never not dealing with it. what if it were easier for you to deal with pets than with people ? i can t imagine living without dogs. and what if you went from endurance athletes to wheelchair bound in just six months? you realize oh, this isn t going the way this is my life, you know? how would you cope? tonight we ll meet three people who overcame their odds by doing something that you might think is a joke. we re setting out on a strange trip. but stick with us. it s all about to make sense. think back on your childhood for a moment. do you remember the first time you saw mickey? how excited you were on your face? do you remember watching cartoons as a kid and the happiness that brought you entire industries have been built on this. on having kids experienced this magic. but what if you never grew out of that feeling? there are people whose affinity for animal characters never went away. people like lindsey. you okay? you sure? yes the first thing i notice about her is that
sometimes bad things happen to really good people. i just saw a flash of guns and two men in masks blasted through the front door won t go away had no place to process what had happened. i was panicking about dying. across america, rates of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder are hitting epidemic levels. individual suffering multiplied times millions. that s a lot of suffering. for so many mainstream medicines are the solution tried a minimum of 16 different antidepressants on me, and none of them work. but something can answer to our psychic pain has been within reach all along. or non tune in and dropped. i ve always known that psychedelic drugs were driving force behind the counter culture. but now even mainstream research hubs like new york university and the johns hopkins center for psychedelic research are exploring their healing power. what we re talking about is a new field of medicine called psychedelic psychotherapy , mdm, a psilocybin ketamine. t
good morning. hopefully you re awake. making breakfast having your coffee coffee? welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. i hope you re not drinking coffee? actually me just coffee it off because you don t drink coffee. you don t want anyone else to do it right. morning. tea would be nice, right? i don t like taste. there we are. i m victor blackwell. thanks so much for spending part of your easter sunday. what? what would you recommend? just a nice green tea. maybe an earl gray something with cinnamon. maybe. i ve got something. my office. maybe i ll swing by the wild. it s okay. it s all right. here s what we re watching this morning. top democrats are vowing to make abortion a central issue in the lead up to the 2024 election after a judge ordered the suspension of a drug used in medication abortions. what senate majority leader chuck schumer is telling his caucus about the fight ahead a weekend of religious celebrations and escalating tensions in the mideast. the israe
in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
from just about anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. cnn presents a max original heaven s gate tomorrow at 10 on cnn. live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. the 19 sixties had the chicago eight today. nashville has the tennessee three. the state lawmakers, all democrats. targeted by republicans for leading a loud but peaceful protest on the house floor in that legislature. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people, including 39, year old children dead. to expel lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who is white, kept her seat by just one vote. that fact has only added to the anger in tennessee and across the country. cnn correspondent isabelle rose saleh s joins us with more details as well, it seems like there s already a path potentially to return both of these lawmakers to their seats. so what? what happens next? jim it is very much within the realm of reality here