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u.s.-mexico border looking for asylum in the united states. breaking, the biden administration officially out with new rules for travelers from china. we re live at the white house with the details developing as we speak. i m hallie jackson in washington. joining me now is msnbc correspondent shomari stone at bwi airport, mike memoli is with the president in saint kroi in the virgin islands. some people have canceled vacation plans altogether. what are the airlines saying. talk us through that piece of it. reporter: right now people are trying to get answers. they re understandably frustrated and they re waiting in line here this line has grown over the last hour and they re trying to get more answers right over there. people can rebook their flights if it was within 30 days of the original travel date. people can also go on the southwest website and try and get a refund. i tell you, that s just not the problem with all the cancellations. look over here. look at a ....
When you have a situation with one airline in particular, or will the administration try to come up with additional ways, calling for additional transparency, posting more information on their own websites to bring this outside pressure where they re lacking in their own enforcement abilities. let s get to more breaking news out of the white house. in the last couple minutes you have the administration putting in place new restrictions on travel from china. they re going to start requiring a negative covid test before you leave china for anybody flying from there to the u.s. starting january 5th. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent josh lederman and dr. vin gupta, a pulmonologist and global policy health expert. josh, this is driven by the spike in covid cases as china has relaxed covid restrictions, and by concerns of the emergence of a potential new variant here, right? reporter: that s right. one other thing, hallie. ....
To promote covid-19 vaccines to their fans. it could be adding to what the white house says has been a steady increase in the number of people getting their first shots of the vaccine in just the last month. today the country announced that 70% of adults have had at least one shot of the covid vaccine. let s bring in dr. gupta, policy health expert and affiliate assistant professor of health metrics sciences at the university of washington. charlie sykes is still here. dr. gupta, this feels like when people have anxiety about the delta variant frustration that their fellow citizens who are unvaccinated are bringing about this new surge, this seems like a big flashing good news banner that vaccinations are way up again. good afternoon, nicolle. it is. and i think this is part of a really smart, comprehensive strategy by the white house to ....