hi. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. so the johnson & johnson vaccine may be back in play, but shots are down across the u.s. why doctors say vaccine hesitancy could be the country's next big challenge. and the situation in india is growing more dire by the day. hospitals and crematoriums are overwhelmed by covid numbers. and a qanon maga march isn't anything new, but this isn't in the united states. how this misinformation campaign is infecting japan.

>> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom." with robyn curnow. great to have you along this hour. we begin in the united states, where health officials worry that the supply of covid vaccine could soon outstrip demand. now, more than 225 million doses have been administered in the u.s. but average daily vaccinations have started to drop recently. as you can see from this, experts believe that some of that may be due to the temporary pause of the johnson & johnson vaccine over clotting fears. states are now resuming its use after the fda cleared it. but that is not the only reason. as polo sandoval explains. >> reporter: as johnson & johnson's covid-19 vaccine is cleared to go into arms again, a slight but ongoing drop in overall shots being administered a day. that average number according to the cdc dipped below 3 million

this week. the biden administration attributing it to vaccine hesitancy, a trend that the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation has been closely watching, even before j&j's pause. >> facebook runs a survey every day, and we look at that data on a daily basis. and that's shown that vaccine confidence in the u.s. has been slowly but steadily going down since february. you know, not in huge amounts. like a percentage point a week. but that starts to add up. >> reporter: some of that hesitancy being felt more among republicans. a monmouth poll recently showed 43% of gop voters said they will likely never get a covid vaccine, compared to 5% of democrats. the head of the cdc said friday that the government must perform "extraordinary outreach when it comes to educating clinicians and patients." >> i am getting the injection now. >> reporter: baltimore's former health commissioner dr. leana wen received a j&j dose before the pause. if given the option she

encourages certain women avoid it given the fresh findings about extremely rare blood clots. >> since there are two other vaccines, pfizer and moderna, that do not carry this very small risk, i don't think i would have chosen to get the johnson & johnson vaccine myself knowing that risk. and i wish that the cdc and the fda had gone further in their discussions yesterday to explicitly put a warning for women under the age of 50 to say if it is available to you consider choosing one of the other vaccines that do not carry this particular risk. >> reporter: the consensus remains the same among health experts. all covid vaccines authorized for use in the u.s. remain safe and effective. >> if you look at the trade-off here, this is still far better, it's far better to choose to take the johnson & johnson vaccine than to go unvaccinated given what we know about the risks of covid. >> 1,000 shots! whoo! >> reporter: a local canadian pharmacy in toronto celebrated administering its 1,000th

vaccination this week as here in the u.s. efforts at a much larger scale continue amid vaccine hesitancy. in new york state about 31% of the population already considered fully vaccinated in an effort to try to keep increasing that number multiple locations, vaccination sites continue to open up, including here in new york city where the american natural history museum now serving as a mass vaccination site, even offering free admission to the museum as an added incentive. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. >> thanks, polo, for that. india has now smashed another global record for daily coronavirus cases. on sunday officials reported more than 349d,000 new infections. it's the fourth consecutive day india has broken the global record. hospitals across the country are running short of critical supplies including oxygen. well, let's go straight to anna coren. anna's tracking all of this from hong kong. certainly a dire situation that we're seeing there on the ground in india. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, robyn, it is

nothing short of catastrophic. let's talk about those numbers that the health ministry released today. just shy of 350,000 daily infections. that's just up 2,000 from yesterday. the experts are saying that these numbers do not add up to what is actually happening on the ground, that the real numbers could be something like two to five times those figures. the reason they say that is because the crematoriums have been going nonstop. the fires that are burning the bodies have been going nonstop. and we are hearing of people outside hospitals just dying in the arms of their loved ones. this is how dire the situation is on the ground. so there is a feeling that the data coming from the central government, from the health ministry is not entirely accurate. the hospital situation, there is an acute shortage of oxygen as

