you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta. a devastating fire that killed 19 people, including nine children, in a massive fire in the bronx. fire officials do know how it started. they were describing the scene unprecedented with victims on every floor of the building. we're talking 19 stories. in addition to those killed, more than a dozen others remain hospitalized and life-threatening conditions. last hour we got an update from the new york city fire commissioner and the mayor of new york. they told reporters the cause of this fire appears to be a malfunctioning space heater. >> our message is clear today. during a tragedy, we are going to be here for each other. there is more to be discovered. the fdny is doing an investigation. christopher nydall will update us on the latest, but this appears this stemmed from a space heater. the martials are here. they will give us a thorough investigation to determine exactly what took place and what we can do better not to have this repeated. >> cnn's polo sandoval is live in the bronx for us. polo, just heartbreaking to hear from the mayor and other top officials there in new york city -- i mean, the year 2022, a space heater. something as simple as a malfunctioning space heater can cause so much destruction, so many deaths. it's a reminder to people if you have a space heater in your home, please, please be careful. they can cause tragedies like this. that's why they warn folks to be careful with their space heaters. polo, what's the latest? >> reporter: the building's heat was actually operating, it was functioning, the space heater was just supplementing. the mayor saying tonight was a night of tragedy and pain, tomorrow for rebuilding. that will do little to comfort the people of 19 families confirmed dead, many of them children here. many of these families that were affected, members of the immigrant community, many moving here from as far away as africa to start a new life now facing this tragedy. now so much uncertainty in this 19-story building, which it's safe to assume you have over 100 families with potentially no place to go, especially if they are not allowed in the apartments tonight. the red cross are here making sure they do have accommodations tonight, and those perhaps needing long-term accommodations, they are addressed as well. for so many families their current home might well be the elementary school next door who housed and sheltered them and made sure they were warm. but the big question that was answered a few moments ago as to what caused this, that space heater. they thought it was confined to one duplex home, but they had so much smoke, so much death, so potentially leaving the door in the middle of those fires that allowed that smoke to escape and caused so much damage and death here. jim? >> just awful. and what are we learning about the building itself? there was some mention of possible code violations and so on. whether or not that had anything to do with it, what's the latest on that? >> reporter: it's about a 50-year-old building, according to building records, and when you look at it, it doesn't have any outstanding building violations after a preliminary search here. it housed about 120 units about 50 years old, but the question is what potentially could be done for buildings like this to try to keep this from happening again. as we just saw, it didn't have any structural violations, but it was a federally funded building, so it certainly leads to the other question of what kind of codes would potentially apply there if it doesn't necessarily fall within new york city fire code. >> polo sandoval, thank you very much. joining me now is democratic congressman richard torres of new york. his district covers most of the south bronx. congressman, so sorry about this in your community. just terrible, just awful. you were born and bred in the bronx. what is your reaction to this horrific loss, and what are you learning that you could tell us? >> i'm in a state of shock. the bronx has been the scene of three catastrophic fires in the last 30 years. this is the deadliest fire since happy land in 1990. and i have constituents who have seen the world around them collapse, who have lost their children, their whole families, their homes. it's a level of trauma and tragedy that most of us will never know and it's going to take a long time not only to provide these families with temporary shelter but it connect them to counseling and mental health services and enable them to recover from what has been an unspeakable tragedy. >> have you had a chance to talk to any of the people who have been displaced in the building? do they have the assistance that they need? is there a number they can call if they're wondering what they should do? how can the city of new york, how can the services in that community be of assistance at this time? >> if you're a victim of the fire, simply call 311 in new york city. we have a reception center right next to the building. the fire department is on-site, the office of the emergency management is on-site, and we're going to see to it that every victim is connected to service. >> what can you say about space heaters? mike, your grandmother, god rest her soul, used a space heater. it is something elderly people use. they're so dangerous they frighten the hell out of me. what can you say about that? how widely used are they in your district, and what can you say about the fact this malfunctioning space heater may have caused all this? >> look, i'm skeptical about the use of space heaters because it is an extraordinary fire hazard. there is often a chronic lack of heat and hot water so people rely on space heaters to get heat in addition to the space heaters in this particular building. the door was left open causing the fire to spread widely and rapidly throughout the building, so