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live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom. " the future of the johnson & johnson coronavirus vaccine in the u.s. could be decided in the coming hours. vaccine advisers to the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention will discuss how to move forward with the one-dose shot. now, this comes after a handful of rare blood clot cases were reported. the nation's top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci says he expects u.s. regulators to follow europe's lead and allow the shot to be used, but with a warning or restriction. cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta also weighed in. >> it's rare. it's still rare, you know.

maybe there is a couple more people who develop this, but not significant numbers. i don't know what they're going to sort of recommend tomorrow as part of this advisory committee. it is likely if you look at what happened in europe, europe medicine association, agency, they basically said we're going to put a caution with this, but we're not going to say that certain people should take it or not take t perhaps if you have had a history of low platelets or blood clotting problems in the past then this caution would apply to you, but that's likely what's going to happen. i don't think they're going to get rid of the vaccine all together and i don't think they're necessarily going to limit it to certain people, either. >> but the demand for vaccinations is starting to wane in the u.s. vaccine hesitancy is the key factor. another is misinformation. now, the biden administration is launching a new initiative to increase vaccine confidence. cnn's nick watt has the story. >> i know it works medically, but when you put something in you to help you stop from

getting t you know, that just doesn't work for me. >> reporter: so here is who hhs recruited to help fight such vaccine hesitancy, walter kim, president, national association of evangelicals, also the wnba, n nascar, a couple of shacks, sea crest and ripa. >> my job is to make sure every american knows that this vaccine is available to them, that it is safe, that it is effective and that they should get and get vaccinated. >> reporter: one report suggests that hesitancy means vaccine supply may outstrip demand within weeks. early in the vaccine rollout waste was the worry. >> this is such a precious resource and really this wasted should not be tolerated at all. >> reporter: new cnn analysis of cdc data finds through the end of march one in every 850 doses was unused, spoiled, expired or wasted. one-third of american adults are now fully vaccinated.

dodgers stadium will have a section just for them in the stands. saturday the cdc is working on updated guidance for the vaccinated. average new daily case counts here down nearly 12% in a week. elsewhere on earth a very different story. in india an all time global record, nearly 315,000 new cases reported in one day. >> we are going through pretty much the worst possible phase of the pandemic. >> reporter: help to save my mother, i love her more than anything, just one plea on social media. many h, morgues, grave yards are now full. so while federal officials here in the u.s. mull updating their guidance for the fully vaccinated and wondering whether they should extend the mask mandate on mass transit, some places are taking the need, the state of rhode island named a date, from may 7th you will no longer have to wear a mask

outdoors. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. so while the united states waits on a johnson & johnson vaccine decision, the eu is passing up the opportunity to buy 100 million plus doses of the astrazeneca vaccine. that comes as many european countries are seeing cases drop, but some are fighting off a third wave. cnn's scott mclean joins us live from london. scott, explain the thinking here given that one of the biggest issues the eu has been dealing with has been vaccine shortfalls. >> reporter: kim, yeah, so this is not all that surprising. the eu has had a pretty difficult relationship with astrazeneca. there is some public skepticism of the vaccine because in part at least because of some very extremely rare blood clots found in extremely small number of people. the eu has also complained that the company that is not delivered the doses that it ordered on time so it's actually

imposed export restrictions on those doses. so the company had -- or the eu, excuse me, had an option to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the vaccine in its contract with astrazeneca, the deadline to do that has now come and gone with no purchase. the eu's thinking here is why would it order more doses of a vaccine when it is struggling to simply get its hands on the doses that it has already ordered. europe, though, kim, is not out of the woods when it comes to the virus, not even close, it is still struggling in many parts to tamp down a third wave of the virus, so much so that there is still a nationwide curfew in effect in france, and germany has just passed controversial new legislation which gives the federal government more power. up until now german chancellor angela merkel has been able to set coronavirus restrictions for the country but it's been largely up to each of germany's 16 states to decide how and if they actually implement those restrictions. so at times you would have one

