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 three different crime scenes and all of which unfolded in the span of an hour and two happened in spas that are literally feet away from each other. you see behind me the gold spa and just across the street the aromatherapy spa and the first shooting was 45 minutes north of atlanta in an area for cherokee county and that's where four people were killed and around the time investigators were working on that shooting, officials in atlanta got a call for one shooting and as they were working on that they got called for shots fired just across the street and three different crime scenes we're looking at right now. officials believe all three are connected and they have made an arrest. a 21-year-old man from georgia, he was apprehended without incident and back in police custody in cherokee county and what we don't know right now, the biggest question is a motive. officials are not labelling this a hate crime, but they're not ruling it out. they're looking into all possibilities and questions about what could have motivated this. i will say when those shots fired reports first came in in atlanta, one of the calls that went out over police scanner traffic we heard via broadcast when you heard officers talk to each other on scanner traffic they were urging everybody e essentially looking at any other asian spas because they were noticing the pattern when it came to shows shootings. we are expecting some sort of a briefing from law enforcement. there are two different police jurisdictions involved and we know that the fbi field office is also assisting and looking at this investigation so we're hoping to find out the names of the victims today. we don't know the names of the eight people who lost their lives and officials say six of them are asian women so we are hoping to find out more about them today. one final note to throw in there, stephanie. president biden has been briefed on this and he has been in touch with the atlanta mayor's office and the president and vice president were already planning a trip here on friday to tout covid relief and that will take a new tone in light of these shootings, stephanie. >> thank you so much. i have to dig deeper into this. let's bring in cedric alexander in dekalb county, georgia. he was also part of president obama's 21st century policing task force and john yang is executive director of aaac, asian-americans advancing justice. chief, i want to start with you. how do you go about determining if this was a hate crime or not. initially one of these shootings was characterized as a possible robbery in progress. >> well, in all likelihood if we consider the space that we're in in this country right now, if we look at the number of statistics of hate crimes that have been committed against asian-americans in this country since march of last year come is well over 3800 and those were the ones that were reported, i think that somehow we can reasonably draw some assumptions that these are going to be hate crimes and we have to -- and we as a nation, all of us in communities across this country are now going to have to try to get in front of this and help our asian-american brothers and sisters feel safer than what they have been in light of this pandemic and many, many, and it is not true and it's a horrific statement and what happened in atlanta was horrific and the other assaults in passive and aggressive types of behaviors that have been directed at asian-americans in this country has to stop. >> john, how much does it matter whether this is definitively called a hate crime. i would imagine if you're an asian american living in atlanta right now you're completely scared no matter what. >> you are absolutely right. there is obviously a lot that we don't know about this incident, but what we do know is clear that the asian-american community, not only in atlanta, but nationwide right now is in fear and in anger and in pain. what we need to remember are the victims and their families at this moment, but also think about how we can support the asian-american community to make sure they feel protected during this time. the police chief is right. many of these incidents are not necessarily crimes, but what we are seeing throughout this country right now is the pandemic of a racist virus against the community and this is a virus that has to be addressed. >> what about when they lead to crime. we saw the number out yesterday. 3800 reports of hate incidents against asian-americans over the last year and yes, the vast majority are verbal harassment or shunning, but how worried are you that we are going to push into the greater rise in violence like what we saw yesterday. >> i think that that is pretty much clear to us, that it's certainly hitting in the wrong direction and then when we have an event that occurred yesterday as what we saw in metro atlanta, it is very frightening to all of us and we have to pay attention to the data and we have to get in front of this. what you're beginning to see is that police chiefs and organizations across this country are connecting with the asian-american communities. they're making sure that they feel safe and they have an outlet and an open communication with them to come forward and passive behaviors and oftentimes these passive microaggressions toward asian-americans because of this pandemic that we're in will sometimes, oftentimes and the data even points out that it could lead to much more violence such as what we saw. >> john, i know it's not a sound bite answer, but what do you see as the solution? >> it requires a few things. it require awareness, it requires a response and a solution. we are all engaging together. we are all fighting racism together and there needs to be much greater awareness of these issues and there must be greater education. part of the problem is asian-americans are seen as perpetual foreigners and what are seen as the model