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a botched raid at her apartment one year ago today. her name has become a rallying cry for police reform across the country. her mother telling cnn she is still fighting for justice. >> crazy that it has been a year. still unbelievable. >> what would justice for breonna mean for snu. >> you? >> to have the officers charged and convicted. >> plus, mounting allegations of inappropriate behavior against governor cuomo. claims he is denying. a growing list of congressional and state leaders saying cuomo cannot longer govern effectively and must resign. >> i think the same attitude that emboldened you to target a 25-year-old emboldenis you to scrub a nursing home report. this leads many of us to not only call on the governor to resign, but move forward with impeachment proceedings. >> let's start with the accusations against the governor. we have athena jones with more. >> reporter: fred, this is coming from jessica bakeman. a reporter who formerly covered albany here for several years. she describes in a self-pen article for "new york" magazine several incidents. she said her job was to report on the governor's every move. she alleged he often touched her on her arms and shoulders and small of her back in a way that was uncomfortable. in 2014, during a party at the mansion, she was 25 at the time. she says the governor came over and put his arm around her and held her in place while indicating to a photographer that he wanted to have a picture taken with her. she says at one point he said to her within ear shot of col colleagues, i'm sorry, am i making you uncomfortable. i thought we were going steady. it is a situation she felt was humiliat humiliating. he wanted her to feel powerless. she goes on to write in the article, it is not that cuomo has trademark bullying, but the way he bullies women is different. he uses touches and sexual innuendo to stoke fear. that is the textbook definition of sexual harassment. we reached out to the governor's office for comment on this specific incident. he spoke broadly about the allegations during his news conference on friday. listen to what he had to say then. >> i did not do what has been alleged. period. look, it is very simple. i never harassed anyone, i never abused anyone, i never assaulted anyone. now, i never would. right? >> reporter: so you have the governor again denying he has done anything wrong. that he ever touched anyone inappropriately. he says women have the right to come forward. he said let's wait for the investigation. >> athena jones, thank you. happening in louisville, kentucky. a memorial for breonna taylor. the young black woman shot and killed by police in her apartment one year ago today. taylor's mother files complaints against six louisville police officers in connection with her daughter's death. jason carroll is at the event in louisville. jason. >> reporter: the rally is about to get under way in a few moments from now. just a little earlier this morning, i had an opportunity to speak with tameka palmer. breonna taylor's mother. i asked her what she will be saying to the crowd when she takes the stage behind me a few moments from now. she said she will speak from the heart. she will do what she can to honor her daughter. there have been changes in louisville since breonna taylor's death. banned no-knock warrants. body cameras are mandatory for police officers. none of the officers directly involved with that raid have been charged with breonna taylor's death. that is why the protest and marching continues. one of the men out here leading a number of the protests is pastor timothy finley. you will speak to the crowd in a few moments. tell us what you plan to say. >> this is not just about her memory. this is about a rally call. this is the saying when we say the name breonna taylor, it is a cry for justice in our city and around the country. we have to see better policy. we have to see police transformation. we have to see the officers arrested. that's what healing is about. >> reporter: when i spoke to tameka palmer. she said it has to deal with accountability. from her eyes, not enough has been done. >> absolutely not. we have a culture of police department that is able to operate with reckless abandon. there has been a change in leadership, there is the culture that persists. we have to have leadership. the truth is this has to send a message around the country that you cannot do what has been done. handcuff an entire city. murder a young woman in her apartment and nothing be done. >> reporter: can you give us a tiktok of what we should be expecting out here today? >> nonviolence. people talking through their feelings. sending a message to mayor fisher and others that we will not forget what happened in 2020. this is not the culmination of demonstrations and protests. this is really just getting started. we are invigorated. we are inspired. we are going to get justice for breonna taylor. >> reporter: pastor, thank you. we will let you get on with what you need to do. thank you for that. tameka palmer will take the stage and, fredricka, she will do what she can to speak from the heart. fredricka. >> jason, if you still can hear me, i know we had an audio problem for a hot second. can you elaborate further on the complaints from taylor's mother against the six officers in internal affairs? >> reporter: she filed a complaint with the professional standards unit against the six officers with the louisville metro police department. alleging they filed false information about her daughter related to the raid. we got a statement from the department. they are taking these complaints seriously and they believe in transparency and it will be fully investigated. fredricka. >> jason carroll in louisville, kentucky. thank you. we will check back with you. as rioters stormed the capitol on january 6th looking for lawmakers and shouting hang mike pence. lawmakers are running from the harm. one senator was never worried because he said they were law abiding trump supporters. senator ron johnson of wisconsin claims he might have been concerned if the protesters looked different. here are his own words. >> knew those are people that love this country and respect law enforcement. never do anything to break a law. i wasn't concerned. had the tables been turned, this could mean trouble. the tables turned and president trump upon the election and those were tens of thousands o protesters, i might have been a little concerned. >> marshall cohen is joining us from washington. help us set the record straight. senator johnson is trying to pin the riots but anyone except right wing protesters. what does the evidence say? >> reporter: fred, he is wrong. he is pushing a narrative that is debunked by the facts. here is the evidence. we reviewed charging documents for nearly all 300 defendants that are publicly known. members of the mob were not peaceful. they certainly did not respect law enforcement. some rioters attacked with bear spray and baseball bats and hockey sticks and tasers. anything they could get their hands on. nearly 140 officers were hurt that day. one was killed. other rioters threatened to an assassinate lawmakers. some associated with hate groups. some