>> one judge says the white house is blatantly defying his orders. new questions of a constitutional crisis. is the trump administration operating above or beyond the law? an investigation underway this morning after a young sports reporter sent to cover the super bowl was found dead before kickoff. end quote. it is like a tsunami. flu cases surging into the millions as this season is on track to be the most severe we have seen in more than a decade. i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. >> are we headed for a constitutional crisis? president trump slamming rulings by federal judges and his top allies are suggesting he should defy the courts, all because the judges keep blocking trump's plans to overhaul the federal government. everything from trump's push to end birthright

citizenship to doge leader elon musk's effort to shrink federal agencies and slash federal funding have been thwarted so far by the courts. so what comes next in this unprecedented situation? will the president simply defy those rulings which could possibly set the country on the path to a constitutional crisis? cnn katelyn polantz is with me now. a lot happened on monday. a lot of things were said. explain all the ways the courts have essentially put on pause or blocked trump's policies from being implemented, at least for now. >> yeah, it is for now, sara, as of this time. but the courts are acting fast. there was one judge on monday, a federal judge in rhode island who said, hey, the administration, you don't seem to be listening to the court order. i already put in place saying you can't freeze federal funding, going to various programs in the health care space and the environment space. listen, and i'm ordering you

again. make sure that money keeps flowing. so that was a real marker of raising the question of is the administration listening to the courts? but sara, what's happening right now is the courts are largely saying, let's keep the status quo. these cases fall into a couple different buckets. a lot of them are challenges to donald trump's efforts to reduce the federal workforce or fire different people in the federal government. also, attempts by the administration to rewrite some of the social policy, especially around immigration. there also are quite a lot of efforts by the federal government to cut back the federal workforce, as well as spending in different ways. and the judges have largely said, especially when spending is being cut back immediately. don't do that right away. let's look and see at the legality of these things. so a lot is getting paused very quickly as these cases spring up, sara. but every day is a new

day in court. and these challenges are just being filed fast and furiously. there are hearings coming that are being set with a half an hour's notice. it's sometimes, especially yesterday, that happened, i think twice yesterday. >> yeah. i mean, we heard from jd vance, we heard from donald trump. we've heard from speaker johnson all seeming to be on the same page here about what they might do in the future, what they might do. what are you seeing as the next steps from the administration? >> yeah, sara, there's a couple different things where trump and his administration are coalescing in how to push back against this in court. trump himself is starting to surprise, surprise attack judges and trying to discredit them, calling these very bad rulings, saying they're not actually looking at the law. he's right in, in a small sense, in that these judges haven't fully examined the law here. what they're doing is putting in place temporary holds on things so that there will be more time before irreversible damage is

done for the law to be looked at. and of course, right now it's just trial courts that are making decisions on what these trump policies are that are coming into play. there will be appellate courts, maybe even the supreme court that gets involved. and then there's the administration arguments in court. sara, this is really where we see things heading. and the justice department is already trying to say in court, hey, he's the president. he can do what he wants. and judges should respect that and step out. one example of this, we just got a little taste of this in a case where a judge said, you can't put all of these u.s. aid workers on administrative leave. bring them back. and the justice department wrote to the court, the president's powers in the realm of foreign affairs are vast and generally unreviewable. so just a taste of what we're very likely to hear in many other court cases to come from the justice department and trump himself. sara. >> last time i checked, there are three branches of power. we

will see how this power struggle clearly plays out over the next weeks and months. all right, kate. >> let's talk more about all of this. joining me right now is the former republican governor of new hampshire, chris sununu. i'm still going to call you governor. you were governor like since i was born. basically, you've done so many. >> i'm only 50 years old. i'm kidding, i'm kidding. the gray hairs are coming in. >> it's good to see you. thank you for coming in. let's talk about this because executive orders an extraordinary number of executive orders has resulted in generating an extraordinary number of legal challenges against them. and the senator from connecticut, chris murphy, he was on last night, and he said, if the president moves to openly declare publicly, like, openly declare he is going to defy judges orders, he says, then we are in the most serious constitutional crisis in the last 100 years. do you think this is what a constitutional crisis looks like? >> no, no, there's no constitutional crisis here. the the white house has known that all these executive orders would be challenged. and for those who don't know, this is conservatives do it and liberals

