peaceful demonstrations erupted two months ago over the military coup. we're hearing reports of an air strike near a village near the thai border killing at least three people. myanmar's u.n. envoy who represents the ousted government is begging for real international action against the military crackdown. kristie lu stout is covering this hong kong. just talk us through what we're seeing. the death rate continues to tick up as protesters facing this assault, this violent assault, on their democratic freedoms. >> reporter: and the international outrage, the condemnation, is growing after a horrific day of terror in

myanmar. the bloodiest day since the protests began. according to "myanmar now," an independent media organization, at least 114 were killed across the country saturday. the casualties include children. a 5-year-old boy was killed in mandalay. a 13-year-old girl was killed inside her home in mandalay. we have seen video of a 1-year-old baby shot in the eye with a rubber bullet. local media recordings are reporting on the deaths of a father, a 40-year-old man, father of four, who was shot and burned alive by soldiers last night. the images of his smoldering remains are circulating online right now all over the world. international condemnation has been swift. we heard from the u.s. secretary of state, antony blinken, who said he was horrified by the violence. the u.n. secretary-general said he is deeply shocked by the violence of saturday. the uk foreign secretary called

the massacre on saturday, quote, new low. in a rare move there was also this, a statement, a joint statement that was released from the defense chiefs of the united states and 11 other nations in which they condemn the military-sanctioned violence. "as chiefs of defense, we condemn the use of lethal force against unarmed people by the myanmar armed forces and associated security services. a professional military follows international standards for conduct and is responsible for protecting, not harming, the people it serves. we urge the myanmar armed forces to cease violence and work to restore respect and kroblty it has lost through its actions." both the u.s. and europe, they have slapped new sanctions on the military, its leadership, as well as military-owned conglomerates. but the military junta has its friends including russia. russia's deputy defense minister was attending the military parade saturday. myanmar's military leader called

russia "a true friend." >> are myanmar's armed ethnic factions getting involved here? we've seen a number of reports. how is this potentially changing the dynamic of this crackdown on the protest movement? >> up to now, as you know, the protests have been largely peaceful. but now what we're seeing is this new armed resistance rising with the participation of these armed ethnic groups. the military has responded and retaliated with air strikes. aid groups today reporting three people have died as a result. this presents a very challenging and deeply worrying new front in this ongoing crisis. the face of the protest movement is changing and now includes armed students and these armed ethnic factions. also guerilla tactics are at play. they have access to lethal weapons. they're manufacturing their own lethal weapons like petrol bombs. they are targeting security and military outposts.

as the military crackdown gets more violent, the resistance is rising and it is getting violent and responding in kind. >> kristie lu stout in hong kong, thank you for that. the u.n. secretary-general released a statement condemning saturday's bloodshed. take a listen to part of the interview. >> the security council should be meeting. it should be debating what's going on. action should be put before it. and votes should be taken, up or down. votes should be taken. the community of nations that cared desperately about the people of myanmar that are under siege right now can also work together to coordinate things like sanctions. there's dozens of sanctions regimes that are out there right now. we need to coordinate them into one coherent, powerful whole and

an emergency summit of these countries could gather together, establish this coordination, and provide a unified front against this military junta. also, accountability mechanisms could be put into place. the international criminal court could begin investigations. and begin pursuing charges against those responsible. so there are a number of things that can be done, that should be done, that are not being done. >> yeah, the u.s. embassy in myanmar joined the european union and the united kingdom in condemning the killings as murders as well. but it is clear that such declarations and even the sanctions levied so far aren't having an impact. you mentioned the u.n. security council. as toothless as ever if china and russia continue to stand by the generals, right? >> that's right. but the fact is, is that we don't know where china and russia would come down if an actual vote was put before the security council. everyone's assuming that they

would veto it, that they'd be against it. but i think it's important that the security council have the opportunity to put that in front of itself, to have a full, open, honest debate, then let countries decide where they stand when it comes to this brutality and vote up or down. >> that was u.n. rapp port do y remember talking to us. georgia the center of debate over voting rights. many see it as nothing more than an effort to suppress the black vote after crucial wins for democrats. it imposes new voter i.d. requirements for absentee ballots and limits the use of ballot drop boxes among other things. president joe biden says the intention of the law is clear. >> it's an atrocity.

