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tonight. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour in new york, what s being called the city s deadliest fire in 30 years. 19 people were killed including five children. the fire broke out shortly before noon today in a bronx apartment building. authorities say a faulty space heater sparked the blaze which quickly spread throughout two floors. firefighters were on the scene within minutes and quickly launched rescues but an open door to the apartment where the fire started sent massive amounts of smoke pouring out into the stairways, leaving people unable to find their way out. cnn s polo sandoval has been on the scene for hours. polo, what are you learning right now based on what s transpired over the course of the last several hours? reporter: phil, a lot of people who live in that building are left wondering when they ll be allowed to go back inside. to give you a sense of how things developed earlier today, that fire was actually in a duplex apartment on t ....
and ordered him to be released from immigration detention. the ruling comes ahead of the australian open and less than a week after djokovic s visa was canceled on arriving in australia for allegedly not meeting vaccination requirements for entry. cnn is covering all the angles. our phil black is in melbourne following the latest developments. and cnn world sport s patrick snell is joining us from here in atlanta with his perspective. good to see you both. phil, let s start with you. djokovic has won his visa appeal and can now remain in the country to play in the australian open. what more are you learning about this decision, and what comes next? so as we speak, rosemary, novak djokovic should be, according to the time scale of the court, a free man. he was ordered to be released within 30 minutes of that decision. that time has passed. so we don t know where he is. he was watching proceedings at an undisclosed location. he was allowed out of the immigration detenti ....
conspiracy theories that could have been mickey mouse i m watching going this is the craziest thing i ve ever seen. and people bought it. lawsuits they try to not have your votes counted. they did not want your vote to count. potentially illegal pressure campaigns. i just want to find 11,780 votes. what he was asking for wasn t supported by the facts, wasn t supported by the constitution. extraordinary scheming. let s talk about just breathtaking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. and all too many in the republican party we believe this was a free and fair election. and maga media who followed along. unverifiable dumps of votes. we will never give up. we will never concede. stop the steal! it all might have worked if not for a few people in key places. notably among them brave republicans. in the moments of truth, you need the right people to pass the most diffi ....
pamela brown tonight in washington, you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with a sobering reality on the covid pandemic. that viral blizzard the u.s. was warned about, it s here. the swift spread of the highly contagious omicron variant has pushed hospitalizations close to the record set almost a year ago, and the number of american children hospitalized with covid has soared to the highest level of the entire pandemic. helping drive that number, children under 5 who are too young to be vaccinated. many hospitals are facing a staffing crisis because covid is infecting their personnel. some states have deployed national guard troops seen here in the protective gear to help fill that void. new york is now the latest state to mandate booster shots for health care workers. a former member of president biden s covid-19 advisory board says the nation needs better long-term planning. unfortunately, if you vaccinate today the people who are unvaccinated who account f ....
to. phil? a legend in every sense of the word. thanks so much. the omicron wave is rising. testing shortages with hospitals and schools struggling to stay open. plus an unvaccinated tennis star now held inside a detention hotel. novack djokovic, his freedom depends on an australian courtroom, and we re learning new details about the weeks leading up to his trip down under. and a dangerous and deadly flooding in the pacific northwest. some frightened people near seattle forced to wait on top of their cars for help. i m phil mattingly in washington in for pamela brown tonight. you re in the cnn newsroom. now, across the country this weekend hospitals are scrambling to deal with waves of people newly infected with the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus. an alarming spike in patients being admitted. hospitalizations now inching closer to the record set almost a year ago. and now adding to the alarm, the soaring number of american children hospitali ....