to a facility housing unaccompanied migrant children as the president taps vice president harris to head up the effort to fix the crisis. the question is whether the right policies and messaging are in place to get it done. plus, president biden set to give his first official news conference this afternoon. the question this morning, will he break any news? and a massive ship runs aground in the suez canal, blocking one of the busiest waterways. the question is, how much longer before the ship is floating and things get moving again? yikes! it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that has never seen a traffic jam quite like that one. pretty remarkable. i am kasie hunt on this thursday, march 25th. we ll start with the news. vice president harris is now the biden administration s point person to manage the crisis on the southern border. president biden made the announcement during a meeting on immigration yesterday. he s
police officer. video from the scene showed dozens of emergency vehicles and officers, many in tactical gear and camouflage around the store. one man spoke to nbc affiliate kusa about how his granddaughter had been inside. my two granddaughters, you know, 13 and 14, basically, came in with their dad so he could get a covid shot. and they came in through the east door where the pharmacy is and that s where it all started. and there was shooting, and he saw it and got the girls down. they ran and hid upstairs in a coat closet. the cops came in through the roof and were protecting them. they re out now, out the back. they got out and they, you know, this is going to be pretty hard for them to live with, i think. according to police, a suspect who was injured in the shooting is in custody. no details have been provided about a potential motive. so far, the only victim to be identified is 51-year-old police officer, eric talley, who was the first to respond to the scene. i h
it is 2:00 p.m. in washington and joe biden just took steps to try to extend health care to millions of murns during a pandemic. the president directed the government to reopen the obama care exchanges. so that americans who lost their insurance can apply for coverage. according to an analysis done last month between two million and three million americans lost their jaurns from insurance from september to march. they site the exchanges and medicare as two reasons why that number is not higher. biden s steps today signals that he has an understanding that this crisis is far from over. global cases have now topped 100 million. and with a sluggish vaccine roll out and concerns of mutant varients, dr. fauci says we may not be back to normal until fall. i think has we enter into the fall, if we get all of these things done efficiently, we can approach normality substantially even though we don t get there exactly the way we were before all of this happened. the white house pr
security fencing erected around the capitol in the wake of the deadly insurrection stay up permanently. also police say a man arrested near the cap towel was armed with a gun and 20 rounds of ammunition and a list of lawmakers names. house speaker nancy pelosi responding to concerns about security by members of congress saying the enemy is within the house of representatives. with all this, president biden pushing for bipartisan support to pass his massive nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan. let s get right to it. cnn s white house correspondent john harwood and our cnn political analyst is john avalon. how will we distinguish ini guess i ll have to say last names. mr. harwood president biden trying to restore access to health care, pushing hard behind the scenes to get a covid relief package through on the heels of dismal economic news. where do negotiations stand tonight? well, they ve got a ways to go. there s a lot of details that are going to get changed, and it s un
scot-free is actually spelled with one two but two ts on that card. that one piece of evidence, an insight into the man s state of mind that he can get away with anything because of his skin color. his lawyer saying this to cnn. this was a guy simply following the advice and the commentary of the president of the united states. so tonight the acting chief of the capitol police proposing security fencing erected around the capitol in the wake of the deadly insurrection stay up permanently. also police say a man arrested near the capitol was armed with a gun and 20 rounds of ammunition and a list of lawmakers names. the house speaker, nancy pelosi, responding to concerns about security by members of congress, saying the enemy is within the house of representatives. with all this, president biden pushing for bipartisan support to pass his massive nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan. let s get right to it. cnn s white house correspondent is john harwood, and our senior politica