the fourth time in just a month. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, we begin with a brutal winter storm that s been hammering much of the southeastern u.s. with freezing rain and snow. and the northeast is next. as many as 80 million americans were under winter weather alerts on sunday, stretching from georgia to maine. and the effects of this system could cause problems for days to come. states in the appalachian region are seeing heavy snowfall and high winds. parts of north carolina got as much as a foot of snow, or about 30 centimeters. and at least 25 counties declared a state of emergency. down in florida this system spawned tornadoes on the west
melbourne. many thanks. joining me now is espn senior writer howard bryant. he s also with meadowlark media. good to have you with us. it s good to be here. in a powerful article you wrote just a few days ago that djokovic has, and i m quoting here, cemented his membership within the pandemic s most infamous group, the anti-vaxx multimillionaire athlete who behaves as if his fame, wealth, and enormous platform to disseminate misinformation place him above the rest of us. now, since then australia has thrown him out of the country for doing exactly that. what is your reaction? and what message does it send other anti-vaccine athletes and of course the entire sports community? well, it s a devastating blow for him. tennis is an ving sport, and novak djokovic is the greatest tennis player, male tennis player in the world right now. and so he s chasing greatness. and for him to not only be
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mandates for certainly those businesses of 100 or more employees would not be required or mandated to get vaccinated. we know in other countries there are fines being put in place as incentives, there s various across europe. so are any of those viable for the united states, do you think? yeah, i think certainly at the federal level probably not. you re not going to see a national effort in that way. but i think certainly cities, new york city has put in vaccine mandates, or i would say passports, for almost every public event. i think that clearly makes a difference. a lot of companies, andrew mccabe a lot of companies, apple, universities like mine, that s fine when private businesses mandate it. i m hoping a combination of that plus cities and states acting aggressively on this issue will get us where we need to be.
anti-semitism, and the work of course now begins, or probably began at the beginning of this crisis between u.s. and uk officials to look at things like communications, travel history, to work out whether or not this was a lone figure acting on their own or part of some wider plot. and were there any elements that plot may still be a threat around? i have to say listening to the coherence of akram in that recording of him in the synagogue and other suggestions about how sophisticated or unsophisticated frankly this plot was, that may point investigators toward what his family is suggesting, there could be mental health issues here. but certainly all efforts now being put in by uk and u.s. officials to work together to get to the bottom of this. and i understand from our colleague josh campbell that u.s. and uk officials at this stage aren t seeing many traces of akram in their data bases in terms of somebody they already had on their radar. but even president joe biden