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today. vice president kamala harris will be in colorado. but promoting the plan isn't the only thing on the president's agenda. addressing the situation at the southern border is quickly becoming a growing challenge. kaitlan collins has more. >> shots in arms and money in pockets. >> reporter: president biden is betting on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill to shape his pandemic response and now he must execute it. >> it's one thing to pass a historic piece of legislation like the american rescue plan and it's quite another to implement it and the devil is in the details. >> reporter: biden announces he's tapped long time democratic economic aide gene spurling to oversee the spending, a job biden held when the 2009 stimulus bill passed amid the great recession. >> i learned from my experience implementing the recovery act just how important it is to have someone who can manage all the moving parts. >> but spurling will be in charge of a bill price the size of that as republicans are watching closely for missteps. >> we had to input into actually what transpired. >> reporter: like many americans gene spurling will work from home for now. >> he will be working remotely for a period of time until he has his vaccine. >> reporter: although stimulus checks began hitting bank accounts this weekend biden wants the american people to know what else the massive bill does. >> the plan does a lot more. >> reporter: the president and his top aides will spend the next week traveling the country promoting the plan while hoping to make some of it, like the expansion of the child tax credit, permanent. >> we recognize that signing the bill is just a first step. >> reporter: but another crisis is at risk of overshadowing biden's cross-country tour. >> i know the president is going to travel this week. this is where he should bring air force one. >> reporter: record numbers of children are crossing the u.s. southern border and being held in jail-like border patrol facilities for longer than legally allowed. republicans who traveled to the border are blaming biden for the crisis. >> all because the policies of our president has changed and told them something different. told them to risk their lives and broke families apart. >> reporter: the department of health and human services has opened an imagine take site and the administration even sent fema to the border to help shelter migrant children, yet top officials still refuse to call it a crisis. >> i know that we always get into the fun of labe around here, but i would say our focus is on solutions. >> reporter: republicans aren't the only ones saying biden needs to step up. fellow democrats say they agree. >> and we could do so much better than we're doing now. >> reporter: after biden sent a delegation of his senior staff to the border other democrats have called for a presidential visit. >> as you know the president sent a delegation of two secretaries and a whole bunch of folks who were in the white house. they didn't talk to anybody, not even members of congress down here. >> reporter: and right now the white house says president biden doesn't have any trips to the border scheduled, but we should note that we are told the biden administration is planning to use a convention center in dallas toe house about 2,000 migrant teenagers at least temporarily. of course, that does raise the question of whether or not they will have to find other facilities as the surge across the border is continuing. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. meantime, covid-19 vaccinations are ramping up across the united states. about 2.4 million doses are now going into arms each day. that's according to the latest estimates. and about 11.5% of the u.s. population is now fully vaccinated against the virus, but there's still a very long way to go. health experts say we won't reach herd immunity until 75% to 85% of people have all their shots. while the biden administration is pushing hard to roll out vaccines the u.s. remains vulnerable. nick watt explains why. >> reporter: here is a split screen of our current situation, on the right a record high 3.2 million vaccine doses in arms reported saturday, but on the left, that's miami beach on saturday. >> we have seen footage of people enjoying spring break festivities maskless. this is all in the context of still 50,000 cases per day. >> reporter: back to the good news. more than one in five americans have now received at least one shot and new evidence suggests those fully vaccinated are unlikely to spread the virus. >> if that's the case the vaccine creates what we call dead end hosts, a lot of dead end hosts meaning people will no longer be able to transmit the infection. >> if i have an anxiety it's that something worse than the south african variant is out there that we will get to the point that the vaccines no longer appear to be fully protective against a bad outcome. >> reporter: every single state and d.c. teachers can get vaccinated. meantime a new study suggests that if kids and teachers all mask up then whether it's 6 feet or just 3 of social distance doesn't make any difference. >> the cdc is very well aware that data are accumulating making it look more like three feet are okay under certain circumstances. >> reporter: which would make it much easier for more schools to reopen. expect an update to the cdc's guidelines soon. >> it won't be very long, i promise you. >> meanwhile, college kids at duke in a seven-day lockdown after 180 confirmed cases last week, driven by parties, say college officials who warn if this feels serious, it's because it is. these past four days the busiest air travel since this pandemic began. wednesday is -- >> st. patrick's day. >> reporter: and of course there's this. >> spring break. >> reporter: but with more contagious variants circulating sobering tales from europe for those south florida throngs. take italy where case counts are climbing once more and fast. why europe? >> they simply took their eye off the ball. i'm pleading with you for the sake of our nation's health, these should be warning signs for all of us. >> reporter: meanwhile italy, france, spain and germany temporarily suspended use of the astrazeneca vaccine while authorities investigate some safety concerns. astrazeneca says there is no evidence their vaccine might cause blood clots. it's not yet authorized here in the u.s. now, part of what's driving that surge in europe right now is that variant first found in the uk, more contagious and more deadly. and the cdc here in the u.s. says that variant will become dominant in this country within just the next few weeks. