Stunning, surreal images of building after building after building just pancaked and the number of casualties, Tens Of Thousands and you really got a sense for a damage that the quake like this did in 2010, it was a 7. 0, and now this, a 7. 2. Already, i have reached out to some contacts that i have in the capital, portauprince. They say it doesnt appear it was damaged excessively. Greta Van Susteren was a reporter in the wake of 2010, set up a childrens home there and i texted her immediately, is the home okay . She says that things are doing well, but obviously, to the west, 125 kilometers west as you can see on our map, a different story. Were hoping that theres no sort of repercussions here with the Tsunami Or Anything of that sort. Ryan has everything we need so far. Can you bring us up to speed . Yeah, absolutely. Haiti a country that cant catch a break. This quake had a magnitude of 7. 2, it occurred five miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from the capital of haiti.
minute now from the white house covid-19 response team. so far, about one-fourth of all americans have gotten at least one vaccine dose. that s according to cdc data. a possible curveball to the progress, scenes like this. spring break right now, miami beach, crowds, chaos, real concerns about covid-19. it s not just college kids. city leaders now extending those emergency restrictions and a curfew. in a few moments, i will talk to the republican mayor of miami about what it means with this pandemic nowhere close to ending. that s not all this hour. a rare inside look at an all black armed militia and its stated goal is to defend black people by any means necessary. stick with us for that story coming up in a few moments. there s a lot to talk about on the covid front. we start down in florida, kerry sanders in miami beach. i want to bring in dr. craig spencer. dr. spencer is the director of global health and emergency medicine at new york presbyterian. he knows about inf
You re somewhere just shy of a positivity rate of 19% how are things going there? who is most impacted? well, many people are being impacted. we ve, unfortunately, had records over the last few days. we ve had a couple of highs for florida. i m actually in a to covid hospital right now visiting a 40-year-old who s in icu, so it s impacting people that are my age, it s impacting children because more children are hospitalized than before, significantly more. and so, you know, this is a difficult time where we re now have to make sure that we re doing everything that we can and getting vaccinated. you know, 99% of the people that are vaccinated are not experiencing serious complications, and 90% of the people that are hospitalized are not vaccinated. so it s clearly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. griff: and, mr. mayor, are you seeing the debate over whether to get vaccinated, those that are hesitant, and the mask
Rise. sadly, it may. jacqui: griff police are turning their backs on mayor lori light foot as the city struggles with a continuing wave of violence. joining us now is former police officer anthony napolitano. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for having me. jacqui: so i want to talk about officer ella french. he was shot and killed. she was shot and killed. the rank and file officers turned their back on the mayor when she showed up at the vigil. what has changed for you? well, that time when i stood with me brothers and sisters to support mayor lightfoot because the alternative was not even questionable who she was running against at the time. right now it s just my officers and city workers are looking around a saying we re not going to have a city that deals with crime and punishment the proper way, we back our police officers and make sure they re safe on the street, as a matter of mattl
Our country, and she should have known that from the beginning. jacqui: so you re saying, if i m hearing you right, that she might not be, you know, anti-police funding herself but definitely bent to pressure from the progressive far left. absolutely. absolutely. the mayor has come out on record multiple times saying she didn t support the defund the police movement, but then when it came time to take away 635 positions from the police department in our last budget, she folded on that. and that was done in our department and in our city. and now we have another police accountability program that s defunding the police because it s paying for positions for civilians to once again have oversight on the police along with the 12 other oversight committees we have. you re forcing the police not to want to be the police anymore. jacqui: she unveiled the budget proposal on wednesday. it was surprisingly beefed up, quite the proposal from last year when she proposed cutting