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Was one of the last states to pass the king holiday bill. and one of the things that happened was the super bowl was removed. >> reporter: saturday the king family will mark king's birthday in arizona to keep up the pressure on voting rights and on monday, the mlk day holiday, their fight is in the nation's capitol where they're asking americans across the country to honor king by promoting voting rights and registration. >> they're all heirs to what he stood and fought and died for. and i think that what we are simply saying is that this is a time, this is a day of action. >> reporter: suzann...

>> dr. jha, always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you for joining us. >> thanks, rose mary. the u.s. senate is set to take up voting rights legislation tuesday. but republicans oppose it. so democrats will need to change filibuster rules so the bill can pass with a simple majority. however, democratic senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are both against changing the rules. even so, the house majority whip says his party must keep pushing. >> if we do not protect the vote with everything that we've got, we will not have a country to protect going forward. i don't know where we got the n...

A substantial downturn. >> and doctor, the surgeon general also says that the biden administration needs to focus more on testing. so why hasn't that happened? considering president biden did promise from the start. and why has testing proved to be such a challenge and a burden? >> yeah. this is one area where i think the administration clearly could have and should have done more. i think basically they relied on a vaccine strategy that was very effective at getting a large proportion of americans vaccinated but didn't pay enough attention. i think in the last couple of months we've seen a su...

The fourth time in just a month. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, we begin with a brutal winter storm that's been hammering much of the southeastern u.s. with freezing rain and snow. and the northeast is next. as many as 80 million americans were under winter weather alerts on sunday, stretching from georgia to maine. and the effects of this system could cause problems for days to come. states in the appalachian region are seeing heavy snowfall and high winds. parts of north carolina got as much as a foot of snow...

Melbourne. many thanks. joining me now is espn senior writer howard bryant. he's also with meadowlark media. good to have you with us. >> it's good to be here. >> in a powerful article you wrote just a few days ago that djokovic has, and i'm quoting here, "cemented his membership within the pandemic's most infamous group, the anti-vaxx multimillionaire athlete who behaves as if his fame, wealth, and enormous platform to disseminate misinformation place him above the rest of us." now, since then australia has thrown him out of the country for doing exactly that. what is your reaction? and wha...