Skip to main content

tv   CNN Newsroom Live  CNN  April 25, 2021 11:00pm-12:00am PDT

11:00 pm
welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. thank you for joining me. i am robyn curnow. fully vaccinated americans could get a reward, one that would impact their summer travel plans. and then a new epicenter of the pandemic, with a number of cases skyrocketing. one movie dominates at the academy awards, and its director makes history.
11:01 pm
live from cnn center, this is cnn "newsroom" with robyn curnow. we begin with good news for americans dreaming of a european holiday after a year of restrictions, and fully vaccinated americans will be able to visit eu countries this summer. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, nearly 95 million people are fully vaccinated in the u.s., it's more than a quarter of the population and that travel is likely to bring a big financial boost to european economies suffering under the weight of travel bans. richard quest has more. >> the eu and the u.s. have been working on a deal for sometime, and now the europeans have accepted in principle, three vaccines that have been approved by the european regulator,
11:02 pm
there's no reason why citizens should not have unconditional access to the european union. there are logistical problems, that involves recognizing the vaccination certificates being used in the united states. the eu is moving towards a digital green pass whereas americans are being given little white cards. how to ensure the cards are valid and not forgeries at the border, that will be a big question. as for the united kingdom, the united kingdom is not a member of the european union, but it will be astonishing if the united kingdom did not have its own deal in place before long. the story is very different in india that just broke the global record for global cases
11:03 pm
for the fifth consecutive day. and the uk and the u.s. are sending supplies and support. the u.s. surgeon general explained why it's so crucial to help. >> it matters for several reasons, first and foremost because we are human beings and we should care about other human beings around the world, and second if there's uncontrolled spread of the virus in other parts of the world that means there's greater chances that variant will develop and may escape the protection of the vaccines we have in the united states, and that means the viruses, the mutant viruses and new variants could travel to the united states and cause real challenges here. >> and ana has a look at the ground. >> reporter: volunteers roll out canisters of oxygen to victims of covid desperate for air. but this is no hospital, it's a
11:04 pm
temple in a city on the outskirts of new delhi where aid workers are treating people in the back of cars since medical facilities are too overwhelmed to make over new patients. >> people who are dying in government hospitals, for them it is a great help. they are getting oxygen. it's a great help for the people struggling to breathe. >> it's life and death for some. conditions aren't much better inside hospitals, and in some places with two to three patients to a bed and little room for standing. outside another hospital, people are treated in cars and ambulances as they hope and wait to be admitted. the prime minister says the second wave of the virus has shaken the nation. the government deployed military trains that planes to bring in more oxygen from around the country and from overseas.
11:05 pm
the uk promising to send medical equipment and the eu and u.s. say they will help, too. but that's little comfort for those infected right now. for days india has the highest number of new cases in the world and forcing some people to turn to more immediate means to help loved ones. >> last night i purchased an oxygen cylinder on the black market and it's already empty. >> dwindling resources and a scramble to replenish them. until then the anguish of families trying to help the sick and dying is one thing in india there is too much of. anna cohen, cnn, hong kong. >> i want to get perspective on the situation in india from somebody working there. the doctor is a professor and head of epidemiology at the institute of the public health
11:06 pm
foundation in india, . what advice are you giving to hospitals and doctors? >> hi, the situation is very concerning. india, we did expect a second wave but not to the tune of these many cases, and it's more than 300,000 in few days, and we are seeing half a million cases in each year, and as the surgeon general of the u.s. rightly pointed out, this not only results in more deaths now, but there's new variants. the oxygen is dwindling -- yes, go ahead. >> you talked about a new variant and you are an epidemiologist, and how concerned are you this is being fueled by a new mutation and what information do you have
11:07 pm
that on? >> the antibody levels are nearly more than 50% in the first wave, they are also having a test positivity of more than 25%, which clearly means that any protection against the earlier variant is not really useful, because of the newer variant spreading faster. because so many people are getting infected faster there's a surge in the people requiring critical care, and that's one of the main reasons why critical care capacity is taking a big hit, and compared to very popular states -- >> even in places like deli. doctors and hospitals are sending sos messages, and people have to bring their own oxygen if they can find it. what stories are you being told by people that you are speaking to? >> these are mostly sad stories, and when i talk to some of my
11:08 pm
colleagues that work in the emergency department, they are very sad. they have to turn many patients away because they don't have beds. they don't have oxygen. as i said, this is mainly because the number of cases and the number of beds available simply do not match, even in the most prepared circumstances. >> as we are looking now at many of these patients lining up hoping to be treated, who is falling sick? is it a lot of young people, people with co-mormorbidities? >> what are you seeing? >> other people are affected more compared to the first wave, and the 0 to 10 years age group is higher than the first wave. >> children? >> yes, children less than 10-years-old also are infected.