do it. they judge shop, right. it's not an accident that these cases ended up in the boston federal circuit court, because there's. more politically likable judges for this case. they're just like a lot of the abortion cases in the previous administration. those challenges end up in the texas court. so that's a problem in itself. these judges haven't had a chance to look at all this. you do have to abide by the law, of course. but there's a question about whether he's really broken the law in a lot of this. and most of these cases. i think these executive orders are fine. they're aggressive, they're fast. but frankly, congress hasn't done anything. and the white house is saying, if you guys are going to sit on your hands for 30 years to find efficiency, to hold agencies accountable, i'm going to do it. >> but if it's congress's sole responsibility in the way the judges are saying, it is like plain text, like congress is the one that creates an agency and can dismantle an agency. do you think that donald trump should be able to do that? >> yeah, he's in charge of the executive branch. so what he's going to do is say, look, we're effectively going to not spend the money in this agency and push congress to do the ultimate dismantling. you're absolutely

right. most of this has to go through a legislative process eventually. but he's in charge of the executive branch. he can say who's hired and fired congress appropriates money, but they can't compel every dollar to be spent. some dollars have to go. there's a whole process there, but it doesn't mean the checks get written tomorrow. >> but, governor, to steal a phrase from my good friend john berman from this morning, we remember a time when there were a lot of republicans who walk around capitol hill with pocket constitutions, like they literally, i remember on capitol hill to be like, have you read this today? this seems to go counter that. >> no, no, it's a challenge between the executive branch and the judicial branch. i had them as governor. right. and a lot of what we tried to pass was challenged either in federal or local or local court. it was challenged all the way up to the supreme court. sometimes it got overturned, sometimes it didn't. you need to abide ultimately by what the courts say. and when they say it, they'll say, this isn't this isn't allowed because x, y, and z. and then congress gets involved. >> and concerned. you're not concerned yet, but you think. >> 30 days in.

>> here, you think donald trump and all should abide by judge's orders? >> ultimately, yes. and if the judge's orders stand through the supreme court, then congress gets involved and changes the law. >> one of the federal judges who is stepping in in, you know, a temporary way with an injunction is a federal judge in new hampshire, this federal judge just stepping in yesterday to say that temporarily blocking trump's move to end birthright citizenship, should donald trump follow that judge's orders. >> they should challenge. i don't think the order is. i think what he is trying to do is legal. i think they should challenge that judge immediately, appeal it up, whether it has to go to the supreme court or not and get a final ruling and move forward. >> the person leading many of these moves, leading the charge with many of these moves is elon musk. before the inauguration. your read on elon musk. my read on your read was that you were hopeful in kind of how he was going to lead the way. you you even told dana that you like the fact in a way that he's so rich that and so removed from the potential financial influence of it, putting the financial

influence part of this aside for a moment, do you like what elon musk is doing? >> yes, and i'll tell you why i don't like everything. but the fact they're going hard, they're fast, they're being transparent. and i go back to they're doing what washington hasn't done for 40 years. accountability and transparency and agencies that have never had to show a product that have never had to think about where's the result? >> transparency is like, what's your definition of transparency? >> how about some any? >> no, because elon musk is not necessarily being transparent about what he and his doge team are accessing, let's say, at the treasury department with sensitive payment systems. do you want elon musk and people with no security clearance and have not gone through it to have the social security information? >> do you know how many. >> people have or of your former constituents in new hampshire? would you be comfortable with that? >> do you know how many people have your social security number right now? >> so you're just saying, cool. >> i'm saying i don't like it, but that's the society we live in. i mean, it really is, guys, so many people that you don't know that have no security clearance, have all that information. don't be don't fool yourself. >> you're just okay with it. >> you're okay with. i don't like it. >> access treasury department

information. >> i understand that about a million people have access to my social security number right now. and if you don't think that's the case. america. i'm sorry. it just is. this is just to ask you, what information does he is he going to get that you're most concerned about? >> this is a system that distributes tax returns, social security benefits, disability payments, federal employee salaries. >> just this is the system that hasn't gone through an overhaul ever. like ever. guys, everybody says we want to get 39 trillion under control, but no one wants to tell me what they want to cut. everyone wants it to get better, but no one has the will and the the force to say, i'm willing to take some short term pain for long, for a long term reset and economic stability in this country. getting to a balanced budget. i mean, congress isn't going to pass a balanced budget, but that's at the core of all this. >> elon musk can't balance the budget. elon musk, at least as far as i know right now, he's not in control of budgetary matters. again, that's congress's job. >> i don't know if this was elon or not, but something that went under the radar. on friday, trump tweeted something he's never tweeted. balanced budget. exclamation point. he's never said it. and he tweeted it just this friday. i think that's a huge step in a whole new direction when trump is now

supporting a balanced budget and you have votes in idaho and montana for a constitutional convention on a balanced budget, that's going to happen soon. only 3 or 4 more states. and now congress will be compelled to actually balance the budget and make hard cuts that for too long, politicians haven't been willing to do. and that's the benefit of elon musk. he's not a politician. he doesn't worry about getting votes and appealing to a constituency. he's just there to find optimization. >> and did you see that? you've learned what you i mean, you did not like donald trump. i'm not even going to quote you all your quotes. >> he was my 13th top choice for president. >> exactly right. and are you saying you have come around? >> no, no. look, i think there were 12 better choices, to be honest about it. but what he's doing is exactly what he said he would do. what he's doing is clearly supported by america because his poll numbers ain't going down, guys. they're only going up and he's being hard, fast and transparent about it. he's not hiding behind what they're doing. every time they do a move, everyone is tweeting about it and saying, well, this is what we're going to do next. he's he's going forth aggressively. and whether it's

on pennies, straws. and by the way, i hope we get lit. mr. president, get rid of daylight savings time. i hope that's the next one to go. >> but it costs more to make a nickel. like some of this stuff is just, like, hilarious on its face. >> and so what he does, he's going after this wonky, very complex efficiency stuff. and then he'll throw out some what i call the kitchen table issues that everyone kind of gets and kind of gives them approval ratings for. so it's hard. it's fast. it's not the way i would do it. but believe me, washington is in a crisis mode. they have been for a long time, and he's saying enough is enough. if you guys won't do your job, i'll do it. i'll do it. i'll do it for you. >> even if it might not be legal. but we'll find out. we'll let. >> the judge. we'll find out, we'll find out. i mean, certain parts will go and certain parts won't. >> thank you. good to see you as always, john. >> all right. a new warning that the sweeping moves from elon musk and the white house could help fund terrorists. and this morning, some buyer's remorse. why? some federal employees who took president trump's buyout offer are now wishing they had not. and egg thieves on the lam. new surveillance video shows the moment they stole more than 500

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department with this reporting. what have you learned? >> well. >> john, there's really. >> that eyebrow raising. >> conclusion in. >> this new watchdog report from the usaid inspector general that is saying that because of the reductions in staffing at usaid as well as this foreign aid freeze, their efforts to conduct oversight of humanitarian assistance, this is taxpayer funded humanitarian assistance has basically ground to a halt, and that this could lead to potentially inadvertently having terrorist groups or their supporters benefiting from that assistance. now, under usaid regulations, programing in countries like afghanistan, iraq, lebanon, pakistan, syria, the west bank and gaza and yemen, they receive what's called partner vetting to ensure that this funding does not unintentionally end up in the hands of groups like hamas, hezbollah, i.s.i.s. or the houthis. but according to this report that citing usaid staff, they were told that the counterterrorism vetting unit that supports the assistance