the idea, you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they pass a law saying you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote? you don't need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting. >> but georgia's governor says it means better election security and expanded access to voting. here's how he defends the law. >> i can truthfully look in the camera and ask my african-american friends and other african-americans in georgia to simply find out what's in the bill versus just the blank statement of, this is jim crow, or this is voter suppression, or this is racist. because it is not. >> the coalition of civil rights groups has already taken court action. natasha chen has more on the outcry against this measure.

>> reporter: about 150 people gathered outside atlanta city hall here on saturday to protest this georgia voter bill and also to stand with georgia representative park cannon. she was arrested when she was knocking on the door of the governor's office to try and witness him signing this bill. and of course he did that behind closed doors. he was depicted signing the bill standing next to white men. also in the room was a painting that seemingly shows a plantation. i talked to one voter who said she first didn't think much of it, but upon a closer look, she found that that was the very plantation where her family had worked. such an emotional moment for some of these people, minority groups taking a look at this moment and feeling that this directly impacts them. i also spoke with someone who was at the capitol when park cannon was arrested. here's how she described that moment. >> she was not disruptive.

to have the incident happen right in front of me, for it to end with her being taken away, it was horrific to watch, as a black woman, to watch her taken into the elevator, to watch the doors close. it was triggering, it was frightening. i felt her pain, i felt her terror. >> reporter: i spoke to another voter who described her experience voting in the georgia primary back in june of 2020. she said she waited for hours in line, past dinnertime, to the point where a local pizza company had delivered some food and soda so that they could still eat and wait in line to vote. she says, of course the way that the law was written and passed now, that would be illegal. police in virginia beach, virginia, are investigating an officer-involved shooting of a black man late on friday night. authorities have not identified the officer, who shot and killed 25-year-old donovan lynch. the police chief disputed reports that lynch may have been unarmed at the time. >> i've seen some of the

community concerns about mr. donovan -- mr. lynch being unarmed. what i can tell you is that there was a firearm recovered in the vicinity of where this incident occurred. we would like to be more forthcoming, but unfortunately we do not have body cam footage of this incident. the officer was wearing a body cam, but for unknown reasons at this point in time, it was not activated. >> the officer involved is now on administrative assignment during the investigation. police say the incident is one of three unrelated shootings in virginia beach on friday. a 29-year-old bystander was killed in one of those incidents. all in all, eight others were injured. and coming up on cnn, a major admission by a top member of the trump covid task force. what dr. deborah birx revealed to cnn and dr. sanjay gupta. also in europe, why spain is

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over the past year you've heard a lot about coronavirus surges in the u.s. as deaths and infections spiraled out of control. the virus remains a threat, but now the covid numbers are surging in the right direction. vaccinations are spiking across the u.s. the centers for disease control says more than 50 million people are fully vaccinated. that's not 15% of the population. more than 140 million doses have been administered. the u.s. set a daily vaccination record on friday with more than they million shots. this comes amid a sobering admission by a top doctor on the trump covid task force. evan mak mac morrison has more >> reporter: more than a year into the pandemic, a former trump administration official revealed in a blockbuster interview with cnn's dr. sanjay gupta, airing sunday night, that she believes many of the deaths

in the united states could have been prevented through different policy decisions. >> i look at it this way. the first time we have an excuse, there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. all of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially. >> reporter: the look back at the past i can't remember comes on the heels of some relatively good news. the total number of vaccine doses administered in the u.s. on friday reached a new daily record, according to the white house. more vaccine doses are coming. next week, johnson & johnson expected to deliver at least 11 million doses of its single-shot vaccine across the country. more supply means more americans will have access. an analysis by cnn finds only two states have yet to say when they'll make doses to everyone available under fda guidance. the other 48 have already made or are planning to make the vaccine available to everyone older than the age of 16 in a matter of weeks. but experts say this is not the

