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conflict. live from cnn headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching in canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." law enforcement authorities across the atlanta area in georgia are pushing forward into the investigation in the deadly shootings this week as new details emerge about the crime and the eight people who lost their lives. surveillance video recorded by a cherokee county business on tuesday has been provided to cnn and appears to show the suspect, parking his dark hyundai in front of the first spa with the shootings occurred. there is a growing memorial outside of that spa. people were able to talk about their fear of rising violence
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with two high profile visitor, president biden and vice president harris. >> reporter: the president and vice president came to atlanta on friday to listen to asian american community leaders who are voicing their concerns where eight people were killed this women and six women of asian descent. after that, president biden acknowledged the rise in violence directed toward asian americans the past year after the pandemic. he had this to say. >> hate and violence often hide in plain sight. it's often met with silence. that has been true throughout our history but that ho change because our silence is com complicit. we cannot be complicit. we have to speak out and we have
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to act. >> reporter: for an an hour the two met with asian american leaders including stephanie cho who i caught up with after the meeting. she said former donald trump's name came up again and again for his contributions to the violence during the pandemic. >> i would like to see it be beyond this moment and that as much as the former president called it the china virus, scapegoated asian americans and really fueled this racism around asian americans, i would like to see the pieden administration come -- biden administration come out as strong but in support of asian americans. >> reporter: she wsaid she will be watching the actions of the white house and she hopes president biden speaks out forcefully against this violence in the weeks and months to come. as for the white house, this was intended to be a stop on their
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help is here tour, promoting the american rescue plan. clearly georgia is a central state for the white house that helped deliver the victory for president biden and vice president harris but it sent the senate majority in dakkic hands that led to the passage of the american rescue plan. the white house continues to promote that in the weeks ahead. jeff zeleny, cnn, atlanta. we are learning more about the suspect in the sesries of heinous attacks. local asian women say enough is enough. ryan young has more. >> reporter: investigators are actively working to piece together the exact movement and motivate of the suspect who is connected to the spa attacks on asian women. robert aaron long from cherokee county faces eleven felony challenges and four counts of mallass and one count to commit murder and five counts of
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possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. for victims like mario gonzalez, who lost his wife during the shooting, the charges do little to fill the hole left in their hearts. >> [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: the medical examiner revealing the names of the other four victims who were gunned down. park, grant, kim, and au. police say at least three of the victims were shot in the head and are still working to determine the shooter's motive. >> it's very important to let you know that we are not done. we are still working very diligently to ascertain all of the facts, so we can have a
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successful prosecution because that what is most important now. >> reporter: crab apple baptist church where robert long worshipped released this statement about the suspected shooter. as investigators struggle to put the pieces together there are growing calls in this community and country to protect the members of the women involved. >> to target three asian businesses and to kill six women who look like me, could be me, could be my mom, could be my sister, could be my aunt and not to call it a hate crime is dehumanizing. >> to say that it is unclear what the motivations were is -- it's silencing. it's taking away our story. we keep trying to scapegoat one person and fail to see this is actually part of a larger issue. this was incredibly predictable.
