jenkins is at a migrant camp across the border in mexico. david spunt is in virginia where undocumented immigrants are expected to be sent very soon, but we start up tonight with white house correspondent peter doocy live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. biko good evening, bret. it has now been six days since president biden said anything about what s going on at the border. members of the administration have been down there gathering facts but officials are trying to get the president s official events more focused on covid-19. president biden: i learned from the recovery act you ve got to be hands on. that was during the visit to a va facility giving a covert shot. no plan right now for a visit to the southern border. a trip for the president as many of you know includes air force one, extensive security, includes all of you of course. a small white house delegation just got back from border patrol and hhs facility for migrants in the first to quit from someo
tapper. the cdc released its full set of guidance for americans, loosening some specific restri restrictions. if grandparents can be vaccinated they can visit their daughter and family even if they have not been vaccinated so long as their daughter and her family are not at risk for severe disease. vaccinated americans will still need to wear a mask in public and many other settings with unvaccinated people and travel is being discouraged for now. there s also a turning point in the battle against coronavirus today. there are now more than 31 million people fully vaccinated in the u.s., and that is more than all the americans infected during this entire pandemic, as cnn s nick watt reports. you can visit your grandparents if you have been vaccinated and they have been, too. reporter: finally, guidance for the fully vaccinated. how the government would like you to behave. fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a m
dana: administration telling facilities caring for unaccompanied children. bill: there is there are numerous angles on this story. we ll talk to the former acting ice director ron vitiello in a moment. we ll begin with kristin fisher to figure out what the strategy is now. good morning. the white house is still calling this a challenge but not a crisis. the fact that president biden sent this team of high-level advisors, top administration officials down to the border shows you they know at the very least it is a big and growing problem for this administration. leading this team was the secretary of homeland security mayorkas and susan rice among others. while they were down there according to a statement put out by the white house just yesterday, the white house says they discussed capacity needs given the number of unaccompanied children and families arriving at the border. the complex challenges with redoing is immigration center and the white house is blaming a lo
john: we talked to dr. nicole saphier and cdc director dr. tom frieden, they will explain what this means for the millions of americans who have been living under some form of lockdown for nearly a year now. sandra: all good stuff but for us to jonathan serrie in atlanta. what are the biggest takeaways from these brand guidelines just out a short time ago? hi sandra, these guidelines apply to americans who have been fully vaccinated. they guide safe activities mostly in small gatherings and private settings. the activities include indoor visits without masks or physical distancing with other fully vaccinated individuals or with members of a single household who are at low risk of complications from covid-19. if they are exposed to someone infected with cuvée to come up vaccinated people no longer need to quarantine or get tested as long as they remain asymptomatic. other to everyone whether vaccinated or not should continue to avoid medium and large sized gathering a
why not at least say yes, our message is received or we need to work on getting the message out? i d say it s clear journalists are not why did the president make the visit himself? i don t have anything on his schedule. martha: also today, piers morgan is back today with some brand new insight in to prince william s fiery action to harry and meghan s stunning interview with oprah. we will have more from buckingham palace. a pill to treat covid? dr. marty makary on the beginning of the end of this pandemic in so many ways across this country. good news. lots to get to this hour. first to where we start today. kayleigh mcenany is here with the white house pressure over the open border policy. we begin with peter doocy at the just-ended press briefing outside the white house. hi, peter. there s not a lot of ton for the biden administration to make changes at the border. the team that went down there to scope things out and they have not briefed him yet. we p