is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden will soon be on his way here to atlanta, georgia, just days after eight people were killed in a shooting rampage at a local spas, six of them were asian women. biden was supposed to promote his huge coronavirus relief package, but will now instead offer his support to the community. he will be meeting with the mayor as well as state officials and asian-american leaders. vice president kamala harris who is a black asian-american is also on the trip. police say it s too soon to tell if the shootings were racially motivated about you that doesn t mean this had nothing to do with race as cnn s amara walker reports. our investigation is looking at everything, so nothing is off the table. reporter: as investigators take a hard look into what motivated the suspect to go on a mass shooting spree in the atlanta area that left eight dead including six asian women, comments and actions from the captain of the cherokee county sheriff s de
testing. it s going to help us accelerate our nationwide effort to reopen schools safely. last week i directed all states, tribes and territories to make all adults eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. while this is a time of optimism, it s not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part. wash your hands, stay socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc and get vaccinated when it s your turn. none of this is political. it s all science based. but now is not the time to let our guard down. that is science based as well. in the last week we ve seen increases in the number of cases in several states. things may get worse as new variants of the virus spread. that s why we need to vaccinate as many people as quickly as we possibly can, because the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants. we have to beat this virus. we have to and we will, but we ll do it by setting aside politics and embracing science. another s
if we re not spreading the infection, isn t it just theater? no, it s not. and you are wearing two masks. isn t that theater? no, it s not. here we go again with the theater. let s get down to the facts. plus, congresswoman katie porter on covid relief. and adam mckay on his new document deep dive into the origins of qanon. trump put this photo on twitter. so, you can see, if you trace the thumbs, they make a q. when all in starts right now. good evening, from new york. i am chris hayes. tonight, we are learning more about some of the eight victims of that horrific-shooting spree in the atlanta area, on tuesday. 33 years old, a wife and mother to two children. she and her husband mario were at young s asian massage tuesday for a relaxing-spa day. just to get a little time to themselves. when the shooting began, they were in two different rooms. mario was able to lock himself inside one of those rooms, and escape, uninjured. family members described alana as
this just kind of acknowledging the reality of having kids in school that you can t actually space them six feet and get them all in a classroom? hi, brianna, thanks for having me on. i think it s a little bit of both. i ve looked at this research and it does seem that the spacing doesn t need to be as far as six feet in order to keep the children safe, and so that s one of the factors involved in the cdc changing its guidelines. the other factor is exactly what you said. there is a push to try to get these schools reopened and then you can t do that with them six feet apart so i think both factors play a role, but it does seem, from what the evidence looks like, that three feet might be enough distance. with masking, right? masking is obviously the key part. correct, correct. yeah. so, the things that need to occur for that to be safe is that they have to be fully masked and continue to do this the hand washing and things that we have become accustomed to. very imp
december before we were sworn in to an average of 2.5 million shots a day. when he took office, they were almost at 1 million shots a day, we should note. right now, 12% of the population is fully vaccinated. experts estimate we need that number to be 70 to 85% in order for the u.s. to achieve something like herd immunity. the president is also still standing by his promise of enough vaccine supply for every american adult by the end of may. those life-saving vaccines could not come soon enough. progress in bringing down coronavirus cases are stalling. more states in the u.s. are seeing cases on the rise right now than a decline in new infections. and president biden is warning against dangerous variants of the virus. also today, some major news that could likely mean more children in classrooms sooner. an official tells cnn that the cdc is expected to update its guidance for physical distancing in schools tomorrow, changing the guidelines from six feet of distancing to thr