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it has built up over the course of many years. >> reporter: there is a growing asian community outside of atlanta and a lot of the people that we have talked to over the last few days tell us they are tired of the abuse and they want more stories about what is happening in the community. they hope this sort of turns a light on some of the challenges they face. reporting in atlanta, ryan young, cnn. cnn's chris cuomo discussed the issue of hate crimes charged with atlanta's mayor keisha lance bottoms. >> when you look at the definition of a hate crime in georgia, it's not just based on race. it can also be based on sex. and he targeted asian massage parlors in his own words, if you are to believe the words of a mass murderer, because of some sexual addiction that he had and he targeted women. so i think that, in and of itself, speaks to the definition of a hate crime in georgia but
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the reality is this, chris, the stiffer penalties will come along with a murder conviction with murder convictions on several counts. in georgia, the penalties, as i've read it for hate crimes, are only an additional two years for felonies but i do think the symbolism of him being charged with a hate crime is important and i do hope that is what prosecutors will decide to do. >> reporter: my colleague michael holmes spoke earlier with one of the community organizers who was at friday's meeting with the president and vice president. have a listen. >> i am struck by the amount of power that api elected officials in the state and our community members hold and the amount of support that we received from president biden and vice president kamala harris. they were so graceful and they came here in light of covid and to talk about covid relief but
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instead they made time to make space for the terrible experience our people have had to experience this week. >> i heard the latest from the victims' families were read out. i'm trying to imagine that moment. that must have been a pretty powerful moment. >> yeah. i think -- i honestly -- yes, it was a beautiful moment. it was powerful and, at the same time, it was devastating. it was very much so a clear indicator of the pain that so many of our community members have felt this week and the fear that we have been experiencing. the entire room is crying. i was crying. it was truly a moment of just recognizing the true -- the amount of heinous that went into this crime. >> you know, it's infuriating that it takes something like this, the loss of so many lives, the brutal nature of it, for the issue to go, you know, front and
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center or, you know, although it's been an issue with friends of mine, they say they dealt with it for years. is there a sense that, you know, a dam in some ways is bursting? >> i don't know about that, you know? i think maybe to an extent. i think -- yeah, i think that is something that i've been gr grappling this week in particular. we have had a flood of donations and a flood of social media things going visral and it shouldn't have taken so many lives for this to happen. we have been doing this work 25 years and working at the intersection of race and gender so long. we know before covid we were seeing a lot of violence and hate. >> reporter: my former colleague is asian american and she has spoken about this and had incidents herself of open racism. i mean, do you feel that, you
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know, the door is opening for substantive change or do you feel a few weeks from now, it's forgotten? >> i hope it won't be forgotten. my hope is that this is a moment in time where we have failed our society and that we can do better and be pro active. as a collective society and collective unit, we can respond to these crises pro actively so we can be more preventive in the future. i hope that people will remember community members and continue to uplift the choices in this movement. >> sadly in, i mean, there is a political aspect in this and change in tone from the previous administration is certainly striking. the rhetoric from the former president, as well as many other republicans has, you know, sort of -- many people feel, at least is partly to blame for rising xenophobia. do you feel it had an impact on what has happened over the last, you know, years under that
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administration? >> you know, well, i think calling covid-19 pandemic the china virus is certainly not helpful. it's definitely hurtful. i would say that the real issue here, the root issue here is actually white supremacy. it's what has been dividing how communities of color are pitted against each other for so long. it's really the true nature and the true issue is white supremacy and how it's divided our communities and just marginalized people more. the reason we have to exist as an organization is really to combat white supremacy and so that we have to create a space for our people to exist. >> that was bianca jyotish speaking to my meeting michael holmes. cnn will bring you a one-hour special. our colleagues will hold a conversation on the shared fear so many americans are feeling
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never really good evidence for doing it at six feet. not if kids are masked up. >> reporter: it's not clear how quickly schools will complement changes after the president of one of the largest teachers union responded by saying they would, quote, reserve judgment. the cdc is still recommending six feet of distance between children and adults during higher activities like singing and old you're communities with high transmission and other precautions like open windows and empty rows on school buses. the push to reopen the mantle of the schools across the country accelerating as new covid-19 cases hold steady. the country stuck in undeniably high average of 55,000 new cases daily. still alabama is one of the latest states moving ahead with plans to eliminate a mask mandate. >> the actual legal consideration of making it a mandate or not is not up to me but, you know, we believe that evidence supports the use. >> reporter: masks are no longer
