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
White house refreshingly not to fight over crowd size, but it turn his attention to the biggest crisis facing america, namely tackling the pandemic. For the past year we couldnt rely on the federal government to act with the urgency, focus and coordination we needed and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. We didnt get to this mess overnight. Its going to take months for us to turn things around, but let me be equally clear. We will get through this. We will defeat this pandemic. Our National Strategy is comprehensive and its based on science and not politics and its based on truth, not denial, and it is detailed. We are in a national emergency. It is time we treat it like one. Together, with the National Plan, as the United States of america. Normal government. President biden signed a flurry of ten new executive orders today to combat the pandemic and part of a comprehensive National Strategy that includes invoking the defense production act, an increasing aid to states. A c