90,000 for the first time since late november. despite these positive trends, health officials are warning us not to let our guards down. >> at best, we're at halftime and things seem quiet while in the locker room. but when we come out, the team that we're facing is going to be a lot tougher than the team we faced in the first half of this outbreak. >> reporter: as both the pandemic and the super bowl are on people's minds this weekend, a source familiar with the plan told cnn president joe biden will take advantage of the large national audience on 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 nonmask-we'ring communities in particular. americans are being discouraged from doing what so many typically do this weekend, attending super bowl parties. >> it's the stupid, not the stupid bowl, all right? let's try to keep everyone safe. don't drink, don't drive, don't bring multiple households together and create a superspreader event in your own home. i guarantee it's going to be your own family are the ones going to be jeopardized. >> reporter: speaking of the nfl, the league this week offered the biden administration every one of its 32 team stadiums as mass vaccination sites. seven are already in operation, and the 49ers' levi's stadium is about to become california's largest vaccination site. yankee stadium opened friday but only for people in the bronx, an effort to reach underserved communities. >> this is about equity, this is

about fairness, this is about protecting people who need the most protection. because the bronx is one of the places that bore the brunt of this crisis. >> reporter: new york city mayor bill de blasio and many state and local officials say the problem continues to be supply. >> other than me just running up there and sitting on somebody, you know, we are -- we're doing everything. it's coming from all fronts. >> reporter: a third vaccine made by johnson & johnson could help increase supply, but the u.s. food and drug administration advisory committee isn't scheduled to discuss it until february 26th. the event behind me was specifically targeted for employees of local school districts who fall into georgia's current eligibility group. vaccinations for educators being a really important part of conversations to bring kids back into classrooms safely, especially in chicago where there is still no agreement. the mayor, lori lightfoot, has said teachers who do not show up on monday will be locked out of

the online system, which could trigger a strike by the union. dr. michael meaner is assistant professor of epidemiology at the harvard th trans school of public health. last time we spoke this december, you made the strong case for cheap home testing so people knew if they were contagious before they left the house. what has changed since in terms of availability or plans to get these to people? >> the biggest thing that has changed is we have a new administration in the united states. and president biden has made it a priority to really ramp up rapid testing as part of the overall covid response he's been putting together along with his administration. i think we are now starting to see some evidence that they are carrying through. they're certain to make increasing investments in some of the rapid test companies to help scale them up and hopefully

get those tests out to the american public. >> yeah, they're looking at half a dozen, i think, rapid test candidates. but the one they're going to be pushing is from alume? eilume? current price $30 a test. you pushed for these tests that i think are pennies, is that right? is it realistic to have $30 tests that people are going to use more than once in a blue moon? >> the eilume test is a nice test, but it's going to be more a one-time test for people, it's not going to be the frequent type of test i've been calling for. the frequent tests are really just plain, simple, paper strip tests, such like a pregnancy test, no electronics, no batteries, no bluetooth, a simple test that people could use two or three times a week in their home. that is the type of fast, frequent, and accessible testing that we really need to help get

control of covid in the united states. >> and why don't we have them? >> well, i think that we are starting to see movement. we have had tests, this is one of them here. they have been around for quite a while. there has been difficulty in evaluating them in terms of the fda has a charge to evaluate these tests as medical devices. but these tests that i want to see are really -- should be evaluated as public health tools. and what that means is we want tools that will only detect people when they are infectious and contagious and need to be isolated. but because of some nuances in the science and the way that the fda evaluates these tests, we have yet to see the correct ones really be authorized in a way that could make them accessible to the american public.

>> and just real quick, for people who don't know, the advantages of people having these in their bathroom cabinet, do it three times a week, is? >> the best thing about having frequent tests is that you can know that you are infectious before you actually go out and infect other people. these tests should be used in such a way that if you're using them two or three times a week, they take about 30 seconds to actually use, then about 15 minutes to wait until the result comes up. and that's enough. brush your teeth, use a covid test, and if it's negative, go about your day exactly how you otherwise would have. if it's positive, you stay home, you don't go to work, you don't go to school, you don't see your family for friday night dinner. you are empowered to make choices that would help you to prevent yourself from spreading the virus to other people. and if you're not testing very frequently for a virus like

coronavirus, then it's much more likely that you will miss the transmission window. if you're testing once every two weeks with a pcr test, then you are unlikely to actually test yourself before you go and transmit to other people. if the pcr test takes two or three days to return, then you're very unlikely to catch yourself before you go on to infect other people. these types of tests, these really cheap, paper strip types of tests which can be antigen, they can be rna tests, these are the kinds we need to see get out to people's homes so they can do it very frequently, enough to stop transmission. >> what we discussed last time, it would make a massive difference in the speed of spread if people knew that before they left the house. i do hope that in a couple of months from now we're talking about how widespread they are and not why they're not out there yet. dr. michael mena, really appreciate it, thanks so much.

