Vaccinated. Crime tape across america. Another deadly weekend with at least nine more mass shootings. And we are live in ethiopia, a country mired in crisis and conflict but going to the polls at this hour for what the government calls its first free election. Good to have you with us. The biden administration is pushing the president s goal of at least partially vaccinating 70% the adult population by july 4th. But so far, only 16 states and the district of columbia have met that objective. While the u. S. Will likely miss that goal, former fda commissioner dr. Scott gottlieb says they won t have a major impact. Instead, the u. S. Should start thinking about the next phase of the vaccination evident. N effort. Now we need to think about pushing to the vaccine where people could get it through a trusted intermediary, doctors s offices, schools, places of employment to get the people who are reluctant or face challenges getting to the access sites. As people start to plan to go back to
We are thrilled that they are up with us bright and early this sunday, june 20th. To all of the dads out there, hope you are having a happy father s day. Amara, great to see you. Great to be with you this morning and happy father s day to all the fathers in our lives. We begin with breaking news this morning. Three people have been taken to the hospital after a shooting in houston. Yeah, the s. W. A. T. Team is on the scene there looking for a suspect right now. We are still following the latest information coming from the area. We are going to bring you the latest as we get it. Of course, we want to pivot to what happened in south florida yesterday. A person is dead, at least one more injured after a white pickup truck plowed through a group of pedestrians. We are now learning that the driver and the victims are members of the fort lauderdale gay men s chorus community. This happened at the stonewall pride parade around 7:00 last night in wilton manors, florida. Very close to fort lau
We re monitoring several shooting investigations right now, including several new mass shootings. We are now nearing 290 mass shootings for the year. In houston, a deputy s apartment was ambushed overnight. That shooting leaving his wife and stepchild wounded. We have team coverage tracking all the latest developments. We ll get to cnkim in a moment. We start with evan watching the violence across the country. What are you seeing this afternoon? we ve been tracking the numbers all weekend. The stories just become staggering. 375, at least, shooting incidents this weekend. That s all we know of so far and data is still coming in. Of that 375, seven are called mass shootings, four or more shot, excluding the shooter. Just absolutely huge numbers. It can be hard to put those numbers in contact because they seem bad, i can tell you they are very bad. They are 41% higher than they were at this point in 2020, and nearly 70% higher than they were at this point in 2020 sorry, in 2019. Let s go
Cities large and small, including several new mass shootings. We re now nearing 290 mass shootings for the year. In houston, a deputy s apartment was ambushed overnight. That shooting leaving his wife and step child wounded. Evan mcmorris santoro is watching this escalate. I hope viewers are paying attention because this is an important summer in the country, trying to get back to normalcy, trying to move forward in a lot of other ways, but we re seeing this scourge of gun violence really being a huge part of the story line. 395 shootings, sounds like a lot for a summer, was actually the number of shootings we have tracked so far this weekend. Seven being mass shootings, what we call where four or more people are shot excluding the shooter. Those are huge numbers and a huge increase over previous years. More than 40% increase over the same numbers, the same point in 2020, and nearly 70% increase over the same time in 2019. So just a huge rash of problems all across the country, as you
Deliberate attack or just an accident? yeah, well, jim, we re getting a couple of new updates within the past hour. The latest from wilton manors police who are saying that they now they now determined this was not intentional. This was a tragic accident is the update they ve just put out there. The ft. Lauderdale police put out a statement describing the details of what happened saying this was a 77yearold driver who was chosen to drive this truck in the parade because his ailments prevented him from walking in the procession. So as the truck was starting to move forward at the beginning of the parade it suddenly accelerated and that s when witnesses saw this truck plow across the street and into that garden center. I m going to step this way so you can see that yellow tape up right now. That truck went right through there and in the process struck two pedestrians, police said. One of whom passed away and the other whom is expected to survive is still in the hospital. As you mentioned