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 an ame
kids back into the classroom. the cdc is advising 3 feet of distancing instead of 6 feet for most students as long as masks and other measures are in place and depending on the community rates. joining me, andy slavitt who heads the covid response team. many states regardless are relaxing restrictions as cnn s alex alexandra field reports. k to 12 schools that operate safety can open. reporter: if even is masked, just 3 feet of students down from 6. the bottom line is there never was very good evidence for doing it alt 6 feet, not if kids are masked up. reporter: it s not clear how soon schools will implement changes as one said they ll, quote, reserve judgment. the push across the country accelerating as the new covid-19 cases hold steady. fewer than 55,000 new cases daily. still, alabama is one of the latest states moving ahead with plans to eliminate a mask mandate. the actual legal krgs of making it a mandate or not, you know, is not up to me, but we, you know,
the shooter told investigators according to a sheriff who spoke at a press conference today that the attacks were not racially motivated. it is fair to ask whether we have any reason to believe or take on its face that an accused spree killer said but that is what authorities are telling us so for now that is the official word. what we can t deny is that some attacks against the asian-american and pacific islander communities, something we ve reported on extensively on this show and something that president biden and kamala harris herself a member of the community underscored today. whatever the motivation here, i know that asian-americans are in very very concerned, because as you know i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple of months and i think it is a very, very trouble some. it is tragic. our country, the president and i and all of us, we grieve for the loss. we re not yet clear about the motive. but i do want to say to ou
eight people killed in shootings at three spas in metro atlanta. one suspect is in custody. cnn is live from the scene. president biden visiting a place in pennsylvania in part of his tour to promote the nearly $2 trillion relief that didn t get a single republican vote. also tonight, president trump including americans including supporters to get vaccinated. that as medical experts fear states are easing up their covid-19 restrictions too fast as a highly contagious variant of the virus spreads quickly in the united states. let s get right to our breaking news. talking about those shootings at three spas in georgia, leaving at least eight people dead. two shootings in northeast atlanta and one in northwest. one northwest of the city in cherokee county. a suspect in cherokee county, and the shooting there has been taken into custody. so let s go right to cnn s ryan young. the fbi assisting in this investigation. what can you tell us? actually, don, we know that robert long
supply kicks in. this is happening as new infections and hospitalizations fall and evidence grows from a recent may skbrjor study in isr prevents the spread of infection, not just illness. we ve always believed that they re having that effect. we didn t know the full magnitude of that benefit but all of the evidence coming out suggests that the impact on the reduction and transmission could be quite strong and if that s the case, the vaccine creates what we call dead end host meaning people will no longer be able to transmit the infection. so more people than ever getting shots that appear to be more beneficial the closer you look, the kind of breakthrough we ve all been hoping for. why is it in a poll 47% of 2020 trump voters and 49% of republican men say they would not take the vaccine when it becomes available to them. remember, the former president launched the effort to speed up the testing and production of it and demanded national gratitude for the speedy delivery