because the u.s. is producing more oil than any country in world history. so we have strong supply. we've also got relatively weak demand, especially out of china. and so that's why gasbuddy is projecting that americans are going to spend about $115 billion less on fuel in 2025 than they did back in 2022. typical family still expected to spend about $2,300 on gas, but that's about $500 less than they did back at that peak. we should note that this is just a forecast. there's always wild cards out there that could change things, but for now, the outlook is that president-elect trump is going to take office at a time when gas prices are pretty muted, and they could go even lower. >> gasbuddy data. being a buddy to our wallets right now. it was percolating in my head. i had to get it out. but look, you mentioned it's forecast. obviously, i don't want to be the pessimist. i don't want to throw the wrench in it. but. but are there potential barriers or things that could trip up this forecast? >> yeah, there's a couple things we need to pay close

attention to. one, anytime we're talking about energy prices, you've got to look out for natural disasters, right? i mean, a hurricane in the gulf of mexico could lift prices if it knocks out supply of gasoline or oil. wars or acts of terrorism, that's always a risk. and one of the biggest wild cards for 2025 is trump's trade agenda. analysts have warned that his proposed tariffs on mexico and canada could lift gas prices. canada is the biggest source of foreign oil into the united states, so we need to pay close attention to that. but look, for now, the good news is gas prices are low and they are projected to go a bit lower. >> let's stick in this world of good news for right now. matt egan thanks. really appreciate it. everyone else. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> this morning we are learning details about the state funeral for former president jimmy carter, who has died at the age of 100. the world now honoring

his achievements in the white house and his rich legacy and accomplishments after his presidency. families in south korea are mourning the deaths of 179 people killed in the country's deadliest air disaster in decades. what we know about what may have caused the crash. and health experts warning that the u.s. isn't doing enough to counteract the bird flu threat and needs to use the hard learned lessons from the covid pandemic. rahel solomon here with omar jimenez, sara, john and kate are all out today. this is cnn news central. >> this morning, remembering the life and legacy of the longest living u.s. president, jimmy carter. as the nation prepares to honor him. with a state funeral now set for next thursday, january 9th. now, overnight, president biden declared that same day as a national day of mourning. and as of this hour, as you can see

behind us right there, flags at the white house and across the state of georgia are flying at half staff in honor of the peanut farmer who became a president and lived a life of great service and great love. carter died peacefully at the age of 100 yesterday afternoon, surrounded by his family at his home in plains, georgia. as mourners left tributes outside the carter center in atlanta, world leaders and all five living u.s. presidents paid their respects to the man who once said, i have one life and one chance to make it count for something. my faith demands that i do whatever i can, wherever i can, whenever i can, for as long as i can. cnn's ryan young is live in plains, georgia, this morning. good morning ryan. i mean, what is the sense there in his hometown? that, of course, has been so central in his legacy and what he's been able to do here. >> really a big sense of pride. omar. everywhere you look around this town, you can see signs talking about the former president. you can look back to. this is when they first decided to come home. we're

inside the trading post. that's right here in the middle of the city. and, you know, philip kerlin has owned this place for 30 years. and i want to show you some of this stuff that's actually stood out to us. and one of the buttons that really stood out to us was this one. and philip was telling me they really like this one as well. this is the carters all time favorite button. >> it's a plains american gothic. >> you told me that they hold, obviously, a special place, but you've had an opportunity to interact with them. what is this moment like right now, knowing that this chapter has closed to a certain extent? >> initially, it was unreal to me and the people in the town because we thought about planning the president's 101st birthday. but the reality of the situation is president carter will always be alive in plains. their good deeds. they'll always be behind us, whispering in our ears, telling us to do the right thing and especially caring for one another. >> you said you've had an

opportunity to speak to both carters. tell me about some of those conversations and what you enjoyed, and you were able to glean from such a man who lived a wonderful life. >> uh, i guess the turning point between my relationship with president carter is when i got sick and he sat with me for an hour, and that's when our knowing each other became a friendship. but he would come in here when he was in town, which was quite often, sometimes on a weekly basis. we talk politics and he first thing he'd always want to know is how's business? because he was very concerned for the welfare of the downtown. he was always giving one time. him and rosalynn came in, and i was here with my wife, and they said, when we pass away, we want you to be open. and we were shocked that they would even bring something up like that, but they were already thinking that they wanted the tourists to have some place to shop, always giving. >> philip, thank you so much