time for americans to let their guards down. especially as warmer weather and spring holidays, like passover and easter, may lead to larger gatherings. the more contagious virus variants are still spreading. more than 100 cases of covid-19 in nebraska were traced to a child care facility, many with the variant first identified in the uk. >> we are having 2.5 million vaccinations per day. that is fantastic, but i also think restrictions are being lifted so quickly, including mask mandates. and people are getting very tired. and at the same time we also have more contagious variants circulating. but we can help people manage the risk and reduce that risk as much as possible. that means encouraging vaccination, continuing to wear masks, and ideally, messaging that masks and vaccinations are our way out of this pandemic. >> reporter: it's a very different story outside the u.s. brazil is struggling to get doses of the vaccine and reported its highest single-day

death toll from covid-19 friday. the president of transmitting the european union reacted less quickly than the u.s. when it came to the initial vaccine rollout. while it sorts out its vaccine problems, the eu is struggling to reopen. in france, increasing cases in schools leading to new classroom closures. germany imposing new quarantine and testing rules on visitors from france. a country it now labels a high-risk covid-19 area. evan mcmorris-santoro, cnn, new york. >> as evan reported, germany is imposing new rules on visitors from france. spain is also rolling out new measures as france struggles to keep its outbreak under control. starting wednesday all travelers arriving to spain over the age of 6 from france will have to show a negative test. the gold standard of covid tests taken in the previous 72 hours. this was a radiant place for those traveling by plane or boat but will now also apply to

people driving over the border with some exceptions. our senior national correspondent jim bittermann joins us from outside paris. seems like france is becoming a bit of a pariah, at least for its neighbors. they're like, we're going to shut down those borders. >> i think all the european countries are struggling, with the exception perhaps of great britain, struggling with the coronavirus right now. france seems to be the worst-case scenario. the french president said he's been thinking about what to do next. he said on friday, he told a sunday newspaper that came out this morning that basically nothing has been decided just yet about the way forward. but one of the ways forward may be that idea of clamping down more restrictions on schools. right now, basically the schools have remained open. the french have wanted to keep them open at all costs. one of the costs has been infection rates. 21,000 young people, school-aged young people, over the last

week, have become infected with coronavirus. and as a consequence, that's one of the possibilities is more restrictions on the schools. france seems to be relying heavily on the idea of vaccinating more people. right now it's only about 10% of the population that's been vaccinated. and the government said this week there will be 3 million more doses of vaccine coming in this week. as a consequence, the government is expanding the places where people can go to get vaccines. right now they can go to pharmacies and their local doctor. but they're going to expand it to include veterinarianss and dentists who can give the shots. up to now it's been a question of having enough vaccine to distribute. >> jim bittermann outside paris, thanks so much, stay safe. cnn medical analyst dr. jorge rodriguez joins me live from los angeles. i want to talk about all of this. lovely to see you again. >> likewise. >> it's really quite surreal,

listening to our report. because it seems like there's such a contrast. here in the u.s., vaccines are being distributed at record speeds. life looks like it's going to be going back to normal. some sort of normal, sooner rather than later. then we have europe. you heard jim bittermann talking about france. many people there facing this massive wave. why the discrepancy here? >> i think the discrepancy, yeah o "a," europe has not had the same velocity in distributing vaccines as europe or other countries has had. we need to wrap our head around the fact that this may never, or at least in the near future, not go to any degree of normalcy until the whole world is vaccinated. and the whole world needs to be doing that at the same time. so we're going to have what's been stated many times, sort of a whac-a-mole type of treating this. it's going to flare up in one place or another. even the united states. and i think there's a fallacy going around that just because

