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and that should make it easier for schools to meet the requirements. president biden will leave for atlanta, georgia. the president will be visiting the cdc just after this new guidance came out. theres a live look at joint base andrews. they say that they are about to hit the vaccination goal of 100 million doses a day. they will do it today, i should say, the original plan was for the president and vice president to promote that package. but the shooting changed those plans. now th...

of massachusetts and utah and they did a study looking at half a million kids in massachusetts comparing students three and six feet apart. there are a lot of caveats. in areas of high transmission, they want to keep the high school and junior high school at six feet apart. lets say where there is a choir or singing, you want to increase that. the most important part to mention about these guidelines -- it depends on a lot of things. first of all, the amount of ventilation in a classro...

after six women of asian descent were among eight people killed in a rampage at three spas in the atlanta area. joining me now nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett in atlanta, nbc news correspondent dr. john torres and heidi presblea. tell us more about the visit to the cdc and the vice president and presidents visit meeting with asian-american leaders this hour. >> the visit to the cdc officials told us that was the president and vice presidents opportunity to get a briefi...

thats it for me. mike will be here at the top of the hour with more news. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. millions of readers all over the world are drawn to fiction that explores our fears. horror sells, and no—one does it better or more prolifically than my guest today, stephen king. hes written more than 60 books, sold close to 400 million copies. he is the master manipulator of dark places and the paranormal. if youre not...

racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers -- sees these locationings as something that allows him to go to these places. it was a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. >> now on the one hand, is the analysis as simple as the sheriff makes it? again a certainty here is just what happened, just this pointless loss of life for so many and so many families affected within the asian and american community, is certainly fueling widespread fears in the asia...

in washington today the arrest of a 31-year-old texas man outside the naval observatory of the official residence of vice president harris. a rifle ask ammunition were recovered from his vehicle. he has been charged with several accounts. among them carrying possession of unregistered munition and large munition fueling device. the secret service says the secret service operators detained him. vice president harris wasnt there and a bulletin originated in the state of texas. the news c...

here in new york and we begin this morning with the shootings in atlanta. a terrifying escalation of the anti-asian violence seen throughout the country and a reminder of the threat of violence women live with daily. robert aaron long charged with murder after he confessed to killing eight people, six asian women. >> authorities say long a 21-year-old white man told detectives he would go to massage parlours in the past, he blamed his sexual addiction. the cherokee county sheriff sugge...

potentially another covid search. as more states open up, as air travel numbers open up and hit records since the start of the pandemic, the cdc is warning new variants could wipe out all the progress weve made recently if we let our guard down. but first, we begin with our colleague natasha chen. she joins us in georgia. good morning. there is new surveillance video from close to one of the scenes of those murders. what can you tell us this morning? >> yeah, poppy, it was actually tho...

stereotypes in this attack. this isnt just a local story either. this speaks to the fear of asian americans nationwide and how they have been targeted especially since the start of the pandemic. weve just learned that the president and the vice president will be traveling to atlanta tomorrow. they will be meeting with asian american leaders when they are there. lets start with natasha chen, she is joining us from cherokee county, georgia with the very latest. if we could just start wit...

this just kind of acknowledging the reality of having kids in school that you cant actually space them six feet and get them all in a classroom? >> hi, brianna, thanks for having me on. i think its a little bit of both. ive looked at this research and it does seem that the spacing doesnt need to be as far as six feet in order to keep the children safe, and so thats one of the factors involved in the cdc changing its guidelines. the other factor is exactly what you said. there is a push...