trip to atlanta taking on a whole new significance. the president will offer his support for the aaip community in georgia and across the country. they ll look into what led to a mass shooting spree that left eight dead including six asian women. it has been such a challenge, we re actively looking at guidance to update it. the president promised 100 million shots in 100 days. it s outpacing the ability of our vaccines to work. welcome to our view ers in the united states and all around the world. it s 6:00 in new york. alisyn is off. erica is here. just here to help. this morning vice president harris will meade with asian-american leaders in atlanta, offering support to their community grappling with fears and frustration after a deadly shooting spree in three spas around the city. police are working to determine the gunman s motive and they say nothing is off the table in the investigation. the shooting sparks a rise. protesters outside one of the spas call
in washington today the arrest of a 31-year-old texas man outside the naval observatory of the official residence of vice president harris. a rifle ask ammunition were recovered from his vehicle. he has been charged with several accounts. among them carrying possession of unregistered munition and large munition fueling device. the secret service says the secret service operators detained him. vice president harris wasn t there and a bulletin originated in the state of texas. the news continues right now. we ll hand it over to chris cuomo for prime time. i appreciate it, there is no question there has been a surge in violence and hate against asian americans. anti-asian crimes surged by nearly 150% in 2020. and we know the increase spiked there ut the pandemic and we know just yesterday trump went on hate tv and spewed his anti-asian hateful covid slur. and he did it again to deflect blame for the virus he chose to spread across our country. here s what we don t know. we
investigators say robert aaron long gunned down people in a spa in cherokee county. investigators say long travelled less than an hour south to atlanta and shot and killed two more people at massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff s department said long is talking to investigators and telling them a sexual addiction drove him to violence. it s still early but the indicators right now are it may not be, it may be targets of opportunity. again, we re we believe that he frequented these places in the past and may have been lashing out, and part of that in your media packet as well. but it s a sexual addiction rather than a racial profiling? during our interviews we asked that specific question and that did not appear to be the motive. cnn s natasha chen is in atlanta. officials say the gunman was headed to florida when arrested and his family was critical in the arrest. reporter: yeah, the family of the suspect was critical in helping
i called my mom. she got a scholarship to the first one. we are done, we are done. you are going to that school. you are fine. we are going to go for the break. the kids have been denying so many memories and we see family a lot. don and i we see each other s families all the time. i saw your wife and son today. why is he wearing leg weights? how crazy. he s wearing ankle weights around because it is going to make him jack. looks like a bean pole. it is not going to happen. when i was his age, i would take weight gain powder and my mom said to me, one day you are going to regret that. and now i need weight loss powder it will come in time, mario, relax. he s built like tarzan. he s got his mother s genes. i had latasha. i know what they want. they want me to be on angry and outraged of what ron johnson says. that bothered me. the combination of saying i don t need the vaccine, i have covid and saying there is nothing about race when i say that white rioters don t
that policy is before he loses his patience and goes down the path to provocation. yeah, it is the beginning of a new saga with north korea and america. jean, thank you so much, jean lee. thanks for being with us. thanks so much. right now, president biden is on his way to pennsylvania. the city of chester in delaware county is his latest step on the help is here tour to promote his giant covid relief package to americans, and he just spoke during his departure, so let s listen to that. southern border? not at the moment. have you decided when you re able to share thoughts with other countries? allies or neighbors first? who will be the first country to get u.s. vaccine? i ve been talking with several countries already. i ll let you know that very shortly. all right, i have with me now, cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz who s in denver following the vice president who s also part of this big rollout for the american rescue plan. arlette, tell us what