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to our viewers joining us in the united states and right around the world, i'm isa soares in london. just ahead right here on "cnn newsroom." >> copvid-19 is a very bad acto in children. that's why we need it. >> with the vaccine so many children will be able to presume pre-pandemic life. >> children 5 to 11 seeing the benefits of the pfizer shot outweigh the risks. it is crunch time for
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president biden. lobbies out lie the support before the president says he wants a decision. they pull out of the cop-26 summit on doctor's orders. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with isa soares. hello, everyone. it is wednesday, october 27th, and we begin with a big step fighting the pandemic which has lately been impacting children. vaccine advisers to the u.s. food and drug administration are recommending the pfizer vaccine for kids as young as 5. they say the benefits outweigh the risks. take a listen. >> when we make these kinds of decisions it's all based on one thing. would we give this vaccine to our own children. no one would have said yes if they weren't willing to give it to their on children. >> the advisory panel voted to recommend the pfizer vaccine for
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children, but there was one abstention of the vaccine mandates. >> i just worry that if we say yes that the states are going to mandate administration of this vaccine to children in order to go to school. and i do not agree with that. i think that would be an error at this time. >> what's not yet clear whether vaccine mandates will apply to young children. but regardless of mandates, the health experts and former federal officials are urging parents to get their kids vaccinated when they can. listen to this. >> take a look at the data. what it shows is 90% effectiveness of the vaccines, very few, very rare side effects and those are able to be managed. that's much better, i think, for most people given the way covid is spreading now in the country for protecting their kids. >> it could have an impact on
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the trajectory of the pandemic, especially as we head into the winter. i think the major difference is the change that it's going to make in parents' lives and in kids' lives. there are so many parents who have been really worried about sending their kids to school, especially if their school does not require masks. and to have that additional level of protection with the vaccine will be really game changing. >> so what's the next step for the children's vaccines? the fda will take the panel's recommendation under consideration. then next week, the vaccine advisers for the centers for disease control and prevention will meet and weigh in on that. once the cdc's adviserrs approve, the head of the agency dr. rochelle walensky will have the final word. after that vaccination can begin in the following days. now, the cdc is also updating vaccine guidance for some people with compromised immune systems. the agency now says they could benefit from getting a vaccine booster at least six months after their third shot. back in august, the cdc said a third dose was needed to fully
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protect people for those weakened immune system. that includes patients who have been through cancer treatment, people with advance hiv and organ transplant recipients. those getting the third vaccine is plummeting. it is over 200,000 vaccinations a day. you can see it on your screen. that is a 15% drop really from last week, and now the lowest number on record right now at just over two-thirds of americans are fully vaccinated. we'll stay on that story for you. meanwhile, china is clamping down to stop a growing covid outbreak just 100 days before the winter olympic games begin. cases have been reported in nearly a third of china's province including beijing the host city. in the west of the city more than 4 million people under strict lockdown after six new cases were reported on tuesday. beijing bureau chief joins me now. steven, some of these measures, i was reading this morning, are
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pretty stringent, which shows how worried beijing is about the rise in cases here. >> reporter: that's right, isa. it's really a return of some of the harshest measures we only have seen during the peak of the pandemic last year. now, of course, not only city wide lockdowns are making a company as we mention, but other measures in by now familiar playbook, mass testing, extensive contact tracing and imposing growing travel restrictions across the country, especially into beijing. all of those of course very much related to the upcoming winter olympics because the authorities simply don't want to take any chances in the lead up to the games. also they don't want to see a repeat of what happened in tokyo which was a surge of covid infections during the summer games. that's why they have just announced very strict protocols concerning participants of the games. not just athletes, but reporters, thousands of them as well. so if you're coming here for the games, if you are fully vaccinated upon landing, you'll
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be sent straight into this bubble they're creating in and around beijing, encompassing all the competition venues, but also media centers and dozens of hotels. you will be sealed inside these bubbles for the duration of the games. and then once the game is over, you'll be sent straight back to the airport and flown out. of course, there will be no international spectators and domestic audiences very much carefully vetted in terms of their health status and they are not allowed to be interacting with people in the bubble as well. now, these games are really shaping upton the most controversial in recent time. not only because of these covid policies, but also because of china's human rights record and its controversial policies on a whole range of issues drawing protests and even cause for boycotting. isa, there is no doubt president xi jinping and his government are going to put out a spectacular show. this time, of course, with covid measures helping them keep protesters away and keeping reporters in check. isa? >> yeah, gio politically it's been pretty busy. steven zhang for us in beijing.