state battening down the hatches, imposing new restrictions while the state next door would be loosening restrictions and opening things up. right now under this new legislation the federal government has the power to impose restrictions and curfews once case counts in certain areas reach a certain threshold. if case counts reach a higher threshold the federal government can even impose school closures in various regions of the country. germany is now recording its highest case counts that it's had since january, the numbers in france are even higher, deaths are falling in both countries but are falling at a much sharper clip in the uk which obviously is way ahead when it comes to vaccinations. the odd thing here about what's happening in europe, kim, is that while germany is imposing these new restrictions or at least looking to, to try to get a handle on the virus, case counts are higher in france and yet the country is going in the opposite direction. yesterday the prime minister announced that he believes that

the worst of the third wave has come and gone and so on monday schools for the youngest students will reopen. the government also has its eye on loosening travel restrictions within the country in just over a week from now. >> in some ways it feels like we're just going around in circles. thanks so much cnn's scott mclean from london. appreciate it. in the coming hours japan is expected to declare yet another state of emergency in key parts of the country. that will include tokyo just three months before it's set to host the olympics, but the epicenter of japan's fourth wave of infections is osaka and that's where we find our selina wang standing by live. selena, even if you forget about this olympic context here, this is worrying, including the timing. what's the latest? >> reporter: kim, that's exactly right, it's hard to believe we're just three months away and the scenario is going to be more than 11,000 athletes coming from more than 200 countries,

something that many experts tell me japan is simply not ready for. they are struggling to contain this fourth wave of cases which is driven by these more contagious covid variants. now this state of emergency that will be imminently impose sd not going to be a hard lockdown. actually, many prefectures in japan including tokyo and osaka has had these quasi state of emergency restrictions in place and so far it hasn't worked. covid cases here have been continuing to rise topping 5,000 cases a day. i'm here in osaka which you said is the current epicenter of this fourth wave, it's been hardest hit. the governor here has said that the medical system is on the brink of collapse. a staggering statistic as well from the government panel of experts who say that about 80% of the covid cases here in osaka are coming from those more contagious covid variants. under the state of emergency the government is expected to ask large commercial venues such as shopping malls and department

stores to temporarily close and there will be penalties if some people violate those covid restrictions. japan's government recently changed the law to allow that type of legal enforcement. still the question is how effective is this going to be? behind me there's been a steady stream of people, i had to walk through a busy shopping area to get here, still a lot of foot traffic. it is clear that covid fatigue has very much set in here in japan. the reality is that less than 1% of japan's population has been fully vaccinated. so even though the prime minister and japanese officials continue to say that the state of emergency, this covid wave, is not going to impact the olympics, public skepticism and opposition remains high. >> selina wang, thank you so much for that. appreciate it. well, day two of an ambitious global summit to fight climate change gets under way in the next few hours. already many world leaders have made verbal promises to curb their nation's output of greenhouse gases, now it doesn't

guarantee they will actually do t but it was an encouraging first step. president joe biden who is hosting the summit said the world's biggest economies need to step up beginning with the u.s. >> no nation can solve this crisis on our own as i know you fully understand. all of us, all of us, and particularly those of us who represent the world's largest economies, we have to step up. that's why i've proposed a huge investment in american infrastructure and american innovation, putting these people to work, the united states sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half, in half, by the end of this decade. >> the two-day climate summit is setting the table for a global conference later this year in scotland. by then many countries are expected to have announced how they plan to meet their climate targets. more from jeff zeleny at the white house. >> reporter: president biden will convene world leaders for the second day of a climate

summit here at the white house on friday. continuing the discussions about how global leaders will confront the urgent crisis of climate change. now, we saw the first round of speeches on thursday here on earth day with president biden really drawing attention to a new commitment from the u.s. to assert itself back on to the world stage. of course, on the first da i that president biden took office he rejoined the paris climate accords. now, this of course is taking it one step further. he is calling for by the end of this decade to reduce emissions by half. now, that certainly is a very ambitious proposal that is short on specifics, but the president clearly making it clear that this is no longer the trump administration. the trump era is indeed over. but it was so interesting to see president biden talking with other world leaders. now, german chancellor angela merkel welcomed the u.s. back to the stage. british prime minister boris johnson also said what joe biden is proposing is ambitious. he said, look, this is not a

discussion for elitist, in his words bunny huggers, he said this is an urgent conversation that must be had for businesses and others around the world. interestingly as well, of course, russian president vladimir putin making an appearance at the submit, as did president xi jinping of china. clearly their emission goal is much different but the fact that they were participating in this meeting convened by president biden means that the united states after four years of denying climate change is back at the forefront of leading this fight. the hard work now, though, continues by cutting emissions here in the u.s. by half by the end of the decade. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. ending global addiction to fossil fuels will take time, money and sustained commitment and obviously that's the challenge. cnn's bill weir has our report. >> the signs are unmistakable. the science sun deniable.

