what is the latest information we have, gadi?porter: yeah, well, from what we're hearing from police, you said it, it's basically, we know that

back with us, nbc's gadi schwartz. gadi, the police officer was the first one in, apparently, first officer to respond to the scene, the police officer who was killed. >> reporter: that's right. that's what we're hearing, that that first officer on scene made entry and at some point was confronted by the gunman, and that first officer is being called heroic after losing his life, confronting that gunman. but right now, what we know is that there were ten victims of this shooting, including that officer, and then, somehow, that gunman was taken into custody alive inside the king soopers. now, we don't know the gunman's identity. we have seen video of one person that was injured with what appeared to be a leg injury or some injury on his lower body, being led away without a shirt, without pants, in handcuffs, and we believe that may have been the suspect, but right now, police are not releasing any suspect information, any motive. all they can say right now is ten fatalities and they lost one of their own tonight. lawren

back to you. >> gadi schwartz in denver, thank you. the massive covid relief bill was signed into law just two days ago, but this weekend americans started receiving those checks some totaling thousands of dollars. kelly o'donnell is at the white house with when your money will arrive >> reporter: covid relief is now showing up as money in the bank and lighting up social media. $1,400 for steve martinez in san antonio. >> it was a nice surprise to see that it came so soon, and it couldn't come at a better time. >> reporter: the key to fast delivery, this first wave of direct payments going to qualified americans who filed tax returns that linked their bank accounts to the irs. >> my phone got a notification saying that the irs had direct deposited. i was on the phone with my mom. i'm like, mom, i got money. >> reporter: $5,600 for 25-year-old mom brianna raines, who is out of work in casper, wyoming. >> i have some bills that are behind obviously so those are all already caught up i got all of those caught up this morning >> reporter:

. >> gadi schwartz, thank you thar that update. to the points, there are photos and videos on social media that are aerial views of the procession of police cars. not just boulder pd but others in the community. and you splay seen the one suspect led away by two members of law enforcement. he is a white male, as gadi put it, without pants. one leg, notably bleeding. he is limping from his injuries. all we know police said they have the suspect in custody. he was wounded. but they have not connected the aerial photos we saw of the suspect in police custody with being positive live i.d.'d as the gunman in this story. i want to bring in a witness of so much of what unfolded in boulder, and that's anna hanes. she is editor in chief of the cu independent. let's not forget boulder is a college town. the university of colorado boulder campus. pick up the story where you first realized something was wrong. where were you physically in relation to the big box supermarket? >> hi, yeah, thank you for having me. we live -- i live in an apartme

but it's going to take us a little while longer >> gadi joins us now alaska the first state to allow vaccines for those 16 and up. now considering vaccinating tourists >> reporter: that's right, jose. alaska is considering offering one-shot vaccines in their airports before the start of the summer tourist season, in hopes of protecting their communities and travelers alike as more activities begin to reopen. jose >> gadi schwartz in los angeles, thanks. >>> now to the crisis on the border and the heart-wrenching human toll today we're learning more about the life-and-death decisions of families seeking safety here, including one mother now talking about her young daughter who drowned on their harrowing journey. antonia hylton reports from texas >> reporter: a mother's anguish told in heartbreaking detail "she was my princess, she was everything to me." ariceli franco cruz trekked more than 1,000 miles from guatemala to the u.s. border along with her two children while crossing the rio grande, they were overwhelmed by the current. "i tried a thousand ways, but i couldn't swim when i b

gadi, thank you for joining us. i've summarized what i can tell in terms of what the police have just told us, what seems unusual to me about the bare-bones nature of what they confirmed. have i gotten any of that wrong and can you advance our understanding at all in terms of what we understand about this offer the course of the last few hours? >> reporter: rachel, we're finding ourselves in a very difficult position. we saw that bare-bones press conference as you described and then we saw the entire shooting play out over a live stream. with your help, i'm going to try to navigate, without speculating in terms of what we saw with our own eyes watching that live stream and how it matches up with that press conference. i'm not sure if you picked up on it as well. you could hear reporters expressing their concern and frustration, saying it's been three hours. how do you not know how many people have died in this? then you heard the response, we don't know. so you just have to keep a couple of things in mind. first, we