we have been reporting and of medical supplies. some hospitals, robyn, other than taking to social media pleading for help because local officials are not picking up the phone, they are turning patients away. the hospital that we were reporting where those 20 critically ill patients died because oxygen ran out, we spoke to him this morning, the hospital chief there, and he said that a new shipment of oxygen arrived very early this morning and that they only have a few hours left, if that. for the patients that they currently have. they're saying that unless patients bring their own oxygen cylinder, their own oxygen, their family members can go and fill up those oxygen tanks. he's telling people do not bring your loved ones here, do not bring any more patients here. that, robyn, is just one hospital. this is happening right across the country. and it really is terrifying to

think that india managed to survive the first wave. the warning signs were there at the beginning of the year, that this was picking up. and then march the numbers increased. and now you have almost 350,000 daily infections, more than 2,700 deaths. experts say, robyn, those numbers are only going to rise. >> a sobering assessment. anna coren there. thank you. live in hong kong. thanks, anna. i want to bring in now someone who is witnessing this current crisis in india firsthand. dr. lance pinto is a consultant pull monologist at a hospital in mumbai. doshlth, thank you very much for joining us. i know you are very busy but i do want you to explain to us, to our audience, how you're coping and what the situation is at your hospital right now. >> i'm in the city of mumbai and we are stretched to our limits too. fortunately for us we haven't had to make any major clinical decisions where we've had to

triage or compromise on patient quality care because of the unavailability of oxygen. although all of us are nervous and anxious, we are listening to stories from across the country and we're doing our best to be judicious about the use of oxygen. we are down titrating patients. rather than rely on oxygen. so far we are coping quite well is what i would say but all of us are nervous and anxious because we are stretched to the limits right now. >> what has been your worst day so far? >> so i think it's really heart-wrenching to see people trying to get admitted across hospitals and finding it very difficult because hospitals are full right now. having to manage patients at home is a little challenging. all of us have been doing our best. we've been doing what we call teleconsults, consulting people over skype, over the phone, trying to manage them and hand-hold them best at home. and i think a lot of that is

working. we are doing our best to keep people out of hospitals. but i think it causes a lot of anxiety, both to the patient as well as doctors, to be constantly on the edge in handling patients at home. >> where do you feel india is? are you reaching the peak? and of course if that's the case then there's still going to be a delay in deaths by a week or two weeks. where do you think you are in this wave? >> so i think at least in the city of mumbai there are reports suggesting that we are reaching the peak, the past two or three days have been better than the last week. but that's the peak in infections. as you rightly pointed out, mortality, or deaths usually lag behind infections by a couple of weeks. so we are anticipating the peak in mortality to happen over the next couple of weeks, unfortunately, which usually means critical care beds or icu beds, are going to be stretched to their limits. i do hope and think the bed availability in the non-critical

care setting would ease out over the next couple of weeks. but we are expecting a lot of deaths, unfortunately. >> so you're saying it could get worse. i also see there are a number of reports of many people saying that deaths are potentially being undercounted here, that the real rate of fatalities could be two to five times higher than it is currently being reported at. what would you say anecdotally? >> i think that's been a problem the world over, especially when people come in at a very late stage, when they arrive when they're already critical. there isn't enough time to test sometimes. some of them die at home, unfortunately, and they don't get to be proven as coronavirus cases. i think it would be fair to assume the number is higher than what is being reported. but it's difficult to say what the factor is. >> what is fueling this wave? are you concerned about the potential for this new variant?

>> so i think this new variant which has been labeled a variant of interest, it's not yet a variant of concern, clearly seems to be a lot more transmissible than what we saw last year. so last year we would very often treat people at homes and they would be the only individual in their families who were infected. but now we clearly see entire families, entire work spaces, entire groups of people getting infected simultaneously, which does suggest this is a lot more transmissible. now, whether it is more lethal or whether it seems to be a more virulent form of the virus is not really known. and based on just the numbers, the feeling is that it's not possibly more lethal but just by virtue of being so transmissible the numbers actually convert into a large number of people falling sick and needing hospitalization. >> who is coming to the hospitals? i know in brazil a lot of much younger people are now presenting. are you having that same problem in india? >> so india is a young country. the median age of the country is