the cost of inaction keeps mounting. >> reporter: you could call it a renewal of american vows and despite their massive reliance on coal, even china showed up, joining the promise to break an addiction to fuels that burn, to save both life and treasure. >> green mountains are gold mountains. to protect the environment is to protect productivity. >> reporter: yes, promises are just promises, but considering that the last four earth days came under a president who refused to even acknowledge the emergency -- >> we are at the cleanest we have ever been. >> reporter: -- those who trust the science have fresh hope. >> the environmental movement and the climate community is really hopeful, but very anxious about where we go from here. >> reporter: even as the pandemic forces virtual rallies with avatars on screen instead of protests on the streets and the lockdown forces sites in of promises of a green new deal

there are worries that members of congress and corporate greed will get in the way of transformer every sector of the economy. >> people are concerned that we are not taking it seriously and whatever gets proposed history tells us it will likely get watered down. >> there are actually very smart people at harvard considering what is called solar gio engineering to -- volcanoes to send airplanes or balloons or rockets to basically try to dim the sun. what do you think of that idea? >> as a scientist i think, oh, that's an interesting process and it mimics what we see with the volcanoes and you think, okay, that could work. then as a citizen, right, so it's my other hat i'm thinking, no, this is a terrible, terrible idea. >> reporter: as part of his effort to inject climate science into every department in government president biden recently made gavin schmidt the acting head of climate science at nasa where they measure pollution in the sky but are

using their tools on wind farm planning to carbon-free aviation. >> for the first time since i've been working on this people are talking about solutions and reactions that have commensurate with the size of the problem. you know, it's not, oh, well, let's just recycle our plastic straws. you know, people are talking about, you know, seriously about how we cut emissions. personally that gives me room for optimism. >> reporter: so on the 51st earth day it seems like the age of denial is finally becoming the age of cost/benefit analysis and action. for young activists like the one who closed out the morning session, it is time. >> you are the ones creating and lineding loopholes in your own resolutions, policies and agreements. you are the knife ones if you think we can survive in crisis in the current way of living. >> reporter: biden's pledge to

success will come down to how many around the world understand the enormous cost of doing nothing. bill weir, cnn, new york. a spacex crew dragon capsule is on the launch pad and the countdown is proceeding. so i think we're going to show you some live pictures here. that's right. there they are. four astronauts, you can't see them yet, but they are about an hour and a half away from liftoff on the journey to the international space station. there they are. cnn's rachel crane joins me now from the kennedy space center in florida. no more delays, everything is a go. tell us a bit more about what makes this launch a little bit different. >> reporter: that's right. all systems are a go right now, everyone at kennedy space center hoping that mother nature is on our side and that we don't encounter any technical difficulties. let me bring you up to speed on the tiktok here. right now you can see the astronauts are strapped into their seats, they are suited up in that space capsule endeavor,

the hatch is closed. so the next major milestone will be about 45 minutes before their scheduled launch at 5:49 eastern time today, this morning, from kennedy space center. that will be when the fuel will start to be loaded on to the rocket. there's something really, really unique about this system today. the whole system, the space capsule endeavor as well as the falcon 9 first-stage booster, they've been used before. so this is, you know, one of spacex's major tent poles in their strategy is reuse to bring down the cost of space exploration. this is the first time that a space capsule and a falcon 9 booster will be flying a crew when they've been flight proven. let me tell you a little bit about the crew flying today, it's a multi-national crew, two nasa astronauts on board, megan mcarthur the pilot, shane kimbro and we have two other

