Welcome to the Sunday edition of CNN Five Things. I'm David Rhine.

Imagine this. You're walking down the street or taking the bus or the train.

You're minding your own business, you're going about your day,

passing by people in the city that you always pass by.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, someone starts yelling at you,

or violently punching you, or in one particular case in New York City

attacks you on the head with a hammer just because of how you look.

This is the fear many Asian Americans and especially Asian American women say they deal with every single day

And many say that fear has only grown in recent weeks after a number of violent attacks in multiple cities.

So over the next two weeks we're going to dig into this in a special two-part series.

We're going to look at what's sparking these incidents, how they are igniting a conversation around public safety,

and examine why they are so rarely labeled as a hate crime.

We're going to kick things off this week with CNN's Natasha Chen, she's a national correspondent for us based in Los Angeles.

Hi, Natasha.

Hi, Natasha.

And I wanted to talk to you because you've been following up on a story

you covered last year that I think really put this issue of AAPI hate in the national spotlight, the Atlanta

area spa shootings. You might remember this, eight people were killed in those attacks and six were

women of Asian descent.

So Natasha, what has this last year been like

for the families of those victims?

All right, so I'm gonna do ideal as well.

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