cities around the world are finding innovative ways to get people their covid vaccine doses. cnn's robyn curnow takes us through some of these unusual sights. >> reporter: all aboard this bus in france. seniors taking their seats inside, aren't going on a trip, but they are taking a big step in protecting themselves from the coronavirus by getting vaccinated. many residents in this rural town don't have the means to travel to bigger cities to get inoculated. so through an initiative by the local government, this mobile vaccination site came to them. >> translator: it's a very good initiative to have done this with the bus, because i wouldn't have got vaccinated right now, i would have waited, because i would have had to go to the nearest big city. >> reporter: the vacci-bus is one idea to get it easier for people to get the shots needed

to help slow the transmission of the coronavirus. another incentive is to transform large places that people already go to in their communities into makeshift vaccination centers, like cathedrals, department stores, and cinemas. >> it's nice and open. plenty of space for everybody. good idea to use it. pity a film's not put on. >> reporter: even some of the grandest places in the world are doing double duty, like sweden's nobel prize banquet hall. in previous years the scene of black tie galas packed with patrons, its purpose now more humble but no less important. >> we have this amazing place that is empty right now, but is also the citizens' house, i feel. we should use it. >> reporter: using it is just what people are doing around the world. from this parking lot at disneyland to fenway park, home of the red sox, to lord's cricket ground in the uk. where empty spaces that once filled us with joy now fill us

with hope. robyn curnow, cnn, atlanta. millions of football fans are gearing up for the super bowl just hours from now. for those select few able to attend the game, a myriad of health precautions await. we'll have details ahead. also, president biden says he's committed to getting direct payments to americans hit hard by the pandemic, and the campaign promises he says he can't keep, at least not yet.

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you're watching "cnn newsroom." thanks for doing so. in a new tv interview, u.s. president joe biden opens about his family. he spoke to cbs news about his son hunter's forthcoming book and became emotional when he talked about hunter's struggle with addiction. >> you know, i'll bet there's not a family you know that doesn't have somebody in the family that had a drug problem or an alcohol problem. but the honesty with which he stepped forward and talked about the problem, and the hope that it gave me hope reading it, i mean, it was like -- my boy's back, you know what i mean? he's -- anyway. i'm sorry to get so personal. >> hunter biden's memoir is called "beautiful things." it is set to be released on april 6th. democratic lawmakers are prepared to approve a coronavirus relief bill without republican support, and

president biden says he is committed to sending $1,400 payments to some americans. but he's also admitting he'll have to make a notable concession. cnn's arnett science with more. >> reporter: as the push to get his covid relief package passed continues, president biden is acknowledging one element of that proposal may not ultimately make it into the final deal. that is the $15 minimum wage. that is something president biden promoted during the presidential campaign and something he wanted to include in this covid relief package. but in an interview with cbs, the president said that it may not survive due to the senate rules process. take a listen. >> you also want to raise the minimum wage to $15, is that something you would be willing to negotiate on in order to get republican support? >> apparently that's not going to occur because of the rules of the united states senate. >> you're saying the minimum wage won't be in this -- >> my guess is it will not be in it, but i do think that we

should have a minimum wage stand by itself, $15 an hour, and work your way up to the $15. it doesn't have to be, boom. and all the economics show if you do that, the whole economy rises. >> reporter: if that proposal does not make it into the final package, the president indicated he does want to pursue the $15 minimum wage as a standalone measure down the road. the president spent the weekend here at his home in delaware where he also visited the doctor's office to receive an x-ray on his foot which he had fractured in november. the president's physician, dr. kevin o'connor, says those fractures have completely healed. arlette saenz, cnn, delaware. it's been a month since that deadly attack at the u.s. capitol and new video is emerging every day. investigators are using that video to connect more faces to names. cnn's brian todd with the latest from washington.

