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ivan sanchez often takes his wife and children out to eat in a local cafe in mexico state. but these days someone is missing from their regular family lunches — ivan's father, mario. he fell ill from covid shortly after ivantried to ride out the virus at home — and died on this very sofa. ivan grapples with the grief and the guilt of having infected his father every day. many thousands in mexico have died like mario — untested, under the radar, and not included in the official statistics. translation: after he died i asked a friend to help me l with the paperwork so his death wouldn't be registered as covid but as a respiratory collapse. we did it so we could give him a proper wake at home. as government data suggests a staggering 320,000 have died from coronavirus in mexico. public health experts believe cases like mario's mean the true picture is even worse. most families extra officially are arguing our number could be higher than that 320,000, that we may be about half a million dead. if such a dire estimate is true, mexico needs to vaccinate its people soon. in one of the worst hit municipalities, there was tentative hope and optimism as the most vulnerable received their jabs. but nationally the cri

ivan sanchez often takes his wife and children out to eat in a local cafe in mexico state. but these days someone is missing from their regular family lunches — ivan�*s father, mario. he fell ill from covid shortly after ivan the virus at home — and died on this very sofa. ivan grapples with the grief and the guilt of having infected his father every day. many thousands in mexico have died like mario — untested, under the radar, and not included in the official statistics. translation: after he died i asked a friend to help me l with the paperwork so his death wouldn't be registered as covid but as a respiratory collapse. we did it so we could give him a proper wake at home. as government data suggests a staggering 320,000 have died from coronavirus in mexico. public health experts believe cases like mario's mean the true picture is even worse. most families extra officially are arguing our number could be higher than that 320,000, that we may be about half a million dead. if such a dire estimate is true, mexico needs to vaccinate its people soon. in one of the worst hit municipalities, there was tentative hope and optimism as the most vulnerable received their jabs. but nationally the criticism is there s

ivan sanchez often takes his wife and children out to eat in a local cafe in mexico state. but these days someone is missing from their regular family lunches — ivan's father, mario. he fell ill from covid shortly after ivan on this very sofa. ivan grapples with the grief and the guilt of having infected his father every day. many thousands in mexico have died like mario — untested, under the radar, and not included in the official statistics. translation: after he died i asked a friend to help me l with the paperwork so his death wouldn't be registered as covid but as a respiratory collapse. we did it so we could give him a proper wake at home. as government data suggests a staggering 320,000 have died from coronavirus in mexico, public health experts believe cases like mario's mean the true picture is even worse. most families extra officially are arguing our number could be higher than that 320,000, that we may be about half a million dead. if such a dire estimate is true, mexico needs to vaccinate its people soon. in one of the worst hit municipalities, there was tentative hope and optimism as the most vulnerable received theirjabs. but nationally the criticism is there simply aren't enough doses to g