minority. we need to break down these stereotypes and break down this notion that asian-americans are somehow to be feared or to be hated and to bring us together as a community and to address all these issues together. >> john, chief, thank you both for being here this morning. we wish you were here with better news. now we will turn to the coronavirus pandemic with the white house aiming to distribute more than 22 million doses of vaccines in the next week that would be a new record. the increase in supply comes as more states lift their eligibility criteria to receive the vaccines and that includes the state of mississippi where now everyone 16 and older can get vaccinated. it is only the second state to do so besides alaska. i want to go live to allison barber in mississippi. allison, are they expanding vaccine eligibility because they are doing such a good job getting it to the most vulnerable people or because not enough people actually want to get them? >> reporter: >>ed short answer from the mississippi department of health is that they have to get as many vaccinated as possible and they feel comfortable especially with those who are at risk and most likely to die because of covid-19. about 60% of people living in this state who are over the age of 75 have gotten at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine. this is, as you said, just the second state to make this decision to expand eligibility to all of their residents 16 and above. alaska did it first, but when you look at the numbers it is a different situation in alaska than it is here. in alaska according to the nbc news tracker, they have vaccinated 18% of their population and that's not one dose and that's fully vaccinated and 18% of their population. the number of fully vaccinated here in mississippi is about 11% of the people that live in this state and now anyone who wants to get a shot they can get it. for 16 and 17-year-olds they're able to get the pfizer vaccine and for anyone above the age of 18 they can get whatever vaccine available to them. we had the opportunity to tag along with a 17-year-old as she went to get her pfizer vaccine here in brandon, mississippi, and i asked her why she wanted to do this. here's what she said. >> it's been really hard just to be a teenager and just be a kid. the relationship with my grandmother -- grandmother, both of them has just been strained. time is precious with them, so just not being able to hug them or see them, it's just -- it's difficult. >> at a press conference yesterday i asked mississippi's health officials about the numbers they see and if they feel confident that they've done enough to get at-risk people in this state vaccinated and be that seniors or front line workers or people with pre-existing conditions and mississippi's state health director said that there's always more that they can do, but he argued it is the right time to expand eligibility and i'm quoting here. mississippi has geographic availability and we need to tap that demand where it is so that we can reach maximum impact as quickly as possible. stephanie? >> allison, thank you. new this morning president biden trying to tackle what has become this growing challenge to defeating the coronavirus pandemic. skeptics who have access to the vaccine, but don't want to take it. we have the best people here to talk about this. we've actually looked at recent polls and they show one out of two men who voted for president trump say they're not going to get the vaccine and about one in four members of the house of representatives, they had first access to this thing. they have not been vaccinated, and i want to share president biden weighing in on that earlier this morning. >> i honest to god thought that once we guaranteed we had enough vaccine for everybody things would start to calm down. well, they have calmed down a great deal, but i just don't understand this sort of macho thing about i'm not going to get the vaccine. i have a right as an american. my freedom to not do it. well, why don't you be a patriot? protect other people. >> cnbc reports the biden team is now ready to shell out big bucks to tackle this branding, this convincing problem, spending $1 billion, a billion dollars to shore up public opinion. joining us to discuss is dr. ashish jha and the best selling author and i want to start with cnbc's kayla tausche. everybody knows that it is directly linked to the health crisis. why does the biden team have to pay a billion dollars for this pr advertising? why doesn't every business realize this is you on public service to get our health and economy back and do all of this for free? >> stephanie, even if all those companies were willing to do it for free the reality is that the biden administration only has a limited number of opportunities to secure any funding from congress and so in the american rescue plan they received a billion dollars for the centers for disease control and prevention for what they're calling vaccine confidence activities. the money doesn't expire. it's available until the cdc spends it all and it's not limited to a certain subset of activities and it could be for anything from paid programming on tv advertising, direct mailers or hiring people within some of these local communities which the administrations had said it's key to turning public opinion and getting the skeptics to believe in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. perhaps these are people who need to take a backseat from their day job to go door to door to talk to these people and can't afford to go without a paycheck and a lot of companies have felt they've made sacrifices with the unpredicibility and the biden administration has this money available for a rainy day if it needs it. let's go with the members of the house of representatives. these same people who aren't being vaccinated voted against the american rescue plan. these are the same people that want to open