congresswoman told my colleague stephanie ruhle what happened in atlanta is a day that we saw coming. two senior administration officials are telling nbc news president biden and vice president harris will be meeting with asian american community leaders when they visit atlanta, georgia, tomorrow. in washington, the house just did something we don t see very often when it comes to major legislation. it passed a bill with pretty broad bipartisan support. we are talking about the violence against women act that expired two years ago. one of the bill s most vocal supporters, congresswoman debby dingell will share her experience with domestic violence right before that vote and she s going to join me ahead to talk about it. we got a big headline from the biden administration. according to a senior administration official, the president is set to meet his goal of 100 million shots in arms in his first 100 days and he is set do it as early as today. more than 40 days early. w
lots to cover. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, former fbi special agent in charge and jim cavanaugh and georgia state representative. great to have all three of you with us. what do we know about the victims and how did law enforcement catch and identify the suspect so quickly? well, ayman, it really is a painful day here in atlanta in the wake of this massive shooting spree. we know eight people were killed. six of the victims were of asian descent. one person was also injured. this took place in about an hour or so yesterday around the 5:00 hour. initially, the first shooting location was in the cherokee county area of georgia, about 45 minutes from where we are right now. officials have just released some of the victims names. they include delaina ashley yaun, 33 years old, paul andre michels, 54, xiaojie yan, 49 and daoyuo feng, 44. they range in age from 54 to 33. how were they able to capture the suspect so quickly? apparently his parents alerted officials
are being executed in the north of the country. in clinical trials, both the vaccinated people and the people who received the placebo had shown small numbers of blood clots developments. the number of thromboembolism events overall in vaccinated people seems not to be higher than that seen in the general population. the european medical agency the general population. the european medical agency investigation - the general population. the european medical agency investigation is - medical agency investigation is ongoing, we are expected to hear the outcome on thursday. but let s be clear, both the uk present medicines were regular and the world health organization have stressed there is no evidence of any connection between these vaccines and blood clots. on monday, the eu because i picks memphis, germany, france and italyjoined several other countries in suspending the astrazeneca jab. sweden, latvia, portugal, and slovenia have now followed. other countries including au
european countries are suspending the use of a different vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in a small number of recipients. the vaccine has not been authorized for use yet here in the united states. the company expected to apply for that authorization quite soon. and dr. anthony fauci is keeping an eye on europe today offering a new warning as new cases in the united states are plateauing at a dangerously high level. about 50,000 cases a day. and he wants to make sure that we as a country don t end up in the same situation that europe is facing right now. europe is generally a few weeks ahead of us in the dynamics of the outbreak. and they had play towing and then they pull back a bit on their mitigation methods. the all of a sudden, it started to surge again. we want to mike ake sure that doesn t happen here in the united states. part of that equation is vaccines. let s start with the news coming out this morning about moderna s trials involving children. eli