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hello everyone. i'm alisyn camerota. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. people in china are rising up against the covid lockdowns. a rare and remarkable protest stretching across the country. cnn confirmed at least 16 locations in 11 cities where there have been these demonstr demonstrations. thousands are risking their lives as government forces have cracked down. demonstrators oppose the zero covid policy the government imposed in response to the latest outbreak which is the largest since the first report of coronavirus in wuhan in 2018. there were more than 40,000 cases in a single day according to the chinese health condition ask. >> ten people were killed on thursday after witnesses said the strict protocols delayed fire crews from reaching the

vic victims. a protester in hong kong describing how he and his family have suffered from the zero covid rules. >> i am a victim. i can't go home for many years, like two to three years. my parents were locked down for three months, even relatives of my good friends, suicide because of the lockdowns. i know people die of it because of the side effects of this policy. i think everyone who has a sane mind should say something or do something to stop this unreasonable social measure. >> cnn's selina wang has been following all this for us. what's the latest, salena? >> reporter: victor and alison, we or witnessing a historic moment in china. no protests of this scale with

demands for political reforms have been seen in this country since the teen men pro democrats protests in 2009. in cities across the country we're hearing chants for an end to covid lockdowns, rule of law, human rights. this is a country where it's dangerous to criticize a public, especially xi jinping himself. you risk prison time or even worse. that's exactly the risk people are willing to take here. in some places including shanghai people have been chanting for xi jinping to step down. i was there at the protest in beijing on sunday night into monday morning surrounded by crowds of young people chanting over and over again, we don't want covid tests, we want freedom. i spoke to several protesters including one who told me he motorcycled and biked for more than an hour to get to the scene. when i asked him how he was feeling, this is what he told me. >> translator: i'm overwhelmed.

every conscientious chinese should be here. they don't have to voice their opinions, but i hope they can stand with us. >> reporter: many people there were holing white papers in their hands, a sign of solidarity against censorship. there was a large police presence for a long time. after 2:00 a.m., massive police force forced us to disperse. videos in shanghai show arrests and chaotic scenes of police pushing, dragging and beating protesters. this is a police state that does not tolerate dissent. but people here, they're past their breaking points after three years of draconian lockdowns and zero covid restrictions. victor, alison. >> selina wang. joining us, cnn correspondent marc stewart and skod kennedy, chair of chinese business and economics at the centers for strategic and international studies. mark, let me start with you, and

how the markets are responding to these protests. we haven't seen something like this in years. >> markets and traders are making note of that. the dow has been down more than 400 points today. that's very significant. nasdaq has been down more than 100 points as well. the markets are having a rough day. the one thing that traders want is stability and certainty, and right now in china, that's just not the case. that's not the message being exuded. traders are having to reconcile two thoughts here. on one hand there are indications that china was going to perhaps loosen some of these restrictions. now it looks like the zero covid policies are here to stay. there's no clear roadmap for the future. that's why the markets are

having such a tough time with this. >> scott, we understand you just spent two months in china. what did you see there? what was the mood like in terms of these covid restrictions? >> i spent seven weeks in beijing and shanghai. i can tell you in beijing people were angry because they had spent three years dealing with these restrictions, particularly since the shanghai lockdown and omicron which has really put people in a difficult bind in having to screen to get into any building, wear a mask. shanghai they're really traumatized. i think people are really fed up. they really want to get beyond the pandemic to a different area where, if they look on tv and talk to others around the world, the rest of the world has moved on and china has not. that's why people are so upset. >> scott, salena reported that there are some calling for xi's

resignation. that's highly unlikely. that notwithstanding, what are then the implications of these pro protests, if any, for the government? >> it depends how the government frames them and how they try to deal with them. there's a material issue. can they end the zero covid policies quickly and safely? and secondly, can they deal with the normative demands they're hearing from the protesters? my sense is they're going to try and keep this as a material issue and see if they can defuse the protests by lowering quarantine periods and making things more comfortable and encouraging vaccinations. there's no way to end zero covid quickly without inducing a lot of illnesses. the government is really in a bind of its own making. it's not clear exactly how this is going to end quickly. so that uncertainty that markets are facing, we're going to be facing for all of us for several more weeks at least.