everything up and let it rip. what is the argument to not be vaccinated? do you want to open business? you have to be healthy. >> there's a whole litany of arguments as to why they haven't gotten the vaccine and many say they've gotten the coronavirus and therefore they have antibodies and they don't want to take the shot away from know some else. others are saying they don't want to jump the line in front of their constituents and still others are still consulting with their doctors, but stephanie, as we learn more about the vaccine a lot of them are falling by the wayside and for instance, as these variants crop up we don't know for certain how antibodies for one strain of covid stand up against these new variants and as allison was just reporting open up eligibility to their entire populations and perhaps these lawmakers don't have a problem about jumping in line with their constituents. by and large, the members of congress who haven't gotten the vaccine largely mirrors the american population who has not gotten the vaccine and perhaps as one shifts, so the other will, too. >> scott, you know better and marketing better than i did. yesterday on fox news said he would recommend the vaccine and is that going to be enough to get every one of two republican men who said they wouldn't? >> think the most inspiring moment in terms of actual vaccinations when dolly parton got hers live on tv. probably the most important one is not that president trump not that he got it quietly. young people, people of color and conservatives and the most hardened cohort right now is conservatives and the spokesperson they on look to is president trump. so president trump's legacy were to be in any way repaired this is the time for him to be very loud about getting a vaccine. the most important spokesperson here is the person that 85 million people turned out for and who these hardened conservatives look to and that's the former president. >> what about business, that is one business that has done extraordinarily well throughout this pandemic as we've all stayed home. could they take a role here? 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there are a couple of problems with people not getting vaccinated. if we can get to 90% vaccination in the country then we're at great shape, but if we end up at 60% or 70% that's a large pool of people and we'll see outbreaks still. we're going to see them more concentrated in certain communities and they're going to be sources of infection for everybody else and obviously just for themselves. so we've got to, like, given how horrible this pandemic is. i'm still struck by the idea that there are some people not ready to put it behind us. the best way to put it behind sus to get everybody vaccinated. >> dr. jha, scott, kayla, thank you very much. >> homeland security secretarial jand ro mayorkas set to testify about the southern border. two people join us to tell us how bad it actually is. sdproo later, a hearing focused on inequality putting amazon in the spotlight. we'll talk about how the online giant is choosing winners and losers across the country. g win losers across the 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>> hello, steve. > it's good to see you, to hear you. the numbers are going up. we are so many families, moms with kids and children under the age of 6. so our center looks like a kindergarten with so many families and every day the numbers seem to be increasing, you know? >> but many of these children who are coming, they're being separated from their parents or they're being sent here alone? >> no, not at all. what is happening and as you just said in your -- is that the border is closed and everybody has been sent back, but the thing is that children under the age of 6 are not allowed to go back into mexico. so any family that has a child age 6 or under are being released to us and so this is what we are seeing right now. any unaccompanied children are not being sent back either because they need to protect the child. they're by themselves and there's a process to follow to make sure that child is safe and that underaged child. >> you have been doing this work for a long time. how does what you are seeing right now compare to 2017 when we did have child separation or even before that? this problem didn't start in the last administration. it's been a problem for a long time. >> that's right. that's right, stephanie. we have seen this spike of people coming at all times in the past. it's not something now that we have seen. it's not because of this new administration. it's because people need to come because of the situation they faced before. the important thing right now is that i see that this administration is trying to do their best to make sure they respond correctly to these families in a way that it needs to be done, humanely, and i think they're making an extra effort to do that. >> what are you hearing from the migrants that you speak to. what do you believe is behind this sudden surge? >> we always see this surge. no matter where the president is good or the president is bad or whatever is happening here. unfortunately, traffickers use whatever they can to encourage to make money out of these families and exploit them. the families need to get them out of their country and unless we address the root causes of why they come. the problem is not the border and it's back home. i think that in the past that has not really been addressed so that if we do that maybe we will see a stop to so many families coming to our country. >> then in your mind, what is the best path forward to focus on the problems in the northern triangle and low pressure those countries. >> i think it's a start. i think that what i've heard so far from this new administration is that they want to do that. i think they need all of our collaboration and work to make sure that happens because it is fair that we must address why these families