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♪ hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. appreciate your company. i'm michael holmes, and we begin this hour with new developments out of suez in egypt. the suez canal authority trying to get the "ever given," that massive ship, refloated and get the canal open again. the authority says ten tugboats are being used right now.
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they've been pulling the "ever given" from the bow and the stern in different directions in an attempt to dislodge it from where it has been stuck for seven days now. now, it does appear the stern is dislodged from the bank as you can see in this video, but not clear at the moment if the bow has been freed. this latest effort being executed during high tide, which could present the best opportunity to get the ship moving again. ben wedeman joins me now live from cairo with more details. so what are you hearing on efforts to get this sorted? tell us more about this video and what we're seeing in it. >> reporter: what you're seeing in this video is the ship early morning in the canal, and it does seem to have moved. keep in mind, i mean, when you look at that video, you can clearly tell that it is no longer completely sort of straddling the suez canal. it seems to have moved. now, in the video in arabic, you
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can hear somebody who is clearly not getting a lot of sleep and smoking too many cigarettes, that it has moved, it has moved. all indications are also from maritime tracking websites that the ship, the "ever given," has moved. now, how much has it moved is not altogether clear. how soon will navigation be able to proceed? well, that's probably going to be many hours from now. but this is without a doubt the most significant movement of this ship that we have seen in the last seven days. now, all the spokesmen for the egyptian government and for the suez canal authority don't seem to be able to reach them on the phone. either phones are busy, or they're not picking up. the fact that it hasn't been officially announced on egyptian
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state media is rather puzzling given that this is, for egypt, good news if, of course, michael, that's true. >> they probably saw your name on the caller i.d., ben. i was going to ask you exactly that question. just how important is the suez canal to egypt? obviously this has cost them money and perhaps some prestige. >> reporter: well, in 2020, the suez canal brought in $5.6 billion for egypt, which is not even 2% of its gdp. but symbolically, it is hugely important. it really puts egypt on the geostrategic map. keep in mind, for instance, back in 2011, '12, and '13 when there was first the revolution, then the coup d'etat here in egypt. there was real concern, for instance, by the united states
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about the closure of the suez canal, and the united states has always tread carefully with egypt regardless of what's going on here because of the suez canal, because of its strategic importance. and, therefore, you know, when this canal closes, it's a major crisis. 12% of world trade passes through the suez canal every year. 30% of container traffic passes through the suez canal. it makes $13 million to $14 million for egypt every day. that's not a lot of money, but keep in mind that $10 billion of trade passes through the suez canal every day, and we're now in day seven. >> yeah. adds up, that's for sure. ben wedeman, morning there in cairo. appreciate it. hope the day pans out well. speaking of the day, let's go to
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meteorologist pedram javaheri to tell us, i mean, you know, is the weather cooperating with all of this? >> the weather is cooperating. there is some gusty winds, certainly a far cry from where things were about a week ago where we ended up in this position. but what is happening here outside of the perspective of weather is what's happening up in space. talking about a full moon taking place at this hour, and that is going to provide what is known as the spring tides or the king tides, which are essentially the highest high tides of the entire month are going to take place within the next several days. over the last 30 days or so, this is the highest it's going to get. of course we know the sun, the moon coming in perfect alignment. the gravitational impacts of the moon here kind of pulling the water back and then bringing it up much higher as well at certain times of the day. i want to break down exactly when this is going to happen within the next few hours. you see the massive scale of the ship. we know dredgers have been able to free up at least about 30,000 cubic meters of sand in the past several days, so the propeller wasn't moving. they begin to see that get into
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motion. the waters as they rise within the next three to four hours, officials hoping this is our best window to make this happen. we think this will happen sometime around 11:42 a.m. about six hours later, water levels drop about 2.1 meters down to less than a half a meter. so it's going to be a significant drop, michael. we think within the next 24 hours, we get another shot at this going into the early morning hours of tuesday and once again wednesday. so the next couple of days beginning this afternoon going to be really the best window we'll have to make this happen. >> yeah. no pressure. pedram javaheri, thanks so much. fascinating look at the tides and how important they're going to be. joining me now live from san francisco is captain jim staples of ocean river maritime consultants. good to see you again, captain. what do you make of this news that the stern apparently has been floated, but there does