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mandated in texas. police there say a restaurant manager was stabbed several times after telling a man to put one on. >> the suspect ran up behind him, tackled him and stabbed him multiple times. >> reporter: in the northeast the new york is easing indoor dining capacities today. new jersey is expanding capacity for restaurants and a slew of other businesses. connecticut now lifting all capacity restrictions on restaurants and many businesses as restrictions lift, the pace of vaccinations is rising. >> day 58! we hit our goal of 100 million vaccinations in arms. >> reporter: president joe biden beating by weeks his goal of a hundred million shots in a hundred days but there is a new set of challenges. >> i believe that we are going to be shifting from a supply issue to a demand issue pretty soon. >> reporter: a new survey from the kaiser family foundation "the washington post" shows nearly 4 in 10 unvaccinated
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health care workers say they won't get a shot or that they are undecided. more states are on track to expand eligibility to all adults in the next few weeks including nevada, illinois, missouri, and rhode island. even with vaccine eligibility expanding and more adults getting shots in arms, dr. anthony fauci saying reaching herd immunity will likely be vaccinating children and vaccines is likely not available for older comhildren in the fal boris johnson is standing behind the safety of the astrazeneca vaccine by getting one himself. he received first of two doses on friday. he posted on twitter, getting the jab is the best thing we can do to get back to the lives we miss so much. let's get the jab done. now despite eu and british regulators confirming the
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astrazeneca is safe, french health authorities are recommending it for people only 55 and older because rare cases of blood clots that occurred happened in people younger than 55 and the majority were women. despite reassurances the astrazeneca shot is safe not everyone in europe is rushing to get the vaccine. for more on this, phil black is joining us from essex, england. several countries still not resuming using astrazeneca. why are they reluctant to accept the results of these medical reviews? >> reporter: we are talking about a small number of countries, denmark, sweden, norway, finland. these are all countries decided to maintain the suspension of astrazeneca. we are talking about a tiny fraction of cases that have involved blood clotting and excessive bleeding. in terms of the overall number of people, more than 20 million have received the astrazeneca vaccine across europe and the uk. rur right, despite these r
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reassurances, these countries are not satisfied and believe the cases are specific and unusual so they simply want to be cautious and they want more information and more time in order to be sure. it is a safety first approach which we have heard from really all of the countries that at some point over the course of the week, suspended use of the astrazeneca vaccine, it's about ensuring safety and it's about ensuring openness and honesty with the populations in order to ensure the trust of their vaccination programs. that is the argument in favor. but there is no doubt there is also an argument against. one that says that by depriving people of this vaccine, you are in a sense exposing them to the greater risk of developing severe covid-19 and there is the longer term reputational damage to this vaccine in particular and the vaccine program and vaccine programs in general. the risk that it could perhaps fuel uncertainty among those who
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are already hesitant to receive a vaccine. kim? >> there comes a time that many countries in europe now seem to be going through a third wave? >> reporter: yes. italy locked down this week and parts of france, big parts of france including paris, poland and germany is talking about restrictions as what it describes as exponential increase in transmission. a dark and depressing time for these european countries and they have been through this before and must now endure it again. that means restrictions on freedoms, it means lost time, it means more grief and death undoubtedly. people who live in these societies that are closing down again will tell you that it is different this time. it is harder to accept because they know the vaccines are out there, yet they also know they are not be getting them any time soon, at least not in the numbers to make a difference in driving down transmission. europe's vaccine rollout is
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simply too slow at the moment. they don't have the supply to make a significant difference to the transmission that they are dealing with. for that reason, these governments have the same limited difficult choices to make. shutting down, telling people to stay home and for the people who live in these countries, it is the same grinding routine they have had to deal with more than a year and at the moment little reason to hope it is going to end soon. >> very depressing to hear that. cnn correspondent phil lack in essex, thank you very much so much. united states will be sending millions of the doses of astrazeneca to its two north american neighbors. 1.56 million shots going to canada and more than 2.5 million to mexico. >> this action will allow our neighbors to meet a critical vaccination need in their countries and providing more protection immediately across the north american continent.
