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♪ this pump right here is not working. the pump on the other side is working fine. i just need some gas, man. this is terrible. the colonial pipeline is pumping gas again after a six-day shutdown but it's still misery at the pumps for millions of americans. exclusive body cam footage shows an officer being attacked by a pro-trump mob at the capitol on january 6th. and president biden speaks with israeli president benjamin netanyahu as violence in israel and gaza turns the white house focus back to the middle east. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom."

u.s. gasoline supplies that dried up over the past several days should be back to normal soon. colonial pipeline which provides nearly half the fuel to the u.s. east coast says operations have resumed. colonial was knocked offline for six days following a ransom ware attack, there is no indication the company paid the $5 million the hackers were demanding. in recent days panic buying has led to crippling gas shortages from florida to washington, d.c. colonial says drivers should expect their local gas stations to be fully restocked in the next few days. cnn's pete muntean found one gas station outside of washington that did have fuel. he also found plenty of frustrated drivers as they waited in line to fill up. >> reporter: gas buddy says 53% of all stations here in virginia are now without gas. this is not one of them, at least for now, at lou the line here has been pretty lock and

those in line tell me this is one of the few places nearby here in alexandria, virginia, that does actually have gas. folks tell me that relatively annoyed, they're just trying to get gas because they are the ones who need it and that this is not a panic. >> my daughter called, she said, dad, they have gas down the street. this pump right here is not working, the pump on the other side is working fine. i just need some gas, man. this is -- this is terrible. >> but i think it's probably a partial mixture of people who actually just need gas and people panicking. i don't know to what degree it's panic, probably 50/50. >> reporter: how hard is it to find gas around here? >> very difficult. this is the first gas station i have seen in the last couple of hours with gas. >> reporter: things have been pretty calm here although down in north carolina the attorney general says there are 300 reports of people price gouging because of this rush on gas. there have not been people here filling up container after

container, although we have seen some images of that down in alabama. the consumer product safety commission is warning people to not fill up plastic bags with gasoline because that would just be too dangerous. it even earned a warning from the white house. pete muntean, cnn, alexandria, virginia. liz cheney is making it clear her fight against donald trump isn't over. republicans kicked the wyoming representative out of her party leadership role yesterday for speaking out against the former president. cnn's ryan nobles has more on how republicans plan to fill her spot. >> reporter: tonight the big lie casting a shadow over house republicans who are overwhelmingly choosing to side with donald trump moving forward. >> we cannot be dragged backward by the very dangerous lies of a former president. >> reporter: after weeks of fallout and public bickering the end of liz cheney's tenure as conference chair came with a simple voice vote in a meeting

that lasted less than a half an hour. cheney who never backed down from her criticism of president trump's role in the january insurrection said despite the ouster she is not going anywhere. >> i will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. >> reporter: the end of cheney's tenure came because of her calls for republicans to tell the truth about the 2020 election. >> what happened today was sad. liz has committed the only sin of being consistent and telling the truth. >> reporter: today house minority leader kevin mccarthy trying to rewrite history again, after orchestrating cheney's removal he is claiming his conference is not questioning the results of the 2020 election. >> i don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. i think that is all over with. we're sitting here with the president today. >> reporter: but despite mccarthy's claim cnn confirmed he recently spoke with trump and has also gone down to see the

former president in florida and many republicans, including trump, continue to claim without evidence that there were problems with the 2020 election. trump each writing on monday, if a thief robs a jewelry store of all its diamonds the 2020 presidential election, the diamonds must be returned. and mccarthy's hand-picked replacement for cheney, new york congresswoman elise stefanik is among them. in addition to voting to object to the certification of the election results, she supports a controversial ongoing fourth audit of the votes in arizona by a private company. >> i fully support the audit in arizona. we want transparency and answers for the american people. >> reporter: stefanik meanwhile is hoping to move past this controversy and unite her fellow republicans with an eye toward winning the majority in 2022. in a letter to her colleagues stefanik writes, quote, today i humbly ask to earn your vote for house republican conference chair to unify our message as a