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seem to be work to be done at the bow? what is your read, and what have you been hearing? >> well, this is good news. it sounds like the high tide helped quite a bit with this full moon, and the addition of extra tugboats that have come alongside and helped pull her stern away, which gives the vessel the use of her engine so long as the rudder and the propeller aren't damaged. they'll be able to use the engine of the ship, which is also going to help them to what we call back and fill a little bit with the ship. they may be able to come astern a little bit using the engine and get her out of the sand up on the bow and get her straightened out into the canal. this is definitely a bright moment now for getting this ship under way again and possibly making sure she can finish the rest of her voyage. but i'm sure they'll have to do a full hull survey of her. >> i was actually literally about to ask you that as my next question. what about the risk of the ship itself having been damaged by how it's been sitting, know, hung up on either end and the
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stresses that might place on the integrity of it? what would need to be done to make sure she's seaworthy? >> well, they'll probably do an underwater survey, get some divers and survey the hull to see if they can see any type of physical damage, and then maybe do an interior-type survey where they're going to be looking for stress cracks or anything like that. but they've also got to be concerned of all the intake with the water coming into the engine to make sure they haven't sucked in any sand or any kind of debris that will clog the filters that could cause the engine to shut down at any time and cause significant damage to the vessel again, rendering her unseaworthy. they're going to be doing a lot of different surveys. she'll probably go to a deepwater anchorage and sit there. they'll have to go through the steering system since the rudder was hard aground with the propeller. the propeller could be damaged where you're going to have a good amount of vibration in the vessel now, which is not good
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for a ship. so they will be doing quite a few surveys on the vessel now before she gets under way for her voyage. but the good thing is that it sounds like the canal will be open here very shortly and they'll be able to get traffic moving in both directions again. >> yeah. do you think at the end of the day when they look back on what's gone on, obviously there's going to be an after-incident report or two. do you think they might be looking at whether these massive ships have a place in the canal or how things are operated there to stop this happening? i mean to have something as important as the canal shut down by 40-knot winds and a sandstorm seems crazy. what's your read? >> oh, absolutely. i think they're going to have to look at procedural changes as to how they do take these vessels through. for instance here in the united states up in valdez, they use escort tugs to maneuver these just in case they do have a situation where they have a loss
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of power or a loss of steerage, that these escort tugs can put the vessel somewhere safely, take her to an anchor spot. so they'll have to look at that to see if they need to maybe put two escort tugs with all these large vessels going through to make sure that doesn't happen again. not only do we see that the commerce of the world is shut down, but also the naval viability of the canal being shut down where naval forces can't get through either. so this caused a concern on many, many different avenues of different countries looking at it from different situations, not only financial but also tactically the importance of the canal, of getting navies from one ocean to another. >> that's a very, very good point. great that we're able to tap your expertise as this unfolds. captain jim staples, good to see you. thanks so much. >> my pleasure. thank you. now we'll go to our anna stewart, who has been tracking the economic impact of this
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mess. she joins me now from london. good morning again to you, anna. obviously a lot of concerns, i mean, from manufacturers to consumers, everyone in between who have been impacted by this. give us a sense of how the supply chain was affected. >> reporter: well, it's really extraordinary. if you clog up one of the world's biggest arteries of trade, the ripple effect is really quite huge. so you look at the direct impact for the shipping companies, for the egyptian economy, for instance, and all the goods of course are stuck currently on either side of the canal, over 300 ships. but you also look at the wider impact for the market, and it does trickle all the way through the supply chain from the producer of the raw material right through to the end products. of course we talk a lot about oil and gas when we talk about the suez canal and that region. of course there are big concerns about fuel shortages. there's also concerns about coffee shortages. for instance, for europe, most of the coffee that comes from africa and asia goes through that canal.