kate, back to you. >> all right, gadi got to be good for skiing >>> to politics now and the thousands of dollars dropping into americans' bank accounts this weekend, all courtesy of president biden's nearly $2 trillion covid relief package, but the bill has many critics. kelly o'donnell reports. >> reporter: cash deposits to the rescue $422 billion in covid checks now flowing to americans, like 70-year-old dorothy donahey, at work today in her virginia studio >> i cheered and i cried. >> reporter: that emotion over what the direct payment means with $1,400 now in her bank account. cataract surgery finally, because it will pay for most of the part that medicare won't cover. >> reporter: improved vision essential to her art, but it's been unaffordable until now. >> it will change my life for the better. >> reporter: in las vegas, covid has crushed many jobs linked to tourism. hospitality workers welcome the help but say economic recovery is needed most. >> the stimulus checks has been a great band-aid, but band-aids don't last. >> reporter: las vegas is among seven destinations in the n

back with us, gadi schwartz.rter: that's right, that's what we are hearing. that first officer on scene, made entry and at some point, was confronted by the gunman and that first officer is being called heroic, after losing his life confronting that gunman. there were ten victims and somehow that gunman was taken into custody alive. we don't know the gunman's identity. we have seen video of one person that was injured in what appeared to be a leg injury or some injury on his lower body, being led away without a shirt, without pants in handcuffs and we believe that may have been the suspect. but right now, police are not releasing suspect information, any motive, all they can say right now is ten fatalities and they lost one of their own tonight. lawrence, back to you. >> and they are still working on positive identifications of the victims and they have to notify families before they can release the names. so it's that process that is going on tonight before we get those names. >> reporter: absolutely. it's going

what's the latest information we have, gadi? >> reporter: from what we're hearing from police, you said it. it's basically we know that multiple people have been shot and killed and one of them is a police officer from the city of boulder. and that's basically it. the press conference we saw just a little while ago didn't have very much information at all, so that's the official word. and earlier today there was a livestream that showed immediately what was happening immediately after that shooting, during that shooting that paints a pretty clear picture. we're going to work through what we saw on that livestream. we'll be very careful about the images we show you, and we'll avoid any type of speculation, just sticking with what we saw on that livestream. a little earlier this afternoon, that livestream started when a man who is coming into king soopers to do some shopping, which is that supermarket, started to notice that something was amiss. he started to ask people what was going on. he heard active shooter, and then he decid

gadi schwartz now with much more on this investigation. gadi >> reporter: hey, good evening, frank.irmed they investigated whether these unidentified aerial vehicles might have been drones launched by nearby ships, but no luck when they reached out to a carnival cruise ship, they also reported seeing these mysterious lights as well so right now what we know about this pretty brazen incursion comes from entries into the ship's log of the uss kidd appand two other ships which were swarmed by unidentified aerial vehicles one log entry describing a back-and-forth left/right maneuver that's similar to what a commander of a strike fighter saw in 2004 off the coast of california when he and another group of fighter jets spotted unidentified flying objects they described as a white tictac. it was bouncing back and forth left and right over the surface of the water. >> then it starts coming up at us it's coming up, i'm coming down so it's literally aware we were there, no doubt, because it mirrored me. i get to within a half mile of it as it gets in front of me, it just goes poof, and it's g

gadi schwartz, nbc news. >> our thanks to nbc's gadi schwartz for that report.follow that through the morning. >>> but let's turn now to the situation at the southern border. in a bipartisan effort, democratic senator kyrsten sinema of arizona and gop senator john cornyn of texas, who represent states along the border, are calling for president biden to use his, quote, full authorities to respond to an ongoing crisis at the southern border. the pair sent a letter to president biden asking for him to take immediate action in two areas -- making sure there are enough resources and facilities along the border and improving the asylum process. the letter reads in part, "it is critical that our nation take aggressive steps to secure our border, protect our communities, and ensure migrants are treated fairly and humanely." the letter comes after reports surfaced that the number of migrant children being held in border patrol custody for longer than ten days has quadrupled in the past week. >>> senator cornyn, though, is facing backlash after complaining about presiden