for taking the time. of course, this is one of the many places that will open up over the next few days. obviously to remember such a powerful man, a community beacon, someone who gave his life to service. and obviously we know december 9th will be that time. the entire nation will come with this. i'm sorry, january 9th, but as you put all this together, you can see just the living legacy all over plains and across the state of georgia and now the world. >> he said they wanted him. he wanted them to be open even when he passed. and, you know, clearly lived up to that promise with with buttons. i'm going to have to come visit and see all those individual buttons down there, all that memorabilia. ryan young really appreciate it. yeah, yeah. >> well, all right, omar, thank you. and this morning, president biden is honoring jimmy carter as a remarkable leader and a dear friend. cnn's julia benbrook has more from saint croix, where the president is vacationing, but took some time to speak about the man he's known for more than 50 years. >> president joe biden is

remembering former president jimmy carter with very personal remarks here in saint croix. he called carter an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian, as well as a dear friend. these two have a long standing relationship, one that spans more than five decades. >> america and the world, in my view, lost a remarkable leader. he was a statesman, a humanitarian. and jill and i lost a dear friend. i've been hanging out with jimmy carter for over 50 years. it dawned on me. jimmy carter stands as a model of what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose. a life of principle, of faith and humility. he. his life dedicated to others. >> biden was one of the first u.s. senators to endorse carter in his 1976 presidential bid. in fact, biden says one of his fondest memories is when carter grabbed him by the arm and said, i want you to help me

with my campaign. carter was unable to attend biden's inauguration four years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the two leaders spoke on the phone and biden actually thanked carter for his lifetime of service. during that speech. in 2021, on biden's 100th day in office, the current president and first lady visited the carters in georgia. biden has spoken with members of the carter family and says that he wants to ensure that carter is remembered appropriately. he has declared january 9th a national day of mourning for carter. >> julia pembroke, thank you omar. >> with us now is cnn contributor and former chief, white house domestic policy adviser under president carter, stuart eizenstat. thank you for being here. you know, i want to start with what you wrote recently. you wrote in the washington post. quote, conventional wisdom holds that jimmy carter was a failure as a president, redeemed only by his philanthropy and efforts to promote democracy in his

post-presidential years. this is palpably wrong. i would love for you to expand on that. a sure. >> in effect, omar, his post-presidency was so remarkable that it eclipsed what he actually accomplished as president. and i think he was the most meaningful, impactful, one term president we've had in modern times. i say that for the following reasons. first, the energy security we enjoy today. the fact that we're the number one producer of oil and natural gas is due to his deregulation of energy in his presidency. the fact that we are now entering a renewable energy era is due to the fact that he started the whole solar revolution, even putting a solar panel on the roof of the white house. all the ethics legislation which we have today was due to jimmy carter. he was the education president, creating a new

department of education and an environmental president, doubling the size of our national parks. and one thing that's often neglected to recognize is his deregulation. senator phil gramm, a conservative senator from texas, said it very well at his 100th birthday. and that is his deregulation of airlines, which brought air travel to the middle class and trucks of rail, of telecommunications, which, frankly, made cnn possible even beer. the craft industry was all due to him. and here is a southern president from the deepest part of the deep south, who was a great civil rights president. he appointed more blacks, hispanics and women to the federal bench and to his senior appointments than any of the 38 presidents. together. and that doesn't even touch what he did at home abroad with human rights, with normalization, with china,

with the panama canal treaty, and critically, the first peace between egypt and israel, between israel and its arab neighbors at camp david. it is the greatest diplomatic personal achievement of any president in our time. >> and, stuart, i want to jump off of a lot of what you said because you did list a number of his many achievements. and, you know, it goes back to sort of the initial framing of the question and what you wrote in that, you know, conventional wisdom says that he failed as, as, as a president and that maybe was made up post-presidency. so i guess the question is, why do you think that so many look at maybe the inflation of the time or the iran hostage crisis as a basis for remembering his presidency so harshly i'll be very frank. >> when you lose a reelection, you're deemed a failure in our society. he lost reelection for three reasons. i call them the three r's. interparty warfare, where ted kennedy