astronauts, they will be flying today hopefully at 5:49 eastern time this morning. it hopefully will be a smooth ride and a beautiful one. we are all -- you know, we all have those flight butterflies right now leading up to this launch. so a lot of excitement here at kennedy space center and you really can feel that the cadence of these flights has picked up. this is the third time in under a year that i have been at kennedy space center covering one of these flights. that's a stark contrast to the nearly decade that we had when there were no crewed flights taking off from kennedy space center and we were reliant on the russians. this is part of a multi-billion dollar deal that nasa struck with spacex to take over these crewed flights to the international space station all in an effort that nasa can set sights on deeper space missions getting up back to the moon and

ultimately back to mars. >> we will be watching this for the rest of the morning until we see liftoff there. rachel crane from the kennedy space center, we really appreciate it. coming up on "cnn newsroom," alexei navalny's doctors have a blunt warning for him. we will tell you about it next. natural smelling y fragrances, day after day... ...for up to 60 days. give us one plug for freshness that lasts. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. we sold an ipad worth $505 for less than $24. a stand mixer for less than $20. a 4k television for under $2. a macbook pro for under $16. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. and brand new cars for less than $900. dealdash.com

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five doctors treating alexei navalny have a blupt warning for him, eat or die. they're urging the jailed opposition leader to end his weeks' long hunger strike right now after navalny was take ton a civilian hospital on tuesday his doctors published a joint letter saying he received something akin to an independent assessment by the areas top kidney and neurology experts but navalny's own doctors have yet to examine him. the biden administration has denounced russia over his treatment of navalny and spoken out over his treatment of protesters but questions remain about what other steps the u.s. may or may not take. so the biden administration says if anything happens to navalny there will be consequences. listen to this. >> mr. navalny, i think, embodies and in many ways personifies what has befallen to

the broader issue of human rights in russia. the fact that the russian government has sought to silence mr. navalny has literally attempted to assassinate him using a banned chemical weapon, the fact that he now sits in their custody, is in their custody, the fact that the russian government has clamped down, including even in recent hours on those russians who have peacefully taken to the street to do nothing more than to exercise the rights guaranteed to them under their own constitution, the russian constitution, i think is emblematic of what has become of human rights in russia. >> and our sam kiley joins us now from moscow. sam, we heard the u.s. threatening action if anything happens to navalny but it sounds as if his team is saying that navalny himself holds at least part of his fate in his own hands. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, that's absolutely right.

navalny today will have to decide whether or not he ignores the advice of his own team of doctors, five of them signing an open letter that they say based on tests conducted on their patient by another team of independent doctors following his move from a penal colony hospital to a civilian hospital, that he is or could be in i'm nebt danger of renal failure, neurological damage, there is the suggestion that he is already suffering some kind of convulsions and that he could suffer heart failure. now, given that conclusion they are suggesting to him that he should end his hunger strike because he is in mortal danger. they're saying as physicians that has to be the advice that they give. now, it now becomes a political question for him as to whether or not he elects at this stage to agree that since he's been seen by independent physicians rather than government-appointed

physicians, he has had the sort of -- or is getting the sort of medical treatment that his hunger strike was intended to force, or whether he will continue with his hunger strike because following the novichok poisoning he endured in august last year he still needs in his view extra specialized treatment that only his personal physicians can deliver and that is something that is still being denied him by the russian state. so he does face something of both a conundrum in terms of his own physical health, but also in terms of his continued campaigning against the russian government. of course, as the state department spokesman was saying there he does now embody physically embody the whole movement of opposition against vladimir putin and his whole movement of course is looking forward to september elections when they want to take the russian president on his and supporters on at the polls. >> all right. sam kiley, thanks so much for that. appreciate it.