about 27, which means that half of india's population is under 27 years of age. so when you have a virus that's spreading with this velocity and affecting so many people across the country, there is bound to be a lot of young people coming to the hospital. and yes, i think that is the general trend that we're experiencing this time around. whether it's related to the virus being different or it's just epidemiological given the fact that india's such a young country is difficult to speculate on. >> and before we go just quickly, how are you doing? how are all of your colleagues doing? do you have the stamina and the strength to get even through the next two weeks, which you say could be pretty tough? are you okay? >> i think we're pretty resilient and we're trying to be as resilient as we can. i think we're all mentally exhausted. i think that's true all over the world. we've all been looking for some reprieve something, sort of a break from this to be with our families, to live life as best as we can in the way it was before. but i think hopefully we'll get

through this. i feel very optimistic about the fact that one month down the road hopefully things will be a lot different. >> we hope so too. dr. lance pinto there in mumbai. thank you very much. thanks for talking to us and thank you also for all the work i know you're doing out there. thank you. >> thank you. >> at least 24 people are dead. dozens more injured. after a fire in a baghdad hospital treating covid-19 patients. officials say oxygen tanks exploded causing this massive blaze. videos, i want to share them with you, here on social media show the chaotic scene as firefighters scrambled to get the fire under control. health care workers tried to evacuate patients from the burning building. iraq's prime minister, though, is ordering an immediate investigation into this incident. and london's metropolitan police say eight officers were injured trying to disperse anti-lockdown protesters. several thousand people marched through central london on saturday, calling the coronavirus a hoax and a myth. most, as you can see here,

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emphasis by the u.s. on human rights. president biden's statement reads in part, "each year on this day we remember the lives of all those who died in the ottoman-era armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever occurring again." well, turkey quickly denounced the president's declaration and summoned the u.s. ambassador to complain. arwa damon is in istanbul and she's covering the turkish reaction. hi. what more can you tell us, arwa? >> reporter: good morning, robyn. well, not entirely unexpected at all given that turkey has historically disputed the categorization of the mass killings that took place as being a genocide, arguing that the events that took place more than a century ago need to be put into historical context. also arguing that hundreds of thousands of other people who were not armenian were killed as well. and some of those killings happened at the hands of armenians. now, the turkish president did, however, as he does every single year, come out and recognize

those who were killed. but his language centers more around the fact that he believes that turks and armenians should move past what took place more than a century ago. following that statement by president biden, though, we did hear from a number of senior turkish officials with a very harsh reaction. the foreign minister, for example, saying that it was a vulgar distortion of history and, quote, "we are not going to take lessons about our history from anyone." also going on to call this political opportunism. it's going to be quite interesting to see how this affects the relationship between the u.s. and turkey moving forward, though, robyn. >> let's talk about this. what does it mean particularly because turkey is part of nato. >> reporter: yeah. and you also need to recognize that the relationship over the last few years between turkey and the united states has been quite dicey. some would argue that right now

it is actually at an all-time low. when president trump was in power, he and erdogan shared something of a friendly-ish relationship. now that president biden has come into office, that is going to actually be quite tricky because the two men are not necessarily close, to say the least. president biden in the past has called erdogan an autocrat, and then the issues that exist between turkey and the united states, none of them have been resolved, whether it's the issue of the u.s. supporting the kurds inside syria, which turkey views as being a terrorist organization, or the issue of turkey's purchase of the russian s-400s. all of these are issues that really tarnish the relationship between the two countries. now, prior to this announcement by president biden and his use

of the word "genocide," the two leaders had spoken for the first time since president biden took office on the phone. and in the readout from the white house and from the turkish presidency office neither of them mentioned what had taken place in armenia or the fact that president biden according to an individual who had information about this call, that biden had actually informed erdogan that he would be calling the armenian mass killing a genocide. both of them instead put more emphasis on the fact that they agreed to meet on the sidelines of the nato summit that took place in june. >> thank you for that reporting. arwa damon live in istanbul. joining me now is james jeffrey. he's the former u.s. envoy for syria, former u.s. ambassador to iraq and turkey and the current middle east chair at the wilson center. ambassador, thank you very much for joining us this hour.

