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down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and th ....
lots to cover. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, former fbi special agent in charge and jim cavanaugh and georgia state representative. great to have all three of you with us. what do we know about the victims and how did law enforcement catch and identify the suspect so quickly? well, ayman, it really is a painful day here in atlanta in the wake of this massive shooting spree. we know eight people were killed. six of the victims were of asian descent. one person was also injured. this took place in about an hour or so yesterday around the 5:00 hour. initially, the first shooting location was in the cherokee county area of georgia, about 45 minutes from where we are right now. officials have just released some of the victims names. they include delaina ashley yaun, 33 years old, paul andre michels, 54, xiaojie yan, 49 and daoyuo feng, 44. they range in age from 54 to 33. how were they able to capture the suspect so quickly? apparently his parents alerted offi ....
hiring. they are not stopping there. as if we were not spending enough already, plans are underway for a new deal-style infrastructure plan costing trillions of dollars and then they will try to pass it without a single republican vote. but ultimately, [inaudible] maria: of course, hr one, a sweeping election reform law making mail-in ballots the standard and do away with need an i.d. to vote. this will fundamentally change the way this country votes and solidify power for the democrats. it has already passed in the house, but it is due in the senate unless democrats vote to end the filibuster. progressives want to get rid of that as well. rather than protecting the balanced system, today s filibuster throws the system out of balance giving one half of one branch of government what amounts to veto. it promotes gridlock, not good governance. maria: it is amazing how the definition of good governance changes in just three short years. this was him in 2018. th ....
to take covid patients, it by demand we take covid patients the patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn t have otherwise died had we screen them out. murphy officials countered by saying that there were guidelines for separating covid positive patients. the long-term care administrator reportedly said the problem of course is there s no separating safely. it s almost certain that even though you have staff only on that unit, something will migrate. we have learned from recent reporting that michigan governor gretchen whitmer s office didn t force nursing homes to take covid positive patients but instead offered financial incentives. new york s governor andrew cuomo and his administration issued a directive telling nursing homes not to turn away covid positive patients and then allegedly covered up the number of deaths of nursing home or long-term care residents. pennsylvania governor tom wolf also reportedly guided covid positive patients back into nursing homes ....
there is more evidence that the uk variant is spread something widely in the u.s. beaches are full with few masks in sight. there won t reach immunity until people get shots. in a new cbc poll, a third of republicans say they would not get vaccinated while another 20% said they were not sure. yesterday president biden asked for help i discussed it with my team and they said things that would have more impact than anything trump would say the to the maga folks, would be what the local doctors say. today on morning joe, dr. fauci said he has not had contact to the former president. i have not reached out directly to him. but i do it so many ways indirectly including the conversation you and i are having right now about what the importance is of getting the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated. joining me now is kristen welker and jonathan. what is the president s strategy? he is heading to delaware county. those five counties around philadelphia ....