♪ hi. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i am robin koerner. closing arguments scheduled to begin just hours for now in the derek chauvin trial as peaceful protesters gather ahead of that in minneapolis. growing concerns over alexi novotny's death, and the west warns putin. plus, out of control. historic buildings destroyed as the mountain is ravaged by fire.

>> announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn "newsroom" with robin koerner. in just a few hours from now closing arguments begin in one of the most closely-watched trials in modern u.s. history. former police officer derek chauvin faces charges. floyd's death sparked global protests. national guard troops are deployed in downtown minneapolis where the jury will be sequestered and public schools will go to remote learning on wednesday. razor wire and other barriers are being installed around some police precincts and u.s. buildings. sara sidner shows us how some activist spent the day on

sunday. >> at george floyd square the day before the closing arguments in the trial against the former officer accused of murdering him, this place turned into a place of solidarity between latino and asian folks and black folks and white folks, and i want to give you a look at what this place looks like. this has been the look since george floyd died, and some things are new, like daunte wright's name. people come here to mourn his death, and they come here calling for change. they come here like the mother who is speaking now to talk about their children who have been killed. hers in a jail, and some of the others that sit behind her, their children were killed by police. so this is really a place where people come hoping for change,

begging for change, demanding change, and right here is where george floyd took his last breath, and you can see the outline they have made, a body outline, but given him wings. you see those candles here, some of those laid the day before she testified in the derek chauvin trial. this is a place of gathering and sometimes it's a place that explodes in violence. it's a place that is constantly changing but it's always here, people are always here tending to the memorial to try and make sure that the memory is never forgotten, what happened here outside cup foods in minneapolis. cnn, minneapolis. >> and the cdc is now reporting half of all adults in the u.s. have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and a quarter of the population is now fully vaccinated. nearly 3.5 million doses were administered since saturday but

despite all of that, cases are surging in some parts of the country including in michigan. here's polo sandoval with the latest on that. >> phomonday is the day when th biden administration wants facilities to open up the covid vaccine to all adults. the drop was not unexpected due to allocation issues but now allocation of j&j vaccine is on pause due to blot clots. >> i don't want to get ahead of the cdc and the fda and the advisory committee, but i would imagine that what we will see is that it would come back and it would come back in some sort of either warning or restriction. again, i don't know. i don't want to be ahead of them. >> it's getting easier in some parts of the country to secure a vaccine appointment and walk-up

options are being offered across the country like where you don't need an appointment anymore. and in ohio demand outweighed the supply. in michigan the test positivity rate is now over 12%. >> 15 months of this and people are tired and dropping protocols. >> patients are lining the hospital hallways and frontline health care workers is struggling to keep up with the surge. >> 13 months is a long time to be dominated by this one disease. >> dr. joel fishbain noticing this time covid patients are younger and some of them add ph -- admitted to gathering in large groups.

>> if you don't stay committed with the practices we started last year we will potentially be doing this over and over again. >> doctors plea to many as some enjoy the aspects of prepandemic life. the outspoken kremlin critic is on day 20 of a hunger strike and his allies say he's very close to death. the eu is demanding the kremlin let navalny see his own doctors and the white house is weighing its options if navalny were to die. >> we have communicated to the russian government that what happens to mr. navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international community. in terms of the specific measures that we would undertake, we are looking at a variety of different costs that we would impose, and i'm not

going to telegraph that publicly at this point but we have communicated there will be consequences if mr. novotny dies. >> russian opposition members are calling for nationwide rallies to put more pressure on the government. he here's sam kiley with more details. >> alexei navalny has reached a point where death could be a consequence of nerve gas he suffered in august and a hunger strike he is currently undergoing, and they brought forward plans for mass demonstrations across russia against the putin regime ahead of reaching their target of having had 500,000 signatures on an online petition, and they are afraid he could die following an analysis of doctors that support him saying he could be in real danger of heart failure

following a spike in the levels of potassium in his bloodstream. prosecutors have bareeen try ouw his organization. if it was so tdesignated, it would make it impossible for his followers to campaign in the september election, and they are able to launch the mass demonstrations, and there's legislation in the country that means even the media circulating details of such demonstrations could be prosecuted for incitement. >> thank you, sam, for that. and the russian opposition politician and he is russia's former deputy and energy minister and joins me now from lithuania. sir, thank you for speaking to us. what is the latest on mr.