divided the party by taking him on and didn't reconcile after the convention. second, inflation, which was heavily due to the iran crisis because it shut off iranian oil and doubled oil prices. we had gas lines. but here is again a sense of being courageous, july 1979. in the midst of this inflation, omar, he appoints over the objection of almost all of us, paul volcker, to head the federal reserve, because volcker said to him, i'm going to choke inflation out of the system by high interest rates, and it's going to hit you in your reelection campaign. and he said, i don't want my legacy to be high inflation. do what you have to do. and then last, of course, was the iran hostage crisis. 444 days, which he himself said was the most debilitating part of his presidency. so combat all of those they overwhelmed all the accomplishments that i've just mentioned. >> and, you know, a lot of his accomplishments do that. people, again, use your words

under conventional wisdom, do seem to point to came after his time in office. and i bring that up because you ended that washington post op ed with saying he may not deserve a place on mount rushmore, but he made our country and our world a better place. so my question to you is what first comes to mind when you think of him making the world a better place? >> what comes to mind is the fact that he planted so many seeds, which blossomed later. so, for example, he has a major role to play in the end of the soviet union. all the weapons systems which president reagan implemented, he began his human rights campaign dramatically changed our relationship with latin america, as did the panama canal treaty. and it undercut the moral argument for the soviet union. camp david was remarkable. let me give you, please, a quick anecdote. 13th day after 22 drafts going between prime minister begin and president sadat, bacon comes to him and says, mr.

president, i can't make any more compromises. please get me a limousine and take me away for going back to jerusalem. and he knows that this will cause the whole thing to collapse. it will undercut what sadat did courageously in his own presence. so what he does is he gets eight photos made of the three leaders together, gets the names of each of grandchildren, endorses it to peace for each one, which jimmy carter hands it to. bacon sees bacon's eyes tear up, his lips quiver. he puts his suitcase down and says, mr. president, for my grandchildren. i'll make one last try. and that has brought a peace that has lasted. now through everything, including this gaza war. >> yeah. stuart eizenstat really appreciate the time, perspective and expertise. thank you for being here. all right. meanwhile, we're following other news. south korea is now planning an inspection of every boeing 737

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sunday night at eight on hgtv. >> welcome back. today, families are mourning their loved ones as details continue to unfold surrounding south korea's deadliest air accident in decades. 179 people died in the crash. two crew members who were in the tail section of the plane survived. officials now confirming that a mayday call was made by the pilot of the inbound flight from bangkok due to a bird strike on the aircraft before attempting an emergency landing. the ntsb, now leading a team of u.s. investigators to assist south korean authorities. cnn's mike valerio is at the crash site in muan, south korea, and has this report. >> well, we're getting a better sense of how expansive the debris field is. and right now we're only a couple yards away from the epicenter of the debris field. that is the tail section of the boeing 737 800, which managed to. survive relatively and i stress, relatively intact, 15 yards

high. and this is the section of the plane where the two survivors were pulled from and rescued by first responders. minutes after this plane was engulfed in flames. so we're going to pan to the left. that's where you can see this massive yellow crane that will be charged with moving pieces of the wreckage. we're going to pan down and you can see parts of the aircraft that were hurled jettisoned beyond the cinder block perimeter of the airport. and this is what investigators from south korea, the ntsb from the united states, will be poring over, scouring over as they investigate. certainly, what went wrong. and were there any mechanical issues that contributed to the landing gear not deploying? but, you know, i think we got a better sense during the day as we pan further to my right, just showing you that some of this debris was hurled from the aircraft a distance longer than a football field, just to give

