democrats frame it as transformative. republicans say it's government run amuck. >> i call upon my republican colleagues to stop their march madness and show some compassion for their constituents who are less than wealthy. >> i've heard people across the country say this bill today is costly, corrupt, and liberal. it's a laundry list of left-wing priorities that predate the pandemic and do not meet the needs of the american families. >> that deal will head to the president's desk just as country arrives at a familiar coronavirus crossroads. the biden administration just this morning just last hour announcing a new agreement to buy 100 million more doses of the johnson & johnson single-shot covid vaccine. more vaccine means the country should get back to normal more quickly. but here's the concern at the white house. states are already relaxing restrictions even as dr. anthony fauci says, quote, we're not out of the woods yet. listen here, a similar warning from the cdc director. she sees a pattern and potential reason for worry. >> what we have seen is that we have surges after people start traveling. we saw it after july 4th. we saw it after labor day. we saw it after the christmas holidays. currently 90% of people are still unprotected and not yet vaccinated. so we are really looking forward to updating this guidance as we have more protection across the communities and across the population. >> let's begin the hour with me to share the reporting, cnn's kaitlan collins and cnn's lauren fox. and, lauren fox, i'll start with you because we can show the house floor. they are about to vote in the moments ahead here on what is a signature achievement for the biden presidency and a moment of remarkable democratic unity, both in the senate and in the house, and now again in the house for a second vote. this bill transformative. $1,400 checks to individuals making less than $75,000 a year. $300 a week in unemployment benefits through september. increases the child tax credit to # thousand dollars a year, funding for schools, for states and for vaccines. democrats say transformative the challenge now is once this vote is done to roll it out. >> that's exactly right. and this is really an act of democratic discipline as well. there were multiple points, multiple provisions in this bill that moderate democrats and progressive democrats didn't like. they had a hard time bringing this back without the $15 minimum wage included in it. now is the opportunity for democrats to go out and remind voters what is in this package. there are ghosts of 2009 where a lot of democrats felt like they didn't do a good enough job selling that stimulus package to the american public, really making it clear what that package did for americans. they are making it very clear that they want to talk about what is inside this bill. an expansion of obamacare is also included in this piece of legislation. they want to talk about that. they want to get past even just talking about direct funding which is going to be a huge deal for people when they look at their bank accounts. they want to talk about the broad scope of what this bill suspect they want to make it sound like this is the biggest progressive policy that they've pushed forward in decades. >> and kaitlan collins, this is a collision, you get them in washington but not this big in quite some time of policy and politics. the new president on day 50 today was vice president when the obama stimulus passed. when obamacare passed he was the vice president. in the next midterm election the democrats got hammered. even though they did something they thought was critical for the american economy, and that got hammered which is why this president says i'm going to run around the country and talk to the country and make sure they understand what's in this. a primetime address tomorrow night. to highlight key provisions of the bill. first a news conference is coming up, plus sometime in the week as head most likely in april a joint session of congress addresses how much is the salesmanship going to be important when the president gets the bill to be signed? >> they've dealt with this legislative battle that's been hammering out on capitol hill for the last several weeks. but now it's really going to turn to the political fight. you noted of course president biden was around during the obama days. and a lot of his staffers were also here during those days. a lot of them do not feel like they did enough to sell the stimulus plan in 2009. so they don't want to make that mistake here. it was a similar option when they were talking about getting republican support or going really big. they went with going really big and not getting any republican support. but what they have insisted on is that it's popular with republicans throughout the country. so that's why you're going to see president biden firing up air force one, going around the country, making these stops. it's not exactly clear where he's going to be going yet to talk about this bill and to try to pitch it to voters and explain so many parts of it. because it is a massive bill, but we should note it's not permanent. a lot of it is temporary. so the questions of whether or not they are going to try to make some aspects of it permanent is going to be a big one. the other one is going to be the implementation of this. because a lot of this is going to fall to the irs, the child tax credits. so that's another key thing to watch in addition to how they're going to sell it is how they're actually going to put it in place and implement this to actually get money out to people