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in brazil, cnn is there as the health care system in the largest country collapses. the ever given nightmare, how to move a stuck ship that is as long as the empire state building is high. ♪ ♪ welcome everyone, and incredulous u.s. president took stock of the sunning new election law in georgia and announced it an atrocity, biden saying he will do everything to block it and said the u.s. justice department will look in to it. he did not mince words as he slammed this new state law. >> it's an atrocity. the idea, if you want any
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indication that it has nothing do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they pass a law saying you cannot provide water for people standing in line while they are waiting to vote? you don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive designed to keep people from voting. >> now, critics say the intent of the new georgia law which was fast tracked to the governor's desk is to discourage voter turn out, particularly among minorities. it was georgia after all that narrowly went to biden and flipped the u.s. senate to democratic control. listen to rafael warnock, who's election to the senate benefitted from the had heavy turn thought 2020. >> what is the purpose behind all of this? so, so, you are literally going to make public policy based on a
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lie? based on the feeling that some people have that things didn't turn out the way they should have turned on out? is that how we make public policy now? i thought we did it based on facts and data. >> republican efforts just like georgia's are in fact under way in more than 40 state legislatures across the country. all of them are acting on donald trump's nonstop lie that the 2020 election was stolen. trump immediately praised the new georgia law, of course, but la meanted it did not happen sooner. cnn's sarah murray looks at the boundaries that it has created for the states' voters. sgroo brian kemp signing a dramatic overhaul of the state's election laws. the first gop victory in restricting access in a major battleground state. >> after the november election last year, i knew like so many of you that significant reforms to the our state elections were
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needed. >> reporter: the law puts new voter identification requirements on absentee ballots. limits drop boxes to indoor locations during business hours, allows state officials to take other local election boards and makes it a crime to approach those in line with food and water. >> it was not a voting rights bill, it is a election bill that allows increased opportunity for voting on the weekend here in georgia. >> reporter: it allows weekend of cou expanded voting, and others say it makes it harder for minorities to vote. >> it's despicable and disgusting and it create morse barriers to our voters so that they are not having a access to the ballot box like they should. and to actually say to people, you can't give somebody food or water, that's just cruel. and inhumane.
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>> it was a striking scene thursday as kemp huddled behind closed doors with a handful of white men to sign the bill. >> this jim crow 2.0 is represented in the picture. you see those men, there's no color in them, just pure white males trying to hold on to power with their life. >> just outside kemp's office, park cannon, a black state representative, was arrested and marched out of the capitol by several police officers after she knocked on kemp's door, trying to gain access to the signing ceremony. >> why are you arresting her. >> reporter: cannon out of jail and facing twoly felony charges which her allies are saying will fight. >> we are lawyered up to depend her. >> georgia's law, one of hundreds of bills that are being pushed nationwide, as they hold to claims of fraud in the
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electoral defeats. and even kemp who defended georgia's integrity now appears to be buying in to the big lie as he braces for a re-election fight. >> there were problems with how the election was handled and it led to the crisis of confidence in the ballot on the box here in georgia. >> formerpresident trump power on thing his fact free claims. >> ifyou look at the last election, it was disgraceful, it was a third world election. it was a disgrace. >> let's go. >> as the fall-out of the big lie spreads. fox news facing a $1.6 billion defamation suit from dominion voting systems for spreading lies that the machines were linked to the election fraud. >> fox gave life to the lies. they took the small flames and turned it in to a raging fire. >> reporter: this is as sidney
