-yes! -[ laughs ] -yeah, i knew it! -[ screams ] oh, my god! shepard smith" starts now. the next step, reform of policing begins in minneapolis i'm shepard smit the sneks step, reform of policing begins in minneapolis i'm shepherd smith this is the news on cnbc in the aftermath of the chauvin verdict investigating minneapolis police is there -- >> a pattern of practice of using excessive force including during protests? >> the department of justices launches a federal civil rights probe. shoot i killing an armed

16-year-old girl a different circumstance, the story told by body cam videos. 200 million shots in american arm. the president's message, roll-up your sleeves >> florida you are fully vaccinated you are still vulnerable the vaccine can save your life >> but now vaccine supply is greater than demand. vladimir putin issued a warning to the west as thousands in russia protest the treatment of opposition leader alexi navalny. plus 4 in 10e americans breathing unhealthy air. a birthday celebration fit for the queen. and is the era of cheap flights ending good evening derek chauvin is now in prison but the quest for justices and change in the wake of george floyd's murder is not over one day after chauvin's

conviction the justice department announced its launching a sweeping civil rights investigation of the minneapolis police department. the goal, see if there really is a deeper pattern of officers using excessive force and whether they target minorities today the attorney general merrick garland says change cannot wait. >> yesterday's verld in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic police issues in minneapolis the challenges we face are deeply woven into our history. they did not arise today or last year building trust between community and law enforcement will take time and effort by all of us >> it's begun and we'll monitor it closely meanwhile as we wait for chauvin's sentencing, the ex-cop is now locked up inside a maximum security prison in minnesota. officials say he's alone in solitary confinement separated

from other inmates for his own safety chauvin is now inmate numberuni2 here's how61 261157 it's called the administrative control unit and here's how administrators describe it cells are small with a mattress pad, bench, combination sink and toilet and shower. inmates need special approval from prison officials if they want a book to read or newspaper. george floyd's family says they don't want chauvin's conviction to be seen as some sort of end of something but rather a beginning. in a moment we'll talk to frank holland in minneapolis with that side of the story. but first nbc pete williams. this investigation into the minneapolis police department goes far beyond the floyd case >> reporter: as you said earlier a look into whether minneapolis police have a pattern or practice of using excessive force and that includes during protests

it'll look how police treat people with behavioral problems and whether the police illegally discriminated how they enforce the law. and the justice department will examine how the officers are trained, whether they're supervised and whether and how they're held accountable and the government will issue a public report and negotiate a public reform agreement. typically the police department and government will go to court together and make it formal with a consent decree and often the court will appoint an independent monitor to make sure the police department lives up to its commitment. if the police refuse to make changes then the justice department can sue them in court and get a judge's order that would require them to adopt the reforms. in this place the police chief in minneapolis is already saying hewelcomes the investigation because he thinks it will help him implement the kind of reforms he already has in mind the justice department was given the authority to do these investigations by congress in

1994 following the widespread public protests over the televised police beating of rodney king. and since then the government has conducted about 70 investigations resulting in about 40 reform agreements but these investigations slowed to barely a trickle under the trump administration when jeff sessions was the attorney general. he made it much tougher to conduct them because he thought they did more harm than good and last friday attorney general merrick garland rescinded that sessions ruling and that restored the policy to what it has been for the past 2 decades. >> pete williams, thank you. cnbc's frank holland live in minneapolis. how is that community moving forward today? >> reporter: we're standing in what's called george floyd square right here behind me this is the spot where floyd lost his life in that deadly arrest. yesterday after derek chauvin's conviction people of all walks of life, they started coming

here leaving flowers and candles and sharing hugs with the people who live in this community who have turned this corner into a memorial for the movement of racial justice yesterday outsiders they were not as welcome today a woman known as the gate keepers said all ares his name pea can come in an welcome >> people can come in and always see this place and remember george floyd laid his life down. god laid this man's life down. he sacrificed his life for us to have a change. >> i know people who have seen martin luther king speak and i wanted to be able to share that with my kids i believe them seeing it first-hand is much better than in a book or on the television

