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the el paso border sector. the biden administration still getting hit over a lack of transparency. sandra: to the new york post covered today showing migrants of the border with the headline divide and said help. and a rise in crime. john: but first let s get to griff jenkins, he s on the border in sunland park new mexico. chris, you ve been doing some amazing work. that s what the dhs and biden administration doesn t want you to see, and that s access as to what writer lungs are like. and that s, that s where we were with senator rob portman of ohio. he is the homeland security committee and he s getting a tour from the national border patrol council. that s the union, and we encountered a lot of traffic here. this is the wall area where we were, and i ve been talking to him. and you can see that stretches for miles, that s one of the heaviest traffic areas of the el paso sector, and alexander mallorca s is making it visit and being a tight-lipped about it. d ....
sunset monday to mark the massacre. he and vice president harris will be in atlanta tomorrow to meet with leaders of the city s asian-american community. earlier today atlanta police insisted the investigation is far from over. we are not done. we re still working very diligently to ascertain all of the facts so we can have a successful prosecution. the investigation into a possible hate crime, is that still on the table? nothing is off the table for our investigation. is there any indication the suspect visited those spas previously? it appears he may have frequented those locations, yes. all we do know is he purchased the gun on the day of the incident. on that same line the fbi is assisting local law enforcement with the investigation. this was interesting. tonight the fbi director chris wray told npr, quote, it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated. the suspect who s charged with eight counts of murder waived an arraignment scheduled for ....
stereotypes in this attack. this isn t 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. we ve 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. let s start with natasha chen, she is joining us from cherokee county, georgia with the very latest. if we could just start with the latest on the case. why was this first court appearance canceled? reporter: yeah, we talked to the magistrate court clerk this morning and she said that the appearance was canceled at the request of the defendant s attorney and would not share any contact information for that attorney. right now we don t know when it will be rescheduled. and at this point, he is still being held in the cherokee county custody, this is one of two counties where he now faces a total of eight murde ....
supply kicks in. this is happening as new infections and hospitalizations fall and evidence grows from a recent may skbrjor study in isr prevents the spread of infection, not just illness. we ve always believed that they re having that effect. we didn t know the full magnitude of that benefit but all of the evidence coming out suggests that the impact on the reduction and transmission could be quite strong and if that s the case, the vaccine creates what we call dead end host meaning people will no longer be able to transmit the infection. so more people than ever getting shots that appear to be more beneficial the closer you look, the kind of breakthrough we ve all been hoping for. why is it in a poll 47% of 2020 trump voters and 49% of republican men say they would not take the vaccine when it becomes available to them. remember, the former president launched the effort to speed up the testing and production of it and demanded national gratitude for the speedy del ....
47% of trump supporters. dr. fauci this weekend practically pleading with trump who is vaccinated in secret at the white house in january to urge his supporters to get the shot. watch. how much of a difference will it make if president trump leads a campaign for the people who are most devoted to him to actually go out and get the vaccine? chris, i think it would make all the difference in the world. he is a very widely popular person among republicans. if he came out and said go and get vaccinated, it is really important for your health, the health of your family and the health of the country it seems absolutely inevitable that the vast majority of people who are his close followers would listen to him. i m surprised at the high percentage of republicans who say they don t want to be vaccinated. i don t understand where that s coming from. this is not a political issue. this is a public health issue. the divide is also playing out on the floor of the house of rep ....