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there are big concerns already about coffee shortages. it's been nearly a week that this has been stuck and logjamed and so we've seen coffee prices going up. furniture has been stuck and impacted as well. this is where you start to wonder how long will it take if the ship is refloated, if it canning moved and trade can continue? how long will it take for everything to resume as normal? some ships have looked at taking the long way around via south africa and take up to 15 days, mike. that is really expensive when you're looking at fuel, so costly for these companies. that's ultimately the big deal here. all the delays for every single day for all the raw material producers, for the shops here in europe and the u.s., all around the world, it's just costly. michael. >> yeah. and when things are costly, costs get passed on to the consumer, don't they? is there an anticipation that, you know, all of this is going
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to end up, you know, you and i are going to be paying more? >> reporter: more for or coffee. as you look at the coffee futures on the market, there is the anticipation that a coffee shortage will happen. whether that becomes a reality when you get to the till, i think it's probably unlikely in the coming days. though bigger problem perhaps is the global trade situation. it was already in crisis frankly before this happened because of the pandemic. there's just been such a huge volume of online shopping, of people staying at home, and that has caused big pressure on supply chains, on shipping particularly, all around the world. so we were already looking at issues of not enough containers to ship toilet roll from latin america to europe. of course this has just exacerbated that situation. what we could see a shortage of some products or big delays. when you put in an order and it doesn't arrive for weeks.
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michael. >> as you mentioned last hour, i'm loathe to even mention it. not toilet roll again. >> reporter: not again. >> it's possible. anna stewart in london, great information. thanks, anna. good to see you. and just to recap there, what we have been hearing from the suez canal, and we've got video too. you can see there that the stern of the ship, the back of the ship has apparently been pulled free from the bank. now, we don't know what's under it. is it floating freely? we don't know. but it's at least not wedged into that side of the bank. of course the nose end, the stern was wedged in on the other side, and that apparently is still wedged . they've got ten tugs working on this. a couple of monster tugs -- sorry. the bow is still stuck in, we believe. two monster tugs have been
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brought in. one has arrived a day or so ago, but the sister ship to that was meant to arrive this morning in egypt, egypt time. it is morning there now, and there are a couple of huge tugs that were going to be able to make a real impact. so we know that the stern is free. the bow possibly not. they're still working on it. we'll keep you informed. all right. we're going to take a short break. when we come back, myanmar's military is killing an astounding number of children as it cracks down on dissent. we'll talk about that next. mine? it's just that it's... lavender, yes it is. old spice, it's for men. but i like the smell of it. [music playing]
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meanwhile, the uk government is urging british nationals to leave myanmar immediately as the violence against civilians rises. ivan watson following all of this for us from hong kong. i mean just wondering whether the increase in killings signal that the military might feel it has nothing to lose, might ramp things up. tell us about that and also how the opposition, the protest strategies are changing. >> reporter: michael, it just does seem that things are going from bad to worse with the death toll now estimated at more than 400 killed since the coup of february 1st. the military clearly trying to use deadly and lethal force to crush an uprising that is kind of out of control. and one of the least visible aspects to is the civil disobedience movement which has the civil servants, who has largely frozen large sectors of the economy, everything from railroads to the hospitals to
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the banking sectors and schools, not to mention health care. you know, myanmar is still in the covid pandemic, and from what we're hearing, testing and vaccinations and treatment has all but ground to a halt, and the military has resorted to threats to try to get people back to work. that is not working. meanwhile, the death toll continues to rise. top u.n. officials accusing the military of widespread lethal increasingly systematic attacks, and it's going beyond the cities. the fighting has spread now to the ethnic enclaves where i'm now hearing that the karan national union, which is the oldest ethnic armed militia in myanmar, controlling its own territory along the border, says that there were air strikes on both saturday and sunday, and that has prompted some 3,000 people to flee across the border
