Of the reduction of civilian personnel out of the embassy to help facilitate their departure from the country, to also help with the process of moving special Immigrant Visa Applicants out of the country and provide additional security at the airport. We believe this is a prudent measure given the Security Situation. Youre moving a lot of people. What is can you give any better sense of daytoday, what are they doing . Sounds like theyre that number of people, they must be responsible for getting people sounds like theyre taking over security at the airport. I wouldnt go that far, courtney. The turkish forces are still at the airport. Theyre still in the lead of security. We already have some Security Forces, united States Security forces at the airport including Aviation Elements. These 3,000 are there to bolster it and the airport can facilitate the movement of people, this is about prudent preparation. We want to make sure that we have enough on hand to adapt to any contingencies. So
reporter: that s exactly right, this is president joe biden s first press conference since he took office more than 60 days ago. this is the first time he will face his press corps directly. and this is a departure from former president donald trump, he s facing his press corps at 1:15 p.m. eastern, donald trump always preferred to face his press corps or americans directly during prime time, he never shied away from the cameras, this is of course the first time we re seeing biden directly in this ways. we are expecting had i m to highlight parts of his administration he is proud of including passing this $1.9 trillion stimulus package and called the american rescue plan and this 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days. we are also expecting him to publicly announce a new vaccine distribution goal. but he s also going to face very tough questions from his press corps amid a lot of crises that have happened in recent days including this bowled, colorado, shooting that left ten
there are many issues that people can bring up with president biden including his new push for gun reform, immigration, legislation. biden is appointing vice president kamala harris to lead efforts to stem the flow of migrants from central america. this is a huge problem. this is not going to be solved overnight. investigators continue to collect evidence and search for a possible motive. as many continue to mourn that there s a national outcry for congress to act. how many more have to die? how many more officers have to face down a mad man with a gun. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day, thursday, march 25th, 6:00. re ready? no, the president didn t start the fire as billy joel wrote in one of his few bad songs. well done. but these are all subjects he has to deal with in his first formal news conference in just a few hours. aids to that n
to a facility housing unaccompanied migrant children as the president taps vice president harris to head up the effort to fix the crisis. the question is whether the right policies and messaging are in place to get it done. plus, president biden set to give his first official news conference this afternoon. the question this morning, will he break any news? and a massive ship runs aground in the suez canal, blocking one of the busiest waterways. the question is, how much longer before the ship is floating and things get moving again? yikes! it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that has never seen a traffic jam quite like that one. pretty remarkable. i am kasie hunt on this thursday, march 25th. we ll start with the news. vice president harris is now the biden administration s point person to manage the crisis on the southern border. president biden made the announcement during a meeting on immigration yesterday. he s
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, december 23rd. and it s getaway day for millions of holiday travelers. expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the entire year. this despite the alarming rise of a new variant which is now everywhere. in the three weeks since omicron was first identified in the united states, the variant is now in all 50 states, washington, d.c., and puerto rico. it accounts for 90% of new coronavirus cases nationwide. president biden last night addressing criticism of his administration s fight against covid, specifically that they didn t see the omicron variant coming. how did you get it wrong? how did we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration expect a highly transmissible variant. sure, it s possible. it s possible there could be other variants coming along. what do you plan for? you respond to it. and i think