back do you. >> gadi, thanks. >>> janessa webb with more on where the storm is headed now.ood morning, janessa. >> yeah, good morning. good morning, everyone 27 inches on the ground. that's the latest update from the national weather service for the denver area. what happened with the storm system, you can see the low that continues to spin. and it's stalled out for 36 hours across the high plains now it's starting to transition into the midwest but it's really going to lose its force. right now, forecasting about an inch of snow for the chicago area but the upper midwest. we're going to watch that potential for 3 to 6 inches. there is that dividing line where it's going to collide with warmer air you could see a rain and snow mixture as it starts to make its way to the ohio valley i know the forecast throughout the weekend was concerned about the northeast. this system completely breaks apart. guys >> right, janessa, thank you for the update >>> now, the biden administration kicks off a nationwide blitz to sell the country on the covid relief tomw president biden hits penn

than two feet of snow on denver and much more on other areas, causing widespread travel nightmares gadichwartz is in denver tonight >> reporter: on colorado's highways, half-buried cars sit abandoned after one of the most powerful blizzards denver has ever seen. and today some drivers are returning on foot, shovels in hand. >> this is not easy. i walked five miles to get here >> reporter: the storm dropping 27 inches of snow near denver parts of wyoming buried under four feet during the worst of the whiteout hundreds were rescued >> if you stopped, you were stuck there's no way to stop >> reporter: at denver's airport thousands of flights were canceled but opened back up late afternoon as the storm heads toward the midwest. for the millions snowed in this morning a lot of shoveling, and for some a much-needed snow day >> the mountain sports came to you guys >> they did. definitely don't need to drive it's literally all right here >> reporter: schools canceling class across the state as some families celebrated the remnants of a storm they won't forget gadi schwartz, nbc news, denver >>

gadi schwartz is in arizona. >> reporter: as millions face long lines, short supplies, and obstacles of tiers and eligibility, in gila county, arizona the process couldn't be more streamlined. here any resident 18 and older can get a vaccine. >> yeah, i'm pretty lucky. >> reporter: today the county, once a hot spot with some of the highest rates of covid-19 in the country, is now one of the only places to move beyond eligibility requirements >> we have seen the effects of covid on our population we have taken care of our employees' parents. we have watched them perish we have -- you know, in a small town you take care of your own. >> reporter: the county says part of their success comes from lessons learned during last year's historic fire season >> we certainly have the same incident command structure put in place >> reporter: and because of their smaller population they were able to quickly protect their elderly and essential workers and convince the state they could continue to give out shots as quickly as they could get them. so far about 40% of adults here have received at least

nbc's gadi schwartz joins us from denver.addy, good morning. >> hey, phillip, take a look at this this is the denverro area. you've got more than a foot of snow that's been accumulating on these cars we understand that about a 14 inches or so has fallen. 6 of those inches happening in about four hours and it's all up and down the streets. this is what we've seen all day long a slow revving snowstorm finally showing its full-strength. more than three feet so far in cheyenne and counting. blizzard conditions socking in cars as interstates shut down in colorado and wyoming, even news crews needing a hand >> heard you guys got stuck. >> a big shout out to our friend pete he had to come over and dig us out. he was the most kind and helpful person. over the last two days, snow totals have been hit and miss across places like denver where the airport shut down all r runways after 20 inches of snow. more than some ski areas, prompting some to take their winter sports to city parks. >> we didn't ski today because we thought it would b

