time in nine months, restaurants can resume indoor dining in some parts of california, and museums, zoos and even sports stadiums can reopen for limited in-person crowds over the next few weeks. in just moments california governor gavin newsom is going to join me live to talk about his state s reopening efforts and the recall effort against him in part over his handling of the virus, but we re going to start today with cnn s nick watt in los angeles and a closer look at the push to roll back restrictions. bars and gyms will close effective midnight tonight. reporter: one year ago today california s pay area announced the first stay-home order in the land. this week a new dawn in the golden state. we re thrilled. we re thrilled to be back open. reporter: angelenos in limited numbers can now eat inside restaurants again. we hope that the state doesn t yank it us from again. reporter: some movie theaters in tinsel town reopened after 362 days. we ve watching tom &
american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting