keep in mind, lsu football and scc football is pretty big in here. >>> the tokyo olympics not far away. despite assurances from the japanese government about efforts to control the pandemic, there is serious concern. as lucy craft reports, the rollout so far has not generated a lot of excitement. >> reporter: in recent months, nationwide festivities like these have been meant to drum up excitement as the summer olympics approaches. held under heavy anti-covid measures often with spectators banned, the events have served as a grim reminder of the risks facing japan as it opens its doors to tens of thousands of global athletes and personnel, said political science professor nancy snow. >> i said it looks like there is really becoming cringe-worthy. that whenever there is a ribbon cutting exercise or the announcement of the olympic torch rally, there's always som torch rally it's invisible. there are no cheering fans. >> reporter: organizers are expected to announce daily testing for athletes who won't have to quarantine. competitors will be confined to the olympic village, venues, and tr

lsu said there would be a news conference at the top of the hour.n found but no identity given. we'll continue following this. >> john: yeah. the area that they're looking in apparently is quite a ways downstream from baton rouge, which could account for the delay here. sad news to finish us off. thanks for join us for "america reports." i'm john roberts. good to be with you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. "the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. this is the story breaking right now in minneapolis. three are now fired or have resigned related to the shooting of duante wright. first, the city manager that you may remember calling forcefully for due process in this case. remember this? >> and in response to the question about termination, all employees working for the city of brooklyn center are entitled to due process with respect to discipline. this employee will receive due

he's a senior at lsu majoring in electrical engineering. i took a few electrical engineering classes and didn't do so well. brandon, i'm very, very envious of you. brandon graduated high school from scotlandville. he works to give back to his community through volunteer efforts. and brandon has received a go grant every year. and he credits that scholarship with the ability to stay in school and complete his degree. so, brandon, i have an idea of how hard you've had to study in order to earn this degree. and by increasing funding for go grants, we can help many more students like brandon to achieve their goals. let's give brandon a round of applause tonight. [ applause ] i want every student who walks on any campus in this state to have the opportunity to thrive. i also want them to go on to succeed in the workplace. and, simply put, we can't accomplish this if we aren't investing in higher education. we also can't accomplish this if students aren't safe on their own campuses. my administration's worked closely with members of the louisiana

>> university of miami >>> i took miami and three points and their season opener against lsu.llege football week one. i was also sure the hurricanes would play for the national championship >> 40 to 1 >> well, that didn't work out. down another 600 bucks in a flash, my pockets were more than $2700 lighter proof that businesses here are diversifying gaming accounted for just 34% of revenues on the strip in 2017. rooms, drinks and entertainment made up half food is another huge slice of the pie. withtop restaurants from gordo ramsey to giada delorentiis, it's been a destination for one thing, the really big buffet, one of the biggest at caesar's palace coming in at 25,000 square feet with 500 different dishes, i'm about to find out if this place lives up to the hype >>> it seems busy. is it always busy? >> it's always busy. >>> okay, this isn't your average buffet >> oh, my gosh >> it's a football field of food keeps going. lamb chops, crab cakes, paella and the executive sheff, letisha nunez. >> hi, how are you >> are you letisha >> i am. >> are you the head boss in charge >> i

the intensifying search for a missing freshman from lsu.r car was found abandoned in baton rouge, and now hundreds of people are involved in the search efforts. abc's elwyn lopez right there in baton rouge where she's been talking to this student's family. elwyn, good morning to you. >> reporter: dan, good morning. the teen's family and friends tell me they will not stop until they find kori gauthier. that's what they have been doing here for days in baton rouge, and the search for her picks back up again this morning. this morning, the urgent search for a louisiana teen is under way. >> my daughter is still out there somewhere. whatever it takes, whatever the cost, it's not an issue. >> reporter: 18-year-old kori gauthier now missing for five days. >> i get a call saying she didn't show up for dance class and i knew something was wrong. >> reporter: the united cajun navy mobilizing hundreds of volunteers along with local authorities searching from dusk until dawn by ground, air and water to find the louisiana state university freshman. >>