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powell is defending herself, claiming in a court filing that she spread voter fraud claim no reasonable person would determine that the statements she made were statements of facts. >> trump congratulated the georgia state legislature saying that they learned from what happened in the 2020 election. meanwhile, there's three civil rights groups that are challenging the new georgia law in court. >> cnn washington. >> joining us now, white house reporter, stephen colinson, yeah, let's get through some of this. let's start with the image of governor kemp signing the law. because it really does illustrate for many, exactly what happened, a group of white men, in front of a painting of a slave era plantation, signing snag massively impacts people that do not look like them. and as a black lawmaker was
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arrest ed after knocking on the door. do you think voters know what is happening and why? >> i think voters had in georgia probably do realize, first of all because of the coverage of this and there's been intense coverage as you know there's an engaged elector ate in georgia. they have done a very good job of organizing and basically winning that state. joe biden was1992. but there are multiple state legislatures across the country and i don't believe societiers are as aware in the states, places like texas, arizona, pennsylvania, they are not as aware as the voters in georgia are, about how widespread this voter suppression effort is, based on the lies of drump that the last election was stolen. >> and to that point, here in
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k georgia this is after kemp purged voter rolls. what are the real world impacts of what are stunning changes. let's be specific here in georgia. you know, as you point out, based on donald trump's big lie about fraud which didn't happen? >> if you talk to democrats there were not the strides they have made in some of the states. including georgia, are at risk. because many of their voters potentially thousands of their voters will not be able to get out to vote. if you cap down early voting. if you cut down voting hours, that tends to discriminate against lower income and minority workers who cannot get off work in the, say the 12 hour window or the 8-9 hour window that we will have in places like georgia to on vote on elections day. those voters are taking advantage of early voting and mail-in voting. if you cut that, you cut the democratic turn out. let's remember, the democrats
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only one, joe biden won georgia by about 12,700 votes. it doesn't take many people to purge from the elector ate for that result to be reversed. >> absolutely. and i mean, how might the georgia -- as you point out, others around the country, 250 bill abouts in 44 states. how might that pressure joe biden in a political sense to act on the filibuster in order to pass federal voting rights laws? >> right, so, there's a massive federal voting rights law that is passed the house. it has national standards for things like early voting. absentee voting. makes registering to vote automatic in many cases. this bill is already in the senate. now, the problem in the senate is as you say, the filibusterer. you need 60 votes. a superer majority really, to get any legislation passed so the republicans can block it in
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a 50/50 senate. lots of democrats want joe biden to go ahead and get his democratic colleagues hs in the senate to get rid of the filibuster rule so they can get legislation passed. the problem is, that there are not 50 democrats who will vote for that that. several democrats have said they are worried about the idea of getting rid of the filibuster, and aspects of the voting rights law. so, biden, what he has to do is try to build public support for the voting rights legislation to pressure those democratic senators so they can get to 50 before they talk about changes to the senate rules and get them to 60, and get this thing in to law. >> and quick we are almost out of time. some of the laws may end up in the supreme court, but of course that has become a conservative court, even before trump appointees joined. >> right, the supreme court under john roberts has a history
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of being reluctant to intervene, to set rules for elections. they have given a lot of discretion to the states. it seems very unlikely with the extra conservative justices the new conservative majority on the supreme court thanks to trump that they are going to line up with the democrats on the issue and take away powers from the state. so, even if the democrats can get the big passed, it's only the beginning of the story. >> real pivotal time for democracy in america. stephen colin son, thank you so much, appreciate it. >> thanks. >> the coronavirus pandemic hitting brazil worse than any other country on the planet right now. it's health care system is collapsing under the weight of surging infections. troubling numbers under score the worst crisis, brazil adding more than 3,000 virus deaths to its toll for the second time in a week. a tragic new record.
