[applause] greg: happy wednesday, everyone. [laughter] greg: yes, control yourselves. remember back in grade school when the teacher would leave the room and tell everyone to behave while she was gone, of course, the second she left the room went wild. that s how i got my first tattoo. i would show you but the fcc doesn t allow frontal nudity, so it s great what the teacher got, right? but remember how after a while it would get ugly. the bullying and fights would start. things would get tossed around the room. by things, i mean me. when the teacher came back you were sort of relieved. you knew your class needed a grown-up to keep things from chaos which brings us to america. can someone please call the teacher back into the room? not so they can sleep with their students, although that helps. but to save us from the madness. every weekend we re seeing the same stories of violent mobs disrupting and destroying our cities. it makes me remember the good ole days when it u
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gun at three different shootings at atlanta area spas. let s bring in kaitlan collins and jeff zeleny in atlanta. jeff, first to you. what do we know about the meeting that the president and vice president are in right now? reporter: we know president biden and vice president harris have been meeting for more than an hour with seven community members including five state leaders here in georgia. they re in the building behind me here on the campus of emeory univ university. it s running a bit long, but we know that president biden is going to be delivering remarks after this meeting. and percentages la, i m told he s going to condemn more forcefully the rise of violence we ve seen here in georgia and across the country directed at asian-americans in the last year during the coronavirus pandemic. president biden is also urging congress to pass the covid-19 hate crimes act. the white house is trying to draw a focus here. the question hanging over a lot of this is some of the
of korean descent. at this time, the motive, however, is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. a 21-year-old suspect is now in custody. there s a picture there. security is ramping up in other asian communities as a precaution. secretary of state antony blinken, who was in south korea, gave this message just moments ago. horrified by this violence which has no place in america or anywhere. we will stand up for the right of our fellow americans, korean americans to be safe and to be treated with dignity. we begin this hour with the latest on the shootings. ryan young is in atlanta. ryan, it is early in this, but there s a suspect. what do the police know at this point? well, we know the suspect is robert long, a 21-year-old from woodstock, georgia, just outside the city of atlanta. we know he was captured last night when the georgia state patrol performed a pit maneuver. that s a maneuver where the police officers get behind a car. they use their
chen is joining us. natasha, i understand we re learning more about the shooting and the suspect, the suspected gunman, what s the latest? reporter: yes, wolf, in the last few hours, authorities have charged the suspect with four counts of murder in cherokee county, along with one count of aggravated assault, and then here in fulton county, also four counts of murder, and that is because, as you say, a total of eight people died, one person injured, across three spas. at the same time, cnn has spoken with former roommates of his, who describe that he went to rehab for sexual addiction, that he was deeply religious, and felt distraught and tortured by his sexual addiction. do you have a description of him, ma am? that quiet plea came from a woman hiding in one of three spas in the atlanta area where by the end of tuesday night eight people were dead and one injured. the killing spree in which most of the victims were asian american women happened in the span of just a fe