11:09 pm
the highest mortality is still in the 70 years plus age group, which means we need to be protecting new delhi with critical care. >> one of the most devastating images besides what we are seeing now of people trying to get care and not being able to get it, is the amount of people dying, funeral parlors and cremations, and people having to keep bodies at home because they can't send their loved ones away with a good-bye because there are so many, as we can see from the images here, so many people dying. how is that impacting people and doctors as well? >> yeah, i think that of all the things that the country is undergoing is a major setback, because as i said before, although it was expected, even in the states that prepared well, we did not expect so many cases and so many death.
11:10 pm
i will give you an example of the state i am living in, it had prepared oxygenated bed, the cases here are nearly five times more, and burial grounds and i think the surge in cases and people are struggling to make new burial grounds, and new krae toreams. >> do you think this is the peak? if that's the case, then deaths will get worse and amplify over the coming weeks? >> i am afraid this is not the peak, robyn. the kind of data that we see, at least we are two to three weeks away from the peak. that's why at least i'm locating
11:11 pm
things necessary to reduce the illness in the cities, and mostly after two or three weeks it should start descending in terms of the medicals. >> thank you for all the work you are doing and all the doctors in india, thank you as well. i hope -- i hope you have strength to get through these next few weeks. we will talk again, doctor. thank you. >> thank you. now the tokyo 2020 olympic torch delay continued on sunday, and organizers say part of the relay will be taken off public roads due to covid concerns. japan is planning to rapmp up vaccinations as infections rise once more. >> the tokyo olympics are three months away but japan is far
11:12 pm
from ready. the prime minister has just declared another state of emergency in tokyo and other prefectures. japan may be one of the most technologically advanced countries on the planet, but it has struggled to roll out the covid-19 vaccine. japan is fully vaccinated, less than 1% of its 126 million people. the slowest of g7 countries. only 17% of health care workers received two shots, just 0.1% of seniors have had a single dose. >> do you think the olympics should be canceled? >> i think it's time to consider it. >> you had to predict when japan's population will fully be vaccinated. how long will it be? >> given the pace, it would take ten years or something. >> officials have blamed
11:13 pm
european export curbs for the delay, but poor planning and vaccine hesitancy has held the country back. a key reason is japan's slow approval process, and they require new clinicals of vaccines, and so far it only app approved pfizer's. a key lawmaker said vaccinations for people over 65, which only started this month, may not be finished until the end of this year or next. for japanese olympic hopefuls, the slow roll out is leading to mounting anxiety. 73-year-old is vying to be in her fifth olympic summer games a. competition she says she's risking her life for. i am prepared to die under these
11:14 pm
circumstances, she tells me, but i don't want to die of covid. the qualifiers for paralympics table tennis. >> i expressed my determination to realize that tokyo olympics and the paralympic games of global unity this summer, and the question is what kind of symbol t symbol olympics will be if japan is unable to protect its citizens. so there were some great moments and history was made at this year's academy awards. and "nomadland" won, and chloe
11:15 pm
zhao is the director. meantime the actress, regina king, started the show with a moving speech about george floyd and police brutality. >> i have to be honest, if things would have gone differently in minneapolis, i may have traded in my heels for marching boots. i know a lot of you people at home want to reach for your remote when you feel like hollywood is preaching to you, but as a mother of a black son i know the fear that so many live with and no amount of fame or fortune changes that. >> for more now on the history
