it take to get formula on store shelves? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we start in buffalo, where president biden is expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during his visit there today. according to a white house official, the president will ask congress to take action against quote weapons of war, and curb access to guns for people with serious mental illness. this trip comes as information continues to surface about the alleged shooter in saturday s attack. a review of hundreds of pages of internet posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning the attack for months and intended to continue the violence at other locations had he not been arrested. two possible plot, a black church in buffalo and an elementary school in the city. the author of the posts wrote that they were targeting the school because of its predominantly black student body which they found by looking up tes
democrats frame it as transformative. republicans say it s government run amuck. i call upon my republican colleagues to stop their march madness and show some compassion for their constituents who are less than wealthy. i ve heard people across the country say this bill today is costly, corrupt, and liberal. it s a laundry list of left-wing priorities that predate the pandemic and do not meet the needs of the american families. that deal will head to the president s desk just as country arrives at a familiar coronavirus crossroads. the biden administration just this morning just last hour announcing a new agreement to buy 100 million more doses of the johnson & johnson single-shot covid vaccine. more vaccine means the country should get back to normal more quickly. but here s the concern at the white house. states are already relaxing restrictions even as dr. anthony fauci says, quote, we re not out of the woods yet. listen here, a similar warning from the cdc director
here, john, that they re going to grapple with. historically, we see the numbers level off when the heat gets really you know, when it gets hotter in the summertime. they ll potentially have a reprieve in numbers in the coming months based on that. you mentioned covid funding. we re seeing cases go up across the country. they re having their first covid briefing today, this administration is, in quite some time. that shows you that s becoming more and more of a renewed focus. i wanted to get you here before we have to go about the president s upcoming trip to buffalo. he s going to go. we know he is going to tour the supermarket where the shooting took place. thank first responders, meet with victims. what do you think his messaging will be, on a personal level, but also what sort of policy can come from this? we ve heard moments like this so many times before, where all it leads to are words and not actions. yeah. i think president biden is going to be deeply sort of moved by th
post infection isolation guyedlines are confusing to say the lead. the new guidance says you don t have to take a test after five days of testing positive in order to go back to society. that you can go back after a positive case, after isolating for five days without getting a test. if you can get a test and if you want a test, go ahead and do it. by the way, if you turn out positive, stay away from others for another five days. it is also the cdc denied that a nationwide shortage of test influenced their initial guidance, which omitted any need to test or return to society. listen to what the cdc director said in the covid briefing today. you can see in our quarantine guidance that we actually do recommend a test for people to emerge from quarantine. just a few days ago, the cdc
doors across the globe are slamming shut in hopes slowing the spread seven hours from now the u.s. will join multiple nations in restricting travel from seven countries including south africa where this new variant was first identified. cnn s joe johns is at the white house. and, joe, what more are we learning about the president s covid briefing today? right. well, just a little bit of clarity as i was walking out here to the camera just a couple minutes ago, i did see the sentry signal. that briefing has wrapped up and we re told to expect a read-out, presumably written, to tell us whatever it is the administration would like us to learn about the president s briefing, which we re told included dr. anthony fauci. and i think also important to say that this administration has been trying pretty much all afternoon to send a very strong and clear message that the