♪ hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead -- >> remaining silent and ignoring the lie i'm bold ens the liar. i will not participate in that. >> liz cheney gives a defiant speech just hours before republican colleagues are expected to remove her from party leadership. plus attacks between israel

and gaza militants intensify leaving dozens dead. we are live in israel for the very latest. and pain at the pump, how a crippled pipeline is causing major headaches for motorists. ♪ good to have you with us. in the next few hours house republicans are set to make a decision that will have ramifications for the future of the entire party and show the sway former president donald trump still has over the gop. they will vote on whether to oust liz cheney from house leadership. her crime, telling the truth about the 2020 election as ryan nobles reports, cheney is not going quiet ly. >> reporter: we are hours away from house republicans taking

the dramatic move of removing liz cheney from her position as the house conference chair which is of course the third most powerful position for any republican in the house of representatives. it's pretty clear that republicans are ready to move on from cheney because of her criticism of former president donald trump and in particular his willingness to hold to these false claims that how the 2020 election was stolen from him. while cheney has resigned herself to the fact that she's likely not going to win this vote of confidence on wednesday she's not going down without a fight. she took to the house floor on tuesday night and attacked those who are out to get her, saying that it is the job of republicans to defend the constitution and push back against threats to the country's democracy. she specifically called out the former president as one of the people being responsible for that threat. take a listen. >> today we face a threat america has never seen before.

a former president who provoked a violent attack on this capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive effort to convince americans that the election was stolen from him. he risks inciting further violence. millio of americans have been misled by the former president. they have heard only his words but not the truth as he continueto undermine our democratic process, sowi seeds of doubt about whether demracy really works at all. >> reporter: while cney's speech was emotional, it was very powerful, it will likely ve no impact on this vote on wednesday morning. it iexpectedtake pce fit thing in the morning, 9:00 a.m.n wednesday. unlikely that we will know and who did novote for cheney,y but it is not expected to be close after that the house republicans will then decide on

picking her replacement, a timeline for that. right now it looks as though representative elise stefanik of new york is the choice to take over for cheney at this point even though there have been some conservatives that have raised questions about stefanik there is not anyone at this point who is ready to go up against her. ryan nobles, cnn on capitol. the vote on liz cheney's future has brought reaction from both sides of the aisle. >> when you are out of the mainstream like i think representative cheney would be in terms of what was working before and so obsessed with an individual and not the policies, i don't see how you could have her position and be a spokesperson for a party. >> i will be glad when this -- this is done with and over with. i will leave this in the hands of the house. they have to make their own decision. we are a family and the republican caucus over there, kenny mccarthy, steve scalise's leadership, they will make the

right decisions. the senate minority leader democrat chuck schumer had this to say. >> house republicans are plotting the demotion of a republican member for the crime of repeating the truth, that joe biden is the president of the united states and that donald trump is lying. liz cheney spoke truth to power and for that she is being fired. >> and cnn will stay across this story throughout the day. that key vote on liz cheney's future is expected at 9:00 a.m. eastern. we will bring you all the latest developments as they happen. well, there are growing concerns of a widening conflict in israel and gaza after intense rocket fire and air strikes overnight. israel declared a state of emergency after protests escalated into riots. the city has a mixed arab and jewish population.

hamas and islamic jihad fired at least 500 rockets in the past two days. israel responded by ramping up air strikes. explosions like these have been tearing through gaza. the israel defense forces say key hamas intelligence figures were killed in the largest strike since 2014. hamas targeted tel aviv with rocket fire. neither sideshows any sign of backing down. >> translator: hamas and the islamic jihad will pay for this and they will pay a heavy price. >> translator: if israel wants to escalate, we are ready for it and if it wants to stop we're also ready. if they want to remove their hand over jerusalem, we're ready. >> the white house is expressing serious concerns about the growing violence in the region and says president joe biden is monitoring the situation.