great to have you on the show. so what does this declaration signal? >> thank you for having me, robyn. first of all, president biden is living up to a commitment he gave to armenian americans to take this step, and the step is to call the horrific events that occurred to the ottoman empire armenians in 1915 a genocide specifically. that's what he promised. that's what he did today. the issue is how that impacts turkey as the successor state to the ottoman empire. >> do you agree with this situation, with this decision? would you have advised the president for or against this decision? >> the last time it came up, in 2009, i was the ambassador in ankara, and i advised president obama and vice president biden not to do it. it wasn't a question of the facts, which people argue back and forth. none of us were there in 1915. it's a question of the geopolitical importance of turkey and the sensitivity of

the turks not to the events. most understand and accept that the ottoman empire did terrible crimes. but the use of the word "genocide" which is associated with one country only and that's nazi germany. >> and so if you advised president obama against doing this, why is this administration making this decision now? why is it now deemed to be in america's national interest to make this call? >> well, i think first of all it's a domestic concern. living unto the commitments that you've made for your voters. i don't think there's any particular geostrategic benefit of doing this -- >> but there will be geostrategic implications, won't there? >> absolutely. and those are down sides with turkey. turkey is an extremely important ally of ours in syria and libya, the ukraine, afghanistan, the caucasus, and in nato and in containing both russia and iran, which are both on the march throughout the middle east and

the region. >> so we understand that turkey summoned the u.s. ambassador. that is to be expected no doubt. what other chips is mr. erdogan holding right now? how could he make life difficult for the biden administration? >> first of all, it depends on whether he speaks out personally. sooner or later he will. he hasn't yet. that may be a good sign. president biden sensibly called erdogan yesterday to give him an alert. what he could do, that is, erdogan, is to limit american non-nato military operations out of turkey. we have significant forces and significant use of turkish bases there. secondly, he could make life more difficult for us particularly in syria but also in these other areas where we and turkey are more or less on the same side, but they're all complicated. libya, ukraine, and so forth. so we'll have to wait and see what steps he will take. as well as the usual diplomatic

temporary pulling of ambassadors or worse. >> is this also the biden administration signaling not necessarily to turkey but to other countries that this is the way they're going to do business? what does this open the door toward? >> in general, other countries, again, those countries that were very important, against russia, iran, china and north korea, will believe that their geopolitical cooperation with the united states may not be valued as highly as one or another human rights related value. that's the concern i have with this decision. >> what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that they may feel that it's not simply to generally have the same attitudes as the united states and the rest of nato, you have to cooperate closely, continuously, and with some pain and internal cost to maintain a

solid front on any issue, say, syria. and there may be problems doing that with turkey now because the turks will not want to have the same communications with us. they don't trust us as much. other countries will look at that and they will conclude the united states does not have our back if there is some internal problem or some ghost from our past or some human rights issue that washington is concerned about. that is what i'm worried about. >> but wouldn't the biden administration and particularly many americans after the trump years say that's exactly what we need, we need to put our foot down and say america is a bulwark of human rights defense? >> america is. it's also a bulwark against the march forward, which president biden's own national intelligence community just issued a report on threats. these countries are on the march. again, russia, china, and iran.

and it is very, very important that we build up a alliance which we have but make sure it works to block these people. that was a complaint against the trump administration, that we didn't work closely enough with our allies. unfortunately, many of our allies have pasts that concern us or they do things today that concern us. >> so what you're saying is does this damage the alliance with turkey and what are the political implications for that long term? ambassador james jeffrey, always great to get your perspective, your expertise. you worked so long in that region. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. people in jerusalem are waking up after another night of clashes. the chaos erupted around jerusalem's old city as protesters threw rocks and bottles. israeli police responded with stun grenades and rubber bullets. the palestinian red crescent says 14 palestinians were injured. tensions have been high after police set up barricades to prevent people from congregating

