those demonstrators behind the search i'm joined now by one of them evan keegan he joins me from new york evan thank you so much for coming on the show i want to ask you 1st you invested in game stop how would you describe these past 2 weeks. yeah absolutely so you know i think the word that i would use probably is quite turbulent and i and i said that for 2 reasons you know in an incredible opportunity probably the 1st time in my lifetime that i've really been able to i think count realize on me and move in the market so quickly or perhaps he didn't have the knowledge to be able to do so much for things to you know what's now being dubbed as wall 'd street that's the sum granted you know that has now won 8000000 upwards of 8000000 users and. so i think it's great i see 2 things i see this amazing opportunity that just happened but i think what people really are talking about on the other side is how well you know the average retells the average investors portfolio on the retail side is also affect you know specifically seeing things like you know the regular the rest of the markets you know d

to have to cut it short there we do appreciate your time though thank you so much evan keegan joining us from new york he's one of those demonstrators who also invested in game stop as well some others thank you so much evan thank you. all right over to africa imagine checking into your hotel and being greeted by a robot oh a guest house and johana sport has become the 1st in africa to embrace just that idea robotic receptionists take a look at. what china's brick to say. cannot 3 stern g.'s open for nice sakes 32 techniques nasty midweek and on from there a one to 3 humanoid robots in johannesburg hotel sky they can do more than just answer gas questions they can also carry luggage and deliver room service they sort of how about with the smaller things a people needs more things and we stuff would you leave it running up to fulfill is to deliver a meal or delivering 2 meals now we've got the facility where they can control the robots in cells in sanded off and they can also have the jackboot on saying questions that we have usually taken at a time when robots are finding their way into new roles in r

levine and other city officials say this vaccine-distribution system may never be fair, in new york city. evancmorris-santoro, cnn, new york. >> thanks, everyone, for that. >>> so, across the country, covid deaths are skyrocketing among latinos particularly in southern california. the los angeles county health department says virus deaths for latinos have shot up by more than a thousand percent, since november. a health official quoted the l.a. times and called it, frankly, horrifying. well, david hayes is the director of the ucla center for the study of latino health and culture. and his research focuses on why the latino community bears the brunt of the pandemic in southern california. great to have you on the show. >> pleasure. pleasure to be here. >> lovely to see you. why -- why is the latino community bearing the brunt here? >> well, in large part, because latinos have a very high work -- they have been essential workers, not the physicians and nurses but they are the farm workers that give us the food. truck drivers, food-service workers, construction workers. latinos have more wage ear

. >>> i'm evan mcmorris santoro. new yorkrestaurants will reopen for indoor dining starting on friday. restaurants will be limited to 25% capacity. the reopening was expected to come on sunday, valentine's day, but this week new york governor andrew cuomo pushed the reopening date back two days to give restaurants time to prepare for a day they all hope to be very, very busy. restaurants were closed to indoor dining back in december as pandemic numbers surged here, but those numbers have come back down leading officials to relax certain restrictions including this one on indoor dining. >> thanks to all of our correspondents for those updates. president biden prepared to roll back a controversial policy against migrants at the southern border. priscilla alvarez is live with us. what more are you learning? >> reporter: officials are telling us the biden administration is freepg admit migrants along the southern border and were subject to a trump era policy that forced them to remain there while they claimed asylum. this address

evan mcmorris-santoro, thank you so much, in new york's yankee stadium. >>> on the other side of the country, california governor gavin newsom is facing a recall threat as frustration grows across that state at the pandemic threat. organizers say they've collected a million signatures to support the effort to remove him from office. they need a half million more to put the recall process in motion, as california becomes just the second state in the nation to surpass 43,000 coronavirus deaths. cnn's paul vercammen joins us now from los angeles. paul, what more are you learning? >> reporter: we're learning that we are starting to see some of the variants crop up here in california. and let's get right to dr. barbara ferrer. she runs county health here in los angeles county. and how do you get ahead of the threat of these variants? >> that's such a good question, and good afternoon, everyone. i really want to note that the variants are really mutations of a virus and almost all viruses mutate. the strategies that we have in place right now, keeping your face coverings on, keeping your d

new york thank you. earlier today i spoke with evan keegan he's one of the amateur traders who bought and later sold game stop shares i asked him what motivated his trading decisions. you know for me and i saw this really purely like i said as what it as really what it was as an opportunity for a short squeeze an opportunity to make out to make money quickly you know for me it was less so and i know for a lot of people it's sort of this opportunity it's it's a quote unquote stick it to wall street you know and certainly there are there are conversations important conversations about that need to be. you know about how that how hedge funds work how people are investing and democratizing investing things like doctors that are important conversation but i think for me it really was exactly you know what i said it really was just a short squeeze out which to do that i took advantage of all right i think he can there he was one of those amateur traders behind that game stop search let's take a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. brazilian mining giant valley has agreed to pay $700

new york city. let's get to cnn correspondent evan mcmorrow santoro. you got the assignment. good to see you. this storm is bringing massive disruption, huge snow totals and significant flooding is now possible. what can we expect? >> reporter: well, here in new york city the good news is probably not the kind of flooding we've seen before. even though forecasts do call for the highest storm surge this city has seen since hurricane sandy back in 2012, this also is calling for only minor flooding in low-lying areas, but flooding is a part of this storm, don. let me show you some footage from sea isle, new jersey, a town on the southern coast of new jerse new jersey. you can see significant flooding already. forecasters are saying that flooding may continue even into wednesday. it is a big storm, as you mentioned. 16 inches of snow on the ground. only a couple of inches away from being one of the top ten storms in new york city history, and here it is a snow problem. in new jersey right now it is a flooding problem, and it could be somewhat of a flooding problem here in new york in the future,

