Good morning. Welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Thursday, May 27th, beautiful live picture of New York City on a Thursday morning.

I'm Willie Geist. Joe and Mika have the morning off with us. We have White House reporter for the Associated Press.

Jonathan Lemire, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, now an MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele,

and BBC news anchor and correspondent, Caddy Kaye, was a bit of news that we'll get into in a moment.

We are following a number of developing stories this morning, including President Biden,

ordering U.S. intel agencies to launch another investigation into the origin of the coronavirus.

Did it come out of a lab in Wuhan? That's what they're looking at.

Questions also this morning surrounding the Summer Olympics in Tokyo as Japan struggles to get

its COVID outbreak under control. What a new study is saying about immunity from coronavirus

for those who have beaten it and for those who are vaccinated.

And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer could force a vote as early as today on the commission to investigate the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

But we begin, unfortunately, with the latest from San Jose, California, where nine people now are dead, after an employee opened fire at a light rail yard.

Police say the shooter took his own life.

According to authorities, the victims range in age from 29 to 63 years old.

Law enforcement sources say the gunman was an employee of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Investigators say so far the

motive is unclear. NBC News national correspondent Miguel Almaguerre reports.

This is an active shooter. The sound of steady gunfire ripped across this rail yard in

Northern California, moments before an army of police officers arrived.

PD has multiple units, code three.

Many, if not all, the victims, believed to be co-workers.

Officers followed the sounds of gunfire, cornering the suspect in a room.

They went into the building while the shots were still being fired and confronted the

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