good morning, america. travel restrictions. the u.s. ready to limit travel from india as the pandemic surges in that country as we hit a vaccination milestone here at home. ♪ plus, a possible re-opening date for the nation. >> i think july 1 would be a reasonable target. >> when we could hear about vaccination approval for kids and the tears of joy at the happiest place on earth. withdrawal under way. america's longest war ending as u.s. and nato forces start leaving afghanistan. >> this is, in effect, an unofficial border. >> we're right there on the ground with a look at the strength of the taliban as new violence strikes overnight. man suing over this

traffic stop. >> i was just driving.om prosecutors to the judge sentencing derek chauvin as we take a deeper look into policing in america. >> david, what would you say is the biggest challenge facing police officers today? >> our roundtable of law enforcement officials addressing the challenges and what the future looks like. chicken shortage? the apparent poultry paucity and how it's affecting americans searching for their favorite meal. the struggle to keep up with demand this morning. ce hhe bigaft dreams. remb.

hey, good morning, everybody, on this first day of may. let's start with a new milestone in the pandemic. more than 100 million americans are now fully vaccinated. that is 39% of adults. nearly 143 million americans are partially vaccinated. that is 56% of american adults. >> the biden administration is still reaching out to americans who remain unvaccinated launching a text messaging service website and toll-free hotline to help people find vaccination sites and appointments. >> as the u.s. makes progress in the fight against the coronavirus, delta airlines today will no longer block its middle seats on its aircraft, the last u.s. carrier to do so. that's as india is struggling with soaring spread there and now the biden administration will be restricting travel from india. abc's zohreen shah is at the airport in los angeles with the very latest. zohreen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. thousands of international travelers arrive here at l.a.x. every day.

well, america is about to cut off most travelers from india. the situation there is grim with their health ministry reporting about 3,500 deaths in a 24-hour period, and experts think this is an undercount. the u.s. announcing a travel restriction from india on tuesday cutting off entry to most people who traveled there in the last two weeks. now, u.s. aid arriving in india as the toll on the health care system grows. >> this is not starting from zero. we were already working, but we are ramping up now. >> reporter: india's covid surge nearing 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period stressing the health care system. overnight one hospital treating covid patients reportedly caught fire killing more than 15. the second such incident in a week. the white house touching upon escalating fears. >> people are worried. no question, people are worried. >> reporter: here in the u.s. the biden administration announcing yesterday 100 million americans fully vaccinated.

>>that's 100 million, nearly 40% of all adult americans. >> reporter: the cdc director saying at this pace the nation could re-open soon. >> i think july 1 would be a reasonable target. >> reporter: disneyland already opening friday at 25% capacity. >> this place and the five of us all together today is something we were afraid would never happen again. >> reporter: and chicago's navy pier welcoming visitors as the city loosens restrictions. ♪ opening further in some places could hinge on more americans vaccinated. the focus turning to a younger population, ages 18 to 64. this group for the first time has the largest number hospitalized. pfizer and biontech seeking the eu's authorization for use in kids 12 to 15 years old. they previously requested fda authorization, which could come any day. "gma" speaking to a 14-year-old who was part of december's u.s. trial. >> i knew that if like people

didn't step up, then the vaccine -- like we wouldn't know if it was safe for everyone, so i wanted to help. >> reporter: and that younger population so important, one doctor saying he thinks some young people think their age will protect them. another saying he is seeing far more people under 40 right now than at any other time during the pandemic, and they appear far more sick. whit? >> zohreen shah for us. thank you. joining us now is dr. paul offit, a vaccine expert at the children's hospital of philadelphia and a member of the fda's advisory panel. dr. offit, good to have you on a saturday. first i want to go back and ask you about the deadly surge in india right now. the u.s. is sending aid, vaccines, adding travel restrictions. is that enough, but also help us understand the threat here at home if the virus continues to rage out of control on the other side of the world. >> i think when this virus rages out of control, the big concern is you'll start to create more and more variants,

