for your business today. ryan bussey, candidate for comcast business. powering possibilities. governor of montana gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the guilty verdict for the man who attacked paul pelosi. the conviction handed down amid a rise of political division, violence, and dangerous rhetoric. and questions about how the media should cover donald trump during this election in the wake of the shifting approach. then, alarming testimony from a former facebook exact about what his teenage daughter experienced using the app. an important discussion on the effort to keep kids safe online as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening. once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, a verdict in the case that raised fears about violent political outbreaks in this country. a federal jury has convicted david to pop of federal crimes for a violent attack on paul pelosi, husband of the former speaker of th
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
one mother s warning announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. atlanta authorities say nothing is off the table as they work to understand the motive behind tuesday s deadly spa attacks tonight we re learning more about the eight victims. six of them are of asian descent. the attacks striking deeper fear and anger across asian american communities feeling increasingly vulnerable amid a growing wave of violence against them. president biden s previously scheduled trip to atlanta tomorrow to now include a face-to-face meeting with community members there. we are also tonight closely watching covid numbers. there are some unsettling signs and a bit later a story every parent should watch about fake pills masking the deadly drug fentanyl and the horrible consequences so a lot to get to tonight. let s start with a late report from atlanta and blayne alexander. reporter: tonight with families in mourning from atlanta s korean community t
representative bea nguyen, the first vietnamese-american to be elected to the georgia statehouse. we were speaking to lisa ling. she said too often when there are killings like this, we focus on the suspect, on the shooter. we don t ask what should be the first question which is, tell me about the victims. how are the victims? how are the people targeted? in this case, the six asian women who were killed, but also the asian american community in general. so that s my first question to you. how are you doing? what are the feelings within the community this morning. well, thank you for asking about that. i think one of the most important things we should do right now is center the victims and their families and center the asian american commune ity here in georgia but across the country. it s been a hard it s been a hard couple of days. we re very overwhelmed. there is increased fear amongst our community but there s also deep pain and anger. as you mentioned before, so oft
december before we were sworn in to an average of 2.5 million shots a day. when he took office, they were almost at 1 million shots a day, we should note. right now, 12% of the population is fully vaccinated. experts estimate we need that number to be 70 to 85% in order for the u.s. to achieve something like herd immunity. the president is also still standing by his promise of enough vaccine supply for every american adult by the end of may. those life-saving vaccines could not come soon enough. progress in bringing down coronavirus cases are stalling. more states in the u.s. are seeing cases on the rise right now than a decline in new infections. and president biden is warning against dangerous variants of the virus. also today, some major news that could likely mean more children in classrooms sooner. an official tells cnn that the cdc is expected to update its guidance for physical distancing in schools tomorrow, changing the guidelines from six feet of distancing to thr