live from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta i'm michael holmes. you're watching cnn newsroom. it doesn't happen often but we're getting good news in the fight against covid-19. all about the numbers you want to hear coming up. also, they're doing what was once unthinkable. dr. sanjay gupta's behind-the-scenes tour of the pfizer labs.

also -- >> we're fitting on a box of dynamite a powder keg that could easily explode. >> the latest on the crisis at the border. an inside look at what officials are facing. welcome. easter sunday once again being celebrated during the coronavirus pandemic but this year is different with record boosts to vaccinations giving hope that normalcy is at least within reach. the u.s. on saturday reporting more than 4 million doses given a new daily record. that brings the seven-day vaccination average above the 3 million mark for the first time ever. nearly a third of all americans have now had at least one vaccine dose.

that progress does not mean the threat is over, however. cases are headed in the wrong direction in several states and ahead of the holiday weekend, 1.5 million people passed through airports friday. the latest sign of people perhaps abandoning health recommendations. evan mcmorris-santoro was in times square where people are once again packing the streets. >> reporter: this is times square on a saturday. and frankly it looks like times square on a saturday because actually pretty crazy because not that long ago this place where i'm standing right now was pretty desolate. they weren't coming out. now as you can see people feel like they're safe to come out again. one, seeing the weather heat up. kind of a nice day, two, the vaccinations are going well. we got a report 10 million doses

of the vaccine have been administered in new york since the program began. currently one in five new yorkers is now fully vaccinated, a number expected to go up pretty soon because starting on tuesday anyone over the age of 16 can sign up to get an appointment for a vaccine. obviously that's good news but some of these crowds is not necessarily recommended yet. dr. anthony fauci was on cnn earlier today talking about the vaccine, what it means and what it could mean for the future. let's take a listen. >> i can't give you a day or week but as we get more data sho showing you will see recommendations they won't have to wear mask. they're not there yet but getting there. travel, you can travel and you don't have to get tested before and after except if your destination demands that. you don't have to get quarantined when you come back from a situation, so more and more you're going to start

seeing the advantages of getting vaccinated. >> reporter: dr. fauci saying there getting a vaccine signing up, the best thing you can do to help keep this in check and get back to normal life. we are seeing in new york other signs of normalcy in times square in the theater district because earlier today two broadway stars did a quick event for about 100 people just showing the first time they've seen people inside a broadway theater since march 12th. it's not open yet, not till september but a few could go in and enjoy that, a big sign in new york that maybe normalcy is around the corner if people keep getting vaccines. >> evan reporting there for us. the rising infection, some states are seeing, makes the eventually return to normal that much difficult, of course.

and dr. anthony fauci weighed in on what's at stake. >> in a few of the states, in fact, several there's the danger, jim of having the resurgence and another big surge up. like just yesterday we had over 60,000 new cases in a day. that's disturbing. that's what happened in europe and what is happening and europe for the most part is going through another disturbing surge. >> now, other parts of the world are seeing worrying spikes in infections and struggling with slow vaccine rollouts. it's a mixed bag in europe as you can see with both upward and downward trends and much of the continent holding steady. france reporting another increase in covid-19 icu patients. the french president pledging more hospital beds to care for them. the country has gone now into its third national lockdown. germans clearly frustrated by restrictions and some took to

the streets to show it even though chancellor angela merkel appealed to people to stay home. and i want to bring in a virologist from lancaster. the w.h.o. among others sharply criticizing the vaccine rollout in europe. what went wrong and what needs to happen now? >> thank you, michael, for having me. the vaccine, the whole vaccine has been complicated. if we talk about the contracts, uk made the contract where they -- astrazeneca, we had the whole europe do the contracting, mid of august, 100 days longer and approval process has been pretty delayed. 19 days after they approved it

and hesitancy because of the delay in the contracts and also the supply of the vaccine so there are several logistical, ethical and hesitancy factors that can putting it on the back foot. >> a real con flagrance of things, as well. w.h.o.'s regional director speaking to the w.h.o. said thursday across the w.h.o.'s europe region, which is made up of 53 countries only 10% of people had received one dose, only 4% were fully vaccinated and barely 60% of lower income countries had started. how does that hamper europe's ability to get on top of the spread? >> this is challenging for europe in the coming days and primarily one factor that makes me worried about is 10% to 15%