especially variants that would be immune or resistant to immunity caused by natural infection or resistant to immunity through vaccination. that's the worry. >> i do want to turn to the vaccines now. pfizer as we mentioned in that report is asking to expand emergency use authorization for its vaccine to include 12 to 15-year-olds. we're told a decision could come any day now. are you confident that younger teens should be getting this vaccine now? >> yes. first of all, the study that was done by pfizer involved 2,200 people, 1,100 of these 12 to 15-year-olds got vaccinated. 1,100 didn't get vaccinated. there were 18 cases in the practice seen placebo group and well tolerated. more than 3 million children have been infected by this virus in this country. about 200 have died. there's multisystem inflammatory disease in children we see in our hospital and can may cause longer-term effects so children will benefit from the vaccine. >> that inflammatory disease, a lot of people have been concerned about that as well. i want to turn to new york city and other cities across the country. they've been talking about plans to fully re-open. some by july. we've seen states like

mississippi already dropping most restrictions. mask mandates starting to go away in some places. are we ready for that? >> here's what worries me, this is essentially a winter virus, and if you look at what happened when the virus first came in last year in march and started killing people in the united states, it dramatically increased. 1,000 deaths a day, 2,000 deaths a day then as we approached april and may, the number of deaths decreased to generally fewer than a thousand deaths a day even though the population was fully suss septemberable and even though we had no vaccine. then we hit november, it took off again, because this is a winter virus. we need to get to 80% population immunity before next winter hits. that means we need at least 100 million more people to be vaccinated before next winter hits. >> it is a delicate balancing act at this time. we mentioned you're on that fda advisory panel. astrazeneca says that they're taking longer than expected in submitting vaccine for emergency use authorization. there have been a few delays with this vaccine here in the u.s. and a pause in europe due to those rare blood clots like

we saw with j&j. do you see any red flags or concerns that americans should consider whether this vaccine comes online here in the u.s.? >> well, i can't comment on the astrazeneca vaccine until we look at all the data. certainly it's true that both the johnson & johnson vaccine and the astrazeneca vaccine, which are basically made in the same way, which is a so-called replication-defective adenovirus had this very, very rare problem of blood clotting. but, again, still if you take a theoretical million people with the j&j vaccine, for example who had a severe blood clot it would be about one per million. whereas if you took a theoretical million people infected with covid, 5,000 will die and many left with permanent harm. these vaccines, still the benefits outweigh the risks but there are small risks. >> and quickly you think it will be authorized, astrazeneca here in the u.s.? >> don't know. >> don't know. we'll have to stand by and wait. dr. offit, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> eva, over to you.

>> thank you. turning to afghanistan. this morning was the original deadline for american troops to withdraw from the country. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell is there with the new timetable and why u.s. forces are on high alert. good morning, ian. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, eva. may the 1st was that original deadline. president biden pushing it back. the taliban militants here haven't recognized that amid fears that they could use the opportunity to try and attack u.s. forces as they leave the country. overnight at least 21 killed, dozens more rushed to hospitals after a suicide truck bomb blast in afghanistan. it comes as america's withdrawa. amid fears the taliban may be preparing for more attacks. america's signing a deal with the militants it went to war against. >> a return to violence would be, one, senseless and tragic, but make no mistake, we have the military means to respond

forcefully to any type of attacks against the coalition and the military means to support the afghan security forces. >> reporter: the taliban now stronger and more confident than at any time since the war began. here training for more attacks. now all u.s. and nato forces are leaving by september 11th ending america's longest war. >> after 20 years of value, valor and sacrifice, it's time to bring those troops home. >> reporter: but one decade since the death of osama bin laden and nearly two decades since the 9/11 attacks, the u.s. is leaving behind a complicated legacy. the insurgents are now more powerful than at any time in the last 20 years. this is, in effect, an unofficial border, the edges of kabul where government control ends and just down the road lie the taliban. now a new u.s. special inspector general report paints a dire picture. despite the billions of tax dollars poured in and the years

of fighting, insurgent attacks up more than 35% in the first three months of this year compared to last year with strikingly high civilian casualties and almost half the country now needs humanitarian assistance, double that of 2020. you know, guys, there is a real climate of fear and dread here. not just about what happens as the troops leave, but for afghans more importantly what happens when they've gone and whether all the gains that have been made here especially for women and girls will then disappear. dan? >> a climate of fear and an uncertain future. ian pannell on the ground in afghanistan, thank you so much. meanwhile here at home, the biden administration is now moving to cancel funding for the border wall and return the funds to the pentagon. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks is on the north lawn with that story. maryalice, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, dan. from day one we've seen president biden break away from president trump's border policies, and now this latest move, the administration saying that they are formally returning