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the doses we are learning not for use in the united states and no american will not be without a vaccine because of this action. >> the agreement with mexico came up in recent talks between the two countries about the border situation. president biden has been seeking help from his mexican counterpart to curb the current surge of migrants but the white house says the discussion about vaccines and border security aren't directly related. hardball diplomacy might describe the last two days of talks between chinese officials and those discussions in alaska were the first high level meeting between the china and new u.s. administration but the sharp and unexpected rhetoric of thursday's opening session was a combative tone with neither side backing down. here is how u.s. secretary of state tony blinken summed up the face-to-face meeting. >> there are a number of areas where we are fundamentally at odds, including china's actions and with regard to hong kong and
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tibet and taiwan, as well as actions that it's taking in cyberspace. it's no surprise that when we raised those issues, clearly and directly, we got a defensive response. but we were also able to have a very candid conversation over these many hours on an expansive agenda. >> the top diplomat is describing the talks as candid and beneficial. here is more from our reporter >> reporter: it appears there was a certain degree of posturing what was an extraordinary public display with talks starting out with more than an hour of accusations and playing out in front of tv cameras but both sides suggested
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that talks were more constructive behind closed doors. the u.s. side said they accomplished what they needed to in terms of laying out their concerns and priorities saying they were clear eyed walking in and out. on the chinese side, take a listen here to what china's top diplomat had to say. >> translator: the strategic dial is candid and beneficial but major differences sitting between the two countries. china is going to safeguard our national -- china's development is an unstoppable trend. >> reporter: these remarks suggest that beijing will not back down. at the start of the meeting we heard china lash out against the u.s. accusations that the china is undermining global stability and heard the china to tell them to stop meddling in their affairs and calling out the u.s. for racism at home struggling democracy and they say this
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suggests a growing view in china that this is china's time. china is rising. and the u.s. is in an unevidentable decline. this makes cooperation much harder. there has been hope that under a biden administration the two paurs powers would work together. a rift grows in nearly every other area. china has made it clear while it wants a reset of relations with the u.s. it will only do so its own terms. selina wang, cnn, tokyo. ahead, women who have unthinkable violence and horror tell us their stories in ethiopia. i think you better double them tots. no, this me was last year. i didn't get my madness last year,
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♪ welcome back to all of you watching in the united states, kra canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. cnn has learned soldiers in ethiopia are using rape as a weapon of war. jake tapper interview a woman and asked her who is responsible for the alleged crimes. >> they feel like no man in uniform is safe for them. ethnic group live with the government and neighboring soldiers from the area even
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here, just a few months ago, this was a safe haven and so many refugees were able to stay here. the ethnic militia, the soldiers blocking them just from across the river from where we are standing here from coming to safety. they feel that shadow, jake, they feel that fear. >> you were able to speak with a doctor who is treating some of the women who have been attacked and each one of the victims? >> we went to a clinic where a extraordinary surgeon, when he was at home. here, he has taken over the running of the clinic. he was examining a young woman who we asked if we could speak with and we discovered that she had been raped and she gave us permission to broadcast this, jake. take a look at it.
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much. >> translator: he pushed me and said you have no history, you have no culture. i can do what i want to you and no one cares. >> reporter: what brought you to the clinic here today? >> translator: i haven't told anyone but i've been thinking that i'm pregnant from the rape so came to check and i discovered i am. >> reporter: the doctor says of the cases that reported to him like that young lady, may be less than ten. but the cases that he suspects, based on the injuries that they present with, he thinks that just here they could be potentially in the thousands and he believed that is this isn't just about ill discipline as horrible as that is but this is a part of a campaign waged against the women of teagrave and this is what he told us.
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>> the women that have been raped the things they said to them while they were raping them is that they need to change their identity. and leave their status and come to cleanse them. >> reporter: cleanse the blood line? >> cleanse the blood line and get them that they are different. this has been genocide of different phases. >> reporter: it is that cleansing of the blood line that these women say that they are being told is being done to them. that gives this the whole marks of a genocide. it's not just here that our team has been gathering evidence. our team has been working
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gathering evidence in other areas. i have to warn you and your viewers what we are about to share with you is incredibly, incredibly upsetting but it is a key piece of evidence in the wielding of rape as a weapon of war. a doctor inside tigray was able to record a video of a procedure being carried out to remove foreign objects that had been inserted into an allegedly rape victim's vagina. we can't show you the video. the video is too horrifying. i watched it. it's nauseating and appalling but we can show you these stills and these stills are what the doctors removed from inside this woman who told them that she had been held captive by soldiers and raped multiple times over a period of days. you can see in those stills in a bucket those foreign objects were nails, measuring around 3 inches, rocks, used condoms.