we have to warn people about the fire hazards that come with the use of space heaters. we have to impress upon people the need to close the door in the event there is a fire to prevent it from spreading, and we have to ensure these federally funded developments comply with local fire codes, with the highest standards of fire safety. the housing in the bronx is quite old. this particular development dates back to the 1970s, but we have some buildings that were pre-war that were established before a modern fire code. not every building has a sprinkler system, not every building has a functioning alarm. some buildings have a self-closing door. many buildings lack what we would consider 50% of fire safety. >> you suspect that may be the case in this building? >> i'm going to wait for the fire martial's report, but it's my understanding there were fire alarms, there was sufficient heat, but there was a malfunctioning space heater and the door was left open, and those appear to be the cause of the fire. >> another thing i find so moving is these firefighters kept going back in even without oxygen left in their tanks. what can you say about the heroism of the firefighters? i know they don't like to hear that term used, they'll say they were just doing their jobs, but just unbelievable bravery that we saw in the bronx today. >> we call every firefighter new york's bravest, and we're just grateful for those who put their lives at risk. it is extremely tragic we lost 19 bronx residents, including nine children, and people's lives were turned upside down. the silver lining to this cloud is the heroism of the fdny. >> we know the hospitals were already stressed because of covid there in new york. is this situation adding to those strains, or are the hospitals in that community, in your community, coping with this okay? >> in everything with the strain, they were telling me there was severe staffing shortages. because of omicron, about a quarter of the work force is out sick as a result of the virus. this adds to the strain, because we have to mobilize resources across the agencies to respond to a fire that affects 120 units and hundreds of families. >> what is your message to your community this evening, congressman if what's your message on what happened here? >> i just want to let my community know that your elected officials at every level of government is here to support you in any way we can. we need you to recover. we in new york are resourceful, resilient and we're in this together. >> all right, congressman ritchie torres, we appreciate. i feel very badly for the losses of those victims. just so, so sad, those children who lost their lives today. >> we'll be right back. u to sel. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ new vicks convenience pack. dayquil severe for you... and daily vicks super c for me. vicks super c is a daily supplement with vitamin c and b vitamins to help energize and replenish. dayquil severe is a max strength daytime, coughing, power through your day, medicine. new from vicks. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible... s ers dot com. . more than 1 million people a day could soon be testing positive for covid, according to dr. anthony fauci. hospitals are struggling to keep up with the surge. one hospital is reporting a critical staffing shortage. this includes people who need non-covid critical care. another problem, keeping kids safe as they head back to school. more than 300,000 students have been stuck at home since wednesday. their education is being put on hold as the district pushes teachers to return to classrooms. los angeles reports that nearly one-quarter of children hospitalized with covid are admitted to the pediatric icu units. that is just very, very scary news. some even need to be intubated. let's go to cnn and natasha chen in los angeles county. natasha, that's scary information coming out of l.a. right now. the school district out there is the second largest in the country. how are things going there compared to some of these other problems we're seeing around the country? >> reporter: well, jim, the school district, l.a. unified, is going through a serious process here to make sure they can stop the spread. behind me is a long line of people trying to get tested before tuesday. this is a required baseline test, and we just spoke with the president of the l.a. unified board, kelly gomez, who told me that because of this testing that's been required of students and employees this past week, they caught 50,000 positive cases. she says that's 50,000 students and employees who are now prevented from coming into the building tuesday. that along with their entire weekly testing for students and employees is really working for them, along with required vaccination for all their employees, along with the fact that students 12 and up, about 90% of them, are fully vaccinated now. universal masking indoors and out. i talked to one tenth grader about this process, about all of these policies and how he's feeling about it, especially during this omicron surge when many of his friends are testing positive. >> my group chat, they're all testing positive for some reason. i think it's the new virus or something like that? >> reporter: the new variant? >> yeah. all my group tested positive. we always get tested in school, so i don't know. we always have this daily pass that we have to enter school with, and if it doesn't come out, that means you tested positive and you can't get in school. honestly, it's just extra safety, so, yeah, it's not that big of a deal. >> reporter: he says not a big deal because they've been doing this since august. they are used to this. and whatever has been going on so far has been working for l.a. unified, because they tell me more than a thousand schools in their district, not a single one had to go