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>> rosa flores thank you so much. there's, of course, an investigation going on right now and concertgoers are still questioning how a night that was supposed to be about fun and music, turned into this. here they are in their own words. >> once travis actually performed, everyone was pushing to the front, you had no room to walk. someone as tiny as me, i'm 5'2", 6 foot tall people in front of me would not let me through. >> i have never experienced this before. >> i've always been towards the front towards the concerts, and it gets tight but i've never ever been feeling like i'm going to pass out. i never saw people collapsing. i definitely never saw anybody die. >> hearing the ages 14 to 27 and two being 21 and myself being 21, i just feel immense sadness. >> it could have been me, it could have been anyone that we were with and it could have been someone close to us and that young of an age, how could that even happen. >> let's bring in cnn legal analyst areva martin to discuss the ongoing investigation because accountability, even as we mourn those lost and hurt for the victims, is going to be the next phase of this tragedy. areva, always great to have you. appreciate you offering your perspective. the video footage is going to be critical in this investigation, so when investigators are looking through whether it's concert footage or footage of people in the crowd, what are they going to be combing through? what are they going to be seeking in that footage? >> good morning, boris and christi. one of the things that i think has become really critical to the investigation and definitely the videotape is going to be this alleged person or persons who may have been moving through this crowd picking people with what may turn out to be some kind of illegal narcotics or drugs. that account is a chilling -- is chilling to think that someone may have been intentionally injecting individuals as the security guard said with some kind of drug. if that is, in fact, the case, then more importantly, that this homicide division and the narcotics divisions are involved. we may be talking about a possible intentional conduct that could lead to criminal charges. >> i imagine that kind of investigation is extremely complex, so how do -- how does law enforcement go about gathering so many witness statements. there were 50,000 people there. this is an immense task. how would you describe the process? >> yeah, boris, you're right. this is going to be incredibly complex, difficult and it's going to take thousands and thousands of man hours because you're right, there were 50,000 individuals at this concert so just going about the process of adeptfying the individuals that have firsthand knowledge is going to be a herculean task for these law enforcement agents. that's what's going to have to take place for them to get to the bottom of what happened. you shouldn't go to a concert and die. eight people tragically lost their lives at this concert and countless others were hospitalized. we're hearing also perhaps 11 people that suffered from some form of cardiac arrest. these are the kinds of injuries and deaths that are completely unacceptable at a concert. lots of questions about security, about the number of people that were allowed into this venue, about safety protocols that were either in place or not in place at the time, so not only should we expect to see this investigation, perhaps, take on a criminal aspect, but also we should expect to see wrongful death lawsuits for the eight individuals that lost their lives as well as personal injury lawsuits for the individuals that suffered injuries but didn't die in the concert. >> and to that point, areva, who could potentially face legal liability here? potentially travis scott as the performer and organizer? >> absolutely. there's going to be a list of potential defendants in the civil action in particular, boris, starting with travis scott. travis himself, i'm happy to hear, the comments he's made about cooperating with law enforcement and express his remorse because we know he's had some incidents in the past at concerts where he's been charged with inciting a riot and for riling up his crowd, so one question is going to be, what role, if any, he may have played. you have the concert promoters, the organizers, you have the city of houston, you have the county that was involved because we know that there were government officials that were involved in the security aspect as well as some private security firms, so anyone that had anything to do with organizing or executing this concert is likely to be a target of a potential civil lawsuits. >> historically, looking back at previous cases, what kind of responsibility does a performer have for what happens in a crowd? >> yeah. that's going to be a really big question, as i said, travis scott himself has been identified in civil lawsuits and criminal complaints with respect to his behavior. he likes to have a very involved crowd and he's been charged in previous actions with actually, you know, inciting his crowd, getting them to engage in this kind of aggressive conduct, so obviously a performer has an obligation not to do that, not to do anything that would cause there to be, you know, danger or violence with respect to the crowd. but there's also some question, boris, about what he may have known and if he knew that the situation was as dire and should the concert have been stopped at an earlier moment in time, but all of that is going to be up for investigation. you know, he's, you know, significantly distanced from the crowd so it's not clear what he may have had an opportunity to perceive as he was performing, but that will be, you know, subject of lots of investigations because obviously if he knew that people were passing out, that people were dying, that people were, you know, in distress, absolutely there would have been an obligation on his part to stop the concert to allow those people to get the kind of medical attention that they needed. >> it is a complex investigation and surely to be a complex legal court battle ahead. areva martin, thank you so much for the time. we appreciate it. >> thanks, boris. >> good information, thanks. let's talk about the coronavirus. new cdc data this morning on vaccine rates here in the u.s. right now 70% of u.s. adults are fully vaccinated against covid-19. that's more than 180 million americans since the vaccines became available just to give you perspective there. there are still covid hotspots around the country. coronavirus cases and hospitalizations on the rise again in colorado where officials say there are now fewer than 100 icu beds across the state and 80% of the more than 1200 patients hospitalized with covid-19 are unvaccinated they tell us. unvaccinated federal employees, meanwhile v until end of day tomorrow to get their shots or they risk facing disciplinary action or being fired. >> under president trump's rather -- president biden's vaccines mandate for government workers any employee without a legal exemption must be fully vaccinated. let's get to jasmine wright. you have to forgive me, i spent a lot of time chasing president trump as