we do begin this hour with encouraging news for the country worst hit by the coronavirus, but also a crucial, crucial warning. the u.s. is powering through vaccinations. cdc data shows that 1 in 5 americans have now received at least one dose, and more than 1 in 10 are now fully vaccinated. but spring break is here, and many states are easing back on restrictions. travel is picking up to the level it was a year ago. and people are letting their guard down. perhaps adding to an overall sense of relief, americans are starting to receive those $1,400 stimulus checks as well from the biden administration. so it may feel like the u.s. is emerging out of a dark winter into a hopeful spring. but experts still pleading with the public to stay vigilant. here's paul vercammen with that, paul? >> reporter: coronavirus restrictions are loosening up from coast to coast, but one of the nation's top health experts is warning governors, if there was ever a time to put on a mask, this is it. >> i would just appeal to all of those leaders who have people's lives in their hands, look at the data, take some risks with your political base if you need to, but do the right thing. >> reporter: health officials are also deeply concerned americans are letting their guard down by getting on planes in record numbers since the outbreak began and by clustering up during spring break. >> if you come to texas, you would say, hey, the pandemic disappeared overnight. it is amazing. you go outside, all the clubs are packed, people not wearing masks. it's very disappointing. >> reporter: key vaccine benchmark met in california, so they will ease restrictions. state officials announced they met their goal to vaccinate 2 million people in the hardest-hit poor neighborhoods. teachers, agriculture workers, restaurant employees all eligible to get shots. the list expands to californians with certain medical problems on monday. also on the golden state horizon, more reopenings of california movie theaters, museums, zoos, gyms, and restaurants indoors on a very limited basis. reason for restaurant workers to expect more tips starting at midnight sunday. >> we have a lot of customers coming in. you get frustrated, but right now everything starts coming back with the vaccine, and reopening, it feels more secure now. >> reporter: more good news on the vaccine front, the cdc says more than 100 million people have received a covid-19 shot, and age eligibility requirements dropping in many states. and astrazeneca hopes to get emergency authorization approval for its vaccine at the end of this month or into april. >> the fda scientists will review the data very carefully. they'll get access to the complete file. if they see any signs of any concerns, they're not going to give emergency authorization to this vaccine. >> reporter: but in mississippi this memento is a touching and heartbreaking reminder that covid-19 kills. jeff nabors suffered from severe heart disease, rushed to marry his sweetheart of 17 years. >> it wasn't what we had in mind. it was beautiful. it was beautiful and it was so touching and it was so perfect. >> reporter: but sherry went from newlywed toed by toe in mere days because of the virus that so far has killed 500,000 people in the united states. and counting. paul vercammen, cnn, los angeles. i want to take a look at the state of the pandemic outside of the u.s. new restrictions, as you can see, are set in italy. they're set to start on monday now that new daily cases are back on the rise. most of the country's going to be affected here. that includes rome, the capital, and milan, its financial hub. in spain, a mass vaccination campaign has kicked off in the northern region of the country. the local health service has called 19,000 people to give them their first dose. this comes as the country marks one year since its first coronavirus lockdown. earl good man joins me from madrid with all of that. hi, earl, good to see you. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, robyn. as you say, this is the one-year anniversary of spain's first coronavirus lockdown. it was an order back then that basically told everybody to stay home all the time except to go for good, for medicine, to see the doctor, or go to work. here in portodelsol, it was empty then, it's empty now at dawn here. at the time police were using drones to tell people to go home, to get off the streets. a nightly curfew is still in effect. it ended a short while ago at 6:00 a.m. on local time on recent weekends in madrid and other cities. in madrid police have been breaking up hundreds of illegal gath gatherings, mainly young people, getting fined. the toll has been very tough this year. spain has the seventh-highest number of cases of coronavirus cases in the world, according to johns hopkins university. more than 3.1 million. and the tenth highest number of deaths, 72,000 according to johns hopkins. the spanish government has finally released figures on the number of elderly who died. about 40% of those 72,000 deaths, 30,000 of them were senior citizens in senior care homes. and so many people in spain know someone who's died or who has been very sick. in my case, i lost a spanish journalist friend to the coronavirus, a neighborhood business manager had complications in my neighborhood, had to have some toes amputated. so you're talking -- you're seeing these kinds of things. the economic toll also has been very tough. 