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. and portugal is joining that growing list of european countries pausing the use of astrazeneca's covid-19 vaccine. the more follows reports of blood clots in some who were vaccinated. astrazeneca says its analysis shows no evidence of an increased risk in vaccine recipients. the european medicines agency is set to hold an emergency meeting on thursday to advise on possible next steps. cyril vanier a in london, frederik pleitgen is in berlin, they join us live. good to see you both. cyril, the uk had no problems with their rollout of the astrazeneca vaccine, so what's being said there about the multiple european nations now suspending its use due to these concerns about blood clots in only a few people? >> reporter: yeah, the rollout here of the vaccination program has been extremely successful and it has allowed the uk's contamination numbers to go from 60,000 a day at the very beginning of this year to just 5,000 a day now. so they see the benefits. everybody here from politicians to scientists to, it seems, the general public are in full support of the continued use of astrazeneca. prime minister boris johnson writing in an opinion piece in the "times" today that that vaccine is safe and works extremely well. that's a direct quote. as for the british health regulatory agency, the mhra, it says, given the large number of doses administered and the frequency at which blood clots can occur naturally, the evidence available does not suggest that the vaccine is the cause of the health issues that have arisen. so everyone here supports the continued use of astrazeneca and on the other side of that argument there are, of course, a majority of european countries, member states of the european union that have now put on pause their vaccination rollout because they've seen, as you say, a handful of cases that they can't explain. and for which they do not have a good explanation, including deaths, including instances of very rare combinations of symptoms in people who had no known illnesses and who displayed those symptoms following the -- receiving a dose of the astrazeneca vaccine. so they want answers from the european health watchdog and we hope that will be forthcoming on thursday, rosemary. >> all right. thanks for that, cyril. we turn to fred now. fred, you are there in germany, one of the countries adding to this list of other european nations suspending the use of the astrazeneca vaccine due to these concerns, but where does this leave efforts to contain the spread of covid-19? of course, we're talking about 17 million doses handed out and then 37 blood clot cases. the numbers are extraordinary and probably tell a story of their own. >> they certainly do and i will tell you what, rosemary, the fact that astrazeneca has been paused in germany throws a wrench into the efforts to get the german vaccination campaign going which of course has been sputtering and in big trouble for a while. there was actually one health expert who i just watched on german tv who said there simply is nothing else that could fully replace astrazeneca until the summer. so they certainly see that all this is a big problem and one of the things the germans have been trying to do to try to give a spark to their vaccination campaign is they've been trying to move it from not just being in centralized big vaccination centers to also moving it into general practitioners' offices to make sure that more people can get the vaccine and astrazeneca was going to be the main one that was going to be used by those gps. of course, now that simply isn't happening. right now the german government doesn't seem to have very much of an alternative. there was a meeting scheduled for angela merkel and her state governors to happen on wednesday, that's now been called off because they say they want to wait for the european medicines agency to see if there's going to be any developments there. all of this coming as angela merkel and her government are losing a lot of trust here in germany in large parts because that vaccination campaign has been going so slow. on top of that, rosemary, to make matters worse, germany is now again -- and this is something a health expert also said this morning from the german health institute, he said that right now the cases of the novel coronavirus are rising exponentially once again here in this country. so big problems here in germany. of course, for a lot of other european countries as well as they try to come to terms with this news about astrazeneca. >> hopefully they can get this investigation done quickly and nations can move on with their vaccination programs. frederik pleitgen joining us live from berlin, many thanks. two men have been arrested and charged for the assault on police officer brian sicknick who died after responding to the capitol riot. we will have the details on you on the other side of the break. do stay with us. on the other side of the break. do stay with us. hi. i'm wolfgang puck when i started my online store wolfgang puck home i knew there would be a lot of orders to fill and i wanted them to ship out fast that's why i chose shipstation shipstation helps manage orders reduce shipping costs and print out shipping labels it's my secret ingredient shipstation the 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died of injuries suffered in the january 6th attack on the capitol has been a top priority for investigators. >> this is a huge development in this case and it's clear that it took a long time for law enforcement to get to this point. >> reporter: details alleged