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great do see you, steven. appreciate it. brazilian lawmakers voted in favor of charges against jair bolsonaro for covid response. they allege he intentionally allowed covid to spread. the ally of the president is not expected to pursue charges. bolsonaro said he's not guilty of any crimes, but he has long downplayed the severity of the virus and recently spread misinformation about covid vaccines. take a listen. >> translator: the presidency is not an office in a bar where you say what you want while drinking beer and eating barbecue. the president of the republic informs the brazilian people 0 not a study that is not approved and says something along these lines when we ask to vaccinate the population. >> some reaction from some of the senators voting on the measure yesterday. this all comes, of course, the same day brazil reported more
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than 400 new covid deaths and the virus has killed more than 606,000 brazilians. that's the second highest death toll in the world. now, new details are emerging about the fatal shooting on the set of the alec baldwin film "rust." a law firm has been hired to investigate the events around halyna hutchins' death. that is a report from deadline.com. and this photo of hutchins surfaced showing her inside a church in the "rust" set where alec baldwin was rehearsing. they said it is the last photo of hutchins before she died. it is unclear when the photo was actually taken. now more focus is turning toward the district attorney's handling of the case. cnn's josh campbell has that part of the story from santa fe. >> reporter: we are learning new details about the status of the state's investigation into that fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins by alec baldwin. the district attorney's office telling cnn it remains an active
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investigation. they have not yet ruled out any potential criminal charges. of course, one key question has been liable, whether authorities will be holding any one person or group of people actually responsible for her death. officials tell us that that investigation is underway at this hour. we are also learning new details about what authorities found on the set of that shooting. according to court records, we are learning that the sheriff's department found three pistols as well as boxes of ammunition, a fanny pack containing ammunition, as well as spent rounds. left unstated in that warrant is whether any of this ammunition was actually live, whether they were live rounds. we are waiting for additional information from sheriff's department officials which we hope will come on wednesday. finally, as it relates to the status of the medical examiner's review, we are learning that their report is still potentially weeks away. that is key because the sheriff's department has told us what they are looking to is what the medical examiner actually finds after that autopsy. what was that projectile that actually struck halyna hutchins,
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resulting in her death? again, potentially weeks away from learning an answer to that question. josh campbell, cnn, santa fe, new mexico. now, america's top diplomat has spoken with sudan's prime minister as an unfolding military take over plunges the country into crisis. that call with secretary state anthony blinken coming after sources say military personnel was back home one day after he was detained. it is not clear if he is able to move about freely, of course. thousands of protesters returned to the streets on tuesday. you can see them denouncing the coup even as the top general supported the actions. key leaders and foreign ministers were detained in the wave of arrests. the airport in khartoum has opened. it will reopen on wednesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, 1400 gmt. this is coming from the head of sudan's aviation authority.