16% unemployment. spain's tourism industry, one of the top three international tourist destinations along with france and the united states, here they've seen the 83 million tourists who came in 2019, that dropped by 75%. so as spain looks ahead to easter week, it's now the 17 regions of spain are going to lock down, close borders. you can move around within the region, but for instance, people from madrid cannot go to the coast. but for the -- spain's islands in the mediterranean and the atlantic ocean, there will be some limited arrivals from international travelers. back to you, robyn. >> thanks so much, al goodman, appreciate it, good to see you. brazil's covid crisis is growing worse by the day, intensive care units pushed to the limits. some hospitals in danger of running out of oxygen. matt rivers is in sao paolo for us. >> reporter: here in brazil, we continue to see signs of just how stressed many health care systems in different states across this country are. the latest news on saturday coming out of the northern brazilian state of rondonia, the brazilian attorney general's office says there's only enough oxygen to supply that state's hospitals for the next 15 days. the brazilian attorney general's office sent a letter to the health ministry asking them to adopt urgent measures to mic sure that supply does not run out. the attorney general's office saying it's been difficult to procure oxygen supplies from other parts of the country because of how bad the rest of the country's health care systems are at this moment. earlier this year in a place where we were reporting six weeks ago, in the amazona state, a city ran out of its oxygen supply. it made the outbreak there that much worse leading to the increase in mortalities we saw at that time. that outbreak foreshadowed what we're seeing in many other parts of the country. at our last count on friday, 23 of 26 brazilian states in addition to brazil's federal district were reporting icu occupancy levels of at least 80% or higher. many of those states were also reporting icu occupancy rates of 90% or higher. if you look here in the city of sao paolo and the surrounding metropolitan area, greater sao paolo, where we are right now, icu occupancy rates are just shy of 90% and extremely concerning. while we know vaccinations across brazil have been very slow action one person did manage to get his shot, first shot this weekend. that would be former brazilian president and potential candidate for the presidency once again in 2022, lula da silva. lula, as he is commonly known, took the opportunity after getting the vaccination to criticize current president bolsonaro and his administration, saying the president needs to stop being ignorant, saying the administration should be guaranteeing vaccinations for all people. we are seeing rage and grief in london over the murder of 33-year-old sarah evrard, and a fear women in the country live with every day. thousands packed into this public square, the same part of town where she was last seen. she disappeared while walking home at night and was later found dead. a metropolitan police officer has been charged with her murder and kidnapping. for women in the unfortunately k and the world, evard's murder is proof their fear is real, the fear of simply walking down the street, women knowing you are not safe. the duchess of cambridge made a private trip to the memorial. a source tells us she wanted to pay her respects to sarah and her family, and that she remembers what it felt like to walk around london at night before she was married. not long after the crowds gathered, police broke up the vigil citing coronavirus dangers. there were clashes as you can see as police handcuffed and dragged mourners away. the police response is out raging government officials and civilians alike. mourning a murder victim at a ridge jill, being pushed around by police is a reminder of misogyny and violence women face every day. >> reporter: they came to remember a young woman whose life was cruelly cut short, only to be wrenched from their vigil by officers from the very force where her suspected killer served. the death of 33-year-old sarah evard while walking home has plunged britain into a moment of reckoning on women's rights and safety. >> essentially, women have a curfew now. as soon as it gets dark out, you either have to be with someone or you have to be home. >> we're fed up of having to worry all the time. not feel safe. and this is just proven our fears to be true. >> reporter: sarah vanished march 3rd while walking from one residence to another at around 9:00 p.m. her remains were found last week nearly 60 miles away and a serving london metropolitan police officer has been charged in connection with her death. >> what shocked so many is both the randomness of what happened to sarah and the relate ability of the circumstances under which she disappeared. she was last seen walking along this busy street in south london after having been to visit a friend who lived nearby. it wasn't particularly late, and this isn't a particularly dangerous area. the vigil for sarah had been organized by women in the neighborhood where she vanished but was canceled due to covid regulations. yet thousands still came. their aim, to reclaim women's rights to walk where they want, when they want, without fear. >> while maybe abduction is not maybe as common as been said, being groped on a bus is. being yelled at is. being followed home is. those are things that need to change. because -- just because not all the stories end in tragedy doesn't mean they're not worth telling. >> reporter: on twitter women shared their stories. >> i can vividly remember getting harassed by a man who tried to assault me when i was 18. >> on my walk home a man in a car pulled up next to me to tell me i had -- >> when i was 13 a man followed me and a friend down the alley and flashed us. >> vinita. tracy -- >> reporter: in parliament a lawmaker shared the names of women killed in. uk this year. among them six who perished the same week sarah went missing. for david chunnen, who cam pained to overturn his mother's sentence for killing his abusive father, there's a lot men in britain can do to better understand and aid women's plight. >> it's time for misogyny to be recognized as a hate crime. she's are offensive acts on a sliding scale that creates harm and violence and trauma for women throughout their lives. they all have it in common, and men are mind to it. >> reporter: the scenes of police arresting masked women holding a vigil despite covid rules sparked anger nationwide. and politicians from all sides demanded an explanation. the met said they hadn't wanted to act. >> but we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect people's safety. >> reporter: sarah evard's family said their daughter was beautiful and bright, a shining example to us all. and the senseless tragedy of her death, many hope her memory may guide the way for other women towards a safer path home in the future and away from scenes like these. >> as nina reported, london metropolitan police are defending their actions at this