11:16 pm
making at the oscars, i want to bring in will ripley. this was a big night for asian women. >> it is, and yet much of the audience here in asia was not able to watch the oscars, and they were not aired here in hong kong and i will get to the reasons for that. but a takeaway here, 23 of the statuettes handed out for movies released exclusively on streaming services, and you talked about no m"nomad land." the has tag oscar has been censor
11:17 pm
censored, and chloe zhao was criticized because she said there were lies everywhere. people here in kong hong and the mainland did not get to see it. and then the first korean actress -- that's not her, that's chloe zhao. now, there she is. she's a big star in south korea, and this film is actually about the journey of south korean immigrants that made their way to the united states in the 1980s, and it was a tough road she showed in her film and it's a tough time for a lot of asupbz in the united states. we spoke earlier about the black lives matter movement. there was a hate crimes bill that was just passed last week to fight violence against asian-americans that was passed almost unanimously in the u.s. senate, and they have these
11:18 pm
films and diversity at a time of such important cultural issues, and it's sad frankly, so many millions of people here in asia did not get to see this on the oscars. >> just reporting it like we are doing is even being blacked out, which is astonishing. much to be celebrated despite that. we'll be right back after this quick break. you're watching cnn. stick with us. kraft. for the win win. (vo) conventional thinking doesn't disrupt the statatus quo. which is why t-mobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help your business realize new possibilities. only one 5g partner offers unmatched network,upport, and value-without antrade offs. uthfully, it's frustrating to see how fast dust reappears. pain. bua
11:19 pm
and dealing with a bul vacuum.. . is such a hassle. uchhh!!! so now we use our swiffer sweeper and dusters. the fluffy fibers? they pick up dust easily. grabbing it in all those hard-to-reach places. gotcha!!! and for our floors, sweeper's textured cloths lock all kinds of dirt, dust and pet hair. unlike my vacuum, it sneaks under and around places. look at that!! dust free and hassle free. stop cleaning and start swiffering. many plug-ins are stuck in the past. they release a lot of scent at first but after a while, you barely know they're working. new febreze fade defy plug works differently. it's the first plug-in with built-in technology to digitally control how much scent is released to smell 1st day fresh for 50 days.
11:20 pm
it even tells you when it's ready to be refilled. upgrade to febreze fade defy plug. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association.
11:21 pm
you can framebridge just about anything. and we have. uncle murray's medals. a lucky pencil. man with peach. words of wisdom. a million custom framed pieces and counting. you can framebridge just about anything. as a repairman, i hear a lot of folks say they feel like they have to arinse off dirty dishes likees these and counting. before loading them in the dish washer. but new cascade platinum changes all that. new cascade platinum, with 50% more cleaning power! it dissolves fast to start cleaning sooner, releasing the soaking power of dawn. then cascade's food-seeking enzymes latch on and break down food into particles so small
11:22 pm
they can flow right down the drain. and it's powerful enough for the quick-wash cycle! new cascade platinum with 50% more cleaning power! the #1 brand just got better! suspended the country's health minister and the governor of baghdad, it comes at least after 82 people were killed in a massive fire at a hospital treating covid patients. officials believe it started when oxygen tanks exploded. i want to go straight to istanbul where arwa damon is standing by. what more do we know? this death toll seems to have gone up. >> it's gutting, robyn, it's absolutely gutting, and those who managed to survive this can barely even begin to come to terms with it.