you the sense of the force of this crash during the daylight hours, we saw tray tables, yellow inflatable vests, seats that were mangled, and members of the military that were combing this area that we're looking at after sunset, looking for potential human remains, looking for passengers belongings and cataloging certain elements of the aircraft. certain pieces of the aircraft. we are waiting for the ntsb team to get on the scene to begin their work. that is the next part of this equation when it comes to the investigation. figuring out what went wrong. and we do know that one of the black box components has been damaged and it's questionable. open question whether or not it will have to be sent to the united states for examination. mike valerio, cnn, muan, south korea. >> all right. today is expected

to be one of the busiest travel days of the holiday season. over the weekend, hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands more delayed as severe weather hit the southeast and east coast of the united states, bringing damaging winds and tornadoes. cnn's whitney wild is at chicago o'hare international airport with the latest on the travel situation. whitney. how's it looking there? i know that i know the airport well. it can get pretty crazy. >> i know you do, omar. i know you do. you probably can't forget it because it can get so crazy here. but right now, it actually looks pretty good. so it's a pretty thin crowd here. it's ten minutes through security, for the most part, between 5 and 15, depending on how fancy you get with your tsa pre and all that other exciting stuff. so i think for a holiday weekend, omar, this is looking mentioned, this is a record travel week. at o'hare alone, they think that they're going to process about 3 million passengers in the 14 day period between about december 20th through january 2nd. that big

holiday rush that represents a 7.8% increase over 2023. so across the board, we're seeing huge numbers. just yesterday. tsa says that they processed 2.795 million passengers. again, that is just one day in this very busy travel season. as you mentioned. this is getting increasingly difficult because this weather impact is moving through. here's one family i spoke with whose flight plans were unfortunately delayed. >> we're headed to jamaica and decided to do matching outfits every day. >> so it's it's an entire week of matching outfits. >> what's your trick for traveling with all these all these kids and all these friends and family? >> check as much as you can. bring a stroller so you can load things in there. >> when the kids want to walk. that's about all you can do. >> all right. stay calm. >> bit of a tech issue on that one, omar. but i was glad to introduce you to the family with matching outfits for their trip to jamaica. they're doing it every day, as you heard them

say. there was another family i spoke with omar, whose flight was delayed about an hour. they were in good spirits. as long as it stays in an hour. once you get to 5 or 6 hours delayed, the spirits start to decline. but for the most part, they're like, look, it's vacation. it's all in the attitude from the second you walk out the door. so just keep the happy vibes going. >> omar, look, being here is nice, but i would like to be in matching outfits on my way to jamaica very shortly so that person has the right idea. even if you're going to be delayed. whitney wild. glad it looks good behind you. thanks for being here. all right. meanwhile, supporters of president trump are feuding over the visa program for high skilled tech workers. what the fight says about the incoming administration and the future of the work visa program. plus, health experts warn the u.s. isn't reacting fast enough to stop the spread of bird flu. the lessons from the covid pandemic that could help mitigate the threat. we'll talk about it all coming up. >> covid 19. i'm not waiting. if it's covid, paxlovid.

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defending a visa program for foreign workers. that's sparked really what's become a divisive debate among his supporters for days now, maga hardliners have been sparring online with trump allies elon musk and vivek ramaswamy over the future of the h-1b visa program. those immigration visas allow highly skilled workers, like tech engineers, to work in the united states. cnn's alayna treene joins us now from west palm beach, florida. so, elena, i guess let's start with the president-elect trump. what is he saying about all of this? >> well, omar, we did hear him weigh in on the side of elon musk and vivek ramaswamy this weekend defending the h-1b visa program. >> as you mentioned, the program that allows highly skilled foreign workers to come and work in the united states. this is what he told the new york post over the weekend. he said, quote, i've always liked the visas. i have always been in favor of the visas. that's why we have them. he went on to say, i have many h-1b visas on my properties. i've been a believer in h-1b. i've used it many times. it's a great