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to thailand. if the bloodshed keeps getting worse, if the fighting continues to spread into the ethnic areas, expect more refugees potentially infected with covid to head to the borders of neighboring countries. michael. >> ivan watson there in hong kong for us, appreciate that. covid cases in the u.s. are rising once again as the easter holiday approaches. some states already seeing signs of a new surge, including michigan, where a growing number of young people are testing positive for the virus. experts say the surge has been fueled by a number of factors and not just the spread of new variants. >> the variants are playing a part, but it is not completely the variants. what we're likely seeing is because of things like spring break and pulling back on the mitigation methods that you've
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seen now several states have done that. i believe it's premature, margaret, because i've said many times to you that when you're coming down from a big peak and you reach a point and start to plateau, once you stay at that plateau, you're really in danger of a surge coming up. >> now, with the u.s. eager to return to normality, we're learning that the biden administration is developing a system for people to prove they've been vaccinated. an official says multiple agencies are working on these vaccine passports, which could potentially affect the workforce. england is easing more covid restrictions as the outbreak there appears to be stabilizing. from monday, up to six people will be allowed to meet outside while outdoor team sports can resume for all ages. but it's a different story in france where intensive care units are getting overwhelmed with covid patients. doctors in paris say the crisis is so bad, they'll soon have to
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decide who gets access to icus and who does not. they say the growing outbreak is alarming and current measures are not enough to slow the spread. in australia, officials are preparing to impose some tougher restrictions. the greater brisbane area of queensland will soon begin a three-day lockdown after ten new covid cases there. and the philippines putting manila and nearby provinces under its strictest covid lockdown from monday until easter sunday. the country just reported almost 10,000 new cases on friday. that is a daily record there. mexico getting its first shipment of astrazeneca vaccines from the u.s. 1.5 million doses in all. now, this comes after what was a stunning revelation where the mexican government admitted its covid death toll has been grossly underreported. we're talking by about 120,000
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people. now, that would put the total number of dead in mexico since the pandemic began at more than 321,000. it is a 60% jump from the previous official number. and by that count, the second highest death toll in the world ahead of brazil but behind the u.s. president biden wants to talk about the country's economic future, but u.s. lawmakers want him to address a couple of other key issues first. what they're asking him to do about gun control and immigration. we'll have that when we come back. germ proof your car with armor all disinfectant. kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses. 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,
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and welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." u.s. president joe biden under pressure to address two key issues facing his administration -- gun control of course in the wake of two recent mass shootings in georgia and colorado and the migrant crisis at the country's southern border. democrats want new gun control legislation that would impact background check laws in the country, and republicans want president biden to address the surge of unaccompanied migrant children arriving daily. the president, though, hoping to focus mainly on his economic vision for the future. cnn's john harwood with more. >> reporter: the challenge for the white house this week is to maintain focus on what president biden considers his most important priority. now, from the right, republicans are pressuring the white house to stem the flow of migrants across the mexican border that
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has left so many children being housed in border patrol facilities that are inappropriate for kids. from the left, democrats are pressuring the administration to do something about gun control. now, the administration does not want to focus on the border situation because there's no quick fix even as they scramble for more health and human services facilities that are more appropriate for children. they don't want to focus on gun control because they know right now that democrats do not have the votes to pass either an assault weapons ban or background checks. the white house is working on both fronts, but they don't have an expectation of success anytime soon. what the president wants to focus on is this massive infrastructure and human capital development plan that is his second priority after passing that big covid relief bill. that's something the administration considers both important and bold and also achievable. the president will begin outlining that program called build back better in pittsburgh in a speech on wednesday. john harwood, cnn, the white house.