>> marc, one of the sad ironies, even with these super strict lockdown measures, they're still having cases surge there. the highest number for the sixth consecutive day, something like 40,000 cases locally transmitted on sunday. >> which statistically speaking is actually very small considering the large population volume of china. but this is something that the government is focused on, maintaining this zero covid policy. there may be economic repercussions from such a strong and bold approach. >> how do you keep an economy going under these zero covid policies. their economy obviously impacts the world economy. >> just today we saw the price of oil fall to some pretty significant lows because oil, as we know, the price of oil is dictated by spland. people in china are being told to stay put. the need for oil has dwindled. that's why we're seeing a slump in the price that could benefit

us in the u.s. if prices are low, that's certainly going to help after several months of record-high gas prices. >> scott, is there any way to determine what president xi is going to do about these widespread and highly unusual protests? they're so rather and they're so widespread and vocal, we saw people taking off their masks and speaking to camera crews. that never happens. any idea what his response is going snob. >> well, past practice would be for when they face protests of this scale -- and even though we only hear about protests every once in a while in the west, actually china has thousands of protests every year. what you will see is a crackdown on the ring leaders, those that are most vocal, and quietly trying to address some of their concerns. i do think that xi jinping knows that this is a black eye on china, that china's smee cannot rebound economically until they get to a post-covid era. i think you'll see both some

carrots and some sticks. if the protests grow massively beyond where they are right now and extend for several weeks, then you can expect a much harsher crackdown eventually, but we're not anywhere close to that yet. >> okay. marc stewart, scott kennedy, thank you very much for all the insight. let's go to texas where more than 2 million people are affected by a city-wide boil water advisory in houston. >> officials say a water purification plant lost pressure after a power failure sunday morning. cnn's rosa flores is following this for us. public schools in houston we understand are closed because of this advisory. when will the water be safe? >> reporter: according to the mayor, it could be as early as later tonight or maybe tomorrow morning. let me take you through this. here is what the city of houston says. there was a power outage yesterday at a water treatment plant that caused the water pressure to drop. at this water treatment plant,

there are multiple sensors. some of those sensors showed that the psi, the water pressure, in essence, dropped below 20 for about two minutes, and then a couple of other sensors showed that the psi dropped below 20 for 30 minutes. that was a cause of alarm because whenever the water pressure drops, that could be a sign of the introduction of contaminants to the water supply. that, of course, was a concern. hours later, that's when the city of houston issued this boil order that was city-wide, as you mentioned, impacting millions of people. some houston residents took to twitter to say that the city perhaps should have acted sooner in letting residents know. the mayor of the city had a press conference a few hours ago, and he was asked about that criticism. here is what he had to say. take a listen. >> everybody is looking at the data. everybody is looking at the

data. a decision was then made out of an abundance of caution to then issue the boil water notice. under the normal processes, you have a city, a municipality, has 24 hours to issue a boil water notice from the time of the incident. >> reporter: so what is going on right now, what is happening is water samples have been collected from throughout the city of houston. those samples are being tested. guys, here is the interesting thing. to test these samples, they have to sit in the lab for 18 hours. those hours have to transpire. after that is when the state of texas can then determine if anything grows in these water samples, then there's a problem. if nothing grows in these water samples, the city of houston can get the green light so the water boil advisory can be lifted. i'm keeping my fingers crossed as a resident of houston that nothing grows in those samples and we can get our water back.

>> rosa flores, thank you so much. in georgia early voting is under way between democratic senator raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker. >> more than 181,000 people have already voted, most of them in person. cnn's eva mckend is at a polling station in atlanta for us. what kind of crowds are you seeing there, eva? >> reporter: victor, as you can see, the line stretches all around this library. i'm going to take you down here with my photographer. it goes well down the block. people have been telling me that they've been waiting for about two hours to vote. it wasn't quite this bad this morning. but essentially i think this really illustrates that people here in georgia are very engaged, excited and keeping up with this election. this is the first day in georgia that you can vote early in every county in this state. we caught up with one couple

earlier who told us they tried to vote actually on saturday, the lines were too long but they came back out again this morning. take a listen. >> we came out over the weekend and the lines were about an hour and a half long. we said, we can come back out on monday when the lines will be shorter. we came back out today and the lines were even longer. we said today is our day, we've got the time. we're going to be here to ensure our voice is heard. >> reporter: so people, if they don't make it through the line today, they have the opportunity to vote here in georgia all this week or an election day on december 6. for the candidates' part, herschel walker and senator warnock keeping very busy schedules as they make their closing arguments. warnock at morehouse college and a concert with the dave matthews band. >> look at that. look at people doing their civic duties. two hours and this isn't even

the first day. >> in the middle of the afternoon on a monday. >> that is impressive. look at all of them. all right. we will obviously keep an eye on that throughout the day and days ahead. >> backlash is growing after former president trump hosted white nationalist and holocaust denier nick fuentes for dinner. a shocking story out of california. police say a former police officer catfished a teenager girl and then killed her family.

