there is now a full-court press to abolish the legislative filibuster in the united states senate. they want to blow through the norms of his country and they want to bypass what the founders envisioned. brian: straight to a fox news alert. but first this, a man arrested after eight people killed in a string of shootings in atlanta spas. police say the shootings happened last night at three different massage parlors and all in the span of one hour. ainsley: police tracked down the suspect, he s 21 years old and his name is robert long. they tracked them down through surveillance footage capturing his car near each of these crime scenes, lawrence. lawrence: police say he was arrested after taking office on a car chase that ended in a crash. police are investigating the motive for the shooting and we will continue to follow this story with new developments throughout the morning. brian: meanwhile, good morning everyone. happy st. patrick s day. ainsley: lawrence, look at lawr
per day in the last week. just over 19,500 people are in hospital with covid, and there were another 270 deaths of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. on average in the past week, there were 267 deaths per day. 0verall, over151,000 people have now died. 0n vaccinations, 90.5% of those eligble have had a first dose, with 83.2% having had two jabs. on average, in the last week, over 160,000 people have had a booster injection, which means that 62.9% of the population aged 12 or over have now had three jabs. the woman who s accused the duke of york of sexually abusing her has welcomed a us judge s decision to allow her legal case to continue. virginia giuffre says her goal is to show that the rich and powerful aren t above the law. prince andrew strongly denies
surreptitious oil to china. iran is turning off tracking devices on its tankers. and they have been reflagging their ships in mid ocean. these surreptitious shipments ended up in chinese these ports. it was wrong to grant a waiver to china because china is ramping up purchases of iranian products especially oil. jenna: we don t know how much oil is going to china if some of the techniquess are being used as you mentioned, gordon. what comes up with china. we don t want to get in a trade war with china. because our economy depends on cheap products china gives us. what do you think of that type of argument when it comes to something like iran and this situation with the purchases of oil products? well, china needs us much more than we need china. last year 190.5% of china s overall trade surplus related to sales to the united states and with problems in europe, china is relying more on the u.s. this year. you ve got to remember also, that the chinese economy is