trump loyalists who believe donald trump s lies that the 2020 election was stolen. this is one of those defining moments. it really is. people are going to be judged. where were they before and where were they after the vote? history s going to judge it. it s that consequential. 19 states have passed 34 laws that limit voting hours, ballot drop boxes, or take some power from local elections officials. there are other constraints as well. the brennan center for justice says it s tracking at least a dons state laws being proposed this year. and some georgia voting rights groups are skipping the president s speech. they re demanding action, not just more talk. so, cnn s jeff zelensy is in atlanta with the president. stacey abrams will not be there for president biden s speech. so, how s he reacting to that? reporter: alisyn, that certainly has gotten a bit of attention. of course, stacey abrams was the face of the need for voting reform. she registered so many voters her
through and various democrats and major civil rights leaders will be there for this speech but a number of georgia voting rights groups are boycotting saying the time for talk is over. we ll speak to one of those leaders in just a moment. also notably absent today, democratic candidate for governor in georgia stacey abrams whose name has almost become synonymous with investigate rights, but president says no need to read into it. i spoke to stacey this morning. we have a great relationship. we got our asked lipping mixed up. i talked with her at length this morning. we re all on the same page, and everything is fine. let s go to cnn s chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny there in atlanta. jeff, is everything, quote, fine? reporter: well, ana, that s very much an open question. certainly it s not fine with the local georgia democratic activists who simply want action from president biden and vice president harris. they said that they should be delivering on t
this is wake up call for all of our builders, do proper testing. make sure the complaints of repeated smoke alarms going off without any real smoke or fire. we need to make sure these systems operate because they save lives. so many lives lost here. critical staffing shortages at hospitals beginning to emerge around the country as the omicron variant pushes the health care system. look at those numbers. coronavirus hospitalizations approaching record levels in the u.s. this is notable. more children, many too young to be vaccinated are ending up in the hospital. that s also leading to staffing shortages nationwide as well. also this morning, fans remember bob saget. the actor known as america s dad for his role as danny tanner. he s died at the age of 65 years old. let s begin this morning with cnn national correspondent. she s outside the apartment complex in the bronx. what s the investigation looking into right now? reporter: there s a number of things they a
clear they believe his killers should serve the full sentence with no chance for proehl. ahm awe d is my brother, and would i like to tell him a little bit about him. you a maude had dark skin that glisened in the sunlight like gold and he had thick curly hair and would often like to twist it. he enjoyed running and had an appreciation for being outdoors. these are the qualities that made these men assume that you a maude was a dangerous criminal and chase him with guns drawn. to me those qualities reflect a young man full of life and energy who look like me and the people i love. not only did they lynch my son in broad daylight but they killed him while he was doing what he loved more than anything, running. that s when he felt most alive, most free, and they took all that from him, and when i close my eyes i see his execution in my mind. and your honor, we loved him back. he was messy. he sometimes refused to wear socks or take good care of his good clothing. i wish h
getting media training for months now to try to fix the problem. cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins broke the story. so ckaitlan, how is she responding to the criticism. we heard from her today. it is the first time the cdc has held its own independent briefing since the summer of 2021. normally they do it once a week and dr. fauci is often on the briefings but today it is just the cdc director, and some other scientists at the cdc taking questions from reporters and we re told by sources that is a decision that dr. walensky made this week pretty abruptly wanted to take the incoming questions given there are many generated by guidance head on. and she took the questions. a lot of questions that came up during today s briefing had to do not just with the new guidance coming out of the cdc, but the credibility overall because there is so much confusion over the changes to the guidance, the updates to the changes and she defended it as saying the science is