ivan watson who is following the developments from hong kong. ivan, a tragic start to a holiday weekend in taiwan. what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, a desperate rescue effort, frankly, after this terrible and deadly train disaster where you have the premiere of taiwan now updating that up to 41 people are believed to have been killed in this accident, including the driver of the train. it was the number 408 train that was traveling down the east side of taiwan from taipei and it was entering a tunnel north of the city of huallen when the derailment occurred and continued inside the tunnel itself. the premiere has said that though perhaps 100 people have been rescued, many injuries, scores of injuries, that there's still according to the latest figures some 200 people still to be rescued. so that's a tremendous number on a train that earlier we had been reporting for some 360 passengers, now it appears to be up to nearly 490 passengers who were on board the eight cars of this train. when you look at some of the footage here and the aerial footage, this took place on a stretch of track basically on the side of a steep mountain that leads down to the sea and there are skid marks that you can see from a road just above and it appears that some kind of vehicle fell down from the road and hit the train and caused this terrible disaster. so this is big news in taiwan. the president of the country has tweet bd this, she said, quote, in response to a train derailment in huallen taiwan our emergency services have been fully mobilized to rescue and assist the passengers and railway staff affected. we will continue to do everything we can to ensure their safety in the wake of this heartbreaking incident. complicating matters here is the fact that several of the cars are inside the tunnel and that makes getting access with the kind of heavy equipment that you would need after a major train crash a much more difficult for the rescue crews. it's been i'd estimate a little bit less than eight hours since this accident did take place. kim? >> you mentioned almost 500 people on that train. i understand it was a holiday. is that what played a role here in the possible number of victims? >> reporter: sure, the beginning of a four-day-long weekend, the tomb sweeping festival. some survivors have said that they were on their way to their home towns or to their families and may have contributed to the large number of people who are on the train at that time.uple taiwan state news agency that they escaped their train car by breaking through a window by bark it out with their luggage to try to get out. and we fortunately have seen footage of people walking away, some clearly not really injured, but judging by the numbers that still remain to be rescued there is a lot of work still to be done and we will have to watch closely at what happens here. it's not -- this may be one of the deadliest train disasters in taiwan's recent history. another one took place in 2018 in the northeast of the country where 18 people died in a derailment that happened at a train station. this much more challenging of course because of the topography here and the fact that the train had its accident and these cars were basically smushed together inside a railway tunnel. >> unbelievable. let's hope the rescuers can get the rest of the passengers off safely. we will keep following the story. thank you so much, ivan hong kong. >>> testimony will resume in just a few hours at the murder trial of derek chauvin, the former police officer accused of killing george floyd during an arrest last summer. through emotional testimony and new videos prosecutors have been trying to paint a clearer picture of the type of man floyd was and describe what happened in his final moments of life. cnn's sara sidner reports from minneapolis. >> yeah, i was just kind of calling, have you come out to our scene here. >> reporter: the jury heard newly released audio of officer derek chauvin talking on the phone with his supervisor to explain his version of events on may 25th, 2020. >> we just had to -- had to hold the guy down, he was -- was going crazy -- wouldn't go in the back of the squad. >> reporter: from the witness stand chauvin's police sergeant recalled chauvin's description of events omitted key details. >> did he mention anything about putting his knee on mr. floyd's neck or back? no. >> reporter: the sergeant

. >> ivan, thank you very much. the u.s. is sending, as ivaneded resources to india. those include raw materials for vaccine production, therapeutics, rapid tests, ventilators and some advisors from the cdc and usaid. but what about end issing in the actual vaccine? actual vaccine by astrazeneca is sitting, tens of millions of doses waiting because it's not approved here. here's what white house senior adviser for covid-19 response said when our colleague pamela brown pressed him for an answer on that. the. >> we're in a position increasingly where we're more and more confident that americans are going to have the vaccines they need. once that's been the indicates, we've always said that we're going to do is make sure that we turn our attention to making sure we help the world. >> joining me now is vice chair of the america's global health community. doctor, thank you very much for being with me. as you know, the united states has tens of millions of doses of astrazeneca's covid-19 vaccine sitting here because it's not been given the green ligh

though some local providers, like ivan's pharmacy on new york's upper west side, had surplus j&j ready to go and tonight ivan jordain is vaccinating his customers. >> this vial in here is the key to life and to your future and the health and well-being of our community and our society. period especially for people of color we have to go out and get this vaccine >> reporter: cvs and walgreens tell nbc news they'll make appointments available for j&j starting next week but the true battle may be combating overall vaccine hesitancy. vaccination sites from north carolina to texas and ohio to georgia are closing due to lack of demand. >> and sam joins us now from miami sam, many states have signed off on the j&j vaccine but what's holding back others? >> reporter: yeah, florida says it is still reviewing cdc guidance, jose, and hasn't picked a resume date yet and states like missouri, the health department there has signed off on vaccinations but they are not expecting federal shipments until next week, which is to say logistics plays a role in all this, too. jose? >> sam brock in miami. thank you. >>> our senior