we're going to get vaccinated, everything here is going to be okay. there is a whole other world that comes to the u.s., and we go there. until everybody's at the same level playing field, we're going to have these uptakes throughout the world. >> and a lot of this also might have to do with various variants. we're hearing of a strong resurgence of covid in canada as well connected to variants. some are saying this could lead to a third wave there that's worse than the first two. >> absolutely, they're saying that. i think they've found the variants in all ten provinces of canada. even though overall the absolute number of the cases they have is still small in comparison to the u.s., it definitely is on the uptake. now one thing that i always want to drive home is the fact that variants happen when people get infected. the virus cannot replicate by itself in the air, it has to get into a human being. even though, for example, a young person may think, nothing's going to happen to me,

i'm going to get over this in no time. well, what's probably happening is that they may be creating a variant that they're going to spread, is going to become a dominant, dangerous variant. so everybody has to not get infected. so yeah the variants are everywhere. some states in the u.s., up to 40% or more of the infections that are happening. so we are at a race against the variant with vaccinations. but don't think that's the only thing. we still have to wear a mask, wash our hands, and have sort of logical distance between people. >> here in georgia and many other places across the u.s., you can get a vaccine if you're 16 and older. how much longer will it be until younger children -- 12, 13, 14-year-olds -- will get the vaccine? that will really make an impact on school life, won't it? >> it will make an impact on everything. a lot of scientists think that we're never going to reach herd immunity until we start vaccinating younger people. i think dr. fauci stated he

thinks in the fall, teenagers are going to be able to get vaccinated. pfizer has started rolling out a study on much younger humans. even toddlers at the age of 6 and 7. to see what dose is right for them. it's estimated in the early part of 2022, children will be able to be vaccinated. we want to make sure that it's safe and parents should not fear this, because even though children are not tdying at the same rate, they're still getting some very long-term complications from the covid virus. end of this year for most teenagers, early next year for younger children. >> that's good to know if you live in the u.s. i want to go back to the issue of variants. you talked about sort of unchecked infections creating essentially a petri dish within our bodies to create new variants. brazil, how dangerous is what's happening in brazil for global health? >> it's very dangerous.

brazil is probably the most dangerous area right now in the world. they are out of control with their amount of covid. and they've had some remote areas in the amazon that they thought people had reached perhaps herd immunity because 70% of the population in these remote areas had gotten infected. unfortunately, they got reinfected because of variants. so we're in one big village, and we call it earth. as long as there is one area that still is out of control and on fire, we are all in danger. which is, we're not just about getting the u.s. vaccinated. after we do this or maybe while we do this, a lot of the first world countries really need to step up and help places like africa and certain places of south america and underdeveloped countries. because it's for not only their good, but for everyone's good, that people get vaccinated. >> dr. jorge rodriguez, always

good to speak to you, get your opinions, thanks so much. just ahead on cnn, the ruthless crackdown in myanmar spares no one, not even children. soldiers broke into one family's home and killed a young girl in her father's arms. thousands flee as insurgents launch a brutal attack in mozambique. the chilling details we're learning about a town under siege. new neutrogena® rapid tone repair 20 percent pure vitamin c. a serum so powerful dark spots don't stand a chance. see what i mean? neutrogena®

it's 30 minutes past the hour. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow live from

atlanta. myanmar's civilian population has suffered its deadliest day yet at the hands of its own military with at least 114 reported killed on saturday. the world is reacting with growing horror and condemnation. in a joint statement, the military leaders of a dozen countries, including the u.s., canada, and the u.k., condemned myanmar's military as a betrayal of their role as protectors. now we're hearing reports of an air strike against an ethnic village near the thai border, killing at least three people. adding to the tragedy are the growing number of children killed in this crackdown. paula hancocks brings us one family's heartbreaking story of soldiers entering their home and killing a young girl in her dad's arms. >> reporter: more and more children have been caught up in the violence in myanmar. falling afoul of the military's bloody crackdown on protesters calling for democracy. the military still maintains it uses minimal force when needed,