>> reporter: well, shep, here at george floyd square there are signs daunte wright, breonna taylor and other black people who have lost their life in police violence. people in thiscommunity say chauvin's conviction is accountability but not justice >> angry, looking for change, waiting for daunte wright's case to be addressed, for breonna's to be addressed. so much has happened to be addressed. it doesn't stop with this. >> the ultimate justice is to change the system and hold and to do a police reform. that's what we're asking for that's what communities of color and black communities are trying for. that's what we're asking for >> reporter: shep, now the minneapolis city council is working on giving voters an option on the ballot to completely get rid of the police department the mayor says he's against that

but he is in favor of police reform many people here tell me reform just isn't quite enough. >> the judge says derek chauvin's sentence will be in about 3 weeks, or i should say 8 weeks. he didn't set a precise date ultimately the judge is the one who will decide how long chauvin spends behind bars here's the maximum sentencing if the judge follows the guideline. chauvin will receive far less time than this because he has no previous criminal record the three other officers who were involved in george floyd's arrest are set to have a joint trial in august. they're charged with aiding and abetting second degree murder and second degree manslaughter last night in the moments right before the judge in minneapolis delivered derek chauvin's guilty verdict police say an officer in columbus, ohio, shot and killed a 16-year-old girl who was armed

with a knife and about to attack another girl her name is makiyah bryant authorities released the body cam footage the same day as the shooting the officer was responding to a chaotic 911 call about a girl who was trying to stab someone in the video you see makiyah holding a knife fighting with another girl then makiyah appears to lunge with the knife in hand and that's when the officer intervenes and shoots. we're about to show the video, but a warning, like so many lately it's difficult to watch >> hey what's going on? hey, what's going on hey, hey, hey. get down, get down, get down >> watching it again you can see makiyah's hand at the very top of your screen there, arm raised, a knife in her grasp >> she had a knife she just went at her >> she's a [ bleep ] kid, man.

>> the video later shows the knife on the ground next to her. on the video you see other officers on scene trying to treat her wounds almost immediately. the columbus police chief identified the officer as nicholas rearden, on the force for less than two years. a reporter asked the chief why he couldn't have used a taser or something. >> if there's not deadly force being perpetrated on someone at that time an officer may have the opportunity to have over, distance and time to use a taser. but if those things aren't present and an active assault going on in which someone could lose their life, the officer can use their firearm to protect that third person. >> chief woods later asked what was his take away watching that video. >> it's a tragedy. there's no other way to say it i'm a father her family is grieving regardless of the circumstances associated with this

a 16-year-old girl lost her life yesterday and i sure as hell wish it hadn't happened. >> her family totaled a local newspaper makiyah was in a foster home and was fighting with someone else there. the mayor says state investigators are to determine whether the officer involved was wrong to act and whether she should be held accountable ron johnson now, former missouri state highway patrol captain ron, could the officer in columbus have done anything else, anything differently or is that what the training teaches officers to do >> the training teaches you to go through your force continuum and see what level of force is needed to stop the threat especially when the threat could be injury or death i think we have to let the investigation play out and see what it is but in the heat of the moment that officer has to make a decision he has options i think we let the investigation

pan out, but we've got many issues going on in our country and the lack of trust. and i think people need to remain as calm as they can and let's see where this goes. >> you know, if suspects are young that has to further complicate things, doesn't it? >> it's harder and it's definitely tougher and so we just have to make sure we do all the training that we can, and if there's other options whether it's a child or an adult we need to take whatever is the least lethal force we can use in that con continuum. >> there's a lot of different positions how to effect change in law enforcement he teaches african-american history at the university of iowa, and he said last night policing exists upon a continuum of violence. and that it needs to be re-imagined. and then right after bill bratten came on and he said chauvin's conviction will

accelerate change in policing in the united states but that we don't need to start over where do you stand >> i agree with chief bratten. i don't think we naed to start over, but i do think we need to take this opportunity and create some change and make sure we do better in our training, we're consistent in some of our training across the country so it's consistent. and look at all the police departments that we have in this country, over 18,000 which i think is too many. so i think we need to look at the whole system, create a network where officers if they're put in this network so they can't continue to go on from police department to police department there needs to be a national registry >> thanks so much for your time. ron johnson, appreciate it >> thank you there's an investigation under way into the police shooting of a black man in north carolina now it happened around 8:00 this morning in elizabeth city, 60 miles or so south of virginia beach. the county sheriff says that one

