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
crisis. correspondent bryan llenas has the latest tonight from new york. good evening. good evening, a day after call they believed by democrats and republicans, today new york governor andrew cuomo double down and vowed to fight back against his critics. and going to take on those actors. today a defiant governor cuomo blamed lawmakers for spreading this miss information. i was not aggressive enough in locking down the false today. we were busy, trying to make lives, i will not make the mistake again. this is the normal political garbage. and it hurt them. that s what i feel badly about. undermining his claims of a partisan witch hunt, today new york democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez called for a full investigation into governor cuomo quote thousands of vulnerable nursing home residents lost the dear max their lives. this is republican u.s. senators are demanding the senate judiciary committee open investigation to begin public hearings warning pres
propane. there is none in the area. no water. i have a 7-year-old, it s like, he s cold. i want to go to dallas and cnn s ed lavandera. the organization that managing the power grid, ercot, its ceo repeatedly asked about ercot s accountability in all this. what can you tell us? reporter: they have been saying throughout, especially in the last two days, as the governor of texas has unleashed a barrage of criticism at that organization for what he says is a failure, an epic failure here in this state, but ercot officials, the name of the agency that runs the state s power grid system, says they did what they had to do to protect a much larger catastrophe. those officials saying seconds if not a couple minutes away from a total collapse across the grid. that is a political fight that will continue to play out in this state, in the coming days and weeks. state lawmakers are in session in off then. obviously, this is something that will continue to play out, but the more pr
historic winter storm leaves millions without heat or water. i ve been here for about 30 years and i ain t never seen nothing like this. you re just trying to savage around to see who has food. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. 358 days ago the united states reported its very first confirmed covid-19 death, but by tomorrow it will likely report another number, 500,000. half a million dead, that is one in 660 americans, it s more than any american war except for the civil war and modelers expect to exceed that milestone by the summer. the good news, and there is good news, is that the number of daily new cases has plunged over the last six weeks. still high, but at the lowest level since october and 13% of the country has received at least one dose of the vaccine. president biden has been in office now for just about a month, but voters wi
the cabinet minister, michael gove, has said the european union has realised it made a mistake over its now abandoned attempt to impose vaccine export controls on the northern irish border overriding part of the post brexit agreement. mr gove said the government will work with the eu to help them get more vaccines, as long as it doesn t have an impact on agreements the uk has reached with manufacturers. he added that a reset on the eu s relations with northern ireland is now needed. earliertoday, northern ireland s first minister, arlene foster called it an incredible act of hostility towards those of us in northern ireland . following talks with borisjohnson, european commission president ursula von der leyen tweeted that the uk and eu had agreed on the principle that there should not be restrictions on the export of vaccines by companies where they are fulfilling contractual responsibilities . the world health organization today criticised the eu s announcement of exp