team and win the majority in 2022. so the big question is will stefanik be able to unify the republican party for her candidacy for conference chair? she attempted to begin that process in a meeting here with the house freedom caucus on wednesday night. there have been conservative members that have raised questions about her voting record, especially given that her voting record is less conservative than liz cheney, the person she hopes to replace. members leaving that meeting did not tip their hand but said it was a good, open and frank conversation. stefanik said after leaving the meeting that she believed that she had what it took to unify the party going forward. ryan nobles, cnn, washington. some republicans sympathized with those who attacked the u.s. capitol on january 6th. house republican adam kinzinger said there is no place for extremism if the party has any chance of unifying. here is part of her conversation with cnn's chris cuomo. >> this is that moment where

defending the constitution -- you know, things like saying i heard some of my colleagues today imply that january 6th really wasn't what it was or that ashley babbitt, for instance, was murdered. well, she actually, by the way, was about to breach on to the floor where there were almost 100 members of congress still vulnerable. the reality was it was a really violent day. we can't wash past t we can't just move on. the only time we can move on as a party is if we come to full grips with what we did, what we caused and what we allowed to happen. >> and new video exclusively obtained by cnn shows exactly how violent the insurrection at the u.s. capitol was. we want to warn you some of the footage you might find disturbing. it was taken by the body camera of police officer michael fanone as he was going assaulted by the mob outside the capitol on january 6th. one rioter bragging "i got one." the officer can be heard screaming in pain as the rioters

attacked and tased him. fanone pleads with attackers to let him go saying he has children. some of them did try to hold the crowd back but the officer was still knocked unconscious. he suffered a heart attack and concussion and is still dealing with brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder. but despite all the evidence, some republican lawmakers are still pretending the insurrection was much ado about nothing. they downplayed the event during wednesday's house hearing that focused on the riots. former acting against secretary christopher miller was grilled about the slow military response to protect the capitol. one democratic lawmaker zeroed in on whether he and former president donald trump talked that day. >> did you speak with president trump at all as the attack was unfolding? >> on january 6th? >> yes. >> no, i did not. i didn't need to. i had all the authority i needed and knew what had -- i knew what had to happen. >> well, i think the evidence is

clear, the president refused to lift a finger to send aid after he incited a violent rebellion against our republic. >> a top united nations diplomate is warning the israeli palestinian conflict could lead to full scale war. hamas fired another barrage of rockets from gaza toward the jewish state overnight, mostly aimed at tel aviv. israel said seven people have been killed since monday. and in gaza israeli air strikes toppled more buildings with a deafening boom. palestinians say at least 67 people have been killed including 17 children. israel insists it's targeting hamas office and infrastructure. meanwhile, things have turned violent in mixed arab jewish communities across israel with reports of lynch mobs, arson and riots. one local mayor says 70 years of

peaceful coexistence has been trampled. as the calls to deescalate are ignored, innocent people on the ground continue to suffer the worst consequences. ben wedeman has the scene from gaza and we want to warn you some of the images are disturbing. >> reporter: once more hell is unleashed in a small crowded place. as israel's fire and brimstone rain down on gaza and hamas and islamic jihad rockets roar out of gaza into israel a conflict left to fester again has burst into flames. we heard an explosion, two rockets, one after another, says this gaza resident. i found my 18-year-old granddaughter dead, my son was injured in the head and his

other daughter had a broken leg. by wednesday midday more than 50 people had been killed in gaza according to the palestinian health ministry. among them, at least 14 children. runs have been wounded. in gaza where 80% of the population are refugees or their descendents, once more, they're made homeless. at 6:00 in the morning we were told to leave because they were going to bring down the building in front of us, says this man. we ran out and waited in the street for four hours and in the evening went back and found everything destroyed. there's nothing left. neither the militant factions nor israel show any signs of backing down. israel has mobilized reserves and is moving tanks towards gaza, while hamas has put out videos of its rocket teams, the message clear.

