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going it alone. democrats push for their own investigation into the capitol insurrection after republicans vote down a bipartisan commission. president biden unveils his $6 trillion budget next year and we will look at why the spending goes far beyond washington. airlines see more passengers returning to the skies they are seeing a rise in anger and all-out brawls. we will have a full report. welcome to all of watching in the united states and canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ u.s. democrats are preparing to take matters into their own hands after senate republicans blocked a major bill that would
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have established a commission to investigate the insurrection on capitol hill. only six republicans sided with democrats in friday's vote. it shows how much of a grip former president donald trump has on the party. democrats are thinking about launching a probe of their own. cnn's ryan nobles has the latest on where things may stand. >> reporter: it may have taken a little bit longer than expected. >> three-fifths of senators chose to not vote in the affir affirmative. the motion is not agreed to. >> reporter: republicans successfully blocking an attempt to form an independent commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection. the final vote? 54-35. 60 votes were needed to move the measure forward. >> but out of fear or fieldity to donald trump the republican
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minority prevented the american people from getting the truth about january 6th. >> reporter: six republicans voted yesterday. among them is susan collins who maintained to bring changes to the bill to bring her fellow republicans on board. cassidy who voted yesterday and voted to impeach former president trump warned their colleagues they will lose a voice in the future investigations. the investigations will happen with or without republicans to ensure the investigations are fair, impartial and focused on facts, republicans need to be involved. and democrats are already hinting that is the direction they will go. house speaker nancy pelosi who made a number of concessions to get the bill over the finish line in the house vowed she was not done investigating on what happened on january 6th. the republican refusal to form
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the independent commission comes at the same time as a cnn review reveals 450 people have been charged in connection with the insurrection and moderated gop voices are increasingly becoming drowned out by the allies of former president donald trump. the former house speaker paul ryan speaking from the ronald reagan presidential lie brary. >> if the conservative cause depends on the appeal of one personality or second rate imitations, then we are not going anywhere. >> reporter: his effort mocked by trump who called ryan, quote, a weak and ineffective leader who spends all of his time fighting republicans. while trump clone matt gaetz, arm in arm with marjorie taylor greene, making it clear who runs the gop, like it or not. >> this is donald trump's party. taking advice on party building from paul ryan would be like taking advice on how to interact
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with your in-laws from meghan markle. >> reporter: 11 members of the senate didn't show up to vote. nine republicans and two democrats were not here and some offering up excuses why they couldn't be here or how they might have voted. among them, pat toomey said he would vote yes. even though he is a republican, it would not have been enough to change the outcome. both mother and partner of capitol police officer brian sicknick who died the day after the insurrection want to capitol hill to make a last-ditch plea for them to pass the bill. the two sat down with our jake tapper to talk about the vote. >> i was very disappointed, obviously. i was very optimistic and hopeful yesterday, but for, you know, obviously, them, i was not
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surprised that voted no. but still clinging to that hope based on our passionate pleas to them, but i think, you know, it speaks volumes to how they really feel. not only about the events of that day but they are also speaking volumes to their c constit wents and how much they care. it's not about our pleas how they felt about brian and brothers and sisters in blue what they did that day but also the safety of them and everyone else that was in the capitol that day. if they can't do their jobs, if something happens to them, that also speaks volumes about, you know, how they feel about our democracy in general. how can they do their job if they are no longer here? >> we hear a lot about backing the blue from politicians and
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protecting our men and women in blue who protect us. you know you're going to hear some of these 35 republicans talk about in the future how important it is to back our men and women in blue. what will you think when you hear that? >> unbelievable that they think like that, you know? if they had a child that was hurt, was killed on a day like that, they would think very differently, or if they were hurt. somebody could have been killed, one of the congressman, one of the senators, but, apparently, they just think, we are safe because of the men in blue. they don't think any further from that. >> watch jake tapper's full interview with the mother and partner of brian sicknick. i asked him if the