navalny's health? do you have new information on how he's doing? >> thank you for having me. unfortunately the problem is that these are weekdays, saturday and sunday, we don't have access to him and this is monday morning in eastern europe, so only today we hope to get information, and this is worrisome because his condition is rapidly deteriorating, and we don't really know. >> you heard a biden administration official saying they didn't want to telegraph publicly what consequences there would be if mr. navalny were to die. are you supportive of the way the international community is dealing with the fate of mr. navalny? >> we actually welcome the solidarity shown by the international community with the free people russia fighting for

normalcy and basic rights, but the reaction i would say so far has been fairly slow. we are really facing a situation where alexei navalny could die by the minute. and doctors are saying he could have a heart attack any minute, and that might be very dangerous for his life. i think this sort of muted reaction is not really something we expected. we expected more -- more stronger action on the part of international leaders regarding that. >> mr. navalny, as you say, remains on a hunger strike and that risks his own life. why does he continue to starve himself? what is the message behind this action? >> alexei navalny was an opponent of hunger strikes

because this is something you have to take to the end or do not start at all, so the fact that he announced the hunger strike means he was facing critical conditions, and this is the reason for the hunger strike because his health was beginning to rapidly deteriorate and he was denied to see the doctor, and this place where he is being kept does not have a doctor but only a paramedic, and he's denied basic normal medical services so this is why a hunger strike. >> what would his death mean? he's clearly serious about this, politically what kind of a statement does he know that it might bring and what kind of pressure does that put on mr. putin? >> we're not there yet. i would prefer not to jump ahead, but however i have to say

that public perception against putin is really growing in russia for a multiple number of reasons. you saw that his approval ratings are at historic lows, and i think it would spark an outrage, and neutral and not politicized people in russia are watching the situation closely, and everybody understands what this is all about, and this is about putin making a second attempt to kill his political opponent and it will send shock waves across russia and have political influences. >> thank you very much for joining us here at cnn. >> thank you. now russia has given 20 czech diplomats until the end of the day to leave the country after prague expelled employs on saturday accusing them of

belonging to the russian intelligence services. meanwhile police are searching for two suspects in connection with a blast in 2014 that killed two people. they are the same suspects linked to the poisonings in england. schools on saturday waved european union flags and chanted anti-russian slogans and called on the eu to support the czech republic. ahead here on cnn, an out-of-control fire is tearing through the mountain, and we're live in cape town with that. plus, how some eu countries are loosening their covid travel restrictions just ahead of the travel season. keep your car cleaner longer. armor all extreme shield plus ceramic. nope

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firefighters are battling flames threatening capetown, south africa. officials suspect a fire left by a homeless person may be partially to blaze for the blaze on table mountain, as you see here. two firefighters have been hurt and nine structures destroyed

and a historic wind wheel was damaged as well as well as heritage buildings. what more can you tell us, and how is the city being threatened here? >> well, robin, it's very much an active situation. a very scary scene developing in the early morning hours around capetown city. the wind around 2:00 p.m. according to officials picked up dramatically, a southeasterly wind which means the fire ripped around the mountain towards the city of capetown, and many pe people in the neighborhoods near the city have been evacuated, and nobody has been seriously hurt at this point except for the firefighters. the problem is with the winds officials say it will be difficult to get the helicopters up in the morning hours up this

morning to battle that blaze. the city itself is shrouded in smog and haze from the fire and it's the second day of battling the fire that has burnt a large section of the iconic table mountain. >> also other iconic structures, particularly at the university of capetown, the impact on one of the library reading room has been felt acutely by those that went to the university and know it and we have an image of that as well. explain to us what happened there? >> well, the fire started in the early morning hours on sunday around 8:45. it was believed to be left by a fire left by a homeless person, and then moved down the face of the mountain burning through a restaurant and then to the shock of current and former students, burning several students at the university of cape town.

i it's incredible they were able to get the students out safely, and that's what should be the focus, but at the same time there are potentially some very important works of history and literature that have been burned in that library, though the good news coming out late last night is that a fire system put down shutters to protect part of the library. this is still an active situation and there are very frightened people in cape town this morning that had to flee from their homes and apartments with just a bag of belongings into shelters in the city and the firefighters will be battling at least for today and possibly into tomorrow. robin. >> thank you for bringing us the latest there. appreciate it. i want to go straight to cape town and the premiere of the westin cape. sorry to see you again in such

sad circumstances. i want you to give us the latest on what is happening now. how fast are these fires moving? >> hi, robyn, thank you. the fire was cleared up through the night and it moved and started coming towards the city. we have got -- we just changed the shifts now and new firefighters are up on the mountain. it's scary, and the freedom cook area are being evacuated at the moment for safety reasons, and the winds are very strong and that's what is fueling the fire at the moment. >> with the winds can the helicopters and firefighters actually do their work? >> of course because of the mountain itself, it does make it much, much more difficult with the helicopters, because the wind bounces off the mountains and makes it quite dangerous.