11:23 pm
those moves by the government, they mean nothing to the vast majority of the iraqi population. the person filming cries out in horror. this is the sound of another blast from within the inferno. a woman screams. it's the infectious disease hospital filled with covid-19 patients and their family members. this man was inside caring for his mother, urging her to try and eat something. i couldn't save her, he sobs. we tried to evacuate my mom, but once we reached the door we were blown away by one of the blasts, he remembers. the pain still so raw, so incomprehensible. he's at the baghdad morgue waiting for her charred remains,
11:24 pm
and along with others whose loved ones were burnt beyond recognition. his father's emotions seeps. when tragedy happens, government officials give bogus reasons, and they try to justify their devilish ways. people start to run, and somebody, it looks like a patient, an elderly man is pulled out. the flames appear to be getting larger. a man arrives with a handheld fire extinguisher, but with no fireproofing it was not enough. that blast led to a series of others. the fire alarm was faulty. it was half an hour before the civil defense says it got a call. by the time they responded, so many were dead. so many were wounded. residents in the area had taken it upon themselves to try and
11:25 pm
help, breaking through windows to save those inside. back in february we filmed at this hospital in the intensive care unit, and we spoke to doctors and family members about peoples' reluctance to come to hospitals and about the lack of faith in their health care systems, and then nonstop war and rampant corruption. this, this is what all that has led to. he just stares at his hands, cut up from breaking glass to let in air. his mother and aunt perished inside, nobody could save them. tragically, iraq has a way of delivering the unimaginable, and with it unimaginable pain. robyn, what makes this especially bitter is that it could have been avoided.
11:26 pm
these people did not need to suffer like this. those that died that horrific death did not need to die like that, and it goes to the systemic problems that exist in iraq today. >> so with that in mind, the prime minister suspended the health minister and the governor of baghdad. will that appease the anger in baghdad? >> highly unlikely at this stage. many iraqis will feel as if the government is looking to try and scapegoat certain officials, or to just point the blame at somebody else when, in fact, this really is, as i was saying, one of the core issues that is plaguing iraq today. this systemic entrenched corruption, mismanagement of funding. people really fail to understand how it is that their oil-rich country is incapable of
11:27 pm
providing basic services like electricity to the entire population and on top of all of that, incapable, it would seem, of bringing its medical infrastructure up to an acceptable standard, because this is hardly anything new. yes, this one incident is especially horrific, but people for years now have been complaining about the lack of medical infrastructure. this has been a known problem, like so many of the other known problems, but the issue is that no matter who ends up being in power in iraq, the vast majority of the population will tell you that their government is not prioritizing the welfare of the people, and that needs to change, robyn, and that's not going to change with these current moves by the iraqi government, even if they do end up finding specific individuals
11:28 pm
culpable. >> thanks for the update there. arwa damon live in instanbul. ♪let's make lots of money♪ ♪you've got the brawn♪ ♪i've got the brains♪ ♪let's make lots of♪ ♪uh uh uh♪ ♪oohhh there's a lot of opportunities♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate click or call to switch today. honestly, i thought i was getting my floors cleaned. allstate then i learned, my mop could be loaded with bacteria. that means i gotta clean my mop too? ugh. so i got a swiffer wetjet to get a cleaner, clean! i stick on a fresh pad. boom! it's ready to go. the spray breaks down dirt. and the pad absorbs it deep inside.
11:29 pm
unlike my mop that can spread it around. and wetjet's even safe on wood! all this? buh-bye. it's so simple! i get a cleaner clean every day. try wejet with a money back guarantee. you can framebridge just about anything. and we have. spacemen. the top of kilimanjaro. a portrait of the artist. jojo. a million custom framed pieces and counting. you can framebridge just about anything. if a natural disaster shows up at franci frances m e
11:30 pm
and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana.