of his deputies shot and killed andrew brown, jr. while they were executing a search warrant. this sheriff confirmed there is body cam video of the shooting but he hasn't yet seen it and he's not shown it to us. he wouldn't release anymore details but promised there would be transparency. witnesses say they heard 6 to 8 shots and he was shot while he was driving away in his car. the sheriff would not confirm either of those details. it's important to confirm also what we don't know we do not know whether brown himself was armed. the north carolina state bureau of investigation is now looking into that shooting the deputy involved for the moment at least is on administrative leave 200 million vaccines given and plenty more now to go around so the president is offering money to get more shots in arms. and cases on the rise in

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200 million shots in president biden's first 100 days 200 million shots in president biden's first 100 days in office. that was the administration's goal and today the president announced we'll hit that milestone officially tomorrow, more than a week ahead of schedule he called an incredible achievement but admitted there's still a long way to go >> the time is now to open up a new phase of this historic vaccination effort to put it simply if you're waiting for your turn, wait no longer now's the time for everyone over 16 years of age to get vaccinated too many younger americans may

still think they don't need to get vaccinated >> president biden says he's urging all u.s. employers to give workers paid time off so they can get vaccinated. he says the feds will cover business's tax credits to help offset the cost. meantime j&j's vaccine still shelved nationwide a panel of cdc advisers expected to meet on friday to review the pause. and all of this comes as the fda just released a scathing report on that factory in baltimore, the one blamed for ruining millions of johnson & johnson doses. cnbc's meg terrell meg, what problems did they find >> well, shep, the baltimore facility's production of the j&j vaccine was stopped last week amid the inspection sw remains stopped now as the fda says the problems it found need to be fixed. they include employees not taking precautions to avoid

cross contamination which is the reason those millions of doses had to be thrown out all the j&j doses used so far have been made in europe but the fda says they won't be released until they undergo further testing. and when it comes to future production, this is the only site in the u.s. making the j&j vaccine until murks gets up and running later this year. and experts tell me these problems could take a few months to fix >> they make j&j shots back in action in europe but still on hold here. what can we expect in this meeting on friday? >> reporter: we're going to find out if the cdc has heard more cases of these very rare blood clots in the past couple of weeks and if they feel there's enough evidence to make recommendations on the vaccination. a europeaned they couldn't

confirm the risk factors and doctors and patients could be aware of them. and the word has gotten out on the j&j pause. at least here in the u.s. a new axios ipsos poll found 91% of americans surveyed were aware and of those 88% said they believe the fda and cdc did the responsible thing and doesn't seem to have increased levels of hesitancy. a polling firm saying you don't see that kind of awareness except for things like the super bowl >> thank you the more covid spreads around the world, of course, the more the virus can mutate and health experts warn if other countries don't get cases under control our progress here at home will be threatened. so that's why tonight we're drawing your attention to a desire situation in the world's second most populated country, india. new daily cases have now topped 200,000 for weeks straight

the prime minister nuhen drumod ae says the wave of cases is hitting like a storm and pushing deaths to an all-time high hospitals overwhelmed, many running dangerously low with supplies india has the second most covid cases in the world trailing on the united states. reporting from inside a hospital in mumbai here's your sister network sky news'. >> reporter: india in the grip of a second wave, a deadlier and fast spreading young and old the virus has spared no one. taking a breath is a struggle. and doctors constantly monitoring every patient many just lifeless because of the disease.

the complex covid center with over 2,200 beds is one of largest facilities for covid-19 patients sky news was given exclusive access it was setup last year as mumbai's india commercial capital was ravaged by the virus. a year later a repeat. the city and state is reeling once again with record numbers the facility is almost fool. >> in the country i can vaguely tell you in the last few days and few weeks there is a surge of the number of covid patients which is labeled as a second wave we can see the second wave is more virulent. >> reporter: patients attached to oxygen cylinders wait their turn in ambulances parked

outside. hospital beds, ventilators and even medicines have run short. family members wait for a refill of oxygen cylinders that is in short supply even in the national capital delhi as the country struggles to deal with then pademic in larger cities the fear is for the poor and vulnerable in rural india where health facilities are inadequate or almost nonexistent. >> a new report on the quality of the air you're breathing. and while it turns out a lot of us might want to avoid deep breaths out in public, there's one state that has it the very worst. and the white house preparing for tomorrow's climate summit the administration's push for change that is getting support from both big businesses and their customers.