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now as we heard there from john, the growing crisis at the border is a highly partisan issue. some republicans blaming the white house, some democrats arguing immigration has been a long and complex and longstanding issue, and they are defending the president. >> you got a facility designed for 80 kids with about 1,000 in it, so that's pretty bad. he needs to apologize -- president biden -- to the border patrol agents and their families for putting them through this. we're being overwhelmed at the border. it's not a crisis. it's a complete loss of sovereignty down there. >> the president is working as quickly as possible to address the situation. he's using every possible avenue to ensure that we're getting these kids out of border patrol custody and into hhs facilities as quickly as possible. you've seen him just this week announce that fort bliss, for example, and lackland air force
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base are going to open up beds to bring kids out of the border facilities, but that's a temporary solution. it's a temporary solution. ultimately what we need to do is address the root causes of migration. >> a senior advocate and program manager for the climate displacement program at refugees international joins me now from tucson, arizona, to talk about that aspect but the broader aspects as well. i guess lost in the noise, if you like, of migrant arrivals is the push of what's making them have to leave their homes in the first place versus the pull of the u.s. as a destination, and there are myriad reasons. what do you see as the main ones? >> it's as you said due to many, many reasons, and climate change is exacerbating some of them. i think principally it's one of -- it's really about being
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able to seek out opportunities elsewhere that are not readily available in places where these folks are coming from. >> i met many of these migrants covering the crisis on the ground, people from honduras, nica nica nicaragua. the stories they've told are horrifying. i'm not surprised they'd want to flee. most people would. i found most of them didn't want to leave their homes and countries but felt they had no other choice. is that your experience? >> i think that's by and large true with any sort of migration decision. it's heart-wrenching. it's difficult. and, look, you know, at the very heart of it is a human decision. you know, you have families back -- your family back home. it's a dangerous journey. you know the perils that you might face. it's very expensive, thousands of dollars, your life savings, so it's not an easy choice. >> exactly. it's not something you jump up in the morning and say you're going to do.
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now, your specialty is the impact of climate change, things like stronger hurricanes, crop failures, hunger to entire areas. i think it's becoming pretty much uninhabitable. can you see growing climate migration or displacement quite apart from these other reasons? >> so i want to put something out there, and that's that climate change is never the driving or sole factor for migration. as we just discussed, it's very complicated and complex. what it does do is exacerbate underlying vulnerabilities. we can see that weather patterns are changing. the climate is really intensifying and making more frequent different types of climate impacts including like we just saw this past year with hurricanes etta and iota, a one-two punch within two weeks of each other, quite unprecedented in an already history-making hurricane season. you know, most recorded hurricanes on record in the
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atlantic hurricane season. so these sorts of events will continue to occur, but i just want to underscore that already the region was dealing with a slow onset of prolonged and protracted drought, especially in the dry corridor. so it made it especially hard for rural farmers to earn a living, right? so it was already hard to harvest crops, and they were already on the edge before these hurricanes even hit. >> so what then can the u.s. do to help change those dreadful conditions on the ground and perhaps encourage people to stay at home? there were programs in place which donald trump eliminated. biden says he'll reinstate. are they enough? what more needs to be done? >> first and foremost, i think it's important to note what you said at the top of this interview, which is most people don't want to leave. so it's about giving folks opportunities and the tools to be able to stay in the face of a changing climate. so it's very important that the u.s. continue to invest in humanitarian assistance and development aid in particular
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when it comes to climate change adaptation and resilience to allow folks to adapt in place if they decided to do so. but i think we have to be realistic here. the climate is changing upon these other factors and just exacerbating them and people will have to migrate. people are already on the move. and so the u.s. have to be a little bit more innovative and, yes, roll back some of the draconian trump policies in place which, you know, president biden has promised to do. i think importantly one part that he's already restarted is the central american minors program, allowing young folks in central american countries to apply to join their family member who's are already in the u.s. legally, and under the obama administration, about 3,000 minors were able to come to the u.s. that way, and 2,500 were slated to come before trump cut that program. and so that would be one way. but the u.s. has to find new, legal ways, new legal migration
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pathways for people who need to come in the face of a changing climate. >> very important issues. i think people think everyone is just packing up in latin america and heading this way for no good reason. there are very good reasons. great to talk to you. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. there is a state of emergency in nashville, tennessee, after flash flooding there killed at least four people over the weekend. rescuers say that at least 130 from homes and vehicles, some people clinging to trees or sheltering in their attics as the waters rose. a number of rivers and streams in the region overflowed, leaving many roads impassable. the latest now from cnn's martin savidge. >> reporter: for the most part the floodwaters have receded, but the destruction they leave behind is significant. this was not a citywide flood. the flooding was pretty much limited to south nashville. but the destruction is amazing to see. this apartment complex is just
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one example. residents here say that early sunday morning they heard the torrential rain. then they heard the alerts on their cell phones, and then finally they heard the fire alarms going off in the buildings. when they looked out to see what was burning, they were stunned to realize their building had been completely surrounded by raging water. and then they heard the screams of their neighbors from the bottom apartments here because the water first had trapped them, and then the debris began shattering the windows, and now they were being flooded. amazingly, everyone got out alive, but they won't soon forget that horrible, horrible night. nashville's endured a lot in the last year. it had a tornado that killed several people. then it endured the pandemic, and then on top of that, it had a bombing at christmas, and now flooding that has left at least four people dead. martin savidge, cnn, nashville.