russian troops have been ordered back to their home bases after massive military drills near ukraine. as many as 100,000 russian troops amassed near the border in recent weeks according to european union estimates. the drills raised tensions in eastern ukraine where government forces have battled russian-backed separatists since 2014. the u.s. is the latest nation to announce it's joining the effort to help find indonesia's missing submarine. the vessel and it's 53-member crew haven't been heard from since the day it took a deep dive on wednesday, search teams are up against the clock and the submarine's dwindling oxygen supply. blake essig is following developments from tokyo. time is running out, where are they with the rescue operations right now? >> reporter: unfortunately, kim, the submarine still hasn't been located. as you mentioned, time is running out. the search and rescue operation is focused on a an area 100

kilometers off the cost e. coast of bali, where an oil spill was detected. navy officials said at some point today a ship with high tech sonar capabilities was expected to arrive on scene to locate the missing sub. navy officials said that a different ship with sonar capabilities detected an unidentified object with high magnetism 50 to 100 meters below sea level. we haven't received updates on what that could be. it has turned into an international effort with singapore, australia, india as well as malaysia all sending ships, while the united states is sending airborne assets to try to help. sadly, the facts as we know them right now don't paint a positive picture for the 53 people on board this missing sub. if the crew is still alive navy officials say that the submarine only has enough oxygen for the crew to survive until eight

morning 3:00 a.m. local time about ten hours from now. navy officials say that this particular sub has a dive capability of 500 meters but is currently believed to be at a depth of 700 meters. if that's the case experts say the submarine could implode under the pressure. it's also worth noting that this particular sub built in the late 1970s does not have a rescue seat and rescue -- submarine rescue experts have told cnn that its salvation is entirely in its own hands, kim. >> sounds at this point from those experts it would take a miracle, but i guess there's still hope. we will stay on the story. thanks so much, blake essig in tokyo. mourners say good-bye to daunte wright, the young black man killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in minnesota. ahead we will bring you how he was honored and why his death is reigniting conversations about racial injustice. pretty taxing. i was diagnosed

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♪ ♪ welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber and you're watching "cnn newsroom." well, it was another emotional day in the minneapolis metro area where a black man killed by a police officer was laid to rest as cries for justice and accountability grow louder. daunte wright's death 12 days ago during a traffic stop in brooklyn center set off days of demonstrations. the minnesota governor called for a two-minute silence to honor him at the start of the funeral. his mother described wright as warm and loving and a jokester who lit up the room.

he was 20 years old and a father to daunte wright jr. looming large over the service the guilty verdict earlier this week in the death of george floyd. it was just one of the racially-charged events that happened in the past week. omar jimenez has details on the latest police shootings, a warning here his report contains images you may find disturbing. >> reporter: less than 48 hours after the celebration for the murder conviction of former police officer derek chauvin the funeral for daunte wright. >> you thought he was just some kid with air freshener. he was a prince and all of minneapolis has stopped today to honor the prince of brooklyn center. >> reporter: during chauvin's trial in nearby brooklyn center,

minnesota, wright was shot and killed by former brooklyn center police officer kim potter, attempt to go arrest him during a traffic stop for a misdemeanor warrant. >> taser, taser, taser. i just shot him. >> reporter: and in the struggle the city's then police chief claiming she mistook her gun for her taser. she's been charged with second degree manslaughter. wright was 20 years old. in the span of less than two weeks hardly alone. the day of the chauvin verdict 16-year-old ma'khia bryant was shot and killed by officer nicholas reardon after she appeared to lung at another young woman with a knife. in elizabeth city, north car carolina, the morning after the chauvin verdict andrew brown jr. was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies serving a warrant.

a repeated american pattern leaving some fearful. >> to grow up in an area where automatically as soon as you walk out of your door and the police stereotyping, it's scary. a lot of people don't know what that feels like. a lot of people have never, you know, with witnessed it. >> reporter: but it's a pain reverberating across the country, especially in the minneapolis area. >> we can't even get a rest from the last one. the question is not for all my neighbors and what are we going to do and how we -- what is the government going to do to stop this once and for all? this is tiring. i mean, i'm a fairly old guy now, i've been doing this for a long time and it's the same story over and over and over again. >> reporter: with the pain some hope, an alternate juror in the chauvin trial says she's optimistic the guilty verdict will lead to real change. >> what is this like? what are you going to remember most? >> i hope some good comes out of t i hope this is a changing point, a turning point.

