That. We ll not for the most part, tap into the refugee cap, there are other means and mechanisms by which we re looking to bring people in to ensure with your support they are given assist apse they would get were they coming in as refugees but not cutting into the existing cap or future cap. Thank you, thank you for your great work. I hope the 200,000 is the goal, agencies are pointing toward that number and i think it is a number we should strife to meet to ensure these individuals survive and thrive in their new environment. Thank you, mr. Secretary, for your great work. Senator haggerty. Thank you. Before i start, i d like to acknowledge ryan knauss, a tennessee citizen who lost his life at the airport in kabul trying to rescue and save others. My heart goes out to he and his family and the tragic loss associated with evacuation. For president biden to call this success is beyond when we leave americans, leave allies and those who helped us behind. I ve been over to visit with our
Martin savidge has been monitoring the situation. Martin, what do we know? reporter: well, we have some positive news coming directly to us now in the form of information from the county sheriff s department. They coresponded to this event taking place at mt. Tabor high school on the northwest side of the city. They report that one student has been wounded and that police and the sheriff s deputies are now actively searching for a suspect. They say that all the other students are safe. Now, that school continues to be in lockdown and authorities both from the city and from the county sheriff s department are methodically going through the buildings of this campus. It s about 1,600 students, grades 9 through 12. The initial report came in around noon according to local news reports. They say there was a resource officer who called in the shooting. But again, forsyth county sheriff s department twieeting out that one student has been injured, the suspect is being sought but all other stu
through extensive and rigorous review. i did. i took my shot publicly to demonstrate to the american people it s safe and effective. to address this challenge, we re going to launch a massive campaign to educate people about the vaccines, that they are safe and effective, and that they can go and get those shots and be good. i m going to close with this. this past year has been one of the most painful years in american history. as i said, we have lost over 500,000 lives to the virus. 500,000 moms and dads, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, staring at an empty chair at the dining room table or the kitchen table. friends, neighbors, coworkers. and over the country, all over the country, where the loved ones who are gone, are gone, empty, empty feeling in your chest like you re being sucked into a black hole in your chest, but all over the country, where loved ones once sat, there s an empty chair, and folks, look, there s so much we can do. as you see the broken hearts of
extremely narrow, and many republicans who oppose it are determined to draw out the process forcing the 628-page bill to be read aloud on the senate floor. this isn t a pandemic rescue package. it s a parade of left-wing pet projects that are ramming through they are ramming through during the pandemic. also today, political pressure is rising for new york governor andrew cuomo and the new york times and the wall street journal are reporting that many so of his top advisers changed a health department report to hide the higher number of covid-19 deaths in nursing homes. plus, the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol. the feds are now examining communications between members of congress and some of the rioters who stormed the building. we ll look into when some of these calls and texts took place. but, first, let get back to what s happening in the senate. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill. manu, i know one
restrictions that have kept coronavirus under wraps. that s exactly right. you have the governors of both mississippi and texas now defying recent warnings by the cdc, both lifting mask mandates and green lighting businesses to fully reopen. this is a major gamble as we re seeing the recent drop in new covid cases and deaths nationwide level off and new variants threaten to wipe out any of the recent progress we ve seen. let s begin at the white house with jeremy diamond. he joins us with more on the best news that i have seen in months, jeremy. no doubt, poppy. this is going to be a relief for many americans to see that this vaccine timeline is being accelerated. president biden announcing yesterday that the united states will have enough coronavirus vaccine doses to fully vaccinate every american adult by the end of may. moving that up from previous timeline of the end of july. that is being facilitated in part by this new partnership between johnson & johnson, which ha