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cnn's salma joins us. let's start with what we heard from the general yesterday. as i was listening to him, i was trying to make sense why he would go saw head with this. he obviously was trying to defend his actions. what's the political play? surely he knew the u.s., international bank and world community would back him. what is the strategy? >> in fact, isa, secretary of state anthony blinken called the prime minister, not the general, of course, called the prime minister, expressed his support for him. expressed his support for civilian-led government. expressed united states' concerns about a military take over. the united states has cut off hundreds of millions of dollars of aid. you have the united nations condemning this strongly. the eu saying there will be strong consequence for a military coup. but here's the key part. the general does have support. where is his support? the gulf. that is a key part, isa. you have to remember how many states across the middle east are propped up by the support of gulf states. take neighboring egypt. that is how the coup d'etat in
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egypt became the status quo through the support of the gulf. then he also has key allies domestically, hear him talk about one of the most feared military forces on the ground. the darfur conflict, but in recent years protesters and activists have said they have been used to violently suppress demonstrations. they have used rape as a weapon of war. any violent means necessary to suppress dissent. >> which then begs the question, you know, is this what we have seen between -- the divide between the protesters and the army, is this the beginning of something very worrisome here? >> it's absolutely concerning, isa. you have two sides that are now digging their heels in. we heard from berhan yesterday. he is the one protecting sudan. he is the one protecting people from civil war and instability. let's remember what's at stake here. hundreds of millions of dollars
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in aid, debt relief packages, the economy and future of sudan. the revolution of sudan, right. we are talking about a transition, a very fragile transition that young people had been hoping, praying, wishing, fighting for and who absolutely will not let it go. >> of course, the fear is they'll be heading to a collision course. i know you'll keep an eye on that. thanks, sawa. a sharp divide between rhetoric and reality. not enough countries doing enough to keep the planet from dangerous rise in temperatures. how flash flooding turned growth in a river. we'll have that story next. s, neuriviva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performrmance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger.
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take a listen. >> it is also important to note that we have made a significant amount of progress, and we are almost there, and that the president is on the verge. we are all on the verge of passing a bill that is the largest investment in addressing the climate crisis in history. and, of course, global leaders take note of that, too. >> well, the cop-26 summit begins this weekend with the first meeting of world leaders in glasgow. meanwhile, a fight for almost every country short of what is needed to keep global temperatures in check. the u.n. says updated pledges will cut emissions by only an additional 7.5% by 2030. but a much greater cut of the 55% is needed to meet the global -- goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. it will warm the planet twice that. >> until c.e.o.s are paid a
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bonus for the coal they didn't dig or the oil they didn't burn, these are just pledges. and so it takes an overall structure. that will be a theme one full day to talk about finance in glasgow there as well. and, yeah, just to put it in perspective of almost 200 countries that signed, only the gambia is really practically on course in real-time to meeting their goals. and the hope was that people would wake up to the enormity of the challenge and really heed these latest alarms. >> only the gambia is meeting their goal. who is at fault really for the rise in global temperatures? a new poll finds americans blame the fossil fuel industry, pollsters asked how the response for climate change, majority of americans you can see there, more than 60% said mostly or completely. 20% said somewhat. and 13% said not at all. democrats are much more likely to blame oil and gas companies compared to republicans. and speaking of climate change, we're going to take you
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to italy where some areas of southern italy are under extreme threat of additional flooding. these dramatic images show cars submerged in waters, flash floods in sicily on wednesday. they call the situation critical. i want to bring in bobby in rome. good morning. the images are dramatic. give us a sense of what the situation is on the ground. >> reporter: it is really dramatic. we confirmed one death, a 53-year-old man washed way in his car. there are a couple missing people we are told from the authorities. they are going through the city center building to building to see if anyone was trapped, to see if there's any additional flooding, if they had basement storage areas. they turned off the electricity throughout the city because of the water that's still standing there. and they're checking roads and other infrastructure. they are telling people not to drive. there's no school today. all businesses are closed. and they are expecting more rain, which could lead to even more flooding. now, this is a city that's used
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to threats. they are on the foot of mt. etna, a volcano that often rains ash on them. this amount of water has just inundated this area and devastated the city center. >> any help being sent in, bobby, at all to help the people of ca tanya? >> reporter: well, their civil protection chief was there surveying the area. local authorities from all over the island of sicily have been coming in to help them out as they conduct the searches. it is a controlled search because of the danger that could be under some of that water that's still standing. it's not a huge city, but the city center area, you know, is full of businesses and shops and it's a very touristy town. and, you know, those places are just devastated this morning. >> do keep us posted on that story for us in rome. good to see you. now, a strong nor'easter has left more than 100,000 customers in the dark in massachusetts.