i hope minnesota does the world proud. >> reporter: there is a pride in concluding one fight, but also reminders of so many more that remain. >> we're going to do everything we've got to do to keep the justice for us. for us. they see bad and ill about us over here, but if you come through here and if you see the people's, it will give you a whole different perspective. this doesn't happen to everybody, it happens to us. we're going to do what we've got to do. >> reporter: and this idea of work still needing to be done is part of why the u.s. department of justice has already launched a probe into practices at the minneapolis police department, something local leadership has embraced, not to mention in d.c. lawmakers are pushing with renewed momentum to pass the george floyd justice and policing act that would, among other things, ban police choke holds but also make it easier to prosecute police officers, all of it combined to try and make at least a step toward long-term change for policing in america.

omar jimenez, cnn, minneapolis. so it's not entirely clear what led to the shooting death of andrew brown jr. in north carolina. that's one of the cases mentioned by omar jimenez a moment ago. witnesses describe a chaotic scene as police opened fire into the car brown was driving. police say it happened while deputies tried to serve an arrest warrant on drug charges. authorities haven't said why police felt the need to shoot more have they released body cam footage of the incident. the killing has sparked two days of protests in elizabeth city. authorities have opened an investigation and a local sheriff vows that the deputies involved will be held accountable if evidence shows they violated the law. following the wave of police shootings u.s. lawmakers are looking at law enforcement reforms, but despite a consensus that things need to change, how should they change remains a major sticking point.

cnn's manu raju explains. >> reporter: talks are intensifying on capitol hill about how to deal with the episodes of police violence that we have seen devastating communities, particularly communities of color. all across the united states and there are signs that there could be possible deal in the works, but there are also some serious hurdles ahead on a bipartisan basis several members of congress are negotiating, they say both sides say in good faith to try to get a deal, but there are some key sticking points. one, democrats are trying to push to make it easier to prosecute police officers if they were found to do something that broke the law, to take them to court so they could be charged with a crime, lower the threshold in order to do that. republicans have resisted that. tim scott, the top republican who is a chief negotiator on this issue said that is off the table, but the top democratic negotiator on the house side, karen bass, told me that is essential to any final deal. that is not the only issue.

also the issue of what's called qualified immunity, providing police officers with liability protections in civil court. that is also a key issue. democrats have wanted to do away with that standard, republicans have resisted. tim scott has come back and proposed an alternative that police officers themselves cannot be sued in civil court but police departments can. that has attracted some interest, also some opposition from the left and the right, but karen bass said to me she still wants changes to that. she is not satisfied with that scott proposal. people in the negotiations not just include those two members, but also cory booker of new jersey who is a close friend of scott's and has indicated that they are making progress, but there are still some other issues, who you to deal with whether there should be a federal ban on choke hold, whether no knock warrants should be outloud. democrat want to make a national standard to outlaw those, republicans are trying to push to incentivize state and located at police departments to take those actions instead.

the question is can they get something done and can they do it by what is the deadline made by democrats, may 25th. that is the anniversary of the death of george floyd at the hands of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. they want to get a bill done by that time, but they still have to get a deal among these key members, they have to get support within both sides, gets the votes in the house and senate and get it to joe biden's desk. even as both sides see a need to do something, a lot of questions still about whether they can do just that. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. the u.s. senate has almost unanimously pass add bill denouncing hate crimes against asian-americans. the bill passed by a vote of 94-1. among other things it creates a new position at the department of justice to expedite investigations of possible covid-19-related hate crimes. the bill will now go to the house for another vote and, by the way, the lone nay vote came from missouri republican josh hawley. he later tweeted that he opposed

the bill because it gave the federal government too much power to police free speech. india's covid surge is turning from a crisis to catastrophe as the country hits another global record for new daily cases. we will have a live report next.