assault are jarring, in court papers an fbi agent cites videos taken at between 2:09 p.m. and 2:23 p.m. on january 6th on the west side of the capitol. on the videos court papers say cater walks towards tenios and says give me that bear s and reaches into his backpack. tenios replies hold on, hold on, not yet, not yet, it's still early. the filing says cater tells tenios they just effing sprayed me. nine minutes later a police officer's body camera caught cater charging spray into the faces of sicknick and two others officers from a few feet away. >> one has said to the fbi agent that it was worse than any pepper spray that they had been exposed to when they were in law enforcement training. >> reporter: the officers recoiled, court papers say, tried to get water to wash out their eyes. they were temporarily blinded by the substance the agent wrote and were unable to perform their duties for at least 20 minutes. one officer reported scabbing that remained on her face for weeks. law enforcement officials said sicknick went back to a police command center and collapsed, he died the next day. cater and tenios are charged with assault not murder because investigators still haven't determined with certainty that the exposure to the spray directly caused sicknick's death. >> they are keenly focused on trying to find the right evidence to fully understand how he lost his life. trying to understand what was that singular moment. we may not get to that but i think we have to look at this officer's engagement throughout the day of defending the u.s. capitol. >> reporter: one former prosecutor says if authorities can't bring murder or manslaughter charges against these defendants they still have one powerful weapon in court. >> the other two officers are witnesses. you are also going to have two officers who are going to say i was sprayed in the face with a chemical substance. >> reporter: julian cater's defense attorney says he plans on entering a plea of not guilty. for weeks images of cater and george tenios had been on fbi flyers seeking information on the sicknick case. finally a tipster identified the suspects to the fbi and told the bureau that cater and tenios had grown up together in new jersey. brian todd, cnn, washington. in london a police officer charged with the kidnapping and murder of sara every regard will appear in court today. he is accused of snatching every rad while walking home. her body was found outside of london. she was not on duty at the time of her disappearance. cnn's nina dos santos joins us live from london. the police officer accused in sarah everard's murder set to appear in court soon as protests continue. what is the latest in all of this? >> reporter: wayne cousins will be appearing in two hours' time in the central criminal court. the last time he appeared was on saturday, just a few hours before that fateful vigil near where sarah everard was last seen which was swept aside by police officers and that has become a focal point of ire for many women across the country and also elsewhere. when cousins was from kent, he was arrested at a property in kent, as you said, sarah everard's body was found also in kent a number of miles away from his house, but the investigation continues and there are still large parts of kent that are actually cordoned off as the search continues there. it's emerged overnight also that a probationary officer of the metropolitan police who was guarding one of those cordoned off areas linked to the every regard case has been reassigned to nonpublic facing duties as he's been investigated for sharing some sort of graphic that alarmed colleagues and then they reported that to the met. all of this has increased public scrutiny on the role of the police at a really heightened time when it country has faced lockdown rules for the best part of the last year that has prevented people from protesting. despite that for four nights in a row they still took to the streets last night. >> reporter: they came to stand up for their right to protest. >> your laws will not stop us. >> reporter: before after gathering under the only statue of a woman in parliament square they ended up walking around london for hours, to be able to do so. by keeping moving the people said they wanted to make the police task of reminding them that they were in breach of covid rules more difficult, which in turn made for very different scenes to saturdays vigil in honor of the killed londoner sarah everard. it took police one hour to break up a peaceful protest in a south london suburb, yet these demonstrators have been on the streets near parliament for around about an hour and a half already and so far there has been no intervention, this despite the fact that they blocked a bridge over the river thames and are now heading towards scotland yard. metropolitan police said they hadn't wanted to break up the event on saturday but felt the need to protect people from the pandemic. as women showed their anger at london's police force the government went ahead with a bill it had been working on for some time posing new sweeping changes to the justice system that critics said would treat statues better than women. >> what message does it send out if you violate a woman you're likely to get no time at all or minimal sentence, but if you violate a statue which is made of stone or metal and usually is a statue of a man that you are going to get up to ten year. >> reporter: parliament will vote on the new bill this week with the opposition saying it's not expected to pass, then again neither is the heart felt anger of a woman's right to safety in the uk. so this is an issue that isn't going away anytime soon. in the meantime within the next two hours to come we're expecting that probably armed police to bring wayne cousins into the back of this courtroom and he will appear in court roughly in about an hour and a half's time, rosemary. >> we will continue to follow this shocking story. nina dos santos joining us live from london. many thanks. well, they are fleeing violence, poverty and disaster and once they reach the u.s. border migrants are finding even more problems. next, cnn