. >> reporter: for 14 years jessie hamilton was the backbone of lsu's phi gamma delta fraternity as these cook. >> she just cared for everybody and she wanted to make sure that everybody was taken care of. >> we're here to thank you for that >> reporter: so when the alumni gathered to celebrate her 74th birthday, they decided to take care of her. >> we're going to pay your mortgage off. >> that day was the best thing ever happened to me in my life for those young men to help me. this was jessie's day. >> jessie's day. >> reporter: jessie's day came with a big check. more than $50,000. >> thank y'all thank y'all. >> reporter: enough to pay off her mortgage >> it was apparent from the first phone calls that everybody felt the same way about her that i did >> reporter: andrew fusaiotti contacted 90 former fraternity brothers after hearing jessie was still working two jobs and was there to present the check. >> there's no way i could ever repay you but i can always pray for you. >> jessie, you've already paid me back more than i could ever give to you. >> just a person when you think about

lsu says it has not yet reviewed the lawsuit. >>> turning to the pandemic president biden is expectedannounce new mask guidelines today. it comes as we see a sharp decrease in the number of americans getting vaccinated. that is compared to last month. one vaccination site in florida now reports 90% of its johnson & johnson shots have gone unused. meanwhile, overseas india is desperate for more vaccine. it reporting 300,0 newovid cases every day, and one expert warns the real number could be three times higher. let's get to washington where abc's ike ejiochi has the latest. ike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth. we've reached the point where over half of adults have received at least one vaccine dose, and it's coming as new covid guidelines are expected to be announced. this morning, the new milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. nearly 96 million americans are now fully vaccinated. the cdc is expected to announce new guidelines for outdoor mask wearing for those fully vaccinated. >> we've learned a lot about the virus in the last year, and, you know, recent re

> reporter: in return for all her hearty meals, they cooked up a plan. 90 fraternity brothers from lsu'stter known as fiji, pooled their money to give her the surprise of her life. >> you told me a year ago that you were still working two jobs, cleaning and cooking at age 73. you're the only one that i know in this world that could walk into that hot kitchen working for minimum wage with a smile on your face every single day for 14 years. >> let's see what we got. you can pay your mortgage off. >> oh! >> reporter: a birthday surprise of two checks, one for $45,000 to pay off her mortgage, and another for $6,675, just for her. >> you deserve it. you've earned it. we thank you. we love you. >> thank y'all. thank y'all. >> it is jessie day. >> love that. david muir is right back here tomorrow night. i'm linsey davis in new york. have a great night. the following program is sponsored by coldwell banker realty. welcome to at home in northern california! today we're taking you on an exclusive tour of beautiful properties throughout the region. this is an amazing place to call home, with gorgeo

fast-forward to late yesterday, please confirming it was indeed the lsu freshman.nal activity, adding "this is a difficult conclusion for all of us but we hope this brings closure for the family." cory's loved ones in the meantime want to thank all the police and volunteers who have been out helping them search for answers, john, over the last week. >> john: sad news coming from louisiana. casey stegall from dallas. >> sandra: this has turned that whole campus upside down, it's been an absolute tragic ending to a story that many were following and the students they are in and around baton rouge, it's been a horrific, horrific thing to watch play out. our best to her family, horrible news. strong jobs numbers today but despite that economy is improving, democrats are still calling to spend trillions more of your taxpayer money. they are also not backing down on hiking the minimum wage. as all of that necessary with this economic boom happening? steve moore and robert wolf will debate that. ♪ ♪ refiplus can help you lower your rate plus turn your home equity into an

. >> harold: 30 years ago lsu fiji brothers paid off the mortgage of their fraternity cook ms. jesse hamilton. bless you and bless your family. >> dana: that's a great story. >> greg: sorry, dagen, next time. all right, "special report" is up next with a guy named bret baier. good evening welcome to washington i'm bret baier democrats are calling democratic proposals to expand the number of justices on the u.s. supreme court an assault on judicial independence. several democrats are bringing forward a bill to add four new seats to the supreme court which would be selected by president biden and confirmed by a democrat run senate already seeking to eliminate the filibuster. kristin fisher has details on this tonight live from the north lawn. kristin. >> few things more controversial in washington right now than killing the filibuster and packing the supreme court but today a group of congressional democrats tied the two together by introducing a bill to 13 and they say they know it would require getting rid of the filibuster to do it? >> some say we are packing the court we are

