in all, 165 million doses have been distributed nationally. president biden and the first lady on easter sunday encouraged americans to get the vaccine. by getting vaccinated and encouraging your congregations and your communities to get vaccinated. we cannot only beat the virus, we can hasten the day to when we can celebrate the holidays together again. there is dog. top public health experience are warning the united states may be on the cusp of another wave of new covid infections. one comparing the current state of the pamtdndemic to a natural disaster. at this point we are in a category 5 hurricane status with regard to the rest of the world. at this time we will see the highest number of cased reported globally in terms of the pandemic. in terms of the united states we are just at the begin thfg surge. we haven t really begun to see it yet. with that, cnn s mcmorris an torah is in la guardia airport right now. are people nervous about playing or are they feeling
dale and zimmerman had arrived? yeah. yes. about 10:13 p.m., is that right? it was sometime after sergeant dale and lieutenant zimmerman arrived. after that point, were there arrangements made for transport officers to bring lane and king to city hall pursuant to critical incident protocol? there were. did you watch that happen? yes. officers walitski and officer atshof responded to the scene. officer king and officer lane were transported. publish exhibit 90. additional body-worn camera footage. do you see officer sergeant atshof in this photo? would you draw a circle? and walitski? i don t see him in this photo. was this according to the time stamp, 22:18:14, is that right? correct. that was around the time that the transport officers arrived. and i m assuming the transport would have happened fairly shortly after that? correct. and they transported lane and king to room 100 within city hall? room 100. was it about shortly after that, a
accountability in this country. let s get started. america, the land of the free and home of the brave. is it also now the home of a backsliding democracy? a report this week labeled the united states as undergoing a severe and deliberate form of democratic erosion. in joins countries like india and brazil and a quarter of the world s population that fall under the backsliding category. the democracy report says they are seeing an increasing number of democratically elected with tactics. some think the pandemic has made it easier to take this course of restricting civil liberties. and the partisan politics crippling our country. the republican controlled gerrymandering puts them in position to win big in 2022. and president trump is looking like he will be running with a new list the ability to overturn election results. only 35% of democrats say they feel democracy in america is facing a major threat. how can that be possible? maybe they are exhausted from everything we have
purple on this map shows what areas can expect more than a 12 foot surge. evacuations and preparations for the storm are under way. the worst is expected to hit them a sparsely populated areas further north. of course, things can change quickly. state police. shutdown bridges once the winds intensify. at his latest briefing ron desantis warned residents to evacuate while they still could as the storm is fast approaching. this they still could as the storm is fast approaching.- is fast approaching. this is crunch time is fast approaching. this is crunch time right - is fast approaching. this is crunch time right now. - is fast approaching. this is i crunch time right now. you re going to get hit with the major hurricane. it will be sometime that i will arrive on shore sometime tomorrow morning, likely. and it is going to have major impacts, particularly around the big bend region to listen to your local officials, take the appropriate precautions to protect you and your fami
soon as december. and herschel walker now says he s not backing down despite the abortion scandal rocking his campaign. ma maggie haberman joins me this hour on donald trump s decision to back walker despite his checkered past. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin our coverage in ukraine where a furious counteroffensive is now sweeping russian troops out of territory. moscow has held for months. cnn is your national security editor. nick paton walsh is joining us live from the war zone. nick, this rapid ukrainian advance comes as vladimir putin laid claim to that troubled nuclear power plant. what s the latest on the ground tonight? ukraine s president zelenskyy clear that half a thousand square kilometers of territory in the kherson region have since the beginning of the month been liberated from russian control. that s a larger number of than officials said earlier today and it s part of the slow drip we saw ourselves just yesterday of territory r