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who signed up could be targets for firing employment. attorney aaron herrera is joining us now. you have clients who have, i think, taken the deal. so give me some sense of what those federal employees that you're representing this morning are feeling once they've seen what's happening in the courts and they're sort of in limbo. >> uncertainty, a significant level of uncertainty, not just with respect to their rights under the program, but how the forthcoming court order will change things and whether they can withdraw their resignation. so, given this ambiguity, we are in a wait and see with the district court does. but even if the program is upheld, federal employees will need to ask themselves whether they believe the administration will do what it has promised. >> i'm sensing regret. is that

right? are there some employees that you're representing that are regretful of putting in their resignations now? >> there are certainly some. and that is a product of the level of uncertainty that we're seeing and what their rights are and how this court order could change things. if the program is unenforceable, their resignations made under that program should also be unenforceable. but how that's going to be implemented is yet to be seen. >> i do want to ask you why your clients accepted the resignation offer. obviously, there are always people who are close to, for example, retirement who might think, this is great. i'll just end a bit earlier. what is some of the circumstances that your clients decided to accept? the resignation offer, which may give us a look into the 65,000 who have accepted the offer

administration carries out its promises. >> there are benefits for certain employees from a legal standpoint, there is just a lot of uncertainty. and who can rescind the agreement and whether employees can challenge that decision and or their resignation. so what appeared as a benefit on its face actually has a lot of ambiguity that hopefully the district court will clear up. shortly. >> ultimately, if the trump administration wants these federal employees gone, i mean, in your legal opinion, can he just freely fire them and say, okay, well, you put your resignation in and now you want it back, and you know what? you're fired anyway, leaving them no recourse. >> federal service employees do have due process protections. so case by case we would look at the grounds for termination and whether it was lawful. part of the uncertainty is whether

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>> the pitt, streaming exclusively. >> on max. >> this morning, a new ultimatum coming from president trump as the fragile deal between israel and hamas feels like it's on the brink of collapse again, hamas postponed the next release of hostages, claiming israel broke the terms of the cease fire, and donald trump has now jumped in saying this, quote that all hell was going to break loose if hamas does not release all of the remaining hostages by noon on saturday. cnn's jeremy diamond is live in tel aviv with much more on this. jeremy, what are you hearing about this? well, about the cease fire deal, where it stands and about this ultimatum now from donald trump. >> well. >> i think that it's important to say that this really. is perhaps the most fragile moment that we have seen for this cease fire. deal thus. >> far. it's. >> and that's just because we have seen so many things injected into the kind of public conscience in recent days. you

begin with saturday, and the images of those three frail, emaciated looking hostages who emerged from 16 months in hamas captivity. then you have hamas threatening to delay the next release of hostages, accusing israel of violating the cease fire. several times. and you add on top of that, president trump not only talking about displacing all of gaza's population in favor of a riviera of the middle east, u.s. real estate development, but also now suggesting that the israeli government effectively issue this ultimatum to hamas to release all of the hostages by saturday at noon, or face all hell breaking loose. the israeli prime minister is currently in a security cabinet meeting discussing all of this with the members. the highest level officials in the israeli government. there's no question that right wing members of that government have been seizing on many of trump's proposals here.

whether that is the ultimatum to release all the hostages or go back to war, whether that is the proposal for the united states to take over the gaza strip and expel all of the palestinians who are living there. and so the israeli prime minister is going to be facing a series of political crosswinds, not only the families of the hostages who have ramped up their demonstrations in tel aviv and in jerusalem, but also, of course, from the right wing. and this ultimatum from trump could potentially run the risk of making the prime minister look weaker to his right wing base if he doesn't join trump in issuing that call. but that being said, an israeli official, i spoke to just a little bit ago suggested to me that there is no indication right now that israel is interested in breaking off this deal. keep in mind, we are still expecting about 17 more hostages to be released as part of this cease fire, and their families are counting on this deal to stick. >> and add into all of this. today, president trump is about to be meeting with and welcoming the king of jordan to the white

house. this at another remarkable moment in that relationship and allyship, which is donald trump in part of making his case for owning gaza, saying that palestinians need to, that jordan needs to be taking in palestinians. what's the reaction to all of that? >> well, the president is has actually making explicitly clear now that the billions of dollars in u.s. security aid that the united states provides to jordan and egypt, which we should make clear, is not just some kind of benevolence from the united states. it is something that protects u.s. interests in the middle east. the president is now saying that that is on the line. if jordan and egypt don't get in line and support his plan for gaza support, taking in more than 2 million palestinian refugees from the gaza strip. but jordan has more to consider than just that security aid. it also has to consider the fact that more than half of its population are already

