place we are. so in that regard, yes, we are failing. we have vaccines that we know are highly effective and safe. and, yet, half the country is still not fully vaccinated and about 90 million people have not gotten one dose. we would not be in the place we are right now with this delta surge if we d been more effective in getting everybody to take advantage of these immunizations. the point is this was preventable. and this just in. due to the explosion of covid cases in new orleans and the state of louisiana, the new orleans jazz fest, a major event scheduled for october, has been canceled. let s bring in cnn medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university, our friend dr. jonathan reiner. doctor, great to see you on set. this is terrific. are we really at this point again where events are going to have to be canceled in this country? a lot of people thought we were going around, around the bend over this, getting over this hump. doesn
good evening, mike. time square, the so-called crossroads of the world, but much of the city it is returning to life, but it is also struggling with the problem of crime. this memorial day weekend, tourists are out in force under the watchful eye of the police. it s been more than a year since double-decker buses packed with tourists were a common site in midtown manhattan. last you the number of visitors dropped by 67% and tourists spending plunged 73%. new york hopes to reverse the trend but despite a high-profile police presence at tourist attractions, it seems like this recent gunfight on the upper west side could scare away visitors. according to the nypd, compared to last year, murder is up 23% and shooting incidents increased 80%. despite the crime surge, kristi williams from mississippi came here to celebrate her birthday with friends. we heard about lots of muggings and pickpockets and things like that so we wore over the shoulder bags but we never had any of
brianna. new day continues right now. hello. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman on this new day. a grand jury is now reportedly convened to decide whether to charge donald trump or anyone around him as an investigation into his empire takes a dramatic new turn. plus, does the former insider who s been cooperating with prosecutors, give us a big hint of what s coming. plus, cracks emerging in the republican wall against a commission for the attack on the capitol on january 6th. but will enough republicans join democrats in the search for answers. and in the race to figure out how the pandemic began, we have a guest who says president biden is passing the buck and shouldn t leave the investigation to the w.h.o . welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is wes, may 26th. manhattan s top prosecutor is prepared to make the case that the 45th president of the united states should be criminally indicted. a special grand jury has jus
i m here because q sent me. they made their presence known in the crowd of trump supporters in washington that day, and when the crowd stormed the capitol, many qanon supporters were on the front lines. freedom! at least one supporter died that day. this woman, ashley babbitt tried to break through a door inside the capitol. she was shot to death by a capitol police officer. she was 14-year veteran of the air force and the air national guard. this is her in a qanon shirt at a trump rally in september. how does a veteran fall into a deranged conspiracy cult? to understand what qanon is, you have to go down a rabbit hole, where suspicion and fantasy mixed with age old anti-semitic conspiracy theories and resentments. we will not kowtow to evil! some q believers liken it to a scene in the matrix, when the truth of the world is revealed to those who take the right pill. the truth, according to q, was that then president trump was a kind of messiah. some q followers
former president donald trump has broken with more than 150 years of tradition by refusing to attend biden s inauguration trump instead addressed supporters at andrews air force base before departing for his mar a lago resort in florida he promised to return in some form. hospitals in the u.k. are under pressure as daily coronavirus deaths are rising to record levels over $1800.00 people died of the virus on tuesday this comes as a variant of the virus believed to be more contagious spreads across the country health trusts have converted cathedrals into mass inoculations centers as the vaccine roll out continues. this is you know you news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at g.w. news or visit our website did of your dot com. 2 weeks ago a mob of donald trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol it was a near death experience for american democracy and the entire world watched in horror today in the same space american democracy s resilience joe biden became the n