. >> harold: 30 years ago lsu fiji brothers paid off the mortgage of their fraternity cook ms.next time. all right, "special report" is up next with a guy named bret baier. good evening welcome to washington i'm bret baier democrats are calling democratic proposals to expand the number of justices on the u.s. supreme court an assault on judicial independence. several democrats are bringing forward a bill to add four new seats to the supreme court which would be selected by president biden and confirmed by a democrat run senate already seeking to eliminate the filibuster. kristin fisher has details on this tonight live from the north lawn. kristin. >> few things

who pulled off a beautiful surprise for someone who took very good care of them during their time at lsu years. acting as a mother to the young men who lived there. when alumni heard she was working two jobs to pay off her mortgage, they decided it was time to help her out. >> i remember jesse told me a story about this house and what it meant to her. >> oh, no. >> the problem with the house is it comes with bills and all kinds of stuff. >> yes, sir. >> let's see what we got. we are going to pay your mortgage off. >> oh, lord! >> ten brothers surprised her with that big check and a celebration days before her 74th birthday calling it jesse hamilton day. 90 members came together to raise more than $50,000 for her to pay off that mortgage as a way to thank her for looking after them for all those years. nicely done. our final low to the brown bear who got much more than he bargained for after wandering into a house in california this week. caught on a home security camera making his way from the deck into the kitchen through an open door while the homeowner was taking a nap on the couch. h

. >>> after 21 seasons at baylor, hall of fame winner basketball coach is leaving for lsu.as a coach in history. she was announced as a member of the 2020 basketball hall of fame class and set to be inducted next month. >>> finally, yesterday was a very good day to be kevin durant. the super star returned after a leg injury to score 33 points in a win. how about winning an oscar? the movie he coexecutive produced called "two distant strangers" won the academy award. they joined kobe bryant as the only nba players to win an oscar. he won back in 2018. >> yeah. ""dear basketball."" nice to see you. thank you, coy. >>> twitter had a field day with the news that the tesla billionaire will host snl may 8th. musk has faced real criticism for treatment of employees. yesterday he joked about people dying in his mission to put a man on mars. even some reaction from inside snl. aidy bryant proposing a tweet by bernie sanders. >>> on mars, the ihelicopter successfully completed the fird flight and nasa calls it the fastest, farthest, and boldest flight so far. it flew for about 80 sec

we have the professor of lsu health at new orleans school of medicine, he's been studying these variantsnd you've identified 28 variants alone in samples from the new orleans area in the last six months of 2020. by now we've all learned that viruses mutate, that's okay. but i think the real question for a lot of people is as we're learning about these variants, that they're spreading more easily, if we talk about the one first identified in the uk and in some cases cause more severe disease, how concerned should we be right now? >> well, think of it as a family tree. some branches of the family tree are more successful than others. in this case successful for a virus means infecting more, or invading the immune system. there are three particularly successful, if you will, branches of the virus's family tree that are spreading. one is the so called b.1.1.7, which is the british variant. then you've got p1, which is the practice stillian variant and t -- brazilian variant, and then the south african variant. these are all present in various parts of the united states in different. so we do

i just in this piece but excited about your your forthcoming book with lsu is again, this globalization of the civil war is so important, but we're always just basically looking to europe you look south and the tradition of herbert bolton. you're probably one of the few people having, you know over gold i know broad he reads everything. he'll probably be not the wvu with about to gettysburg friends, right? you remember this you were still an undergrad we talked and you said everyone these three undergrads had read michael holtz the week party. well, that is bigger than a bible. it's huge and i thought it just goes to prove that my reference to the civil war house is being another animal house was apple and slanders. you guys are extremely studious before i turn it over to ashley evan. i think that the lesson learned here. is that what us grant should have done as president. he should have built a wall on the eastern side of mexico. keep the french out right? well by the time grant got into the presidency they were out they left. oh, they could have come back. they could have come back.

lsu police say they were focusing search efforts in a targeted area of the river.rving up some hard truth. the tiktok video showing the burger joint posted a sign reading we are short-staffed please be patient with the staff that it know up. no one want to work anymore. the chain, like many restaurants across the country, has struggled to find staff due to the pandemic and extended unemployment benefits. queen elizabeth attend her first royal engagement since prince philip's death. early peel who stopped down as lord chamberlain. most senior officer role appointed by the household. he was overseeing arrangements for prince philip's death before his retirement. those are your headlines. brian? brian: all right, carley, thanks. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree human problems at the border. will they agree on how to fix it. bipartisan group of lawmakers from the problem-solvers caucus traveled to the border to get a first-hand look at the crisis joining us now with what they saw co-chairs of the caucus and that is democratic congressman josh gottheimer of ne

