violence rocks the nation in cities across the u.s. this weekend. people are gathering in sadness for the victims of a mass killing and frustration at the climate of hate that many blame for it. what you re seeing there, this is atlanta where demonstrators rallied at the state capitol and demanded justice for the eight people shot dead this week within and just outside the city. most of the victims were women of asian descent. cnn photo journalist christine leadership spoke to some asian-american women to see how they are processing the shooting and anti-asian activity. based on what i heard on the news, a 21-year-old man came into different asian spas, three different ones, and actively was shooting them. i just think that s devastating. especially since this happened not too far from me, and i am also an asian woman living in atlanta. this isn t new, it s been happening for it s increasingly happened over the past year. just the start of the whole pandemic. even j
crisis. live, from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to all of you watching here, in the united states, canada, and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. we begin, with the tense situation unfolding in miami beach, florida. where hoards of college students have descended on the city, for spring break. look at those pictures. police say, about a dozen people were arrested, saturday night, after an emergency curfew took effect. officials say, they took the action, because the unwelcome crush of visitors was more than the city could cope with during the pandemic. the mayor says, many people came to miami beach, precisely, because it doesn t have the covid restrictions found everywhere else. we ve had very challenging spring breaks, in other times. i mean, we re a city that s 92,000 residents, but will sometimes have 2 to 300,000 people here. the problem is that, this particular time, and i think it s because of of the pandemic, almost no
health and drug issues as causes of floyd s death, echoing other experts who said police actions were to blame. republican congressman matt gaetz is about to make his first public appearance in days as he faces federal sex trafficking investigations. the house oaethics committee is opening its own investigation of gaetz and the allegations gins h against him. first we go to omar jimenez. reporter: today was all about arguably the most important part of the trial and that s george floyd s cause of death. specifically, today centered on what an autopsy shows versus what it doesn t, what playing a role in a death means versus what caused it. both prosecutors and the defense tried to fill in those crucial gaps with the much-awaited witnesses that took the stand. in one of the most highly-anticipated moments of the trial you conducted the autopsy on mr. george floyd? i did. reporter: dr. andrew baker took the stand. you didn t see any damage to the heart muscle? th
we begin into the investigation of the deadly shootings at the three spas in the atlanta area. cnn obtained new surveillance video of the moment just before the first attack. it appears the to show the shooting suspect, robert aaron long, park in front of young s asian massage. and moments later, four people were dead. in total eight people were killed at three different locations. long faces multiple charges related to the murder but many are calling on prosecutors to add hate crimes to those criminal complaints. cnn s natasha chen is in atlanta for us at one of the scenes where shootings took place. natasha, do we have any more information about what may have led up to these attacks? yes, fred, the investigation continues into his possible motive on the day after the shootings occurred. law enforcement in a joint press conference told everyone in an interview with the suspect he told everyone it was an act believed to related to his sexual addiction, he said it was not ra
departments. cnn s martin vaf ij joining me now live from nashville. what kind of damage, i see that one building behind you, but is this widespread, just like that? reporter: it s widespread but with a limited footprint. what i mean by that is that this was not the 2010 storm that covered such a large significant part of nashville. this one s a little different, but the areas it hit, the damage is kig cant. and what it shows you is the power of water. this was flash flooding. you can see there s no water around us. that is gone. but when it was here it was able to take this building and move it a quarter of a mile. it didn t just push it. most of the contents are still inside. so that would imply that this thing pretty much floated all the way here. every home on this street, most of them, are single story homes, have been impacted by water. and now you can see the aftereffect as people try to either salvage what they can, dry out what they can, or eventually sort throug