>> are you optimistic you will be able to get this under control or do you feel like it's just the beginning of what could be a terrifying day for folks around the city bowl, even? what are you warning for and preparing for here? >> so really what it is, it's about -- it's not as if we have not had fires on the mountain before. our team is really good at dealing with it, so we are actually calling on people to be calm. the teams are getting ahead of it and evacuating areas that are at risk and asking people doing the same thing, and nearly 4,000 students were evacuated from uct, and that's what is amazing about cape town is the people just step up to the plate, so people have been bringing water and energy bars and eye drops for the firemen and women up on the mountain, and people are opening up their homes to students. it really has been amazing to see the people who step up and

help us. of course, now, we just need to remain calm and help the people evacuating the areas and making sure to keep it clear for the emergency vehicles and for the firefighting people to move in and do what they do best. >> how did these fires start. there have been reports there are potentially a vahomeless person starting the fire, and there's a risk of people intentionally starting fires in places. what do you know? >> we have details on both. a homeless person started one fire, and then people spotted arsonists starting the fire, and yesterday the investigation already started. i can't say anything about it because i do not have the details yet. >> as you are talking we have the images of the iconic utc

library, 200 years old, i think, is the building and the reading room destroyed. what more do we know about the condition of the historical heritage buildings in cape town? >> as you heard earlier, one thing that was really great to hear was that the fire mitigation systems put in place, and so the planning and preparedness was really key because that saved a fair amount of -- as you say, this was a 191-year-old university, and the buildings inside uct is just under 100 years old, and a number of the buildings were destroyed, but the real issue is the heritage of many, many of those really old library books that have gone up in flames, and then across the freeway back from 1796, the last working

windmill of that age in our region, and hopefully we can restore it and get it back up and running again, but lots of damage. >> not just the concern about fire, but family members i have been speaking to this morning in cape town, the smoke is particularly bad also, and the concern that a lot of flames will jump ahead. how dry and hot and humid and the wind conditions make you concerned about the rest of the day? >> so that is exactly what it's like here in the city. i mean, in my office where i am right now we have a heavy smell of smoke. there's ash sort of blown all over the place, and there's a little smoky haze everywhere, and that's what i think drives up the tension. of course it has been in the last spell very dry, and we should have had rains earlier this month and the rains have not come and in the last few days we have had dry and hot weather that dried up this area

on the mountain and has not helped at all. we should have had our rains already, and it's dry, and now the wind is just fueling it. >> good luck to all the firefighters there on the front lines on table mountain. i will leave you to do your work, and you have a busy day there, and great to see you again, sir, thank you. >> thanks, robyn. ahead on cnn, more signs of hope and progress in the battle against the coronavirus. see which countries are lifting some restrictions and opening their borders to visitors. plus, a historic flight set to mars carrying very special cargo. we'll tell you about the artifact on the mars helicopter. that, too, is coming up. truthfully, it's frustrating to see how fast dust reappears. but dusting with a cloth is a pain.

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welcome back to cnn "newsroom." it's 29 minutes past the hour. eu countries are working on a special path to travel inside the block for citizens who are vaccinated against the covid or can show they tested negative for the virus. >> we will progressively lift the restrictions at the beginning of may, which means that we will organize in the summertime with our officials and friends for french citizens and american citizens, so we are working hard for a solution especially for cities well vaccinated, so with a special pass i would say.

>> meanwhile greece is dropping quarantine restrictions for travelers, and starting monday some travelers no longer will be required to self isolate on arrival as long as they have been vaccinated or test negative. and isabelle is following all of the plans from paris. tell us what macron was speaking about there. >> first, robyn, there's the plan for a digital passport for the vaccine, and so this has been at a standstill because of what we have seen are borders spring out where we don't tend to to have borders in europe because people responded nationally rather than at the european level like trying to protect themselves from other travelers from other countries, and the passports we are hearing

about say they should be crucial to the european tourism industry, and it's interesting to hear that system of certification, it will show that you are either immune or you have been vaccinated will be extended from citizens to the united states, and that's how crucial the tourism industry is to europe, and those that have been vaccinated will be able to come back to cities like paris again this summer, robyn. >> that would be wonderful for many people again. and greece seems to want to open its doors and are planning for their own summer. talk us through that as well. >> that's right. since 6:00 a.m., if you are coming from the united states and a handful of other countries and you can show you are vaccinated or negative, you will