come. families should not be forced to leave their country and be scared for their lives. i think that definitely has to be a number one priority. >> sister norma, thank you so much for joining me this morning and thank you for all that you do. >> thank you, stephanie. >> i want to bring in former republican congressman from texas, will herd, his former district stretched from the border. president biden and alejandro mayorkas sent the same message. don't come now. we need more time. what's your reaction? >> that's still somewhat ambiguous. what they should be saying is we will not tolerate illegal immigration ask what i wish they would say, i am going to announce a special representative to the northern triangle to finally address some of the root causes causing some of the push factors, and we know what the causes have been for the last decade or so. that's poverty, violence and a lack of economic opportunity. if we had a special representative for the northern triangle they can start working on a marshal plan for that region. that special representative should also be working with our intelligence services to make sure that we're dismantling these cartel human smugglers who are profiting on these individuals and they're making a lot of money. this is big business and we're doing -- the intelligence communities make this an intelligence priority to address this problem. and we need to make sure that local communities on the ground that are dealing with this crisis have the resources that they need to deal with this. these are small communities that have been dealing with the global pandemic for a year. we're still recovering from the storm that hit texas where we saw a loss of power and water for several days. we are still dealing with that issue, and then we also have to remember when we have children in our custody, we should treat them like our children. we don't have the resources for the volume that are coming over. this is a complex problem, but the problems haven't changed in the last couple of years and multiple administrations and multiple congresses have addressed this, oh, and by the way, let's fix and streamline legal immigration so that if people will come be productive members of society they can do it in the legal way and that starts by applying back home. >> congressman, i think you just explained why former is in front of the word congressman. i'm guessing you don't agree with this. 40 former congress members that biden's suspension of trump's border wall funding and its construction was unlawful. they say biden doing this is what fueled the crisis. i'm guessing you say absolutely not. >> well, that letter would have been nice when president trump tried to take money away from our military bases and va facilities and put it in a different place that wasn't appropriated by congress. so part of the reason there's a frustration by the public towards washington and to our elected officials is video and the audio doesn't always match what people say and what people do are two very different things. border security is important. we should be using technology. we should be increasing the pay of border patrol. we see now what border patrol has to do. they're having to take care of kids. they're having to also chase bad people. there are folks most recently that are on the terrorist watch list trying to come into our border and they need technology and they need to have a smart wall to make sure everything that's coming back and forth across our border. unfortunately, this is an issue that both sides of the aisle have tried to use as a political bludgeon rather than trying to fix the issue and the democrats will try to push through immigration legislation where there are plenty of republicans that are willing to work on this issue, but they want to continue to use this as a political bludgeon. it's unfortunate. we're not trying to solve the problem because this is a humanitarian crisis. >> it requires a lot of long-term solutions and many that you just laid out, but given the hurdles for those long-term solutions issue right now to get this short-term crisis under control, what do you think the best strategy is? >> the best strategy is i hope president biden and i was hoping when he was talking with george stephanopoulos he would have said we will announce someone who will work and be there on the ground. we also need to make sure that in el salvador, guatemala and honduras, these things called welcome centers and these were locations that all of the resources that the local governments were and we stand those back up because this is a way that we're going to be able to expatriate folks back to their home country. it was back in 2017, this is one way that families get reunited with families back home where they're from and they have a better chance of connecting unaccompanied children with family members than what we do here in the united states. so i think that's something that immediately needs to happen. >> congressman, you just made a lot of sense. you better check your phone. they may be call young to do that job. congressman will herd, thank you for joining us this morning. coming up next, a newly unclassified report said that russia used trump associates to try to interfere in the 2020 election, but they weren't the only ones. we'll have that report next. hat. needles. essential for pine trees, but maybe not for people with certain inflammatory conditions. because there are options. like an “unjection™”. xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests. tell your doctor if you've had hepatitis b or c, have flu-like symptoms, or are prone to infections. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra may increase risk of death. tears in the stomach or intestines and serious allergic reactions have happened. needles. fine for some things. but for you, there's a pill that may provide symptom relief. ask your doctor about the pill first prescribed for ra more than seven years ago. xeljanz. an “unjection™”. at visionworks, we want you to feel safe more than seven years ago. and we want you to see yourself in your new glasses and think, "ooh!" but if you get home and your "ooh" is more of a "hmm..." you have 100 days to change your mind. that's the visionworks difference. visionworks. see the difference. ♪ for decades, most bladder leak pads were similar. until always discreet changed that. by inventing a revolutionary pad, that's incredibly thin. because it protects differently. with two rapiddry layers that overlap, where you need it most. for strong protection, that's always discreet. it's time to question your protection. it's time for always discreet. if you smell gas, you're too close. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. if you see wires down, treat them all as if they're hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. turn up the volume for this one. the u.s. intelligence community says russian president vladimir putin was behind a series of efforts to try to help donald trump and hurt joe biden in the run-up to the 2020 election, that included pushing an it i-biden smear campaigns through the u.s. media and trump's own people. ken delaney has been looking into this for us. ken, what is in this report? >> steph, there are really two takeaways from this intelligence rum see and the first is something that we did not know which is that china did not interfere in the 2020 election and the reason that's important is because many senior officials and the trump government told us last fall that china was interfering, that china was, in fact, the biggest threat. you remember the director of national intelligence john radcliffe said that and robert o'brien, the national security adviser and president trump himself. they all said china was interfering. while china has a massive influence campaign to try to sway u.s. policy in beijing's direction, it decided not to try to influence the outcome of the 2020 election because it figured that no matter who won, policy in the u.s. was taking a turn against china and we've certainly seen that with the biden administration. the second conclusion was something that we knew a little about, but this provides much more detail. yes, we knew russia was interfering and a massive influence campaign led by vladimir putin and this report goes into remarkable detail about how this russian influence campaign essentially made pawns of people in the right-wing media and people close to donald trump by feeding them propaganda about alleged corruption by joe biden and his son in ukraine and getting them to repeat it on documentaries and programs and through president trump himself and one figure was andrii derkach feeding information to rudy giuliani and this report which was prepared mostly by the trump administration by career officials makes no bones about the fact that these trump aides were repeating russian propaganda directed by vladimir putin. >> so what are the consequences? 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is there a gap we're not accounting for? ? that's a very good point and that's exactly what amazon would say and amazon which i spoke to at length for the book will say look, these jobs at the warehouse are better than nothing, right? that that had been wiped clean off of the peninsula outside baltimore and there was nothing until it was reborn now as a logistics hub, but there's still a real -- such a strong -- where work has transformed in this country that the working class jobs and the entry-level working-class jobs that large numbers of people used to rely on was once one kind of work and now there's another kind of work and one of the key differences between those kinds of work is the fact that the manufacturing jobs were so heavily unionized and that's the reason. >> we don't have much time, but that's what i would love for you to help us understand that those factory jobs were unionized because right now we live in a free market. if amazon workers don't like where they're getting paid, theoretically, they can go work somewhere else. amazon has wiped out those other places to work because they're so big and successful so potential workers have no power because there are no other jobs. is the only answer to unionize otherwise amazon will forever control what the labor force can get paid given their size. >> there are two main answers. one is the other big fight we're about to have in washington which is around monopoly and antitrust and breaking up these giants, but for the workers right now the big fight is the organizing fight and that's why the stakes in bessemer and alabama are so enormous. the way that those working-class jobs at the mill nor muss. the way those working class jobs became better pay and more benefits was through organizing. and it will be interesting to see whether the warehouse jobs can follow on that same historic cycle. >> yes, these big companies can pay people so little and do so little to protect them because americans are in desperate situations. but should they. thank you so much, i appreciate you joining us. coming up next, it minneapolis and the trial of the former police officer accused killing george floyd by seven jurors already seated are being requestioned by the judge. e #1 d moisturizer delivers 2x the hydration for supple, bouncy skin. neutrogena®. i'm a verizon engineer, part of the team that built 5g right. the only one from america's most reliable network. we designed our 5g to make the things you do every day, better. with 5g nationwide, millions of people can now work, listen, and stream in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities where people can use massive capacity, we have ultra wideband. the fastest 5g in the world. this is the 5g that's built for you. this is 5g built right. only from verizon. are you packed yet? 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