ivan watson is following the story for us from hong kong. ivan, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, the test of wills continues. this bloody, deadly test of wills with the military clearly trying to crush the uprising against the now two-month old military coup. it can get kind of surreal because amid scenes like this that are filmed by very brave activists of clashes in the streets. you have the front page of the military run new global light of myanmar newspaper, which is highlighting a visit by the man who declared himself dictator to the country to see the sale of pearl and jade and gems in the capital nepida, and meanwhile you have a curfew pretty much imposed on the entire country every night. as you pointed out, the internet being turned off on cellphones and wireless and that taking place almost on a daily basis. the association for -- the assistant association for political prisoners, the ngo reporting more than 540 people killed over the past two months. more than 2,000 people detained. that organization estimates that seven people were killed between thursday and friday by security forces. we can show you some footage from a contact of ours from last night in yangon of the security forces walking through the empty streets after curfew, just one of the images people see outside their homes at night. for example, just to suggest how strange this all is. a growing number of foreign governments that are urging their citizens to leave. most recently south korea joining the u.s. state department which has ordered nonemergency personnel and family members to leave. britain has urged its citizens not to go to myanmar as well. and then another statement that came out on military run television that was announcing arrest warrants for more than 20 singers and actors and celebrities and influencers accusing them of article 505a, which is basically trying to convince armed forces to quit, to be in dereliction of their duty. yet another one of the examples of the ways that the military is struggling to stop this popular uprising, which has spread to the ethnic enclaves that are run by ethnic militias where we've seen an increase in fighting between the military and the militias including the use of air power by the military. we've seen people fleeing to those areas and across borders to thailand, for example, in the last week. and an increase in call from some of the activists to arm themselves against the military. it is all the signs of a country descending further into chaos. kim? >> all right, ivan watson, thanks so much for keeping us up-to-date on this important story. appreciate it. >>> prosecutors in taiwan are seeking a warrant for a construction site manager whose truck is believed to have caused the train crash that killed at least 50 people. according to authorities the brakes on the truck weren't properly set. the truck then rolled downhill onto the tracks causing the crash. for more let's bring in our journalist andrew lee joining us from taiwan. what more can you tell us about how this exactly happened. >> reporter: good question, exactly how did it happen? this is the tunnel, this is the train traveling at 110 kilometers per hour. before it entered the tunnel, a construction truck without the brakes properly fixed skidded down the slope 30 meters, and it stayed on the train tracks. the train traveling at 110 kilometers per hour did not stop in time. the driver did hit the brakes, the investigator told me. but the train still hit the truck, and then the train went int

ivan watson live in hong kong. we've been following this from here, ivan, it seems like every development is more alarming than the it's pretty frightening how quickly things are falling apart. ? just the two months, christine, since the february 1st military coup swept an elected civilian government from power, you have a growing number of countries calling on their citizens to please leave as soon as possible. the u.s. saying that it's evacuating nonessential personnel and their family members. you have the growing death toll and you've had days of air strikes in a border region that have been taking place by the military and now after like five days of air strikes that have killed dozens of people allegedly, the military now suddenly declaring a unilateral ceasefire but addressing it to ethnic armed groups in the border jungle regions and mountainous regions that have been battling the military for decades, not addressing people in the cities who are still protesting every day and being shot and killed on a daily basis. i'm hearing increasingly calls from the protest movement to stop the peaceful protest out in

ivan watson joins us now. what is the biggest need right now, ivan. >> reporter: probably oxygen. imagine having a sick loved one and going from hospital to hospital as that person gasps for breath trying to find one hospital that has oxygen to let your loved one breathe. and that is a scene playing itself out day after day in different cities and towns across india. take a listen to what one resident of new delhi had to say after his grandfather passed away. >> translator: the doctors warned us if we take my father to the hospital without oxygen support there is no guarantee he will be okay. but we couldn't find an ambulance. in desperation we to take an auto rick shaw. he was gasping for air and removed his face mask. he was crying saying save me, please, save me. i could do nothing. i just watched him die. >> the oxygen shortages are so dramatic, anna, that hospitals have also taken to social media, begging for help. i can show you some tweets from one chain of private hospitals asking for help, saying sos, 144 covid patients life at stake, less than 40 minutes of oxygen supply left. now fortunately this hospital said that they did ultimately receive their delivery a bit later. but the yes is in real crisis right now. the government says it's ramping up. but thousands of people are dying each day as they wait for these crucial supplies to come in. >> just horrific, ivan and thank you for joining me today. i'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, in the meantime you can twined me on twitter @ana cabrera. newsroom continued with alisyn and victor next. ♪ ♪ from the moment i laid eyes on you ♪ ♪ this is what i said, i said ♪ ♪ i see it ♪ ♪ and i like it ♪ ♪ and i want it ♪ ♪ yes, i do (do, do, do) ♪ ♪ i need it ♪ ♪ to make me happy ♪ ♪ baby, yes i do mean you ♪ ♪ i see it ♪ ♪ and i like it ♪ ♪ and i want it ♪ ♪ yes, i do ♪ ♪ woo! [sfx: psst psst] ♪ allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good he used to have gum problems. now, he uses therabreath healthy gums oral rinse with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. (crowd applauding) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores. new projects means new project managers. it'you need to hire.ash. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a