palestinian refugees, that it cannot simply be viewed as abandoning the notion of a palestinian state by allowing a u.s. takeover of gaza. it has its own domestic political considerations as well. so all of that, we expect to be discussed between the president and king abdullah today. but make no mistake, gazans and arabs in the region at large are wholly rejecting this proposal from the president. the only place it has support is in the right wing of israeli politics. over here. kate. >> jeremy diamond, thank you always for your reporting. really appreciate it, sarah. >> all right. the speaker of the house, the vice president, several members of congress who are republicans, all publicly coalescing around trump and elon musk's sudden and severe slashing of the federal government workforce. but behind closed doors, some republican members of congress are facing pressure now from anxious constituents who benefit from federal monies and programs that are effectively frozen. cnn's annie grier is joining us now. what are you hearing about what

these republicans are trying to do now that they're facing? can we call it backlash yet or something similar? >> well, sarah. there is a lot. >> happening behind the scenes. i'm not sure if. backlash if we're at that point, but certainly pressure the phone lines in republican offices have been ringing off the hook. and that's because the federal workforce doesn't just live in washington, d.c. in fact, over 80% work around the country. so this is an issue that doesn't just affect d.c., it affects the entire federal workforce. and that means that republicans, whether they want to or not, have to sort of weigh in here. and they are hearing consistently from their constituents. so i have talked to a number of republicans for this story who told me the ways that they are trying to help their constituents and federal workers, for example, republican zach nun of iowa is filing individual casework for his constituents who are having concerns trying to advocate for their jobs directly with the

trump administration or the relevant agencies. republicans are looking to the government funding deadline next month as being key to leveraging the programs that they want to continue to see funded, so that could be a tension point between what the legislative decides to fund and what donald trump and elon musk want. and then you also have a number of private meetings going on this week. a number of republicans are sitting down with representatives from the largest, largest federal workers union to hear them out directly, where we're sure they're going to get an earful. and some republicans are even hosting town halls back home to let their constituents air out their grievances there. so republicans are very aware, sarah, of all that's going on and all the pressure that they're facing. i mean, and then we have to think of the politics of all this, right, about how republicans have to navigate this, because while they want to protect their their federal workers in their districts, this is also an effort to cut the federal government and its workforce,

led by elon musk and blessed by president trump. so they have to really thread this needle here. and one republican lawmaker who we granted anonymity to speak to us, kind of encapsulated all of this when they said, quote, if this were a democratic administration with the same things happening, people would be lit up about it, end quote. so that just shows you, sarah, the dynamics that republicans are facing and how they are trying to address it. >> yeah, this is an issue. it's one thing to say, hey, we want to blow up the federal government's budget, and we want to get rid of people when it starts to affect you personally, things tend to change a bit. annie greer, thank you so much for your reporting this morning. i know you'll be watching all this as it unfolds. john. >> so this morning, a new response from senate minority leader chuck schumer when asked by mara gay from the new york times what americans want from democrats right now, what senator schumer said was this, quote, they want us to beat trump and stop this spit. except

they didn't say spit. they said something that rhymes with it. with us now is senator ed markey, a democrat from the commonwealth of massachusetts. senator, thank you so much for being with us. senator schumer says you're stopping it. what have you stopped? >> well. >> so far. the federal courts have blocked trump's attempt to change birthright citizenship, blocked the cuts to nih funding, blocked the access to the treasury information, blocked the firing of. usaid employees, blocked, blocked, blocked, blocked. that's the federal courts. we are in the senate. we are using every single moment in order to fight against these unqualified and dangerous cabinet nominees, which trump has put up this week. we're going to be having the whole debate about robert f kennedy,

