vaccine shots in the first 100 days, being met today. the biden foreign policy challenge on front and center, after a testy day one of first biden talks with china. the american chinese trading insults, the same day a sneering back and forth from the russian president to team biden. this morning the president stressing what you might call a wait and see approach to both of these global challenges. what s your reaction to china last night? very proud of the secretary of state. are you going to take vladimir putin up on his offer to talk live with you? i m sure we ll talk at some point. have you on russia, sir? that will come in time. up first, though for us today a game changing move in america s covid back to school debate. the centers for disease control last hour changing its classroom safety guidelines. the cdc says three feet of separation is safe, cutting in half the current recommendation to keep students six feet apart. masks are still required but the
school in person. federal health officials now say students need to remain only 3 feet apart as opposed to 6 feet as long as everyone is wearing a mask. that is a major policy change of interest to so many parents and so many kids who are eager to close the laptop on telelearning and get back to the classroom. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. the president s visit to atlanta was originally scheduled as part of the white house s help is here tour, touting that $2 trillion rescue plan, and although the main focus of the trip has turned to the aftermath of that deadly shooting rampage, the president and vice president will meet later this afternoon with asian american community leaders to discuss the escalating threats and violence against asian americans since the start of the pandemic. we re also learning a lot more today about the victims of those shootings, not only their names and their ages, but their stories. like delainie yan who went to the spa for mas
good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that wants to hear more about this four-day workweek idea. we re going to tell you about that little bit later on in the show. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 16th. we ll start with the news. europe s fight against coronavirus just hit another snag as more countries hit pause on the astrazeneca vaccine due to concerns about side effects. germany, france, italy and spain have halted use of the vaccine after reports of blood clots in some people who had recently received shots. denmark and norway halted the shots last week. astrazeneca says a review of 17 million people found no increased risk of blood clots and the world health organization is urging countries to continue using it. this comes as europe faces a third wave of coronavirus amid a slow vaccine rollout. the shot, which was developed with oxford university, has not yet been approved for use in the united states. the fda is still reviewing data to determi
right now thousands of migrant teenagers and young children are being held at facilities run by u.s. health and human services facilities reportedly bursting at the same as the federal government tries to look for new ways to house people flocking to america. a bird s-eye view from the rio grande valley of south texas shows no wind insight to the wave of migrants making their way across the southern border. many are children traveling alone and the system is struggling to keep up. the net force right now are stressed out, overwhelmed and it s backed up. so backed up official say more than 4,000 unaccompanied children are now currently in u.s. custody, up 31% from just a week ago. agents say they are averaging more than 500 juvenile apprehensions a week. weed is more than a crisis. this is a human heart rate on monday house minority leader kevin mccarthy led a delegation of 12 republican lawmakers to el paso to see the situation on the ground up close and they say re
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