ivan wrote in to say, here we go again, big pharma making money out of misery. what is your response? i mean, talk about, you know, the cost >> ivan is not wrong in thinking that pharmaceutical companies are going to make a lot of money. off of the vaccines, i'm not going to lie and deny that, right? vaccines have been in research for more than 15 years. there are salaries to be paid, there are lab supplies, there's an actual cost to getting something to market. this is why the white house put so much money into operation warp speed, because all of this takes money. you know, i will be honest, there is no actual service related to innovation and human progress towards any natural disaster, tragedy, epidemic, what have you, that's done for free. so, you know, it's one thing to say, oh my gosh, they are doing this and making money. they believe they are actually doing this to profit. and the one, this is not directed toward ivan, but one thing i want to address the people, there are people online who say, physicians are making money off this pandemic. i promise you, from the bottom of my heart, i don't make a single dollar from people going out and getting the vaccine. on top of that, we would actually save billions of healthcare dollars, if we kept people out of the hospital. according to the icu, getting hospitalized, taking those medications actually cost us in the long run way more money than actually preventing all of it, i promise you that. that is healthcare economics 101. >> wow, i also want to point out, given the hours dedicated from medical professionals, such as yourself, i feel like you are almost losing money, because you are working double the time, in order to tackle so much that's going on so in that regard, i see where you are coming from. >> thank you. i appreciate that. it's either time or sleep, we are losing one of them. >> it's all currency, you know, to human beings. denise wants to sa

ivan. why do they want an angry gorilla anyway? you're a silverback. you terrify humans. we did do facial capture. we had a camera on ben bishop, the guy that played ivan, throughout the virtual process. but we didn't use it. it was, as with motion capture and with any kind of capture like that there's a hell of a lot of data. depending on what it is it is a sometimes quicker and easier and more creative and more — you get better results by hand doing it. in terms of bringing that to screen, that performance to screen, how we do it is a hell of a lot of reference gathering. lots of dogs, lots of gorillas to kind of tap into what makes an animalan animal and knowing its nuances, knowing its quirks and its ear flicks and its little idiosyncrasies that they do. this was a movie that the animals had to be completely photorealistic. yet at the same time, are we pushing it far enough, is there enough pathos, or humour, or sadness in those expressions, should we push it a little bit more or have we pushed it too far? and we're sort of slipping into uncanny valley where you start to go, "oh, no, that's not a real animal, they don't do that, they wouldn't do that." so that's a very difficult balance. and that was something that we fought with on every shot. it was a discussion that went from the heads of the studio all the way down, you know, through the movie. so we captured scene by scene. so we captured what we called a master scene from beginning to end. the animators back at npc would then take the chess pieces that we captured for bob and ruby and stella and all the other animals and animate them, animate them the whole master scene, you know, from beginning to end, without any kind of camera. we hadn't shot any kind of camera at that stage. it was alljust as a scene would play out. and so by the end of that process we had every scene we were going to shoot virtually playing out as a master scene. that would then go on to our virtual stage. now we're into the virtual stage we could go into the scene. first of all we would do it in vr. so we would put the headsets on. you can go into the scene, look around for the master you can go into the scene, look around while the master scene is playing out. we could go into it with the dp and the director and say, right, here is the scene, how are we going to film this? once we looked at it in vr we went on to the virtual stage and there we actually had a film crew and we were able to now literally film these virtual clips. and we could change lenses, they could pull focus, you know, there's nothing there, but everything is up on big screens. the reason that we did that as well was, you know, it put the filming a bit back into the film—makers' hands. i think thea said to us, nick, at one point, when we showed her the first kind of render of a scene with ivane movie evolves and goes through its different processes . probably a lot of people looking at the movie may not realise is how much of the backgrounds weren't real, but were actually completely generated virtually. any time that you were basically looking at bob and ivan in the backstage area, with stella and ruby, that entire environment was virtual. it was completely computer—generated. so we put a huge amount of work into all of the different textures and how light behaved on them. we had tiled surfaces, concrete surfaces, we had metal bars, we had glass. if you went in there and just said, right, well, we'lljust go and shoot empty plates of this environment, you know, we think bob will be there and shoot a shot there, you end up with a million plates, it will take you a long time to shoot. so therefore we needed it to be, you know, a virtual construct so that we would have complete freedom of cameras and complete freedom of choices later on. i'lljust cross the road, then. why woul