question. there are a lot of things that they receive out there in the rural parts of the state from the oregon state system. >> kirk johnson from "the new york times," thank you for bringing us your reporting and what your sources are saying. that does it for us. we will see you back here tomorrow morning. right now, more with craig melvin. ♪♪ good monday morning to you. craig melvin here. right now, the fight against covid. the united states is close to a major milestone. nearly half of all americans are now fully vaccinated. this morning, there are brand-new concerns after a small number of teenagers who received the vaccine experienced some heart problems.

this hour, i will ask a doctor what families need to know and how concerned we should all be. today, secretary of state tony blinken is set to visit the middle east. his visit comes as the fragile cease-fire between israel and hamas holds for a fourth day now. president biden has made his position clear. he wants to see a two state solution in that region. that's not the only thing that president biden has laid out, not the only part of his vision. he pitched an overall to the immigration structure. he pitched a massive infrastructure bill, he pitched that twice. most pressing today, the president wants changing to our policing system. he gave congress until tomorrow to pass a reform bill by tomorrow. so far, congress has not said anything on the priorities, none of them.

hasn't sent a thing to sign into law. that's where we start this hour. kelly o'donnell at her post there at 1600 pennsylvania. and nbc capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell is on the hill. we laid out a lot of obstacles the president is facing. let's hone in on one, police reform. where do things stand at white house? how do they plan to mark tomorrow's anniversary? >> reporter: the president put a big marker on tomorrow's anniversary when he delivered his joint address to congress asking lawmakers to get it done in terms of a police reform legislative package by tomorrow. all sides acknowledge that is not going to happen. while deadlines can be an important catalyst to action, it appears at this point, parties on all sides are not as concerned about the deadline as much as that would have been good and typically sometimes presidents are scored by deadlines they set and do not meet.

instead, some of those, including members of the family and advocates say they want a substantive bill more than a quick one or one timed to the anniversary. the president, who leans heavily on his empathy and understanding about loss and personal tragedy, has certainly done that with the floyd family and will tomorrow by inviting members of george floyd's family here to the white house. it could have been a different kind of meeting if there had been legislation to talk about. instead, this will be more about marking that moment for them, which is so deeply personal, and what it means more broadly for police reform and that movement. it's a setback for the white house, but one they acknowledge simply will not happen in terms of timing, but they say there are still significant pieces that they are working on. something passed in the house on this. it's really the senate we are talking about. can they get something done there? some of the conversations that have been going on, of course, focus on qualified immunity, the ability to bring legal action

against individual officers and departments and how that has really been one of the thorny pieces. this is so delicate because once you begin to do some things that are perhaps perceived as more aggressive, you might lose some republican support. if you don't do enough, then progressives aren't happy. this is a difficult thread to put through for the biden administration with so many important issues and sensitivities all around. tomorrow will be important to honor the legacy of george floyd and what he means in this legislative conversation as well as to give the president time to have a personal connection with the family. waiting on a real solution, that's going to take more time. craig? >> kelly, thank you. leigh ann, let me turn to you. pivot to congress. lawmakers have been optimistic. are they still?

>> reporter: they are not concerned about the deadline. that's absolutely true. by republican and democratic negotiators that i'm talking to. the negotiations are continuing. representative karen bass is staying in town this week despite the house of representatives going home, to finish those notions and continue them. senator cory booker told me last week that in a matter of three days, he has had 15 hours of face-to-face meetings. that doesn't include meetings with staff. they are serious in trying to get something done. qualified immunity continues to be one of the sticking points. a group of a dozen progressive democrats in the house last week sent a letter to negotiators and congressional leadership asking them, urging them to make sure that qualified immunity is eliminated in these negotiations. senator cory booker was asked about it on cnn over the weekend. let's listen to what he said. >> we need to at some point get

qualified immunity. it's what i'm determined at this negotiating table to get. this is not about going after good officers. this is about when officers have breached the civil rights of another american citizen. >> qualified immunity is a key issue. >> reporter: there are others that still need to be worked out. senator scott and senator booker both told me last week that negotiations are going to take weeks, not months, if they drag into months, they are going to fall apart. >> leigh ann, if you were a betting woman, which has a better chance of passing congress? >> reporter: craig, i'm from vegas. i should be a betting woman. i'm usually not. in this instance, i am the most optimistic about police reform. some sort of infrastructure could pass, but i don't think it's going to be on a bipartisan basis.

