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and marking a commemorative anniversary as biden proposes to close the racial wealth gap in this country. we ll bring that to you live and an activist in belarus stabs himself in the throat in a courtroom instead of giving false testimony. the latest horror spotlighting the brutal dictatorship there. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin today with a health lead and a return to moralsy for millions of cases. hospitalizations, deaths and cases all at their lowest points since about last year. for the first time since march 2020, 14 months ago, the seven-day average is below 20,000 cases. just a month ago cases were around 50,000. now this rapid drop is in large part due to vaccinations. half of the total u.s. population has received at least one dose. more than 40% are fully vaccinated, but a new study reported in journal of the american medical association finds vaccinations alone will not stop this pandemic even though they do reduce sickness and deaths ....
planned. to casey stegall ahead of the president s remarks. yeah, neil. we expect the president s remarks within the hour. it s going to include a whole lot of stuff, specific plans and policies that he says are designed to help african american communities thrive in this country. everything from real estate to businesses to education. the backdrop could not be more fitting than here in tulsa, oklahoma. the site of one of the worst if not the worst racial incidents of violence in u.s. history. 100 years ago. the greenwood district known as black wall street up until 1921 when a white mob attacked the neighborhood and burned almost everything to the ground. almost 300 people died. a century later, there s still a handful of survivors. we re not all equal. so we re all we should all be equal regardless of the color, the creed, anything. but we re not. that s a big change in my mind. now, president biden also met with some of those the survivors this afternoon wh ....
and demands for transparency about officers use of force in our country. tonight there is a state of emergency in elizabeth city, north carolina where protests have taken place every day since andrew brown was shot and killed last wednesday by sheriff s deputies who were serving a drug warrant. his family has been asking to see body cam video of that shooting. the request was finally met today, but the family says only 20 seconds were released from a single body camera. this afternoon after multiple viewings of that 20-second clip, the family s attorneys describe what they saw. this was an execution. andrew brown was in his driveway. the sheriff blocked him in his driveway so he could not exit his driveway. andrew had his hands on his steering wheel. he was not reaching for anything, he wasn t touching anything, he wasn t throwing anything around, he had his hands firmly on the steering wheel. they ran up to his vehicle, shooting. he still stood there, sat there in h ....
north carolina, are joining calls for the release of body cam video from the shooting last wednesday of andrew brown jr. law enforcement officials say he was killed while officers were serving a warrant, but the county sheriff has refused to release video of the incident. these calls are certainly intensifying after audio recordings suggested that brown was shot in the back. we have shots fired. we have shots fired. that s 421 perry street. we ve got one male 40 years of age, gunshot to the back, we do have a viable pulse at this time. the city manager of elizabeth city is joining me now. thank you for joining me. i know you had a busy day. i saw you broadcasting earlier in that news conference. even the governor is calling for the release of this video, so what have county officials told you about why it is not yet public? when do you think it might be released? thank you for having me, alex. county officials have not told me anything. i know probably as much a ....
bench. we ll talk about that just ahead. i want to get straight to cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent, paul reach, with the latest on the charges against the leader of the oath keepers and ten other people. the justice department today escalating its efforts to prosecute those responsible for january 6th, charging oath keepers leader stewart rhodes, along with ten others, with seditious conspiracy leading to the attack on the capitol. it s the first time prosecutors have used the sedition charge after bringing ever 700 cases related to the insurrection. prosecutors have long signaled they considered using the rarely applied section of federal law. rhodes is the most high-profile individual charged in the investigation so far. court documents filed today lay out a wide-ranging plot to storm the capitol and disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. two days after election day, rhodes allegedly urged his followers to refuse to accept the election results, w ....