cnn's phil mattingly has the details. >> reporter: well, as tensions continue to boil over violence escalating in jerusalem, the white house urging deescalation. white house officials making very clear israel has every right to protect itself against rockets fired by hamas, but also urging the israelis to take care to pay attention to the treatment of the palestinian people and it's a delicate balance, a delicate thin line to walk for the white house and white house officials acknowledge that, but they are making clear they are reaching out, trying to do their best to ratchet back the situation. take a listen. >> since last week he has directed his team to engage intensively with senior israeli and palestinian officials as well as leaders throughout the middle east. his team is communicating a clear and consistent message in support of deescalation and that is our primary focus. >> reporter: now, one of those officials, white house press secretary jen psaki referencing national security adviser jake sullivan speaking to his counterpart in israel, also speaking to several other officials in the region trying to figure out if there are

pathways to if not put an end to the violence as it continues to escalate, at least try to deescalate things over the course of the next several days. so far, though, no clear pathway forward to that end, still waiting for one clear statement or public statement from president joe biden, at least on camera public statement at this point this time. one thing we did learn on tuesday was that president biden has sent a letter to palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, this is in response to a letter abbas sent to president biden earlier this year. it is clear now the two sides are communicating at least in some way, shape or form. whether that has any influence or impact on what's going on right now is unclear, but it is very clear the white house is concerned about what they've seen. they are calling for deescalation and they want something to change and change fast in a region that is forever problematic when it comes to how u.s. officials deal with the middle east. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. so let's bring in cnn's

international diplomatic editor nic robertson in london. first journalist elliott gotkine joins us live this hour just outside tel aviv. elliott, we are seeing violence between israel and gaza intensify. what is the latest on the situation? >> reporter: well, after a relative lull this morning, rosemary, we know that in the past hour an anti-tank missile has been fired from the gaza strip and there are reports of three soldiers being injured, two of them critically. air strikes have resumed against targets in the gaza strip. elsewhere on temple mount there have been some clashes between police and palestinian demonstrators. there were seven arrests there before things returned to relative calm. and then in the west bank near the town of jericho there was an incident where a palestinian man tried to wrestle the rifle of a soldier away from him before

that soldier's colleague came along and they managed to regain control and arrest the culprit there as well. so, you know, and the day is just young, it's not even noon here in israel and i think there's every expectation that the violence will continue to escalate throughout the day and into the night as well. rosemary? >> thanks to elliott gotkine joining us there live. let's turn to nic robertson now. the u.s. is calling for restraint on both sides, but no one is apparently listening, nic. what can be done politically to calm things down and bring an end to this escalating violence? >> reporter: yeah, if you make a comparison to the escalating violence that occurred in the summer of 2014 the trajectory was that there were many, many rounds of air strikes, many, many rounds of rockets fired by hamas and others from gaza before there was really any meaningful intervention and

historically in the past egypt, qatar have both been involved to try to help mediate down from the level and the scale of the direction of where we're going right now, but it's not apparent that that is actually happening at the moment. the trajectory, the rhetoric and the level of attacks already this -- today seemed to indicate that there will be continuing escalations, one of the things that brought a measure of reduced violence back in 2014 was an international outcry about the -- what was seen as a disproportionate nature of the strikes on gaza. the jgazan health authorities said more than two dozen people were killed. we are nowhere near those levels. the international outcry and calls for deescalation on both sides is there but really the offramp is not presenting itself

at the moment, rosemary, neither for diplomats to go up or either side to come back down. the foreign minister from israel who was in south korea has returned back to israel, that's an indication that israel recognizes that there is an international component of course to this current situation. that indicates potentially a measure of international engagement and, therefore, potential for a diplomatic offramp to be found but we just don't see where it is at the moment. >> nic robertson, many thanks. earlier i spoke to former israeli ambassador to the u.s. danny iolon, he told me why it's possible this crisis might escalate into an even bigger conflict. >> we have to look at it, i guess, from a bigger picture is that we are at war with hamas, which is a continuous one, they call it an open war. they are sworn to israel's

