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come to the u.s. amid the growing crisis of children at the border. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, we have reports this morning from seoul, the pentagon, capitol hill and rome. this is "early start," im christine romans. >> and im laura jarrett. its wednesday, march 17th, its 5:00 a.m. in new york and we start this morning with the big breaking news. a suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in shootings at three massage parlours in the a...

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...

>> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." erica hill is with me this morning. developing overnight, security increased in cities across the country. new concerns of anti-asian crime after a deadly murder spree near atlanta targeting the massage parlors. at least eight people killed. according to the "atlanta journal constitution," six of them were asian women. >> a suspect, 26-y...

country as police investigate what may have motivated these murders. anti-asian attacks and hate crimes have been rising sharply since the pandemic hit. lets get the latest from ryan young live this morning in atlanta. good morning. >> good morning. eight people killed. thats a number that so many people are astonished by. we know police were able to use surveillance video which tied all these scenes together. its an investigation that still is ongoing. a shooting rampage at three spas...

investigators say robert aaron long gunned down people in a spa in cherokee county. investigators say long travelled less than an hour south to atlanta and shot and killed two more people at massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriffs department said long is talking to investigators and telling them a sexual addiction drove him to violence. >> its still early but the indicators right now are it may not be, it may be targets of opportunity. again, were -- we...

he considers a sex addiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places and its a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. >> you heard him, a temptation he wanted to eliminate. but the atlanta mayor is praising police for acting so quickly because they say this could have been so much worse. the suspect indicated that he was heading down to florida perhaps to carry out similar crimes. we have much more on that. other top stories this afternoon...

were that to happen. governor cuomo moments ago attempted some rank revisionism on what biden said. >> if you -- if you committed a crime, you can be prosecuted. thats true, but what president biden said was we should do an investigation. the question to president biden starts with do you think the governor should resign, or do you think there should be a review first? and the president said there should be a review. >> thats not what happened. heres what president biden told abc news ...

ethnically motivated violent extremists promoting white supremacy are, quote, the most lethal threats right now here in the united states. lets start our coverage this hour in atlanta. our national correspondent ryan young is joining us. ryan this,s new information emerging now about the suspects in these terrible killings. translator: i want to show you something here, wolf. this growing memorial has been building here in atlanta, a city thats known as being too busy to hate, but ri...

chen is joining us. natasha, i understand were learning more about the shooting and the suspect, the suspected gunman, whats the latest? >> reporter: yes, wolf, in the last few hours, authorities have charged the suspect with four counts of murder in cherokee county, along with one count of aggravated assault, and then here in fulton county, also four counts of murder, and that is because, as you say, a total of eight people died, one person injured, across three spas. at the same time...

three people in a golds spa. then we are told he walked across the street and kill another woman at another spa. his car is shown at all three crime scenes. he was arrested driving south about 150 miles from atlanta. officials say 6 of the 8 victims appear to be asian and police are investigating the possibility that the attacks were racially motivated. this comes amid an increase in attacks on the asian community since the coronavirus pandemic. the new york police department says it w...