quickly. >> that's an important point because part of candidate biden's pitch was i know what i'm doing, i know how to run the government, i can make things work. it's fascinating, lauren fox, as we watch this play out, this is going to be an all-democratic enterprise. they're not expecting republican votes. and that's somewhat risky. you heard republican leader kevin mccarthy say people out in the country call this liberal and corrupt. it has broad support also. larger tax credits for some, 95% of democrats think that's a good idea. 73% of republicans do. money for returning to the classrooms. sending out stimulus checks, again, majority republican support overwhelming democratic support. aid to state and local governments is an area where you see republicans less in favor of giving state and local democrats support. this is a hard one for republicans in the sense that if the biden team can implement this, if people start to feel help, republicans are the party of no. >> that's exactly right. and you have to remember republicans voted for many of these similar provisions in past bills. not an expansion of the child tax credit, but they have voted for some state and local funding in the past. now the argument that republicans will make is that a lot of that money still hasn't gone out the door. a lot of states are starting to recover. they're not having the deficits that they might have expected to have at this point in the pandemic a lot of kids already getting back to school. that's the argument that you're hearing from republicans is we still have money from past bills that hasn't gone out the door yet. why are we spending more? but that's a nuanced argument. and in politics when you are making those kind of nuanced arguments, it can be tougher to convince people that you didn't make a mistake by not supporting this bill. but not a single republican vote expected today. >> candidate biden said he wanted to be bipartisan. president biden said he would like to be bipartisan. president biden also has to realize that's unlikely. it's unlikely to happen. there may be a few exceptions down the road. we see in our new poll where he ranks right now. presidential approval rating in the first year of office in march, president biden he's six points above president trump. but he's at 51%. he is not getting the honeymoon welcome to our polarized politics, life has just changed since the days of dwight eisenhower and even since the days of bill clinton. what do they think inside the white house, they get this big first win 50 days into office. what's the next act and how important do they think it is to sequence out their priorities heading forward? >> well, i think they think that's a massive part. that's why that address that he gives which we are now expecting to happen in april is going to be so crucial because that's really where you're likely going to see president biden lay out what his next priorities are going to be. white house aides, we have a general idea of what it is people want to see happen next, but they're hesitant to announce anything before he actually gets out there and announces it. we know infrastructure is a big one, but he's facing several other problems as well. this is what happens when you become president. it's not just a list of your priorities. you're also dealing with the challenges of the job, what's happening on the southern border is one of those that is taking up a lot of time inside the white house right now and is becoming increasingly a bigger focus for them. so, yes, we'll probably see an infrastructure rollout. that's going to be a big question on whether or not they're going to get bipartisanship on that. look at what's been playing out. you saw senator schumer on last night taking a hit at senator susan collins. it'll be really interesting to see how these politics play out, the white house is counting that this is a one-off where there was not bipartisanship. but going forward seeing what it's going to look like is something that really remains to be seen, and people in the white house are hopeful, but they're also realistic when you talk to them privately about this. >> it's fascinating. we're still watching a young administration. fascinating to see if they can take this big one. it is a big one. we will watch the vote on 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the road. let's walk through the latest numbers and then put that purchase into context here. you see the case count is down dramatically from the beginning of the year. 57,417 new infections reported yesterday. you see the flat line here. that's what the white house is worried about. yes, significant progress so far this year, but now a plateau above 50,000 cases. they want to push that number down a little worried as restrictions ease that will get harder. same with hospitalizations, way above 100,000. now down 43,000 americans yesterday, 43,100 hospitalized with covid. again you see it's down but you also see a bit of a plateau right there. at the moment a flat line in the statistics. the cdc's ensemble forecast of deaths were currently 527,000 americans have died in the past year of this pandemic. cdc estimates that will go up to 571,000 or so by april 3rd, less than a month from now. so still the death count is incredibly sad as you watch it play out. today is the day the texas mask mandate is no more. texas is now fully reopened as its governor says. 16 states currently do not have statewide mask mandates at this moment. this is a big concern of the white house saying the case count not down enough to be easing restrictions at that level. some restrictions they say sure but not a mask mandate. look at the vaccine numbers just shy of 19% of americans partially vaccinated, just shy of 10%. so 10% right now fully vaccinated. 