Behind. What do you do? these are the types of impossible choices that parents across this country are up against. We ll talk to one of them in a minute. Headlines like these make it even more frightening. Children s hospitals, mostly in the south, overwhelmed by a surge in young covid patients. One mom in tulsa spent the last week documenting her toddler s battle against covid. Little aurora needed a ventilator. The good news, she is now breathing on her own and will be able to go home soon. You would think stories like these would inspire some gop governors to rethink their war on mask mandates. Just today, the superintendent of leon county school district in florida announced he will defy governor desantis ban on mask mandates. This comes after governor desantis promised to make good on his promise to withhold paychecks. The state says two school districts must rescind its mandates by this weekend or lose out on pay. This morning on fox news, the u. S. Surgeon general pushed back a
second one first. what you re really seeing is almost a vertical increase exponential increase of cases and reports are that the deaths you re seeing reported are likely severely under counted. i can speak from my own family s experience in india. lost two family members in the last week alone. you re seeing just a public health system and health care system in cases collapse because of inability to provide hospitalized care. today s announcement is using immediate relief in terms of the personal protective equipment and rapid tests you talked about as well as ventilators and other things to help care for patients in the hospital, but what you also see is the u.s. is looking at sending raw materials for india to continue making one of the astrazeneca versions of the vaccine in india as well as helping india build vaccine manufacturing capacity and then lastly sending expertise from here in the cdc to work with public health groups. i think what you re seeing there, measures t
decisions based on what he truly believes, based on his years of doing this work and studying these issues. what he truly believes is the right thing to do. so this as republicans struggle to paint a president most americans see as a moderate in our new poll as something very different. he was going to govern as bipartisan. but the switch is he s governed as a socialist. he s making barack obama look like ted cruz. i knew he would be left of center. i didn t know he d be left of lenin. all right. so the gop also showing they remain with their big election lie. also imagine having to decide between your state or your kid. new nbc reporting on parents considering fleeing their states due to hostile anti-trans laws that put their kids at risk. we re going to talk to a mom facing that exact choice. but i want to start on capitol hill where congress is inching closer and closer to compromise on police reform legislation. today, members of both parties agree reform is
also we re fitting on a box of dynamite a powder keg that could easily explode. the latest on the crisis at the border. an inside look at what officials are facing. welcome. easter sunday once again being celebrated during the coronavirus pandemic but this year is different with record boosts to vaccinations giving hope that normalcy is at least within reach. the u.s. on saturday reporting more than 4 million doses given a new daily record. that brings the seven-day vaccination average above the 3 million mark for the first time ever. nearly a third of all americans have now had at least one vaccine dose. that progress does not mean the threat is over, however. cases are headed in the wrong direction in several states and ahead of the holiday weekend, 1.5 million people passed through airports friday. the latest sign of people perhaps abandoning health recommendations. evan mcmorris-santoro was in times square where people are once again packing the streets. reporte
headquarters. welcome to all of you around the world, this is cnn news room. easter mass is now getting under way at the vatican for millions of christians around the world it is a dangble symbol of home now, but we re not quite there yet. pope francis is celebrating with scaled back services. the pope will deliver his annual easter message in about two hours. italians are under a three-day lock down. st. peter s square will be packed again. you see you re among very few people in what is normally such a crowded place. i was just thinking that, this is the holiest day of the year for twchristians. and it is such a different scene today. italy of course in the midst of a national three-day lock down. they can go to church but they need to go near their home. one reason that italians can go out is to exercise. so many people trying to just stop to attack a picture at the vatican. hope francis just beginning inside the basilica. that is to avoid people coming to the square t