about strains spreading in the u.s. the overall progress on vaccinations is encouraging. the daily rate is going up. the nation now averaging a new record for daily vaccinations around 2 1/2 million doses per day. that is a relief to see. this all comes as the biden add administration is scrambling to find shelter for migrant children at the u.s.-mexico border. 422 of those children are in u.s. custody. they plan to move thousands of migrant teenagers to a conv convention center in dallas. we ll get to more on the push to vaccinate america. elizabeth cohen is us with. the daily vaccinations keep going up, that s great. you have the big gatherings without masks like we saw images of and serious hesitancy, mainly from republicans. that s right. it s interesting. in a way we can t visualize the hesitancy. so many people are getting vaccinated which is great. i ve been talking with public health officials that are concerned that once everybody that wants the vaccine gets it,
contractor the city closes were so loud they will come out of bed. it houses dozens of us contractors. no group has taken responsibility for the attacks but indicate similar rockets used by shia militias in this area. the damage was caused with civilian house next to the are base but no casualties reported. this after a rocket attack in the kurdish city killed one contractor and injured a us service member. there have been a series of rocket attacks on us interests in iraq that led president biden to launch targeted airstrikes in syria last month against hezbollah positions, a group partially responsible for the ongoing launches. the tension comes along a stalemate between the west and iran regarding a nuclear deal. iranian s sadist time to strike an agreement. they provoke tension them in the middle east. benjamin: thanks very much. jillian: 8 illegal immigrants killed in a head on collision after high near the border. a red pickup crashed with a white ford trying to get a
you can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable i was. frankly, i didn t know how to handle that episode. i still think about it every day. it s something dr. fauci and i talked about all the time, is how to correct the record. wow. i still think about it every day. dr. deborah birx, the former white house covid response coordinator under president trump in a new interview with abc news. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, march 16th. so let s talk about that for one second. you know, willie, at the time, dr. birx was getting abused oh, yeah. and criticized and you know, there are some things she said and did that were concerning to me, but you know it was mostly what she didn t say. she was trying to stay in to have some influence on a guy who was erratic and crazed on this issue. and people can say, well, she people are saying, she should just quit. and you re like, okay, how could it get worse if she just quit? well, dr. scott atlas cou
families were devastated by this pandemic. steve: except the devastation wasn t inflicted by the pandemic but inflicted by the government starting with the cdc which catastrophically bungled testing so it was impossible to contain the virus here in the way the place like south korea and hong kong did. never forget how the media s precious cdc failed us about one month after germany developed their tests, the cdc finally built hours except it did not work and had to be recalled. precious weeks went by and university labs in the private sector were begging to make a test and the fda said no. finally, at the end of february only after president trump intervened with the red tape was swept away. that vital moment when it might still impossible to contain america s outbreak the cdc arrogance and incompetence were fateful. having allowed the virus to spread uncontrolled for months they then moved to the next disastrous blunder. instead of designing a strategy for the specific chara
at our front door never stopped. the donald trump administration didn t stop them. i am pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. in florida, brspring breakers a cutting loose after a year of lockdowns and quarantines, and health experts warn highly contagious variants rapidly can spread. joe johns has more on the collision offing spring break and the pandemic. that s true, pamela. good evening. the cdc said there s about 4,900 cases involving variants that have been spotted all around the country, but the biggest concern right now at least this weekend at least is there could be a spike in the numbers because spring break is upon us. spring break in south florida where college students might not be the only ones hitting the beaches. experts fear covid-19 and variants of the virus are coming, too. as the decline in cases across the country starts to level off. even tho