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how climate change is impacting air quality in america a new report out today shows how climate change is impacting air quality in america according to the american lung association more than 4 of every 10 people breathe polluted air and people of color are three times more likely to live in an area that failed all air quality tests. earlier we spoke with an american lung association doctor >> 51% of persons of color as compared to white persons are living in regions of the united states with unhealthy air. this is going to amplify health care disparities overall the air you breathe in is going to impact almost every health condition that we're aware of, which should be identified is this is in our control this is our story we can rewrite and create a solution and knowing it's going to impact certain communities more than

others, that's man made. all the stories of health care disparities, this one is in our control. this one we could put an end to. that's what excites me after i realize i'm so saddened by it. at the same time i really do think this is in our control >> the report also revealed california had the nation's most polluted cities. topping the list, bakersfield, fresno and los angeles president biden set to tackle this issue during the climate summit that starts tomorrow. more than 40 world leaders scheduled to join this virtual event, and there will be a lot to cover including a potential executive order that would impact almost every industry in the whole country. >> reporter: president biden is planning to up the ante on climate change as part of his pledge to get the u.s. to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 the expectation is for an aggressive cut to emissions by

the end of this decade and that's just the start. >> i think president biden is going to ask all agencies to carefully examine that risk on the financial sector, on the agricultural sector, on the labor sector so we can really have an appreciation for what needs to be done to address climate change in a holistic way. >> it is a global return for climate leadership in the u.s. >> carbon taxes, carbon pricing, and companies have to align with those. >> reporter: that's because it's both good for business and it's what their customers and employees are demanding. a majority of u.s. adults say the government isn't doing enough to address climate change, and a majority also say corporations have a lot of influence over the impacts of climate change >> this is an extraordinary moment because companies are telling the u.s. government that

they are ready to step up their climate activities >> reporter: more than 400 companies including ford, shell, amazon, pfizer, hilton, facebook to name a few signed an open letter to president biden calling on him to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade. the letter organized by ceres and the we mean business coalition. >> it's been a stunning outpouring of support. this is a seat change. >> reporter: so who will benefit and who will not well, experts say those companies that have already put the ball in motion assessing their risk, reducing their carbon footprint and anticipating regulation will properper. those who have failed to embrace the clean energy economy, they will not >> diana, thank you. there's a voting bill under consideration in texas and it's full of obstacles that lower

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the government cracks down, hundreds arrested. we're on the ground in moskow as the kremlin tries to quell an up rising >> reporter: the cost of flying plummeted last year but now a new world. if you're planning to book a summer trip do you book now or wait for a price drop? we crunch the numbers. and derek chauvin's conviction turning up the pressure on congress to finally pass nationwide police reforms but any progress so far has stalled in the senate. the george floyd justice and policing act cleared the house last summer but that's where it ended. the senate didn't have the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster president biden says the time is now. >> george floyd was murdered almost a year ago. there's meaningful police reform legislation in his name, but it shouldn't take a whole year to get this done. >> well, the bill includes provisions to ban choke holds, eliminate no-knock warrants which is what led to the fatal

shooting last year of breonna taylor and end qualified immunity, which protects individual officers from those civil lawsuits >> sawhill, what's the chance now a bill could pass in the senate >> uncertain, shep, but there are serious negotiations happening in congress led by tim scott, the republican senator, cory booker, the democratic senator, and karen bass, the democratic congresswoman now some of the issues they have to resolve are matters of degree, things like choke holds. democrats want to ban them republicans want to raise the bar to use them. no knock warrants and republicans want to make them harder to get. then there are the fundamental questions, the really serious sticking points they're going have to resolve if they're going to come to a deal. if they have a provision that seals officers from personal liability that would

