white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight. good evening, jacqui. good evening, shannon. we are seeing a groundswell of opposition to something that hasn t yet happened. the return of any federal mandates in some schools and localities are trying to tamp down on this recent rise in cases. tonight the governors of south carolina and florida are announcing that their states will not bring back any restrictions. as president biden s cdc is warning people to remain vigilant. we know that masks don t work. we knew that from the very beginning. president biden flouting cdc mask guidance this week after being exposed. 10 days or something. i got to keep wearing it but don t tell them i didn t have it on when i walked in. support for a republican bill ban the return of federal mask mandates. democrats unwilling to go that far. i think that would depend on the lethality of covid, if hundreds of thousands of people are dying, the government response is
come to the u.s. amid the growing crisis of children at the border. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, we have reports this morning from seoul, the pentagon, capitol hill and rome. this is early start, i m christine romans. and i m laura jarrett. it s wednesday, march 17th, it s 5:00 a.m. in new york and we start this morning with the big breaking news. a suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in shootings at three massage parlours in the atlanta area. now, authorities have not offered a motive yet, but at least six of the victims were asian in about the span of an hour eight people were killed at those three atlanta area spas spread across three miles. the attacks took place in quick secession, the fbi is assisting authorities in atlanta and cherokee county. here is a spokesperson for the chairy county s office. it s pretty unusual. as i mentioned earlier, in 2020 we had one homicide in cherokee county, we have had at leas
Im telling you anybody in this top six or eight positions can get this thing done if they work together. Mike kurt busch checked and release. Aric almirolas radio. We made it this far. Just figure out how you can be leading at the white that way when they crash we win it. Thats all i know. Mike advising him. Jeff its hard to argue against it. Mike theyll see green, white, and then checkered to end the daytona 500. Its overtime sponsored by credit one bank. Jeff the aggression is about to step up a whole other notch. Mike green flag. Darrell almirola is there on this restart. Thats huge. Mike toyota and ford up front. Buescher and dillon. Darrell get right down on that door. Pretty strong. We dont know how strong they are. Jeff that will hurt denny hamlin. He has no buescher. Aric almirola missed six races. Thats when Bubba Wallace got his chance to drive in the 43. Almirola moved on to stewarthaas racing and is a lap away from the checkered flag in the daytona 500. Darrell he did what
We just got back. We were in ames earlier today enduring the family leaders event. It went well. Big crowd. You were there . [inaudible] well, its my opportunity to talk to you today. The county chair puts me here. He asked me to stand in for him. Welcome. Im going to call on hester kim crummer from the Monroe United Methodist Church for an opening prayer. Pastor. I asked god if i could write my hartnell in this piece of paper so i can pray for all those who live in this great nation. So let us pray. Mighty god we thank you for your presence here today. We thank you for your wisdom and love that god is great nation. We thank you for those observed in our military to shore our liberty and freedom that allows us to meet this day for the good of our country. Our hearts are heavy this day for the unnecessary deaths of our marines within our borders. We reach out to the families of these brave men who selflessly served our country, and ask that you hold them with your love. Sometimes we for
Lawrence oddonnell continue our coverage by those that talked about the highest estimate. We have to get the Emergency Services to where they are needed. That means weve got to know where the emergencies are. So if youre clogging 911, we cant find that out and then weve got to get the personnel to where people really need help and if youre car is blocking the roads we cant do that. As to the current weather, the rain im happy to say has passed and moved west so we dont anything more than a few showers from now on. In terms of winds they should go below gail force in a couple of hours. As for the storm surge, a very big part of it will be over in the next couple of hours. The high tide was at roughly, 8 15. It is now 10 00. Next low tide is at 6 00 in the morning so were heading down and youll see a lot of the roads that have currently flooded, the water will drain off. Most new yorkers have followed our advice. The cooperation we received real hill has been great. But not everybody has