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>> nbc's gabe guterres is outside of the u.n. thank you.journalist is with us now. it is good to have you with us. so these suspects have been captured or killed and they have not been i.d.'d, and what should we make of this investigation so far? >> well, to take everything with a grain of salt. be skeptical of any information coming out of the haitian government, because the government is not organized. there is not a clear leader taking over the country. the prime minister, interim prime minister was discharged by moise before he was assassinated and the incoming president, there is a power struggle there, and so we have been chasing down all day a lot of leads about suspect, and they have said that some of them are haitian-americans, and one of them lives in fort lauderdale, and a fort lauderdale resident, so we have been chasing all of these tip, but the idea that these guys were what do you gather about this? >> absolutely. nobody got hurt as a security guard. the presidential guard, it is one of the best core of the police force. many

nbc's gabe guterres is in birmingham with more. >> geoff, good afternoon.ulation vaccinated, alabama has the lowest vaccination rate, and here at uab, university of alabama at birmingham, they are saying that they are seeing a rise of patients and increase from 35 patients on friday to 54 today. and there has been an increase in the hospitalizations across the state. more than 300% since july 1st. alabama's governor is also facing some backlash from some in her state for comments that she made late last week where she blamed the unvaccinated for the latest surge, and said that the unvaccinated were letting the rest of the population down. >> the new cases in covid are because of unvaccinated folks. almost 100% of the new hospitalizations are with unvaccinated folks, and the deaths are certainly occurring with unvaccinated folks. these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. we have got to get the folks to take the shot. >> here in birmingham, this hospital's lab says that of the 31 recent covid samples that they have tested, all of t