escalation appears inevitable and all the death and suffering that go with it. ben wedeman, cnn, jerusalem. just months into his term joe biden joins the list of u.s. presidents faced with a potential war in the middle east. he has spoken with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. phil mattingly reports on the crisis now facing the biden administration. >> reporter: when president biden came into office he made clear while the administration would certainly still be engaged in the middle east, it was no longer going to be the focus, the focus that so many administrations had been drawn into for decades. the president wanted to move away from, shift the focus to the indo-pacific region, most notably china. however, once again, reality seems to have gotten in the way of best played plans, the president now fully engaged, his team in constant contact over the increasing violence, the escalation of the feud in israel. the president speaking by phone for the first time with israeli

prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this was what he said after that call. >> my expectation and hope is that this will be closing down sooner than later, but israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory. >> reporter: now, the president also making clear that while top administration officials have engaged with their israeli counterparts they are also engaged with egyptian counterparts, saudis and emirates trying to figure out if there is a regional solution to something that only seems to be getting worse by the day, but one thing is definitely clear going forward as the administration continues to figure out if there is a path forward that they can play a role in, they are not getting away from the middle east, they are not getting away from this region and the violence that often percolates in that region anytime soon. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. straight ahead on "cnn newsroom," american children as young as 12 years old are now eligible to receive a covid

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coronavirus vaccine. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention has recommended the pfizer vaccine be given to children as young as 12 years old. the cdc also says it's okay to get a covid shot simultaneously with other types of vaccines. before it had advised people to avoid doing that for at least two weeks after getting a covid shot, but now doctors say there's plenty of data to back up its safety. now, even with mounting evidence covid vaccines are safe and effective, vaccine hesitancy is still a major issue in the u.s. health officials are now trying to convince parents to let their children roll up their sleeves to receive the covid vaccine. erica hill has more. >> reporter: a new dose of hope and normalcy. >> knowing that my kids are going to have friends that are vaccinated and they can have sleepovers again and, you know, we can feel safe about our interaction. >> reporter: a cdc advisory panel voting unanimously wednesday to recommend pfizer's

covid-19 vaccine for ages 12 and up. >> this is one more giant step in our fight against the pandemic. >> reporter: kids in georgia began rolling up their sleeves on tuesday. >> your first dose of pfizer, right? >> yes. >> awesome. >> reporter: the head of the cdc appealing directly to mothers, to boost vaccinations. >> mother to mother, i am asking you to do everything you can to vaccinate those people who are eligible in your household, yourself as well as your children. >> reporter: six states have already hit president biden's july 4th goal of at least one dose for 70% of the adult population, more than 30 are at 50% or more including michigan. >> cases are down more than 60% and hospitalizations have fallen over 30% since our mid-april peak. >> reporter: nationwide things are looking up as those critical markers go down. in early january average daily new cases hit 250,000, now the average is just over 38,000.

numbers we haven't seen since september. hospitalizations have plummeted 74% since the january peak and for the first time in more than a year not a single covid death was reported tuesday in massachusetts. meantime, the push intensifies to get more kids back in school, especially with millions now eligible for the vaccine. >> every day that passes is a wasted opportunity. the resources are there, the science is there, we have great examples across the country where it can be done. >> reporter: as science helps more of the country reopen, big news out of california, masks inside? not after june 15th. >> only in those massively large settings, otherwise we will make guidance recommendations, but no mandates. >> reporter: another sign that 2021 is feeling a lot more like 2019. as of wednesday at least 60% of the population has had now at least one dose and the cdc is expecting these current trends

to continue. it's most recent ensemble forecast projecting cases, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to decline over the next four weeks. in new york, erica hill, cnn. and the director of the cdc is also pushing for children to get back to school and even summer camps in the coming months. she tells cnn with rising u.s. vaccination rates and the opportunity for most children to get vaccines there is no excuse. listen to this. >> so let me be very clear, i think we should be five days a week, everybody present in school in the fall. that is -- i think our guidance has reflected that. i think we will be in a place in this pandemic that we will be able to do that. i think we should all be leaning in, we have over 80% of our teachers and educators vaccinated at this point. we now have this incredible news today that 12 to 15 year olds can also be vaccinated along with their 16 and 17-year-old -- with 16 and 17 year olds, and i think we should all plan to be

full school reopened in the fall. we should all lean into that. we clearly have to update our camp guidance, we just this afternoon after 4:00 signed off on the vaccination between the ages of 12 to 15 so our camp guidance hasn't yet been updated to handle that, but it will be. still to come, people in india are lining up for covid vaccinations only to be told there are no shots available as the country battles a deadly second wave. plus, a firsthand look inside ethiopia's embattled tigray region. a crew documents their harrowing journey to the most sacred city while encountering tense standoffs at military check points. >> hello. cnn. cnn. we're cnn. journalists. we are journalists.