lsu say in a statement, "at this time based on evidence collected during the investigation thus far lawicials suspect no criminal activity or foul play took place." corey's family and friends say however something about the whole thing just doesn't feel right and that she would not just take off like this. they continue to hold out hope that she will be found alive. right now anyone with information is asked to call police. >> thank you. >> sandra: president biden and harris pitching that to a trillion dollar plan to lawmakers today. republicans calling it a slush fund, they would be interested in passing without support from the g.o.p. let's bring in brad. welcome. i will put on the screen the numbers we are talking about here to put this in perspective. his plan to spend hundred $15 on bridges and roads, traditional infrastructure. everything, 2 trillion, 1.8, why is that spending spree needed? they are already saying this economy is on pace to add 16 million jobs already. why do we need to spend this money? >> it seems to me to be a situation like we've already seen with the 1.9 tril

and this year i will be a visitor at lsu university, i am the embodiment of the louisiana accent as well>> let's not discount that the mexican war brought us all of the west and southwest. california, new mexico, etc, he was the commander-in-chief and he acted like it. and if it upset winfield scott who had quite a temper, and zachary taylor, so be it. as it turned out that is wet history have recorded. we greatly spend it the united states during that time and we got those properties for very, very little. in terms of the history of real estate polk rights high. >> only if you think that going to war with a country to steal a country is a appropriate and legitimate thing to do. significant numbers of americans believed that the mexican war was purely inland grab and it war of aggression. many americans including -- who was a great defender of slavery believe that the mexican war it was a big mistake because he predicted correctly that once you have the mexican war you would open again the question of slavery and the territories and that would cause a catastrophe, what does. zak retailer

. >> because keep in mind, we are in lsu football country and that holds a lot of sway with people here meet people where they are, omar and sometimes they are in a bar. >>> the fbi is launching a civil rights investigation into the police killing of a black man in north carolina a week ago. newly released surveillance video shows sheriff's deputies arriving at andrew brown jr.'s house before he was shot. a judge plans to hear arguments today to decide if body camera video from the killing should be made public and miguel bojorquez is in elizabeth city where protesters returned to the street. good morning. >> good morning. we were there as several of those protesters were arrested last night for vileatolating th city's curfew. this was a curfew that was implemented and was necessary because outside groups were starting to come in and they felt tensions were growing, but several of the protesters thought it was unnecessary cause for a full week now their protests had been peaceful as they continue to demand the release of that body cam video. >> new surveillance video shows a team of dep

. >> joe burrow, quarterback, lsu -- >> reporter: a long way from this where hugs and handshakes werecinated and has been given the green light to interact with players in person tonight. >> right here where the commissioner will come to make their picks. >> reporter: peter o'reilly is the executive vice president overseeing league events. he gave us early access to the venue. work so closely with the cdc, with the state and city public health officials, masks are going to be mandatory for every fan here. ea even if you're vaccinated. this is a fully outdoor event. that's to our benefit. we have to showcase and educate about the vaccine and its efficacy and the opportunities that it creates for people. >> reporter: is that something that we're going to be hearing throughout the broadcast as we watch? are we going to hear about the vaccines? >> i wyou will. fans will be front and center and vaccinated, the legends, the great nfl players who step to the podium to make picks, they'll all be vaccinated. >> reporter: while the number of vaccinated americans continues to increase, the count

. >> lsu buddy. >> i see that. that guy is terrific, joe. that was a great pick.wn, you guys are going better, burrow, is he okay how's his rehab? >> i don't know. i worry about that getting blown out again. i really do. maybe we should have gotten like three or four guys to surround him. >> it's early. it's early many more rounds >> we'll tune in to "squawk" for important business stuff like amazon and everything else when we see you in a couple of minutes. we're done, i guess. >> we are. >> how much time do i have none get decision tech from fidelity. [ cellphone vibrates ] you'll get proactive alerts for market events before they happen... and insights on every buy and sell decision. with zero-commission online u.s. stock and etf trades. for smarter trading decisions, get decision tech from fidelity. you need a financial plan that can help grow and protect your money. an annuity can help cover essential expenses in retirement. have the right financial professional show you how... this is what an annuity can do. that building you're trying to sell, professional