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republicans who blocked the commission were just representing the wishes of t their -- >> many rank and file voters don't think this is a big issue. a survey last month by reuters thought it was by left wing to make trump look bad. "the new york times" reported on polling yesterday showing that the percentage of qanon. but i think to a large extent what we are seeing here is that republicans are afraid of three things -- the truth, donald trump, and their own voters. in large part, they are representing them. >> what is next them? democrats may launch a select committee to look into. republicans would say we know what happened. there are several committees
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that have or are looking into the security response which is probably the main actionable aspect of this. so is there any point beyond the democratic political objective of keeping this in people's minds with a view to the midterms? >> i think house democrats will proceed with their own inquiry into the house insurrection but republicans will cast it as a partisan maneuver. >> president biden won't be making any republican friends with this. he is proposing a $6 trillion budget for the next fiscal year and it will touch nearly aspect of american life. his administration says it's what is needed to fix an economy that leaves far too many people behind. >> reporter: president biden has unveiled his budget and clocks in around $6 trillion and essentially lays out his vision
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for expanding the size and scope of the federal government which we already knew as part of his economic agenda that infrastructure proposal he has been looking at and that american families plan the white house says they want to rethink the government's role in em everyday life when it comes to paid family leave and elderly care and measures they say should be addressed and highlighted by the pandemic and why they should be addressed by the federal government. we had an idea these spending proposals were coming. one thing that is in here that president biden promised on the campaign trail are the health care reform proposals but not included is a price tag which is usual because they try to chart out a rough estimate what that would cost and you often saw that in the trump' obama proposals whether it was adding or detracting but here the numbers are not listed and could come from a future budget in the biden administration but they are not included in this one for
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the next fiscal year. one thing think address in here is inflation. republicans saying biden's academic agenda will cause rising inflation but they say they don't see a big rise in inflation with the big spending proposals that president biden has put forward. of course, all of this is a blueprint and it has to go through congress to get enacted and it has not been signed into law but lays out a vision for what president biden wants to see. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. much of president biden's spending focuses on boosting the economy and comes as many republican states saying it's causing a worker shortage but some workers say the real problem is a wage shortage. cnn's senior national correspondent kim young la reports from montana. >> reporter: days to go until mountain season kicks off the
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skelton crew at this hotel are already exhausted. working extra hours because of staff shortages. >> trying to do 26 rooms in a day. >> reporter: joshua dempsey believes people don't want to return to work because wages for jobs like this don't equal what pandemic unemployment pays. >> $100, 800 and she don't want to work because of what i'm making two weeks. >> reporter: more jobs than employees, especially low wage positions. this here is offering signing bonuses and $15 an hour starting pay nearly twice the state's minimum wage. >> unemployment benefits should be a safety net not a career choice. >> reporter: montana will opt
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off all federal pandemic unemployment benefit programs. >> we are going to try to get people to work not stay home. >> reporter: a bonus here if they keep a job for six weeks. seven jobs at this hotel are vacant. >> i anticipate and really hope that mean more people will be applying. >> reporter: montana is not the only state. most republican governors in the country have promised to eliminate one or more federal pandemic programs for the unemployed. but not all are able to return to the work force right away. >> first of all, i'm not lazy! i'm a full-time single mother. >> reporter: lacy cologne said she had never planned to be home full-time. >> i was working in the mornings when she was at school. when covid hit, it just changed everything. >> reporter: her daughter was sensory issues and can't wear
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the required mask for school so she has been collecting unemployment in order be here home schooling. since the pandemic began. pandemic unemployment benefits have allowed mother and daughter to stay in their home. >> i'm going to be really scared. i already am. i don't sleep at night. i guess i have to tig it out like everybody else has to figure it out. >> this is being portrayed as a worker shortage. what it really is a wage shortage. >> reporter: forcing millions on to unemployment. nationwide the minimum wage has lagged behind as a cost of living has increased especially in montana. dempsey doesn't make enough to rent a studio apartment. where are you living? >> i live in the hotel right now. >> reporter: and she fears that is her future.