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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." india's coronavirus death toll approached 260,000 thursday with 35 of the country's 36 states now under lockdowns or other restrictions. the number of deaths has exceeded 3,000 a day now more more than two weeks and after the scenes of desperation we saw in indian cities, the virus is now rampaging through rural areas where medical care is limited. the situation is leaving families grief stricken as they struggle to get oxygen for their loved ones. two indian dates and the union territory of delhi are suspending vaccines for people

aged between 18 and 44 due to shortages. india's neighbor nepal is also drowning under a surge of covid cases, almost all the country's districts are under either a full or partial lockdown. cnn's anna coren joins us from hong kong. a real growing humanitarian crisis there. last hour i spoke to an aid worker who outlined how dire it was with the higher positivity rate than india. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's absolutely right. nearly 50%, which means one in two people are being tested positive for covid. the difference with nepal, kim, is that it is so poor, so impoverished in comparison to india. so really it is going through so much pain right now. international aid just seems to be trickling in. we know that china is sending in 20,000 oxygen cylinders, 100 ventilat ventilators, but so much more is needed. it seems like these calls are

landing on deaf ears. now, a lot of focus has been turned to the climbing industry in nepal and of course it generates a lot of money for the government. last year the season was closed, this year it was open for business and obviously it began before that second wave really hit nepal with a vengeance. the government has issued more than 400 permits, that is a record for nepal. so the 400 climbers plus sh sherpas, police workers, over 1,000 people up at everest base camp. those permits, $11,000 per permit that's a windfall of more than $4 million for nepal's government. the problem, however, is that covid has been detected on the mountain. this is despite the government saying that no cases have been

reported, and yet climbers over the last few weeks have been evacuated, they have been hospitalized and at hospital in kathmandu they are testing positive. we've been speaking to climbers who said that they were at base camp, this was unfolding, and they felt that the government was misleading them, that they were lying to them, that they were more interested in financial gain than they were in public health. so, you know, they are very concerned as to what this is going to do for the climbing industry of nepal and how this is going to reflect on the government, which as we know is in political turmoil. the prime minister lost a vote of confidence, the opposition has until the end of today to form a government, if that fails it's a caretaker prime minister possibly until the end of the year. >> yeah, that certainly can't help the situation. anna coren in hong kong, thank you so much. contrasting situation now the uk health minister says england is heading in the right

direction. a study finds the spread of the virus has dropped by half since march. the result, the number of new daily cases has fallen sharply. researchers found just one in 1,000 people were infected with most being adults age 25 to 34 who aren't yet eligible for a vaccine. more than 90% of the case right side now caused by the british variant which officials are warning is still a threat. a new report says the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented if only the world had acted faster. that's according to an independent panel appointed by the world health organization. the report also warns that the world can't effectively respond to another pandemic without making drastic changes. cnn's cyril vanier has been studying the report and joins us now live from london. take us through the report's findings. what are they saying went wrong here? >> reporter: kim, the cause of the problem is that covid travels in minutes whereas the international health alert

system within the world health organization works over days and weeks. that really is why an outbreak became a pandemic. so if you look at the timeline, a new pathogen of unknown origin was first discovered in wuhan, china, in december, but it's not until the very end of that month that china alerted the world health organization. then it wasn't until three weeks later that china actually fully locked down wuhan. on the w.h.o. side it then took them three weeks from the moment they were alerted by china to convene the emergency committee. i stress this is an emergency committee and an extra week to sound the highest alarm that the w.h.o. has which is to declare it a public health emergency of international concern. and even that, by the way, didn't really make that big of a psychological impact because they weren't using the word pandemic. it really wasn't part of their vocabulary until several weeks later. and even at that late stage,

kim, so we are late january, early february 2020 by now, there were fewer than 200 recorded cases of covid outside of china. this thing could still have been contained, but many countries didn't understand the severity of covid and took this wait and see approach because they didn't fully get how it would impact them and that's why the report says the whole month of february was just a lost month and by march it's causing many, many deaths in many, many countries. that's how the outbreak, targeted outbreak in wuhan, china, becomes a global pandemic, kim. >> no excuse for all of that foot dragging and hopefully lessons have been learned for the inevitable next one. cyril vanier in london, thanks for laying that out for us. troops were supposed to withdraw weeks ago from ethiopia's tigray region but when a cnn crew traveled there they found those soldiers they haven't gone anywhere and continue to terrorize the local population. we will have our exclusive look

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after months of reporting on the crisis in ethiopia's tigray region from outside the country a cnn team was finally granted access from ethiopia's government. there they found obstructed aid routes, eritrean officers and reprisal attacks against civilians. the u.n. and the u.s. have been receiving these reports for weeks, but now for the first time cnn has captured this awful reality on camera. traveling across tigray from mekelle, cnn were the first journalists into the besieged city of axum. senior international correspondent nima al bagger has this exclusive report.