billions of dollars back to the department of defense that had been diverted for border wall construction, and, like you said, they're planning to cancel all existing construction contracts there on the border wall. the trump administration only built about 80 miles of new wall where wall hadn't existed before. some republicans, as you can imagine, are blasting the biden administration saying that this will exacerbate the migrant crisis, but the white house wrote in a statement that they inherited a broken immigration system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars and neither kept the american people safe nor adhered to our values. now, they say the money will instead go to day cares and schools on military bases. the big question now, what will happen to the wall overall? the administration says they're still reviewing all of it. eva? >> maryalice parks for us, thank you. overnight minnesota's attorney general filed a request for a more severe prison sentence for derek chauvin in the killing of george floyd.

this new filing says the former police officer treated floyd with, quote, particular cruelty and gratuitous pain and also cites the psychological stress inflicted on floyd and the bystanders watching the incident. several were minors. now, chauvin could already face a maximum sentence of 40 years. prosecutors did not say how much extra time they will seek. >> eva, now to a traffic stop that has led to a federal lawsuit. a librarian in her 60s is suing over an encounter with law enforcement that she says left her injured. abc's elwyn lopez reports. >> reporter: whit, good morning. the grandmother of five said she was here on her way to a funeral. it shows officers were behind her ten minutes but because of the loud music playing in her car she says she didn't hear the sirens. this morning, body camera footage showing the moment a 66-year-old librarian was thrown to the ground in north carolina, pulled by her hair as she says athorities dragged her out of her car.

>> i was just driving. >> reporter: this was two years ago, may 2019. >> i had a handful of dreads. at that point she earned it. >> reporter: now stephanie bottom is accusing police of using excessive force against her during that traffic stop claiming in a lawsuit that her rotator cuff was dislocated. >> my shoulder -- i have a torn ligament in my shoulder. >> reporter: the lawsuit claims she was going ten miles over the speed limit on i-85 in salisbury and that officers got frustrated when she did not pull over quickly enough. >> this is pretty exciting chase here. i'm on the edge of my seat, baby. >> reporter: they ultimately deployed spike strips stopping her car. >> you put a lot of people in danger tonight. >> how? i didn't know you guys was chasing after me. i was listening to my music. >> ma'am, there were three police cars behind you for about ten miles. >> i know, but why? >> why? because you were speeding.

>> reporter: the now 68-year-old says it was the loud music in her car that muffled the sirens behind her. a retired police chief says a claim like this should be looked into. >> if you end up with a situation like this, then you ended up with something that is high-profile or you end up with a complaint filed by the person or somebody else alleges excessive force on the part of the officers, you have to investigate it. >> reporter: in a statement the salisbury police department says, it was unable to comment on the pending litigation adding that it, quote, strives for positive interactions with our residents and visitors including in cases where we may suspect criminal activity. we also reached out to the rowan county sheriff's office and the other officers involved in that lawsuit for a comment but we have not heard back yet. whit? >> all right, elwyn, thank you. coming up in our next half hour our round table discussion on policing in america. we'll talk about the surge in high-profile deadly encounters and the possible solutions.

that's coming up. eva? now to the army's report on the investigation into the death of vanessa guillen finding she was sexually harassed by her supervisor and giving new details about the soldier's murder. this morning, the army facing new questions over the treatment of specialist vanessa guillen more than a year following her disappearance and murder, the army releasing their report confirming guillen had been sexually harassed by a superior as her family claimed all along. >> how is it possible for this to happen on a military base? how is it possible and no one heard anything? >> reporter: officials stress that the harassment was not th that the army did not take acon after the 20-year-old guild about being harassed by a superior on two separate occasions. >> we as an army failed to protect specialist guillen. >> reporter: her mother recalling a conversation they had before she disappeared.

