and live from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i m michael holmes. this is cnn newsroom. and our top story this hour, an influential covid-19 model warns americans not to put their masks away yet, as cases surge in michigan. let s have a look at that spike there. you can see it at the right of the graph. the state reporting nearly 7,000 new cases on saturday. the federal government sending 160 extra vags nayccinators to get shots into arms. some hospitals there are delaying nonemergency procedures on a case by case basis because they re getting full. officials calling it a last resort. medical experts say pandemic fatigue combined with the spread of coronavirus variants are behind the surge in michigan. cnn s evan mcmorris-santoro with more. reporter: even if vaccination rates rise in places like new york, where i m standing, there s still a concern that america is in the grip of this pandemic, especially in the state of michigan, where the viral numbers are risi
allison camerotta and john berman. welcome to our viewers around the united states and in the world. this is new day in the eye of a category 5 hurricane. that warning from where the u.s. stands more than a year into the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. is averaging northern 63,000 new cases a day now. that on par with the surge last summer. other warning signs, look at michigan, a steep rise in hospitalation iss there as well. but there is good news, there is a lot of good news on the vaccination front. 19% of the country is fully vaccinated. this weekend, they saw 5 million given in one day that is a new record. and prosecutors in the dperk chauvin trial will resume their case this morning after a week of heart-wrenching testimony. we expect to hear from a hospital doctor and the minneapolis police chief who has already called george floyd s death a murder. they should fire derek chauvin and the other officers involved in that encounter. joining us is the dean of publ
in the u.s. country is approaching 19000 putting enormous strain on state and local resources. we will take a listen to arizona governor doug ducey says happened when he asked the administration to deploy the national guard. secretary and i had a conversation, i really felt that the end of the conversation that he was divorced by reality. he tried to sign off by saying the border is secure and i pushed back and said mr. secretary, that type of communication will ring with complete inauthenticity in the state of arizona, the border is not secure. arthel: however, the administration has consistently insisted it does have a plan and working on sending additional shelter space for those apprehended at the border. let s go to alex hogan reporting live from the custom and border protection center and donna texas. on easter sunday this facility is no quiet place, it is full steam ahead with construction to expand the center which is supposed to house 250 people but right now hol
doesn t warn against using the apps altogether but suggest doing some research about the privacy policy before you download. that was liz mcloughlin reporting. it is the top of the hour. very good to be with you for this special report on the derek chauvin murder trial. it sparked months of protest and international reckoning on racial justice. minneapolis police officer derek chauvin scene with his knee on george floyd s neck for roughly 9 minutes. now sheldon faces justice in court charged with murder and manslaughter. juries almost never convict police officers. will this time be different? this case is a slamdunk because we know the video is the proof. let s look back on the trial s dramatic first week. derek chauvin did exactly what he had been trained to do. he was anything other than incident on may 25, 2020. you can t blame it on being angry. what did we learn? how is each side making their cases and what will next week bring? from nbc news world headquarters
for more than three hours, repeatedly saying she does not remember many key events or many actions leading up to january 6th. anybody at all ever mentioned to you the possibility of violence? i don t remember. police have not identified that suspect, that was found inside the apartment. this was very much a sniper-type setup with a tripod and this person, obviously, his intent was to kill and hurt members of our community. i am pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. it is 2:00 a.m. in kyiv, and much of ukraine is under curfew right now. out of fear that russia will exploit the sacred easter holiday for ramped-up attacks. earlier today, the ukrainian president announced an imminent visit from top-u.s. officials. he says, just hours from now, secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin are due to arrive in kyiv. the white house and state department, so far, staying quiet on those comments. meantime, in kh