but this week saw its youngest fatality yet. kim was 6 years old. shot dead by myanmar security forces as she was in her father's arms. her father relives the moment she died. the family has asked us to hide their identities for fear of retribution from the military. he says, they entered the house by breaking the doors down which we had blocked with bicycles. they asked, is anyone else in the house? and fired a gunshot while saying, don't lie to us, old man. they shot her as she leaned toward my chest. i ran, carrying her, i could not look at them. he took her to the local emergency clinic but the doctor said it was too late. we are hiding his identity, as he fears repercussions from the military. the oldest i've seen killed so far is 58 years old, he tells me, the youngest until now was 13. they're now shooting randomly in neighborhoods. it's not even safe at home

behind a locked door. the family tells us they had difficulty burying kim according to the muslim tradition of cleaning her body and burying her as soon as possible, as they dared not tell anyone in case the military try to take her body. it's a fear we've heard from several doctors and bereaved families. "when we got to the cemetery, a few people were there so we had to hide her body, we had to wait until they were gone and only when no one was around could we bury her." the family's now in hiding saying they heard police are waiting at their home. the older brother was also arrested. they fear for his safety. the military has not responded to our requests for comment. "why did they have to shoot her dead? what sin had she committed? what sin have we committed? what can a child do?" kim's dead has come as a shock even in the midst of a

relentless stream of deaths and arrests in myanmar. >> the youngest child to have been killed, shot and killed in her own home as she was sitting on the lap of her father. which means there's no safe place anymore for children. >> reporter: her family too scared to go home. one family's tragedy in myanmar that still has an uncertain ending. unicef says almost two dozen children have been killed since the february 1st military coup and almost a dozen seriously injured. their fear this is situation is simply going from bad to worse. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. we at any attention now to the crisis at the u.s./mexico border. officials saying it is only getting worse. that's what they say and these images support that view. right now thousands upon thousands of migrants, many of them children, are stuck in a precarious limbo.

at last count, the u.s. government has custody of more than 18,000 children. according to government records cnn obtained, the biden administration could need more than 34,000 more beds to keep up with the influx. meanwhile, politicians are down at the border weighing in. senator ted cruz is one of the latest republican lawmakers to tweet video from inside a south texas facility. it appears to show children crowded in a room wrapped in blankets. one democratic representative says cruz and others are playing politics. >> these group of republican senators that came down yesterday, where were they during the trump administration when children were being ripped from mothers' arms and caged and families were being divided? did they all of a sudden have a softened heart to come down here and look at it? >> dozen unaccounted for in mozambique following an attack by islamic insurgents.

rights group say thousands fled a northern town since wednesday when it was stormed by attackers believed to be affiliated with the terror group isis. this video was filmed on thursday, but heavy fighting continued into saturday. security forces have been trying to evacuate civilians and foreign workers in the area. more than 600,000 people in mozambique have been displaced in fighting between the group and government forces, according to human rights watch. more than 1,500 civilians have died. in the last hour i spoke with the chairman of the institute for security studies about the recent violence. >> the rumors that this is going to happen have been circulating for days. eventually when it happened, the mozambiquan security forces apparently resisted but then melted away. and it was left to a number of

private military contractors, particularly a company called dyg security advisers, to respond. something like 185 foreigners were trapped in a hotel and then tried to escape. many were killed. so total confusion. but the absence of a response by the mozambiquan security forces really is of huge concern. there is a massive investment in gas reserves in northern mozambique which will be at risk with all this violence. >> chairman of the institute for security studies joining me earlier. indonesian police believe an explosion on sunday outside a church in the southern part of the country was a suicide bombing. they say 14 people were taken to the hospital with injuries, including a security guard who tried to stop the two suspected bombers. both suspects have died. according to police, no other fatalities were reported.

so far also no claim of responsibility. christians are celebrating palm sunday, the start of the holy week, the most important week of the year in the faith. coming up, more severe weather in parts of the southern u.s. residents are scrambling to catch their breath after multiple tornados swept through the area just a saturday. efforts to free that massive cargo ship stuck in the suez canal intensify. what's being done to get it moving before more damage is done to the global supply chain. my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching