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this is a rape as a weapon of humiliation and collective punishment and the fear that has instilled in the women and even here in this safe haven is so awful to witness. >> these stories and images that you're bringing to our viewers, it's so important, obviously, also so heartbreaking. we know that president biden has dispatched his good friend senator coons. beyond that what is the u.s. doing to help end this crisis? >> reporter: the u.s. has as secretary blinken said -- what the practical terms what the u.s. should be done and not doing is ensuring this safe haven remains open and that is not happening. this is the real the only safe haven for those we are told are
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blocking that. that is a war crime. blocking safe passage to fleeing communities would meet the metrics, the guidelines for a war crime, jake. that is a simple fix. give more humanitarian spend here to the agencies and people like dr. tetraus who hasn't been paid for months. he is doing this for free and helping the communities here and pressuring the ethiopians to release some of that fear and some of that pain that is just across the border. let them come here. the agreement that agreed to give them safe haven and allow them to take up that opportunity while that opportunity is being resolved. >> that was senior international correspondent nima elbajir speaking to jake tapper from the sudanese/ethiopian border. doctors treating these patients say seeing patients as young as 18 years old and they are telling the stories of their mothers and their sisters who have survived this. much more of than important
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>> reporter: a tony boat carrying cuban migrants approaches the coast of florida a police helicopter captures the moment when things go terribly wrong. >> air one. they just had a wave take them out. the boat just flipped over. >> reporter: all eight people who were aboard this boat for more than 16 days in february survived. the coast guard told cnn they are seeing an increasing number of cubans trying to make the dangerous and illegal journey to the u.s. some are stopped on rickety boats. some found on deserted islands where the coast guard air drops supplies before rescuing them. others are not so lucky. a town in cuba, this lady keeps vigil for your her daughter and two young grandchildren who are missing after the boat they took
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mysteriously left this month. their toys sit in their room. they hope to reunite with their husband in florida. my daughter is a good mother. she wouldn't have done this if everything wasn't safe, if everything wasn't okay. she wouldn't have put them through this. her children are everything to her. j down the street, dimy says her husband peppy was on the same boat trying to go to the u.s. to better provide for his family. she says she doesn't know what to tell his teenage daughter. she says nothing happened to her father. she says her father has to be alive somewhere, but where? we can't take it any more. we are desperate. cuba has been hit hard by the impacts of the coronavirus and increased u.s. sanctions under the trump administration. tough economic conditions in the past led to waves of cubans
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fleeing the island by boat. it's nearly impossible to leave cuba legally these days. covid and still unexplained health incidents among u.s. diplomats caused the u.s. to stop issuing visas in havana. a report says in november more than 78,000 cubans on a waiting list for immigrant visa. cubans are unable to receive visa at the embassy here. many desperate to leave now the dangerous journey by pboat is their only option. she prays for her daughter and grandchildren that they find them and they don't stop looking. whatever the news is that we know of what happened it's more upsetting not to know but days after our interview, cuban officials announced that the search for the missing boat has
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another woman is alleging sexual harassment by new york governor andrew cuomo but this time it's one of his current aides. "the new york times" broke the story on friday. >> reporter: 33-year-old alyssa mcgraph is the first to come forward with allegations of inappropriate conduct by governor andrea cuomo who is still working in the governor's administration. she says to "the new york times" she would often be part of a pool of young aided summoned to the governor's mansion on the weekends to work. in one instance in one paper she noticed that the governor was looking down her shirt and said he commented on a necklace she was wearing. she said often there were comments he made toward her that made her unsettled and make remarks about her looks and tell her she was beautiful and say
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chow belll and she said this amounted to sexual harassment. important to note she says she had no sexual contact with the governor. she said this to "the new york times." he has a way of making you feel very comfortable around him, almost like you're his friend. you walk away from the encounter or conversation in your head going, i can't believe i just had that interaction with the governor. now the governor's attorney did give a statement to "the new york times." cnn is also trying to get it but here is what they told "the times." the governor has greeted men and women with hugs and kiss on the cheek, forehead, or the hand. yes, he has posed for photographs with his arm around them, yes. he uses italian phrases like chow bello. it has made clear he has never made inappropriate advances or inappropriately touched anyone. mcgrath has similar stories with a number of women who have come forward with allegations against
