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such great music. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, january 21st. i m john berman. brianna is on tonight. kasie is here with me. nice to see you. nice to see you, too, john. what an icon. we begin with sad, breaking news. the death of rock star and actor meat loaf, the grammy award-winning singer was tagged with the name meat loaf when he was had he 8 years old. it stuck. his bat out of hell album is one of the all-time best sellers in film. you saw it right there. my favorite role of his was eddie in the rocky horror picture show. the cause of death has not been released. in a statement on his facebook page said he died with his wife deborah by his side. an aspiring artist and beautiful man. from his heart to your souls, don t ever stop rocking. meat loaf was 74. john, it s amazing how much his music is just part of the landscape of our lives over the last so many decades. . well, you know, in the thou ....
america s telecom giants prepare to roll out their 5g service in the next 24 hours. just days after a horrifying hours-long standoff, the texas rabbi held hostage by a british gunman leads a healing service at his synagogue. and blanketed by volcanic debris and cut off from the rest of the world. we ll show you the scale of the devastation in tonga. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is tuesday, january 18th. we begin with a stark warning from top u.s. airlines about 5g service. now, they say at&t and verizon s planned rollout that s happening on wednesday could lead to a, quote, catastrophic aviation crisis in less than 36 hours. now, a letter to the biden administration asks for a delay in the rollout. the federal aviation administration warns potential interference could affect airline instruments, restrictions could ground flights stranding passengers as well as of course cargo. the letter g ....
of the strictest covid countermeasures many of them have ever seen as the world confronts a second olympic games amid a pandemic. cnn s selena wang is live inside tokyo with more now. how many spectators will there be, and how will the government be choosing them? reporter: well, ana, it s hard to believe we re only 17 days away from the start of the games and we still don t know how many spectators are allowed or how they will be chosen. all we know from organizers is that anyone allowed to attend is going to have to follow strict covid rules before, during and after the games. international spectators have already been banned and with the latest change reflects just the growing restrictions and what is already an extraordinarily restricted olympic games, even for than what i experienced in the tokyo summer games. i ll be traveling in a couple of weeks but already i ve had to download an olympic health tracking app, put in my daily temperature and once i enter beijin ....
that s what keeps her had in your heart. saget, of course, was also a familiar face to fans of america s funniest home videos, a show he hosted making him a fixture in your living rooms in the 1990s. it s a lovable sitcom dad that they knee had a very funny side. saget s routines were hugely successful. not anything that we could play for you on daytime tv but you may have caught some of the moments, cameos on half baked or his recurring rell on entourage. it was that range that earned hinge longevity and praise from many entertainers. his former co-star john stamos tweeting in response to saget s democrat i am broken. i am gutted. i m in complete and utter shock. i ll never ever have a friend like him. i love you so much, bobby. cnn owes stephanie elam joining us now with more. the day before, stef, he had actually been performing. do we know any more at this hour about the circumstances surrounding the circumstances of his death? obviously erica is just surp ....
this just moments ago from his costar john stay most. i am broken. i am guided. i am in complete and utter shock i love you so much bobby. i am devastated. he was funny and intuitive and one of the great comics of our time. and i had a chance to be hang with him and i was just on the radio. we were doing a thing on - frank sinatra show. and they were devastating. and it was a feel-good thing. he always made you laugh. just devastated. it s interesting at the height of his success, back in the uk i did not really appreciate it so much i m hearing from people who are really shocked by this. while was the significance of what he did and why so many people are so devastated to hear this? so everybody equally weighted the childhood. and then to catch yourself. and then the feel-good of it all. and to be head of the family the father in many ways. and i was doing a variety show i said why don t you start a variety show? from the whole some television show. that he go ....