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and an update on a developing story we're following for you this hour. the suez canal authority trying to get the "ever given" refloated right now. it seems with some measure of success. the authority says ten tugboats are being used at the moment, including two giant ones. they're pulling the "ever given" from the bow and the stern in another attempt to dislodge it from the site where it has been stuck for seven days. and it appears the stern has been dislodged from the bank. you're looking at it right there. what we're not sure about is whether the bow has been freed. you remember the bulbous nose of
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the bow was stuck well into the side of the canal bank, and we're waiting to hear whether that has been freed. this latest effort being executed during high tide, which could present the best opportunity to get the ship and the canal moving again. okay. opening statements will begin in the coming hours in the trial of derek chauvin, the former police officer charged with killing george floyd, a black man in minnesota. on sunday, floyd's supporters held a large rally in his honor and demanded justice. >> this is george's city because when you think of george, you think of minnesota. >> mm-hmm. >> this is where he was killed by four officer who's used barbaric tactics to put him down. they say he died of asphyxiation, but in the black community, that's equivalent to dying or bf being choked to dea
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>> floyd's death sparked dozen of protests last year and set off intense debates. as cnn's omar hjimenez reports, those issues will likely be addressed again in the coming trial. >> reporter: the eyes of a movement. >> black lives matter! >> reporter: one that sparked protests worldwide in the name of george floyd shift to a courtroom in minneapolis. >> anything else for the record? >> reporter: now to opening statements in the trial of derek chauvin, the former minneapolis police officer has pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces, second degree unintentional murder, second degree manslaughter, and third degree murder. outside the courtroom, emotions will be running high. >> they've assembled and gathered peacefully. we will continue to expect more demonstrations. >> reporter: but the destruction that happened in may 2020 in the
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aftermath of floyd's death is still fresh on the minds of city officials, and it's why the building that houses the courtroom has virtually become a fortress due to increased security measures, with the mayor saying there's more to come. >> residents should be expecting a gradual increase in law enforcement and national guard presence as we progress through the trial. >> reporter: the first step in this trial -- >> how does that make you feel? >> i'm okay with that. >> reporter: -- was getting through jury selection, which lasted exactly two weeks. >> you will serve on our jury. >> reporter: resulting in 15 jurors, 14 of which will be a part of the trial. >> this 15th juror was to make sure that we get to have 14 people show up on monday. >> reporter: their identities remain unknown for now. attorneys for the floyd family are pleased the trial can now proceed and wrote, this is not a hard case. george floyd had more witnesses to his death than any other person ever, and it will be witnesses who now come to the stand, called by both
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prosecutors for the state and defense attorneys for derek chauvin. among what we know will be talked about -- >> put them up on the dash. >> reporter: a portion of a 2019 george floyd arrest for which he was never charged but one where he ended up being sent to the hospital instead of jail, an interaction with police defense attorneys for chauvin argued was similar to may 2020. a paramedic from that day in 2019 is also expected to testify. >> the whole point here is we have medical evidence on what happens when mr. floyd is faced with virtually the same situation, confrontation by police at gunpoint followed by a rapid ingestion of some drugs. >> our system of justice is a bit on trial. can we give mr. chauvin a fair trial because that's essential? can we give the state a fair chance to find him guilty under the law and the evidence? >> reporter: the trial is expected to last up to four weeks. all the while, a city, a family,