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since a pandemic began, more than 300,000 brazilians lost their lives to covid. nearly every single brazilian state has icus, eighter or above 80% capacity. and doctors are going to be forced to make the decision of the who to save and who to let die. cnn's matt rivers reports. >> when the system collapses, it starts here. paramedics rushing to respond to seemingly unending cries for help. this time, it's a grandmother. short of breath. another covid case limping toward a hospital system that cannot handle more patients. so, it's easy to spot ambulances like this one racing all over the city going on call after call after call, and in some cases going to multiple hospitals before they actually find one that can admit the patients that they have in the back. >> here, a dozen ambulances with patients wait outside a sal palo hospital, hoping a spot opens up
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inside. these days though, getting inside may not help. the person who gave cnn this footage said it feels like a war zone, the ramp ant viral spread, its own masses casualty event and a lack of medical supplies is crippling the ability to care for patients. in this footage given to us, a nurse said this oxygen tube is leaking. taped to a wall, strung up all over the hospital this way. >> in someplaces, draped between windows. it's the only way to get the limited oxygen they have from its source, to the patient. over flowing rooms are the normal in brazil now. this hospital was designated this week as a covid only facility and it's plain to see as we walk through that it's filled beyond capacity. unable to on accept any new patients. >> this facility is designed for
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16 patients. there's roughly double that number in there right now. >> crowded icus across the country have created impossible choices. this nurse who fears he can lose his job for speaking with us. says one older patient this week was the victim of a zero sum game. his life for anothers. >> did you even think that was possible? >> the nurse said that the patient was not getting better. so we extabated him and gave his ventilator to a younger patient with a better chance to live. and for those watching this all up close, like paramedic luis eduardo, the health care collapse is unbelievably painful. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry he said, crying, there's a cycle taking a patient to the hospital and the hearse arriving to on get another body. it just hurts too much. this video given to cnn from inside a city morgue, shows
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coffins, bod onnies inside waiting to be be cream ated, there's so many that demand is triple what they can handle in a single day. the coffins are stacked waiting their turn. so many people have died in sal palo recently, this week, there's been burials every few minutes. enough that they cannot get them all done during the day. cemeteries now done at night. >> what we tried to show in the report is what we are seeing which are consistent signs of collapse, and when you look at what's doing to happen moving forward, consider that there's been hundreds of thousands of new cases recorded here in brazil, in just the last seven days chmpt is why so many epidemiologist so concerned that we have not hit the peak here in za bril, consider, michael, just over the last two weeks or so, of all the coronavirus deaths
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recorded around the world, brazil has accounted for roughly a quarter of the deaths and it's a dire situation that is ongoing here in brazil. >> michael? all right, matt rivers, appreciate it, thank you. now, tug boats, diggers and dredges, racing against time, trying to free a huge container ship stuck in the canal. we will go live to cairo for an update in the situation. they also spread all kinds of germs, from cold and flu to strep and more. nothing kills more cold and flu viruses, including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. lysol. what it takes to protect.
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♪ ♪ companies are now looking to reroute ships wloked from tran transiting canal because of the massive water vessel stuck in the waterway, here is a satellite image of the problem, and it's clear, isn't it? it has been lodged in a narrow area of the canal, hundreds of other ships are stranded on either side and the global economy is taking a hit. billions of dollars worth of goods going nowhere. we are joined from cairo, with the latest. what is the update on the state of efforts to free this ship?
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the hopes verse the reality? >> well, there are high hopes that perhaps that the ship will be floated the evergiven will be floated today on this, it's fifth day stuck in the canal. but so far, michael, those efforts have been frantic, but fruitless. >> the race is on to dislodge the giant container ship wedged across the canal since tuesday. the canal authority estimates up to 20,000 cubic meters of on sand and mud need to be removed to refloat the ship. as dredging work continues, a fleet of tug boats stand by hoping high tide will provide the vital window in which to free the carrier. almost as long as the empire state building is tall, the
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evergiven got stuck during a sand storm in 40 knot winds. blocking a crucial supply chain that waves around global trade as the quickest link between asia and europe. >> the potential is to magnify, it goes on for a long period of time, a month, to clear the vessel, you know, that's going to cause a massive disruption in the economy. we saw what happened with the global recession almost that took place in early covid when all of a sudden, we were not able to move goods in a clear efficient way. >> roughly 30% of all global container volume transits daily through the 120 mile waterway carrying vital fuel and cargo. in coming ships will be made to anchor in waiting areas in the red sea and mediteranian. more than 200 vessels are backed
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up in either direction with more than 100 enroute over the weekend. their only alternatives to divert around the southern tip of africa, and that adds a week to the on journey. japanese shipping companies who own the evergiven told cnn, they are bracing for lawsuits and the priority right now is refloating the ship, possibly as early as saturday. and of course, we are at saturday now, and as i said before, there's very scant optimism or confidence that the ship will be floated today. now, keep in mind of course, that every hour under normal circumstances around 400 million dollars worth of goods passes through this suez canal and already, michael, we are seeing ships are being diverted away,
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because, there doesn't seem to be a lot of confidence that today, saturday, will be the day when this problem is solved. in fact, the evergiven's sister ship, the evergreet has been diverted around africa to avoid the canal. and another bit of local, regional information. there's a tanker that left kuwait on its way to lebanon to deliver oil, fuel to that country, but and of course lebanon, we suffer from long and increasingly longer power cuts, and now, it seems that the little fuel that does get to lebanon, probably won't. michael? >> yeah, yeah, and it is a long way around, if you are not going to go through the suez, and ben, quickly, and it really does show how brittle the system is, if a sand storm can knock a ship
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sideways and everything can grind to a halt and all the kn knock-on affects that it entails. >> it's a bottleneck of world trade. what is interesting is that apparently, you know, these massive ships. the super tankerers and the super container ships are the result, or came about as a result of the closure of the suez canal between 1967 and 75. the it was to avoid this suez canal to on go around that, but to do that, you have to make it worth the money. cost effective. so, they came up with the huge ships that are now back to going through the suez canal, and maybe not anymore. michael? >> yeah, exactly and here we are. and for our international viewers, african voices is up next. for viewers in north america, i will be back with more cnn newsroom after the break.
