the alleged misinformation put out on the site. reporter: alex, when you and i last spoke at this time yesterday, we said this tiff between the biden white house and facebook and the social media companies didn t appear to be going anywhere soon, and that is certainly the case with facebook standing their ground, laying out in a lot of detail data that they say they ve been tracking in coordination with two different universities they say they re making a lot of progress as part of their efforts to fight disinformation about covid. they pointed to data they collected showing acceptance of the vac even among facebook users in the u.s. has grown 10 to 15 percentage points since january and putting out a blistering statement attacking the white house saying in private exchanges the surgeon general has praised our work including our efforts to inform people about covid-19. facebook going on in that statement to say they knew what they were doing. the white house is looking for
a funeral has taken place in myanmar for a young woman who s become a national symbol of resistance to miltary rule after she was shot during a protest against the coup. a passengerjet engine bursts into flames above the us state of colorado. debris fell onto homes below but the plane landed safely to the relief of crew and passengers. my daughter was sitting on the window, and i was just like, don t look! let s close it up and let s just pray. so that is what we did. wejust held hands and said some prayers. and a pioneering breakthough for children needing a heart transplant, using a machine to keep hearts beating outside the body for up to 12 hours. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. every adult in the uk will be offered the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end ofjuly under new plans to speed up the roll out. more than 370,000 people had their first dose of one of the approved covid 19 vaccines in the latest 2a hour period. t
them alive. these are what happens when we have these shootings. it is oxford high school in michigan. shot rang out. a 16-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old are dead in the shooting. another eight are injured. the shooting suspect is a 15-year-old boy. and we have some new video. this is from inside one of the classr classrooms. if you ll look at your screen, you ll see it now, as students and a teacher heard a voice from the hallway. then they waited. we re not taking that risk right now. i m not sure if the person on the other side of the door was friendly or hostile. he said bro. they fled to safety. so, again, this is all happening in oakland county, michigan, and again, we are awaiting a press conference here, so i m going to stretch a little bit until we get to it and bring in some of our ko correspondents soon. like i said, we cannot become numb to this. president joe biden said his heart goes out to the grieving families tonight. watch this.
however, at the same time, those negotiations for a cease fire deal linked to a prisoner hostage swap are continuing. and the what i m hearing from diplomats is that the americans really are trying to push that. we heard earlierfrom our correspondent, barbara plett usher, that some people in rafah believed that the ground offensive had begun there. it turned out this was not yet the ground offensive, that is still being prepared for. do we have any idea of when that will take place, jeremy? well, no, we don t. but what netanyahu has said is that he s asked the army to make a plan to push into that last part of the gaza strip. but first, they also have to make a plan to find a way to safeguard these, something like 1.5 million a way to safeguard the something like 1.5 million palestinians who have fled there in a really small area. it s five times the regular population of rafah. so one has to ask where in gaza, a really small area which has been absolutely devastated by war,