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of anti-semitism. >> rapper formerly known as canning yay west who is under fire for his own anti-semitic remarks brought fuentes to the dinner. trump claims he doesn't know him and was not told he was coming. sunlen serfaty is following this story for us. >> reporter: this is notable. we have heard from a few republicans, but we have not heard from many and very notably we have not yet heard from the republican leaders in congress in response to this controversial dinner. we have heard from a handful of republicans over the weekend we heard from republican alabama governor. here is what he had to say. >> no, i don't think it's a good idea for a leader that's setting an example for the country or the party to meet with a vowed racist or anti-semite.

>> on friday the former president did come out with a response after the backlash was growing to this controversial dinner. he importantly is not apologizing and now disavowing the racism and anti-semitism of nick fuentes nor the anti-semitic remarks of kanye west of recent. he's essentially trying to distance himself from the dinner saying, look, he didn't know who nick fuentes was, it wasn't planned with him ahead of time and says in part in a statement that kanye west, quote, unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends who trump says i knew nothing about. some called the dinner quick and uneventful. as you reference the source telling cnn that trump did indeed at that dinner find fuentes very interesting, and he was especially impressed with his ability to rattle off statistics, this source says, and his knowledge of the trump world. at one point he declared -- trump declared that he liked fuentes. certainly, victor and alison, as the controversy grows over this

dinner, the real important question is, of course, how republicans on capitol hill will continue to respond. >> some explanation from the former president, but no condemnation of those philosophies. sun land serfaty, thank you. >> joining us is steve leader, the senior rabbi at wilshire boulevard temple in los angeles. always great to see you. thank you for being here. when a former president of the united states and current candidate for president meets with an anti-semite and holocaust denier, what's the fallout for the jewish community after that? >> the fallout for the jewish community and for the entire nation is further legitimization of jew hatred, misogyny and racism. that's the fallout, full stop. >> president trump says he didn't know who nick fuentes is. is that an excuse?

>> first of all, i'm no expert in secret service protocols, but i find it impossible to believe that anyone gets to have dinner with a former president unannounced. you don't just show up. i've been to the white house. you've been to the white house. you don't get near a former president or current president without a very thorough security process. so i find it hard to believe, and even if it was somehow spontaneous and a surprise, that's no excuse for the president sitting down to dinner with two people so toxic for our culture. if we have the time, i don't think a lot of people understand the kinds of things nick fuentes has said in the past, and i'm happy to make -- i created a list for us if we have the time. >> give us a couple of the headlines. >> okay. first, i want this country to have catholic media, catholic hollywood, catholic government.

i want this to be a catholic-occupied government, not a jewish-occupied government. the old trope of some kind of jewish conspiracy and jewish cabal. here is one that should concern all of us. this was during a taping of one of his shows. an audience member asked nick fuentes how he should respond to his wife when his wife gets out of line. i quote, out of line. fuentes answered, why don't you give her a vicious and forceful backhanded slap with your knuckles right across her face disrespectfully and make it hurt. just kidding, of course. just a joke. i would never lay a hand on a woman unless she had it coming. the final, so heartbreaking, a holocaust denier. he jokingly denied the holocaust, and he compared jews

who were stuffed into crematoriums, including 1.5 million children turned into smoke by the nazis, he compared them to cookies in the oven. this is who our former president chooses to dine with. >> just because nick fuentes thinks he can couch some of it as sarcasm or comedy doesn't make it less odious and horrible. i'm glad you let everyone know, who is not familiar with him, what he believes in and what he touts. the fact that republican leader kevin mccarthy hasn't spoken out about this, what does that tell you? >> is no one ever shunned? is anyone who is willing to cast a vote for a republican okay regardless of their lack of moral fiber? is there no bottom to any of this? he has to speak out or he will have no credibility going forward with any reasonable

voter, right, left or center. it's really frightening. people die because of this kind of hatred and the fact that people who claim to be leaders representing the values of this nation won't stand up and call jew hatred jew hatred and call racism racism and call misogyny misogyny is unbelievably dangerous. let's stand up and call these things what they are, whether we're left, right or center, or decency is doomed. >> what would you like to hear him say? sometimes these folks make it seem so hard to come out and denounce it. kanye can't denounce it. kyrie irving has a hard time. what would you like to hear kevin mccarthy say today? >> i would like him to stand up and say i'm going to put principle above self-interest and i'm going to stand up for

what's wrong even if it costs me votes from this energized base so filled with hatred. i don't care about that. i care about saying and doing what is right. i care about what makes america truly beautiful which is brotherhood and sisterhood from sea to shining sea. >> rabbi steve leder, always great to talk to you. thanks so much for your time. the man charged with killing ten black people at a grocery store in buffalo, new york, pleaded guilty today to charges of murder, domestic terrorism and attempted murder. the district attorney detailed some of the evidence of payton gendron's attack including googling which zip code had the highest concentration of african americans. today's plea guarantees that gendron will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. students at the university of idaho are returning from thanksgiving break, and there is

still no arrest for the murders of four students, no even suspect that we're aware of. we're live on the ground with details on where security has been stepped up. police remove football star odell beckham jr. from a flight saying he refused to put on a seatbelt. his reps say it was completely unnecessary. we have details ahead.