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it's memorial day weekend here in the u.s. known for being the unofficial start of summer. ahead of the holiday, president biden praised the success of the nation's vaccine rollout. >> i set a goal of getting 70% of americans at least one shot by july the fourth. today, just over a month to go, we are at 62%. the future is only going to get brighter. >> while new infections are declining nationwide, so are vaccination rates. to fight vaccine hesitanhesitan states and businesses are launching creative campaigns to encourage people to roll up their sleeves. one of the most extraordinary efforts, california has unveiled a whopping 116.5 million incentive program to entice residents to get vaccinated through gift cards and cash
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prizes. joining me now, from los angeles is ann rah moment from the fielding school of public health. thanks so much for joining us. heading into the memorial day weekend here in the u.s. on one hand as we just saw cases are going down and, on the other hand, now there are few restrictions and we are already seeing so many people acting like the pandemic is basically over. now some 37 million people are expected to travel over the holidays. it feels like a big test for the country. how are you looking at it? what are you expecting? >> i think that we have come so far from where we were just several months ago and we are starting to reap the benefits of seeing so many people vaccinated. 50% of the population has had a vaccine, at least one vaccine. that is fantastic news. for those -- i would say and for those who are vaccinated, it's time to really start to enjoy so many of these benefits.
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but for people who have not yet been vaccinated, the risk of coronavirus infection is still very real and very, very dangerous. so we are reaching a point now where people who have not yet been vaccinated are really starting to bear the burden of their decision, not to get vaccinated or for those who can't get vaccinated. >> as you say, so many people who haven't been and they are trying to find all of these creative ways to encourage people. we saw lotteries and scholarships and these gimmicks, do you think it will work and what message does it send to those who were the first to get the vaccine who believed in the science and stood in line to get those shots and now seeing the most reluctant people getting rewarded for holding out. i hope i'm not sounding too bitter here. >> it's really interesting you bring buildthis up.
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i've been in the democratic of congo we have been working on this and trying to get as many people vaccinated. i understand the peril of starting to give incentives for vaccination. the worry is what does that mean in the future? are we always going to have to incentivize people for vaccination? i hope not. i think what is happening here is people are trying to get creative and get people's attention to get them over the finish line. these kind of incentives are not going to get those people who are really on the spectrum of saying, no, i do not want to get vaccinated. i think what the incentives are going to do is get people on the fence or maybe putting it off really over that finish line. >> i want to get your take on the evolving controversy over the origins of the virus. over the last week or so, we have seen more support from the scientific intelligence communities about the theory
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that the virus may have emerged from a chinese lab. rather than get into the merits of this debate, given that we have no new hard evidence right now, i wanted to ask you sort of beyond issues of blame and responsibility, why does it matter? in other words, how will getting an answer help us going forward to prevent or respond to the next outbreak? >> it's important that we understand how this virus emerged and that we really explore these two one was a natural spillover from an animal to a human or it was the result of a lab accident. both are they important hypothesises to explore. we need to explore them in a scientific step wise manner using the scientific method, infects is the right way to go forward, get the data, analyze it and really understand it. if we understand it, then we are going to have more information and a better idea of how to
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prevent future pandemics from happening. listen, if it was from an animal we need to identify that reservoir. we need to be able to understand how to put precautions in place to ensure that we don't see additional spillovers and we need to spend more attention and time on paying attention to wet markets, to animal trade, to wildlife consumption. if it is actually a lab leak, that is a different issue where we need to be very, very ca cautious and to have some better way to montreal lab accidents, to be able to monitor practices globally, because as we have learned from this pandemic, an infection anywhere is truly an infection anywhere, no matter how it started. >> yeah. you said getting the data is the key and that is the big question right now. thanks so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. the world health organization's european director is reportedly worried that
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europe's vaccine rollout is going too slowly. in an interview with afp, hans klugger warned the pandemic won't be over in europe until 70% of europeans are vaccinated and still europe is taking a big step towards getting children protected. for more on that, let's bring in cnn's scott mcclain in london. scott, young people 12 and over in the u.s. and canada can get a covid shot. when will young europeans follow suit? >> reporter: that decision is up to the 27 member states in the eu and still work to do. the eu as you mentioned following the lead of canada and the united states and approving the pfizer/biontech vaccine for kids 12 to 15 but the size the
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trial was not big enough to detect rare adverse reactions and only know about those similar to the ones we have seen with similar vaccines once you start giving it to millions of children in the broader population. that clinical trial was done in the u.s. and had about 2,000 kids got involved. half got a placebo and half the vaccinated. amongst the vaccinated group there were zero coronavirus cases so the world efficacy could be as low as 5%. europe has given at least one shot to more than one-third of the population. that is pretty good but it's still lagging behind other western countries like the u.s. and certainly the uk where that number is approaching 60%. >> let's talk about the uk where you are. there seems to be growing pressures to get everyone vaccinated there because of the so-called indian variant. what is the latest there? >> reporter: yeah. so a couple of bits of good news. the first is that the johnson &
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johnson shot has been approved for use in this country but they won't start using it until an unspecified date later this year. it's also one shot. it makes it a little bit easier. it doesn't have the same kind of efficacy as the other vaccines. 4 of the 7 have been approved. the uk has managed to get so many of the other vaccines that it's scaled back its order of the johnson & johnson vaccine and reducing it from 30 million to 20 million. as you said, this country is trying to ramp up the pace of its vaccination because of the threat of that indian variant which spreads much faster than the previous dominant strain. they are not clear how much more but one estimate from the british health secretary was that about -- up to 3 of every 4 new infections in this country are the india variant so there is certainly some urgency to get shots in arms quicker.