you are chasing president biden now. what's it looking like in rehoboth beach? >> the clock is ticking for workers to get their shots. tomorrow is the last day they can get the jabs in their arms to be considered fully vaccinated by november 22nd. the biden administration deadline. if they're not, they could as you said, face disciplinary action from their federal agencies, even possibly being fired because they are not vaccinated in time for this mandate. remember, president biden issued this executive order mandating that all federal employees be vaccinated in september after the summer where both he and the administration at large really struggled with getting control of the pandemic because of the delta variant. that led to an increase in hospital cases. that led to an increase in deaths and also the economy started to sag. so president biden, after some reluctance, really embraced the idea of this vaccine mandate, kind of de facto embracing this culture war with those who are against vaccines. now, boris and christi, the culture war is turning into a legal fight. yesterday, a federal court issued a stay on the latest labor department rule saying that private companies with 100 or more employees must be vaccinated or test weekly. a doj spokesperson yesterday in a tweet saturday said that they will vigorously defend this court -- excuse me, vigorously defend this rule in court, because the bottom line, biden officials find the voluntary mandates are successful. they found they have led to an increase in private businesses pushing for their workers to get vaccinated. all really falling into this goal of theirs trying to get this pandemic under control. they constantly call it a tool in the toolkit, so they will defend it, they say, because this is something that they feel is helpful to help this country get out of the pandemic, so that is kind of what president biden's weekend is looking like after that major win that he scored off friday night celebrated yesterday on infrastructure. boris, christi? 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why are you not able to hire from outside the school at this point? >> there's been a giant disparage in, you know, just employment in general. around the schools, nobody can hire enough people. we are hiring for before and after school care, food service, and custodial work, so, you know, we're just working to try to get these positions filled. >> so, mark, i understand that you actually were in on a couple of these interviews with some of the students. what reasoning did they give for wanting these jobs? i'm wondering how maybe the way they interviewed, what they're learning from this? >> yeah. i interviewed a few of them. most of the interviews took place with the supervisors and the directors of the departments, but the few students that i interviewed were excited, they were enthusiastic, they were happy to have an opportunity. it gives them an ability to stay connected to our school district. our school mission, our district mission, is that every student should be ready, resilient, respectful and responsible students and that way they can contribute to society. this ties right into the opportunity for them. >> chuck, are there any gpa or grade requirements for students to maintain a position if they happen to, you know, achieve that point? >> yeah. you know, education is the paramount reason why the students here and we will be making sure that the students can maintain their grades in order to remain employed here. >> so, mark, do students who are hired, do they qualify for the same rate as -- of pay as -- >> they do. >> somebody else would? >> yes. yes. they go through the same hiring process than any other employee would be. on board in the same way that an employee outside of the district would apply for as well. same pay scale too. >> and how do you make provisions for schoolwork? they're working for a place where they're supposed to be getting their education and we all know time is of the essence with kids. their schedules are often packed. >> right. so for the high school schedule, the kids have the ability in a couple positions to come in before school like at 5:30 in the morning and then after school when they get out around 2:30 they have the opportunity to work after hours for custodial positions in the evening, for our before and after care and for school food, they can work in the morning prior to their school schedule. their school is the priority, so we're going to be pretty flexible with them. >> talk to me about the enthusiasm for this. from both sides, what are you seeing? >> you know, it's one of those things that we didn't know what to expect, actually, because this is the first time we had ever done this. you know, we expected a few, but we were pleasantly surprised. we had 25 students who preregistered, and they came in and did the interviews and like i said before, there are nine positions. everyone who came in was excited and they were really looking forward to potentially working for the school district. >> so, mark, do you see this potentially, depending on how it goes, as something that could become permanent for students as they get through school? it's a great opportunity for them to earn money too? >> absolutely. i do. in fact, after the interviews were over the other day, i had six e-mails that following day asking if they could be given an opportunity. i think the interest is out there. i think the opportunities are out there. it gives them an ability to stay connected and it's not bad hours. a lot of students they work if the fast food industry outside of our district have to work weekends ant late nights and holidays so the scheduling is pretty flexible and accommodating. >> chuck, it's a pretty creative idea. how did you all come up with it and how do parents feel? have you heard from them? >> you know, our social media, the parents have been overwhelmingly supportive. the idea came about, i was actually in a meeting with our chief operating officer dr. kim hawk, and she's over all of those areas in which we are hiring for and she was talking about the difficulty, how difficult it's been to fill those positions. we've tried social media. we've tried traditional classified ads. we tried job fares. dr. hawk came up with the idea and said what about a student job fair. why not. let's give it a go. we've never tried one. what's the worst that can happen. we were pleasantly surprised. we really hope that this continues. i'm interested in maybe continuing this and doing this next year as well. >> yeah. well, chuck and mark, we appreciate you sharing your perspective with us on this very outside-the-box idea. it will be interesting to see how i it progresses. best of luck to you and everybody there. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. still ahead a crisis overseas. armed rebels heading to ethiopia's capital city. the u.s. state department now urging all citizens to leave that country immediately. we have the latest developments for you after a quick break. i'll shoot you an estimate as soon as i get ba to the office. hey, i can help you do that right now. high thryv! thryv? 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