looking at everything to make sure we discover and determine what the motive of our homicides were. again, it s just very important to let you know that we are not done. in most cases of homicides we don t have a quick apprehension, there s usually a lengthy investigation especially when it involves multiple vehiclictims, we are working diligently to ascertain all the facts so we can have a successful prosecution, and that s what is most important now. i was hoping we would be able to release the names of the victims, but we are not able to do that at this time, and the reason is we need to make sure that we have a true verification of their identities and that we make the proper next of kin notification. again, i thought we were going to be able to do that, and out of respect of the lives of the families, we want to make sure that we do that privately before we release the names of our victim publicly. again, you know, we can have a couple questions, again, it s very importa
a 21-year-old man murdered eight people at a local spa. the terrifying 911 call made by one woman inside one of those spas. hurry. do you have a description of him, ma am? i am hiding right now. is it a male or female. they have a gun. a gun that killed eight people including six asian women. here are the names of the dead we know so far. age 33, yong, paul an andre michels age 54. yan age 49, daoyou feng at 44. very concerned. i have been speaking about brutality against asian americans the last couple of months, it is very very troublesome. i am making no connection at this moment of the killer. i am waiting for an answer as the investigation proceeds from the fbi and from the justice department. we are all waiting. in the meantime the fear among asian americans in this country is growing. crimes against asians in america have spiked during the pandemic. 150% in antiasian hate crimes in major u.s. cities in 2020 while overall hate crimes fell by 7%. tonigh
a surge the last two years in 19 and 20 there was a surge, as well. this one might be worse. no, well, it could be. here is the deal. we re sending back people first of all, the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they re coming because i m a nice guy and i won t do you re saying this. yeah, here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come? yes, i can say quite clearly don t come and what we re in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. more now from cnn phil mattingly who joins us. phil, does it seem like president biden is or the white house, do they grasp the severity of the situation on the boarder? i think white house officials do and you heard the president try to compare it to 2019 or 2020 and i think the reality is from his own homeland security secretary today they are seeing a surge they haven t seen in nearly two decades. it a significant problem. i think
good evening. we are tracking those shootings. we will bring you more information as it comes in. it is a busy night. we begin with this just in, president biden for the first time addressing the surge on the southern border and criticism his break on policy from the last administration is to blame. we spoke with abc news s george stephanopoulos. a lot of the migrants are coming in are saying they re coming in because you promised to make things better. it seems to be getting worse by the day. was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge? well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years in 19 and 20 there was a surge, as well. this one might be worse. no, well, it could be. here is the deal. we re sending back people first of all, the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they re coming because i m a nice guy and i won t do you re saying this. yeah, here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t co
three people in a gold s spa. then we are told he walked across the street and kill another woman at another spa. his car is shown at all three crime scenes. he was arrested driving south about 150 miles from atlanta. officials say 6 of the 8 victims appear to be asian and police are investigating the possibility that the attacks were racially motivated. this comes amid an increase in attacks on the asian community since the coronavirus pandemic. the new york police department says it will deploy counterterrorism in the city out of abundance of caution. we will keep following this story all morning and bring you any new developments as they happen. let s go now to the white house and coronavirus with the white house aiming to distribute more than 2 million doses of covid-19 vaccine in the next week. that would be a new record in the u.s. fight to contain the coronavirus. states are expected to receive more than 16 million doses of the three approved vaccines. that is slight