countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. and this morning, there are positive signs for how the united states can navigating the pandemic. for the first time, more americans have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus than have been infected by it. it was exactly one year ago today that dr. sanjay gupta told us right here on new day that the u.s. was entering a new and very dangerous phase. cnn is now calling the outbreak a global pandemic. our senior medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us to explain why. what makes it a pandemic, sanjay? there are criteria that are somewhat defined to call something a pandemic. let me preface by saying this terminology we re going to start using now isn t so much to cause panic but rather to really cause a focus on preparedness. can you believe how close we were sitting to each other. that was a s
ally, allowed lula supporters their victory, saying congress accepted the outcome. this lula supporter says the war in her words, the culture war, that bolsonaro leaned into, is not over. translator: look at the amount of votes this man had. even after everything he s done almost half of the votes, the difference was really small. reporter: this is lula s victory, but no longer lula s brazil. years of division and political acura moeny have taken their toll, blind siding this democracy and it could yet challenge this president. paula, thank you for that. the tax fraud trial of the trump organization ramps up today with opening statements and the first witness testimony. among the key prosecution witnesses trump s long-time finance chief allen weisselberg. he pleaded guilty and agreed to