visits the border to see the tough conditions they're facing and what the white house is doing about it. see every delivery... every yikes... and even every awwwwwwww... wait, where was i? introducing self protection from xfinity. designed to put you in control. with real-time notification and a week of uninterrupted recording... all powered by reliable, secure wifi from xfinity. gotta respect his determinatio. it's easy and affordable to get started. get self protection for $10 a month. well, the white house is trying to promote the covid relief plan, but a growing number of voices are saying they're not paying enough attention to the immigration crisis at the southern border. authorities in texas are now turning a dallas convention center into a shelter for migrant teenagers as a growing number of unaccompanied children arrived at the border. cnn visited the border where thousands of children are being detained at overcrowded facilities. rosa flores has this report. >> reporter: as tens of thousands of migrants make the dangerous journey to the u.s. southern border. someone stole all her money along the way. many discover that getting here is just the beginning. some migrants describe crowded immigration processing centers. she says it was packed with people. without showering facilities. did they let you shower? >> no. >> reporter: and some say they slept under a bridge overnight. on pebbles and sand while waiting to get transported to immigration processing facilities. once there migrants say they get three meals a day. this as cnn learns about 4,200 unaccompanied migrant children are in border patrol custody. attorneys blowing the whistle this weekend about children in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at this massive temporary immigration processing center in donna, texas, where unaccompanied children including many under ten years old are being held much, some for five to seven days, which is against u.s. law. peter shay is a lawyer representing thousands of unaccompanied minors in federal custody and says capacity at the donna facility is 1,000 detainees and right now it's holding about 2,000. >> it is an untenable situation. the administration needs to address immediately. >> reporter: the head of homeland security directed fema to help create more shelters for unaccompanied children and move them out of border patrol custody quickly. dhs says border patrol officials do everything they can to take care of unaccompanied children in their care. as for mothers entering with children, many are released by border patrol at this bus station in brownsville. >> why did you come here? she says the economic crisis in her country is very severe. >> reporter: the reasons migrants say they're trekking to the united states varies, some like this man says he lost everything during a recent hurricane in honduras. and this woman who said the toughest part of her journey is when her daughter was hungry and she had no food says she's here because the lack of food and abundance of violence in her home country. cnn has made repeated requests to border patrol and customs border protection to get access to the donna facility that you see behind me and other processing centers like it and that access has been denied. today we also asked about those migrants who said that they slept under a bridge on the dirt overnight and we have not heard back. rosa flores, cnn, donna, texas. texas governor greg abbott is supporting a series of measures limiting access to early voting, saying he has no doubt election fraud took place in 2020. it's part of a nationwide push by republican-controlled state houses to change voting laws despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. cnn's diana gallagher reports. >> reporter: already home to some of the most restrictive election laws in the country, texas is now the latest state with the republican legislature introducing bills that could make it even harder to vote. >> election fraud is unacceptable and that's exactly why i made it an emergency out in this session. >> reporter: despite no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election texas republicans are calling for measures that would impose new limits on early voting hours and added requirements on mail voting. some of the legislation appears to be aimed at harris county, a recent democratic stronghold and home to houston which saw a surge in turnout last year after the county implemented methods during the pandemic such as 24 hour and drive through voting sites. >> uniformity, transparency, consistency. wherever voters are they should be having the same access to that type of voting activity for early voting. >> reporter: the attorney general's team looking for voter fraud in the 2020 election found just 16 examples of false addresses on registration forms in harris county after more than 22,000 hours of staff time investigating. the houston chronicle reported. democratic officials say it's clear what texas republicans are trying to do. >> obviously these republicans are hoping that their work is going to disenfranchise mostly democrats, but the truth of the matter is it's going to disenfranchise both parties. >> reporter: the left leaning brennan center for justice is tracking more than 250 bills in 43 states that would restrict voting access in some way so far this year. election experts say that many of the proposals would place a greater burden on voters of color with dramatic effect. >> in many ways it dwarfs what we saw during the jim crow era in terms of, again, numbers of people, numbers of states and numbers of laws. >> reporter: that's a point echoed by stacey abrams about the sweeping election bills moving forward in her home state of georgia. >> i do absolutely agree that it is racist, it is a reducks of jim crow in a suit and tie. the only connection we can find is that more people of color voted and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction republicans don't like. >> reporter: georgia became ground zero for former president trump's big lie after president biden flipped the state in november and democrats won a pair of senate seats there, but