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i can t stress this enough, this is an ongoing investigation in the early stages. more information will come out, in conjunction with the attorney general s office as the lead prosecutor. we can t share all of our information right now and i m sure you understand that. i m going to give out two numbers that go to a tip line. 911 is also appropriate for this, but if anyone can call these two numbers, this would go to the state police tip line. area code 207-213-9526. 207-509-9002. and we ll be sending something out later that has that information in it, if you weren t able to grab that now. again this is a very fluid situation, we have a lot of resources as chief st. pierre had mentioned earlier that are on the ground, in a coordinated effort to apprehend this individual. we have notified the department of education, and they have determined what they re going to do with the schools. a lot of schools, area schools were shut down today based on our conversation with them. ....
is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden will soon be on his way here to atlanta, georgia, just days after eight people were killed in a shooting rampage at a local spas, six of them were asian women. biden was supposed to promote his huge coronavirus relief package, but will now instead offer his support to the community. he will be meeting with the mayor as well as state officials and asian-american leaders. vice president kamala harris who is a black asian-american is also on the trip. police say it s too soon to tell if the shootings were racially motivated about you that doesn t mean this had nothing to do with race as cnn s amara walker reports. our investigation is looking at everything, so nothing is off the table. reporter: as investigators take a hard look into what motivated the suspect to go on a mass shooting spree in the atlanta area that left eight dead including six asian women, comments and actions from the captain of the cherokee county sherif ....
welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. the u.s. will cross 100 million vaccine shots since joe biden s inaug inauguration. that s 42 days ahead of the biden pledge. the u.s. is averaging 2.5 million coronavirus vaccines a day with 35% of americans partially or fully vaccinated. now, there are plenty of folks that noted that 100 million was a very low bar to begin with, but if you do the math going forward, at the pace we re going, we ll cross 200 million vaccinations within the first 100 days, and honestly, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone that optimistic. but and this is hugely important there is concern this morning the u.s. may be on the verge of a new surge. the drop in hospitalizations, i want you to look at that graph. you can see it was going down steeply for weeks and weeks and weeks, but that decline has stopped. it s completely stalled right now. hospitalizations static and may be ticking up ....
december before we were sworn in to an average of 2.5 million shots a day. when he took office, they were almost at 1 million shots a day, we should note. right now, 12% of the population is fully vaccinated. experts estimate we need that number to be 70 to 85% in order for the u.s. to achieve something like herd immunity. the president is also still standing by his promise of enough vaccine supply for every american adult by the end of may. those life-saving vaccines could not come soon enough. progress in bringing down coronavirus cases are stalling. more states in the u.s. are seeing cases on the rise right now than a decline in new infections. and president biden is warning against dangerous variants of the virus. also today, some major news that could likely mean more children in classrooms sooner. an official tells cnn that the cdc is expected to update its guidance for physical distancing in schools tomorrow, changing the guidelines from six feet of distancing ....
suspect says he has an issue with sex addiction. authorities said long was apprehended last night after a brief manhunt. appears he was en route to florida at the time, possibly to carry out additional shootings. when we hear president biden address this incident, he ll be speaking at a virtual meeting with what is a tradition in this country on st. patrick s day, ireland s prime minister. they ll be commemorating st. patrick s day. normally, this event is inside the white house. for covid reasons and travel restrictions, it is not being done this way, nor was it done that way last year. nbc s chief white house correspondent kristen welker is standing by, awaiting remarks from president biden. todd winter is covering this, as well. blayne alexander is in atlanta. kristen, this is a mostly ceremonial event with the irish prime minister. what do we expect to hear from the president? reporter: well, i think we can expect to hear him address the shooting off of the top of ....