>> leigh ann caldwell, i could see you being a betting woman in vegas. kelly o'donnell, thank you to you. that police reform bill in congress that we were talking about, among thing it would do, expand use of body cameras. it's something half of the police departments in this country do not require. even in those that do, nbc's investigative reporter found out they are turning them off too late. >> aaron was a fun loving person. >> he was a loving father. he loved his family. he would do anything for you. give you the shirt off his back. >> reporter: on november 23, 2019, this man walked out this walmart without paying for a $45 lock, according to police. when he later returned, two off-duty officers working security handcuffed him.

state investigators say, the man ran to his car to get a gun. some witnesses say he fired it. others say they never saw him with a gun. you are listening to a police officer who just used deadly force to stop him. it's not clear what happened before the fatal shots. even though the officer was wearing a body camera, he failed to hit record. >> you got bodycam? >> yeah. >> reporter: according to the investigation, officer baker didn't activate his camera until after shooting the man. the video that does exist comes from an auto record feature that captured thetwo minutes before he hit record. it shows the man had a gun. investigators found he didn't fire it. their report revealed officer baker fired 13 shots. >> none of it made sense. they should have been -- body

camera should have been on. >> reporter: this case along with other shootings highlight the importance of body camera video, to increase transparency. out of the 12,000 local police departments across the u.s., only half have body cameras. police experts say for body cameras to be effective, departments need to follow three basic rules. one, tell officers when to hit record. two, ensure they announce they are recording when feasible. three, state clear consequences for breaking the rules. we reviewed the body camera policies for 29 police departments across the country. we found less than half tell officers specifically when to hit record. 41% require officers to announce they are recording. just 34% state there are clear consequences for failing to hit record. >> the cameras aren't there just to be there. they are meant to record

interactions to foster accountability in public trust. >> reporter: this man is deputy commissioner of compliance for the baltimore police, assigned to help reform bpd. >> having cameras is one thing. ensuring you are turning it on is essential. >> reporter: it worked in new orleans where he was previously assigned. he says clear rules led to officers turning on their cameras in 99% of incidents. it made a big difference in use of force complaints. they plunged 60% from 45 to 18. >> body cameras are an unbiased third party if they are used how they are intended. >> reporter: this man is a professor in new york. he viewed thousands of hours of bodycam footage from police departments nationwide. including this case. what stood out when you reviewed that video? >> we don't hear any of the police officer orders.

we have no idea if the officer saw a gun. there's a lot of holes to be filled that the body camera unfortunately did not fill in this instance. >> he has a pulse. >> reporter: officer baker is no longer with chester police. the department declined to say why. >> a lot of things do not add up. we would have known a lot of this if the bodycam was on. >> was on. president biden set to reverse a trump era policy that has haitian migrants in this country breathing a sigh of relief. the white house announcing saturday it will grant temporary protected status for roughly 150,000 haitians living here. haiti is facing serious security concerns and social unrest. jacob soboroff is following this for us. jacob, walk us through what led

the administration to make this announcement. i know this is something you talked about with the secretary a few weeks ago. >> reporter: that's right. you described it exactly as i would. it's a huge sigh of relief for the haitian-american community. over 100,000 people living in the country. in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, that's the first time they were granted temporary protected status. it was granted throughout the obama administration. the trump administration attempted to pull that back. there were activists waiting because of dire economic conditions, food insecurity in the wake of the pandemic, that they wanted the biden administration to put that into place as quickly as possible. the biden administration allowed 34 deportation flights, according to haitian-american activists. it was something when earlier this month when i was with

secretary mayorkas -- i want to show you this clip. >> this is a young boy orphaned as a result of the tragic january 2010 earthquake in haiti running through miami airport to meet his adoptive u.s. parents. if or when haitian migrants are going to receive temporary protective status, do you have an update to that? it's under review. we are looking at the issue. it's in my mind and our minds. >> reporter: craig, that was earlier this month. obviously, now secretary mayorkas has acted on it. he had not acted on it at the time. it's a sigh of relief, as we have been saying for

haitian-americans in the united states. activists are not satisfied yet. there are many haitians, i met some waiting on the other side of the mexico border, to enter the united states at this minute. they are not allowed into the united states. under that title 42 policy, if they try, they will be sent back maybe to haiti or mexico. that's why activists say this is a positive step, but it only applies to people who are in the country. they will push for others who are trying to get temporary protected status and entry. >> jacob soboroff, thank you. right now, covid cases are at their lowest point in almost a year. but there's a new concern this morning. reports of some teenagers who received the vaccine experiencing some heart problems. we will dig into that. also, our nation's top

