with alliisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is new day. tuesday, march 2nd, 6:00 a.m. here in new york and we begin with a new warning from the cdc director for every american. please hear me clearly. at this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. now is not the time to relax. okay. here is why. after falling for weeks, new coronavirus cases are plateauing at a very high level. this could be caused by the highly contagious variants. this, as a lot of states, are easing their pandemic restrictions, reopening restaurants, theaters and more. meanwhile, johnson & johnson newly approved single dose vaccine could start getting into arms today, but the am available is much lower than originally promised. anna ruck is speaking out, 33-year-old woman with a name and a story. she is publicly accusing new york governor andrew cuomo
this month. so far, more than 25 million people in the u.s. have been fully vaccinated with the double doses from pfizer and moderna. yet, along with this promising news, today the cdc director, dr. rochelle walensky added progress in defeating the virus may be stalling. we cannot be resigned to 70,000 cases a day, 2,000 daily deaths. please hear me clearly. at this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. reporter: dr. walensky issue this had warning as she points to evidence that the number of cases and number of deaths have slowly ticked up after weeks of going in the right direction, downward. one year ago today, right after the very first reported death in the u.s. due to the coronavirus, i spoke with then vice president pence who told me, quote, we re ready to tackle the virus. now more than 514,000 american deaths later, more than any other nation on earth, according to official numbers, it s clear t
take them off. everything. jesse: and if you are the biden family, you don t get to spend 50 years running the game without keeping it all in the family. but, last night, we learned the bidens may have been compromised. as investigative reporter paul sperry broke to us that the biden family has been under federal surveillance for years. another chinese partner of his a guy named patrick ho, his office for secretary of statey was rated, we learned recently from some law enforcement documents was actually raided. the feds actually put the chinese partners under a fisa have a surveillance and at the same time they were monitoring the bidens communications with those chinese partners. jesse: so the bidens are all over fbi wiretaps talking to china. the fbi was investigating patrick ho. a chinese bag man who eventually got popped for bribing african leaders and helping iran evade sanctions. real nice guy. so what does ho have to do with the biden family? ho was the v.p. f
murder charges this evening over the death of a black motorist during a traffic stop. memphis officials are worried about civil unrest tonight. the district attorney says the city will release body cam video tomorrow. correspondent charles watson is in memphis tonight with the latest. good evening, charles. good evening, bret. all five memphis police officers face second degree murder charges in the death of nichols. steve announced the charges this afternoon after a grand jury convened this morning and indicted the officers in their roles in the beating death of nichols during the traffic stop earlier this month. today all five officers were booked in the shelby county jail this coming nearly a week after the memphis police department fired the officers following an internal investigation that revealed multiple policies were violated during a violent confrontation with nichols on january 7th. body cam video of the encounter has not yet been released but folks. described it
us tonight. multiple tornadoes are sweeping through the midwest causing extreme damage and flipping tractor trailers right right in front. guys. holy [blee, violent tornado guy, violent tornado. . well, monitor and bring, leak you more as it comesed. but first. late today, we saw mounting evidence not in the courtroom, but outside it that donaldg thro trump winning. after eight days of sitting through this sham hushug money day trial, he pivoted seamlessly to the news of the day including. biden s comments at howard stern show that he s happye in to debate trump and invitevid biden to debate it anytime they want, including monda tonio we re willing to do it monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursdayhere night, on friday night on national television. we re ready to strike anywhere. brilliant. and by the way, he looks great. it s hard to see the biden ever debates him, but we ll start popping the popcorn early fo .e poinr that one. but the point is, at 77 trump camee, donald o