custody. there s a picture there. right now the motive is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. but we should know police are ramping up security in asian-american communities as a precaution. president biden has been briefed on the shootings, and at this hour he returns to the white house. we ll bring you any live comments. also today, concerns of another covid surge. cases are climbing in more than one dozen states. the cdc is sounding the alarm on two variants in california. we ll get to that in a moment. let s begin on this tragic shooting spree. our ryan young joins us this morning in atlanta. what do you know about the victims, eight total, six of them asian. what can you tell us? reporter: so far, very little information is coming out about the victims except, besides their races. of course, what we ve been told so far is at least six of the people killed are asian. of course, we re trying to move forward with parts of this investigation. w
two years in 19 and 20 there was a surge as well. this one might be worse. president biden: it could be. we re sending back people, first of all. the idea that joe biden said come because i heard the other day that they are coming because they know i m a nice guy and i want them here is the deal. they re not. do you have to say quite clearly don t come? i can say don t come. don t leave your town or city or community. dana: what i was going to say i also didn t think it was that strong. if you read it on paper you would be that s fine. there is a forcefulness with which you need to say something like that i believe. bill: i agree with you. dana: getting to a points where the situation is reaching a level crisis challenge, catastrophe that they can t ignore. bill: i want to hear his entire answer play out the way it did in front of stephanopoulos. i don t want to see video edits. let s hear what he has to say. cbs is reporting 13,000 unaccompanied minors in a