vaccinated, primarily in 80 years old but do know 90% of the deaths are caused from -- in people that are from 62 to 80 and above so this means that even if the third way which is already taking by storm the eu, most of the impact would have been on that community and wouldn't be significantly different than we've seen in previous -- only in the last week 1.6 million new cases in europe. with 24,000 deaths and that is primarily contributed by the new variant that the uk variant which is b.1.1.7 and 97% of it is caused by the variant so overall the situation is pretty grim. >> and europe also or some

countries have an issue with hesitancy, historic vaccine hesitancy. how does that -- how do you get past that? how does that hamper efforts to combat the spread and how do you get around it? >> i think this is major challenge. critically when we talk about astrazeneca vaccine if we look on to it, that has been enormously successful in the beginning. as soon as the delay approval in the eu started kicking in, that was the time and started increasing and blood clotting concerns and that was particularly for astrazeneca and now vaccine hesitancy in europe is not for in the u.s. than equivalent. around 60% of them do not want it in ukraine and 40% of germans

so that would be one of the major concerns moving forward because of these concerns around the vaccines. >> wow. they are worrying numbers. finally and briefly, how worried are you about the easter weekend and a lot with lockdowns were reportedly traveling before the lockdowns went into effect? are you concerned about that? >> oh, absolutely, michael. that's a month of celebration, easter, passover, ramadan, all coming in april and most of the countries would have a high level of movement and my worry we have some people vaccinated, some people are recovered from the infection and have certain immunity and some population don't have it and that is a very good mixture for it to mutate from vaccinated to unvaccinated. if this happens we are seeing some of those nasty viruses that could kick in and again could undo other effort. >> right, muhammad munir, thanks

for getting up early in the uk. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. now, the vaccine developed by pfizer and biontech is a major part of the arsenal. we'll show you on the map the places where it's been administered globally. pfizer says it's reached its goal to provide 120 million doses in the u.s. by the end of march and aiming to provide the world 2.5 billion doses by the end of this year. dr. sanjay gupta takes us inside the pfizer factory in kalamazoo, michigan. here's his report. >> reporter: one year ago the process you're watching didn't even exist.

>> that has been an amazing 12 months. >> reporter: remember, until the end of last year, no vaccine using mrna technology had ever been authorized. and now i'm getting an exclusive look here in kalamazoo, michigan, at how pfizer has produced millions. >> 60 million doses are surrounding us, hugging us right now. imagine the impact this room will have just the doses sitting here today on u.s. citizens and around the world. >> reporter: while pfizer has more than double the its output now producing 13 million doses a week, still not enough for mcdermott. >> by the middle of the year we're at 13 million. >> 100 million a month. he's dog that by continuing to look for novel solutions. even seemingly simple ones. they found that their suppliers

couldn't provide enough dry ice, so they decided to produce their own. >> jackets so we can see each other. >> reporter: it means you are now seeing things that president biden didn't see when he was here just five weeks ago in february. >> this is our new formulation. >> reporter: here's part of how they scale up so fast. prefab formulation suites built in texas before being brought here. >> if we built it wall by wall on site it would have taken a year. by modulely, it's taken much quicker. >> reporter: it is as easy as pushing it into plate. >> that is pretty smart. >> reporter: but for mcdermott it came down to this key part. >> there's never been a commercial kale mrna vaccine so everything you see is custom designed. >> reporter: what makes up

pfizer's vaccine is basically mrna housed in four different lipids which is really just fat and this tiny tool called an impingement jet mixer makes it possible. this is going to sound too simple. on one side mrna is pumped in. own the other, lipids and they are forced together with around 4000 pounds of pressure, out comes a lipid nano particle which he says is the perfect package to deliver mrna to your cells. that's the vaccine. >> but when you start to really scale it up like that how confident were you able it was going to work? >> the first time somebody showed me this jet mixer, i said you can't be serious. how could you put billions of doses through here so my confidence level was low. how could you multiply it? >> not only did he crack the code now on his way to producing billions of doses for the world

his life has now come full circle. >> as a kid my dad worked with nasa and when neil armstrong stepped on the moon, that amazing moment. and the day that we shipped the first doses out of the site is rushed over me like that was our moonshot. >> reporter: dr. sanjay, gupta, kalamazoo, michigan. fascinating. all right, georgia's leaders are reacting to major league baseball's decision to pull the all-star game. >> major league baseball caved to fear and lies from liberal activists. it means cancel culture and partisan activists are coming for your business. >> when we come back, fallout, scare tactics after the passage of restrictive new voting rules in the state of georgia. we'll be right back. but if you get home and your "ooh" is more of a "hmm..."

