David spunt at the white house. Let s begin with jonathan hunt there in los angeles. Good morning, jonathan. The deadly battle in the middle east between israel and hamas is now leading to tensions and violence right here on american streets. Take a look at this. Tuesday night beverly hills and west hollywood propalestinian protestors drove around in a caravan of vehicles and as they passed a sushi restaurant according to witnesses began shouting antiisraeli slogans and either throwing bottles or glasses toward some of those dining outside. A group of the protestors then appears to attack the diners. One man picks up a metal pole and swings it at those attacking the group. That man as you can see then pushed against a car, punched and kicked. Eric garcetti, the mayor of los angeles said on twitter we as a city condemn last night s organized antisemitic attack. Jewish people should always feel safe in our city. The los angeles police department is investigating this assault as a hate cr
at easter service at one predominantly black church in detroit, the pastor there said he s wrapping a pro vaccine message in the language of faith. if god can use doctors for oncology and cancer, surely you can use doctors for covid-19. you must have your faith but also use the doctors. get the vaccination. the challenge now vaccinating americans faster than the variants can spread. on the one hand, you have the u.s. just surpassing an average of 3 million shots per day. it s extraordinary and more vaccine appointments are opening across the country every day. on the other hand, hospitalizations have been stubbornly stuck at about 40,000 for three weeks now, largely driven by the spread of the variant first detected in the uk. i believe that in some ways we re almost in a new pandemic. the only good news about this is that the current vaccines are effective against this particular variant. in a sense, this is a virus now 50 to 100% more transmissible or infectious than th
better chance you have of blunting or preventing that surge. a record-setting weekend for air travel during the pandemic. people are feeling like they can go out again. top officials say vaccination is the solution to covid-19 fat fatigue. every day, 3 million to 4 million are getting vaccinated. that s going to be the solution. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. good morning. it s monday, april 5th, and it s 6:00. welcome in, u.s. and around the world. it s not unanimous. some experts argue things will remain contained. there are numbers on both sides of this debate. a clear rise in cases of hospitalizations in some states, but vaccinations continue at a breakneck pace. on saturday for the first time more than 4 million vaccine doses were administered sunday, more than 3 million i was one of them. congratulations. thank you very much. almost 19% of americans now fully vaccinated. 32% have received at least one dose. i have
also expected to be called by the prosecution, one of the doctors on duty at the hospital where george floyd was taken as the doctors tried to save his life. let s begin this hour with our colleague josh campbell. he joins us from minneapolis. good morning to you, josh. last week s testimony was really stunning. it was heartbreaking. it was emotional from eyewitnesses on down. what is the goal of the prosecution team this week? starting with today. it s going to be a building on what we saw last week, poppy. gripping testimony. we heard from george floyd s girlfriend who humanized him. telling about him as a person. we also heard last week from two key witnesses for the prosecution. these were two senior officers with the minneapolis police department that were devastating for the defense. they rejected this idea that somehow george derek chauvin was operating within policy when he put his knee on george floyd s neck for over nine minutes. what we re expecting this week a
nancy pelosi was a walking biohazard or super-spreader. why would they think that? just days earlier tony fauci had gone on television and promise to america that the risk of coronavirus infection in this country was minuscule. so if tony fauci s word meant anything at the time that people thought it did come and nancy pelosi around chinatown was not alarming but heroic. as one cbs reporter said that nancy pelosi was a one walking tourist attraction with the pathogen far more insidious than the coronavirus. nancy pelosi was in chinatown to defeat racism against asian-americans. pelosi herself was explicit on that point we want to see the people come to chinatown here we are, we are saved, come join us. in other words if you are worried about catching the virus by gathering in chinatown you are a white supremacist. so after that remarkable day what we have we learned? we know despite the best efforts, nancy pelosi does not exceed in antiracism against asians in san francisco