destruction, they say it repeatedly, it's on all their pamphlets and this is what they train and teach their people. what we see are lulls of quiet in between attacks by hamas, which is looking always for the right pretext. >> and people in gaza are also worried about what might happen if the violence intensifies. here is what the director of pow think for strategic studies and a gaza resident told cnn. >> i am in gaza now, i am in my home, i cannot get out. there is shelling almost everywhere. gaza is too small, you cannot escape from one place to another place. the escalation continues. and this reminded us with three major wars in gaza, 2008, 2009 by lasted four weeks, 2012 which lasted for ten days and 2014 which lasted for 51 days with

2,000 palestinians were killed and more than 10,000 houses were destroyed totally. gaza has to cope and go through this war again. >> and we will continue to follow that story. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," demand for gasoline in parts of the u.s. is soaring after a cyber attack by russian hackers. why officials say panic buying at the pump is only making matters worse.

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the power of the federal government to incentivize people to get vaccinated. >> that's one area where we could use some help from the white house and others and that is modeling what a fully vaccinated person can do. >> reporter: biden promising updated guidance soon. >> we've gone a little slower to make sure we're exactly right. you're going to see a more aggressive effort once vaccinated, it's not only you can hug your grandchildren, you can do a lot more. >> reporter: the president also highlighting the fda's decision to expand authorization of the pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds which now goes before a cdc advisory panel for a vote. >> parents who want to protect their children, younger teens want to get vaccinated, we're a step closer to that goal now. >> reporter: the last time the cdc updated its mask guidance director rochelle walensky touted this statistic. >> less than 10% of the documented transmission in many studies have occurred outdoors. >> reporter: but "the new york times" said that 10% number is

misleading. according to the "times" outdoor transmission appears to actually be below 1% and may be even below 0.1%. lawmakers pressed walensky to explain the deceiving number during a tense hearing on capitol hill today. >> i always considered the cdc to be the gold standard. i don't anymore. why it is exaggerating outdoor transmission -- >> the top line result of all -- all studies that were included in the systematic review said less than 10% of cases were transmitted outdoors. >> reporter: the long running feud between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul also on full display. >> senator paul, with all due respect, you are entirely -- entirely and completely incorrect. >> reporter: fauci advocating for an investigation into the origins of the virus while pushing back on paul's claim that u.s. government funded research in china played a role

in the outbreak. >> do you still support sending money to the wuhan virology institute. >> we do not send money now to -- let me explain to you why that was done. it would have been irresponsible of us if we did not investigate the bat viruses. >> government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function research. >> i don't favor gain of function research. you are saying things that are not correct. >> reporter: and as the cdc director was testifying in washington, she noted the difficulty that faces them when they do issue that blanket guidance, given there are different vaccination rates, different case rates throughout the u.s. but after president biden seemed to imply they could be updating that guidance this week, we are told by officials that just means they are looking at it on a rolling bases, they are always looking at potentially updating it when they can, but we should not expect the cdc to update that guidance this week. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white

house. the biden administration is frustrated with one of the nation's largest fuel suppliers in the wake of a devastating cyber attack. that is according to officials familiar with the matter. they tell cnn the government is not happy with what it sees as colonial pipeline's weak cybersecurity leading up to last week's ransomware attack. meanwhile, federal officials are pleading with americans not to hoard gasoline while the fuel company works to restore services by the end of the week. cnn's pete muntean reports on the panic buying causes shortages on the east coast. >> reporter: the latest problem caused by the colonial pipeline hack is panic at the pump with lines at some stations getting longer. the 5500 mile pipeline supplies about 45% of all fuel used on the east coast. >> it looks like they just ran out. they charged me 11 cents. >> reporter: even though experts