virtual since the beginning of this academic year. jim? >> natasha chen, thank you very much for that. this just in, some breaking news. we have just learned that new york congresswoman ocasio-cortez has covid. in a statement her office said she is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home. the congresswoman is fully vaccinated and also received her booster back in the fall. that news just coming in the last several minutes that alexandria ocasio-cortez, her office says she has contracted covid-19. coming up, former first lady michelle obama has an urgent message before this year's midterms. the living room slash yoga shanti slash regional office slash classroom. and this is the basement slash panic room. maybe what your family needs is a vacation home slash vacation home. find yours on the vrbo app. ♪ if you wake up thinking about the market and want to make the right moves fast... get decision tech from fidelity. 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>> i do. >> and i don't even talk about that, and they don't talk about it. but i tell you, the crowd itself was the biggest crowd -- and i've spoken before the biggest crowds. the biggest crowd i've ever spoken by far. >> and joining me now, cnn senior political consultant john avlon. john, i've said this before. i think his brain is broke. there's no other description for when he says these things. he has this pavlovian way of -- he has to talk about crowd sizes in the most inappropriate situations. i don't understand why he would even -- it's just sick. >> sure, you do. it's because it's all about trump and his ego, which is simultaneously massive and fragile, so he wants to measure it. it's all about size for him so he's got to get some kind of inter interrogater who fluffs him up. it's just his own pathetic, incredible, fragile ego. >> martha, it's been a year since he lost his twitter account, and all our mental health is the better for it. it is unbelievable how much the big lie exists, though, in the minds of his supporters even without the twitter account. listen to what donie o'sullivan found. >> the january 6 attack was not the republicans nor trump. the democrats were behind it all. they're the ones that caused it all. >> reporter: do you really believe that? >> i know it. and there is no way that a republican would act that way, and there is no way that trump had anything to do with what happened on january 6. >> i think the whole reporting of it is a giant hoax. >> we are a very peaceful people, so it was a total setup to me. the fbi set it up. >> i don't believe they were trump supporters that did that. >> i guess there are all these propaganda outlets, margaret, and egos where trump supporters continued and they can just continue to peddle these lies and they're responsible for this. what's your assessment? >> jim, i think you're right. i think the conservative media ecosystem has created these deep, dark siloes where people were able to create the big lie and in some ways radicalize. they really believe a lie and they go darker and darker and deeper and deeper down those rabbit holes. the merciful part for all of us is since there is is not a it twi -- not a twitter account, we're not having to report on it. this lie persists and it persists in some ways in a stronger and more robust way in very specific siloes of our political life. >> jim, i just want to add to that. it highlights how much we're not having a debate about politics anymore at the outer reaches. this isn't a debate about policy or different approaches to solving the same problem. this is about reality. this is the result of evidence that people have bought into because they need to save face. it's important we don't mix this with the political debate, they're not mixed when it comes to reality. >> i think you could agree this is the fringe. the outer reaches have always been fringe. you have the '40s and the '50s -- >> i'm glad you're having this discussion, because, margaret, i do want to ask you, why is it, then, that we only saw two republicans standing in the house to mark the anniversary of january 6? that is almost the entire republican party that just didn't show up. would they have been called out on the carpet by tucker carlson and that's why they couldn't do it? >> or by donald trump. i posed the same question to adam kinzinger this week, and his response is quite right, i think. it's that donald trump still owns, has solid ified and still holds the political power. if people want to stay in the house of representatives and they're unwilling to sacrifice their seats, like potentially liz cheney will and adam kinzinger has, they don't have a choice. i mean, they have a choice, and they're choosing not to. that's political choice. >> it's sad. john, this says, too, about what biden will be talking about in this big voting rights speech in alabama on tuesday, and ahead of that, the former first lady michelle obama took out an ad in the "new york times" and set out a series of goals of training 100 volunteers and registering new voters. she added that john lewis said democracy is not a state, it's an act. it does sound as though democrats are kind of ramping up this message to carry into the midterm cycle that protecting democracy is maybe the most important issue of this camp campaign. >> we should all be for democracy. i think the problem democrats have is they ramp this up and chuck schumer says they're trying to ramp things up before the birthday. this is an amended thing. i think it's important to remind folks that in particular on that threshold, the idea that this is status quo and it's the way it's always been is a lie. they should return to what was reality for a long time for most of us which was a talking filibuster. that said, what michelle obama is saying is you can't just wait for the senate. you need to