and several medevac helicopters positioned nearby as tactical teams work to secure the scene nbc's gadi schwartz has late details for us >> guys, we've got an active shooter situation. >> still shooting. >> reporter: at a grocery store in boulder terror and confusion as an active shooting was captured live by a man with a camera running for cover. >> guys, there's an active shooter >> look, there's -- [ gunshot holy [ bleep ] >> we have a report of a shooting in progress kings soopers, 3600 table mesa >> reporter: parts of the video too disturbing to show depict several bodies lying in the parking lot and inside the store. >> there is no ongoing public threat. we do have a person of interest in custody. >> reporter: within minutes teams of police descended on the scene as gunfire continued to ring out. >> there's a shooter active shooter get away >> reporter: the emergency calls centering around a king soopers grocery store in a busy area reports of a man with a rifle. officers warning everyone to stay away while telling the shooter to come out. after police entered guns drawn, one man

the area of low pressure is slow moving as gadi pointed out. once the snow arrives later today we are going to see it stick around and become very heavy. that will give some time for significant amounts of snow, especially through denver where we could see about one to two feet of snow. as for rain, flooding is possible with three to four inches back through parts of nebraska. the snowfall we could see >>> cold and chilly to start, but it's going to be such and sunny and lovely day ahead. here's a look at your headlines for the weekend. afternoon sunshine today. looking out ahead, we have a rain chance that moves in tomorrow evening. but today, go out and enjoy. temperatures will be comfortable, in the 60s. and we will see sort of a sneak peek of spring, which officially starts next saturday. 59 degrees in oakland. 65, san jose. palo alto, 61. livermore 63. full forecast at 7:00 a.m. >>> and that's your latest forecast. back to you guys. >> dylan, thank you very much. >>> still to come, anger and outrage after a racist rant on a girl's basketba

gadi schwartz, nbc news >>> tonight, astrazeneca could be the next vaccine in the american arsenal against covid after the company reported its trial results saying it's 79% effective and 100% effective at preventing death from covid. this comes as almost 83 million americans have now received at least one vaccine dose here's tom costello. >> reporter: with a diverse 32,000 participants in its u.s. trial, astrazeneca says its two-shot vaccine was 79% effective in preventing covid-related illness, 100% effective in preventing hospitalizations and death. while already approved in 70 countries, some temporarily paused the rollout after a small number of people reported blood clots though the company and european medical authorities say there is no evidence of a connection to the vaccine. >> there was clearly no difference in the occurrence of blood clots between the vaccinated group and the placebo arm. >> reporter: and no reports of blood clots in the u.s. trial, which the fda will soon review. >> you can rest assured that the fda will put a great deal of scrutiny in every aspect of these da

. >> we're going to bring in nbc's gadi schwartz. that we picked up on the ground? what are some of the concerns that people have had? have we heard additional rumors about other shooters or is right now people are just sort of calm and waiting for what this presser is going to present us? >> reporter: i think right now a lot of people are just waiting for that presser, and we have seen a lot of unconfirmed rumors that have been swirling on social media. in fact, just a little while ago the police department in boulder put out a statement saying there are these rumors swirling. many of them are untrue. right now we're going to completely hold off on any type of speculation until that press conference starts in about 10 minutes with some concrete information. what i can tell you, though, is we've been monitoring this from a livestream that went up just a few minutes after that shooting. so we have seen with our own eyes through this livestream some of those moments right after that shooting happened and during the shooting as well. it

gadi schwartz is in l.a. for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peter.oke its record for most vaccines given in a single day. nearly 3.5 million doses administered, while 40 states, including california, prepare to make the vaccine available to all adults by the white house's may 1st goal. federal health authorities expect to see a steady supply of johnson & johnson vaccine increasing every single day, and all this as more states are relaxing restrictions. arizona doing away with statewide mask mandate. north carolina allowing more businesses to reopen to full capacity. officials are warning scaling back too soon could be premature. half the country seeing the highest case increases since january spike. the former cdc director is making headlines with renewed questions over the exact origin of covid-19, saying in a cnn interview he thinks the virus originated in a lab in china. a statement met by skepticism from dr. anthony fauci who said most health officials think the virus was already circulating in the wuhan area for a month before it was first detec