11:31 pm
welcome back to cnn. i am robyn curnow. it's 31 minutes past the hour, live from atlanta. police barriers at the center in
11:32 pm
jerusalem came down. what is the situation right now? >> reporter: robyn, i am standing outside in a plaza, and this is the main entrance for muslim worshippers to enter the old city, and it's calm right now but that has not been the case since the beginning of ramadan. palestinians have been protesting the erection of barricades, and a popular place for young people at night during ramadan. they have thrown rocks and glass bottles, and the stench of foul smelling water, the stench that remains in the plaza to this
11:33 pm
day. hundreds of palestinians cheered when the barricades came down. those tensions also have spread down south to gaza where over the course of the last three days, more than 40 rockets have been fired by gaza militants into israel, including five last night. the israeli army says they have responded with air strikes and s closed the fishing zones near gaza as well, and authorities are hoping the removal of the barricades here last night will bring calm back to the city, because jerusalem has been calm for the last few years, but they have been seeing the highest level of tensions the city has seen for sometime. >> good to see you. thank you so much. keep us posted on that. coming up on cnn "newsroom,"
11:34 pm
leaders in southeast asia reach an agreement on ending the violent military crackdown in myanmar. hey also get our best d. everyone. gets. the e deals. questions? got it. but,t, why did you usea permanent marker? because i want to make sure you remember. i am going to get a new whiteboard. it's not complicated. only at&t gives new & existing customers the same great deals on all smartphones. get up to $800 off our latest 5g smartphones. truthfully, it's frustrating to see how fast dust reappears. but dusting with a cloth is a pain. and dealing with a bulky vacuum.. . is such a hassle. uchhh! so now we use our swiffer sweer and dusters. the fluffy fibers? they pick up dust eily. grabbingt in all those hard-to-reach places. gotcha!!! and for our floors, sweeper's texted cloths lock all kinds of dirt, dust and pet hair.
11:35 pm
unlike my vacuum, it sneaks under and around places. look at that!! dust free and hassle free. stop cleaning and start swiffering. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association.
11:36 pm
11:37 pm
expected to appear in the coming hours, and meanwhile the leader attended the summit this weekend, his first international appearance since the coup, and the violent crack downs on protesters must come to an end. what is interesting here, locally -- regional leaders did not ask him to be returned to power. it seems like there's been an agreement that this coup is
11:38 pm
okay, or is that not correct? >> robyn, that's certainly the way many activist within meyanmr are seeing it, and the fact that they did not call the leader to be released, the president of the democratically elected government, and that's one source of criticism for what he did agree to. we did start from a prime minister speaking to reporters after the meeting saying they had not specifically said that the military had to stop violence because the leader of the coup in the face of the bloody crackdown believes it's the protesters causing the violence, which we know not to be the case. what they said was the five points would be ending violence,
11:39 pm
constructive dialogue and an envoy and that envoy would have access to myanmar and the acceptance of aid, and there's a glaring admission there was no insistence the protesters and leaders be released. there was criticism from many activist that he was invited, and they are accepting him as the current leader of mayanmar. they were not invited, some of the ousted leaders, and did not have a seat at the table which has come under heavy criticism as well, and this is the first step of trying to end the violence whether or not it makes any difference whatsoever on the
11:40 pm
ground, as of now we are not seeing any indication the crackdown has ended. >> paula, thanks so much for that update. indonesia is officially pronouncing the 53 crew members onboard of the missing vessel as dead, and it was found two miles from the last known location in the bally straight. it was at a depth at which the crew could not survive. thank you very much for spending part of your day with me. i am robyn curnow. if you are an international viewer, "world sport" is next. if you are joining us from the u.s. or in canada, stay here for more news. we'll be right back. don't go away.
11:41 pm
11:42 pm
biden: when i think about climate change, the word i think of is jobs. vo: and these aren't just the jobs of tomorrow. they're the jobs of right now. good paying jobs to mernize our infrastructure. manufacturing. construction. engineering. they're in our cits... in our suburbs... and our smaltowns... we take on climatehange... and we build back better with clean energy jobs. biden: so let's waste any more time, let's get to work. you'd never want leftover onion residue or any food residue on any of your surfaces. but that's what you could be doing if you're cleaning with a used dishcloth, even after you've rinsed it. so, switch to a fresh sheet of bounty for a more hygienic clean. unlike used dishcloths that can carry and redistribute residue, bounty keeps your surfaces cleaner. because better hygiene begins with bounty. bounty, the quicker picker upper.