say the rush is not necessary for now. the white house insists there are no widespread fuel shortages, but that has not stopped people from buying gas fast. oil analysts tell cnn that will lead to more than 1,000 stations running out of gas soon with the biggest impacts in georgia and tennessee. on monday demand jumped 40% in five states from florida to virginia. >> it is a very serious problem right now. >> reporter: 84-year-old bill has spent his entire career distributing gas to stations in virginia but with the colonial pipeline mostly offline the trucks are scrambling to fill up elsewhere. he says this colonial terminal in fairfax, virginia, is now dry. >> our goal is to not have any stations out of gasoline and unfortunately that's probably going to happen and that really bothers me. >> reporter: aaa says the price of a gallon of gas has shot up more than 7 cents in the last week, the new national average now more than kooin 2.98 the

highest in six years. this oil analyst says with some stations selling four times the norm the national average will soon top $3. >> when everybody scrambles it's like everyone is scrambling to go through a revolving door and you have problems. we're seeing that behavior right now. it has spread like wildfire. >> reporter: it is a new damper on what the travel industry hoped would be the start of a rebound beyond just road trips. in atlanta the airport says it is looking for additional fuel suppliers, american airlines is adding stops to a few of its longer flights unable to top off all the way. the energy secretary calls this a supply crunch rather than a gas shortage. >> there was no cause for, say, hoarding toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic, there should be no cause for hoarding gasoline. >> reporter: here in virginia the governor just declared a state of emergency even though

only about 7% of gas stations statewide are now without gas. colonial says it can say on wednesday when it can turn the pipeline back on but it could take a few days after that until gas begins reaching terminals like this one. pete muntean, cnn, fairfax, virginia. andrew brown jr.'s family is speaking out after a judge granted them access to see more body cam footage of his fatal police shooting. what they say it proves. that's next. and elise stefanik is expected to take over from liz cheney in the house republican leadership. we head to her district in rural new york to see how their loyalty to donald trump is playing with voters. infused with natural essential oils into a mist. to awaken your home with an experience you can see, smell, and feel. it's air care, redefined. air wick essential mist. connect to nature.

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the family of andrew brown jr. finally got to see more of the body cam footage showing his death at the hands of police last month in north carolina. they have spent weeks pushing for its release and their lawyers are still fighting to get all of the full unredacted videos of the incident made public. based on what they've seen, brown's family contends the shooting was unjustified. cnn's brian todd has the details. >> now we know why they didn't want to release the tape. >> reporter: almost three weeks after he was fatally shot during an attempted arrest the family and lawyers of andrew brown jr. describe what they say the body camera footage shows during the final moments of brown's life. >> my father did not deserve to die at all. did he not deserve to get killed in any way, hap or form he did not pose any threat at all.

there is no way that this could be justified. there is no way possible. >> reporter: a judge allowed them to view less than 20 minutes out of nearly two total hours of footage from sheriff's deputies' body cameras. >> when the first shot fired he was sitting in his car and then he began to back up. at no time did we see him go towards a sheriff deputy at any time. the first shot was fired and what we saw was after it was fired he began to back up because he wanted to get out of there. >> reporter: the district attorney has told a different story of what brown did with his car. >> as it backs up it does make contact with law enforcement officers. the next movement of the car is forward, it is in the direction of law enforcement and makes contact with law enforcement. it is then and only then that you hear shots. >> at no point did we ever see mr. brown make contact with law enforcement. >> reporter: cnn has obtained other critical images of that violent morning in elizabeth city. this street camera footage shows deputies racing toward andrew

brown's house in the back of a pickup truck wearing tactical gear. they were serving search and arrest warrants for narcotics. the footage shows the truck stopping at brown's house, deputies are heard screaming commands, but it does not show the actual shooting. this footage captured by a neighbor just seconds after brown was shot shows deputies surrounding brown's car after it crashed. two neighbors told cnn deputies pulled brown out of his car and attempted lifesaving measures. >> he going to get his justice because it wasn't right. >> the killer should be wrought to justice and they will be. they will be. >> reporter: and the brown family attorneys are renewing their call for the district attorney andrew womble to recuse himself from this case saying that womble works way too closely with the sheriff's department and its deputies. andrew womble steadfastly refuses to recuse himself. brian todd, cnn, elizabeth city, north carolina. three men charged with killing ahmaud arbery have

pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime and attempted kidnapping charges. the suspects are accused of chasing and fatally shooting arbery an african-american man while he was jogging near brunswick, georgia, last year. the men wore orange jumpsuits and were shackled at the ankles in their first federal court appearance. they have appeared by video link in the state proceedings. their trial is set to start in october. all three have pleaded not guilty to the most serious charge of felony murder. also in georgia prosecutors are upgrading the charges against the suspect in the atlanta area spa shootings and they are now seeking the death penalty for hate crimes. police say robert aaron long shot and killed eight people at three different spas back in march. six of the victims were women of asian descent. county authorities say long told investigators that he had a sexual addiction and that the

shootings were not racially motivated. the enhanced charges will be the first test of a hate crimes law passed by the georgia legislature last year. well, in a matter of hours liz cheney will learn if she's been kicked out of republican leadership in the u.s. house. the vote is set for later today and cheney's ouster appears all but certain. ahead of the vote she gave a defiant speech telling congress, quote, ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. >> our duty is clear, every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. this is not about policy, this is not about partisanship, this is about our duty as americans. remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. i will not participate in that. i will not sit back and watch in

silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president's crew usade t undermine our democracy. >> elise stefanik the new york congresswoman has changed her tune on donald trump inviting both support and criticism in her district. athena jones has more. >> thes a breath of fresh air. >> she is a miserable ambitious demagogue. >> reporter: essex county new york among the stringyest of swing counties, 25 in the country to vote twice for barack obama, choose donald trump in 2016 and pivot back to joe biden in 2020. >> this is a classic purple district. >> reporter: maybe that's where opinions of elise stefanik poised to become the highest ranking republican woman in

congress embracing trump's lies about the 2020 election are mixed in this small down. >> she's done a lot of good stuff for the towns and counties around here and i think she would do an excellent job in this town. >> she's backing the big lie and i -- and trump, too, so i am not supporting that at all. in her first term when she ran up here i voted for her, but then i wouldn't vote again for her. >> reporter: the6-year-old harvard gradte worked asn aid for president george w. bush and for mitt romney's 2012 presidential campaign. brian man has coverestefanik for years. >> any political observer two years ago would have said that elise stefanik would have been in liz cheney's corner in this fight. >> reporter: stefanik campaigned as a moderate in 2014. >> with new ideas and fresh leadership together we can get it done. >> she was someone who opposed donald trump early on things like nato and his attack on

nafta. moderate right down the line. >> reporter: ster nick was endorsed in th first run by romney, now stefanikas taken a different tack, becoming a fierce ally of trump during his first impeachment. >> this has been an unfair process from the start. >> reporter: and voting to turn the election results. >> tens of millions of americans are concerned that the020 election featured unconstitional overreach by unelected ste official >> reporter: and she's won over some voters who are pro trump but had their doubts when stefanik who grew in albany claimed to be from here. >> i'm elise stenik, a small businesswomafrom wills brow. >> i just wasn't impressed. if you can't tell your -- the people you're trying to represent where you are actually from, that just spoke volumes to me, but i am reay glad that i really is trying her best for the north country. >> reporter: as stefanik's political star hasisen a her embrace of trump has grown

stronger others here complain she has left her district behind. >> there are a lot of very important issues here as with many rural areas, drug abuse, health care, broadband access, which is critical now, education. i don't see her talking about the north country and the issues >> reporter: one thing see clear. >> she is very difrent polician now than she was a policy ideas, different allies, edding, you know, people who been close to her for a long time. and that's turned out to be a wiing strategy. >> reporter: stefanik won this district by a landslide in 2020 with nearly 60% of the vote, improving on her showing in 2018. so at least for now her big pivot to trump appears to be paying off. still the margin was much closer here in essex county. the question is whether the voices of voters who are upset by her evolution will grow more

louder and more numerous come 2022. athena jones, cnn, essex county, new york. still to come here on cnn, a big step forward for the u.s. in the battle against covid-19. we will explain what children have to do with it. 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.