>> reporter: according to investigators, this incident has no connection to her alleged killer, specialist aaron robinson, and there was no credible evidence that he harassed her, but he had harassed someone else. the report also details that robinson was able to initially escape custody due to poor communication between criminal investigators and soldiers. he then killed himself. so far 21 soldiers have been disciplined including some of the leaders in her brigade. >> of course, none of this will bring specialist guillen back but her memory drives us to be better. >> and guillen's family continues to push for the i am vanessa guillen act. it's a gill that would change how sexual harassment cases are handled by the military. >> it's a really tough case to hear about, and we're sending our best to her family. we're going to check the weather now, and for that, let's

get it upstairs to rob marciano. robert, good morning. >> good morning, guys. the rain is coming down in texas right now. we've had reports of 5, 6 inches of rain in and around the corpus christi, and this is north of houston where the rain is coming down and wind blowing. that looks like a hurricane. we've got flash flood watches and warnings happening with a slow-moving upper level system that will create more in the way of heavy rain along the coast there up through houston, beaumont, the golden triangle and eventually through louisiana as well. when it ejects it becomes less of a flooding event and more of a severe weather event as it picks up more in the way of dynamics. lake charles, i-10, baton rouge, up through tupelo, maybe south of memphis tomorrow with heavy rain coming on the back side of this, 3 to 6 inches then a severe weather threat will lift north good saturday morning that deck of low clouds below 1,000 feet.

we got the fog at the coast. the winds increasing today. it will be gusty but sunny and elevated fire danger as we get into sunday, under and tuesday. 76 in santa rosa the accu- it's may 1st. you know what that means, dan, open up the pool, baby, come on. >> oh, yeah. >> we're coming over. >> or the pond. >> the pond is good for you. >> the pond is good for you. speaking of the pond, we sent rob back upstairs. you had one weekend here in the studio and then back to the pond studio. >> clearly i struck out. >> it's because janai is here that we're at capacity. we still love you dearly, rob. >> also, janai doesn't like him. >> that's not true. >> talk to you soon. all right. draft day dreams. they are coming true with one big pick returning to his roots and giving back now. abc's trevor ault is at nfl headquarters here in new york city with the latest.

>> good morning, whit. the nfl draft is giving us something it feels like we haven't had in more than a year and that is a sense of spectacle with celebrity guests and fans cheering together for their team's second and third round draft picks. >> reporter: overnight the nfl draft opening the second and third round with roaring fans gathering in cleveland. from a macho man impersonator to rock & roll hall of famers like darryl "dmc" mcdaniels and the isley brothers, the celebrations were in full swing. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello. >> zaven, steve keim. >> steve, how's it going? >> good, man. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and while booing commissioner roger goodell has become a draft pastime, the rams coach sean mcvay was caught on camera with a gold framed portrait of goodell in his home.

>> is that roger goodell, a portrait of roger goodell? >> yeah. >> reporter: and the even focused on giving back to those in need. >> the draft-a-thon also got off to a strong start and continues tonight as we support our communities emerging from the pandemic. >> reporter: it comes as one first round pick gives back himself. former alabama running back najee harris hosting a draft party at the homeless shelter where he once lived donating and serving food for the shelter's residents hours before being selected by the pittsburgh steelers. >> just all the little kids out there that's going through the same stuff, i want to tell them there is people in your same position and there is light at the endof the tunnel. >> reporter: and the nfl draft wraps up later today on abc beginning at noon. rounds four through seven. these players won't be getting the eight-figure signing bonuses as the top prospects, but they can make all the difference. the most obvious example being tom brady also known as draft pick number 199. eva. >> a lot of people will be watching.

thanks, trevor. coming up, a deeper look at policing in america. janai holds a candid conversation with top law enforcement officials from around the country about solutions in the debate over use of force and race relations. is there a chicken shortage in america? we're sinking our teeth into this story and we'll be right back with that and whit is doing a chicken dance. >> "good morning america" sponsored by edward jones, it's time for investing to feel individual. lately, it's been hard to think about the future. but thinking about the future, is human nature. ♪ at edward jones, our 19,000 financial advisors listen and work with you to create personalized investment strategies to help you get back to drafting dreams and building your future.