flaunted neo-nazi symbols and promoted white supremacist views. fred, these are the people that senator johnson is defending. >> and prosecutors are moving forward now with more charges from the riots. what is the latest on the scope of the investigation and the number of people that they are trying to net or have netted? >> reporter: it's massive. it is a massive investigation. the justice department said this might be the largest and most complicated criminal investigation in american history. here is why. take a look at the numbers, fred. 300 people have been charged so far. another 100 people could be charged in the future. investigators are looking through 15,000 hours of surveillance tapes and body cam footage. they already looked at devices and executed 900 search warrants across the country. here is a good thing. they actually received more than 210,000 tips from the public. the public is heeding the call for help because so far it is a nationwide drag net. prosecutors are looking in all corners of the country. almost every state has had people charged. it is massive and it is continuing. we will stay on it every step of the way. >> marshall cohen, thanks so much. still ahead, a surge in travel for spring break. it could mean a new surge in coronavirus cases. could spring break be the next super spreader event? 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this is a new site at usc in a parking garage. what they are doing is having people both drive up and walk up. here is what is unique about the site. the city of los angeles has combined with uber and people are allowed to punch in a code given to them by the city if they do not think they can get here. off camera a short time ago, this woman got an uber ride and she said it was simple. she put in the code and got her first moderna vaccine. she could have taken the bus. it made it easier for her to put in the code. this is one of the ways the city of los angeles and county have been chipping away and getting people to the key thresholds allowing for the reopening. coming up soon, people with medical conditions with cancer survivors and obesity can get the vaccine. we will see that on the horizon. get ready to allow back inside. braving the cold as they allowed only outside dining in l.a. this is a tourism town. they are looking forward to ramp back up with the businesses. back to you, fred. >> there is a lot of encouragement with the in-person dining returning. thank you, paul. appreciate that. more people boarding airplanes on friday than any other day since the start of the pandemic. more than 1.3 million people passed through tsa check points. the highest number since march 15th of 2020. joining me to discuss is the professor of emergency medicine of oregon health. doctor, where are you on this spike in air travel? >> i think we have to remember that although national trends are really positive, we still have to consider that how we behave is still really local. there is certainly areas where we are seeing very serious levels of covid with the transmission rates are high and test positivity is more than 5% or 10%. we need to be cautious. glob globely, the vaccine effort is going well. that doesn't mean we are near herd immunity. we still need to wear masks and social distancing. that has not gone away. it won't go away for a long time. the key thing is cautious optimism and graded return to normal. it is not from 0 to 100. we slowly return to activities as make sense in the communities and based on the risk factors and when we gotten vaccine. s >> now the cdc released guidance for child care programs with mask wearing and ventilation. you joined don lemon a year ago over the issue. this is what you had to say. >> need to be creative in finding child care options affordable for people so they don't have to lean on grandparents putting themselves at risk. it is not a time for hugs and kisses. you need as much hand hygiene and avoid direct and close contact for sustains periods of time. >> as you listen and watch a year ago over what you said and your point of view was. >> it makes me feel so -- i don't know -- sad. i think of how little we knew at that time. people had a lot of concerns about child care. a week -- i'm sorry. a year ago this week, my school announced the closure because of the first case of the coronavirus. we announced that our schools would be closing for five days. fred, we thought we were stepping away for five days to clean the school and come back. of course, we were out for a year and just went back two weeks ago. we had no idea what we were headed into. we didn't know we had tens of thousands of deaths. let alone over half a million deaths. you know, i think of that kind of anxiety without really knowing what was coming. also, just the feeling we had that there were gaps in our society and health care system that we were just understanding. the child care crisis alluded to by the question that a viewer sent to don turned into an exposure of how little we support our workers who also have care giving responsibilities at home. we lost 2 million women from the work force this year because we had no way of supporting the child care needs of our essential workers. that showed up in the health care side. even as our hospitals were maxed out. we had staffing issues because people needed to be home caring for their children. there were a lot of things that conversation hit on and turned oute could have imagined. >> it is unchartered territory. it continues to be so. youtube recently removed over 30,000 videos containing misinformation of the coronavirus vaccine. how damaging is this misinformation as it pertains to vaccines? >> that is something that plagued us all along. we often put faith in the wrong things. we were focused on coronavirus treatments which is not making that much of a difference. yet, there is so much messages that is derailing really the miracle of the pandemic which is how quickly we were able to develop highly effective vaccines and really over the past couple of months how quickly we ramped up dissemination. it is not completely going to areas of the country and populations that need it the most as fast as we like. we need to hit hard on tequity piece. we are on projections for the first 100 days for the biden administration. a fourth vehaccine approved soo. all those things are so positive and really are the main thing that will get us back to the behaviors we have been talking about. we have to constantly fight this steady stream of misinformation and disinformation. information put out maliciously in order to intentionally derail the process. everybody needs to know that is out there and we need to be very wary of the malicious message an anmessages. >> thank you, dr. choo. >> thank you, fred. next, 400,000 children are now at risk of dying in yemen as a six-year civil war rages on. we'll take you there. next. ulegit unlimited data for as little as $25 a month. and the best part, it's powered by verizon. but it gets crazier. bring a friend every month and get every month for $5. which is why i brought them. two $5-a-months right here. hey. hey. plus the players of my squad. hey. what's up? 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