program. now, just to be clear here, donald trump is talking about h-1b visas, obviously, in this quote. but our colleagues actually dug into the data with the department of labor and found that most of the foreign workers at donald trump's properties are here with h-2b visas. those are, you know, allow for jobs like landscaping and hospitality. but all to say, the reason this is so notable is because one, as you mentioned, this issue over h-1b visas and whether or not there should be more highly skilled foreign workers in this country, as elon musk has been calling for, is something that has really caused a massive rift among his supporters. on the one hand, you have the maga faithful who many of them attracted to donald trump because of his hard line immigration policies. and then you have some of the, you know, silicon valley latecomers to this, people like elon musk, but also david sacks, the venture capitalists in california who like donald trump and supported him this past election cycle, but also rely on these h-1b visas to bring these foreign workers for

their businesses and their companies. now, what's also interesting about this is that donald trump has not always been supportive of the h-1b visa program. i'd remind you that back during his first administration, he actually signed an executive order that limited the h-1b visa program. and also the visa program saw a decline during his first term. he also ran on a platform in 2016 where he argued that american companies should be prioritizing american workers, not foreign workers. all to say, donald trump is now coming in on the side of elon musk on this issue. still unclear, though, what any sort of policy around this could be once he's actually in office. omar. yeah, we will see. >> alayna treene. thank you so much, rahel. >> all right, omar, thank you. and joining us now is democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. congressman, great to have you this morning. welcome. >> thank you. >> rachel, i pick up where my colleague alayna treene left off there. these new comments over the weekend from president-elect trump on the

h-1b program. he said, look, he supports these visas. he has used it many times. they're great. your reaction, congressman? >> i actually agree with him. >> i think that this h-1b program is an essential component of maintaining our competitiveness. i happen to be the ranking member of the committee charged with trying to win the competition against the chinese communist party. we can't win that competition unless we retain, attract and get the very best talent from around the world. that's our number one killer competitive advantage as a country. and so we have to improve that. >> i want to speak i'm glad you mentioned the competitive nature of the relationship with china. i want to actually turn now to trump's threats to the panama canal. here's what outgoing senator ben cardin had to say about it over the weekend. take a listen. >> i don't know what the president elect is saying in regards to how sincere he is, but i can tell you it does raise questions globally as to

whether we're a reliable partner. and it really feeds in to russia and china, appeal to other countries as to whether they need to make alliances with with russia and china, whether america will be there for them globally. >> i mean, it's a pretty strong statement. i mean, do you agree that this makes these threats make the u.s. look like an untrustworthy ally in a way that it could ultimately benefit countries like china and russia? >> yes, absolutely. >> you know, part of maintaining our deterrence against the ccp or russia or other adversaries in terms of deterring aggression by those countries is binding closely together with our friends, partners and allies. so when we push them away, we are reducing our deterrence and inviting aggression. we're also creating openings for our adversaries to then grow closer and to take advantage of our rifts with our friends, partners and allies

and reduce our, um, kind of deterrence and basically harm our national security at the same time, though, i mean, trump's trump's point is that the fees are exorbitant and the fees vary. >> they can range from a few dollars to a couple hundred thousand dollars. should there be congressman, a revisiting of those fees and how they impact americans? >> sure. and we can do that in the context of not saying things like, we're going to take back the panama canal. remember, this is. a transfer that happened that was ratified by the u.s. senate. it actually happened under president jimmy carter. um, and i think that this is something that, uh, we have to respect. and at the same time, we have to maintain our national security. we also want to maintain cordial relations with countries like panama that maintain a very important waterway for our commerce. >> yeah. on national security.

that sort of brings me to tiktok. trump is obviously urging the supreme court to pause the controversial ban on tiktok. it's supposed to take effect next month. tiktok says it doesn't want to divest. obviously, congressman, there are americans, a lot of americans who make a living using the app. you say this is about bytedance. this is about national security. but if tiktok doesn't sell, you support this, ban this divestment. what do you say to those americans? >> i think i think that they should actually ask tiktok and bytedance to get the move on and ma does divest itself of tiktok. the interesting thing here is that tiktok says we are not controlled by the chinese communist party. neither is bytedance. but on the other hand, they say we can't sell bytedance, can't sell tiktok because the ccp won't allow us to. and as the u.s. district, i'm sorry, the circuit court of appeals of the district of columbia. said, uh, you know, we don't have to in