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they are even shortening the date between the two doses. i just got a text message from the national health service the other day saying they were moving the date of my vaccine up by about four weeks or so, kim. >> that is interested. scott mcclain in london, thanks so much for that. targeting dozens of countries is apparently more massive than originally thought. we will have new details and why the timing here matters. japan is preparing to welcome tens of thousands of olympic athletes and staff in july despite fighting a coronavirus emergency. that is next. stay with us. swipe, lift, spin, dry. slam, pan, still...fresh move, momove, move, move aaaaand still fresh. degree. ultimate freshness activavated when you move. you love rich, delicious ice cream. but your stomach doesn't. that disreement ends right now. lactaid ice cream is the creamy, real ice cream you love
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welcome back to all of watching here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the u.s. state department is urging americans not to travel to belarus after that country forced an airliner to land. the biden white house announced it is working on this. another set of u.s. sanctions unveiled in april are set to go in effect next week and target nine state entities in belarus. washington says the cyberattack reported thursday was much bigger than previously thought. some 350 american organizations were targeted, including many of the u.s. government. as cnn's alex marquart reports.
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>> reporter: hit by hackers from russia's foreign intelligence service. government agencies and think tanks and humanitarian groups all started. microsoft announce the attack. one email from this week, promised a new document from donald trump on the election. instead, it contained a malicious link designed to allow hackers in and to in fact, other computers. it was a loud brazen attack and the hackers likely knew they would get caught. >> they likely didn't care, you know? they clearly know this is going to be discovered. it's hard to carry this out across governments and organizations all across the world and not get discovered. >> reporter: unlike last year's solar wind breach that targeted government agencies and saying
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russian intelligence carried out. >> we concluded they interfered in the election. >> reporter: last month they kicked out ten russian diplomats but president biden proposed a face-to-face summit with russian president vladimir putin to ease tensions set to happen under three weeks. the american punishment and prospect of a meeting between the leaders clearly doing little to deter russia from stepping up their cyberattacks. >> this is probably preparation for the upcoming summit. they want to know what they are thinking when we go into that door. they don't really believe in going in negotiations without knowing what the other side is thinking. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with cnn, secretary of defense lloyd austin said the military hat ability to go on the offense if the president chooses. >> i have a number of offensive options and, yes, and we will
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always maintain credible effective options. >> reporter: we have gotten an update from microsoft with some good news. they say in a statement, quote. we are not seeing evidence of any compromised organizations at this time and what i've heard from the white house that the impact of this series of russian hacks is rather limited. the biden administration has not attributed these attacks to russia and the kremlin tells cnn they don't think the summit will be affected. the tokyo olympic games are set to kick off on july 23rd even as the country struggles to get a grip on its coronavirus epidemic. as the torch makes its way to the capital, the president of japan is extending state of emergency for nine prefectures that it's crucial to speed up vaccinations and help give strange hospitals some breathing
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room. we are just 55 days away from the opening ceremony. as the clock ticks down, opposition to the games is intensifying. selena wang in tokyo tells us about it. >> reporter: over the next two months, some 90,000 olympic participants from more than 200 countries will be flying into tokyo. suddenly opening the flood gates for a country had its borders closed most of the pandemic. covid-19 cases are surging in japan. tokyo in large parts of the country are under a state of emergency. >> burden of the health system is already overstretched. peace and hope and hope it's not a nightmare for the event in tokyo. >> reporter: around 2% of japan's 126 million people have been fully vaccinated. the rollout slowed down by bureaucracy and a lack of medical staff to administer them. at the current rate the rest of the adult population will not be