11:43 pm
i'm not hungry! you're having one more bite! no! one more bite! ♪ kraft. for the win win. charmin ultra soft has so much cushiony softness, it's hard for your family to remember they can use less. sweet pillows of softness! this is soft! holy charmin! oh! excuse me! roll it back, everybody! sorry! charmin ultra soft is so cushiony soft, you'll want more! but it's so absorbent, you can use less. so it's always worth it. now, what did we learn about using less? you've got to, roll it back everybody! we all go, why not enjoy the go with charmin. (vo) conventional thinking doesn't disrupt the status quo. which is why t-mobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help your business realize new possibilities. only one 5g partner offers unmatched network, support, and value-without any trade offs.
11:44 pm
if a natural disaster shows up at your doorstep... ...you can't just turn it away. that's why it's important to prepare for emergencies before they show up. go to ready.gov/plan to find the tools and tips you need... ...and make a plan today.
11:45 pm
protesters marched in los angeles on sunday demanding justice in the wake of several police killings in the u.s. activist say the guilty verdict in the disgraced former police officer derek chauvin is a good start but that much more police reform is needed. there were calls for defunding and abolishing the police, and overall everybody was united in keeping the desired fight for
11:46 pm
justice. and minnesota attorney general, keith ellison, spoke with "60 minutes" a short time ago. here are the details. >> reporter: like many black americans across america, attorney keith ellison experienced disappointment. he was the lead prosecutor in the trial of derek chauvin. he revealed in a "60 minutes" interview on sunday he had doubts about this case. >> was there ever a time that you thought you could lose this case? >> i was never convinced we would win this case until we heard the verdicts of guilty. i remember what happened in the rodney king case when i was a pretty young man, a young lawyer, and i remember how devastated i felt when the jury acquitted those officers. whenever an officer is charged with an offense, and particularly when a victim is a person of color, it's just rare that there's any accountability.
11:47 pm
so there was every moment of this case, i thought what are we missing? what haven't we done? >> ellison assembled the team, some of the prosecutors working on a volunteer basis, and the video that shows george floyd pleading for his life, and on that video ellison says at least 27 times floyd said he could not breathe. ellison also said during that "60 minutes" interview, he and his team had to act as if they didn't have any video. >> when you first heard the word "guilty," you thought what? >> gratitude. humility followed by a certain sense of -- i'll say satisfaction. it's what we were aiming for the whole time. i spent 16 years as a criminal
11:48 pm
defense lawyer, so i will admit i feel a little bad for the defendant. i think he deserved to be convicted but he's a human being. >> somehow i did not expect to hear from you a note of compassion for derek chauvin. >> i'm not in any way wavering from my responsibility, but i hope we never forget that people who are defendants in our criminal justice system, that they are human beings, they are people. i mean, george floyd was a human being. i am not going to ever for get everybody in this process is a person. >> meanwhile i was not surprised by ellison's compassion, it speaks to his character and it's a cornerstone of his faith. chauvin is scheduled for sentencing in mid june. cnn, minneapolis. the family of a black man shot and killed by deputies last week in north carolina may have
11:49 pm
a chance to watch that body cam footage on monday. that's what their attorney tells cnn. a few details have been released in the shooting of the 42-year-old andrew brown jr. in elizabeth city. officers were trying to serve him with an arrest warrant at the time. the sheriff says he plans to file a court motion to get the footage released to the public. there's disturbing new body cam footage and emergency audio of a shooting of an unarmed black man in virginia. the deputy had given him a ride home, and then a 911 call ended in the black man being shot nine times by the same deputy. he mistook brown's phone for a gun. >> are you holding your hands up? put your hands up.