congress, legislate around the preferences of the chinese communist party if they decide they are not going to allow bytedance to sell. we have to do what's in the best interest of our country, and that is make sure that the ccp can't access our data and use it against us. >> yeah, and that decision is still pending from the supreme court. we'll see ultimately how they rule. congressman raja krishnamoorthi, appreciate the time today. thank you. all right. and coming up for us, the number of human cases of bird flu has risen to 66. could new mutations make it easier for the virus to infect humans? we'll be right back. >> want a next level clean swish with the whoa of listerine? it kills 99.9% of bad breath germs for five times more cleaning power than brushing and flossing alone. get a next level clean with listerine. feel the wolf. >> when i hear cancer, i hear death sentence every 15 seconds

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this is cnn. >> welcome back. some health experts are raising red flags as u.s. bird flu infections in humans climb past 65, warning that america's sluggish response is setting the stage for a potential pandemic. now, the cdc is pushing back against claims it's not testing enough to maintain control of the virus. joining us now is doctor leanna nguyen, contributing columnist for the washington post and former baltimore health commissioner as well. i mean, doctor, i just want to start with, i mean, should there be a more aggressive response from the cdc here? >> yes, there should be a more aggressive response, especially when it comes to testing. one of the lessons that we should have learned from covid is that just because we aren't testing doesn't mean that the cases aren't there. and in fact, the cdc has data itself that should be alarming. there was a study published recently that found that 7% of farm workers in farms where there are active infections in animals had evidence of recent infection of the bird flu themselves. but none of these individuals

tested positive for bird flu or even tested for bird flu during their infection. half of them reported having some kind of symptoms. half of them said they did not have symptoms. so that illustrates that potentially we could have many more infections than we know of among farm workers. it also indicates that there may be some people who are asymptomatic. now, we don't know that these people are asymptomatic and spreading bird flu. there has been no documented human to human transmission in the u.s. yet. but that said, we are not doing nearly enough testing to understand the extent of the spread of bird flu. and what we need is rapid tests. these are not impossible to do. we have rapid flu tests available. we now we know that there's the ability to get rapid covid tests rapidly distributed, and we should be able to have these rapid home tests available to farm workers for their families and for the clinicians and health care providers taking care of these individuals, so that those people can protect themselves and and figure out what's going on with the

patients and the individuals they're around, but also so that the u.s. can have a better handle on the total number of cases. >> and, you know, doctor, i'm just based on on the reporting over the past few days, i was struck by the quote from doctor deborah birx, who is obviously the white house coronavirus response coordinator under under president donald trump. she said that we kind of have our head in the sand about how widespread this is. specifically, she was talking about animal to human transmission there. but i wonder if you agree with that assessment, but also what lessons can be learned from how the trump administration handled covid to what we what we could be doing essentially here? >> well, the cdc was very slow the first time around with covid in terms of trying to get tests to be more widely available. and by the time there was rapid testing and and more accessible testing, we were finding that there were far more cases. also, we did not know about asymptomatic transmission of covid early on,

and i think that there is a lot about the bird flu and how it's mutating that we don't know about this time around, too. and this is the time early on in the course of an outbreak, to try to stop it. >> and, you know, along along those lines, you know, the cdc has come out and said that they're doing asymptomatic testing. they're trying to they're not necessarily dropping the attention that they would give on, you know, differentiating flu. and just because it's leaving flu season things, things of that nature. but i guess the the overarching question is, is our infrastructure right now built more for containment or prevention yeah, it's a good question. >> and i think that right now we are facing we are seeing a lot more signs that the bird flu is is getting more and more out of control. and one of those signs is the fact that we have we have an individual in louisiana who is severely ill. there is a strain isolated from the individual that shows that

there are mutations such that the virus may be more more transmissible in humans. normally, avian flu virus does not attach well to human airway receptors, but there are mutations that seem to render it to be more capable of attaching to airway receptors and more able to be transmitted. i think unless we're doing a lot more testing to pick up on who has the virus and therefore what mutations they have, we really don't have a good handle on what's happening. and you mentioned that we're in flu season. we're in a period where we have the regular flu. in addition, we may now have bird flu as well. and the really frightening scenario is if a single person contracts both avian flu and seasonal flu, in that case, the viruses could exchange genomes and we could have a mutant virus that is more dangerous because it spreads more easily among people. and so i think that that's why we need to be extra vigilant, and the government needs to take more proactive steps. >> and, you know, for people watching to this point, we have not seen any human to human transmission. but of course