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eligible for the vaccinations by the time the games begin. they say the olympics will be held in this safe bubble. vaccines are not required but officials say more than 80% of the olympic village will be. they are asked to practice social distancing, wear masks except to forwhen training and competing and to only use public transport when necessary. experts say that is impossible to keep the massive games completely safe, plus they say there are plenty of ways for this bubble to be punctured as the olympic participants come into contact with tens of thousands of unvaccinated volunteers who live outside the bubble. olympic venues are all over tokyo with the marathon and some soccer matches held 5,000 miles north so whose responsibility to keep all of these olympic participants safe? the olympic playbook puts the ultimate responsibility on the athletes rather than organizers or the japanese government. japan is spending more than 15 billion dollars on these games, the most expensive summer
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olympics on record including 900 million dollars in covid countermeasures but poll after poll shows the majority in japan do not. these games held. >> translator: everyone thinks we should hold the olympics but the government isn't in a position to say that. >> reporter: ultimately it's not up to japan. contracts are written to favor the ioc so a medical system headed for collapse and cost overruns are all burdens the tokyo has to bear. the ioc has the legal ability to cancel the olympics but they plan to go ahead. to last year's port explosion, lebanon has faced crisis after crisis and now a life/death problem for that could affect people for years to explain.
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>> reporter: one of beirut's premier hospital is in survive mode. >> i would tell you less than 25% have gone. >> reporter: lebanon is using a precious resources. its doctors and nurses. >> we are disappointed. disappointment is huge. we are disappointed in our country and our position. >> reporter: for dr. rami raaad this is the moment it all changed. october 24th, 2020, an explosion ripped through this building and much of the capital. many scrambled to treat the walking wounded. the blast shattered what little hope in lebanon and the doctor has given up and booked a one
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way ticket to canada. >> between the economical crisis and the october explosion and the security issues, everything around us is a mess. >> reporter: chief medical officer dr. george rannen says 20% of physicians resigned and allow them to stand ideal. >> unfortunately, our team of physician who are doing this are leaving the country. >> reporter: and that means more people will die of a stroke in lebanon? >> more people will die and will have a huge problem. >> reporter: quality of care here could be reversed by a decade, he says. before the crisis, nurses told us they earned about $75 a day. now due to inflation, that is worth just $5. but chief nurse here soldiers on. >> i belong to this country and we need to motivate all people to stay. >> reporter: do you feel you have an obligation?
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>> it's not an obligation. it's a conviction that i have to stay. maybe for the time being. later on, we never know. >> reporter: she says almost half her team, 80 nurses, quit in the last year. >> it's very bad because we are losing our assets, we are losing our competent nurses. they are family. we are family here. we are working here for many years and i think they have better future outside. we let our children go, right? still to come, new developments on the violent unrest in tigray. men rounded up by ethiopian troops have been released. tens of thousands are forced to seek shelter as one of the world's most dangerous volcanos
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now to a cnn exclusive on the violent unrest in ethiopia. aid workers say that hundreds of men in the tigray region were released thursday following a cnn report in their detention that sparked international outrage. we have been reporting extensively on the conflict and have the latest. >> reporter: it took two statements by the united nations and a call for accountability and immediate release by united states senator chris koontz but hundreds of tigray men have been released. the young men who had been detained they tell cnn tortured and beaten by ethiopia and eritrea soldiers because they say they were accused of being part of tigray rebel forces.