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the governor. the governor has said he never meant to make someone feel uncomfortable and he denies any inappropriate contact or conduct with the allegations that are against him. brynn gingras, cnn, in albany, new york. the country is breaking a daily record of new cases. hospitals are on the verge of collapse in brazil and the mayor of rio de janeiro is closing beaches there. >> another day, another record in brazil. 90,570 coronavirus cases recorded on friday, the highest single day total since this pandemic began. health officials also announced on friday, they had recorded more than 2,800 coronav coronavirus-related deaths. we know states across the country are trying to take it on themselves to put in place more
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restrictive measures to halt the spread here in the city of rio de janeiro, this beach will be closed as part of restrictive measures and there is also a overnight curfew in place in rio. that curfew is being instituted in other places around the country. the president here is not happy about that and he wants to keep things open. he says only he is allowed to put in place those kind of curfews and filed a lawsuit against some of the restrictive measures in brazil's federal supreme court. we have heard from several states they are fighting back against that lawsuit and several states are banning to try to fight back against the action that the bolsonaro, has taken in the federal supreme court. matt rivers, cnn, rio de janeiro. the olympics are set to take place in tokyo in less than four months. the weight has taken a mental toll on some athletes. one olympic fencer describes his
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struggles. >> reporter: olympic fencer rio makee took up a new job delivering food for uber eats to make extra cash and stay in shape during the pandemic. his training stopped for several months as tokyo announced the postponement of the olympics and since resumed practice but the mental and physical challenges remain. >> translator: it's been very difficult. after all the olympics is like god an absolutely existence for athletes. it's like running a full marathon for four years, and adding another year we have to keep on running before reaching the goal. >> reporter: the olympics just months away it's unclear how japan plans to hold the games safely. the japanese government vowed the games will go ahead. a public broadcaster from nhk think the games should be cancelled or further postponed. >> i think it's quite risky to hold the olympics in japan at this stage.
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i think all athletes understand that safety is the first priority and i don't think any athletes want to compete in the olympics no matter what. >> reporter: at stake billions of dollars and japan's national pride. for athletes a lifetime of dedication hangs in balance. as does their mental well-being. >> we have started to see more and more olympic athletes and aspiring olympic athletes coming through our support system and having to put yourself through not only the level of training that these athletes are working at, six, seven days a week but to stay mentally hungry and driven and a date is not set in time is tough and eventually that will take its toll on the mental health of these olympians. >> reporter: sport climber that gucci has happy to have an extra year of practice. she was planning to retire after the 2020 games when sport
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climbing was supposed to make its olympic debut. she has pushed back her retirement by one year in order to make the olympics the last competition of her career. how are you feeling that your first and last olympics may be a strange one with covid restrictions? >> translator: well, i feel very sad, she told me. i wanted to be in the olympics because i wanted to show my best performance in front of my family and supporters but this will not be in the form that i've been imagining, she said. oly >> reporter: olympic organizers have to decide whether any fans will be able to attend. his wife who he met over zoom through the pandemic has never seen him fence in person. >> physically, i've never been able to see at his matches or see his matches yet so i've just watched on youtube like his past olympic match. >> reporter: you're hoping to go to the olympics then? >> i hope so. yes. i hope to cheer in person. >> reporter: for now, all he can
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do is train and wait. selena wang, cnn, tokyo. as we just reported, a powerful magnitude 7 earthquake has just struck in japan. a tsunami advisory has been posted for the islands northeastern coast. we will bring you updates of that story on cnn. that wraps up this hour. i'm kim brunhuber. you are watching cnn. chanted di, endless brilliance and so much more. shop online with a virtual consultant. exclusively at zales. the diamond store. ( crowd sounds on tv ) tonight...i'll be eating loaded tots for march madness. ( doorbell ) thanks boo. ( piano glissando ) i think you better double them tots. no, this me was last year. i didn't get my madness last year, so we're doing double the madness this year. you are a mess. everybody was a mess. whatever, you ready?
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