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one-on-one, looking to attack. here he goes all the way to the rim. and one for lebron james. guys, there's some sports news i want to tell you about. welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. king james making his nba comeback after missing 20 games. the longest break in his career because of a high ankle sprain on his right leg. lebron med a solid return. it was not, however, enough for the lakers who lost a close game to the sacramento kings. >> i love when you do highlights. >> yep. >> yeah, you love hockey. >> i got to scream jumanji at one point. >> i don't know how that works into this story. but you know what, for another time. dan, thank you so much. >> we do have some other

headlines we're following this morning. first happening right now, we are learning that several americans were among the at least 45 killed and 150 injured when a panic-driven stampede erupted during a religious festival in israel. the event was expected to draw a crowd of 10,000 but authorities believe more than ten times that number actually turned out. israel's prime minister has called for a national day of mourning on sunday. >> it's a really horrifying story. and here's another difficult one. happening right now, police in houston have uncovered an alleged human smuggling operation finding more than 90 people, mostly young men, crammed inside a two-story home and this morning news that at least five people in that home have now tested positive for covid-19. on a more light news, one of the highlights of today's nfl draft will be the 17th annual run rich run with nfl network broadcaster rich eisen running a 40-yard dash in his suit and tie trying to beat the times run by

legendary nfl players like jerry rice, ray lewis, cris carter among others. the annual event has raised millions of dollars for st. jude's children's hospital and given lots of us laughs. we start with the emotionally loaded topic of policing in america. we're looking at the challenges that police departments face after recent incidents including the death last week of mario gonzalez after police in california pinned him to the ground. the calls for police reform have grown louder ever since the conviction of derek chauvin for the murder of george floyd and then, of course, there's the issue of stopping the recent attacks against asian-americans so a lot going on here and janai is here with much more. janai, good morning. >> yeah, good morning, dan. so much going on so we gathered four prominent law enforcement officials from around the cuntry, paula balafas, a commander with the university of colorado police department and president of the national association of women law enforcement executives, de'andre hutchison, sergeant at the houston police department and president of the afro-american police league and scott thomson who is a former police chief

of the camden county police department and david honda chief of watsonville police department taking a deep dive into critical issues of police reform and department challenges. >> i think we're at a watershed moment in american policing. i truly hope that the blue wall of silence, which has existed, is coming down brick by brick in large part because of what happened with george floyd. in that trial it was refreshing to see police officers testify against him. >> you're so right about how important that was in that trial, so important that then we saw the prosecution in closing arguments with a sort of diagram like a spiderweb showing you how many different law enforcement officers testified for them to say that it was wrong. what has been the reaction in law enforcement to derek chauvin being convicted? >> it's just been a sigh of relief to see that accountability happen and see the case come full circle, and we saw the verdict last week.

hopefully it took a little pressure off the good police officers because that was not an anti-police trial. >> we all became cops because we want to do the right thing and we don't want to hurt anyone. we want to follow the law. and when those in our ranks don't follow the law, i expect them to be fully held accountable and that jury verdict did that. >> we see so many incidents on video where it leaves people questioning whether the police officer did the right thing from george floyd to breonna taylor, daunte wright, andrew brown jr. recently. all of them were unarmed. even in the 24 hours after the jury convicted derek chauvin, we saw six police killings. >> wow. >> david, what do you think this says about the state of policing in america? >> unfortunately, i think, as a profession we've lost a lot of trust with our communities that we serve. we really got to come together and become unified in how we police. we have to look at past practices. what's not working anymore? we have to progress as society

changes and look at our practices. we've got to look at different ways to approach how we make stops, how we enforce the law. >> we see these videos and we hear, oh, a bad apple, a bad apple. and now you have people saying, well, it's not bad apples, it's a rotten tree that maybe has some good apples. how much do you think the cone of blue silence contributes to this, the culture in police departments that contributes to good officers not speaking up when they see bad things happening? >> i think a lot depends on the department. growing a positive culture within a department, it doesn't just start at the top of the organization. it has to be able to go all the way to the brand-new officer who's just starting. scott mentioned onboarding. having the right fit, screening out people who are not going to be qualified for the position who are not going to be a good fit for your organization. it's crucial because having