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meantime, severe weather is heading towards the u.s. southeast. meteorologist pedram javaheri has today's forecast. good day, pedram. >> good morning, isa. it is shifting toward the gulf coast region. very gusty winds associated with the next system. yes, even a level 3, that is an enhanced risk in place east of lake charles approaching areas of new orleans where the highest threat is in the country for severe weather. could see some straight line winds, over 50 or 60 miles per hour. large hail certainly not out of the question. all week we've seen upwards of 20 tornado reports. this line of active weather could prompt several tornadoes as it pushes off towards the east and along the florida panhandle between wednesday into thursday. look at the wind gusts here. really an incredible area of coverage of 40, 50, even 70 mile per hour wind gusts. into eastern new mexico and western texas with this incoming system. now, speaking of gusty winds, want to show you how things have
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played out in the northeastern united states. we had a classic nor'easter in place. winds pushing up to 80 miles per hour. that is equivalent to category 1 hurricane across portions of coastal massachusetts. and again, kind of speaks to the severity of what is played out there. and still have the threat here for some very powerful winds as the system gradually peels away from the eastern united states. we think up until even 10:00, 11:00 p.m. wednesday night into thursday morning, those gusty winds will be howling along the coast of massachusetts and new england before it kaquiets down. it will finally pull away and see dry weather across the region later on in the latter half of the week. offshore, there is a 40% chance of a tropical system forming. this would be our final of the 21 named storms for the season. so it will be storm wanda if it forms. it looks to remain offshore. and we'll leave you with this, isa. temperatures around 60 in kansas city. warming up to 81 in houston. almost 90 degrees down in miami.
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>> thank you very much, pedram. now, democrats are racing to reach an agreement. coming up, the flurry of meetings to deliver a deal on president biden's social spending plan before he leaves for europe. plus calls to look into the death of 25-year-old jelani day. so many unanswered questions. one lawmaker says a federal investigation is needed. we'll bring you those stories after a short break. you are watching "cnn newsroom."
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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm isa soares f. you're just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories this hour. vaccine advisers to the u.s. food and drug administration are
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recommending the pfizer vaccine for kids as young as 5. they say the benefits outweigh the risks. more on that in about 30 minutes or so. meanwhile china is clamping down to stop a growing covid outbreak 100 days before the winter games begin. the city in the northwest of more than 4 million people is now under strict lockdown. now, on capitol hill, a bipartisan group of senators grilled executives from youtube, tiktok and snapchat on the safety concerns for young people using these platforms. the executive said their companies are taking significant steps to protect children, but admitted there is more work to be done. cnn's donie o'sullivan reports. >> reporter: tiktok, snapchat and youtube on the hot seats in capitol hill. >> why do you need all of this personal data, especially on our children? >> reporter: the platforms questioned about how kids use social media, how they are affected by and what the companies do to protect teens and children.
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>> they cannot trust these apps with their children. >> reporter: it's the first time tiktok has been called before congress. they were grilled about the apps. >> i'm sure the porn stars were accurate and fact checked. the tips on why you shouldn't go to bars alone are accurate and fact checked. but that's not my question. this is about whether it's appropriate for children ages 13 and up as you certified. >> absolutely. and senator, i think this is an area where we are constantly evolving. if there are instances where these publishers are surfacing content to an age cohort this is that is inappropriate, they will be removed. >> reporter: one big message, we're not facebook. >> snapchat is different. snapchat was build as an antidote to social media. >> our leadership makes safety and wellness a priority, particularly to protect teens on the platform. >> reporter: lawmakers warning the executives just because they're not facebook doesn't mean they don't have a lot of work to do. >> that bar is in the gutter.