apply political pressure but there are things that can be done locally in the states, and they need to be done, and i think that makes good sense. >> ron johnson, republican senator in wisconsin, announced he's going to run for reelection. does that put into jeopardy that senate seat? because one of the things we looked at was maybe in the house, but the senate is not necessarily a done deal. for ron johnson, there is a lowlight deal of craziness from him over and over on covid and all these issues. are the republicans potentially putting that seat in jeopardy, do you think? >> i think from mitch mcconnell's perspective, they are keeping it in play. they hold the seat now so they're defending it. it's an incumbent seat. joe biden won wisconsin by about 20,000 votes, so it was a near tie, statistically. and it's a year that is purportedly going to be about joe biden and about the democratic rule of washington where republicans historically are going to have a leg up. so my bet is if i were in mitch mcconnell's head, mitch thinks it's a better play to keep ron johnson defending that seat than ride someone new and have it be an open seat. >> counterpoint? it's 100% rating. >> that's not a lot of cheese, as they might say in wisconsin. >> as they might say. >> or they might not say. john and margaret, great to see you. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks, jim. >> take care. a hearing underway right now for tennis star novak djokovic a hid a vaccine standoff in australia. will he get to compete or will he be deported? 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that is unclear. we know his lawyers are going to argue in a virtual online court today that the process of cancelling his visa last week was, they believe, mishandled at various stages, that there were many poor judgments, that he was treated unfairly. but crucial to their argument will be their belief, their argument that he has the right to be here exempted from vaccine requirements for the same reason that he was granted an exemption to play in the australian open by his panel of medical experts, and that's because they say the advisory panel to the government on vaccine issues says there are grounds for a temporary exemption from vaccine -- from being fully vaccinated when someone has experienced a recent covid infection, specifically within the last six months. we know from the court documents that have been filed djokovic tested positive for covid back on december 16, and it was after that that he sought the exemption to come here and play. now, the australian government disagrees with all that technicality very strongly and it's going to fight it as long as it possibly can. whatever the outcome here today, djokovic will face more questions when he gets out, because his own social media shows that on the day he says he tested positive and in the days following that, he was out and about, at events, without wearing a mask, without showing any obvious caution. so the question is when did he find out that he had tested positive on december 16? and also a tennis question that needs to be answered. up until the point that he did test positive on december 16, what was his plan for coming here to play in the australia open? did he have any heart or desire to do so since he was pretty aware what the strict vaccination rules are. crucially, will he be allowed out soon, will he be allowed to play, or will he be deported pretty swiftly? that will be revealed to some degree in the coming hours, jim. >> okay, phil black, thank you very much for that. with me now, former professional tennis star and commentator pat mcenroe. what a situation in australia. they've got djokovic in what they're calling a hotel, but it sounds like jail. what do you think is going on down under? what do you think the outcome of this hearing is going to be? >> well, phil laid it out very nicely for all of us, jim. there is no doubt that novak djokovic is in a situation he did not expect to be in when he left serbia, when he thought he had gotten the appropriate visa and exemption in order to get into the country and play in the tournament. but the federal government had different ideas. there's been a lot of miscommunication, jim. we're used to this a bit, aren't we, in our country with miscommunication, different rules, goalposts moving when it comes to what exactly are the rules and regulations when it comes to covid. this is exactly what happened here since djokovic released an instagram post saying he had received an exemption, he was on his way to australia. this created a political firestorm in australia. the political crowd got involved. vaccination becomes an issue, and that's where the federal government said you may have gotten a visa to get into the country that worked with the state of victoria where the tournament is played in melbourne, but we can override any visa once you come into the country. border patrol has the right to do that, and that apparently is exactly what they did. >> we've seen protests of djokovic's supporters both in australia and in his home nation of serbia. his father spoke to supporters in belgrade today saying, are we animals? this is what he said. are we animals? what are we? we are people just like they are. what is the difference? what is it that he did to deserve such treatment from their politicians, from their prime minister, their fight between the federal and local governments and the tennis association. we are not interested in that at all. you know, what do you make of the fact that he's become such a lightning rod in all this? i suppose, you know, patrick, you and i both know watching sports here in the united states, people like kyrie irving, aaron rodgers, some of these high-profile athletes who have dug in their heels on this covid issue, novak djokovic knew this was going to be