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nbc's gadi schwartz has more. >> reporter: hey, lindsey. hey, kendis.st few days significant progress over the country as the u.s. broke the number of most vaccines broke in a single day. nearly 3.5 million administered while 40 states prepare to make the vaccine available to all adults by the white house's may 1st goal. across the country a record-breaking stride. nearly 3.5 million vaccinated in a single day as 11 million doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine are on the way. the u.s. on pace to have half the country partially inoculated in the next couple of months offering hope to many. >> i think that's one of the things we miss is being able to touch each other. >> reporter: a large portion of the vaccines headed to cvs, rite aid, walmart and others. walgreens announcing it will start offering vaccines in 400 locations as well. starting may 1st all but three states will offer vaccinations to any adult regardless of profession or health status gearing up for what could become the next big hurdle, convincing those who don't want the vaccine to get i

here is nbc's gadi schwartz. >> reporter: this morning, a sign of hope as the u.s.day. nearly-3.5 million. as former cdc director, robert redfield, is making headlines with renewed questions over the exact origin of covid-19 saying in a cnn interview, he thinks the virus came from a lab in china. >> i still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped. the other people don't believe that. that's fine. >> reporter: but dr. anthony fauci saying that's up likely. >> the alternative explanation, which most public-health individuals go by, is that this virus was actually circulating in china, likely in wuhan, for a month or more before they were clinically recognized. >> reporter: a w.h.o. report on the origin of the virus is expected as soon as next week. meanwhile, in the u.s., half of the country is seeing their highest-case increases since january's spike. >> we know from prior surges that if we don't control things now there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again. >> reporter: but in states like

gadi, thank you. >>> another vaccine option is showing promising results. novavax says late stage trials found its two-dose vaccine to be more than 96% effective effective against covid-19 and 86% against the variant found in the novavax is expected to wrap up its clinic by the spring. >>> if you need even more motivation, a vaccine could be your shot at love. the dating app coffee meets bagel will now let users share their vaccine status. >>> covid has been devastating to communities of color and that's certainly true in louisiana where a new study found louisiana black workers were more likely than others to be unemployed during the pandemic here's morgan. >> reporter: every person we have spoken to has made the comparison between the impact of covid and impact of hurricane katrina. covid has been far worse eight times more people have died here in the state of louisiana from covid than from hurricane katrina. and the same is true when you look at the covid numbers. the reality is both of those tragedies affected people of color and low income the next st

. >> gadi schwartz. >> reporter: good morning, phillip and frances. a long day of investigating for officers going into that king sup percent for this second day after that deadly shooting yesterday. we understand there were 10 victims, one of them was a boulder police officer by the name of eric talley, a 51-year-old veteran of that force. he had been with the force for about 10, 11 years he was one of the first people to respond to that shooting and in the minutes that followed those initial reports say he was unfortunately one of those ten victims. we understand the gunman has been taken into custody. we are told the gunman was the only one injured in the firefight. we saw a man who was handcuffed not wearing pants, not wearing a shirt led out of the store bleeding from his leg. we don't know conclusively because police have not said whether that man was their suspect but they have said the only person injured was the suspect. we're waiting for more confirmation today so far, no motive at all of what would caution a man to walk into a supermarket d

aren't they, gadi?reporter: hey, good morning, guys, the snow has finally stopped here in denver. the sun is sun shining and now beginnings the long process of digging out just like this crew is doing. the snow totals we're seeing around the state are staggering. in the rocky mountain region, a tense 24 hours of rescue after rescue. blizzard conditions stranding people in their cars along interstates in wyoming and colorado. snowbanks so treacherous even plow trucks and ambulances needed to be rescued. police using 4-wheel drive armored vehicles to carry passengers to safety. in cheyenne, the snow piling up. in the mountains of utah, an avalanche swept over four skiers that had to be rescued, fortunately, all survived. denver's metro area, power outages to tens of thousands. 2 feet of snow shutting down all the runways at denver's airport, leading to 2,000 flights being canceled. while in quiet neighborhoods, lines of cars sat half buried in the snow, as thousands spent the day shoveling out from the qu

