today, police departments across this country are taking steps to make sure the asian communities remain safe. it s a busy hour on the hill. the government s top doctors are making a house call. they are testifying as we speak. in a few moments, the cdc director s stark warning about one of the covid variants ripping across the country. right now, the secretary of homeland security is testifying before a house committee. his message so far about the increase of migrants crossing our southern border. all of that coming up. we start with that breaking news there in atlanta. police say the suspect, 21-year-old robert long, is likely behind all three shootings in and around atlanta. georgia state troopers arrested long tuesday night driving 125 miles south of atlanta. officials say it appears he was going to florida. reporters and analysts with us now. blayne alexander has been on the ground in atlanta. she has the latest on the shootings. tom winter following the investigati
shots into arms, and america is a world leader in the vaccine distribution, and there s big news today from moderna which has began testing vaccines on children from babies to preteens. the news so many parents have been waiting for. but and this is important, we are at a critical juncture, and i know, i know, i know you have heard this a million times before, still, how we handle the next few weeks could either propel us back to normality by midsummer or we could end up like europe, gripped by what the french president called today a third wave. italy has returned to lockdowns. more infectious variants have become the dominant strains there and we are in a race against time before they become the dominant strains here. across europe the vaccine rollout has been sluggish and now there are concerned about the astrazeneca vaccine which is widely used there. a wave of european countries hitting pause on the vaccine because of concerns over dozens of cases of blood clots out of
package and it s this new child tax credit which is really revolutionary. it s very, very popular. 70% popular with the american people. what is the thinking behind this big kickoff this week to promote it nationwide? well, look, we are still in the midst of this pandemic, and we know that we can t get out of our economic crisis until we get through the health crisis. so the thinking behind the american rescue plan is that we need to address the problems caused by the pandemic. part of it is is to help get the vaccine eggs and get the shots in people s arms. we recognized since the beginning of the pandemic we ve lost 9.5 million jobs and we ve got over 4 million people who have been unemployed for at least a year. people are struggling and one in five adult renters are behind in their rent payments and millions of adults and children are struggling to eat and put food on the table. so it s important that the federal government provide the resources that people and business
you are vaccinated. also, why it is still telling vaccinated americans not to travel. politico reports that the agency did originally consider updating the travel guidelines only to scrap the update before the report became public. cdc director rochelle walensky tried to address the balancing act with my colleague rachel maddow last night. here s what we know about travel. we know that right now there are a lot of variants here in this country. some have brought in from travel. others have emanated from inside the country. we know that after mass travel, after vacations, after holidays, we tend to see a surge in cases. and so we really want to make sure again with just 10% of people vaccinated that we are limiting travel. we are reaching a turning point when it comes to vaccines, as supply increases, experts believe parts of the country could reach a scenario where they have more vaccine than people who want it. and that could come as early as next month. instates like
moment. we re going to begin this hour with the search for the pipe bomb suspect. pete williams joins us now. this released in the last few minutes. how does this advance our understanding of what the fbi is looking for? what the fbi is hoping is that somebody will see this video and think they recognize some characteristic of the person in the video. they have not said whether this is a man or a woman but there are several scenes here. this is walking down an alley between the republican national committee and the capitol hill club. the republican club near the house side. then you ll see separate video that i guess, that s on a loop there. the person walking back and forth. the second video and the longest one is the one you started out with. the person on the sidewalk. walking along in a residential neighborhood. this is south capitol street, as the name implies, the street to the south of the u.s. capitol building. the person enters the frame here and then after a time,