>> it's our house! >> reporter: dramatic video capturing what's believed to be one of the first moments that the u.s. capitol was breached on january 6th. at one point the man in the blue jacket takes the jacket off, puts his "make america great again" cap on backward, seemingly ready to escalate. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: moments later, the escalation occurs. the man in the backwards cap and others push over a police barricade. a female officer is down. the fbi now says she was knocked unconscious and had a concussion. federal prosecutors have now charged the man in the backwards cap with forcibly assaulting a police officer, among other charges. they identify him as ryan samsul, on parole from prison in pennsylvania, wanted in new jersey for alleged assault in 2019 according to his criminal federal complaint. an fbi document says he picked the female officer up off the ground and said "we don't have to hurt you, why are you standing in our way?" cnn has not heard back from an

attorney for samsul. the same video posted by a reporter with a conservative website "the blaze" shows hand-to-hand combat between officers and rioters. an officer throwing punches, desperately trying to hold the crowd back. >> these people came here with the potential that they were going to commit violence to further this ideology. this was not in other terms an escalation that slowly turned up. >> reporter: meantime, more conspiracy charges are being filed against members of far-right extremist groups. two members of the group the proud boys are now charged with conspiracy in connection with the january 6th riots. it's the first case related to the assault to charge members of the proud boys of working together to coordinate the attack. but these two defendants are not accused of planning the attack before they came to washington. and a new cnn analysis indicates current and former members of the u.s. military are overrepresented among the more than 175 people who have been

arrested so far in connection with the assault. experts say those who could be affiliated with extremist groups could be dangerous. >> many of the people within these violent white supremacist and far-right militant groups were trained by the u.s. army. that's the kind of training and experience that foreign terrorist groups don't have, would drool over. >> reporter: tonight, sources tell cnn the fbi's probe into the capitol assault is the bureau's largest investigation since the september 11th attacks. >> it's taking up a lot of the bureau's resources which are being redirected from other threats, which is going to be a concern that the fbi and other law enforcement agencies don't have a lot more bandwidth to stretch like this. >> cnn's brian todd there reporting for us from washington. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, social media blackouts and internet shutdowns aren't stopping protesters from gathering in myanmar. we'll have a report after the break. u're fine♪

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thousands protesting in myanmar. it has been less than a week since military leaders seized power from the sitting government. the civilian government, the elected government. and the demands for democracy continue to get louder. selena wang is following this from tokyo. tell us about how protests have developed this morning and what strategies they're taking, given the communications shutdown. >> reporter: michael, witnesses tell us that these protests appear to be more organized than yesterday's and that it is gaining public support. with massive crowds of young people chanting "we want democracy," military dictatorship against many hosting posters of aung san suu kyi's image saying "we want our leader." witnesses say these protests are

peaceful with crowds diverting to avoid roadblocks, to avoid face-to-face confrontation with police. we are seeing these protests again today after thousands took to the streets yesterday despite the state-sanctioned internet blackout which has severely limited communication as well as coverage of this protest. this happening after facebook, instagram, and twitter were already blocked. we're learning organizers are communicating through sms, through voice calls, as well as word of mouth. myanmar has been ruled by the military regime for more than 50 years. it was brutally stifling dissent, plunging the country into poverty. and six years ago, however, there was hope that things would change for residents after aung san suu kyi won the election by a landslide and formed the first civilian government. that all now is changing after the military coup, after the arrest of aung san suu kyi, and residents are fearful that history is repeating itself. even though aung san suu kyi has

fallen from grace internationally over her rejection of the alleged genocide, for refusing to accept and call it that, domestically at home, she still has huge support. michael? >> when it comes to what pressure could be put on from the outside, i mean, are sanctions or the threat of sanctions from the u.s. or anywhere else likely to have an impact on those who carried out this coup? this is a country that has endured sanctions in the past and the military, obviously, knew there would be blowback. >> reporter: absolutely, michael. we are already seeing massive international condemnation, threats of sanctions, including from the biden administration. but experts say that is not likely to bother the military regime. there are, however, fears of a wider crackdown on journalists, on critics, on activists. in fact, in myanmar, a human rights group says at least 133 government officials and 14 activists have already been detained just as of monday.

