down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and three di
more money for an accelerating american covid vaccine rollout now climbing past 109 million doses administered. that means more than one in five americans are now at least partially vaccinated. the global vaccine rollout also a big issue today, especially across europe. a few dozen recipients of the astrazeneca vaccine report dangerous blood clots. a growing list of countries now suspending use of the astrazeneca vaccine, including france, italy and germany. world health organization and european experts are taking a new urgent look at the issue. but the executive director of the eu agency that regulates vaccines says every piece of available data says the astrazeneca vaccine is both effective and safe. at present there is no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions. they have not come up in the clinical trials and they re not listed as known or expected side events with this vaccine. we are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the astrazeneca vaccine
american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting
administration s week-long tour. but the focus today on aide for small businesses. in a few hours president biden takes his message to pennsylvania s delaware county. we have not had great vaccine distribution in delaware county and i m sure he will also those questions for all of the people. multiple headlines out for the coronavirus pandemic. moderna saying they started vaccine trials for children. one vaccine is ramping up and another is under the micro scope. they say there is no indication that vaccination has caused blood clots. it comes after 13 european countries stop the use of the vaccine. join me to hear what that means for the global vaccine rollout. carol, good morning what can we expect to hear from the president later this afternoon. this is the president s first stop. and administration officials are trying to sell this $1.9 trillion bill. from philadelphia where i am and going to a small business. there is provisions for small businesses and there is so
nationwide. moore states are expanding eligibility every day. you can see in the numbers that the vaccine rollout is ready speeding up. the united states is averaging more than 2.3 million shots per day. with saturday marking the largest single day jump in vaccinations that we ve seen so far. nearly 70 million americans have now received at least one dose. more than 37 million americans are now fully vaccinated. that is more than 11% of the population. and while those numbers are great news and they really are, there is also real concern for the 89% of the rest of the population, if you will, as spring break travel is leading to scenes like this. large crowds packing beaches in florida and plane travel just hit a pandemic record despite the cdc still warning against it. we re going to wait to hear from the biden team on. that we re also standing about toy by to hear about that. a massive effort to try to tackle vaccine hesitancy that is still a really problem across the count