who is unqualified and deeply dangerous as a secretary of health and human services, because, amongst other things, and this is where we're going to get to tell the story. kennedy is saying he'll do whatever trump wants as a matter of policy. well, trump and musk have made it very clear they want to loot medicaid. they want to loot the affordable care act to get hundreds of billions of dollars for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. and we're just going to continue to fight every single day in order to protect all of these vital programs for the health care, the environment, for the education of american families all across our country. and we're not going to stop. we are going to battle him every single day. >> obviously, massachusetts has some of the best hospitals, some of the the most cutting edge medical research in the country and will be affected by cuts to nih funding. your new england colleague, republican susan collins from maine, said she called rfk jr. because she's

concerned about the nih cuts. now, she says she's voting for rfk jr.. but she's concerned that kennedy promised to reexamine this initiative. how confident are you that that will lead results, and how confident are you? i mean, what do you think of susan collins decision? >> well, we have, as you said, the finest hospitals, the finest medical researchers in the world. in massachusetts, it's where we're from. john. but we we started a revolution. and the revolution was to make sure we did not have a king that was in lexington and concord. well, article one of the constitution creates the congress. article two of the constitution. it creates the presidency. article three. it creates the judiciary. well, donald trump and elon musk, they want to create article 3.5, the musk ocracy where anything that elon musk wants is going to trump all other articles of the

constitution, and they want to loot the nih funding. they want to loot medicaid, they want to loot the funding for children who need help in school. kids with disabilities in their learning. they want to loot all of it for hundreds of billions of dollars for a tax break. so that's where we are right now. nih funding is essential to finding the cure for alzheimer's and cancer and diabetes and heart disease. and they want to, for all intents and purposes, shut it down. so we're at a constitutional crisis moment in our country. what they're trying to do is unconstitutional. it's illegal, and we are going to battle them every single day until we win. >> katie miller, who works on musk task force, called nih funding, quote liberal di dean's slush fund. your reaction to that? >> well, look at the kids in

every high school class in the first row, all studied biology and chemistry and physics. they were the smart kids. those are the kids working at nih. those are the young people. the older scientists trying to trying to do the research, which is medicine's field of dreams, which gives hope to families that there will be a cure for that disease which is running through their family's history. that's not anything other than pure science. that's finding the best people to do that research. and all of this characterization of everything as die again is just part of the plot to attempt to loot all of these programs for the tax breaks, for musk and for all of his billionaire cronies. so it's it's wrong. the american public knows it's wrong. and if there's anything people want on a bipartisan

basis, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of race, regardless of income, it is to find the cure for all of these diseases, which nih funding makes possible. >> senator ed markey from the commonwealth of massachusetts, appreciate your time this morning. kate. >> coming up for u.s. schools forced to close because of flu outbreaks. new data coming in from the cdc showing this flu season is the most intense it's been in the last 15 years. and an egg heist caught on camera as prices soar amid this nationwide shortage. >> one second you feel safe and then the police. >> are on their way. >> well, you still do. >> love. love will keep. >> us together. now for

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hard way. this year's flu season is on track to be among the worst in years. doctor sanjay gupta is here with us this morning. so, sanjay, how bad is it? >> it's pretty bad. i mean, it's certainly the worst that. >> it's been since before covid. if you look at cases overall, it's the worst in many, many years in terms of hospitalizations, probably the worst since 2017. so, you know, this is something people are paying attention to. let me show you the map. you're used to. looking at these maps gives you an idea of sort of the activity of flu around the country. the darker the color, the more flu in your area. so those are the places where you're thinking, hey, is this the flu that i have? if you live in a darker state, according to this map, chances are higher that it's actually going to be flu. so that's something that people are certainly keeping an eye on. overall, if you look at the numbers sort of broadly speaking, you know, first of all, they could have predicted this to some extent, john, because wastewater numbers were going up. they were seeing flu in wastewater. but now, you know, 24 million cases, 310,000

hospitalizations so far this season, 13,000 deaths. so, so pretty significant, 38,000 hospitalizations. just last week alone. and you may remember, john, from talking about covid for so long. hospitalizations i think are probably the truest measure of what's really going on. so again, paying close attention to that positivity rate, i don't know if you remember that term, john, but that basically means people go in to get tested. how many times do the tests come back positive? the higher the positivity rate, the more likely that flu is is out there and is going to be out there for a while. so with a positivity rate over 30%, that means we're going to be in this for a bit longer. the numbers are not really crescendoing at this point, so we'll keep an eye on that as well. those are the three things really, that give an indication of how bad things are. >> so given that we're going to be in this for a while, as you said, what can we do to protect ourselves? >> i mean, you know, we talk about vaccines a lot and people

