a climate more conducive for generations of home grown acts of violent hatred but not everyone wants to confront the problem or even admit it. some people want to look away to not see the mass killings in el paso, pittsburgh, the rise in anti asian and driven mind set being cut from the same ugly cloth. today in the first congressional testimony since being confirmed dhs secretary made the connections and the threat clear. right now at this point in time, domestic violent extremism, the lone wolf, the affiliation of individuals following hate and other ideologies of extremism that are willing and able to take those ideologies and execute on them in unlawful, illegal violent ways is our greatest threat in the homeland right now. in that, and other vent statements the priority as the new administration embraces that the old administration tried to down play but important to mention professionals were also sounding the alarm. here is the fbi director testifying last septembe
racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers sees these locationings as something that allows him to go to these places. it was a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. now on the one hand, is the analysis as simple as the sheriff makes it? again a certainty here is just what happened, just this pointless loss of life for so many and so many families affected within the asian and american community, is certainly fueling widespread fears in the asian american communities all over this country. a lot of new information is emerging about the suspect today. according to authorities has confessed as you just heard from the sheriff, he is charged with eight counts of murder, one count of attempted murder. but no hate crimes. that is going to take more of a process of investigation he didn t help by admitting it as that. one victim did survive this nightmare. now, a former roommate of the suspect tells cnn that the suspect did feel tortured by a s
murder. that was the real racist part. he saw them outside of himself. a way to go to heaven. he did not see them as human. he had to preserve his christianity as all causes. a double marginalize they were not doubly marginalized. he perceived them as sex workers. he perceived them as ex sex wors and asian. that was the racist part of him. that s overt obvious racism. right. these are the things that we need to dig into as both of us do in therapy to figure out what s going on. there is so much strange to fit it in the box when sometimes it is like porn, you know it when you see it. i don t know his context of his relationship of the spas. the fetish of asian women is well-known. is that his thing? if you want to charng a hate crime, fine. find your criteria. we are talking about society and people are attacking our asian brothers and sisters. we know why they are doing it. i live in atlanta for seven years and went and visited atlanta many, many times in years and wo
potentially another covid search. as more states open up, as air travel numbers open up and hit records since the start of the pandemic, the cdc is warning new variants could wipe out all the progress we ve made recently if we let our guard down. but first, we begin with our colleague natasha chen. she joins us in georgia. good morning. there is new surveillance video from close to one of the scenes of those murders. what can you tell us this morning? yeah, poppy, it was actually those surveillance images that authorities released on tuesday evening that actually prompted the suspect s parents to call police. they were able to help identify him. and because of that, police then tracked his cell phone and stopped him as he was going south. investigators believe he was headed to florida to perhaps commit similar attacks. so the reason this was not worse, the reason he s in custody here in cherokee county is because his parents called in durks to those surveillance images. her
it sounds like it s not much of a difference but i imagine that it will be, that it s sort of less of a burden but of course schools still have to make sure the children wear masks and perhaps the most challenging part of this is they need to come up with testing strategies. dr. rochelle walensky has said that this week, that she wants to see more robust testing systems in every school in the united states. it s been impossible actually i think to keep kids six feet apart in some cases considering the confinement of the classrooms, so perhaps this is going to make people feel like they are actually operating within the guidelines. elizabeth, thank you so much. elizabeth cohen. just two days after the shooting rampage, another minority group is being forced to reckon. the president ordered flags at half staff for victims killed in the atlanta area shootings. and tomorrow he and his vice president plan to meet with asian-american leaders when they visit the city. and today th