gadi, one of the things this last year taught us is how deep seeded our inequality is especially whencomes to health care and exposure. los angeles was the hub for figuring much of that out, what are you seeing today? >> we have been talking a lot about inequality here in los angeles. one of the things coming to the forefront of that now is the johnson and johnson vaccine. they see it as a second class vaccination. they say it is easier to give one vaccine to have individual instead of having to schedule them two vaccines. sometimes they're transient, but that vaccine just as effective when it comes to severe hospitalizations and death as the other ones. so we're starting to see that vaccine administered here in los angeles and the health and human services secretary of the state of california was just getting his vaccine a little while ago. he got the johnson and johnson. a year later right now this is not a hospital clinic, this is a shopping mall here in the baldwin hills area. an area that is traditionally under served. the parking lot is kind of empty, and we're talking to some o

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gadi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's starting to come down pretty steady now.s not packing the punch that a lot of people expected. we have time. it's some time before we see the snow totals. really, the unofficial snow totals here in colorado are always how much snow you have to scrape off your car. this is a car we left overnight. this is my car. a moment of truth here. okay. that's gotta be about two inches, maybe three inches. they are saying it could dump about a foot of snow. we have a way to go. already, you see that snow accumulating on the ground, on the roads here making it extremely slick. you have snowplows out working and out on the freeways. you have major interstates that are shutting down in several directions. you have got freeways i25, i70 in colorado as well as wyoming that have been shut down as snowplows try to keep up with the whiteout conditions and those rising snowbanks. the leading edge of the storm continues to push its way into the great plains, creating all kinds of tornadoes that we saw yesterday, again today. forests show the most

gadi, thank you. >>> on saturday, people in boulder, colorado, held a moment of silence for the ten victimsn the mass shooting. a memorial getting bigger every day outside the supermarket. people there come to mourn and remember. that community and the nation still trying to understand why a gunman would have walked into the supermarket shooting and killing so many people inside. the second mass shooting in this country in two weeks. chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press." good sunday morning to you. >> good morning, hallie. >> let's start there and what's happening in washington as it relates to guns in this country. we have seen this before, outrage from members of the political sphere looking to do something. you have, as you know, congress out of town for at least the next couple of weeks. is any momentum behind getting something done evaporating? >> you know, that's a fair question to ask and given our history, i guess the question could be, that's likely the case. the attempts to get new restrictions on gun ownership have always been event driven. it'

reporter: let's compare a little bit about how florida did it and how california did it out where gadi is. it's two very dramatically different approaches. as we look at, for instance, masks. in florida, i'm wearing a mask. it's not required by the state. in california, you must wear a mask in public. restaurants in florida, no restrictions. in california, there are capacity restrictions. then just look at disney. the disneyland remains closed in california. here in florida, it's open. next week, it is sold out for spring break. can the governor claim victory? did he do the right thing? when you look at the actual numbers here on the per capita basis, it's about the same. florida has per capita one out of -- [ no audio ] in california, one out of 10.93 people have been infected. it becomes an economic question about who made the right decision here. on a medical question, we posed that to a medical expert about whether governor claim victory. this is what our medical expert had to say. >> if you just look at the actual numbers, you cannot make the case that we are better than californi

thank you, ari melber and gadi schwartz as we wait for information on the shooting in boulder, colorado. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we have, of course, breaking news from boulder, colorado where a shooter opened fire at a grocery store this afternoon. this is just before 3:00 p.m. eastern time. police have not released victim names or suspects, but there are victims who appear to have been injured. right now we are awaiting a press conference from boulder police. we'll bring it to you when that happens. they say it ought to happen any moment. now i'm going to turn to someone who understands what to do in these kinds of situations, retired seattle police chief carmen betts. carmen, we don't have a lot of details so far. we know police responded. we heard reports about sheltering in place in another location. it seems, though, that we are going to get an update here. how do you approach this as a local police force? >> well, chris, these are always really critical incidents whether it be a mass response, multiple jurisdicti