this hearing seems to divide us as americans. the first congressional hearing in more than three decades on violence and discrimination against the asian american community. many say that it s reached a crisis and the question is, what are we prepared to do about it? plus, the fbi releases a whole slew of new videos that officials say are the egregious assaults on police officers during the capitol riot. the question is, will it help them identify more suspects? and the biden administration now says it will send doses of the covid vaccine to mexico and canada. the question is, when will the u.s. approve the vaccine that it has just agreed to share? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that apparently missed the memo that today is world sleep day! thanks for the reminder, associated press. i am kasie hunt on this friday, march 19th. we ll start with the news. president biden and vice president harris will travel to atl
Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, says its completely unacceptable that some patients are waiting up to 13 hours in a e. In an Exclusive Bbc interview, he paid tribute to the hard work of staff, but said the problems of high demand were not unique to the nhs in england. Our Health Editor hugh pym has more. Nhs england figures this winter show the worst waiting time performance in a e units since records began more than a decade ago. Jeremy hunt paid tribute to the work of staff, but said that the problems of high Patient Demand were not unique to the nhs and all leading Health Systems were grappling with the same challenge. He said there was no Silver Bullet. I think its wrong to suggest to people that these profound challenges such as we
the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders. our chief whereas correspondent jessica yellen has been working the story for us. tell our viewers what you are hearing right now. i understand the vice president apologized to the president for putting him in a tough position on this situation and the president gave an understanding reply saying he knows that the vice president was speaking from the heart. the vice president s office also issued a statement saying it was the president who has been the leader on this issue since day one and the vice president never intended to distract from that. president obama says he was planning to say this sometime before the democratic conve
his life today. and the first secret service agents being forced out over a prostitution scandal in colombia. now one of the escorts is talking about a fight over her cash money. that s what she called it. the reason this whole story left the hotel. and rocker ted nugent has a date with the secret service to explain inflammatory comments he made about the president. and airport naked guy is now speaking. why he says that he doesn t regret taking off all his clothes at a security checkpoint. more on that one to come. new details on what happened in the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. three of the 11 implicated agents are now out. one of them, a supervisor is being allowed to retire. another is being forced to leave the agency. and cnn has learned he plans to fight his dismissal. a third agent has resigned now. eight others remain on administrative leave with their security clearance revoked. they are accused of bringing prostitutes to their hotel in co
virtual third. we ll have a round table in vegas and we ll bring you live pictures. later today, romney will pick up the backing of a fellow businessman who will give donald trump his support on monday when he says it s a great thing to be successful and employ a lot of people. whether trump s endorsement will mean anything, it s unclear. in a recent poll, 64% of voters will say that it will not. fireworks on capitol hill over the justice department s botched gun running operation. house republican darryl issa demanded that attorney general eric holder turn over documents in the fast and furious operation. hundreds of weapons were lost or unaccounted for. and holder says firings and charges against justice officials who oversaw the program are likely to come in the next six months. at least 60 people have been arrested in one of the biggest child porn busts in canada s history. here s a look at how far-reaching this sweep was. police say at least 22 victims had been ide