during ramadan. hadas gold is at the scene of the unrest. >> reporter: i'm standing in front of damascus gate, one of the entrances to the old city of jerusalem. this has been the scene of near nightly clashes between palestinian protesters and israeli police. palestinians have been protesting the erection of barricades in this plaza that has prevented palestinians from congregating here, a popular place especially during ramadan. protesters have been throwing glass bottles and rocks, and the israeli police have responded with stun grenades, rubber bullets and foul-smelling water, the stench of which you can still smell today. last night the palestinian red crescent said about 14 palestinians were injured in the clashes. tensions have been boiling in jerusalem for several days now, not only because of the clashes here in front of damascus gate but also because of individual incidents of physical violence between palestinians and israelis that have been going viral online and also last week a march of several hundred jewish extremists who at one point were shouting "death to

arabs." those tensions have now spread down south, where gaza militants have been shooting rockets toward israeli communities. two nights ago 36 rockets were fired. last night three rockets were fired. so far no injuries have been reported. the israeli army saying they have responded with airstrikes targeting hamas militants in the gaza strip. hamas has said that these rockets have been fired in response to the tensions in jerusalem, saying that they are doing so as part of its national and moral duty in protecting the interest of the palestinian people. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has urged calm in a statement but said that all options are on the table. the israeli army chief has also canceled an important visit to the united states this week as a result of these tensions. the international community is also reacting with growing concern. the u.n.'s mid east envoy said in a statement that provocative acts across jerusalem must cease, and the u.s. state department condemned the rockets being fired from gaza into israel, with spokesperson ned price also tweeting "the rhetoric of extremist protesters

chanting hateful and violent slogans must be firmly rejected. we call for calm and unity and urge authorities to ensure safety, security and rights of all in jerusalem." hadas gold, cnn, jerusalem. and coming up on cnn, how the far right qanon movement is expanding to include a dedicated group of followers in japan. that next. at morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view. ♪ we see companies protecting the bottom line by putting people first. we see a bright future, still hungry for the ingenuity of those ready for the next challenge. today, we are translating decades of experience into strategies for the road ahead. we are morgan stanley. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease into strategies foris out there.ad. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow live from atlanta. it is 34 minutes past the hour. now, a north carolina sheriff promises that the public will

see body cam footage after deputies shot and killed a black man. protesters took to the streets of elizabeth city for a fourth straight day to demand transparency and facts. >> reporter: it has now been more than three days since andrew brown jr. was shot and kald by pasquotank sheriff's deputies wednesday morning as they were executing a search warrant and an arrest warrant which the sheriff said was issued by an alcohol and drug task force. now, the public has been calling for the release of the body camera footage including the family of andrew brown jr., and they're comparing this process to the speed at which other jurisdictions around the u.s. have released their body camera footage after similar police use of force cases recently. it seems that other places have released video much sooner than this county here. the sheriff in pasquotank county here explained on saturday afternoon that it is not up to him. in a facebook video that he posted he explained that it

requires a judge to grant the release of that video and that if he gets the assurance of the state bureau of investigation that releasing the video would not hinder the investigation the county would also formally file a request on monday to have that video released. on monday we're going to potentially see a number of entities do the same thing. the elizabeth city council met in an emergency meeting on friday to also request for that video to be released. and a number of news organizations including cnn will also formally file for that video to be released. a lot of questions could potentially be answered by seeing this video. the family discussed that at a press conference saturday afternoon where we heard from the oldest son of andrew brown jr. >> with all these killings going on i never expected this to happen so close to home. like he left a close and tight family, with each other every day, talking to each other every

day. and we, my brothers, my sisters, we is what drove him as a person. we is what made him better. and now i've got to live every day, my newborn without even getting a chance to meet him at all. and that's going to hurt me every die. i just want justice. >> reporter: at that press conference community leaders also referred to the 911 audio that has been publicly released where emergency responders are heard saying that brown was found with a gunshot wound to the back, which is very concerning of course for the family, especially when a witness also told cnn that she saw deputies firing at brown's vehicle as he was allegedly driving away. so again, many questions that could potentially be answered and helped by seeing the video, which so far no one has seen, not the family, not city officials in elizabeth city. and so people are eagerly awaiting those formal filings on monday. natasha chen, cnn, elizabeth

