except what is happening right now across india isn t far removed. covid has shown that every move the virus makes is potentially a local story too to everyone anywhere in the world. but interest in this latest horrific uncontained outbreak goes beyond the biological fact that pathogens travel or the demographic fact that this country has a large indian american community with strong ties back home. there s the larger truth that empathy also travels. compassion flows forward, outward, along with the tools and initiative to harness it. right now with india reporting a record 3,645 new deaths and 380,000 new cases we begin with a deeply troubling but badly needed report from clarissa ward who joins us now from new delhi. clarissa, what have you been seeing? reporter: anderson, this is truly a terrifying and epic crisis. i mean it s just staggering the amount of suffering. people are struggling to breathe. they re literally dying on the streets, and there s just no end in sigh
denying that tonight to on cnn. joe biden is marking 100 days in office and promoting a plan for jobs and infrastructure and american families and calling his ambitious ideas once in a generation investment in america. tomorrow he heads to pennsylvania. saying today he sdnts believe the american people are racist and rudy giuliani slamming the raid and seizure by federal officials of electronic devices from his home and office. tonight, in a tv interview, claiming the warrant was legally and denying he did anything wrong. there is a lot to discuss now. senior political analyst joins me and also a political commentator amanda carpenter. good to have you both on. i got the 18 tonight. good evening. start with the daily beast reporting. the letter was part of the joel greenberg s attempt to get a presidential pardon from trump with the help of roger stone. we reached out. i got to say all of this stuff right so we can be responsible here. we reached out to greenberg s attorney.
i mean, it s just staggering, the amount of suffering. people are struggling to breathe. they are literally dying on the streets. and there is just no end in sight to this tragedy. in delhi, now, you re never far from heartbreak. almost everyone in the city has been visited by grief. at the crematorium, the loss weighs heavily in the smoldering air. and the dead are piling up. there are bodies, literally, everywhere you turn here. i have, honestly, never seen anything quite like it. and organizers say that pre-covid, they might cremate seven or eight people, a day. today alone, they ve already cremated 55 bodies and it s not even lunchtime. reporter: just months ago, india s leadership boasted that the country had effectively defeated covid. now, it has set global records for new cases, as a terrifying, second wave ravages the country. he says he and his men don t even stop to take breaks. and still, they can barely cope with the flow. a volunteer approaches. they ve run ou
barring some crazy unforeseen variant that none of us are expecting to happen, we ll not see the kinds of sufferings and death that we have seen over the holidays. i think we are in a much better shape going forward. the rate of new weekly covid-19 deaths, look at the charts. it hit a record low for the year. the number of hospitalizations from this virus is also way down since january. and new cases are also dropping significantly across the country. most experts say this is largely thanks to vaccines. and the white house is expecting in the united states they re now fully vaccinated. just as the u.s. is beginning the recovery, the situation in it india is the exact opposite. bodies are piling up faster than workers can cremate them as the death toll is climbing there daily. overwhelmed hospitals are running out of essential supplies. down to oxygen and beds they re out of. so what impact will that country s downward spiral have on the global fight against the pandemic and