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right now, we are rapidly approaching another major milestone in this pandemic. nearly half of all americans are now fully vaccinated. here are the latest facts at this hour. the seven-day average of new cases is down nearly 20%. that means we are under 24,000 new cases a day. the last time we saw case numbers this low, back in june of 2020. new mexico and rhode island have become the latest states to see 70% of adults with at least their first vaccine shot. that makes nine states total that have already reached president biden's 4th of july goal. there are new concerns.

concerns over potential myocarditis in teenagers who have gotten the vaccine. the cdc looking into reports that a very small number of teenagers, several dozen, who have gotten the covid vaccine have experienced some heart problems. they have yet to figure out whether there's actually any evidence that the vaccine caused the condition in teenagers. want to turn to dr. hilton, who is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical medicine. good to have you back. let's start with the news about the potential myocarditis among teenagers who have gotten the vaccine. can you explain what that is? >> it's literally inflammation around the heart. there's a difference between causation and correlation. what we don't know is, is this linked to the vaccine itself?

we know is that about 10 in every 100,000 persons in the united states will develop this. this isn't necessarily something that's attributed to the vaccine itself. what we know is that covid-19 itself can cause myocarditis. look at the athletes out of the university of pennsylvania last year, showed 15% of those with mild to asymptomatic coronavirus developed this. it's something we are investigating. >> we have nearly half of all adults in this country who have been fully vaccinated now, dr. hilton. cdc and fda gave this emergency use authorization to pfizer to vaccinate children between 12 and 15. are you at all worried that this could affect the rate of vaccinations among young people, especially as schools reopen to full-time learning in the fall? you have a lot of kids going to

camp this summer. >> i'm certainly worried. whenever we have news like this, it does cause persons to pause. we know that this is shown that the system of reporting actually works. the system, the medical system is taking these cases seriously. again, we know that myocarditis is something that happens outside of vaccines. people will develop this, that was before covid-19. we also know that covid-19 causes this itself. when we are weighing risk/benefit of vaccinating the children to get to a normal childhood versus not, i think every time vaccines will win. >> india, dr. hilton, as you know, has now become the third country in the world to pass 300,000 covid deaths. the united states has committed to sending 60 million doses to india along with 20 million

doses for elsewhere abroad. how much of an impact do you think that's going to make on a country like india which is seeing so much devastation from the virus so far? >> it's going to be a tremendous impact, not only for india but for the globe. we know that one in every ten indian persons have been vaccinated. we know that globally, we are seeing this discrepancy between the wealthiest countries and the poorest countries. at least 12 countries within the africa continent that don't have vaccines. if we will get through this pandemic, we know mutant variants are there. we know they can develop. we know they can threaten our vaccine efficacy. the quicker we get ahead of the game and vaccinate as many persons, not just americans, but people as possible, the safer we will be. >> to that point, again, according to "usa today," 9% of

the country is vaccinated. our country has millions more vaccine doses than we need. there is this headline. to protect americans and help the world, the united states needs to give more covid-19 vaccine away more quickly, experts say. should we be doing more, dr. hilton, to help the global vaccination effort, especially considering how much surplus we have? >> right. it is a tricky spot. i do believe we have to start thinking globally. we have 73 million doses of vaccines in our stockpile. there's estimates that's going to be upwards of 300 million by the summer. when we have massive deaths in india, massive deaths in brazil, we have to start thinking, how can we help our global community? we have to remember in the united states that our vaccination has not been homogenous. in the northeast, doing fantastic. down south where we are from, in south carolina, 34% fully

vaccinated. that's the story of many parts of the south. when we are going into summer and people will start to travel, where will they go in the united states but down south? we have to look at what's happening in florida, in south carolina, in georgia and these gulf states to see how are we going to ride this next wave of what will be the fall and winter of 2021? >> dr. hilton, we have to leave it there. thanks, as always. thank you so much. america's top diplomat heading to israel. his big message on where the biden administration stands. we are watching the cease-fire between israel and hamas. it's fragile but so far it's holding. we will go there live next.

