three people in a gold's 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 will deploy counterterrorism in the city out of abundance of caution. we will keep following this story all morning and bring you any new developments as they happen. let's go now to the white house and coronavirus with the white house aiming to distribute more than 2 million doses of covid-19 vaccine in the next week. that would be a new record in the u.s. fight to contain the coronavirus. states are expected to receive more than 16 million doses of the three approved vaccines. that is slightly higher than what they got last week. federally administered program such as mass vaccination sites and community health centers will receive most of those doses. the increase in supply comes as more states lift their eligibility criteria to receive vaccines. in an interview with fox news last night, former president trump encouraged his supporters to get a coronavirus vaccine. but added a caveat that everyone has the freedom to choose whether or not to do so. >> i would recommend it and i would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. but, you know, again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and i agree with that also. but it's a great vaccine. it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works. >> those new remarks come amid recent polling that shows half of all republican men and 47% of trump supporters say they would not get a vaccine if one was made available to them. now this. for the first time, president biden says he supports reforming the senate filibuster favoring a return to the chambers very old standard that could make it easy for his agenda to pass through the evenly split senate. >> i know you've been reluctant to to do away with the filibuster. aren't you having to choose between the filibuster and advancing your agenda? >> yes but here is the choice. i don't think you have to eliminate the filibuster. you have to do when i first got in the senate in the old days when you used to be around there. and that is that a filibuster, you had to stand up and command the floor and you had to keep talking along. you couldn't call for, you know -- no one could say, you know -- once you stop talking, you lost that and someone could move in and say i move the question of. so you got to work for the filibuster. >> you're for that reform and bringing back the talking filibuster? >> i am. that's what it was supposed to be. >> pretty significant shift for president biden who has, up to now, defending this the filibuster in its current form pretty intensely. and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is not backing down on this, issuing this warning, should democrats make changes to the filibuster. >> nobody serving in this chamber can even begin -- can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched earth senate would look like. this is an institution that requires unanimous consent to turn the lights on before noon. everything that democrat senates did and president bush and trump, everything the republican senate did to president obama, would be child's play, compared to the disaster that democrats would create for their own priorities if -- if they break the senate. >> but majority leader chuck schumer doesn't seem fazed by the threat. >> senator mcconnell is always looking for a diverse. he knows how popular arp is. he knows he and his whole caucus opposed it and that the american people, even republicans, we just surveyed in new york state, 55% of republicans are for th arp since it passed so he is always looking for a diversion. we democrats, all of us believe we need big, bold change. as i've said before, we hope our republican colleagues will work with us to produce that change. we will try to get them to work with us. but, if not, we will put our heads together and figure out how to go and everything is on the table. >> joining us now no one better than to talk about this than the cofounder of punch bowl news, john bresnan. great to see you. good morning. i want to talk about one of your tweets in a second. first, mcconnell on the floor saying i don't think you've imagined how bad things are going to be if you do this. it sure seems like mcconnell has begun to imagine such a scenario. >> you know, we asked him about that. he said, you know, i went up to him afterwards. i said was there a specific threat you were talking about? was there a specific issue? he said, no, we just want to make sure it's out there. but, you know, he is clearly sending a message to becomic leadership and clearly he is sending a message to democrats who are on fence about this joe manchin and dianne feinstein and others. he is going to bring hell if they, you know, if they change the filibuster, he is going to like he said, he is going to make it hard to turn on the lights in the place. he has a point. the senate works on unanimous consent. they have to get consent to everything. it's not like the house where the house runs everything through rules committee, the speaker runs things through the rules but not the same way in the senate. he's got a point. he could make it very difficult to do anything, to make committees meet, to bring to start the day. he could forge votes on anything. so, you know, his threat is not an idle one. >> so, john, for those viewers who, you know, i think you and i, obviously, spend a ton of time thinking about this. we fully understand. . when we say unanimous consent, it means any single one senator can stand up and stand in the way of things and refuse to turn the lights on, so to speak. everyone basically agreed we are not doing that and all 100 of us think that is a real pain and not do that any more. mcconnell is saying i'm giving up on that if you make this change. let's talk about what you tweeted last night which is -- it's a significant shift. he saying let's change and how the filibuster works because we have big important issues pending that we know republicans aren't voting for. do you think the change would make it more likely that his agenda will be passed? >> you know, it's not quite an accurate description of what the senate was like when he got there. they actually changed the rule the year before to allow silent fill a busters. mike mansfield from montana changed the rule to allow -- a talking filibuster, in some ways, would be worse. because a group of senators could hold the floor for weeks, and you couldn't do anything, you couldn't do nominations, you couldn't do any kind of business. you could do legislation. the idea behind the silent filibuster they saw as a reform in 1972 the senate can proceed on other business while there is a filibuster. if you have a talking filibuster. that is the business of the senate. nothing else moves. so that with the idea the time when they put it in, the silent filibuster, it was a reform. now, of course, it's abused. the president is right about that. when he first came to the senate that entire congress, there were 31 filibuster to move forward on a matter. last congress, there were 298. so, you know, he's got a point that senate is not working. something has got to change. but it may be a talking filibuster may not be the way to do it. >> yeah, right now, it's like you can send an email and hold up any one of the priorities but it's a good point that being able to send that email means the senate can still keep doing other stuff. i think bottom line, its look like we are heading toward another round of further disintegration of anything left of getting anything done. thank you for your deep expertise and long experience to this and helping us understand. thank you. we get an update on tiger woods condition following his rollover crash last month in los angeles. plus a new release at a intelligence report about foreign adversaries to interfere in the election. we will have a check of those stories when we come back. also your weather. also your weather. 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"the boston globe" is reporting he purchased. he owned 2% of the premier league champion liverpool football club. james and his long time business pattern murphy carter are the first black partners in fenway sports group history. loyola chicago is back in the ncaa tournament and sterp sister jean will be there too! the school confirmed the 101-year-old chaplain will watch her beloved ramblers in person for the first time on friday this season. she became a celebrity in 2018 while rooting on loyola in its surprising run to the final four. this year, she has her eighth seeded ramblers making the elite eight and top ranked gonzaga winning it all. return of march madness means another shot of the big payday from the company's billionaire ceo. warren buffett brought back his bracket challenge to the employee who correctly predicts the games. and the winner's prize will be doubled if final four includes creighton university which is based in buffett's hometown. omaha, nebraska. time now for the weather. let's go to meteorologist bill o'kern. >> my grandfather's great grandfather and his three brothers came over from ireland and name was o'kern. that is how i ended up with my last name. >> love it. >> a decent story. today is a dangerous weather days. we only get a couple of these every season. we are going to have tornadoes. we are going to have big tornadoes and severe weather and we will be fortunate to get through days like today without fatalities. it's a matter of where the tornadoes occur and how bad they are and who gets hit. right now, the storms are moving through texas. dallas is going to get hit with probably strong winds. the tornado outbreak portion of this forecast will be later on this afternoon. going through the overnight and all day tomorrow. it's very rare to get these high-risk days. that pink area is the area of greatest concern. that is the greatest chance of seeing tornadoes that could be strong and on the ground for a long time and during the overnight hours where we have a little bit of lead time. a big heads-up to all our friends from little rock to memphis and especially central mississippi and areas of alabama. we, unfortunately, tomorrow morning, at this time, will likely be talking about big tornadoes that did a lot of damage throughout the south. >> fingers crossed everyone stays safe down there. bill karins, thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow. ahead here, president biden's new comments about the harassment allegations against new york governor andrew cuomo. coming up on "morning joe," nancy pelosi will be joe m and mik's's guest. why are you awake on this st. patrick's day? 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