>> reporter: it's been over a month since the ethiopian government promised the united states, united nations, the world that eritrean troops have begun their withdrawal of the tigray region. we went to see for ourselves whether that was really true. a show of force by ethiopia's national defense force in its tigray region, a government visibly flexing control. we traveled outside of the capital mekelle across the region to see if the ethiopian government has kept its promises to the world. an impeded aid access and withdrawal of allies. the conflict for control of tigray blazes on. days earlier these tee grain forces fighting for regional autonomy pushed out eritrean troops from this town. as we arrive one young man wants to show us where his father, brother and cousin were taken and executed.

just days ago. the blood is still visible, it stains the ground. they didn't want to wash away his blood, he says, they wanted to leave it there. the body they took to the graveyard, but the blood, the place where his father was executed he -- the family still wants that place marked. just a few meters from where his father died, his brother and cousin were executed. murdered, he says, by eritreans, the same eritreans who are supposed to have withdrawn. we return with him to his family. in total just this one family lost seven loved ones, less than a week ago. >> translator: all of us have to run and hide when they come, even the women. they rape the women and then kill them. may god bring mercy on us because we don't know what we can do. >> reporter: the eritreans are not only still here but a day into our journey and we have

already found evidence of fresh atrocities. we hear that the holy city of axum to the west has been sealed off by eritrean soldiers for 12 days. we need to see for ourselves. so we head out towards axum but don't get very far. something is not right. the team car behind us radios in. a u.n. driver flashes us a warning but we decide to press on. hello. can we go ahead? we're going to go. >> no problem. >> thank you. >> but the road ahead is blocked. we get out of the car with our hands up and identify ourselves to the ethiopian soldiers. >> hey. hey. hello. hello. cnn. cnn. we're cnn.

journalists. >> that's impossible. >> we are journalists. >> impossible. >> sir, tell us -- >> ask our commander. >> we spoke -- >> the soldier spots our cameras. they are incredibly tense. >> it's okay. it's okay. >> reporter: the soldiers close in on us. >> we asked there. sir, we asked. >> reporter: as we're pulled to one side we turn on our covert camera. >> unless we are detained we're not giving them the camera. we will only go to the administration, the civilian administration. if you want to have detained a cnn team then that's what's happened now because we are not going to the camp willingly. they have now said that we are allowed to go and meet the general in a civilian location but it is still against our will, but we're going. on our way to the headquarters we're able to hide our footage and we are later released. at the local hospital we find out why the soldiers didn't want us to film.

>> what happened? it's okay. you are clearly in shock. just take a moment to breathe and then tell us what happened. >> translator: we were in the bus station when the shooting started. we were running, trying to get away and that's when it happened. >> reporter: this girl is so scared she's covering her face but she wants to tell us what happened which is that a grenade detonated in front of a group of soldiers and she says they started randomly opening fire on civilians. she is clearly not a soldier, she is a teenage girl and she says that she was shot through the leg. this is the main route to axum, it's a vital supply artery, but for 12 days now nothing has been able to pass. first checkpoint, ethiopian soldiers let us through. ahead we've been warned by senior ethiopian military sources we will find aeritrean

soldiers. before we reach the second checkpoint we turn on our covert cameras. >> hello, sir. can i show you our papers? we're cnn. journalists. we have permission to travel. >> reporter: these are eritrean troops captured here for the first time on camera. a ragtag army in their distinctive light colored fatigues, some are also wearing a previously retired ethiopian army uniform, a clear bid to sow confusion as to whether they're ethiopian or eritrean. >> the eritrean soldiers are telling us we don't have permission to travel even though the ethiopian soldiers waved us through. the eritrean soldiers are supposed to have been withdrawing but here they are manning a checkpoint and blocking us from building forward. >> journalists. we have permission.