humans have contracted it to this point. so i guess the question is for those watching at home who are hearing this, who might be concerned. i mean, what should regular people be doing to try to protect themselves, or what should they be looking out for? >> yeah, i don't think that most of the american public should be thinking, oh, my goodness, my my runny nose or cough is due to the bird flu. but there are steps that everyone should be taking. so for example, if you see wild birds don't approach an injured or ill or dead bird. also, it's important to avoid raw milk and also to have your domestic animals like cats and dogs, avoid raw meat and raw milk. during this period, where those may be the way that bird flu could be transmitted. and for individuals who keep backyard flocks or who are farm workers, they definitely need to take additional precautions because there is certainly the risk of transmission for them. >> all. good points, doctor leanne nguyen, thank you so much. meanwhile, an r&b legend and an undeniable talent. a new cnn documentary looks back at

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uses vandross own words and interviews with his closest friends to tell the story of his iconic career. cnn anchor victor blackwell spoke to vandross lifelong friends, as well as the director of the film, about who vandross was on and off the stage. >> singer songwriter, producer, eight time grammy winner with 11 consecutive platinum or double platinum selling albums. >> mr. luther vandross. whoa! >> for millions of fans around the world know his unmistakable voice and classic love songs. >> i can't fool myself. >> i don't want nobody else to ever love me. >> but what you may not know is the story of how he became a star. >> the day that i met him, um, it was clear to me this dude is going to wind up being on the radio. first of all, he sang better than everybody. he had a vision about how he sang. >> i try to do songs that i think i can do differently, you

know, and that i think fit me. you know, sort of like a what somebody chooses to wear. >> luther was inspired by the icons the supremes, aretha franklin, dionne warwick and before his solo career, luther grew to be a top background vocalist. >> i used to sing background vocals for roberta flack on the road, and roberta sometimes would have interviews, and sometimes she'd be unable to show up at soundchecks, so i would sing her songs for her in soundchecks to test her microphone and. love. >> and throughout his career, luther kept those friends from the early days close. >> one of the many, many things that's so impressive about luther over the course of his life is how his friends have remained so constant. i really wanted to have people who could tell you how he laughed, could tell you how he was silly, could tell you about him as a person. >> what what memories come back about? luther, when you see these relics, these artifacts from that period, there's

people who can sing. >> there are people who can arrange. >> there are people who can play. but luther wanted to be. he had a vision of the entire thing. >> what most fans probably don't know is that luther meticulously designed every aspect of his shows the costumes, the lighting and choreography. >> i love talking to people who are the like. >> o.g. luther fans, and they're like, you cannot tell me something i don't know. and then they're all like, what? what? what? >> that's a really interesting thing with a with a black artist. is he literally was everywhere. he just wasn't always visible. >> i really like to think of this as also a celebration of black music inside. hey, we've got love. >> love, power. >> and that's what this film is a celebration of luther's artistry and a deeper look at the man, professionally and personally. >> he called me from l.a. where he was living. he said, listen, i'm nominated for best r&b vocal. i'm not going to win

anyway. why don't you come and hang out with me? and we went to the grammys and he won for here and now. this is the dude i met in the projects, and he is winning a grammy. >> when you kind of travel through time with this movie and with luther's journey, you remember these moments, these spectacular moments. this is all part of american culture. it's not just black culture, it's american culture. >> nearly 20 years after his passing, luther still inspires artists and fans through the power of his voice. victor blackwell, cnn, los angeles. >> and you can watch the all new cnn film luther. never too much new year's day. 8 p.m. eastern pacific, right here on cnn. can't wait. and thank you for joining us. this is cnn news central with rahel solomon. yeah, great to see you. cnn newsroom. up next, stick around. >> andy, it has been one wild year. >> i know that whole new live stream was crazy. >> what you have been following

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