18% partially. 19% partially vaccinated. if you look at the map, again, texas getting rid of its mask mandate and the other restrictions. well it's near the bottom of the list texas is right now. poor performance in terms of getting its population vaccinated. it's at 8%. you see alaska at 6%, west virginia at 13%. the darker greens moving up into the teens. that's what you want to do, get more people vaccinated asap. alaska taking a dramatic step today. it leads the pack, 16% of its population has been fully vaccinated. it now says any adult in alaska can get a vaccine. started with older and more vulnerable. now they say if we have them, come get one, sign up and make an appointment. the doses announced today by the administration puts more supply out in time. doesn't come right away. johnson & johnson is the single-dose vaccine. 100 million doses already ordered. another 100 million more doses announced today. you have 300 million pfizer doses, 300 million moderna doses. and this goes back to the trump administration and "operation warp speed" if the astrazeneca vaccine is approved, there are plans to purchase the last two. but right now pfizer, moderna, and the additional 100 million doses coming from johnson & johnson at the white house covid briefing today, the coordinator andy slavits saying they understand they're going to need vaccine months and months and months down the road. >> this order allows for the president to plan for the future in the latter part of the year. this is war time, and as facts still emerge, it gives us maximum flexibility for our upcoming needs. >> let's put this in context with the director of the vaccine education center and an attending division of infectious diseases and also the co-inventor of the roto virus vaccine. so 100 million new doses of j&j on order. again the production there is just ramping up so it's not going to be available for some time. i want you to listen to dr. fauci. they're starting to sound a bit more optimistic as the vaccine rollout accelerates he thinks in a few months we could be here. listen. >> if you look at the praned rollout of the vaccines, then we would hopefully get to that point somewhere by the end of the summer and the early fall. you're absolutely correct if a significant number of people do not get vaccinated, then that would delay where we would get to that end point. >> but he thinks could have herd immunity by the end of the summer. do you agree with that? >> yes. i think i really think we're almost there. if you look at the actual number, even though 29 million people have been infected when you do antibody surveillance studies, it's probably closer to 85 million. so it was 25% of the population has already been infected meaning they're immune. there's another 10% roughly that are fully vaccinated, 29% that are partially vaccinated. if you look at what happened last summer when 100% of the population was susceptible and we didn't have a vaccine, still those numbers came down, and then surged again in the winter. if we can get to 80% population immunity by the end of the summer, then we won't see a surge next winter because this is basically a winter respiratory virus, and it'll be back unless we have a significant percentage of the population advavaccinated. >> when i hear you optimistic, it makes me optimistic because you have been a voice of caution which i've appreciated over the past year. one other question is what's the shelf life, if you will, inside your body of these vaccines? dr. walensky at the cdc says we don't know quite yet. listen here. >> our current guidance says that, you know, three months is the data that we have so far. so we are waiting for data to emerge about how durable your protection is beyond three months. and so this is exactly among the reasons why we want to be cautious as we take these first steps in our guidance post-vaccination. >> the point she's trying to make is that we don't know yet. when will we know? do you need to get a vaccine every year? is once enough? >> again, i think there's reason for optimism. what these vaccines have done basically is they've mimicked the immune response associated with natural infection. it looks like natural infection induces longer-lived immunity. we don't know if people who, for example, were naturally infected and were sick who then when exposed to the virus again were very sick, meaning were hospitalized. so that's good if natural infection can protect and you can get a vaccine that mimics natural infection, that's good news. also with the second dose of the mrna vaccine or the first dose of the johnson & johnson vaccine, you not only have antibody responses in your blood stream, you also have cellular immunity which has a longer-lived response. you would think this vaccine would be effective for two or three years. but we'll see. >> and so as more americans get vaccinated and as more americans hear optimistic voices in the public health community saying we're getting closer, there's all these questions. the cdc guidelines yesterday what if you received a vaccine, what can you do? they said it's safe especially if you're with other vaccinated people you can have small group dinners, you don't need to wear a mask. and when the summer people are thinking can i travel? dr. fauci say when's it comes to air travel, hang if for a minute. listen. >> the cdc is carefully heading in that direction. when you don't have the data and you don't have the actual evidence, then you've got to make a judgment call. and i think that's what you're going to be seeing in the next weeks. you're going to see little by little more and more guidelines getting people to be more and more flexible. >> what's your take, a, how the new biden team is handling this, but, b, where are we? you hear them at one point saying we'd like you to be more cautious, can you give us six weeks, can you give us eight weeks? and other times they're trying to write rules, because can we at least do more, if not everything? >> they're trying to take those first cautious steps into a time when we can start to live life as normal again. 