this is "nightline." >> tonight, breaking news. ten people dead at a supermarket in boulder, colorado. the second mass shooting in less than a week. a suspect in custody. what authorities are saying tonight. plus a mother's love silenced by a mass shooting in atlanta, leaving eight people dead, six of them asian women. their deaths galvanizing a nationwide call for racial awakening. >> stop asian hate! >> now their stories. from chasing the american dream -- >> when i told her i decided to go college, she was so happy. >> to building a better life for family, whatever it took. and spring breaking into chaos. maskless and defying curfew in

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♪ thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with another mass shooting, the second in less than a week. this time at a supermarket in boulder, colorado, where a

gunman killed ten people, including an 11-year veteran police officer. authorities taking a suspect into custody. >> the first thing i want to say is i want to say our hearts of this community go out to the victims of this horrific incident. we know of ten fatalities at the scene, including one of our boulder pd officers by the name of eric talley. officer talley responded to the scene, was the first on the scene. and he was fatally shot. >> police initially responding to a report of shots fired in the parking lot of king soopers. law enforcement seen swarming the building. authorities saying the suspect allegedly used a long gun. a motive is still unclear. we'll have continuing coverage on abcnews.com. we turn now to the search for answers in the mass shooting in atlanta. among the eight killed, six

asian women. now family members painting a portrait of two moms pursuing the american dream with great sacrifice. the stories resonating with so many immigrants across the country. >> reporter: it's a moment of soul-searching throughout america. >> stop asian hate! >> reporter: a child's plea for understanding in new york. in california, a multi-ethnic call for racial healing. at rallies across the country, thousands giving voice to generations of pain and sacrifice to those who felt unseen and unheard. >> they were mothers. they were women. they left grieving children behind. >> as highlighted calls for racial equity for decades. >> asian lives matter. >> asian lives matter! >> but asian americans and pacific islanders have rarely been the focus until now. the murder of eight people in the atlanta area, six asian women and three asian-themed

spas galvanizing my community in way i've never witnessed been, capping a year of skyrocketing reports of hate towards our community. >> i'm tired of seeing my elders on the floor. i'm tired of seeing them attacked. >> reporter: it began on a dreary afternoon in georgia. a state humming with activity amidst newly lifted covid restrictions. a lone gunman carrying out a shooting rampage across those three asian-owned spas, two in atlanta and a third 27 miles away. many in the asian community convinced the attacks were racially motivated, asking why those businesses, why those victims. police have not ruled out a hate crime and are still investigating a motive. they initially said the shooter told investigators he had a sex addiction. >> you have to look at the victims that we had in the city of atlanta. all of our victims were female. all of our victims were asian. all of our victims were a little bit older. so we're looking at all of those different variables into our investigation. >> reporter: among those killed,

a single mother of two boys. what do you think she sacrificed along the way for your benefit? >> her whole life. any dream or aspiration she could have had. she was quite literally the only thing that kept us running. >> reporter: 23-year-old randy park, now left alone to care for his younger brother. after her death, trying to raise $20,000 to help pay for rent and funeral expenses. you thought 20,000 was a lot. >> i thought that was more than enough. i merely wanted to ask for just enough to stay at this current residence for at least one more month while i settle my mom's funeral processes. >> reporter: it's now raised close to $3 million. donations pouring in from around the world. randy's loss resonating with so many. what do you make of this outpouring of support? >> surreal. other worldly. >> reporter: randy says that his

mother first tried to shelter him from knowing where she worked. what did she tell you she was doing for a living? >> makeup parlor. i was told that she worked at a makeup parlor with their friends. and that's what i've always told everybody. >> reporter: but you came to learn differently? >> yeah. i found out on my own later, and i confronted her about it. >> jimmy: that must have been hard. >> yeah. confronting your parent about something they deliberately hid from you. obviously that's going to be difficult. >> reporter: why do you think she shielded it from you. >> would you tell your kids you work in a massage parlor. >> reporter: that's a good question. >> it wasn't an environment that i would call -- maybe to somebody else it would have been. but for me and my brother it definitely is not the kind of place i would want my mother to spend most of her life. but i can't ever shame you or, like, resent anything that you'll do. as long as it's with the

