down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and three di
capacity, right? whether it is in states that are sort of more immediately dealing with an influx of migrants, whether it is states like new york, like washington, d.c., and cities like that that are now getting buses of migrants sent to them, the capacity issues there. that is one piece of it. there is also sort of the bogeyman that we know is forthcoming not just from republicans themselves, but from an entire eco changer. that will not focus on a capacity issue. here is what would need to happen to address that and meet the need. all right, and if republicans are willing to have that conversation, look, the people who are managing our border are overwhelmed. let s give them the resources that they need to actually have a manageable flow of people who are waiting in line to come into the united states. versus the bogeyman factor. the idea that the conflation of the idea that all people who
efficiency which is critical. it would bolster the nonprofits, likely through the immigration refugee service, and local communities on the ground to make sure that these families are treated with dignity, but i also agree with the comments just made. we need to recognize that the administration is constrained by immigration framework. that it has not been reformed in 30 years and it does not align with the economic needs or moral values of this country right now. we also can t give congress a pass just because inaction has become the status quo because frankly, the american people are sick and tired of waiting for immigration reform. this is a legitimate conversation to be had about capacity, right? whether it is in states that are sort of more immediately dealing with an influx of migrants, whether it is states like new york, like washington, d. c., and cities like that that are now getting buses of migrants sent to them, the capacity issues there. that is one piece of it. there is
was declared dead at the scene. alan duke is a cnn entertainment producer, so any more now on the details surrounding her death? reporter: in the last hour we have gotten official confirmation from her publicist who says that she has died, issuing a statement to cnn. note nothing about what she died in, what killed her is unexplained according to london officials earlier in the investigation. it was only this afternoon in her apartment where her body was found. it was two months ago that she was released from a british rehabilitation center after fans booed her off the stage after she slurred lines and forgot lyr lyrics, a very disastrous performance. what have people or family members been saying about her attempts for rehabilitation of substance abuse, even after being in that rehab facility. well, you know, officially, her publicist has issued statements for example when her when she went into rehab saying she was just getting tuned up for this concert tour and the