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the shooter told investigators according to a sheriff who spoke at a press conference today that the attacks were not racially motivated. it is fair to ask whether we have any reason to believe or take on its face that an accused spree killer said but that is what authorities are telling us so for now that is the official word. what we can t deny is that some attacks against the asian-american and pacific islander communities, something we ve reported on extensively on this show and something that president biden and kamala harris herself a member of the community underscored today. whatever the motivation here, i know that asian-americans are in very very concerned, because as you know i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple of months and i think it is a very, very trouble some. it is tragic. our country, the president and i and all of us, we grieve for the loss. we re not yet clear about the motive. but i do want to say ....
a lot of the migrants are coming here saying they are coming here because you promised to make things better. it seems to be getting worse. was it a mistake? first of all, there was a surge the last few years, 19 and 20 there was a search. here s the deal. we are sending back people, first evolved. the the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they are coming because they know i m a nice guy. here s the deal, they are not. harris: and making news now moments ago, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell telling me on the the focus is denying it. my definition of a crisis is when you send the management agency which only goes to emergencies down at the border. it s by definition an emergency. this is a crisis, i don t care what the director wants to call it. it s a crisis. that they created. this administration. harris: you are watching outnumbered. my cohost emily compagno, host of kennedy. joining us on the virtual couch for the f ....
down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and th ....
motive. we have received a number of calls about is this a hate crime. we are still early in this investigation. we cannot make that determination at this moment. the georgia shootings do follow a wave of unprovoked attacks across the country of people of asian descent. president biden has just been briefed. vice president kamala harris also addressing the terrible shootings. we don t know, we are not yet clear about the motives. i want to say to our asian communities we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked all people. and the shootings condemned. i want to mention what happened just a few hours ago in atlanta in which several women were killed, including, we believe, four women of asian descent. we are horrified. counterterrorism agents were sent to atlanta out of new york city out of an abundance of caution. i am joined with correspondents who have been working on the case. blaine, first to you, what is the latest? we have a ....
u.s. open begins in a few hours in new york city. coronavirus concerns mean there will not be any fans or a number of top players, including men s defending champion rafael nadal. those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 31st. good monday morning. thank you for starting your week with us. will reeve is going to be with us all week. we begin this half hour with the devastation in louisiana days after hurricane laura. at least 18 people were killed in louisiana and texas. more than 300,000 still in the dark with no electricity in louisiana. and officials say power and water outages could last for weeks. some people are now living in hundreds of thousands of people still in dire need. no electricity or water. in hard-hit lake charles, many are living in their cars with temperatures feeling like the triple digits. we just do the best that we can. if it rains, we stand out in the rain just to cool ourselves off. reporter: this new drone video showin ....