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now xfinity delivers wifi speed faster than a gig. that means you'll have gig speed over wifi to power a house full of devices. learn more about gig speed today. india is face ago worsening covid crisis as new infections continue to climate alarming rates. the country has shattered the global record for daily new coronavirus cases for a second day in a row. india reported more than 332,000 cases friday. in just four days 1 million new cases have been added to the nation's total. as you might imagine, india's health care system is severely strained. hospitals nationwide are running out of beds and are in dire need of oxygen. cnn's kristie lu stout is following the latest developments from hong kong and joins us now live.

things seem to be going from bad to worse, what are authorities doing to try to get this under of control? >> reporter: kim, you know, india is battling mass death at a record level and the situation is getting increasingly dire. we know that right now that the indian prime minister modi has been chairing a high-level meeting to address the covid-19 crisis in his country as he should, you know, today india reported over 332,000 new cases of covid-19, this is a new record. this is the world's highest daily rise in cases since the start of the pandemic and the death toll in india as a result of the coronavirus continues to spike and experts say that they believe that the numbers are actually underreported given the nonstop cremations that are taking place across the country. the health system is struggling if not in collapse in many areas of the country, there are reports of hospitals in the having enough beds. we know that the delhi health minister is saying that the city needs 5,000 nor icu beds,

hospitals are running out of oxygen. six hospitals in delhi have completely run out of oxygen. the vaccination drive inside the country is woefully slow. doctors are telling patients to stay at home and desperate people are resorting to social media, they're take to go twitter to literally beg for much needed supplies for their sick loved ones. they're begging for medicine, for blood plasma, for oxygen and for intensive care beds. i will run through a couple of tweets as examples, these are verified tweets from media professionals inside the country not only reporting on this health crisis or, rather, catastrophe they have to find a way for their loved one to describe it. this tweet asking for this, looking for an oxygen concentrator, very urgent, location delhi, any leads? please help. next one from an editor. covid positive lung infection, need plasma of any group. people are desperate, they're angry and are blaming the

government. kim? >> not only are records breaking but it sounds from what you were just saying spirits are breaking there as well. kristie lu stout in hong kong, thanks so much for that. all right. a change of pace coming up on "cnn newsroom." the oscars are this sunday, might have crept up on you, did on me, and movie theaters are struggling to survive. we will hear from one theater owner about his battle. stay with us.

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from going over. >> this last year is a bad horror movie. one thing after the other is going wrong. at one point we had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the department of finance for property tax to sow that cleaned us out. >> reporter: he can now open at limited capacity according to new york rules but first he has to repair the damage from frozen pipes that burst, the result of the building sitting empty for so long. the posters are still up from the last movie they showed here in march of last year, business came to a sudden stop and it's now been more than a year with zero customers. this is a story that's been repeated in movie theaters around the world. in 2020 the global box office fell by almost three quarters according to box office pro. some theaters including the iconic dome in l.a. have closed for good. big chains like amc entertainment came close to bankruptcy. not the kind of climate up and coming director stacey sealy would have chosen to release her

debut feeter film "lucky grandma." we made the decision to do a virtual release in may versus a physical release in august just because we had no idea like what was going to be happening in august. our red carpet was over zoom, q and a's with audiences with were over zoom. >> reporter: virtual releases on streaming services like disney plus and hbo max became commonplace in 2020. the pandemic accelerating an ongoing power shift in the industry. >> netflix makes more movies per year now than like, you know, warner brothers. i mean, the number of movies that they're financing a crazy. so, i mean, if you have a film that you want to get made it's sort of like where you're going for financing i think is changing. >> reporter: for new filmmakers hollywood's future talent pipeline, the survival of movie

festivals and independent theaters where they traditionally got exposure will be critical. >> you will not be allowed to sit anywhere another patron within six feet. >> reporter: and despite strict new safety rules nick isn't giving up. >> i have succeeded through many difficult times and i will succeed again. that energy that's in a movie house when you are watching and crying and laughing together, these are the memories that should mean something to people. >> reporter: clare sebastian, cnn, new york. well, that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. "early start" is next. you will want to stick around because we will have much more on the spacex launch in florida which is scheduled to happen in the next hour.

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is the johnson & johnson vaccine safe enough to resume in the u.s.? we should find out today. the u.s. now helping the desperate search for a missing submarine, 53 crew members will run out of oxygen by tomorrow. and in less than an hour four astronauts from three countries will launch into space. cnn is live from the kennedy center, that's coming up. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is "early start." a big day, i'm laura jarrett. >> it really is. nice way to end the week with a space launch. i'm christine romans. it is friday, april 23rd. happy friday, everybody. it is exactly 5:00 a.m. in new york. it's also 5:00 a.m. at cape canaveral where in less than an hour crew 2 will launch to the