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authorities in california think a catfishing incident led to a house fire, a kidnapping and a triple homicide. a 28-year-old man from virginia pretended to be someone else and then developed an online relationship with a teenager girl. >> according to riverside pd, he then traveled to california and killed her mother and grandparents and then took the girl from her home. cnn's camila bernal joins us now. the girl we understand is safe. tell us how that happened. >> reporter: yes, thankfully she is okay. this all started with this online relationship. this 28-year-old man, austin lee edwards, he gets her personal information through this online relationship and that's how he's able to travel all the way from virginia to riverside, california. police say he parked his car at the neighbor's house and walked over to this teenager's house. that's when he kills both grandparents and her mother. he then walks back to his car with this teenager, and there's

someone that sees this and calls 911 because they say there is something weird happening there, reporting a woman in distress. at the same time police also receiving calls about a house fire in this neighborhood. and when fire arrives to the house, they find the three bodies. the neighbors, of course, remembering these victims in this horrific case. here they are. >> i just want everybody to know how loving they were. they don't deserve this. >> to make sure that they have peace as they're going through this process of heartbreak and of a loss, of not just one person, but three. >> it is heartbreaking. thankfully police connected the dots after they found the bodies. they were able to see this online relationship and started looking for edwards. there was a police pursuit. he lost control of the vehicle. we know that's when the teenager was able to escape, and police say he pointed a gun at the

sheriff's helicopter and that's when they shot him and killed him. the shocking part of all of this is that he was a cop himself. he was hired by the virginia state police. he went to the academy, graduated earlier this year and now he was working for the washington county sheriff's office. so, of course, people wonder how does all of this happen with an officer himself. alison, victor. >> many shocking elements of this story. camila bernal, thank you for the reporting. meanwhile university of hide hoe students are returning to school following thanksgiving break. it's been two weeks since four of their classmates were fatally stabbed in a home near campus. police have yet to name a suspect. >> cnn's veronica miracle is on campus in moscow, hide hoe. what are the students saying about coming back to campus. >> reporter: alison and victor, the university of idaho is allowing students to stay home for the rest of the semester. only about two weeks left of

classes. when we walked around campus and spoke to students, many wanted to come back. they said after doing virtual learning for the last few years because of covid, the last thing they want to do is be at home, even though coming back here to campus is uncomfortable. there's fear and uncertainty in the air. there's still not been a suspect arrested. there's been no motive, no weapon found. there's definitely a sense of discomfort, but students wanted to come back and be back with their classmates. it's hard to tell, though, how many students have decided to stay at home. we asked the university of idaho. they say they're not surveying those students. they're able to come and go as they please. we definitely get the sense it is emptier here on campus. >> a sad setting, kind of quiet. most people are friendly, but now it's just kind of -- i don't know, people are kind of sketched out, not aware of the situation. >> does the campus feel emptier?

>> yes, definitely, definitely. >> i tend to learn better in class anyway. >> do you feel safe coming back? >> well, with all the campus security and them upping that up and with safe locks, and i have a lot of friends here. i never really go anywhere by myself. >> that safe walks program she's talking about is a 24/7 security program where students can call and a security guard will escort them to and from wherever they need to. it seems like a lot more students are taking advantage of that. there's also a massive police presence here on campus. that definitely seems to be putting students' minds at ease. as far as the investigation, there have been no substantial updates and we're still awaiting that. there's going to be a vigil on wednesday for those four murdered students for anyone who has decided to come back to campus. victor, alisyn. >> it's mysterious and unsettling. veronica, thank you very much. it's cyber monday.