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absolute ludicrous to try this. what do you say? >> i feel like it's the right thing to do to learn to live with this virus. >> reporter: dr. sills is the chief medical officer for the nfl. he was brought in as a neurosurgeon who thought he would be dealing with concussions. and then the pandemic changed everything. i initially met up with him at the beginning of the season. >> we have to recognize we're dealing with an unpredictable pandemic, so we have to adjust along the way. >> reporter: on september 10, the kansas city chiefs kicked off against the houston texans in the first game of the season. at the time, there were more than 6 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the united states. now, right before the super bowl, how did things go? >> what we have tried to do at every step is to make the best and safest decisions we can and try to evolve and learn along the way. >> reporter: while cases around the country exploded, now with more than 26 million confirmed, the nfl was relatively untouched. with a positivity rate of 0.8%.

so what worked for the nfl? and what can we all learn from it? >> we had an outbreak in tennessee. when we went in and dug into that and tried to understand how did transmission occur despite our protocols? we began to realize it wasn't just six pfeet. >> reporter: it was tnt playing or practicing that were the largest concerns, but these three things -- eating, greeting, and meeting. >> meeting inside, even if you're more than six feet apart, if you're in a poorly ventlated room for a long time if someone is positive, there can be transmission inside those rooms. eating is the other high risk activity. most people don't have a mask on. and the greeting part is the social interactions outside the facilities. when your interact in the community, if someone is positive and you get a haircut or have a massage at your house. >> reporter: how did the nfl know? they tested daily and contact

traced and tracked the movements of more than 11,000 players and staff, even alerting them if they were too close to one another. >> if we move closer together than six feet, you'll start to see it blinking red. >> reporter: keep in mind, the cdc defines close contact like this. being within six feet of an infected person for a cumulative for 15 minutes or more over a 24 hour period. but the league's data found transmission was occurring with less time and more distance. these are considerations for anyone, anywhere to assess their risk. ventilation. are you indoors or outdoors? are you in a car with the windows up or in a large, open stadium? the more air circulation the better. masks, what kind of masks are being used, and do they fit correctly? and finally, time and distance. the longer and closer you are around someone, the increased risk for transmission. >> if you're failing in two or

more of those categories, that's what we consider a high risk close contact. the biggest thing we learned, universal masking works. it's the most effective strategy we have. >> how hard would it be to replicate what you were able to do in the nfl? >> it wasn't the fact that we tested every single day. it wasn't the fact that everyone wore a fancy tracking device. what prevented transmission was mask usage. avoiding in-person meetings. staying in the open air environments. not eating together. prompt symptom reporting. isolation of anybody that's exposed. >> reporter: the same basic rules we have known since the beginning of this pandemic. with more evidence than ever that masks actually work. so who are you rooting for sh >> we love all our children. what is is the deal with tom brady? just as a sports medicine guy, the super bowl again? >> i think his career has been amazing and outstanding and he's an inspiration to all of us. the closer he gets in age to me,

i have thoughts maybe i still got a run at it. >> dr. sanjay gupta, thanks for that report. this is the first time in super bowl history that a team is going to be playing the big game in its own stadium. that team, of course, the tampa bay buccaneers. and that's just one of the many ways today's game is breaking from tradition. >> it is certainly the most unusual super bowl we've ever seen. both teams normally arriving a week ahead of time to get ajested. the chiefs arriving the day before the game. and yet another example of audibles that had to be called playing a season during a pandemic. even the players said they didn't think there was any way this season would make it, but strict protocols and discipline all added up and here we are. there will be about 30,000 cardboard cutout fans in the stands. acting as social distancing barriers for real fans, about

25,000 of them. about a third will be vaccinated health care workers, heroes invited by the nfl. i spoke to one, a critical care nurse here, and i asked what went through her mind when she found out she was going to the super bowl? >> the moment, you know, when you see okay, this is awesome, and it is. it's like a dream come true to go to the super bowl. and yet it never would have happened if this monster hadn't descended upon us. i would -- i would sit in my living room cheering the bucs on if we could turn back time and not have this pandemic. >> reporter: she leads about 30 to 40 nurses and her team is as tough as any playing in that super bowl. she said she's learned so much about the human spirit. she said they have huddles every day, they go over the game plan, and the mantra is mission possible.

now, dolphin named nicholas from the clear water marine aquarium in florida has predicted the winner of today's game. >> all right. nicholas has named his choice. and it looks like nicholas is predicting the kansas city chiefs to win the big game this year. >> the 17-year-old dolphin correctly predicted the chiefs to win last year's super bowl. he's on a six-event winning streak. a and he agrees with me. go, chiefs. > don't go anywhere. robin will be here with more of "cnn newsroom" in a moment. ♪ ♪

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