city, north carolina. months after the deadly riot on the u.s. capitol, a number of federal judges and justice department officials say that former president donald trump could still incite his followers to violence. that's because he's repeating the conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him. and that there was widespread voter fraud. the reality is there is no proof of vote rigging and election officials say the vote was free and fair. now, some of the alleged capitol rioters are in jail right now awaiting trial. federal prosecutors argue that trump's promotion of the big lie means that those suspects are a danger to national security. and after sentencing in the u.s. the far right qanon movement has expanded to become a sophisticated and active network in japan. and it has ideologies and influences of its own. as selena wang now reports. >> fight for trump! >> fight for trump! >> reporter: protesters march

against president joe biden's inauguration. no, this isn't the u.s. it's japan. waving american flags and carrying signs like these. among them qanon supporters. qanon may be in disarray in america after trump's election loss but not in japan. it's niche but by many accounts it's growing. one group calls itself q army japan flynn, after trump's former national security adviser michael flynn. one member, hiromi, is an acupuncturist divorced with three children. what does qanon mean to you? >> i used to think it was my fault when things didn't go well, it was because i wasn't educated or didn't have talent or money. but when i found q army japan flynn on twitter i felt so much more certain about my place in the world. >> reporter: hiromi believes the u.s. election may have been stolen from trump but adds their group did not support the violence during the capitol hill riots. experts say qanon's spread of baseless conspiracies is a

danger to japanese society. but hiromi says it's about giving those who are struggling a feeling that they can change society. another member, tuhei, graduated from college and studied architecture. he has one son, used to work in real estate and is now a delivery worker. what do you think of japanese society today? >> translator: it's so tough to stay afloat, even with both parents working. i kept thinking something was so wrong. and that's when i discovered qanon. it's not about whether q believes in trump or not. we want everybody to realize there is something wrong with the status quo. this movement isn't just limited to japan. it's a global movement. that's why i joined. >> reporter: qanon in japan shows how easily unfounded claims can move from the darkest corners of the internet to draw in people from around the world. in january twitter suspended the accounts of the members we spoke to. they say they've now moved to other platforms and are recruiting offline. including jay here, who is a financial consultant but now

travels across japan to recruit, spreading misinformation along the way. >> it's one of the most self-sustaining communities and the most resilient. i think a major danger of qanon is just an undermining of voice that's are intended to deliver public information. >> reporter: q army japan flynn members tell cnn their numbers have increased during the pandemic. they say they have members across the country, male, female, rich and poor. experts say recent actions from social media companies and trump's defeat won't stop the conspiracies from flourishing. qanon is rooted in the belief that the government and established institutions are lying to the public, an idea that many experts say will far outlive trump and the 2020 elections. selina wang, cnn, tokyo. dozens of sailors are feared dead, but indonesia's search for a sunken submarine still presses on. the latest on the recovery mission. that's next.

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this sped-up video shows an enormous fire raging in northern ireland's morn mountains. officials say more than 100 firefighters are working to contain it. the flames broke out on friday and have spread to northern ireland's highest mountain. an assistant fire chief calls it one of the most challenging fires they've ever had to deal with. we'll keep you posted on that. meanwhile, 53 crew members aboard an indonesian submarine are feared dead after the navy confirmed the vessel had sunk in the bali sea. now, officials say the sailors were expected to run out of oxygen early on saturday. blake essick is following the story for us from tokyo. what more can you tell us? hi, blake. >> reporter: robyn, the moot ond ground in indonesia is a mixture of both heartbreak and fading optimism. after four days of searching hopes of finding the missing indonesian submarine and its 53-person crew alive appear to

be gone. a bottle of grease, a metal tube, prayer mats. just some of the debris displayed by the indonesian navy leading them to a bleak status change for a missing submarine carrying 53 crew members. >> translator: with authentic evidence to be believed from kmd nangala we have raised the status from missing to sunk. >> reporter: the submarine went missing wednesday morning during a torpedo drill in the bali strait. it's been a race against time to locate the vessel with oxygen expected to have run out by early saturday. officials believe the submarine likely cracked under intense pressure in deep water, allowing debris to escape. they say based on the findings an explosion was unlikely. >> translator: the items would not have come outside the submarine if there was no external pressure or without damage to its torpedo launcher. >> reporter: war ships have been deployed to the area to search for the vessel using metal and