no longer have to quarantine, and portugal also looking at using the new vaccine passports to avoid quarantine for their tourists this summer. even as the european campaign struggles, strategies, real moves to try and unblock at least the crucial tourism industry, ahead of the crucial summer season and it has been at a standstill since last summer. on the other side of the world, new zealand is allowing australians to travel to the country quarantine free. we are joined with more from melbourne. angus. >> a travel bubble opening between new zealand and australia, and now new zealand returns the favor making one-way

travel corridor into a two-way travel bubble. new zealand says that will be billions for its economy, and families split it into border closers for over a year will be reunited again. >> we are taking this little guy to meet his family for the first time, so he's just 10 months old so it's exciting for us. >> and there's no replacing the human touch and those human relationships. we're looking forward to getting over to znew zealand and speakig to our people, and make should go sure their welfare is great, and also for businesses. >> they are wanting to pop the bubble if there's an outbreak of covid-19 on either side of the straight, and both countries have had success with that sort of strictness when it comes to covid-19, and just around 2,500 cases in new zealand since the pandemic began and just under 30,000 in australia, and that

platform means the countries wanting to extend the travel bubbles further into the region, and australia has earmarked singapore as a country it could have a travel bubble with, and that could rely on vaccine rollouts where governments have been criticized for being slow for not getting the vaccines out to their people. nasa could be on the verge of making history with a mini helicopter. a look at its latest mission on mars. that's next.

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nasa is only hours away from one of its biggest undertakeings yet, flying a mini helicopter on mars. may not seem like much but if it succeeds it could change the way

we study the red planet. here's michael holmes with the story. >> it's the little helicopter with a very big mission. nasa hopes its mini chopper named "ingenuity" will be the first aircraft to achieve powered controlled flight on another planet. ingenuity's first flight is intentionally brief. >> it will con'tisist of a take and then it will hover and make a turn and then come back and land again. >> a short hop, that's the culmination of many hits and misses. ingenuity so far has survived the frigid marshall nights after separating from the rover. but a spin test of the rotors delayed a scheduled flight

attempt due to the problems with the timer. they finally completed the test spinning its blades at 2400 revolutions a minute, the speed it needs to takeoff. having a bird's-eye look at the terrain will look at the way we study planets. >> it's what we can accomplish with an aerial explorer. could we see areas that a rover could not reach. >> flying on the red planet presented some difficult engineering challenges because of the low gravity of mars and an atmosphere that is 1% the density of earth. nasa engineers sent along a good luck charm. attached to ingenuity is a piece of fabric from the wright powered flyer.

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great to have you back. so canada is sending more health care workers to ontario where coronavirus cases are surging and hospitals are stretched thin. at least one hospital says its icu is operating at 115% capacity and there's concerns doctors will made to ration care. >> this is the pandemic canada planned for but was so hoping to avoid. the field hospital will open in

days as a punishing third wave of the virus threatens the country's health care system. in the last week alone hospitalizations and deaths are up by more than a third with the worrying increase. the toronto doctor says his critical care unit is already over capacity. >> i am trained to save people and not use a checklist to see if people will live or die, and i think a lot of health care workers are beyond angry and really forlorned we are in the situation we find ourselves in. >> toronto, top public health officials describe the situation as dire. some patients are now being transferred to hospitals hundreds of miles away to get the care they need and the unthinkable that still hundreds more will need icus in the weeks to come.

>> they will break the health care system and virtually assure they have to triage patients because we won't have enough staff to care for patients that need care for covid or non-covid related critical illness. >> some say toronto acted too late. >> we're vaccinating -- >> ontario governor closing outdoor activities. >> whatever we put in place it will take time to have an affect and right now the trajectory of covid rises are big, and the next few weekends for ontario and canada will be tough. >> talk to me about the distress in patients and families right now? >> there's clearly a difference in this wave compared to what we saw in the earlier wave.