11:50 pm
>> she me your hands now! she me or hands! drop the gun! drop the gun now! stop! [ sound of gunshots ] >> he just shot him. >> show me your hands! >> the virginia state police confirm that brown was unarmed at the time of the shooting. his family says he was shot ten times and remains in serious condition. after more than a year of the covid pandemic, america's health care workers are running on empty. a new poll from the washington post and kaiser family foundation lays out troubling signs. have a look at this. roughly 3 in 10 health care workers say they weighed leaving the profession, and 8 out of 10
11:51 pm
says stress from the pandemic has harmed their mental health. to talk about that i want to bring in a out patient psychiatrist and the founder of the physician support line. thank you for joining us. what kind of pressure are frontline health care workers under at the moment? >> frontline workers, nurses, phys physicians, everybody on the front lines of covid as well as in the clinics and out patient settings are all under a tremendous amount of pressure being called heroes, and being expected to kind of fight a battle or a war that they felt like they never were adequately prepared for. even a year out from the start of the pandemic, it feels very much like a never ending trauma. >> how is that being exhibited
11:52 pm
there? >> so as part of the physicians support line we take a lot of calls from physicians that are experiencing whether we want to call it burnout or moral injury about the work they are doing, and the experience is very jarring. we will have calls -- we had a call from an icu physician, an intensive care physician who just got off of doing a back-to-back 24 to 48-hour shift. he had to cover for somebody that couldn't make it because they got sick. he just got off that shift and called us from the drive home from the hospital still feeling kind of the affects of the mask that he was wearing throughout his very long shift, and as he's talking to us about how he can't process all the trauma and death that he witnessed in his last shift, he pauses and there's a catch in his breath and we asked
11:53 pm
him what are you seeing? he's talking about that he's seeing people not wearing mask, people who are hanging out and people who are having -- acting like everything is normal, and it's very jarring and very disheartening and it's hard for people to work like that, to know that everything they are giving is, you know, it's -- it feels very isolating. >> so how -- how are they going to get through the next year of this? do you think there's a huge amount of people who are deciding that they just don't want to be a doctor anymore, they don't want to be a nurse, that the personal and mental risk -- we're not even talking about getting covid, but it's just too much for them? >> yes, there's definitely what we call -- as a psychiatrist, we call it an escape fantasy where
11:54 pm
it's just i can't do this anymore, and i don't feel attached to what i'm doing anymore, and i don't feel purpose in my work, and it's very alarming for physicians and health care workers, because it's not easy to become either of these things. it requires a lot of training, and many years and a lot of dedication and experience to be able to do this work, and so having them leave like this, or even think about leaving like that is something that our system cannot afford. >> what is the overriding emotion, the feeling you are getting from the doctors and nurses who are calling into your help line, and the ones that you counsel? is it anger or is it sadness, or is it just sort of a chronic burnout that you would perhaps see with soldiers coming back from war, a ptsd situation?
11:55 pm
>> it's an interesting combination of all of those things that actually manifest as betrayal. something that we often hear from soldiers as well as health care workers from this past year is i didn't sign up for this, this was not part of what i was hoping to do as being a public servant, you know. with soldiers there's a very different kind of hope or purpose of why they are participating in a war-time effort, and for doctors and for people in health care, it's the same thing. we know there's inherent risk in the work we are doing, but to go in inadequately prepared and feeling that we are left to do it on our own is incredibly betraying. >> doctor, thank you very much for all the work you are doing, and please pass our thanks on to
11:56 pm
all of these human beings -- not heroes -- that are doing so much hard work on the front lines. thank you. >> thank you, robyn. nasa's ingenuity helicopter is setting records on its third week on mars going further and faster than before. the camera shot black and white images that could help with aerial scouting in future missions. the flight was captured by cameras on the perseverance rover. it will likely fly again in the next few days. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @robyncurnow. thank you for watching.
11:57 pm
(vo) we live in a world of fees. airlines, hotels, food delivery, and d especially car dealers all charge excessive, last-mininute fees. when you want something babadly enough, it feels like your only choice is to pay up. but what if you had a choioice to take a stand instead? at carvavana, we believe in treating you better. with zero hidden fees, you can drive off without feeling ripped off. that's what it means to live feelessly. [ crowd cheering ] [ engine revving ] [ race light countdown ] ♪ ♪ when you save money with allstate you feel like you're winning. safe drivers save 40% saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate. click or call for a quote today.
11:58 pm
the first survivor of alzheimer's disease saving is easy when you're in good hands. is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association.
11:59 pm
12:00 am
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn "newsroom." i am rosemary church. just ahead, after more than a year-long hiatus, some americans might be able to add europe to their summer travel plans. countries step up to offer desperately needed supplies. history is made in hollywood. a woman of color wins best

86 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on