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what we want is not a race to the bottom, but really a race to the top. >> reporter: facebook plague this had week by the disclosure of internal documents that paint the company as harmful to society, including algorithms that funnel content to children. >> there has been a definite and deafening drum beat of continuing disclosures about facebook, and there will be accountability. >> reporter: the internal documents also show facebook has been losing younger users for years, while sites like snapchat and tiktok may be even more popular with kids and teenagers than with adult users. just last month ahead of the drug enforcement administration specifically called on snapchat and tiktok to do more to stop the online sale of drugs that include fentanyl. that's according to the "washington post." lawmakers did not appear to be satisfied with what the social media companies claim they've done to stop illegal drug sales. >> we have stepped up and we have deployed proactive
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detection measures to get ahead of what the drug dealers are doing. they are constantly evading our tactics. not just on snapchat, but on every platform. >> reporter: with senator amy klobuchar they may be more inclined to do something if the law was changed so they would be held liable. >> there is something to create liability. maybe that will make you work fast every so we don't lose another kid. >> reporter: some ask about the social media sites' effects against teenagers including mental health and eating disorders. >> in fact, the algorithms push emotional and provocative content, toxic content that amplifies depression, anger, hate, anxiety because those emotions a atlantic and hook kids and others to their platforms. >> we prohibit content that promotes or glorifies things
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such as eating disorders. it has no place on our platform. >> reporter: facebook officials regularly bemoan the fact that companies like tiktok and snapchat rarely get as much attention and scrutiny as facebook does. but unfortunately for facebook and its c.e.o. mark zuckerberg, the spotlight is going to stay on them for another while yet because facebook whistleblower frances haugen documents continue to be released in newsrooms around the world. we will keep you updated as that continues to happen. donie o'sullivan, cnn new york. >> thank you very much, donie. there is one day left for democrats on capitol hill to iron out differences on president biden's social spending and bill before he leaves on his european trip. major sticking points remain including cost and how it will be paid for. they are looking to replace a key climate change provision that was rejected by senator joe manchin. it would include renewable
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energy and those that did not. here's why he opposed it. take a listen. >> i'm not going to pay taxpayer dollars and give it to a publicly traded utility, $150 billion, to do something they're going to do anyway. and they say manchin biscuitled the plan. i haven't scuttled the plan. why would you do that? >> our jessica dean has more on capitol hill for you. >> reporter: continuing on capitol hill as congressional democrats and the white house work to get president joe biden's agenda past the finish line. two separate bills, of course, there is the bipartisan infrastructure plan which is hard infrastructure. that is simply waiting on a house vote. but progressives have vowed not to vote for it until there is a deal in place on the build back better act, and some progressives saying until they can vote on that. and right now it is still being hashed out. earlier on tuesday, house speaker nancy pelosi said a framework should be sufficient for that vote to move forward.
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progressives have balked at that over on the senate side. two key senators, senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin have been going to meetings at the white house, working to finalize this deal. there are some details that are starting to come together. we saw new details on a minimum corporate tax that would apply to roughly 200 u.s. companies that make profits over a billion dollars. it would be a 15% tax. those details making their way through the senate and over to the house today as well so people can begin to get their eyes on that. again, they are still trying to finalize how they would pay for the build back better act and exactly what's in it. hang-ups continue over what will go in it. will they expand medicare to include dental, vision and hearing. bernie sanders wants to see that in there. will they be able to negotiate drug prices for medicare. that is something senator sanders wants to see. climate provisions. these are loose ends they need
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to tie up. democrats hoped to have the infrastructure bill voted on by wednesday. we will see if that happens. jessica dean, cnn, capitol hill. well, meantime, the virginia governor's race next week is being closely watched. polls are showing a tight race between mcauliffe and republican youngkin. they are worried voters won't turnoff in strong numbers as they do for presidential races. president biden campaigned for mcauliffe. he is linking youngkin to former president donald trump. take a listen. >> terry's opponent has made pledges to donald trump. what's interesting to me, he won't stand next to donald trump now that the campaign is on. think about it. he won't allow donald trump to campaign for him in this state, and he's willing to pledge his loyalty to trump in private. why not in public?