you're asking us to turn back? okay. we've been sent back. >> reporter: both eritrea and ethiopia promised these troops would withdraw weeks ago yet this foreign force is still here and occupying, obstructing a key supply route with impunity. after calling the interim government, military contacts and others on our fourth attempt we make it through. three days after setting off we finally arrive in axum. a unesco heritage site, the holiest city in ethiopia and a place of pilgrimage but even the act of worship here is a dangerous one. the war is never far away. at a local health facility we see firsthand the consequences of this almost two-week siege. two month old johann necessary's

life has been hanging in the balance, his mother risks her life and his to get him past the soldiers encircling the city so that he can receive lifesaving oxygen. >> translator: when he first got ill it was a hard time so i couldn't bring him. there was an act of war, he got weaker, but i couldn't find transport. i had to travel difficult roads alone to get him here. >> reporter: he is not out of danger yet. the hospital electricity flickers on and off and they are still waiting to get more cylinders of oxygen. in the almost two weeks that axum has been cut off from the outside world violence has spiked. we find this 24-year-old teacher. >> reporter: do you know who did this to you? eritrean soldiers did this.

i'm so sorry. this is just one case that we are able to capture because we're here, but it's impossible to know how many more women this was done to while the city was closed off from the outside world. another health facility axum referral hospital, soldiers walk in and out of the hospital with immunity. one spots the camera and runs off. they run out of blood here, doctors and medical students are donating their own, but it's still not enough. people who could have been saved are dying. every patient you see here, the old, the young, the helpless, all injured in this conflict. our journey here has brought into focus the hollowness of ethiopia's promises. as we leave axum a line of

soldiers encircles the hospital. there is no respite. cnn reached out to the eritrean and ethiopian governments with multiple requests for comment but they did not respond. knee ma elbagir, cnn, london. a rising number of covid cases and extended state of emergency and yet the international olympic committee is determined to keep the tokyo games on schedule. we're live in japan next. stay with us.

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with less than three months to go the international olympic committee says the tokyo games are still on track. the announcement comes despite a rising number of covid cases in japan and an extended state of emergency in folk joe and other areas. selina wang joins me live from tokyo. it seems i think creasingly unrealistic, doesn't it, given the current covid situation, even polls show, what is it, more than 60% of residents don't want it. >> reporter: yeah, kim, it's hard to believe that we are just about ten weeks away and the challenges just keep mounting for the japanese government and olympic organizers. as we get closer to the event

you have this growing chorus of high-profile voices that are coming out and raising alarm about the games from sponsors to athletes, the medical community as well as politicians. most recently you had toyota, which is a top olympic sponsor, coming out and saying that the company is concerned about the public backlash and frustration against the games that are being held amid rising covid-19 cases and a strained medical system. and this comes after you had two of japan's star athletes, tennis players schick ri and osaka saying they are conflicted about whether or not the games should be held. this is the latest covid related set back to the organizers. there are at least 35 towns that have canceled plans to host international athletes, citing concerns about the pandemic. you also have the u.s. track and field team canceling their pre-olympic training camp in japan. on top of that the torch relay has been canceled or moved off of public roads in several

places and several test events have been canceled or postponed. as you mentioned, kim, in spite of all of this the international olympic committee continues to reiterate that they are determined to hold these games as planned and they made this statement again in the press briefing yesterday that was virtual, but this press briefing was cut short when a protester abruptly cut in. take a listen here. >> no olympics anywhere. no olympics anywhere. [ bleep ] the olympics. we don't want the olympics. >> reporter: kim, here in japan there is very much the sentiment that the government is putting the economy and national pride to host these games above people's health. according to recent polls the majority of the population here in japan thinks that the games should be canceled. kim? >> let's see where this takes us. selina wang in tokyo, thank you so much.

well, a list of things you would least expect to see in front of a house in houston, texas, a bengal tiger is probably one of them. this nine month old tiger was spot there had a few days ago, thousands of miles from its native habitat of course. another video shows a man coming out of a nearby house and grabbing the feline trespasser. police say 26-year-old victor hugo could yuevas who was out fd on a murder charge put the tiger in a white suv and drove off. he has been arrested but authorities say the big cat still missing. i hope they find it soon. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. "early start" is next.

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