respond to those incidents. all to keep the virus from potentially spreading. it also helps keep visiting journalists from leaving the capital city to other regions like tibet to explore controversial topics. it allows china to showcase its superiority in maintaining the virus especially in countries like u.s. but the will may also be a tale of two cities. one curated for olympic prearrivals and group of spectators and another that is the real beijing. though some local beijing residents are now in a bubble of their own, communities locked down after recent cases surfaced in the city outside the olympic boundaries. a mounting challenge for a country that s trying to keep covid out and yet still stage a global sporting spectacle to wow the world. david culver, cnn, beijing. thanks, david. we should note later this morning, we re going to have an
snow. at charlotte, for example, about 90% of all flight departures were canceled yesterday. a third of all flights departing out of charlotte canceled today. a bit of good news, though. american, delta, southwest, united have issued travel waivers so those impacted by this storm can change flights free of charge, though not much of a silver lining in that it is the end of a holiday weekend, people coming back home. even though the numbers are still low for air travel compared to the holiday week around christmas, 1.3 million people traveling right now. so the numbers a bit low they are time of year than what we saw in december, poppy. thank you, pete, very much. let s go to cnn meteorologist jennifer gray with the latest sfrast. what s in store? well, poppy, this is going to continue to make its way to the north and east. we still have winter storm warnings, winter weather advisories across the appellations and up to northern sections of new england. so here s the live radar. you
funding for police departments. i propose increasing funding. look, you know, we ask cops to do everything including to be psychologists and social workers. guess what, they need psychologists and social workers. let s go to cnn s polo sandoval. he s been following this story for us, polo, help us understand what happened during the shooting. it started out for a call for a domestic dispute, right? as we try to make sense of this, boris, it s important to remember that the police commissioner here said this is beyond comprehension, the loss they re experience right now, and also the sad reminders of these domestic calls. jason riviera was among three officers responding to a mother s call. she was having a dispute with her son. he and other officer walked in the narrow hallway.
your response to what you just heard there? well, we know this was a nationally coordinated effort that hit michigan and many other states to subvert the will and nullify the are of the people in our state and, you know, remember this time in december of 2020, rudy giuliani had just come to michigan on december 2nd and testified before a, you know, sham legislative hearing throwing all of these false allegations at our elections process. there were also individuals who showed up outside our state capitol building the day the actually electors, the true electors met to certify and validate the electoral vote to send to washington and the national archives. so this was a follow-up on all of those things, and our responsibility now is to, you know, connect the dots for the federal investigators, for the january 6th committee, which is exactly how this has come out now. we sent this information to the committee. our attorney general has given it to the justice department. we ll be sendin
helps push covid-19 hospitalizations to an all-time pandemic high. nearly 146,000 americans in hospitals with covid right now, double where we were two weeks ago. but some context here. these are not all hospitalizations because of covid. some are people who may have gone to the hospital for other reasons but then tested positive once they were there. some more context and this is key here. those being treated solely for covid reasons are nearly all unvaccinated. cnn s elizabeth cohen is joining us now. elizabeth, it s not all fireworks at this hearing today. there s also been some helpful news. what else are we learning? right. so there was lots of questions about testing and lots of questions about the isolation guidance, cdc s dr. walensky doubling down saying it was the right thing to do to tell people that if they were amountic or feeling bet their they could leave isolation after five days