election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. when you
i m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days in our administration, we ll have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow americans. that s weeks ahead of schedule. the president says eight weeks ago, only 8% of seniors had received a vaccination. today 65% of people age 65 or older have received one shot. 30% are fully vaccinated. he continues to believe there will be enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. so the white house says that s part of the reason why it s finalizing plans of sending millions of doses to mexico and canada. that vaccine important to note is not approved for use here in the united states. our first priority remains vaccinating the u.s. population and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step. we have seven million release able doses of astra zeneca. we re working to finalize plans to lend them to mexico and 1.5 million to canada. so the bottom line, charles, president
Good morning. Its march seventh. A Rescue Operation is under way after an avalanche has hit the popular ski resort of tignes in the french alps. Several people are thought to be buried underneath. Initial reports suggest there may be many people missing. Our correspondent has the latest. This is an emerging picture. People are beginning to tweet, eyewitnesses are beginning to tweet, eyewitnesses are describing the scene as the Avalanche Engulfing skiers and it is thought many people have been caught up thought many people have been caught up in this accident. Rescue workers and sniffer dogs have been deployed but apparently conditions they are or that of pure visibility and what that means is that helicopters have not been able to go up so no Rescue Workers are going up into the skies and as you know, that is a key way in which these sort of accidents are dealt with so clearly some hindrance to the rescue efforts. There was a previous incident last february in tignes. Yes, judging the
the problems that we have. we need the chance to vote. let me ask you one a question about marjorie taylor greene, her threat to file a motion to vacate. it is being supported by two other republicans. if it comes to it, and it likely could, will you vote to save speaker johnson? what might democrats as for in return for that kind of support? this is a hard question. first of all i am frustrated by some of my colleagues, marjorie taylor greene being one of them may feel as one person should rule the entire body. 435, representing 770,000 people each. we ought to be able to be functional. she has found this house in chaos to the point where her own party is disgusted and annoyed by it but i would hope that we have passed through that. we have talked to speaker johnson and asked for the ability to vote. he has answered that and has said we have four different vote on four different subjects.
eviction from its offices because it can t make rent. in arizona, the gop have less than $50,000 in cash reserves as of march 31st. four years ago, it had close to $770,000. officials partly blamed this catastrophic collapse on the rise of insurgent pro trump activists taking on leadership posts like the election denying michigan chair christina karami. other states, like arizona, are going broke because republicans there spent a whopping $300,000 challenging the 2020 election results with nothing to show for. joining me now is ben willard, the democratic party chair for the state of wisconsin. ben, it is good to see you again. thanks for coming back on the show. just a few years ago, your state of wisconsin was fully read. we all remember scott bakr was the governor. donald trump won in 2016. what has the gop done in your state to crash so hard? how much does it have to do with this crash, with this