people who have -- who are maybe bad actors, they can absolutely decimate a good culture in a department. >> david, what would you say is the biggest challenge facing police officers today? >> for us to survive as a profession, for any community to be effective in policing, you have to work with partnerships in your community. you can't police a city by yourself. >> what is the impact on police officers when they have to spend so much of their time dealing with issues of mental health and these other societal issues that they're not necessarily equipped to deal with? >> when you send a police officer to handle a societal problem, sometimes the results can be catastrophic. so we have to reinvent ourselves. >> scott, do you think that involves retraining police officers? >> yeah, absolutely.

so long as policing by and large embraces this command and control, this, you know, rush in, assert your authority and bring a resolution as quickly as possible, you know what we're seeing now is that those types of actions more times than not escalate situations instead of de-escalating situations. >> training officers is probably one of the most important things our agencies do because you are setting the tone and the culture for the rest of the entire police department. >> we also have to look at diversity on our departments. >> david, on the topic of diversity, you're the first asian-american police chief in your city's history, so that obviously impacts your perspective coming to law enforcement. >> going back historically i mean you've had anti-asian bias and violence going back to the 1850s in this country. we really need to face our history and come to grips

with that and turn that into a positive and learn how to engage with other different communities that we serve. >> black lives matter, one of the largest social justice movements in the history of this country calling for police accountability, protesting against police abuse. but somehow black lives matter has been posed as the opposition of police as if you have to choose one side or the other. >> i think the overwhelming majority of the movement itself, they're just looking for justice. they've been under oppression for so many decades that they're just tired of it. >> we marched with black lives matter activists right here in houston right after the george floyd incident occurred. we marched with the family. we marched with our mayor. we marched with our police chief. so, one, that let the community know that we were hurting just as much as they were. >> there's one thing you need to remember, in the room full of people in their mid-20s just coming on the job, no one coming on the job today was standing on the other side of the bridge,

the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama, on bloody sunday and no one in that room engaged in the behaviors. however, the uniform that they wear was there, and although your position today and the badge, you may not be responsible for it, that uniform is responsible to it. i believe that the government needs to make the first step on this and have that type of engagement. >> a really frank and open conversation. and we also talked about solutions, the changes they believe could help re-establish trust, rebuild relationships and reinvent policing as we know it in this country. former chief thomson has done it and radically rebuilt and restructured the organization leading to improved relations with the community and brought crime rates to a 50-year low. we'll share that part of our conversation tomorrow morning. but, eva, i know you said you were in philly when chief

thompson was making all those changes. >> yeah, i walked on the streets of camden as he was trying to do a lot of that work, thanks, janai. >> important conversation. thank you, janai. w're seeing it play out on capitol hill as we speak in the form of possible legislation there. we want to turn and get a check of the forecast. rob marciano, watching a few things across the country. some serious wind events here on the east coast as well. > yeah, whit, i know you saw it. i saw it too yesterday. it was dan's toupee flying down fifth avenue, 50, 60-mile-per-hour winds. you couldn't hold on to that thing for sure. brooklyn, the newly leafed out trees getting a beating from the wind and heavy rain there and d.c., they had some damaging wind, trees down there. the tidal basin looking more like the atlantic ocean. all right. we have windchills the winds are beginning to die down but brought in cold air and definitely frigid there. windchills down near the freezing mark, new york city, below freezing in other spots, frost and freeze warnings for parts of the ohio river valley. we'll see a nice

bounceback across the northeastern maybe a third of the country and into the 80s by tomorrow after good saturday morning you can see the deck of low clouds. we're in the 50s for most but looking at on this weather report has been sponsored by fitbit. may 1st. they are running for the roses, the kentucky derby is today. the weather looks terrific and, no, dan, your toupee does not count as a derby hat. >> it's not a toupee. it's a lego clip-on thing. >> it hurts if it hits you blowing in the wind. head's-up. >> take out your chin. >> don't be downwind. >> looks good. looks good. coming up on "good morning america," forget where's the beef. it's where's the chicken. what it means for your dinner. h beef. it's where's the chicken. what it means for your dinner.

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