1,500 people died of covid yesterday. that's an enormously high number of people. and the cdc knows for a fact that tens of thousands of people will likely die over the next six to eight weeks and they don't want that to happen. and probably all of those people wouldn't have to die if they had a vaccine. we are almost there where we'll have enough vaccine for everybody. that will happen by the summer if we can just hang in there for a few months and do the best we can to not put ourselves at risk with masking or physical distancing, we can get through this. we are almost there, and that's why it's hard to know that the life boats have almost arrived, but there are going to be people who die because they're not careful and because they haven't been able to get a vaccine. that's going to happen and that's what the cdc wants to try and avoid. >> dr. offit, as always, grateful for your time and your very important insights. thank you so much. >> thank you. up next for us, the fbi releases some new security footage of a suspect placing bombs around washington the night before the capitol insurrection. to support local restaurants, we've been to every city. including little rock and even worcester. and tonight... i'll be eating the chicken quesadilla from...tony's tex mex...in... katy. 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pipe bombs near the capitol the night before the january 6th insurrection. our cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz j joins us now live. >> reporter: it's a big part of it because it's truly fascinating when you think about this, john. they have no idea who this person is. and so in an effort to do this, they are releasing more video. they had previously released some video, and then yesterday they went ahead and released additional video. one of the reasons why the fbi is having such a hard time figuring out who this is is that this person went to great lengths to disguise themself to try and hide their identity. when you look at the video, the person's wearing a hoodie, they're wearing gloves. you can't see their face. of course they're wearing a face mask. so there are a lot of issues with trying to identify this person. you see them walking around. there is really a lot of video of this person. and to think given all the video that the fbi can't identify this individual is really fascinating. the other thing here is the movement of this person. we get to see this person moving around a lot. and the reason why we can only identify this person as a person, and we don't even know the gender of this individual. that is something that the fbi is trying to figure out. they've released stock photos of the sneakers that this person was wearing. i talked to a law enforcement official who said they're not even sure that the shoes that this individual is wearing is the right size that perhaps they are bigger because they've been looking at the way that this person was walking and at times it does appear that they are having some difficulty in walking. so they are thinking that maybe the sneakers, the shoes are not even the right size. also, john, think about the placement of this. some officials believe that perhaps this was some kind of a political statement maybe, that where these devices were placed and the time at the time that they were placed were not necessarily indicative of wanting them to harm someone but more of to make some kind of a statement or some kind of destruction. >> that's fascinating to watch the video. we'll see how the investigation plays out, the fbi clearly looking up there. it's amazing to watch, shimon prokupecz, grateful for this reporting and your reporting over the past several weeks on this important subject. up next, the president's fact-finding team is back from the border and about to share some lessons learned. with our highest concentration of prebiotic oat intensely moisturizes over time to improve skin's resilience. aveeno® healthy. it's our nature™. before i was diagnosed by my doctor, i didn't know why my body was moving on its own. my eyes blinked way too much. it turns out, i have tardive dyskinesia, a condition that may be related to important medications i take for my bipolar disorder. my fingers moved like they were playing a piano that wasn't there. tardive dyskinesia can affect 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average in facilities that are not equipped to handle minors. that is a day longer than allowed by law. one of the top point people on immigration is to speak today. these numbers continue to tell you that they have a major problem on their hands. >> they have a major problem, john. and it just seems to be growing bigger and bigger by the second. this is exclusive cnn reporting from my colleague priscilla alvarez. and these documents in this data that is dated from just yesterday is showing just how much these numbers are changing and surging just