hardest hit areas and what we can see from the photos and video. i can t imagine what it s like there. aprila, you re exactly right. so many stories of loss and so many stories of tragedy but as we re here this afternoon i have to tell you what strikes me is the amount of hope and the determination. look, it s a construction zone right now. mayfield has turned into a rebuilding zone so almost any direction i look right now there is a backhoe. there s a bobcat and people are shovels and chainsaws just picking stuff up and moving it. trying to get the walls back up. oh, look at that convoy of trucks that you can see there in the pictures. there s so much material coming in to help repair and rebuild and then there are truckloads of stuff being carted out as people dig through this rubble. it s really extraordinary to see vrks and i have to tell you
since state clerks process the lawsuits abortion clinics should stop them and then it was justice sotomayor with biting powerful language and here s what she said in part. she said the court should have put an end to this madness months ago before sb-8 went into effect t.failed to do so then and it fails again today. notably, this decision, this court, ana, not ruling on the underlining right to abortion. that issue is instead present in a case last week in a challenge in mississippi law that bans most abortions at 15 weeks. this case just dealing whether or not abortion providers can proceed with their lawsuit. they can, but it will be so limited, aprila, that they will likely not be able to block this texas law any time soon. it will remain on the books. ana. jessica schneider, thanks so much for laying it out. let s bring in cnn s chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin our supreme court analyst. jeff, what do you make of the
pence on january 6 when poem in the capitol were saying hang mike pence to see how he was doing. elie, good investigators use short s cooperation to encourage others to cooperate with the committee? absolutely, aprila. that s the real path here to finding truth. the committee realistically is never going to hear from donald trump or mike pence or bannon or clark or potentially meadows now either. that said, that doesn t mean they are at a dead end. good investigators know you have witnesses all around a scene like this. have you advisers and people who maybe were on the outside looking n.mark meadows mark short can tell us what happened at these key meetings. i mean, you look at that january 4th meeting in the oval office. donald trump, mike pence, john eastman, they won t testify but guess who was there. mark short was there. he can tell the committee exactly what happened in the oval office that day. quickly, elie on steve bannon just this afternoon, a judge set a trial date
prepared if needed, my team is already working with officials at pfizer and moderna and johnson & johnson to develop contingency plans for vaccines or boosters, if needed. thursday i ll be putting forward a detailed strategy outlining how we re going fight covid this winter, not with shutdowns or lockdowns, but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing and more. so ana, obviously all eyes will be on the president and the white house on thursday as he lays out the plans. meantime, he says he does plan to be briefed on this issue by his covid team every single day this week as they move towards thursday s announcements from the president. phil mattingly at the white house, thank you. let s now talk about the new u.s. restrictions on travel. nick neri is live in atlanta at hartsfield jackson international airport. nick what, countries are on this list of do not travel to the u.s., and what has been the response where you are? reporter: yeah, aprila, these travel restricti
those groups are exempt from these travel restrictions, but we don t know what the cdc will be doing once these passengers get here. they haven t gotten back to us. we did hear from the airport though earlier who says that they are very much so ready and this is what they told news a brief statement earlier, ana. as was the case with prior health-related health bans hartsfield jackson is working with the state department of public health and others to prepare for the inbound flights from nations impacted by this new strain. ana. nick neri, thank you. we will stay in touch with further developments. let s go to south africa now where outrage over these travel bans is growing. cnn s david mckenzie joins us with reaction from african leaders. david, what are they saying? well, aprila, there s deep anger across the african continent that the travel bans and restrictions, not just from the u.s. but from countries and territories from across the globe. you know, president biden said th