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this is cnn breaking news. >> we are getting more word, word of more deaths amid the protests ongoing in myanmar. we are following it from hong kong, there was a chilling warning from the military earlier, a direct threat to shoot to kill civilians and now, word of what, more than a dozen deaths? >> yeah, that is right, reuters reporting 16 people killed in clashes around the country today, and this on a day that is supposed to be celebrating the military which over-threw a civilian elected government on february 1st and put its leaders
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in detention among those, the daughter of the founder of the myanmar military. he is supposed to be celebrated today. you had the new military dictator. the commander and chief of the armed forces addressing the troops who were parading in the capitol. promising to hold a new round of an election sometime in the future. calling for an end to violence and justifying the coo saying that the jailed civilian elected government that he over threw were guilty of corruption and had committed crimes. he did not seem to address the fact that the military owned tv station warned that protesters could be shot in the back of the head. or in the back if they are out on the streets. the military is clearly trying to crush this uprising as it heads in to two months since the
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coo, facts about the military is that it is, it's run by -- who is 67 years old. he faces sanctions from around the worlder from before and after the coo, and the armed forces have 406,000 active duty soldiers and 10% of the government's budget goes to supporting the armed forces. that does not include the proceeds that come to the armed forces from its significant economic holdings in the country. and two of the largest conglomurates came under fire from the uk and u.s. government which accused them of propping up the militaries. they have stakes in everything
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from tobacco on, and beer breweries and hotels to oil and gas extraction jade mining and telecommunications. michael? >> it's not your average country's army. how is the opposition responding to, you know, armed forces day on a day when the armed forces is killing its people had? >> well, they had planned to organize another day of protests. i spoke with one protest the leader in a neighborhood and he said that everybody was going to be standing in front of their homes. and protesting in the morning and then they might try to march around town. but he also conceded that there were more hardline factions within the opposition movement who were calling for violent acts against military and police targets. he described a code name for this, car wash operations by that, he meant throwing molotov
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cocktails at military vehicles and the protest adviser said that he does not support the acts it could split support for the opposition movement with the public. that has succeeded in a way that myanmar has never succeeded before in a work stoppage labor strike movement called the civil disobedience movement, which has managed to grind a lot of affairs in the economy and society to a halt. the railroads for example, the financial sector. meanwhile, they are increasing calls for an alliance between the protesters and the cities, and the ethnic militias that have controlled territory in border areas. and fought against the military for decades. we have had some details about these militias. myanmar is a complicated country. there's 135 official ethnic
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group. bamar are the majority group and there's smaller groups and many of the smaller groups have their own armed movement. cnn spoke with the leader of one of the largest militias, and he this to say about the military, he also said that myanmar today after the coo is essentially a failed state. take a listen. >>. >> translator: we will stand with the people. that means if they are in trouble and run are to us seeking help, we will take care of them. if the military continues to shoot and kill people, it means that they have transformed th themselves in to terrorists. they simply don't care about the people. we will not sit still, we will find every means to protect the people. >> reporter: now, already since the coo, michael, we are hearing about leaders of the ousted government who have been fleeing to the ethnic border areas for shelter.