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what's he trying to hide? is there a problem with trump being here? is he embarrassed? >> well, trump, of course, keeps spreading the big lie that he won the presidential election which, in turn, fueled the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. we are now learning the house committee investigating the insurrection is planning to subpoena a former member of trump's legal team, conservative lawyer east man has talked about the scheme to persuade then vice president pence to throw out election results and declare trump the winner. at least five members of the former administration have spoken to the committee. meanwhile, the biden administration has tapped a republican to lead the department of homeland security's efforts to protect against election interference. washington state secretary of state kim wyman has repeatedly denounced trump's lies and this comes as state and local election officials and their families are intimidated, threatened, as well as terrorized.
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sara murray explains. >> i am a mother and i think you should be -- >> reporter: that message for arizona's democratic secretary of state katy hubs just one of several threatening vitriolic voice mails shared exclusively with cnn. >> i would like to say katy hobbs' pain is coming. there's no place to hide. your elections were a fraud. >> reporter: nearly a year after the 2020 presidential contest, election officials accustomed to the bureaucratic and largely uncontroversial task of administering elections are still grappling with hateful messages. and in some cases, even death threats. >> these are things like, i see -- i'm watching you sleep. i know where you live. posting my address, telling me repeatedly how they're going to kill me. so, yes, this is not policy disagreements. >> reporter: most of the threats aimed at democrat jenna griswold, the colorado secretary of state, posted online to a personal and social media
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account and sent via email. when it comes to females, the attacks are particularly vile. i'm jonesing to see your purple face after you've been hanged, one message says. the dog is going to be wondering where you went and your husband will have to tell it that you were hung for treason. >> i think it is partially gendered. democratic women secretaries of state are getting the brunt of it. but it's not exclusively to democrats or women. >> good morning, everyone. >> reporter: in georgia, republican secretary of state brad raffensperger faced threats as well after trump's baseless claims of fraud. most were directed at members of his family. >> sending your wife to high school, sending your wife sexualized text and other insulting garbage, and then breaking into your daughter-in-law's town house and leaving the lights on and you know that they were there and then driving by our house. and so those kind of things are stuff that you notice.
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you do look over your shoulder. and that was all just ginned up by lies and those stirring the pot. >> reporter: across political parties, election officials continue to be falsely accused of mishandling and rigging the 2020 election. there are fears the threats will increase into next year. >> if you count all the fraudulent votes -- >> reporter: as they spout conspiracies as the central complaints. >> that opens the door to adding more political actors, less professional, more political actors into the election space which, again, is incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: a report in 2021 from the brennan center for justice found that roughly one in six election workers surveyed received threats of violence while almost one in three said they feel unsafe because of their job. earlier this year, the justice department and the fbi formed a task force to address the rise in threats against election officials. but griswold tells cnn she has yet to see action.
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>> the fbi says they are not monitoring the threats. i don't believe at this point the d.o.j. has prosecuted any of the threats. so the response has not been sufficient. >> reporter: the justice department official who is overseeing the threats task force says these kinds of threats used to be dealt with on the state or local level. he tells cnn this is changing rapidly in response to the surge of threats nationwide since the last election cycle. the justice department is supplementing state and local efforts with resources, national coordination, training and intelligence. sara murray, cnn, washington. well, in the coming hours, a uk high court will consider whether julian assange should be extra dated to the u.s. american officials are appealing an earlier verdict he should not be sent to the u.s. because he might commit suicide. the hearing follows last month's reporting by yahoo! news officials planned to kidnap or kill assange. he is accused of breaking spying laws. stay on top of that.
