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CARL AZUZ: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, back in action for CNN 10.
The reason we were off the air Monday
is explained in just a few minutes.
But first, as we like to say in news,
we are 2 and 1/2 weeks from the start of the 2022
winter Olympic games.
They're taking place in the Chinese capital of Beijing
and they'll make that city the first
to have hosted both the summer and Winter Games.
Almost 3,000 international athletes are expected.
No fans from other countries are allowed.
And China announced Monday that tickets won't even
be sold to the Chinese public.
Instead, the Beijing organizing committee
says people who meet China's COVID requirements will
be able to attend by invitation only.
The rule was made shortly after China
confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
It's highly contagious but less severe
overall than other forms of the disease.
China has a zero tolerance approach to COVID though.
The nation is quick to lock down cities
and block travel if a single COVID case is identified.
So this strict policy in conjunction with the Olympics
bring some unique challenges to the nation.
Organizers say they're holding the games
in a closed loop system.
Only people participating in the events
will be allowed at hotels, competition
sites, and official transportation vehicles.
They can't have any contact with the general public.
They don't have to be vaccinated to be part of the Olympics.
But those who aren't have to quarantine
in Beijing for 21 days before they
are allowed to move around.
And anyone who tests positive for the disease
will be put in isolation and prevented from participating
in the games in any way.
DAVID CULVER: Omicron breaching Beijing's borders.
A single case putting the Winter Olympics
host city on high alert.
China's zero COVID policy making no exceptions.
In the capital city targeted lock downs
immediately activated along with strict contact tracing.
Chinese health officials publicize
the infected persons recent travel history
starting with their home.
We drove by the Beijing community
where the woman diagnosed with Omicron lives.
Remember health authorities say all of this sparked by just
one case, at least for now.
Oh, here we go.
You can see here this is one of the entrances and exits.
It's gated off.
They put these big blue barriers to keep
folks from going in and out.
The woman's neighbors allowed some fresh air
but confined to the complex.
Their trash piling up waiting for specially designated
disposal teams to truck it out.
Many nearby businesses closed.
The woman lives a 15 minute drive from the Olympic Park.
Not only where she lives that health authorities have it
locked down but also where the woman
works, which happens to be in a bank inside this building.
So out front you can see they've got these blue tents set up
where a lot of times they'll do testing
and processing before they can finally declare
it safe enough to reopen.
But if you think it's just a bunch of empty offices,
look closer.
COVID control staff carding in big boxes, inside them,
can you read that, pillows, bedding.
People have actually been locked down at work.
And these supplies might make their stay
a bit more comfortable for what could be days of testing.
Omicron not only in Beijing, cases also surfacing
and several other Chinese cities including Shanghai.
Social media showing snap lock downs
trapping shoppers at one store.
Sounds extreme, but most online voicing their support for
the strict containment efforts.
Less than three weeks until the Olympics and recent outbreaks
had 20 million people sealed in their homes.
Others bussed to centralized quarantine.
State media showing these makeshift encampments
built within days.
Mass testing is a constant.
Back in Beijing I hopped in line for my regularly
scheduled COVID test.
Test number 97 done.
But if you think the heavy measures have brought life
here to a halt, most who are not traveling might say otherwise.
On Sunday crowds flocking to this popular Beijing
Lake, frozen just in time for the Winter Games.
David Culver, CNN, Beijing.
CARL AZUZ: Since 1986, the third Monday in January
has been observed as a Federal holiday in America.
It had been signed into law three years earlier
in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Although several states and cities
had been holding holidays of their own
for years before that.
The American Baptist minister advocated for and participated
in peaceful protests to achieve civil rights
for African-Americans.
The marches parades and events held on Monday
honored his legacy.
The Federal holiday is considered a day of service.
Though many Americans don't have to work on Martin Luther King
Day, they're encouraged to volunteer in community
improvement projects.
Last year some members of the Harvard Diversity Project
shared some memorable and influential passages
of Dr. King's speeches.
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- Even though we face the difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
We cannot walk alone and as we walk,
we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot look back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights
when will you be satisfied?
No, no, no, we are not satisfied,
and we will not be satisfied until justice
rolls down like water and righteousness
like a mighty stream.
- How long will it take?
Somebody is asking, how long will prejudice
blind the vision of men?
However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour,
it will not be long, because truth crushed to Earth
will rise again.
How long?
Not long.
Because mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling up the vintage where the grapes of wrath
are stored.
He has loosed the faithful lightening
up his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.
O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him.
Be jubilant my feet.
Our God is marching on.
- Somewhere we must come to realize
that human progress never rolls in on the wheel
of inevitability.
It comes through the tireless effort and the persistent work
of dedicated individuals who are willing to be
co-workers with God.
And without this hard work, time itself
becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.
And so we must always help time and realize that the time
is always right to do right.
- We mean business now and we're determined
to gain our rightful place in God's world,
and that's all this whole thing is about.
We aren't engaging in negative protests
or any negative arguments with anybody.
We are saying we're determined to be men.
We're determined to be people.
We are saying, we are saying we are God's children.
And now we are God's children, we don't have to live
like we are forced to live.
Let us rise up tonight with the greater readiness.
Let us stand with the greater determination.
And let us move on in these powerful days.
These days of challenge to make America What it ought to be.
We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
- I have a dream that one day this nation
will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia
the sons of former slaves, and the sons of former slave owners
will be able to sit down together
at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day Mississippi, a state sweltering
with the heat of injustice, sweltering
with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis
of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they are not
judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
- And when we allow freedom to ring.
- When we let it ring from every village and every Hamlet.
- From every state and every city.
- We will be able to speed up the day
when all of God's children.
- Black men and white men.
- Jews and Gentiles.
- Protestants and Catholics.
- Will be able to join hands and to sing in the words
of the old Negro spirits.
- Free at last.
Free at last.
ALL: Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
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CARL AZUZ: From a distance this might have looked
like a piece of plastic floating in Australia's
Great Barrier Reef.
It was that bright.
But when the Marine biologists who is snorkeling in the area
approached it, she realized the animal
was a rare blanket octopus.
So rare it's believed this species has only
been seen three times before.
It's about the size of a walnut and some of its eight arms
are short and hidden in its blanket or cape.
To call this observance a first might
be a bit of Cape Flattery.
But if you are off the Cape Coast
and on the Cape Lookout for Cape Coral or anything else you
Cape May find.
Why not blow your Cape Horn to show
there's nothing to Cape Fear but that there's Cape of Good Hope
that you captured a rare species before you
bid the Cape farewell.
It's like an escape on your own Cape caper.
I'm Cape Carl Azuz.
Fredericksburg High School gets today's shout out.
It's great to see our viewers in Fredericksburg,
Texas commenting on our YouTube channel.
Hope to see you tomorrow.