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this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. erica hill is with me this morning. developing overnight, security increased in cities across the country. new concerns of anti-asian crime after a deadly murder spree near atlanta targeting the massage parlors. at least eight people killed. according to the atlanta journal constitution, six of them were asian women. a suspect, 26-year-old robert aaron long is in custody and police are not talking about a motive but the concern that these shootings could be racially motivated is real. ryan young is in atlanta with the late-breaking details for us. good morning. reporter: erica, just a devastating attack. leaving a lot of people in the community asking why. you can see one of the massage parlors across the street here and this was surrounded by police for hours and we re waiting to hear what the motive was. a shooting ....
outfront tonight border surge. president biden is answering questions. migrants are coming in because you promised to make things better. it seems to get worse by the day. first of all, there was a surge the last two years and 19 and 20 had a surge as well. the idea that joe biden says come, i heard the other day is they re coming because i am a nice guy. here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come. yes, in the process of getting set up, don t leave your town or city or community. all right, this coming as the secretary of homeland security warns we are on pace to encounter more individuals than we have the last 20 years, we are encountering children six or se seven-year-old without adults. cnn told some children are in jail. as of tonight there are 4,200 children in custody which dw dwarves the number at the peak of the crisis. they were not ready for this. president biden himself has not yet visited the border and has no ....
It s hard to tell how big it is. i m in the white house complex only looking through the fence, but it looks like potentially hundreds. we are now evacuating non essential personnel from the white house have been asked to leave. the president is not here. president biden left to camp david this morning so he is not here, but the protests have intensified enough for secret service to evacuate non essential personnel. and we are waiting for additional guidance but as of now, the protests, you might hear them over the phone. they have gotten bigger. they are chanting. and calling for a cease fire in gaza. this of course has been an issue the president has confronted not only here in washington, but as he hits the road across the country. we see flashing sirens and ....
He s been absent. he is flying in this afternoon. he will be at one rally tomorrow. but the behind-the-scenes activity at this point is the most important thing. as you said, all eyes on the des moines register poll coming up in a few hours. jim? time to get out the vote and brave the cold. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. still ahead, the insults are flying, the pac supporting nikki haley putting out a scathing new ad calling desantis a suck-up as the race for second place continues, and we re breaking down with our political panel in a few moments. stick with us. you re live in the cnn newsroom. ....
Points. just take desantis. this is a governor who has used black and brown people as political state goes, political pawns, where there was the arrest of black convicts, daring to vote in florida, arrests that soon fell apart. or the little game of human hot potato with brown migrants checking them on to hair planes and lobbing them across the country to martha s vineyard s. this is a man who bands critical race theory in florida schools, who defended a curriculum with both sides slavery and anti black violence. and who just recently had to fire from his own campaign a staff who made it video of desantis standing in front of a neo-nazi symbol. yes, a neo-nazi symbol. is it any wonder that desantis s 2018 democratic opponent in the governor s race famously said this? i am not calling mr. desantis a racist, i am simply saying the racists believe he s a racist. why is it that the racists and neo-nazis love it so many ....