by the day. because if you're looking at this average of how much time these unaccompanied kids are spending in these border patrol facilities, which are really jail-like facilities. you're not supposed to have kids spending a lot of time there. that's why the law is only 72 hours. so basically they can be brought in there, processed, and then sent to a facility run by the health and human services department. but now these documents are showing they are spending an average of 107 hours in these facilities. that's about four days that these kids are spending in these facilities on average. this is isn't just a one-off. this is becoming more of a pattern. and what's so striking about this is just how different it is compared to just recent weeks alone where with last week we saw they were spending just around 77 hours. so that does surpass that limit of 72 hours. but now it has spiked to 107 hours. it's about an average of 435 unaccompanied children coming across the border every day. they're going into these facilities. this is up from where it was just a few days ago at 340 children. the problem is, is not only that these kids are spending a longer time in these facilities. it's more and more kids that are coming through. so it's really bottlenecking the system. what this is going to look like and how they're going to respond going forward is something that is increasingly facing this white house because you saw the secretary, the dhs secretary at a briefing last week saying he does not consider this a crisis but a challenge, and yesterday again when the white house press secretary was asked about this she said she did not want to put labels on it. but the reality in what we're seeing in these numbers alone is that the crisis is growing at the border. and one thing that you've seen before remember in 2019 when there was a massive crisis happening at the border, these are more children than it was at the peak of the crisis in 2019. just to really give you a sense of what that's looking like. and the biden administration has pointed to a change in policy because they're not turning children away at the border, they say, for that reason, and that surge. but of course the question is how are they going to be prepared to handle it. because in 2019 they let cameras in, reporters went into some of these facilities. you saw overcrowding. you saw children sleeping on the floor. that has not happened yet. they have not let cameras into these facilities, recently citing the coronavirus pandemic. but the white house has said that they are committed to doing so. they just haven't provided a time frame. so that's going to be another question facing the white house of really what that's going to look like given just how shocking these numbers are and what's really happening and how long these unaccompanied children are hanging out in and being processed and spending time in these border patrol facilities. >> it will be interesting to see if we get any new details on actions about the new briefing. kaitlan collins, appreciate the reporting there. to continue the conversation with me cnn's rosa flores, she's live from right along the border, and white house correspondent for the "new york times." the biden administration keeps trying to communicate including south of the border in advertisements "please don't come now." we need to get new policies in place, please don't come now. but clearly these rising numbers with unacanned children tell you that the migrants feel like this is a good time to come. >> you know, you're absolutely right. and we have pictures to show you that shows exactly that. now these are pictures that were tweeted out the last week of february by the chief of patrol here in the rio grande valley. you can see that there are a lot of migrants under a bridge. now, this is an area that during prior surges we've seen this before where the number of migrants that stormed the border at one particular time is so great that it takes them a while for border patrol to get transportation from that area of the border to facilities like the one that you see behind me here in donna, texas. now, the facility that you see behind me is temporary. this is a temporary facility. it was recently set up to increase capacity. and that is because the mac allen processing center which you probably don't know by name, but you've probably seen pictures of the inside of that facility because the facility holding cells looked like cages. well, that is under renovation. and because of that, as you might imagination, as the main processing facility here in the rio grande valley, you need more proc processing capacity especially during a surge. that's why you see this set up specifically to increase capacity because of the increased number of not just unaccompanied minors but families and single adults as well. and, john, you were just talking about transparency. and i can tell you i've been here in the rio grande valley before during other surges. we've gotten ride-alongs, tours, sometimes even if it's just pen and paper because of the privacy of these migrants to respect their privacy. this time we've requested that's why we're here, we are asking for access, we are asking for transparency, and we're hoping to take our cameras or our pen and paper wherever we're allowed to, to be able to see exactly what's happening here on the ground. >> thank you. michael, let me bring you into the conversation. this is an incredibly complex issue. there are so many different pieces of the policy that the new administration has to decide now. he says it's going to change just about