intention of raising us. >> reporter: asian massage businesses have become synonymous with sex work, reinforced by depictions of asian women in western media. insidious stereotypes that hyper sexualize, like in the movie "rush hour ii." >> images have power. stories have power. >> reporter: amanda nguyen, an advocate for sexual assault survivors say these exaggerated portrayals exaggerte how asian women are portrayed in society. >> when you think of humans as objects, when you erase their humanity, then it is no surprise that our lives are seem as worthless. is both misogyny and racism that has resulted in this massacre. sexual violence inherently is about power. so when you have sexual violence and you combine that with racism, both of which are about power and control, what you have

is mass shootings that have targeted women of color. >> the majority of massage parlors are legitimate businesses that don't provide like sexual services at all. >> reporter:ether kay is an organizer for a grassroots collective of asian and migrant workers and allies. she says whether the victims were or were not engaged in sex work is irrelevant. they are victims, period. but the fact that some assumed they were is problematic. >> that's a very specific kind of racism that massage parlor workers experience. the majority of women that are now doing massage parlor work have done restaurant work in the past, right, or nail salon work, but found massage parlor work is a more lucrative way to gain some kind of cost mobility and get their basic needs met. >> she works really hard. she really cares about building a good business. >> reporter: xiaojie tan opened

the parlor ten years ago with a no sex policy. her daughter jamie and ex-husband michael tell us the 49-year-old took great pride in her cosmetology and massage therapy licenses, working 12 hours a day, seven days a week. she was an entrepreneur? >> yes. >> reporter: immediately people make assumptions when they see asian-themed spas. >> it's not fair. i know better and jamie knows better. it's just not fair to make that assumption for jay for or asian people in general. it's just not right. and j was not naive. she knew of the stereotype. and she used to tell me, she said i'm not losing my license for anything. >> reporter: jamie says thanks to her mom's hard work and sacrifice, she was able to graduate from the university of georgia and become an accountant. >> she never finished high school. and when i told her that i

decide to go to college, she was so happy. she just want to celebrate because she very proud. >> reporter: you were the embodiment of your mother's dreams? >> yes. that's right. >> reporter: xiaojie was killed days before her birthday. jamie's grandmother in china not knows of her death calling on what would have been her 50th. her family doesn't have the heart to tell her what happened. >> the family gathered around a table. we have pictures and videos of it where they were singing happy birthday. and everybody knew that she was dead except for her mother, jamie's grandmother. >> reporter: why are you protecting her from that news? >> she is old and we all afraid that she cannot take that news. >> reporter: what does your heard feel like right now? >> maybe just like other people say, empty.

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now to the state of emergency in florida. maskless partygoers ignoring social distancing rules during spring break. instead breaking curfew and flooding the streets of miami. now sparking fears of a new surge of covid. here is abc's victor oquendo. >> reporter: after a chaotic weekend on miami beach -- >> the city of miami beach is currently under a state of emergency. >> reporter: the city extending a state of emergency sunday after throngs of mostly maskless crowds descended into the entertainment district over the weekend. dancing on cars, drinking in the streets, defying an 8:00 p.m.

curfew issued saturday. >> you're commanded to immediately and peacefully disperse. >> reporter: and protesting against it. police swooping in, shooting pepper balls into the crowd. a stampede of partygoers fleeing ocean drive, some even trampled. city officials holding an emergency meeting sunday extending the 8:00 p.m. curfew in the entertainment district until mid-april. it's now past 8:00 here on ocean drive on miami beach, which means we are past curfew. there are still thousands of people out, but police are doing their best to clear out these crowds. city leaders say this is not your typical spring break crowd, but rather travelers from all over the world who are flocking to florida to let loose in a state that's open and warm. authorities say more than a thousand people have been arrested since the beginning of spring break, and 51% of them are not florida residents. >> what's your problem? >> reporter: susan whitebrook is born and raised on miami beach and says she has never seen anything like this.