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some of the protest leaders who have been fleeing to those areas as well. there's clearly support coming from the largest ethnic militias, at least vocally and in the form of had some equipment, such as flack jackets and telecommunications equipment, flowing to protesters in the cities and there's calls for united military action between protesters in the city and in, in the ethnic militia areas, but i think you are going see some real reluctance and you are hearing that coming from the leaders of the militia, who don't necessarily want to throw forces in to urban warfare against armed forces they have been battlingdecades. >> a lot happening. thank you so much. now, germany is now classifying all of france as high risk as it
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struggles to keep its third coronavirus wave under control. starting on sunday, travelers from france will have to quarantine upon the arrival in germany and have a negative test that is less than 48 hours old. a big part of france already under lockdown and now in those areas, classrooms will have to shut down if there's just one positive case. cnn's senior is international correspondent is joining me life. germany, classifying france as high risk area, how concerning are the developments where are you are in france and europe in general? >> well, in fact, michael, the numbers france are just skyrocketing and it's snag obv -- it's something that the authorities are worried about. the move by germany points it out and stresses it, the fact that germ ans say it has nothing to do with politics it has to do with strictly the numbers. they look at the incident rate, which is the number of new cases
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per 100,000 people. and in france it's now up 200, the germans say that's the threshold and at that point, the border controls go in to affect. and the french, as you mention will have to on have covid within 48 hours of arrival and quarantine for up to ten days once they are in germany. there's discussion about the border areas along the german border. there's a number of people who commute every day and there's a lot of truck traffic back and forth. i think there's things under discussion. but by the same token, it's clearly a sign that things in france are getting worse and in fact, the germans themselves are quite concerned. i said it was 200 per 100,000 in france. it's 119 per 100,000 in germany, and they are looking at the
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numbers and worried how they are going to get it under control. jim thank you so much. now, strict new covid lockdown measures that are in affect for much of kenya, movement in and out of nigrobi and it has been banned, trying to stop the spread. we are following the story. so, what, what triggered the president to make the move, how bad is this up to? >> yeah, i mean, michael, last night's president said that the country is firmly in its third wave and they anticipate that actually, the country went in to the third wave beginning of march. now, as you say, the entire country is not in lockdown, it's 5 out of the 57 county ms. the
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country. now that accounts for 70% of the cases. and niarobi accounts for 60% of the case load. so, those surrounding counties are the ones that are being targeted. and they call them the disease infected areas of the country. no movement of people in and out. the numbers are staggering if you look at the overall infection rates and positivity rates in kenya. it shot up to 2.6% at the end of january. hospital admissions have been rising significantly as well. since march the 12th. hospital admissions have risen by over 52%. i spoke to a doctor yesterday and he said that the people seeking medical attention. noncovid related medical attention are being turned away. it's putting a strain on the
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health system. they are overall taking a different approach to the lock down and taking a look at where you are seeing the biggest cases. vaccine roll-outs under way in kenya. with the roll out, they will be able to bring that number down. and one doctor said that it sounds like it's an effort to cause a circuit breaker and the highest number of daily deaths since the start of the pandemic. >> elaine, there in johanes. >> we will look at hong kong's vaccination disaster. so far it's been leading by example with daily case numbers just in the double digits. but when it comes to vaccines, it's a textbook example of what not to do. we will be right back.
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. ♪ ♪ welcome back, so far, hong kong has been able to keep covid cases to a minimum, and now, it has plenty of vaccine doses to go around. so, hong kong's vaccine roll-out should be pretty easy, right? well, not exactly. as we explain. >> reporter: hong kong should be a vaccine success story. it has secured vaccines, and more than enough to vaccinate a population of 7.5 million. a widely praised online booking system is in place and an orderly roll-out is under way. but the roll-out has been rough due to concerns over packaging. they have suspended two batches of the vaccine distributed. in a statement, the government said that so far, biontech, have no reason to believe there was a risk to product safety.