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humanitarian workers at the scene say a handful of men are in detention. cnn investigation into these detentions but this is just one incident. this is just one incident that has now been resolved after the wait of international opinion was brought to bear. there are so many more incidents in tigray and so many more families seeking to know more about lost loved ones and it really speaks to how difficult the situation in tigray has proved to resolve that it takes this much to get ethiopia and eritrea soldiers to change course. the u.s. state department welcomed the news of the raefs b release but denounced the fact they were detained at all. they say they must leave the area and they must be held to account. atrocities being committed are
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acceptable and shock the conscience and must end. hundreds of thousands of people have fled the city of goma in the democratic republic of congo and they are seeking shelter because of erupting volcano. they have even gone across the border to rwanda. and thousands of children could become homeless if the volcano erupts again. i talked last hour to cnn's larry magoa who was outside of the area and showed us a part of the heart breaking devastation the first eruption last weekend has caused. >> what is behind me used to be people's homes. next to where we are standing used to be a family of seven, mother and six children. there is nothing left of it. smoldering there. her business, her livelihood everything she owns is covered by this lava and she is become
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here for the first time and is overcome with emotion and don't know what to do or where to start. her neighbor next door was luckier. the lava took down her wall but the house is still intact. and we have been hearing so many stories people don't know how to reap start. 80,000 people have been displaced from this. 80,000 households and 400,000 people according to the local military governor here. and the people say they don't think they will get any compensation and they don't know where to start and now they are told possibility of a new eruption under the ground or near the lake that could come with little or no warning so they can't catch a break. >>. flying the friendly skies isn't necessarily that friendly for some u.s. passengers these days. still ahead, travelers get unruly, as air travel rebounds from the pandemic. stay with us.
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air travel is making a comeback in the u.s. as the economy errors from the
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coronavirus. one flight attendants union they are dealing with another epidemic. passengers getting violent and unruly during flights. as pete muntean reports they can get ugly. >> reporter: the newest problem facing pent-up demand for travel is pent-up frustration in the skies with federal agencies citing a serious surge of infight flights. in a new letter, southwest airlines flight attendants say unruly passenger incidents are being abouting intolerable and more aggressive. these images from a southwest flight on sunday when a flight attendant had two teeth knocked out by a passenger according to their union. >> they seem to be almost angry before they step on board the aircraft and they are verbally attacking flight attendants and calling them names, pulling on their lanyards and getting aggressive. we have had to deal with almost
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riot-like incidents. >> reporter: even if you're fully vaccinated masks are still required on all forms of transportation and in terminals across the united states. the faa says it has received 2,500 reports of unruly passengers just this year. 1900 of them about mask compliance. >> started antagonizing other passengers. >> reporter: a crew member on this jetblue flight says an unruly passenger cut this coast-to-coast trip short, causing it to land in minneapolis. >> gesturing stabbing motions toward the other passenger and it was also observed erratic behavior and snorting a white substance. >> we want to be clear that anyone causing a disturbance on board an aircraft or within the airport environment will be punished with fines and possible criminal charges. >> reporter: even still, health officials are telling flue
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vaccinated americans to enjoy memorial day. a, a says the rush to return to travel is on with 37 million people headed out this holiday weekend, only 13% drop compared to 2019. airports that were a ghost town last year, are now filling up. tsa figures show air travel has already hit 90% of pre-pandemic levels compared to 13% a year ago. >> it's been a stressful year. i'm just going to go by myself and have some fun in the bahamas. >> i got my vaccine and mask an hand sanitizer so i should be good to go. >> reporter: the latest forecast from the u.s. travel association says 77% of americans will take one trip this summer up from 29% last year. but flight crews hope with people rushing to return to normal, this does not become the new normal. >> these actions on board the aircraft what may start out as little actions can become really
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big actions and problems really quickly and we are stuck in the middle too where we can't call for help and people cannot walk away so we have to treat each other with respect. >> reporter: southwest is banning the woman accused of that assault on their flight attendant. the airlines says it is not resuming alcohol service like it had planned to do starting in june. pete munten, reagan national airport. trae young is not pleased but not face charges after a fan spat on him during game two of the hawks playoff series with the new york knicks. a fan spat on him as he was on the sideline. the knicks banned the fan indefinitely. >> i'm not mad at the fans who chant things and whatever. that is for another subject. for spitting and things like that, that is uncalled for in any arena or any environment. that is disgusting. but he has to move forward and
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for me i just focus on this team. >> he moved forward by scoring 21 points on friday to lead the hawks to a win over the knicks and that gave atlanta 2-1 lead in the series. portugal is coping with english invasion of soccer fans. thousands of chelsea and manchester fans are there for the finals. fans packed bars after portugal eased covid-19 restrictions. 16,000 fans will be allowed in the stadium for saturday and match. it was moved to that area because of covid restrictions in turkey. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. for our viewers in the united states and canada, "new day" is ahead. for everyone else, it's "quests world of wonder."
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