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welcome back, ever one. later today the cdc is expected to formally recommend pfizer's covid vaccine for children ages 12 to 15 here in the united states. e fda has already approved emergency use of the vaccine this age group. a doctor involved in the clinical trials spoke to cnn's dr. sanjay gupta about the vaccine's safety and effe effect fectiveness. >> ts is 15-yearld ben dropick. 's about to get thcovid-19 ccine as part of a clinical trial. >> this is just trying to beat

the virus, ting to get everything back to normal. >> the kids have been leading the charge on a lot of this. >> reporter: dr. robert frank has been research vaccines on kids for 40 years. he now oversees covid-19 vaccine trials in kids at cincinnati children's hospital. >> one of the ings that people have said is that teagers they only care about themselves and they're just looking out for themselves. and i have found that to be totally wrong. >> reporter: they've also found another piece of good news, just one month after getting the second dose pfizer's trials found that teens age 12 to 15 had even higher levels of antibodies than 16 to 25 year olds who had also received the shots. making them far less likely to get sick. >> 18 cases of covid in the 1,500 adolescents that had placebo and zero in the group that got vcine. >> reporter: since the pandemic began the american academyf pediatrics reported over 3.7 million children were infected

with covid-19 but less than 2% of them were hostalized. according to the cdc children under 18 make up about 12% of all cases but so represent just a tenth of a perct of all the agencyas found more an 3,000 childr have developed a hyper immune response to the virus known as misc, which causes different parts of their body to become inflamed. i imagine that a lot of parents will say, look, i don't think that my kid or kids in general are that at risk of getting sick in the first place. what is the real reason that we need to get kids vaccinated? >> so they have a runny nose, a cough, this he don't seem like they are that sick, mom or dad is not going to take them to the doctor, but they actually have covid and they end up then going to grandma and grandpa and accidentally infecting them or others and that those people get very sick. and the other thing i guess to remember is that we have 75 million people under 18 years of

age in the united states. if we don't immunize that group that's going to leave a big population that's susceptible to the virus. >> now, remember, in order to stop transmission we want to reach herd or community immunity and you get there through a combination of vaccination as well as antibodies from previous infections. the threshold of community immunity is based on how contagious the virus is. for example, measles, which is really contagious, requires around 90% herd immunity. for the novel coronavirus, somewhere around 70% to 85%. the fda has expanded authorization for 12 to 15 year olds now makes 85% of the u.s. population eligible for a shot, but even then surveys show about one in eight adults aren't planning on getting the vaccine. about one in five parents say they won't vaccinate their kids, either, which is why the focus is now on going even younger.

trials have now begun in kids like seven-year-old naomi. >> naomi after seeing a friend of our family participate in the study said that she wanted to do it. it will give me a lot of peace of mind because i know that she will be protected. >> i'm really proud of you. >> i'm going to tell them that they should get the vaccine so they can protect themselves, their family and everyone around them so that -- and that would be a great way to keep the world safe. >> reporter: i do want to point out that as things stand now about a quarter of newly diagnosed coronavirus infections are happening in kids. so they were a smaller percentage earlier on, but a larger percentage now. and that's another reason to get them vaccinated. there's going to be some work to do, take a look here in terms of willingness of parents to get their kids vaccinated. when it comes to getting

vaccinated right away about a third, 30%, but about 23% say definitely not. so we will see what happens with those numbers over time. what happens now is that the acip this immunization practices committee of the cdc will meet today and basically formally recommend this vaccine. that's what's expected to happen. and people can start getting shots right away age 12 to 15. i have three kids on a personal note, with that age range, and they have already told me that they are enthusiastically ready to roll up their sleeves and get the shot. >> that's great news. our thanks to cnn's dr. sanjay gupta for that great report. well, india once again has set a new record for daily coronavirus deaths. more than 4,200 fatalities were reported on wednesday with the overall death toll now exceeding a quarter million. india's total cases have now risen past the 23 million mark.