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right now, that fragile cease-fire between israel and hamas is entering its fourth day. the state defendant announces that antony blinken will travel to the middle east. president biden is committed to a two state solution between israel and the palestinians.

we have the latest on all of it. where do things stand on the ground now, this cease-fire in its fourth day? >> reporter: the cease-fire is holding at this point. it's fragile. there were skirmishes over the weekend in the east -- in east jerusalem and also in the west bank. nothing spreading widely. of course, there i pins and nee. they want to make sure this doesn't become something bigger. the last thing they want is more bloodshed.

that's goal one, solidify the cease-fire. other objectives included as well. the secretary of state will talk to a number of different officials while he is here. he will start his trip in jerusalem. he will talk to the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. he will meet with the palestinian authority president abbas. his trip includes visits to cairo, egypt, instrumental in getting the cease-fire and jordan. among the other objectives are to find a way for the palestinian people to have a better life here and also to enhance security for both palestinians and israelis. easier said than done, of course. a situation so volatile here for so long. another key detail to be ironed out, craig, is how to rebuild gaza. a lot of parties have talked about this, including the u.s.

the question is, how to do that. there's extensive damage there. how do you do that without financing or propping up hamas? according to a senior state department official, they will work through the united nations and the palestinian authority to do that. those talks with the palestinian authority and of course with israel are crucial. the state department officials saying there are no guarantees that money won't get to hamas. but we will do the best we can to make sure aid gets into the right hands. craig? >> kelly there in tel aviv, thank you as always. as we monitor the middle east, tensions are flaring in the united states. we are seeing a rise in anti-semitic violence. in new york, police are searching for a group they say yelled at four jewish men and damaged a car outside a brooklyn synagogue. in los angeles, the lapd are

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tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of george floyd's murder. as we have been reporting, president biden asked congress to pass police reform in his name by tomorrow, may 25th. that's not going to happen. but some local police departments, they have started to make changes in the wake of floyd's death. shaq brewster is in downtown minneapolis with a look at how policing itself has changed over the last year. shaq, what have we seen in some of these police departments around the country since george floyd's murder? >> reporter: well, craig, as that federal legislation remains stalled, experts reporting that what you are seeing at the local level is credited to activism, marches, rallies we saw here in minneapolis last night for helping to keep up the pressure. george floyd's murder sparked strong demands for change. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> reporter: one year later,

experts say police reform is sweeping through the country at an impressive pace. >> to see things that are occurring on this level on a national level and also taking place not only just at the local and state level, it's amazing. i will be honest, it's about time. >> reporter: the charlotte police department is weeks away from beginning a revolutionary retraining. >> it's going to get resistance. >> reporter: it's putting the final touches on a new curriculum on the officers. training that will emphasize customer service. >> it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad experience with police officers. it might be a bad situation that they are in. our encounter with them does not have to be a negative encounter. >> reporter: this emphasis on service shaped in the months after floyd's death. as congress debates federal legislation, lawmakers in nearly every state have introduced more than 3,000 policing related

bills. more than 30 have passed. common reforms include bans on chokeholds and neck restraints, updates to use of force and deescalation policies and new, expanded body camera policies. some have done more. illinois's new law requires officers to provide an unde dlt underlying offense when arresting a person for resisting arrest and ends cash bail by 2025. new colorado legislation considered the most far reaching, allows officers to be sued for up to $25,000, ending the liability shield known as qualified immunity. >> as someone who has lost her son at the hands of police, when you look at the reforms that have been talked about, what do you think? >> that's progress. that's progress. but we still need more progress. >> reporter: some activists

hoping that reform is just the start of a systemic restructuring. >> we have tried all of these different things. you cannot reform what's in somebody's heart in the system of law enforcement here. it's not just here, around the country. it's almost unreformable. >> reporter: despite those changes at the local level, you still have people wanting to keep the pressure up on congress to pass that george floyd justice in policing act. the floyd family, through the memorial foundation, is calling today a virtual day of service. asking people to call their members of congress and keep that pressure on them. they want to see action at a federal level as soon as possible, craig. >> shaq brewster on the ground once again from minneapolis. shaq, thank you so much for that look at what's been happening around the country over past year. tomorrow, on the anniversary of george floyd's murder, we will dedicate our entire hour -- we will dedicate the hour to