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now, a congressman says the death of a grad student in the u.s. state of illinois needs to be investigated by the justice department. local authorities say 25-year-old jelani day drowned, but house democrat bobby rush has joined a chorus of voices saying something just doesn't add up. cnn's omar jimenez reports. >> keep hope alive. >> keep hope alive. >> reporter: it's a call for answers that are far outweighed
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by questions in the case of jelani day. the lassalle county coroner ruling his death a drowning, but also writing it is still unknown how he got in the river. >> the car was put in a situation, assuming it was a suicide plan. >> reporter: reverend jesse jackson was among those in illinois tuesday rallying and driving in a processional to raise awareness to demand answers and that federal authorities get more involved. jelani day was last seen august 24 in a retail store in blooming ton, illinois, 100 miles from chicago. almost 70 miles north is peru, illinois, where his vehicle was found just two days later. from the road, it looks like a dead end. you can still see the remnants of when jelani day's vehicle came through here. plants knocked on their sides. the question, though, is whether he was driving the vehicle when it did. authorities found his car just down this path and off to the
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left side according to the former attorney for the family. the thing about this location, though, is it isn't the middle of nowhere. it has a ymca on one side and it's surrounded by homes. jelani day's body was found about a week afterward, just about a mile away off the bank of the illinois river, east of the route 251 bridge. his body wouldn't be officially identified until nearly a month later. but around when the body was found, his wallet was discovered about a mile and a half away from the water. still, a half mile from the vehicle, with a lan yard of his and some clothes found in separate locations according to the peru police department. the mother said it doesn't add up. it was an area he wasn't familiar with. >> there are plenty of bodies of water in blooming ton. we're in peru, a town that jelani doesn't have any friends, no, no ties to.
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his car was parked in a wooded area that you wouldn't even knew how to get to had you not heard about this. >> reporter: when jelani day's body was found in the river, his organs were completely liquid, according to the former family attorney. after over a week of significant deterioration in the river. the coroner's report said there was no evidence of injury prior to death, including strangulation or assault. >> he doesn't have any skin to determine bruising. you want to tell me that there's no physical trauma done to my child? do i accept this, they tell me this is my son? i accept it, but i still need to know why my son is not here any more, because somebody knows. >> reporter: the peru police department writing to cnn, in part, there are hundreds of hours of video to look through, numerous follow-ups to conduct. they are working tirelessly to
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find out what happened to jelani day, but not fast enough for a mother left searching for answers. >> would you believe that somebody with common sense would even come all the way to peru to do something to themselves? so see it with your own eyes. see why i'm so adamant about finding out what happened to my son. >> reporter: and there have been many calls for the federal government to take the lead in investigating this case. among the latest, congressman bobby rush who wrote a letter of grave concern, as he described it, addressed to attorney general merrick garland and fbi director chris wray calling on them to investigate the disappearance and death of jelani day. a spokesperson for the fbi says they have been in contact with the peru police department and have offered their services whenever needed. general speaking, the fbi wouldn't be able to become the lead investigative agency until there is suspicion of a federal crime that has taken place. now, on the family's side, we
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know the one autopsy that's been out there, but they have also hired at least two other forensic pathologists to perform independent autopsies. because as the mother told me, she doesn't know what to believe at times. omar jimenez, cnn, chicago. >> thank you, omar. well, the mystery surrounding gabby petito's death and the whereabouts of her fiancee brian laundrie has gripped the country for weeks. authorities told us laundrie's body was found in carlton reserve after weeks of intense searching and the fbi says dental records were used to i.d. the body. but now a florida medical examiner says those remains have not been dna tested yet. it is the loose end of what feels like many loose ends in this case. you are watching "cnn newsroom" live from london. just ahead, queen elizabeth on the mend, but not well enough yet to travel to scotland for the u.n. climate summit. max foster joins me with more.
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now we hear she is not going to the cop meeting which is one of the biggest gatherings of heads of state ever in the uk and something she absolutely prioritized. i genuinely don't think she's particularly ill, but she is tired. they are now erring on the side of not going to engagements, which may tire her out further. >> she's been quite busy, though. october, she's been pretty full on schedule wise. it is easy to forget she's, what, 95? >> she's 95. and she drives all of this. they're getting to a situation where she has cut down on a lot of charitable work. it is now down to the core constitutional duties. and it's hard for her not to appear at those events and still be a head of state. so i think when we look at the images of her in these virtual audiences, she's still continuing with, i think we're going to see more of her in that situation so it feels like a bit of a gear change for her. a dose of reality really. she can't keep doing what she's been doing. >> i know it's been very busy for her in the month of october.
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