meaningfully change the behavior of things like like prosecuting police officers for misconduct, for things like police brutality. republicans are much more leery of going down that road because they say it would make it harder for police departments to hire police officers. these are the kind of sticking points these two sides are going to have to noegotiate, and democrats control the white house and congress if they sacrifice too much, there are going to be voters on their side upset about it. on the republican side the appetite to go big is just not quite as great they want to do modest changes they don't want to be quite so aggressive and there is some lingering anger, shep, for the fact democrats last year fill bustard the tim scott bill they didn't allow it to proceed in the senate and think that's still coloring the issues of some senators on the republican side >> understood. while minneapolis may be the epicenter of police reform right now, on the other side of the twin cities a different type of

policing model is already in use. one that puts officers in the heart of the community local coverage now from carol levine and their reporter. >> reporter: end of the school day. >> school bus is coming. >> reporter: marks the beginning of something equally elementary. >> where are you heading >> police. >> reporter: police as in taylor mackentire and debra oakley surrounded in the best possible way. >> we've got pizza coming. >> reporter: pizza and book club with a sarge chbt and a cast of characters that your notion of policing then say hello to -- and its biggest backer the police chief blairandy anderson >> i would like to see these not only over st. cloud but all over america. >> reporter: minnesota's first built four years ago with

community input donations and labor, replacing the home with 100 police calls in five years >> a blight on this neighborhood >> reporter: whenthe community outpost or cop house went up debra is among six officers assigned to the house. >> i love helping the community, and that's why i became a cop. >> reporter: tonight dinner and book club. overseen by cops committed to rewriting the story of policing. >> politeness. >> politeness and careful speech >> tay don't call me officer macentire, they know me as taylor >> reporter: cop officers help neighborhood kids with their sport teams, local community partners to equip them for school, assist their parents and provide in-house clinics for health and dental care >> it's a neighborhood it's embedded into the

community. >> reporter: the sergeant supervises cop house >> sometimes people get wrapped up in a narrative. this population is scared of the police 10, 15 young somali kids sitting on the bumper of the squad car do these kids look like they're scared >> someday you may have to make an arrest. you may have to arrest one of them or their family members >> yep >> reporter: taylor says it's already happened >> we did a search warrant across the street and we arrested mom and dad they got out of jail a couple hours later. mom and dad still showed up to watch their kids play. they respect us and we respect them >> reporter: behind cop house, apartment houses in front a boys and girls club but is all this together working? backers cited 2019 study burglaries down, theft down, damage to property down. with 90% of residents agreeing the neighborhood has improved.

>> do you like it here >> yeah. >> how have the police officers treated you? >> they're really nice >> do you trust them >> yeah. >> we want the kids and adults, too, to see us before they're in crisis so when there is a crisis, you've already got that part done. >> i like the harry potter book. >> reporter: policing with more harry potter and less dirty harry. for the news, i'm boyd cooper. >> love that well, you're right to vote now and a visual demonstration against a new restrictive voting bill in texas it's already passed the state senate. activists setting up an obstuckal course in front of the capitol, the building right there in austinch they say it represents all the hoops texans will have to jump through just to vote if the bill passes both houses some of the provisions in the bill restricts early voting hours, makes it harder to vote by mail,

bans drive-thru voting and takes away local officials control of voting rules russia's president vladimir putin is warning the west now do not cross what he calls a red line in his annual state of the nation address putin said he doesn't want to burn bridges with other countries but that russia will respond harshly and quickly to any foreign threat. during his speech thousands of people rallied across major cities in russia to protest in support of jailed opposition leader alexi navalny police officers reportedly arrested more than 1,000 russians authorities warned the rallies are illegal. earlier in the week jailers moved navalny to a prison hospital he's been on a hunger strike for three weeks and protested what he said is poor treatment and a lack of health care since his arrest back in february. a group of human rights experts from the united nations said today navalny is in serious danger in conditions that could amount to torture. tracking the reaction in moskow here's nbc's matthew bodner.