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should know what this decision means. it means cancel culture and partisan activists are coming for your business, major league baseball, coca-cola, and delta may be scared of stacey abrams, joe biden and the left but i am not. i want to be clear, i will not be backing down from this fight. >> cnn's natasha chin with more on his reaction. >> reporter: on saturday governor kemp doubled down on the law saying major league baseball caved and bent to the left. he said that president joe biden and stacey abrams have been lying about the law. i asked if it had anything to do with passing it into law. is the timing based on your belief that there was fraud in recent elections in georgia. >> i realize people have all

kinds of difference of opinions and beliefs about the 2020 election but make no mistake, there were issues that happened on the election like every election. >> reporter: he said mlb should have come to him with specific complaints about the bill and would welcome about the specifics so we did ask him about things like banning mobile voting center, banning the automatic mailing of absentee ballots and chalked up a lot to improved election security and of course now you have pro athletes and politicians like barack obama chiming in saying they support mlb's decision and whether you support or oppose it it is local businesses that will hurt. cobb county where we're located estimates there's more than $100 million potentially lost because of mlb relocating the ladarrius jackson game, mlb says they'll continue to invest in local

organizations in atlanta as part of the all-star legacy project as originally planned. natasha chen, cnn, cobb county, georgia. >> their laws have many up in arms but it's far from the only state considering these types of changes. the brennan center for justice is tracking them across the country and finds that 47 "state of denial" -- states have legislation in some way, cnn with details on these bills. >> 18 aynes and -- >> reporter: they sent a sweeping bill that could change the way people in the lone star state vote. >> we want a system easy to vote and hard to cheat. >> reporter: 7 seems to voting to the recent stronghold of

harris county, home to houston, and democrats say that it will make it harder for people of color to vote. sdmrefry minority of the texas senate, all nine of us believe this bill will impact minorities negatively by making it more difficult for african-americans and mexican-americans to vote and diminishing the likelihood they will represent our preferences. >> reporter: a new tally by the brennan center for justice finds 361 bills with provisions that restrict voting have been introduced in 47 states, a 41% jump since a month ago and target absentee voting. nearly a quarter will impose stricter i.d. requirements.

a handful of states have acted including georgia where some are calling for economic consequences in response. >> this boycott is against coca-cola, delta air lines. >> reporter: georgia's business leaders under public pressure now speaking out. >> let me be crystal clear, this legislation is unacceptable. >> reporter: the ceo of delta, the state's largest private employer blasting the law as based on a lie of 2020 election fraud saying in a memo it's evident that the bill includes provisions that will make it harder for many underrepresented voters particularly black voters to exercise their constitutional right to elect their representatives. that is wrong. in response, the georgia house passed an amendment revoking delta's jet fuel tax break. >> we're going to start taxing jet fuel after july 1st, 2021. >> he took away the delta tax exemption -- >> it died when the senate

failed to take it up and brian kemp says the companies are caving to public pressure. claiming these concerns were not raised during conversations with delta before the bill was signed. >> i'm not going to be bullied by these people but also not running a public corporation. they'll have to answer to their shareholders. a lot of people work for them and have done business with them that are upset. >> reporter: meanwhile in michigan republicans have introduced nearly 40 bills that could make it harder to vote even raising the possibility of trying to sidestep an all but veto from the democratic governor. >> this is a solution in search of a problem and it is unacceptable and so if and when those bills get to my desk and aimed at making it harder to vote they will get vetoed. >> reporter: how could michigan voters get around it? there is a quirk in michigan law that allows the legislature to enact a measure without the governor's signature if they can

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welcome back. i'm michael holmes. we are following reports of several arrests in jordan during a security sweep. also the former crown prince says in a video statement that he's been put in isolation and his communications are being cut off. prince hamzah bin hussein is the son of the late king hussein and he is king abdullah's half brother. he says he's not part of any conspiracy but that the kingdom has become corrupt. here's more of his statement. >> i had a visit from the chief of the general staff of jordanian armed forces this morning. in which he informed me that i was not allowed to go out to communicate with people or to meet with them because that in the meetings that i had been present in or on social media

relating to visits i've made there's been criticism of the government or the king. >> cnn is following the story from istanbul, turkey. the world tends to take stability there for granted. this is extraordinary to have a former crown prince under detention. what do you read behind this? >> you know, michael, it is very, very murky at this point. we really do not know what is going on. basically reports emerged late on saturday that there had been some sort of a plot in jordan, some sort of a security operation and that senior figures including the former crown prince, prince hamzah bin hussein had been arrested or under house arrest and got a statement from the chief of the