not all republicans in georgia support the bills being advanced. >> republicans don't need election reform to win, we need leadership. >> reporter: but in iowa republicans have already acted. the state's gop governor last week signed a new law that cuts election day voting hours and reduces early voting by nine days. >> there are americans across this state that have some concerns about what happened in this last election and, again, i think it's imperative that it's not just understood but they feel that there is integrity in the election process. >> reporter: the state was sued just 24 hours later. >> thanks to cnn's dianne gallagher for that report. the brother of a star witness at former president trump's first impeachment trial is set to be promoted by the army. a source told cnn evgeni vindman will be promoted to colonel. his brother alex vindman retired from the army last summer following what his attorney described as a campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation after he testified at the impeachment trial. renewing relationships with friends and allies. that's how the u.s. secretaries of state and defense are describing their trip to japan. we will have a live report from tokyo coming up next. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and 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>> reporter: rosemary, that warning definitely -- there was no likely coincidence there that it was delivered at this moment when japan and the u.s. are holding their first meeting with the new biden administration and the goal of that first a cabinet level overseas meeting of the secretary of state and defense was to promote peace, security and reinforce to the world that the united states is back. and the fact that they did it here in tokyo really speaks to the relationship and the importance of the alliance between japan and the united states. earlier today secretary of state antony blinken said this. >> we believe in democracy, human rights, the rule of law, because we've seen in our own country that those values actually make us stronger and because they are under threat in many places, including in the region, whether it's in burma or whether in different ways, china. >> reporter: just a little bit ago u.s. secretary of state blinken, u.s. secretary of defense austin and their counterparts here in japan, minister of foreign affairs and the minister of defense all held a joint press conference. now, during the course of today they focused on a number of things like a free and open endo pacific, an increasingly aggressive china in the east and south china see and of course the denuclearization of a nuclear north korea. at this point we heard today that warning we had mentioned a little bit ago. kim jong-un's sister issued a warning saying we take the opportunity to warn this new u.s. administration trying hard to give off powder smell in our land, she said. if it wants to sleep in peace for the coming four years it had better refrain from causing a stink in its first step. now, again, rosemary, that statement not likely a coincidence that it came out today. secretary blinken was actually asked about it during the press conference. he said this, and i quote, let me say that i'm familiar with the comments you referenced, but the comments i'm actually most interested in today are those of our allies and partners, that's why we cam to this region. you know, all of these comments at this point, you know, building up with the fact that the secretary of state and secretary of defense will be heading to seoul tomorrow to hold meetings with their counterparts there and you can bet that because of this warning issued today that north korea will be top of the agenda. rosemary? >> no doubt. blake essig joining us live from tokyo, many thanks. a decade of destruction and despair with no clear path forward ten years on from the start of syria's civil war. the u.n. secretary general says the country remains a living nightmare with devastation impossible to fathom. ben wedeman looks back at the last ten years in syria, a warning, though, his report contains disturbing video. >> reporter: assad or we burn the country regime loyalists like to chant and over the last ten years as syria has plummeted deeper into the abyss, the country has burned and president ba shard al asad has clung to power. an uprising that started peacefully has left as many as half a million dead by some estimates, united nations gave up counting five years ago. more than half the population has been driven from their homes or has fled the country. unwilling to concede that this regime and decades of oppression were to blame assad called it a foreign conspiracy. and indeed the uprising has become a multi-national blood bath. the u.s. and its gulf allies initially provided the divided opposition with just enough money and weapons to keep fighting but never enough to win. and the failure of that opposition opened the door to isis and its brutal brand of madness. which brought american and european boots to syrian soil. iran and lebanese hezbollah came to assad's aid, followed by the full might of russia. turkey also joined the fray along with israel. syria today is a kaleidoscope of conflicts, pitting super powers, regional powers, local powers against one another now in a stalemate. a quagmire where it has become costly to stay, perhaps even more costly to leave. dreams of freedom baited long ago. syrian-american author and journalist malek witnessed the early years of the conflict. >> order and stability i think have emerged as things that are more important to the international community than the messiness of a true sort of open or democratic society. the fear of isis-type islamist militants psychologically terrorizes people more than the idea of like a butcher in an armani suit. >> reporter: the official syrian media portrays assad's survival as a victory that has left him ruling over just part of his devastated country, a traumatized population and an economy in free-fall due to corruption and sanctions. if this is victory, what is defeat? 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