in neighboring nepal the daily death toll is also in record territory. the lockdown in the capital kathmandu has been extended a few more weeks and the u.s. embassy there is warning americans not to travel to nepal anytime soon. cnn's anna coren is tracking the crisis in south asia. live from hong kong. good to see you, anna. nepal facing both the coronavirus and a political crisis. what is the latest on this? >> reporter: human rights watch is warning of a looming catastrophe unfolding in nepal. we have to remember it's a very impoverished country with ailing health care system so the numbers there increasing on a daily basis, as are the deaths. one person is dying nearly every six minutes in nepal. the positivity rate nearly 50%. so one in two people are testing

positive for coronavirus. hospitals, as i say, are at breaking point. they are turning patients away because of a shortage of beds, but also of oxygen. doctors there are describing an oxygen crisis. the supreme court of nepal has intervened, it has ordered a national task force be set up to organize the distribution of oxygen around the country. the problem s rosemary, this acute shortage of oxygen. india has previously supplied liquid oxygen as well as medical supplies to nepal. well, that has completely dried up. so nepal is now looking to other countries. china is helping out, they have sent 20,000 oxygen cylinders and 100 ventilators but that's really a drop in the ocean considering the dire needs facing this country. you mentioned the political turmoil that has engulfed nepal, it couldn't have come at a worst

time as the country face this is national emergency, but the prime minister lost a vote of confidence on monday. it's now to the opposition as to whether they can form a government by thursday night. if they fail the prime minister will remain caretaker prime minister until elections can be held, the earliest the end of the month. but really the situation in nepal so dire, international aid definitely needed and, you know, add the political turmoil to the mix and really this catastrophe is on nepal's doorstep. >> it certainly is. anna coren joining us live from hong kong. many thanks. as the crisis continues there are many ways you can help people cope with this devastating covid outbreak, just go to cnn.com/impact to find out how. still to come one of london's largest indoor gatherings since the pandemic began. why this year's brit awards were

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popular food chain chipotle is raising its pay to attract

new workers. the company says it will begin increasing pay in the coming weeks to an average of $15 an hour. that's on top of management positions it says will pay an average of $100,000 in compensation. the burrito chain wants to hire 20,000 people ahead of the summer joining other major chains looking for workers like taco bell, mcdonald's and ihop. chipotle is looking to improve its controversial track record with workers. the company has come under legal fire for its pay practices in new york and massachusetts. well, the uk celebrated music's top performers and honored front-line workers at the brit awards on tuesday. 2,500 health workers and their guests were given tickets. it's one of the first big indoor events in london since the pandemic began. the british government used the event as a test to see if some covid restrictions were still needed. no one had to wear masks, no

social distancing, everyone took a covid test and gave information for contact tracing. well, a scandal over a lack of diversity has rocked the hollywood foreign press association for the past few weeks. now threatening the very existence of the golden globes. megastar tom cruise has returned his three golden globe awards in protesand actress scarlett johansson is accusing hfpa members of behavior which she says borders on sexual harassment. she says unless there's necessary fundamental reform within the organization i believe it is time that we take a step back from the hfpa and focus on the importance and strength of unity within our unions and the industry as a whole. and the bright lights of broadway will soon be back on. the three most popular shows, lion king, "hamilton" and kicked will raise the curtain september

14th more than a year after going dark because of covid. they will reopen at 100% capacity adhering to cdc guidelines and with more shows opening later this year many of the roughly 100,000 grod way workers side lined by the pandemic will get back to work. we will end on a high note there. thank you so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. be sure to connect with me on twitter @rosemary cnn. "early start" with christine romans and laura jarrett is up next. you're watching cnn. have a great day.

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