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reality. grades are down, absenteeism is up. heidi, some teachers didn't finish the school year, as we understand it. what's being done to try to fix these issues before it's too late for these kids? >> reporter: good morning, craig. this city emblematic of what so many are dealing with. here is the situation that they are dealing with as the doors swing open. chronic absenteeism. failing grades, up to 57% of students who attended virtually failing at least one class and plunging enrollment. the glue to put this all back together again is really the teachers. even there, there's some significant concerns. here is what one mother had to say who we spoke with. >> my son's school was one of the schools, one of many schools

in detroit that they had to call the parents together and say, even though we could go back face-to-face, our building is not going to be face-to-face because we don't have the staff. >> reporter: craig, we spoke with the superintendent's office. they are confident they can hire teachers. here is the situation, even before covid, they had overcrowding in classes. since last august, they have seen here in michigan a spike of -- by 44% of teacher retirement. this is happening potentially nationwide, according to the bureau of labor statistics. we saw the numbers, the demand and supply curves are not meeting. if we don't have the teachers, a lot of those plans are going to go awry. we need to have the teachers in classrooms teaching students in order for these kids not to be essentially falling so far behind that we can't recover them, craig.

>> doesn't matter if schools are open in the fall if we don't have teachers in the classrooms. thank you. we are starting to see red flags about the number of students going to college during the pandemic. the national student clearing house research center found college enrollment fell by 6.8% in the fall of 2020. that's more than a 5% drop from the year before. i want to bring in some folks trying to turn those numbers around. stephen mccullough and the chief operating and equity officer of communities in schools. arne duncan. he is is part of the collective. let me start with you. your organization's mission listed on its website is to, quote, surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. when you're staring down some of

the numbers that we just ticked through, how do you do that? >> well, thank you for having me on. we do it through relationships. so communities in schools is a national non-profit and we're in 2900 schools across the country. we partner with schools, teachers and administrators to provide support to students and their families and it's everything from academic support to basic needs, clothing, housing, et cetera, and social emotional support. so all of that winds up to having great relationships with students and their families to stay connected and that's what's critical to successfully keeping kids in school. >> arnie, the man who has your old job education secretary miguel cardona, he's made his top priority to get students back in the schools $170 billion from the president's covid relief bill dedicated to that

goal. what more can the federal government do to reverse some of these trends and get high-school grads back to college? >> this is an extraordinarily difficult year and the federal government can't do it all by itself and secretary cardona is doing a fantastic job and resources coming from the federal government are unprecedented. stephen hit the nail on the head and yes, we have to open schools physically, and this is all about relationships. this has to be relentless outreach. if all we do, craig, is open our schools and say come back that's a huge miss on our part's adults. we have relentless outreach starting now and students that have been disengaged and families whose lives have been up ended and we have to knock on doors, sit on porch steps and spend time and that engagement has to start now and we cannot afford to get to the fall. we have a sprint to re-engage families that have been desperately disconnected.

our children need and deserve that. >> how do we do that, though, arne? every parent of school-age children know how hard 2020 was and how far behind kids got. how do you make up that lost time? well, first, again, families are struggling and their lives have been up ended and we have to meet them where they are and we have to go out and meet them in living rooms and steps and find out 2 to 3 million students who have not been to school in a year and we have to assume they're coming back and it's a terribly false assumption and we have to go find that. for those that have fallen behind, i've talked about a national two-week program coming out of this pandemic. we don't need the summer off, whether it's physical, virtual or hybrid to help those students catch up and we want to make

sure going into the fall that we closed that gap as much as we can so students are ready socially and emotionally ready to go. this is critical. i keep reiterating. we cannot wait until the fall to start to work. it has to start now. >> this national tutoring program sounds like a phenomenal idea if and when that takes off, do let us know. we'd like to highlight it. the research shows this is disproportionately affecting low income students and black and brown students. how do you solve the problem in a way that's equitable? >> great question. well, communities in schools, the majority of the 1.7 million students that we serve are students of color and of the majority of those are in title 1 schools and schools that serve

communities. basically, again, it comes down back to relationships, making sure that we have strong relationship with not only the students, but parents and family members who have gone through a year and a half of trauma, basically, and connecting resources. it could be as simple as wi-fi, for example. that's what equity looks like, and all these supports that we surround students with and our alumni, as well, are really the glue that will enable us to succeed in bringing students back successfully in the fall and as arne said, it starts now. >> stephen mccullough, former education secretary, arne duncan, we'll have to leave it there and this is a conversation we'll continue to have over the next few months because it would seem as if there is a looming education crisis in this country come fall. that is going to do it for me this hour.

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