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before this suspension, vaccine hesitatency was high, only 50% said that they intend to get vaccinated. lower than elsewhere. >> it's our success in controlling covid in the past year. we have had 11,000 cases in 7.5 million people. that is less than 1% of people in hong kong that had covid, and i think it means that we don't see the risk as people in the u.s. as people in europe. >> another factor behind the hesitatency, fear, at least eight people have died after getting the chinese made vaccine. although official investigations found no direct link with the vaccinations. at least one death of the person who stephed the biontech vaccine is being investigated. experts insist there's no reason to be concerned. >> don't be afraid. get vaccinated. what we have seen is this has been a lot of information. but sometimes with a lot of
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information, in the open public, it creates a kind of analysis paralasis. the government has said that the benefits out weighed the risks and has accused critics of smearing the chinese made vaccine. to boost confidence, the top leader received the first and second injections on cam rampt quick vaccination drive may be a long shot. as of wednesday. only 5.5% of the population has received a dose. >> 71% of the population need to be vaccinated to receive herd immunity. but about some say it may take 300 more days for the city to
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reach goal. before the suspension, it was dean up at a faster rate. many of the newly vaccinated shared celebration selfies. bullet these moments of relief and joy, including my own are happening in a slower pace. >> do stay with us, when we come back, we are getting new information about the mass shooting in boulder, colorado, we will find out what brave actions the police officer took just before he was killed. we will be right back.
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city, built with a capacity of 250. it has nearly 4,000 people in it. we saw cages after cages after cages. of little girls, of little boys. lying side-by-side, touching each other. covered with reflective emergency blankets. >> the biden administration inherited a system that had been dismantled, the system for processing and settling asylumees in the united states was dismantled by donald trump and so the biden administration is in the process of rebuilding that and that does take time. so they are building on out the capacity to essentially hold people for a short period of time before they are placed with family sponsors in the united states while they wait for court dates. >> now, both republican and democratic lawmakers toured border towns and president biden said he is committed to prioritizing immigration reform, but congress has not been able
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to muster the bipartisan support needed to pass legislation. and we are learning morgue about the brave actions of a police officer in boulder, colorado, before he was killed on monday during that mass shooting. the police department said that eric tal ley led a team of officers in the store within 30 seconds of arriving on scene. talley was hit when the suspect shot at the team before he was taken in to do custody. the district attorney announced that who charges will be filed, but as we report, the suspect's motive still a mystery. >> with flowers and emblems of grief covering his had police vehicle, the boulder police chef said that is what haunting investigators is the killer's motive still unknown. like the rest of the community, we too want to know why. why that king sooper symptom,
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y -- why boulder, why monday? we still don't have the answers. >> when they know, he purchased the semiautomatic pistol here at the eagle's nest armory, six days before the shooting. the owner said the sale was legal. and adding, that regarding the firearm in question, a background check of the purchaser was conducted as required by colorado law. and approval for the sale was provided by the colorado bureau of investigation. the gunman carried a 9 millimeter handgun, and police say he did not use it in the rampage. >> multiple shots fired. >> the first responding officers did exchange gunfire. >> they charged in to the store and immediately faced a very significant amount of gunfire from the shooter. who had first were unable to locate and they put their lives at risk and that will be reflected in additional attempted murder charges that will be filed by the district
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attorney's office. >> people that were just in their neighborhood store, the officers are now counting the bullets one by one. >> you picture a supermarket, picture all the shelves and products and everything, had her going through every single shelf, pulling everything off the shelves. looking in the walls and that will continue throughout the weekend. >> the boulderer police department released more details about the first arriving officers. officer tally led the first contact team in to the store with in 30 seconds of arriving on the scene. the suspect immediately started shooting at the police officers, killing officer tally and those police officers say the suspect kept firing on them until he was apprehended. no one else was shot or killed as the officers took on the gunfire. thanks for watchi ing cnn newsroom, we will be back after
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hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm robyn curnow, and i want to get to our breaking news. there's bloody forces in my myanmar. it comes hours after myanmar's top generals promised to uphold democracy and protect civilians. it's a promise that flies in the face of bloodshed we've been seeing for weeks now. he spoke at the national army
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