jordanian military basically saying that -- denying reports that prince hamzah was not arrested, but he was basically told to tone it down, that they had asked him not to take part in any activities or movements as they dry-nuary described that could be exploited to try to destabilize the country and said this was part of the bigger security operation ongoing where several high-profile figures in the kingdom including a junior member of the royal family and a former very well-known and senior official within king abdullah's circles had also been detained as part of the sweep and several others and said it is an on going investigation and more will be released. shortly after that we got this stunning video obtained by the bbc from prince hamzah talking about his situation basically saying that he is essentially under house arrest and told not

to leave his home and communications and security had been cut off and taken away and this is his last form of communication. his satellite will be cut off and shocking for many jordanians and also in the region as you mentioned, a country that is one of the more stable in this region. >> you know, it's interesting, you know, in his video message which we should point out notably it is in english that he is, you know, not a party to any conspiracy but then goes on to pointly criticize corruption, breakdown in governance, incompetence in the governing -- talked about nepotism and misrule and those are fairly extraordinary criticisms. >> it is absolutely stunning, michael, to be hearing this from a member of the jordanian royal

family. whatever disputes they might have behind the scenes we have never seen anything like this. this is truly unprecedented in jordan. we have to point out that, yes, it is in english but also released another one to an arab network and also aired last night in arabic and it seems to be addressing the jordanian nation really. i mean, michael, you know, the big news internationally here would be the fact that this is a former crown prince talking about his current situation, his apparent house arrest and what is going on in jordan but what he says after that lashing out at the country's leadership without naming king abdullah talking more about the leadership really and the ruling system in jordan, this is what is stunning for so many jordanians. take a listen to one part of that video statement.

>> i'm not the person responsible for the breakdown in governance for the corruption and for the incompetence that has been prevalent in our governing structure for the last 15 to 20 years and has been getting worse by the year. >> reporter: and, you know, perhaps, michael, this is one of the more diplomatic statements that he makes in that six-plus-minute video statement. he really, really criticized the ruling structure, what has been going on in this country and listening to it coming from someone like prince hamzah is stunning. this is what you hear from j jordanians on the streets, so many have voiced about it, the shrinking space for freedom

where basically no one is allowed to in be the presence of others while they criticize the government or the king. talking about rampant corruption in the country, the state of public services in the country where jordan at one point was a leader and where it stands right now. so this is really something that hits at the grievances of so many jordanians right now. this is a country where discontent has been growing over the past few years with the state of the economy and living conditions pretty much in jordan and this is something that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the economic fallout from that so this is really something that is going to resonate with so many jordanians right now. >> exactly. how it impacts the street is yet to be scene.

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in the scramble to find space for the thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in u.s. di the pentagon approved the temporary use of camp roberts, normally training site for the army national guard. right now the department of health and human services are sheltering around 13,000 children. the border patrol has custody of 5,000 more. and the biden administration is all over the radio air waves in latin america urging people to stay put. now, border patrol agents in south texas say there has been an increase in smuggling

attempts and with resources being redeployed the mayor of one local city fears a volatile situation could turn violent. we have our report now. >> reporter: u.s. federal agencies are focused on the immigration search happening right now in the rio grande valley and rightfully so. it is a humanitarian crisis. but that could be feeding straight into the hands of the smugglers. in the rio grande valley where mostly migrant families and unaccompanied children are turning themselves in, the border is fortified with a wall. in laredo arrests of mostly dulls smuggled in tractor trailers up 120% this year compared to last year. apprehensions at stash houses are up 400% during the same time period. and there's no border wall. >> we're sitting on a box of dynamite, a powder keg. it could easily explode.

>> reporter: laredo's mayor fears it could spill over into violence. >> president biden was asking for a virtual wall. but we haven't seen resources yet. >> reporter: we tagged along with u.s. border patrol supervisor ken krupa see to the challenges. at 2:45 on the scene of a dismantled stash house. >> some occasions multiple locations on a single day. >> reporter: one by one 18 dulls from mexico and guatemala apprehended. the smuggler usually linked to cartels was not in the house. as the evening settled in krupa is off to another case, this one on the highway involving two vehicles. >> as you can see this is one. >> reporter: allegedly smuggling nine adults. four were locked in the back of this suv without a way out. the others --

