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argument. here is- the argument i would make with fauci. i had it a little with him tonight. you guys are playing too safe. this is a balancing test. okay. there are going to be cases but the vaccine, the rate of vaccine, who we have gotten vaccinated already. the fact that there is an increase in masking. the messaging has been working, with trump out of the way. not all surges are the same. and you have to balance that, against the depression to the economy, the depression to our way of life, which is straight-up depression. and you are playing it too safe. how are they better safe, than sorry. i don t believe in playing it too safe. i agree with you, but i am saying here s the argument you could make. oh, got it. is you are playing it too safe. give me a vaccine passport. i want to be able to go and businesses say, the vaccinated only. so, don and chris get vaccinated. now, we can go to dinner. what the president said. give me a patriot passport. give me ....
d delania yuan. this is so heart breaking. he took a mother, a wife, a daughter and a sister for no reason. this family is broken because of this man. on capitol hill the first hearing in 30 years on anti-asian discrimination became tense and emotional over this republican lawmaker s comments. there s an old saying in texas about find all the rope in texas and get a tall oak tree. i m not going to be ashamed of saying i oppose the chi coms, i oppose the chinese communist party and when we say things like that and we are talking about that we shouldn t be worried about having a committee of members of congress policing our rhetoric. your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want, but you don t have to do it by putting a bull s-eye on the backs of asian-americans across this country, on our grandparents, on our kids. this hearing was to address the hurt and pain of our community and to find solutions an ....
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 ....
the last couple of days. we ve also seen so many people with vigils and people have outreached directly to some of the victims families. so we do know that there s this overwhelming support as well. you have received hate mail in the last few days, since these shootings? yes. i don t yeah, i mean, what nature of things, and what does that tell you? i think what it shows is that the anti-asian hate has not gone away since this incident. it s still alive and well. and those individuals feel really still emboldened to outreach and to attack asian women in particular. what do you want to hear from the president and vice president today, and what needs to be said to them? i think i want to hear in the same way that former president trump consistently called it the china flu, the wuhan flu. that actually is something that i want biden and harris administration to do differently. consistently come out and negate that. consistently come out in favor of the asian- ....
spree and to meet with leaders in the asian american community, as well. this comes as the president also meets a major goal today, way ahead of schedule. 100 million covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office. that is 42 days early. also today, the cdc is expected to announce new social distancing guidelines for children in schools. but as more states begin to ease restrictions, experts are warning of a potential psspike cases. several states are seeing an uptick as officials race to get more shots in arms. let s begin with our colleague, natasha chen. she is following the investigations into these shootings in and around atlanta. natasha, good morning to you. the atlanta police department with some new details this morning. reporter: jim and poppy, the fulton county medical examiner has now released the names of the four people who were killed at the two spas in atlanta, which police say the suspect had frequented before. here are those names. 75-year-old ....