claimed that he is a former sniper and was ready to put the sniper in his crosshairs. polo vasandoval has the disturbg details. reporter: federal officials are not naming the senator that was a target of this threat, but they certainly are expanding on the nature of it. they say in their filings that brian landry called a senator s district field office on the morning of may 17th and left a voice mail. that voice mail transcribed in these federal court documents. he allegedly said, quote, i m a veteran sniper and unless you change your ways, i got my scope pointed in your direction. and i m coming to get you. you re a dead man walking, you piece of expletive. this voice mail first provided to the u.s. capitol police that then brought onboard the fbi. federal investigators then visited on may 24th, the 66-year-old man. they spoke to him and he wr reportedly said that he was extremely angry with certain politicians over the handling of entitlement programs for veterans, specifically th
cancellations that were announced after several of the cast and crew experienced those breakthrough cases. and then, of course, the radio city christmas spectacular that is extremely popular, they canceled their performances for the rest of the season. when you hear from many new yorkers, there s certainly a feeling of deja vu with these kind of closures and cancellations, although this time many people counting on the additional protection of their vaccines. polo vasandoval, cnn, new york. we ll take you now to the university of nebraska medical center. this hospital has been on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning. it s where u.s. federal officials sent 13 infected passengers aboard the diamond princess cruise ship. clinicians there were among the first in the nation to develop their open in-house coronavirus test. joining me now is neinfectious disease specialist, dr. lawler.