>> as soon as it stopped they attempted to flee on foot. late into the night the smuggling activity picked up by the river. >> we had a group of 15 that just crossed the river and right now started to try to avoid detection. >> reporter: as traffic picks up, krupa says agents are trying to find an arrest up to 70 migrants. is this usual? >> yes, ma'am, it's constant. >> reporter: despite the daunting cat and mouse game some border patrol agents have been relocated to the rio grande valley to help with the humanitarian crisis. >> what does that mean? it leaves us more vulnerable. >> do you feed into the cartels by leaving this area with fewer resources? >> we're not feeding into the cartels' strategy but we do recognize that every decision we make has an impact and so what we're going to try to do is ensure that as we start to see

these threats flare up, that we move and transfer agents into the area to reinforce the already existing workforce. >> reporter: it's unclear when the border patrol resources will return to laredo to deal with the increase of smuggling there. the chief told me he has steen a 140% increase in the number of illegal crossing arrests this year compared to last and says 94% of them are single adults who didn't want to get caught. rosa flores, cnn, mcallen, texas. well, border issues are an increasing source of tension in northern ireland too. police were called out north of belfast on saturday night amid simmering anger over parts of the uk's exit agreement with the european union which puts a customs border in the irish sea. nick robertson explains. >> reporter: new writing on northern ireland's walls is a

chill blast from the province's violent past. anger is rising over brexit custom checks known as the northern island protocols. the message is on good friday, a red line for u.s. president joe biden. in pro-british unionist communities, fears of violence are growing. >> you see a lot of writing on the wall, it's scary, it's scary and i reel wouldn't want to grow up. i don't want to go back. >> reporter: murals of gunman on the streets here are nothing new. but this is something else. the name of the deputy prime minister and his address written on the wall quickly painted out. that tells you tensions here are rising. the lightning rod for discontent is custom checks on trucks like these crossing the irish sea from mainland uk.

northern ireland is inside the eu single market for goods. different to the rest of the uk. so goods now require checks. truckers face costly new delays. we we've heard -- >> we make sure all the paperwork is correct. >> reporter: everyone is impacted. new controls mean plants previously -- >> i feel that maybe there wasn't enough investigation as to what the rules were going to be. >> reporter: a shared soil is at the very essence of identity politics here. any erosion of that unfettered bond with mainland uk is for some unionists an existential threat. tempers fraying. >> we're simply saying tear up

the agreement which breaks up the united kingdom. tear up the agreement that breaks up all the promises you made to the people of northern ireland that you would have unfettered access to your biggest market and gp. >> reporter: loyalist paramilitarists still dangerous. according to their representatives. >> it's very easy for this to spiral out of control but with cote restrictions there would have already been street demonstrations. >> reporter: pressure mounting on boris johnson, and not just from pro-british unionists. he angered the eu drawing a lawsuit from them by unilaterally extending the customs changes transition period from three to nine months. facing trade deal difficulties with the u.s. if northern ireland's peace deal breaks down and has lost the confidence the

n nonunionist politicians here too. >> i don't think boris johnson understands what he's dealing with. he thinks it can be kept on a low roiling boil. >> reporter: finding compromise will be hard. johnson's relations with the eu are worsening not for the first time. the united states could find itself brokering northern ireland out of trouble. nic robertson, cnn, belfast, northern ireland. >> you're watching cnn newsroom. we'll be right back. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good if you're 55 and up, t- mobile has plans built just for you. switch today and get 2 lines of unlimited and 2 free smartphones. plus you'll now get netflix on us. all this for up to 50% off vs. verizon.

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dutch team. >> to be able to share it with so many people and my friends. >> the match is one of several experiments organized by the dutch government and sports and entertainment groups to research how to safely hold live events. only 5,000 spectators were allowed to attend the match. each had to test negative before it and get tested again afterwards. inside the venue participants were divided into secks. some told to wear masks and social distance and others given more freedoms. researchers hoping to gain insight into how transmissions occur. the group leading the study, field lab events, has not yet publish any conclusive results but so far says the data looks promising for the return of live events. >> the big difference is people over here obviously have far more contacts but they're all pretested whereas at home with visitors you have less contact but people that are not tested.

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april 20th. offering a test holiday to greece for 187 people to stay on the island as a resort under the conditions they don't leave the location and quarantine upon return. so far 25,000 people have applied for it. the lucky few will be chosen by criteria set by the dutch government. the rest will have to wait. like everyone else for the slow return to normal. zain asher, cnn, new york. what better reason to celebrate than to finally be getting vaccinated? and that lady you saw there was getting her groove back with mexico's macho libre wrestlers. the famed fighters aren't taking to the wring lately because of the pandemic so they're turning their attention to helping fight

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