vigil, take a listen. >> officers on the ground were faced with a very difficult decision. hundreds of people were tightly packed together, putting -- posing a very real risk of easily transmitting covid-19. police must act for people's safety. this is the only responsible thing to do. >> but lon done mayor khan said the city's reaction is unacceptable, saying police have a responsibility to enforce laws but it's clear the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate. british prime minister boris johnson sent condolences to sarah evard's family tweeting, i cannot imagine how unbearable their pain and grief is, we must work fast to find all the answers to this horrifying crime. i'll do everything i can to make sure the streets are safe and ensure women and girls do not face harassment or abuse. mr. johnson said he lit a candle for sarah with his fiancee and he would be thinking of her and her family and friends. an update on one of the cases that sparked anti-racism protests across the u.s. and around the world last summer. it has been a year since breonna taylor was gunned down during a botched police raid on her apartment. her boyfriend has filed a federal lawsuit against the kentucky police department and the officers involved seeking damages for violations of his constitutional rights. 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made the trek to the united states. maria and roxana are among the tens of thousands of migrants encountered by u.s. border authorities in recent weeks. one area alone saw more than 500 migrants enter during an eight-hour period last week, according to a federal source, to expedite processing authorities started fingerprinting them under this bridge. many unaccompanied children and families are bused to this new temporary immigration processing center in donna, texas. maria de la rosa lives across the street and says buses packed with people around around the clock, and at night she hears children crying. >> you're scared? >> yeah. >> reporter: from there, some migrants are dropped off by immigration officials at bus stations like this one in brownsville. that's where we met roxana, maria, and her 6-year-old daughter, kaitlin. she says she evaded a snake during her journey to the united states and fell off a raft while crossing the rio grande. why there is a surge right now, do you think? both maria and roxana say they learned from news reports in their home countries that the biden administration is allowing migrant women with children to enter the u.s. >> and you believe that that was true? >> si. >> reporter: which is not entirely true. the biden administration says it's allowing unaccompanied minors to remain in the u.s. pending immigration cases and some families are allowed in on a case-by-case basis. that perception could be driving some of the surge, which has more than 3,700 unaccompanied children and in border control custody in jail-like facilities. health and human services is caring for about 8,800 unaccompanied minors while they're reuniting with family and is considering using a nasa site to expand bed space. >> how is it to be a mom? >> oh my gosh. >> reporter: some nonprofit migrant shelters where margarita hernandes, a migrant from nicaragua is staying, have seen a spike in the flow of mothers, children, and pregnant women. cindy johnson has volunteered to help thousands of migrants across the river in matamoros and collected hundreds of postcards with their story. >> this child is saying they witnessed people dying, people getting beaten. >> reporter: cindy says she scanned them and sent them to then candidate for president, joe biden. >> what was the goal of sending these letters to biden? >> the goal was, i wanted them to see their humanity. john sandwick is the former acting director of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement. he was the former acting general counsel for the u.s. department of homeland security. good to see you, sir. thanks for joining us. how concerned are you about these record highs in children arriving in the u.s. and also the worsening conditions? >> well, obviously it's concerning. but this is part of a trend we've seen over the last five years. i think it's something that's perfectly manageable, and the biden administration seems to be doing what is needed, which is surging resources to deal with the problem. long-term, though, this is a manageable problem. really, it's a problem in and of itself just because of the unique nature of children who are crossing the border without any adults. >> let's talk about these children. it seems to be the fact that it's the amount of children, the number of children, who have been making this journey and crossing, rather than the sort of general population of numbers of people coming over. why is that? why are we seeing these kinds of numbers right now? >> you know, one of the things we haven't done very well as a government is having funded portions of border security apparatus that deal with unique populations and vulnerable populations like children, like families. it doesn't take much of an uptick to be resource constraints and problems where suddenly health and human services, the u.s. agency responsible for placing them in shelters, is overwhelmed. in terms of why this is happening now, i think two factors. one is the trump administration the last year have been pushing these kids to wait in camps in mexico. the biden administration understandably said we're not going to continue that policy, so you had a lot of kids already staged in northern policy, central american kids, ready to come across, hopefully to be reunited with parents or family members as it was. two, of course, just the mass desperation we see in central america where you continue to have security crisis, you continue have no economic opportunity. you have families who are separating themselves voluntarily, parents coming up, earning enough money, sending it home to bring their kids up. that's the fundamental root of the problem right there. >> cnn's reporting that many of these women and children say they made the journey because they heard the biden administration was allowing in women and children. how is this sort of nontrump approach, nonhardline approach, a more humane policy, making the