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to some residents in parts of the southern u.s. trying to catch their breath after tornados ripped through their homes, they may not have much of a chance. trin tornados left a trail of destruction in tennessee on saturday. power lines, trees down as you can see. now national weather service has issued a flash flood warning for

nashville, tennessee, and nearby cities and rescues are under way. tyler, tell us more about this flash flood emergency in nashville. >> a life-threatening situation is unfolding as i speak. metro nashville and areas just to the south are under a flash flood emergency through 4:30 this morning. the emergency managers in the area and the national weather service office out of nashville are saying i-40 and i-24 flooded plus other roadways in the area. there are reports of water entering homes and buildings, vehicles stranded, and water rescues are ongoing with people clinging to trees. a life-threatening situation ongoing at the moment in metro nashville with the flash flood emergency. just a couple of days ago we had the big storm system push through the south, which dropped tons of rainfall on thursday. and then with this current system, within the last 24 hours, nashville has actually picked up roughly 6 inches of rain, which is the largest daily

total ever for the month of march and makes the last 24 hours the wettest ever, the fourth wettest ever, in nashville history. you can see what that does to the flooding, the blue line. this is the water level of wind river. boom, it spikes up to moderate flood stage. rivers in the area are sitting at moderate to major flood stage at the moment. they're going to continue to swell over the next few hours as rain continues to fall. you can see the rain is beginning to taper off. we have this line pushing to the south and east. we have severe thunderstorm warnings in mississippi that will be pushing to alabama and eventually on through the rest of the south as this line, very poe lent line, pushes east. tornado watches in for the areas in red. severe thunderstorm watch for the areas in yellow. so far we have seen 16 tornado reports. we're going to add to that over the next 24 hours, because as this system pushes to the east, it is hitting a very ripe

environment and we are looking at the east coast, much of the east coast, for severe weather on sunday. >> thanks for that. folks do need to be prepared. tyler, appreciate it. recovery efforts in parts of alabama are under way after the tough weather there. we know at least seven tornados hit the state two days ago according to the national weather service, killing at least five people. derek van dam reports on the destruction and a woman who is leaning on her faith to get through. >> reporter: violent tornados leaving a trail of devastation across the southern u.s. and leaving communities in shambles. in birmingham, alabama, roofs torn off of homes. some others ripped from their foundation. and residents, like dina cook, left racing to protect precious memories. >> didn't think, i couldn't think, i mean, i really couldn't think past that moment. i didn't think about what was gone, i just wanted to get all

my pictures. >> reporter: others remembering precious lives lost. >> it was terrible, man. like -- to know my family was in this stuff -- like -- they're gone. >> reporter: shelby county search and rescue describe the damage as catastrophic with twisters indiscriminately destroying homes while leaving others untouched. after the storms cleared, a short break for residents. the cleanup process has begun. unfortunately, this will be short-lived for another round of severe weather possible this weekend across parts of the same region. locals became volunteers helping those hardest hit by providing basic necessities to get through this natural disaster. with all the heartache that has been witnessed here, a glimmer of hope as we approach the week of easter. this cross, and this purple

scarf, remaining virtually untouched as homes were destroyed around it. after riding out the storm in her closet, cook noticed and rearranged the scarf out of respect, a truly symbolic image for believers who observe lent. cook says she may have lost the roof over her head but she has not lost her faith. >> my cross is still there. because god was with all of these people. and us. >> reporter: i'm cnn meteorologist derek van dam reporting in birmingham. we are now on day six of a very costly traffic jam on egypt's suez canal. renewed efforts to free the massive ship stuck since tuesday have brought optimism but little progress. and every hour that goes by represents the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to the global economy. the effect is staggering, hundreds of ships stalled waiting for teams to get the stranded ship moving again. let's go to cnn's john

defterios. where are we now with this rescue operation? are the salvage operators trying to take advantage of mother nature here? high tides are varying today, aren't they? >> yes, this is a critical window of opportunity. i don't mean to be cliche about it. but this is the second day of the high tides in this window between saturday evening and sunday evening, the one that shipping executives have told me, look, this is our greatest hope for it to happen. they're feeling more optimistic because the dredging companies from the netherlands and japan have gotten ahead of schedule. they have 20,000 cubic meters of sand and dirt moved away from this ship. that fills eight olympic-sized swimming pools, pretty impressive. they've had 14 tugs in the operation, but again, the salvage operators are suggesting they'll get two larger ones to help in the effort. so it is right now the moment of opportunity. if they can clear this by tuesday, if this drags out any