>> reporter: thank you, shep we've got another info drop from navalny's lawyer essentially navalny is now currently being housed in what is essentially a self-isolation cell in a hospital designated for tuberculosis patients. when he was hospitalized sunday night navalny's lawyer says it took a team of three nurses four tries to insert an iv into his arm. when they tried to do the same thing monday they had to abandon the attempts after six tries because they couldn't find a vein this gives us a pretty good idea of his current physical condition and actually something navalny joked about in a letter he got out through his lawyers he said we'd all be laughing if we could see him now he looks like a scary skeleton, but he also said he laughed when he was told about the concerns of doctors of the potassium

levels in his blood after 20 days of hunger strike saying he's near death. he says he doesn't plan to go out that easily. his supporters are not taking this situation that lightly. tens of thousands of them across the country tonight took to the streets including here in moskow demanding his immediate release and medical attention. and it was not really quite a statement that i think the russian opposition wanted to send tonight we saw fewer people out over all we have in the past, but they did show despite everything navalny's still commands a significant movement willing to hit the streets at any time to support him, and that's exactly what they're promising now >> matthew bodner in russia. as america starts to reopen plans put on hold are back on the calender and for millions of couples who wanted to tie the knot back in 2020 apparently now is the time to say i do

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couples who planned to get married back in 2020 postponed, many of them to this year. cnbc's andrea day tonight with one couple who cannot wait to finally say i do >> reporter: like so many pandemic nuptials down sizing at the 11th hour wasn't in the plan but david and diana crowley tied the knot anyway. there to capture the modified affair their photographer. >> i got in the car afterwards and was like, man, did we make the right choice >> brittney had postponed her own wedding even while continuing to photograph other brides on their big day. when you first got engaged in your wildest dreams did you erthink it would take this long to actually have a wedding >> never would have imagined rescheduling once or multiple times after that >> spencer smith imagined a short engagement after putting a ring on it october 2018. but travel restrictions and an ongoing state mandate pushed the

couple to reschedule again and again. >> i feel for the first time in over a year hopeful that we will have our wedding finally >> reporter: now more than a year after their original date they plan to walk down the aisle at the end of july here in cleveland. >> we printed change the dates which funnily enough third times the charm. >> reporter: the two now say fourth time is the charm after booking new vendors and paying thousands of dollars in rescheduling fees, a shuffle many brides are facing due to covid. according christine jones. >> god bless her, she's tuck in with it. >> reporter: is there anything at all that could happen that would have you postpone again? >> it looks like everything this time is full go. >> reporter: they say this time nothing will stop those wedding bells. >> i'm looking forward to kizing

that man and being like yes after we walk up the aisle and do our ceremony. >> reporter: that and finally going on their honeymoon which brittney has yet to book >> in addition to all those rescheduled weddings, a lot of rescheduled summer vacations remember those america is reopening, and more than two thirds of americans are planning to travel this summer according to trip advisor. top destinations, well, cancun, orlando, and myrtle beach. last year's record low flight costs are turning around and fast and our travel guide's phil lebeau recommends to book soon where are prices and what are they like now? >> reporter: well, it depends on where you want to go and when you want to go, shep for a couple of comparisons thec check this out we checked on united if you booked it this weekend and going for a week the price round trip $332.

you want to go thanksgiving week, $942 then you have american airlines new york to cancun, they do a lot of flights down to cancun, next week $592 round trip. do that over new year's eve weekend it's going to cost you what $873. bottom line is this, shep, all of the flights for later this year they're not sold out but they're filling up very quickly and the fares are rising very quickly. >> makes sense what if you're headed to not really a classic summer vacation spot but likely to visit relatives in kansas city what about that? >> reporter: the fares are blowing up there as well not as much as for the hot spots, but on average they're going to go up 17% between now and the end of the year and compare that with the holidays last year, shep, that's up 30% regardless of where you're going the air fares are steadily moving higher. >> and hotel prices as well? >> hotel prices and more