magnetic detectors. the debris was found floating at a location where the ocean is 850 meters deep, which would make any possible evacuation difficult. authorities said earlier that the submarine could not survive at depths below 500 meters. at this point the submarine still hasn't been located but again, robyn, it seems our worst fears have been realized as debris from the missing submarine with 53 souls on board has been recovered. >> okay. thanks for that update. thanks so much. blake essig live in tokyo. now, the prime minister of st. vincent and the grenadines tells cnn he fears the worst could be still to come as volcanic eruptions blafrnlth st. vincent in ash. there are reports of covid cases spiking in refuge shelters as well and hurricane season is also approaching. patrick oppmann has the details. patrick. >> it's erupting again. >> reporter: for over two weeks

the la soufriere volcano on the caribbean island of st. vincent has exploded and thundered and laid waste to small communities. the usually lush and verdant island has been transformed into a disaster zone. the prime minister tells me. >> northeast and northwest it's like a desert. it's desolate. it's apocalyptic. the whole place is covered in gray ash. >> reporter: you don't recognize it? >> no, you wouldn't recognize it. and you know, you'd be amazed to see the number of boulders that have come down. >> reporter: it's been 42 years since the last eruption and the volcano is making up for lost time, destroying nearby homes and blanketing others with ash. the eruptions are visible from space. ash and debris have landed in neighboring islands. the volcanic activity could go on for four months, the prime minister says. the aid that has come while appreciated, he says, is not enough. >> we're not able to do the humanitarian effort and we are not able to do the recovery.

we would not be able to. without substantial assistance from the region and the global community. i mean, we are really at the midnight hour of need. and we need that help. >> reporter: in 1902 the volcano erupted and killed an estimated 1,600 people. this time early evacuations paid off and there have been no reported deaths or injuries. but the eruptions inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage on homes, infrastructure and farmlands according to government estimates. and with the atlantic hurricane season beginning june 1st, the worst may be yet to come. >> there's a lot of materials, stone and ash, and the rest are mud. and when you have the rains the rains will lubricate and they'll add to the weight and the mudslides come down at a very fast pace. >> reporter: thousands of people are in shelters or staying with friends and relatives,

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hollywood's biggest night of the year is 17 hours away and the producers of this year's academy awards say it will be a cinematic experience unlike anything in oscars history. but as stephanie elam reports, that may not be enough to attract the big audience the industry craves. >> reporter: from struggle -- >> i am a revolutionary! >> reporter: to desperation. >> it needs work, i like works. >> reporter: the times are felt in this year's oscar nominees. >> are you concerned about an overreaction from the cops? >> reporter: so is the sirens. the silence. including from viewers whose lack of interest made most awards shows this year a bomb. >> if the ratings continue to decline, you're going to see

some changes. i think some award shows might go away. >> reporter: the oscars want to the reverse trend. gone is the internet remote access field that hindered shows like the golden globes. >> it ended up being like a bad version of an office meeting. and the oscars don't want that. >> reporter: enter steven soderbergh and stacy cher, the team ironically behind the film "contable john." the pandemic will be a big theme, they say, bud soderbergh wants a show unlike any other. >> he said he wants the oscars to feel like a movie. shots from behind shoulders of people, moving cameras. >> reporter: to pull it off the show is moving to a smaller venue, here to l.a.'s iconic union station, itself a star in films like "catch me if you can" and "the dark ka news rises." with vaccines out and fewer restrictions, the biggest challenge may not be the pandemic but the movies themselves. ♪ we will rock you ♪ >> reporter: absent of any hits like years past this year the best films come mostly from

streaming platforms. >> it's very different than choosing to go to a theater, buy your popcorn, sit in the theater, and watch a movie. people just become attached to those movies in a way that they don't when they're on streaming. >> reporter: "mank" leads with ten nominations but "nomad land" is the front-runner for best pic picture. chadwick boseman is expected to win a posthumous oscar for best actor. >> will they be able to get that audience back? when there are movies in theaters? or is this accelerating a trend that already existed and audience members are not coming back this? thanks for joining me. i'll be back same time, same place, tomorrow. i'm going to hand things over to kim. more cnn continues after the break.

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