new york thank you. earlier today i spoke with evan keegan he's one of the amateur traders who bought and later sold game stop shares i asked him what motivated his trading decisions you know for me i saw this really purely like i said as what it as really what it was as the opportunity for a short squeeze an opportunity to make out to make money quickly you know for me it was less so and i know for a lot of people it's sort of this opportunity it's a quote unquote stick it to wall street you know and and certainly there are there are conversations important conversations about that need to be had. you know about how the how hedge funds work how people are investing and democratizing investing things like that that are that are important conversation but i think for me it really was exactly you know what i said it really was just a short squeeze out which to do that i took advantage of. all right i think you can there he was one of those amateur traders behind that game stop search let's take a look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. brazilian mining giant valley has agreed to pa

evan mcmorris santoro. the storm is bringing massive disruption, huge snow totals, and significant flooding is possible. what can we expect? >> reporter: here in new york city, the good news is, probably not the kind of flooding we've seen before. even though forecasts call for the highest storm surge the city has seen since hurricane sandy in 2012, this also calls for minor flooding in low-lying areas. but flooding is a part of this storm. here, in new jersey, you can see significant flooding already. and they're saying that flooding could continue even into wednesday. this is a big storm, 16 inches of snow on the ground, only a couple of inches away from being one of the top ten storms in new york city history. and here, it's a snow problem. in new jersey right now, it's a flooding problem. and it could be somewhat of a flooding problem here in new york in the future, don. >> those pictures of flooding brings back the horrible, horrible pictures and memories of hurricane sandy and the flooding that happened then. thank you, evan. be safe. >>> the former president's second impeachment trial set to begin next week. and a member of his legal team making

evans coming up. he can make the throw to third base. jonathan: from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: the biden administration is changing the way the u.s. handles asylum-seekers. it will slowly start to admit those turned away by the trump administration under the so-called remain in mexico policy. there are an estimated 25,000 migrants waiting at the southern border. house prosecutors have concluded their case for convicting donald trump in his senate impeachment trial. they say they have proven the former president incited an insurrection when a mob of supporters stormed the u.s. capital. trump lawyers will present their own case today and include video presentations, perhaps an attempt to counter the gripping video at the capitol the house prosecutors showed. house committee has approved the $1400 payments to millions of americans. those will be part of president biden's $1.9 trillion dollar package. it also includes payments to children that will be mailed out on a monthly basis. the u.k. and eu are still at a standstill over the northern ireland dea

evans sees on .9 by the end of 2021. offshore yuan holding at 645 after china kept steady on loan prime rate and new york crude opening tohe downside creeping below 59 plus a barrel off by .7%, after issa retreat from the most overbought level since 1990. -- after we saw a retreat from the most overbought level since 1990. haidi: u.k. prime minister boris johnson expected outline how the national coronavirus locked on may be lifted over the coming months starting with schools reopening by march 8. let's cross to bloomberg editor ian fisher for more. walk us through this u.k. roadmap to reopening. kathleen: there probably -- they probably are not going to meet their vaccination targets? ian: the u.k. obviously not hit hard, the worst in europe, but has been highly successful in their vaccines despite the difficulties. and they have improved to the point where it feels it is time to reopen, or start to reopen and johnson has a lot of political pressure to do so in parliament and elsewhere. today he said schools will reopen starting march 8. and he is going to start opening , allowing other steps, you can meet someone for a

release of the "new york k times" dococumentar called "framaming britntney sps" ththe film explolores her risis fafame and t the contentious relationship that she has with her dad. carter evansory and joins us from los angeles with mother nature. good morning to you, carter. >> reporter: well, good morning. britney spears has said through her attorney that she no longer wants her father in control of her fortune. today's hearing could be a small step in that direction. it comes as there's increased interest in britney's private life and how she ended up fighting for control of it. ♪ britney spears catapulted to fame in the late '90s delivering hit after hit -- ♪ [ cheers ] >> reporter: while capturing an entire generation of loyal fans. ♪ >> reporter: with fame came intense scrutiny. spears' actions and struggles were under a media microscope. in 2008 after an apparent mental health crisis, her father, jamie spears, was anamed a conserveve by a judge. what is a conservative corrship? >> the same as a guardianship. it usual lly happens for people ill physically or mentally and they're older. the court appoints someone to take charge of that person's affairs. >> reporter: unde

chair, i read recently in the new york times that a former hacker for the national security agency went on to become a cyber criminal. he had business with where mr. evan was station. he was tasked with hacking into qatar. in the process of doing so, he eavesdropped on private to medications between the government of qatar and the then first lady, michelle obama. when i read about that, i was horrified and i asked myself how can an american contractor and a hacker from the national security agency be allowed to eavesdrop on private communications of the first lady and be allowed to engage in cyber operations against allies of the united states like qatar. two questions, how does this happen and how do we ensure doesn't happen again? >> mike, i will take it to start. it is a horrifying scenario. it is a slippery slope. expertise developed in government institution it will leave periodically and we don't want there knowledge to not be used. so, prohibiting them from doing anything or advancing the state-of-the-art is not something that would be in our interest. but, i also believe, that when you engage in something that would be antithetical to the laws