reporter: that s exactly right, this is president joe biden s first press conference since he took office more than 60 days ago. this is the first time he will face his press corps directly. and this is a departure from former president donald trump, he s facing his press corps at 1:15 p.m. eastern, donald trump always preferred to face his press corps or americans directly during prime time, he never shied away from the cameras, this is of course the first time we re seeing biden directly in this ways. we are expecting had i m to highlight parts of his administration he is proud of including passing this $1.9 trillion stimulus package and called the american rescue plan and this 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days. we are also expecting him to publicly announce a new vaccine distribution goal. but he s also going to face very tough questions from his press corps amid a lot of crises that have happened in recent days including this bowled, colorado, shooting that left ten
good afternoon, everyone. a very windy and dusty day at the hhs facility here in texas. joined today for coverage of president biden s first news coverage by my special friend and co-anchor washington correspondent halie jackson. thank you for letting me crash the show. a big afternoon here with the president just wrapping up a short time ago. he got a lot of questions on everything from immigration to filibuster in north korea and even 2024. he got animated when he talked about voting rights legislation. are you worried that if you don t manage to pass voting rights legislation that your party is going to lose seats and possibly lose control of the house and senate in 2022? i m worried about how un-american this whole initiative is. it s sick. it s sick. deciding that you cannot bring water to people that are standing in line waiting to vote. republican voters i know find this despicable. republican voters. the president faced multiple questions about the migrant sur
survivors had to flee for their lives and unsure of seeing their families again or friends again. we can save lives and increasing background checks and limit assault weapons and the size of magazines. we continue to say it years after years and day after day and shooting after shooting. the stories and the images are horrifically familiar in the united states. soto is the anger and grief. tonight we grieve again for pe people s lives lost. denney strong was age 20. neven stanisic age 59. suz suzanne fountain age 59. teri leiker age 51. officer eric talley, age 51. lynn murray 62, jodi waters, age 65. everyone of these names human beings with a full, full lived life and they re now dead. this mass shooting came within a week after the mass shooting in atlanta where eight people lost their lives. president biden ordered u.s. flags to be lowered half staff for the atlanta shooting. they were just raised to full staff yesterday. 17 hours after that, not even a full day, once aga
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s start with breaking news from colorado. there s been a shooting at a supermarket in boulder. police say there are multiple victims who lost their lives. one of the victims is a boulder police officer. police say a person of interest is now in custody. this of the person of interest was injured and then detained it. joining us now is our north america correspondent david willis. david, what are you hearing? that press conference still ongoing in boulder, colorado. officials there say most people have been killed at an incident ina have been killed at an incident in a grocery store at about 2:30 p:m.. one of them a local police officer. they said they don t know how people are in hospital but at least one person has been taken to hospital. after the motive came up hospital. after the motive came up police that they don t have any details at the moment. but more information to be released from officials there i
means it will not escape the effects of a third wave. let s start with breaking news from colorado. there s been a shooting claiming multiple lives as the police put it, at a supermarket in boulder. there is currently a large police and emergency presence at the scene. here s the police statement from a press conference a short while ago. we had a very tragic incident today at king sooper. there is loss of life and multiple people killed in this incident. and i m sorry to have to report that one of them was a boulder police officer. i can share with the public today this evening that there is no ongoing public threat, that we do have a person of interest in custody. that person was injured during the incident and is being treated for the injuries. this eyewitness was in the grocery store when she heard shooting. we were at the checkout, and shots started going off, and so i heard this. the first one crossed me, and the second one, i knew for sure, there was a shot, and i said