controversial, i would assume, going to australia being unvaccinated. >> there is no doubt he knew it. as phil pointed out in his report, it took him a long time to get that positive test. there may be some question about the validity, at least in the officials down under in australia, about the validity about that covid test. i'll be interested to see if that becomes a point of discussion during this appeal that is now ongoing. but look, of course, novak djokovic, kyrie irving, aaron rodgers, they have the right to say they don't want to take the vaccine, but they don't necessarily have the right to do what all of us -- we've all had to make decisions, jim, in our own lives about our kids in school, getting vaccinated to be able to go to your job, to be able to be a teacher. all of these things are issues for everybody around the world, and djokovic knows he was playing with fire. but i do believe he's being used as a political pawn and the treatment he's received since arriving in australia have been pretty rough, and i think the tide is turning publicly a little bit in his favor. serbia is not angry at djokovic, now i think they're more angry about the lack of clarity from their own government. >> you raise a good point, patrick. i'm a. it sounds very detention facilitylike. that is odd. >> i think they wanted to make an example of him. i think that's just the this, as i said, became just a maelstrom -- just wildfire go going. ly. we've hdone everything they've asked of him to do in this country, but now the tables seem to be turned and they seem more upset about the backstabbing and unaccountability that's going on. nobody wants to take responsibility or blame for how this is playing out. this will be very interesting in the next few hours. i want to read one more thing for you, jim, because i got it on my phone and it's from a brief that the federal government put up on their site. it says, and i'm quoting, there is no such thing as an assurance of entry by a non-citizen into australia. reflects the to determine who is unti untitled, and the report is 35 pages. i think in the next five hours, we're going through all of this tooth and nail. very, very interesting. >> what about the players' perspective on this? if you're one of the other tennis players in the australian open, and you have djokovic going in there, he's not vaccinated, he says he got a medical exemption, okay. one has to assume there may have been folks continuating. if i were playing with him, i might be uncomfortable. there might be players that are uncomfortable. what is the argument to be made out of fairness for the other players in the tournament? >> well, to be fair and to be truthful in this situation, jim, the players have all been dealing with, for almost two years, it's been a year and a h half. when players came to the u.s. open, there was no vaccine so it was strict bubble requirements, as it was in australia last year. but i think of none other, roger federer 20 major titles. djokovic is trying to get there. he summed it upper effectually. he said, novak is his own person. he's allowed to make his own decision about the vaccine, but he knew that this situation was coming down. it has very strict, and sths going to trn if if. and this is going to be something that novak and all of tennis is going to have to deal with, i think, until we get this pandemic totally under control. >> there are other big tournaments coming up, and it's just another reminder you have too bid by the rules on and off the court. patrick mcenroe, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, jim. coming up, their motto was stop the steal, even though they were the ones trying to do the stealing. cnn's fareed zakaria looking at the attacks on voting and the fi fighting about democracy. ♪ pedialyte powder packs. feel better fast. an uber driver being praised for going above and beyond during a stressful situation, davonte williams one of the many drivers stuck out after that severe winter storm, except williams had a teenager in his car, picked up the teen in washington dc after her train ride was canceled and was taking her home to virginia, after hours stuck in this traffic, we all remember these images, williams asked the teen's parents for permission to take her back to d.c. and book her a hotel room with his own money, teen made it home safe the next day, williams was reembursed and uber calling him a hero, what is it, five stars, four stars for that one? no question about it. intense loyalty republican to trump may be destroying the system the founding fathers set up to protect democracy. fareed zakaria in a special report, the fight to save american democracy airs tonight at 9:00 p.m., here's a preview. >> the checks and balances they set up were really checks and balances between and among the different branchs. they didn't anticipate that people in congress, for instance, would be more loyal to the republican party than to the interest, institutional interest of congress. >> this is very important. what you're saying is that party partisanship has become so great that basically, it's broken the checks and balances system. >> i would say there's, let's say, a flaw, or a trap door in the system that the founders didn't anticipate, that they didn't prepare for. i really do think it took a unique kind of individual with particular personal qualities to really exploit this gap or this weakness in our constitutional protections. >> make sure to tune in, the fight to save american democracy airs tonight at 9:00 eastern, will be an important topic on that show and this show every weekend. that's the news reporting from washington, i'm jim acosta see you back this time saturday, after a quick break, good night everybody. kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours. 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