longer, the authority there for the canal, the suez canal authority, was suggesting they can move one-third of the 321 vessels that are now parked. they can get rapid exit for them. so it doesn't have this spillover effect to the supply chains. volkswagen, for example, the automaker, said it's not a major threat at this stage if it dragged on for weeks, yes it would be. ikea was suggesting some products are not making it on the shelf right now, but i wouldn't call this an emergency. but you can see the sense of urgency by the canal authority and the major salvagers trying to clear this thing out, salvation operations. >> it really is a monster. i mean, it's called an ultra-sized container carrier. it can handle 20,000 containers. is there enough space for these kinds of ships? particularly in the narrowest part of the suez?

>> it is the narrowest part of the canal but it's been widened back to the completion of 2016. the egyptian government spent $8 billion in a two-year window to get this done. it doubled the capacity up to 100 ships a day so that was successful. when you have the perfect storm, if you will, there was a ferocious sandstorm, now we're starting to find out it may not be limited to that. they're saying technical challenges, and perhaps even human error. this was the news overnight from the suez canal authority. let's take a listen. >> translator: there could also be a human error, which is under investigation. there could be a lot of mistakes but we can't say what they are now. the only mistake that we can be sure of now is the wind and the sandstorm. this is not the main one, like i said. but the rest will become clearer in the investigation.

>> right now they said don't focus on the investigation, we're trying to focus on getting this unstuck, that's the priority, we'll see what happens in the next 12 to 24 hours. >> we'll keep an eye on this, good to speak to you live there, thank you. still to come, cnn is in los angeles where protesters are condemning the recent spike in hate crimes against people of asian descent in the u.s.

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but for less with fast free shipping. visit petmeds.com today. people are holding a growing number of rallies across the u.s. to show support for asian-american communities and denounce violence and racism against them. they've been sparked in part by the atlanta-area spa shootings which left eight dead, including six asian-americans. paul vercammen met with some protesters in los angeles who said it's a tough time right now to be of asian descent. >> reporter: in korea town, several hundred people rallied, stop asian hate they chanted on the streets of korea town. they sealed off olympic boulevard and we heard a lot of raw, pure emotion. >> we've had asian, vietnamese-owned salons receive this nasty letter, this is not okay. my mom and dad came here to give

my sister and i a better life and right now it doesn't feel that way. it's a tough time to be asian. i want to read this. "to all asian, hey, you nasty, ugly, smelly, disgusting, pancake face, sir fry cockroach eaters, dog, cat eaters, monkey brain eaters, go home." >> enough is enough. that's why we're here in korea town to unite with our asian brothers and sisters to say, enough is enough. this shall not and will not be tolerated. >> reporter: cnn colleague lisa ling, host of "this life with lisa ling" and author, one of the points she drove home is asian-americans are not told to jump up and down and make a lot of noise, but she says now is the time for asian-americans and others to speak out against this hate. >> we are part of this incredible tapestry with stories and histories from every corner of the globe. if one thread comes loose, we can all fall apart. so we have to protect each

other. >> reporter: a tremendous crosscut of asian-americans attended this rally. there was one man who was wearing his traditional indonesian garb. he says parts of his attire were taken from different sections of his country. he wanted to honor his roots, and he like so many others here pounding home this point, the hate has got to stop. and now. reporting from korea town in los angeles, i'm paul vercammen, now back to you. >> thanks, paul. attacks against asian-americans are on the rise across the u.s. and around the world. we have a list of ways you can educate, inform, and help. head to cnn.com/impact for more details. that wraps up this hour of cnn. i'm robyn curnow. follow me on instagram and on twitter. another hour of cnn continues after the break with my colleague kim.

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