situation worse? and also critically could become much worse in the coming months, if at least the basic messaging is not dealt with here as well? >> the administration is trying to get the message out. everybody who comes across that border is placed into deportation proceedings. we need more resources to make sure those proceedings move more quickly. everybody who comes across the border is placed into deportation proceedings and their cases will go forward. the real problem are the smuggling organizations which make a tremendous amount of money lying to people to get them to come across that border and into this country. a lot of what we're seeing are the smuggling organizations spreading false narratives about the biden administration policies. it's a very difficult message to counter. you see the administration putting out a lot of messaging to say, don't come. but it's difficult to counter what the smugglers are telling the people on the ground. >> thank you very much for joining us, appreciate you, thank you very much. 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>> i absolutely understand the political instincts. and the duty of a politician to protect his or cher citizens first. but right now the united states has done more than that. we have almost 500 million more doses than we need in order to vaccinate every adult and child in the united states. we know those doses are coming. what we need urgently is a plan to share those doses that we don't need so that other countries that don't have them can plan and get them into arms as quickly as possible. >> government also clearly realizing that supply networks and the gloubl production is fraught with challenges. there are a number of instances, whether here in the u.s. or in europe, where there are stories of vaccines sitting in warehouses. which is also why we're seeing more governments -- denmark, austria partnering with israel in recent weeks -- deciding that, actually, they want to get out of the global supply chain business, they want to produce the vaccines at home. >> right. >> how important is that, or how concerning is that? >> i can understand the instinct, absolutely. when you're desperate to get vaccine to your people and you can't get it because global supplies are going to only a few countries who are hoarding the doses, you think about, how can i manufacture it myself? so it's a completely understandable instinct. it will be challenging to build up that capacity for highly technical vaccine production very quickly, but we certainly hope and encourage that to happen wherever it can. i mean, look. we all need to understand that we have to beat this pandemic just as quickly as possible. because every time someone else gets infected, that's another opportunity for a mutation. and the more that that happens and the longer that happens, we've been very fortunate so far. the variants seem to still be impacted by the vaccines that we have. but we've been lucky so far. we don't know how long we'll continue to be lucky. so we're really -- want to make sure those countries that have secured doses, that are manufacturing doses very, very quickly, make sure they protect the most vulnerable in their populations for certain. however, to also plan to share those extra doses with those places that don't have them. >> there's so much talk about vaccine nationalism. how can it be overruled or how can global supernational community spirit be implemented in times of such deep national crisis? >> sure. i don't think that there will be any great dictate from someone outside the nation. it is actually the nation itself and its people understanding that we are all in this fight together. and i think, unfortunately, this virus has shown us again and again that when we try to handle it, when we try to close our borders or quarantine our way, it still makes its way through. i think there's an emerging awareness that we can't keep ourselves apart from what's going on outside our borders. and so it really does make sense to work together to have the most efficient vaccine distribution and equitable distribution that we can so that we can end this pandemic just as quickly as possible. so we really hope that the g7 will start, we hope president biden newly in office will join his other global leaders in the g7 and the g20 to say, we're going to take this step, and we all want to do it together. because only by working together are we going to be able to end this as quickly as possible. >> how much concern is there across the world, there is some sort of coverage, patchy if it is, perhaps, for asia, india in particular, but africa seems to be the one place where there is really a dearth of any prospect of getting massive vaccinations out. how can that be overcome? >> well, we're big supporters of this collaboration called covax, which is an international collaboration which would pool resources together to both purchase vaccines from big pharmaceutical companies. its aim is to cover 20% of the poorest countries, including many in africa, of their vaccine. and the african union is working with speed right now to purchase its own. in fact, it's secured 300 million doses on its own by pooling its resources among its partner countries to purchase vaccines. so people are not waiting around to take a handout, they're doing everything they can. but the hottest commodity on earth are these doses. those countries that have more than they need, need to make accessible the surplus so that places like africa can purchase them. >> tom hart, really good to speak to you. thanks so much for talking to us. >> thanks so much, take care. coming up on cnn, a police officer tells us why he left myanmar when the military took over, and why he's afraid for his life and his country. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. sure, your health insurance tells you to see a doctor but, um, look around. these days it's not that easy. you're telling me. but humana helps make it easy. human care gives you tons of ways to talk to your doctor: phone, computer, in person, or tablet. hey jean! hi! this is just a quick follow up. your numbers are looking great. you don't even have to put on shoes. ooo! easy peasy. you like that, huh? 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