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now. what are the expectations today? >> expect another record breaker. expected consumers will spent from $11.2 to $11.6 billion just today just online. if that happens, it could be the biggest online shopping day of the year if not ever. all that from adobe analytics. this comes after a really strong week of online shopping. we saw on thanksgiving day, people were not only eating the turkey and sweet potatoes, they spent $5.2 billion online and black friday, of course, over $9 billion online spent there. where are people going for the deals? the deals seem to be just about everywhere. i saw on apple, if you buy specific products on appn t a g purchase. that's really unheard of te apple do that. target is having price match guarantees. i'm seeing deep discounts on

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dr. anthony fauci warns that the rapid spread of rsv infections could turn into a public health emergency. >> he says the u.s. is already starting to see an early surge of both rsv. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with us now. what's driving this warning? >> what's driving this warning is the hospitals becoming full

with flu patients, with rsv patients and still we have hundreds of people each day being hospitalized with covid. with rsv, here's the big problem. you have so many children being hospitalized with rsv that when children need routine surgeries, for example, cnn did a story with a child who needed a scheduled heart surgery. couldn't get it when she was supposed to have it because the beds were so full. let's take a look at flu numbers because that shows you the other hospitalization burden going on right there. if you look all the way to the right, you see that high bar. that's the hospitalization rate so far this season for rsv. the other shorter bars, that's at this point in the season for other years. in other words, this year at this point in the season, it's higher than it's been in more than a decade. this is a really burden on hospitals. >> yeah. we can see that really illustrates it well. so elizabeth, tell us about this. the cdc is about to getive out

billions of dollars in health grants in, but some fear they'll never see a dime. what's that about? >> that's right. there are community groups that are not apart of the government. they're not apart of a university. they're grassroots community groups that really the biden administration relied on in order to get messages out during covid and even before covid. he would rely on them because they were part of the community. they know how to speak to the community. they are members of this community. i want to introduce you to one of those groups that's called dia de la mujer. it's a group of latina women that talk about cancer and all sorts of things. for covid they set up a call center and got a letter of thanks from president biden saying you did great work during covid. they got a grant and the agency said, wow. this is a great application, but we're not giving you any money, and so they are really concerned. they and other groups say, wait a second.

you want our work. you want us to do things, but you're not going to pay us. so the head of that organization, her name is venus, and she said we will always be in the kitchen. we'll never be invited to the dining room table. that's how we feel. in other words, you want us to do the work, but you don't want to pay us. we asked the cdc about it and they weren't involved in venus' application, but they have this $4 billion that likely is not going to see community groups really soon. it might later, but there are some doubts about that, and the cdc spokesperson said, we are confident that grant recipients will work with communities. in other words, the cdc says we're giving money to health departments and we think that -- we hope that -- we've asked those departments to give community groups money, but there are no promises. victor? alisyn? >> i'll take it, elizabeth. thank you so much for explaining all of that. jay leno was back on stage this weekend. it's been two weeks since he

suffered significant burns in that gasoline fire. he's the former "tonight show" host who performed in front of a soldout crowd in california. he appeared to be in good spirits and he joked with photographers outside. >> i got two shows tonight. regular and extra crispy. thank you and good night, ladies and gentlemen. >> oh. >> never thought of myself as a roast comic. thank you. thank you. good night. thank you very much. >> so leno was working underneath a car earlier this month when he suffered burns on his hands and face. the 72-year-old underwent two surgeries to treat his burns. he is scheduled to perform three additional shows in december. it's good to see him doing so well because it sounded at first like it was really serious. >> even some of the pictures with his nurses and the doctors, you can see the scars there, but jay, when he was doing the show had the shows on the weekend. he likes to stay busy. >> i guess so. just one day before the

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consciousness which then prompted the flight crew to worry he was having some medical emergency. >> his attorney claims he simply fell asleep. what have we learned? >> reporter: we know he was escorted off the plane because there's video of it. we see that, but it's what led up to being escorted off that flight where there are still a lot of questions and quite frankly some conflicting reports. let's start with police, right? they are saying before the flight even took off, the flight crew was trying to wake him up to fasten his seat belt. there were issues there that prompted them to call it a medical emergency, and once officers arrived, they say that they asked him to get off the plane. he wouldn't get off the plane. they got everybody off the plane eventually. he was escorted individually. now when you ask his attorney, quite a different story here, victor and alisyn. he says this was all very unnecessary and actually pointed

to the fact he was just sleeping. let me read to you his statement. he says, the overzealous flight attendant refused to simply allow mr. beckham to fasten his set seat belt and proceed with the flight. instead, immediately removed everyone from the plane. this was a flight from l.a. to here in miami. it was delayed several hours as a result, and we should also mention that at this point there is no indication that there is any sort of investigation or any charges at this point either, but still a lot of questions as to what exactly happened that led to the video that shows he was escorted off of that flight. >> okay. leyla santiago, thank you. the top of a new hour of "cnn newsroom." good to have you. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm alisyn camerota. we begin with historic protests in maintown, china to oppose the government's covidoc