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congresswoman told my colleague stephanie ruhle what happened in atlanta is a day that we saw coming. two senior administration officials are telling nbc news president biden and vice president harris will be meeting with asian american community leaders when they visit atlanta, georgia, tomorrow. in washington, the house just did something we dont see very often when it comes to major legislation. it passed a bill with pretty broad bipartisan support. we are talking about the viol...

authorities say they are not ruling out that this was possibly a hate crime. president biden has ordered all federal flags to be flown at half staff in honor of the victims, and he will head to georgia tomorrow. and as the president said, as vice president harris said, as atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms said, whatever the motivation here, the fact is attacks on asian americans are on the rise. people are rightfully scared and we need to do more to combat that bigotry and violence ...

eight people killed in shootings at three spas in metro atlanta. one suspect is in custody. cnn is live from the scene. president biden visiting a place in pennsylvania in part of his tour to promote the nearly $2 trillion relief that didnt get a single republican vote. also tonight, president trump including americans including supporters to get vaccinated. that as medical experts fear states are easing up their covid-19 restrictions too fast as a highly contagious variant of the viru...

eight people are dead and one suspect is in custody after shootings at three metro area massage parlors. four of the victims are of korean ethnicity. >> we heard numerous gunshots coming from across the street. >> police are investigating the theory that all the cases are connected. average new covid case counts are rising in as many states as they are falling. >> we are just starting to turn the corner and where this goes depends on us protecting ourselves and others. >> were asking...

today, police departments across this country are taking steps to make sure the asian communities remain safe. its a busy hour on the hill. the governments top doctors are making a house call. they are testifying as we speak. in a few moments, the cdc directors stark warning about one of the covid variants ripping across the country. right now, the secretary of homeland security is testifying before a house committee. his message so far about the increase of migrants crossing our s...

motive. >> we have received a number of calls about is this a hate crime. we are still early in this investigation. we cannot make that determination at this moment. >> the georgia shootings do follow a wave of unprovoked attacks across the country of people of asian descent. president biden has just been briefed. vice president kamala harris also addressing the terrible shootings. >> we dont know, we are not yet clear about the motives. i want to say to our asian communities we stand ...

supply kicks in. this is happening as new infections and hospitalizations fall and evidence grows from a recent may skbrjor study in isr prevents the spread of infection, not just illness. >> weve always believed that theyre having that effect. we didnt know the full magnitude of that benefit but all of the evidence coming out suggests that the impact on the reduction and transmission could be quite strong and if thats the case, the vaccine creates what we call dead end host meaning pe...

president biden traveling to pennsylvania tomorrow as part of his administrations week-long tour to introduce americans to his nearly $2 trillion rescue plan saying his goal is to get 100 million vaccine doses in peoples arms and 100 million relief checks in peoples pockets. checks began arriving over the weekend. the president also announcing that gene sperling, a former top economic official in the clinton and obama administrations will oversee the massive spending in the new law. so...

determine whether its coronavirus vaccine is safe for infants and young children. this is so important. its important for school. its important for getting and keeping the country back to normal. the first participants have already been vaccinated. the plan is to ultimately enroll nearly 7,000 children in the u.s. and canada between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old. >> also the white house drawing up plans to increase the supply of vaccines to emerging hot spots. the vaccination r...

that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. were also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why arent they charged with murder? well have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but theyre spiking over in europe, leading to tighter...