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a movement watches anxiously over what criminal accountability looks like in the death of george floyd. omar jimenez, cnn, minneapolis, minnesota. now, when the uk began to emerge from its first covid lockdown last summer, knife crimes surged. well, now authorities are worried teens may never return to full-time school or afterschool activities, and that could leave them vulnerable to grooming by violent gangs. nina dos santos reports on one woman's efforts to keep local teens safe from knife violence. >> reporter: it's been an agonizing lockdown, spent worrying about the capital's vulnerable children. but finally lorraine jones is ready to reopen. for more than seven years, he's poured her life into this boxing gym, since her 20-year-old son, dwayne, lost his. >> it was just one jab wound, and that went right through his
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heart. later on, a message came to me that the man was actually remorseful of what he had done. >> reporter: senseless, isn't it? >> very senseless. >> reporter: lorraine has made it her mission to keep local kids off these south london streets amid a wave of knife crime in the uk that hit a ten-year peak before the pandemic. >> if you're going to carry a knife, you've got a potential to kill somebody or be killed. >> reporter: knife crime has also left parents desperately anxious as their children are now finally given more freedom. >> there's a saying that idle hands get up to no good, and if left to do nothing, what will happen to them? sadly, knife crime has gone up. >> reporter: lee channer has four sons. she's signing her 5-year-old up early but is on edge each time his older siblings venture out. >> i'm always worried. my son that's 21, i'm constantly
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worrying every time he leaves house because i don't know where he's going, what he's doing, if he's actually going to return home. it's got to the point where i want to take them away and leave. but where do i leave? >> reporter: as parts of the uk exited their first lockdown last summer, knife crimes spiked 25% and hospital admissions for stab wounds also soared. with so much disruption to education and afterschool activities, the fear is that as life gets back to normal, that trend will soon return. former children's commissioner ann longfield says that knife crime is just a symptom of a broader problem with stock inequalities and a powerful gang culture, luring ever young minors, often to deliver drugs. >> you've got ruthless criminals who are looking for young people as a commodity of choice. you have really quite young people who will be targeted, started on the edges of some of this activity but then brought
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in over time. and of course the more they see, the more they're involved in, the more the gang leaders have over them. and the risk, of course, is for those kids who have been out of school for a good par >> more money for programs like lorraines. >> i have seen children like 12 and 13-year-old carry knives. the pandemic is definitely changed the way things are. people have become lost, people that would normally be in the gym are not here, so where are those people now? >> covid brought the past year to a standstill but has not cured london of its knife crime epidemic, and the children of many future hang in the balance. cnn, london.
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be far from capacity and only california residents will be allowed in for now. we have a look at how six flags' magic mountain is getting ready. >> as the covid-19 numbers continue to drop in california, a sign of better times ahead and easing of restrictions, magic mountain -- six flags' magic mountain will open on thursday, and everything will be contactless. you will enter the park by taking your temperature in a fancy shed-like structure. everybody that goes through security will not be patted down, it will be done by imaging and the ticket will be on your phone and we spoke to park officials about the safety measures. >> we are opening at 15% capacity, so we are not anticipating any shoulder to shoulder and we discourage shoulder to shoulder gatherings. with that being said it's limited to southern -- or to
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california residents only to even make this reservation. while you are here, there are things like social distancing and physical distancing, and we have signage on the floors to remind individuals to stay separated. there's also a rule about wearing your mask at all times, including while you are participating in our rides. >> reporter: while on the rides, 19 roller coasters here, should somebody's mask fall off there will be staff workers standing by with a batch of fresh, brand-new masks to give to the person who lost it on the ride. thsafety protocols will be watched closely by other amusement parks, baseball stadiums and the rest as magic mountain will be the first out of the gate to open up its doors. it had been closed for more than a year. reporting from valencia, california, back to you, michael. >> all right, our thanks to paul buchanan. thank you for watching and
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