people are younger and clearly sicker and we are having a hard time getting them stable enough to leave the hospital. >> canada has not secured enough doses to vaccinate its way out of the third wave. the clinic was empty for much of the week while patients filled hospitals. ontario hospital and icu admissions now shattered records. >> we are stuck where we have cases out of control, hospitals completely full, and not enough vaccine supply available and difficult health measures ahead of us. >> despite the planning this pandemic is sure to push and punish patients and canada health care workers as never before. >> as we mentioned earlier, 50% of adults here in the u.s. received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and the latest numbers show 209 million doses have been administered in

total and a quarter of the population is fully vaccinated, but there's still a huge chunk of americans that don't want the vaccine. dr. anthony fauci says in order for more restrictions to be eased, more people need to be vaccinated. >> it's quite frustrating because the fact that one may not want to get vaccinated in this case, a disturbingly large proportion of republicans only works against where they want to be, so it's almost paradoxical that on the one hand they want to be relieved of the restrictions and on the other hand they don't want to get vaccinated. >> and even angelicals are among those most skipeptical, and we went to louisiana to find out

why. >> anti-mask and anti-vaccine, and anti-government -- >> as more and more americans are getting vaccinated, resistance remains strong in one group in particular, evangelicals. this is not a fringe group. a quarter of americans are evangelical. >> you do not give me my rights, sir -- >> i would rather die free than i had to live on my knees. >> how is it living on your knees to take a vaccine? >> because you are bowing against your convictions. >> he's protesting covid-19 rules in baton rouge. he live streamed himself on going on house arrest for refusing to close his church. he is adamantly against the vaccine.

>> if you broke your arm or something would you go to the doctor? >> sure, i would go to the doctor and get it set and wear a cast. >> at some level you trust some doctors? >> yes. >> and can you just explain where the line is? >> the line is in this vaccine. number one, the virus has been a scam from the beginning. it's always been politically motivated for mail-in ballots and voter i.d. that's what has got a new administration in the white house today. >> white evangelical christians are likely than other groups to believe in conspiracy theories. according to a study by the conservative enterprise institute, the conspiracies about the covid-19 vaccine can affect everybody else, because public health experts told us around 70% of the population needs to get the vaccine to reach herd immunity, and 20% of white evangelical christians say

they won't get it, and another 28% saying they will get it if forced. >> there's a tendency within white christian nationalism to want to believe these kinds of conspiracies because it's reinforced this idea of an us versus them. the problem is the people feeding that fear have an incentive to keep stoking that fear because people keep clicking and listening. >> is the appeal of your sermon that the pandemic is scary, the virus is scary and so you are telling scared people you don't have to worry about any of that stuff, come to my church and god will make sure you don't get this virus? >> yes, i promoted that. >> why are you giving them false hope? >> that's not false hope. >> why not? >> what is false is our lying politicians. >> several people told us they started coming here after they

spell on the news for keeping his church open and liked his message. >> i was worried about not going to khurchurch and going back to alcohol and drugs. >> this whole shutdown was to aim the shutdown the church, because we don't believe in gay marriage and abortion and all that. >> are you going to get the vaccine? >> no, that's not good for your health. i believe it's bill gates and them trying to kill us. >> i know it works medically, but when you put something in you to stop from getting it, that doesn't work for me. i never liked the idea of that. >> donald trump, i love him to death and would vote for him again, and when i was talking about getting the shot, i said you can have it all you want, i don't want it. >> are you going to get the vaccine? >> i did. >> you did? >> yeah, i got the vaccine. that's right. >> there's a group today that wants to apologize for being

american. >> spell preach e conservative politics and he buses in people from all over town. one reason why i think it's interesting, the two positions you have, the importance of desegregation and your opposition of the vaccine, which many of the people you minister too, which is admirable, they are poor people of color, and they are most at risk for covid so why not encourage them to take the -- >> i not only do that, i discourage. >> your father -- >> there are thousands -- >> your father and mother told me they had the virus. >> yeah, and that's all right, and maybe we had it and maybe we got it. >> you also said your grandfather got the vaccine. >> i oppose that and i think he

was foolish for taking the vaccine. >> christian leaders, people like tony spell bought into the idea where if i keep sewing into the narrative i can continue to build my audience, and i build my own credibility in the people that says people are untrustworthy except you. >> i don't understand why you can say the church was essential, and it's so important for so many people. but what a miracle, these vaccines that would allow people to celebrate more safely. >> i never will say that. there's no backing up -- >> it feels like you are taking a political position? >> it's not political at all. i'm not a politician. i am a prophet >> ely reeve, cnn, baton rouge.

>> and the volcano a st. vincent erupted on sunday afternoon, and cash covered streets and homes on the island and 20,000 people have been evacuated so far. rock legend mick jaggar tweeted about it volcano, and he said there's a huge humanitarian effort taking place. a world war ii era plane made quite a splash, and he was the only one onboard and nobody was hurt during an air show, and authorities have to figure out how to get the plane out of the water. the faa is investigating thats in department. i am robyn curnow. thank you so much for joining me. another hour of cnn with my colleague, rosemary church, is next.

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