everything but particularly on this issue of the unaccompanied children and the extra humanitarian focus it puts on it. the administration keeps saying give us time. do they have any more time? it's time to act, is it not? >> no, they don't have time. i think they had hoped that there wouldn't be a surge this early in the year. normally the surges in migrant travel come later in the spring and the early summer when the weather turns even a little bit better. they're confronted with the situation that they can't solve in the short term. all of their solutions are medium and longer-term solutions, including the increase in facilities run by health and human services, which takes time. and flatly they just don't have anywhere to put these kids. our reporting the other day suggested that there were something like 3,000 kids at border facilities and with only a fraction of that number of beds in a more permanent more appropriate facility that they could go to. and the administration officials that i talked to, they recognize this, they are avoiding calling it a crisis because they understand that's what donald trump did during four years to sort of gin up the idea of a crisis to sort of rachet up the idea that there needed to be more enforcement. they don't want to follow that model. but simply saying there isn't a crisis doesn't mean one doesn't exist. >> let me go back to rosa flores on the border with that. the democrats don't want to use the term crisis, rosa. your republican governor of texas was at the border yesterday and said this was a crisis of joe biden's making. call it a problem, call it a challenge. how much of a complication is it that you have the polarization of the politics that republican border state governors say this is biden's fault and there's not any help, if you will, coordination and communication? >> you know, john, the politics always gets in the way. i've been talking to sources here on the ground, and people are on the front lines and they will tell you that they have worked for multiple administrations under democrats, under republicans and the men and women of the border patrol and customs and border protection, they work day in and day out regardless of who's in the white house, regardless of the administration. they've told me over the years that they are here to serve the people of the united states of america, americans to protect the united states. and so while politicians go back and forth calling it a crisis, calling it a challenge, downplaying it or upplaying it for the people, the men and women that i'm hoping to talk to on the ground, that does not matter. what they hope for is for the truth and the transparency to be forthright so that they can get the resources necessary here on the ground to deal with the situation regardless of what politicians call it. john? >> it would be nice to at least have the time and resource to focus on the people, not the politics. we shall see. that's always a difficult issue. rosa flor, michael, appreciate your reporting and your insights. up next, what the big biden covid relief plan means for you and for your family finances. so every touch is as comforting as the first. pampers. the #1 pediatrician recommended brand . new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. the covid relief plan that will clear the house of representatives and head to the white house in just a few minutes a big political win for the new president. but it's also a giant boom to struggling families that includes potentially life-altering money. distribution of $1,400 stimulus checks is the big headline, grabbing larger childcare tax credits in the bill and a $300 jobless benefit extended through september grows the safety net for millions of pandemic-wary americans, it means they can worry a little less about food and rent. michelle, grateful for your time today. it's very important that people understand what's coming, and it's clearly very popular. we have a new poll out today 76% of americans favor the new stimulus checks. help me from your understanding of the bill and your interaction with your readers and followers on twitter. what does somebody need to do to make sure they are eligible? >> for the most part you won't have to do anything if you've already filed your 2019 return. and hopefully your 2020 return, especially if you had a disruption in your income or your lost your job in 2020, maybe you had a child. you want to get that return in as soon as possible, the 2020 return. because the irs is 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maybe your teenager's in college or at the house, you've got more expenses, they may have lost their job because of the pandemic. and so i understand that there are a lot of deficit hardships. this is horrible. i'll bet you that not a single one of them have actually sat down with someone who has had a financial disaster because of this covid. i have. i run a ministry at my church. i meet with hundreds of people. and i know that they need this money. and i think i need to also say that this is a one-time thing. these people are not sitting around waiting for the government to hand them a check. they just need a hand up. they don't want a handout, they need a hand up. and this will do that for them. >> as you say that, i'm reminded one of the republican criticisms is that this is somehow going to disincentivize work, that people are going to be getting checks or tax credits so that they won't work. or does it actually make work in some cases easier because you know you got a little 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