impor importantly occupancy. plus for anybody looking for a hotel somewhere in november or december in the caribbean, it's tough to find a room right now they're not sold out but they're going quickly. people are reing you've got to book inned a vance and that's the message here, shep, book in advance. >> thank you, phil and there's queen liz beth the longest maning monarch in european history still in mourning and covid still with us. so many of her typical birthday traditions changed a bit this year sarah harmone reports from london >> reporter: the loneliest of birthdays for a monarch still in mourning her traditional gun salute canceled just days after she bid a final farewell to her husband

of 73 years. the queen reportedly marking her perthday with a quiet family lunch at windsor castle. traditionally the queen celebrates her real birthday april 21st privately this summer the palace is considering swapping the pomp and circumstance of troop and color for a more muted affair. after 73 years on the throne the queen is now in the twilight of her reign, raising new questions about the future of the royal firm amid a continental divide between her grandsons with prince harry pursuing a new life in california. polls show the queen is still the most popular royal by far, respected even by many who oppose the institution her 72-year-old son and heir, less popular his troubled relationship with diana depicted in season 4 of

"the crown." >> who are you referring to? >> camilla >> why would i care about her? >> because i care about her. >> we're going to be seeing changes in the next decade or so and i think particularly it does kind of add an element of risk to the succession. i do think it's going to possibly make people reconsider their views on the monarchy. >> reporter: tonight a subdued birthday for the queen as the royal family grapples with an uncertain future for the news, sarah harmone, london five olympic games, three gold medals and a bronze, pretty impressive résumé for any athlete. but the beach volleyball legend carrie walsh jennings isn't finished she wants to rule the sand one more time in tokyo and she has a plan european soccer in chaos it began with the swarming of what they dubbed the super

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volleyball superstar carey walsh jennings first played in an olympic match more than 20 years ago. and since then she's won four medals, three of them gold now at 42 she wants one more shot on the world's biggest stage. of course it won't be easy

here's nbc sports jimmy roberts. >> reporter: carey walsh jennings has qualified for the olympics five times and will have to do so again if she wants to compete in tokyo. with her new partner brook sweat, they've had both ups and downs. >> carey puts it away. >> after rio, you know, there's a parting of ways and in walks brook sweat who i was looking for. i end up with a bad girl i'm so excited we're getting better and better >> sweat, got it >> reporter: and time becomes a double-edged sword it provides opportunity for improvement but it grinds away at an athlete's physical abilities. if she makes it to tokyo walsh jennings will be the oldest beach volleyball player ever to take an olympic court.

the journey may be improbable, but this woman definitely has a plan >> i want to be the best i've ever been. i want to be physical. i want to outphysical the world. i want to outfinesse the world my soul is in this >> well, we're counting down to the summer olympics in tokyo 93 days, 4 minutes, and 5, 4, 3 seconds. you can watch aincluding the one i'll be hosting prime time here on cnbc. super, exhibiting the characteristics of its type to an extreme or excessive degree and that's where soccer's super league comes in. first came the news that 12 of the world's best soccer clubs were breaking away from the new league but like a free kick for messi or ronaldo the backlash over the

super league was super quick and super fierce so much so all six of the english soccer clubs involved quickly backed out some now begging for forgiveness. three italian clubs and one from spain followed suit within a span of 72 hours 10 of the 12 are out. and the plan is in tatters not too often the fans take on the will of the big business of sports even more rare they come out with a victory, but this time in soccer they did. miss the bar but not the bartender? a company in switzerland says it has the perfect solution for your next happy hour meet tamra barney the robotic bartender. here's how it works. you place orders on your phone then the giant screen tells you when it's ready. the company hoping it'll be a hit in places like hotels and bars looking to cut down human contact post-pandemic. the robot can even disinfect itself and apparently tells some very bad jokes

60 seconds left on a race to the finish just one day after the jury convicted derek chauvin, the justice department announced its launching a federal investigation of the minneapolis police department. the goal, see whether there's a deeper pattern of officers using excessive force aside from chauvin. president biden rolling out a tax credit for small and medium sized businesses that offers paid leave for employees to get a covid vaccine and the president set to host dozens of world leaders for a virtual summit on climate change tomorrow. and now you know the news of this wednesday, april 21st, 2021 i'm shepherd smith follow us on instagram and twitter @thenewsoncnbc

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