may say, hey, look, is it too late to get a vaccine? the answer, based on what i've just told you, is no. now, keep in mind, if you get a vaccine, it takes about two weeks to actually get the immunity from the vaccine for those antibodies to build up in your body. those are the vaccine rates right now, pretty much in line with what they've been. about half the country's adults get a vaccine, a flu vaccine, every year. that number has not budged. fewer kids, though, are getting flu vaccines around 54%, usually closer to 60%. that's one thing. another thing, and this is sort of new, john, is there is now an at home flu test. that's it. so you can do a flu test at home. we weren't able to do that. you could do covid tests in the past. but now there's a 3 in 1 flu test. this will look familiar to you john. it's a swab. you dip it into this little reagent and then you basically put the drops on here and it tells you if you have the flu, why should you do this? well, again, if you want to know if you have the flu so that you don't spread it to others,

that's one reason. another thing is, if you're at higher risk, there are certain antiviral medications. tamiflu for example, which typically can shorten the duration of how long you're sick. it may not lessen the severity of symptoms, but it can shorten the duration by a day or so. for people over the age of 65, for people who have some preexisting condition, lung conditions, for example, in particular tamiflu might be a good option. you can know ahead of time at home. now, if you actually have the flu and are a candidate for that. >> yeah, those tests, you know, a little triggering. i was hoping never to see those devices again. doctor sanjay gupta, thank you very much. and if you have questions about this flu season, scan the qr code right there on your screen. head to cnn.com and send the questions to us. sanjay will be back later this week to answer them. kate. >> thank you sir. trader joe's now limiting egg purchases that it has now announced that all of its locations nationwide, every customer only now allowed to take home one dozen eggs.

that's 600 locations. this is impacting in a very real example of the fallout from the ongoing egg shortage caused by the bird flu. that shortage has also sent egg prices soaring. as we all know. up 14% in one month and prices are projected to continue their climb, possibly another 20% this year. the family of sonia massai, a black woman killed by a white deputy in her illinois home last year. the family has now reached a settlement with the county. $10 million settlement. this comes over six months after masi called 911 over a suspicious person outside her home. just minutes after the sheriff's deputies and other officers arrived, she was shot and killed in her kitchen when she went to check on a pot of boiling water. the sheriff's deputy has been fired. he remains in behind bars on first degree murder charge, which he has pleaded not guilty to. now the settlement with massey's family must still be approved by the county board.

sara. >> all right. this morning there are some new information in the investigation into the death of a young sports reporter sent to new orleans to cover the super bowl. 27 year old adan manzano worked for telemundo in kansas city. police say he was found dead in his hotel room last wednesday. police say he was seen on security cameras around 430 in the morning, entering his room in kenner, louisiana, with this woman. police say the woman is actually a known career criminal. they say danette colbert left the room a short time later and then returned about 6:00 in the morning before leaving again alone. police say she has a rap sheet that includes, and this is the new information. allegations of drugging men and financial crimes. >> all of the circumstances. >> are very. similar. and that's. >> the calls that we're getting. we believe 1 or 2 might involve miss colbert from what we have, but we still have to do a lot of investigating. >> all right. cnn chief law

enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller is here with us, with with all the information that police have, namely that she's the last person to be seen with him. he did not leave that room after she left the room for the final time. why isn't she a suspect so far in this case? >> well, she is a suspect. >> but it doesn't mean she's. >> chargeable yet. it seems if we were watching law and order, this would be easy. they do a search warrant at her residence. they find his credit card. they find his phone. right. he's been drugged and is now deceased. but they have a much longer way to go. and i mean, i know this because we had similar cases in new york, one involving a similar suspect who left three men dead in various hotels in queens. we had a more recent spate in bars in manhattan where men were being drugged in drinks and then taken and robbed. so we know the pattern here, but we also know the difficulty of proving these cases because, um, yo