how does this spring break stock up to spring breaks in the past? >> it's wilder. >> reporter: some are accusing the police of using unnecessary force on a predominantly black crowd. >> i think the response to crowds of black people doing whatever they're doing always tends to engender a little bit more aggression, a little bit more force. >> reporter: but police insist they're targeting unlawful behavior. >> we're training officers to be as compassionate and understanding as they possibly can be in the face of adversity. when you deal with it week in and week out for five weeks, it becomes a challenge for the officers to maintain their composure and to be professional at all times, but that's the expectation and we're going to continue to do that. >> reporter: it comes at a pivotal point. miami is seeing the highest positivity rate of large metro areas in the country, between 9.5 and 10%. and cases are rising in 21 states. >> i would just encourage people and remind people now is not the time to travel. >> reporter: but despite the cdc warning against travel, more americans are flying than at any time since the pandemic started.

4.3 million over the weekend. >> we are at a critical point in this pandemic. a fork in the road where we as a country must decide which path we are going to take. >> reporter: on average, 2.5 million americans are now getting vaccinated every day, a record six million over the weekend, and access expanding by the day. >> i'm just so happy to have my shot. i really am. >> reporter: and tonight promising results from the u.s. trial of a fourth vaccine from astrazeneca, the company reporting the vaccine was 79% effective at preventing symptomatic infection, and 100% effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalization. >> data and safety monitoring board identified no specific safety concerns related to the vaccines. >> reporter: tonight in miami beach, the calm here mostly restored, but the police chief is bracing for another long week ahead and has a warning for would-be partiers. >> it's not happening. we're going to do everything we can to be able to deal with the

behavior that's here, to encourage people to come out and enjoy miami beach. just do it within the confines of the rules. we're still going to be out in force. we're still going to be out doing what we need to do. our focus is presence. >> our thanks to victor. and for more on the state of emergency in miami and how it may impact you, earlier this evening i spoke with abc news contributor dr. john brownstein. dr. brownstein, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> so miami beach is imposing an 8:00 p.m. curfew through the weekend. we've seen alarming crowd sizes. as the u.s. makes steady progress with vaccines, should we be worried about another surge when all those travelers head back home? >> you know, on one hand you can understand, people have been locked down for a year and need to get out. and we're beyond the point of pandemic fatigue. on the other hand, we're seeing many parts of this country, including miami with high test positivity rates. so you have large gatherings without masking and soggy, thci

distancing. that might be really necessary. this fast reopening that is taking place could really lead to increases in cases, but most importantly hospitalizations and deaths. we have about 32% of adults that have at least one vaccine now, but that still leaves a lot of adults and vulnerable populations that could potentially deal with the worse of this virus. so now is the moment not to let our guard down, truly. >> it's being referred to at the highest levels as a fork in the road. miami, as we know, has the highest positivity rate of any metro area, and there is a new strain that we learned about this weekend, the brazilian variant. which was found in new york. what do we know about the effectiveness of vaccines against the new variants? >> right. this p-1 variant has caused a major surge in brazil, in fact has overwhelmed many health systems, many at 100% icu capacity. in the u.s. we've seen more than a dozen states already identify p-1. it's highly transmissible, and there have been some reports of

reinfection. it may not be as concerning as other variants, but it's still concerning as we try to roll out this vaccine. the data shows so far that the vaccines will work well against the variants, especially where it counts the most in terms of hospitalizations and deaths, but it still puts the pressure on the get this vaccine to as many people as possible right now. >> how dangerous is it to be in the middle of that kind of crowd, even if you have been vaccinated? and we know that this fourth vaccine is coming online from astrazeneca. when can we be assured that most of us are safe? and when is our duty to start shipping overseas going to happen? >> right. so we're in the home stretch. we think that there be enough vaccine by may to start really immunizing the entire adult population. and so now we have this fourth vaccine, which looks to be just as good as the other three. now likely the supply that will come in may, about 50 million vaccines probably won't make a big difference to our population because we'll just so much of the other three. so that puts a bit of pressure

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and finally tonight, recapping the breaking news in boulder, colorado, ten people dead, including a police officer, killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket. police arresting one suspect. we'll have much more on "good morning america." that's "nightline."