welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. the u.s. will cross 100 million vaccine shots since joe biden s inaug inauguration. that s 42 days ahead of the biden pledge. the u.s. is averaging 2.5 million coronavirus vaccines a day with 35% of americans partially or fully vaccinated. now, there are plenty of folks that noted that 100 million was a very low bar to begin with, but if you do the math going forward, at the pace we re going, we ll cross 200 million vaccinations within the first 100 days, and honestly, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone that optimistic. but and this is hugely important there is concern this morning the u.s. may be on the verge of a new surge. the drop in hospitalizations, i want you to look at that graph. you can see it was going down steeply for weeks and weeks and weeks, but that decline has stopped. it s completely stalled right now. hospitalizations static and may be ticking up slight
restaurants, retail, gyms, bars all allowed up to full capacity today. masks are required and so is social distancing. here in new york city, we have indoor dining going up to 50% today. safe for new jersey as well. the mets and the yankees can fill stands up to 20% on opening day. april 1. americans are flying a again with travel recovery. the tsa screening a record 1 million passengers a day for the past week. that s the most over a week now since the pandemic started. the big screens are also open to movie fans. amc says 98% of movie theaters are open across the country. limited capacity depending on state laws. all of this made possible with the roll-out of vaccines. the u.s. reaching an important milestone today. we reached our 100 million shots goal in 58 days. weeks ahead of schedule. so the accelerating pace, of course, of vaccines making this all possible at this point. many on wall street forecasting strong recovery in the u.s. economy. so look at the federal re
i m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days in our administration, we ll have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow americans. that s weeks ahead of schedule. the president says eight weeks ago, only 8% of seniors had received a vaccination. today 65% of people age 65 or older have received one shot. 30% are fully vaccinated. he continues to believe there will be enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. so the white house says that s part of the reason why it s finalizing plans of sending millions of doses to mexico and canada. that vaccine important to note is not approved for use here in the united states. our first priority remains vaccinating the u.s. population and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step. we have seven million release able doses of astra zeneca. we re working to finalize plans to lend them to mexico and 1.5 million to canada. so the bottom line, charles, president
of korean descent. at this time, the motive, however, is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. a 21-year-old suspect is now in custody. there s a picture there. security is ramping up in other asian communities as a precaution. secretary of state antony blinken, who was in south korea, gave this message just moments ago. horrified by this violence which has no place in america or anywhere. we will stand up for the right of our fellow americans, korean americans to be safe and to be treated with dignity. we begin this hour with the latest on the shootings. ryan young is in atlanta. ryan, it is early in this, but there s a suspect. what do the police know at this point? well, we know the suspect is robert long, a 21-year-old from woodstock, georgia, just outside the city of atlanta. we know he was captured last night when the georgia state patrol performed a pit maneuver. that s a maneuver where the police officers get behind a car. they use their
investigators say robert aaron long gunned down people in a spa in cherokee county. investigators say long travelled less than an hour south to atlanta and shot and killed two more people at massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff s department said long is talking to investigators and telling them a sexual addiction drove him to violence. it s still early but the indicators right now are it may not be, it may be targets of opportunity. again, we re we believe that he frequented these places in the past and may have been lashing out, and part of that in your media packet as well. but it s a sexual addiction rather than a racial profiling? during our interviews we asked that specific question and that did not appear to be the motive. cnn s natasha chen is in atlanta. officials say the gunman was headed to florida when arrested and his family was critical in the arrest. reporter: yeah, the family of the suspect was critical in helping