kids back into the classroom. the cdc is advising 3 feet of distancing instead of 6 feet for most students as long as masks and other measures are in place and depending on the community rates. joining me, andy slavitt who heads the covid response team. many states regardless are relaxing restrictions as cnn s alex alexandra field reports. k to 12 schools that operate safety can open. reporter: if even is masked, just 3 feet of students down from 6. the bottom line is there never was very good evidence for doing it alt 6 feet, not if kids are masked up. reporter: it s not clear how soon schools will implement changes as one said they ll, quote, reserve judgment. the push across the country accelerating as the new covid-19 cases hold steady. fewer than 55,000 new cases daily. still, alabama is one of the latest states moving ahead with plans to eliminate a mask mandate. the actual legal krgs of making it a mandate or not, you know, is not up to me, but we, you know,
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
the biden administration s radical border policy. the demand comes as the administration reveals more than 14,000 migrant children without parents are now in its custody. there s reported estimates the number could grow to 120,000 by the end of the year. smashing recent records. the administration admits that we re potentially facing the biggest surge in migrants in 20 years. today speaker pelosi says that the situation at the border is under control. i think the administration is pulling this thing under control. i think it s important to know that the difference between the attitude towards the people and the children is so different in just these two months versus what happened in the past four years. veteran border patrol agent brandon judd disagrees. he joins us in just a moment. but first, griff jenkins is live where alejandro mayorkas is today. hi, griff. hi, kristin. alejandro mayorkas not making public his schedule or what he s doing right now. i can tell you w
here in new york and we begin this morning with the shootings in atlanta. a terrifying escalation of the anti-asian violence seen throughout the country and a reminder of the threat of violence women live with daily. robert aaron long charged with murder after he confessed to killing eight people, six asian women. authorities say long a 21-year-old white man told detectives he would go to massage parlours in the past, he blamed his sexual addiction. the cherokee county sheriff suggested long was, quote, attempting to take out that temptation. other officials and community leaders saying that narrative misses the mark. in this particular case where the victims were asian women we see the intersections of the racism, xenophobia and gender-based violence. you know, we ve also seen historically where news outlets and the police frame the story around the perpetrator and now we re hearing about the suspect in custody and we are hearing stories about how he was religious, he su
theory, teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money. harris: in california today, the board of education is expected to pass and ethnic studies model curriculum for high schools after years of debate, the original draft was criticized for appearing to push a left-wing view of history and drew complaints from numerous ethnic and religious groups who say it left out their own experiences. now some of the authors are saying the final draft has been watered down and they want their names removed, but the state superintendent of public instruction says we work to bring justice to what we believe the ethnic studies movement to be about. that s a quote. you re watching outnumbered, i am faulkner. emily compagno, tomi lahren, syndicated radio host and fox news contributor leslie marshall and in the virtual center seat, former education secretary under president reagan, fox news contributor and host of the wise guys on f