many americans could wake up this saturday morning to find desperately needed relief payments already in their bank accounts. the first batch of payments were processed friday, the same day that the american rescue plan was signed into law. now president bill bjoe biden a team plan to travel the country spreading awareness. here is jeff zeleny. help is here and we will not stop working for you. reporter: president biden celebrating his first legislative success, hailing the rescue plan as a triumph of to lift the nation from crisis. together with you, we re showing that it is possible to get big important things done. reporter: it was a rose garden victory lap. with biden soaking in his first official event there as president. to tout a law now part of his legacy. it changes the paradigm, for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. not hyperbole, it is a fact. reporter: but he made clear that the law that will touch the l
prince william breaks his silence after harry and meghan s interview with a direct challenge to their most explosive claim. is the royalfamily a racist family sir? we are very much not a racist family. it s one year since the world health organisation declared coronavirus a global pandemic. since it first emerged in china, 118 million people have been infected. and 2.6 million people have died. the united states is the worst affected country, with more than half a million deaths. in the uk, the death toll has passed 125,000. anne marie rafferty is president of the uk s royal college of nursing. it s a sense of shock and it was quite profound and i think that continues to some extent although people have attuned to the pandemic, no one hoped it would last this long i think the psychological consequences of this have yet to completely unfurl. the great success of the last year has been the development of vaccines. more than 300 million doses have been administered worldwide.
or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most kcons consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this day we celebrate. now, whether it s a success may depend on what happens next. though, a massive messaging blitz and sales pitch is underway. tomorrow president biden holds the first prime time address and next tuesday stops in the home state of pennsylvania which he narrowly won last year and republicans today rolling out their counter arguments, as well. we re doing damage to the future of this country spending dramatically more money than we obviously need. we re about to have a boom, and if we do have a boom, it will have nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion. not a single republican lawmaker voted fo
good evening. it is a historic day in the fight against covid and physical and financial struggles it created. on the day president biden s signature domestic policy passed and $2 trillion covid relief bill, the president announced plans for a deal with johnson & johnson to produce 100 million more doses of the one-shot vaccine and america should have enough vaccine for every adult by the end of may. this as cases are declining again. we ll have more on that in a moment. we want to start with that covid relief bill that passed. whether you applaud the $2 trillion bill is house democrats did immediately after the pass or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this
either chamber of congress. what is striking about that fact, about 41% of republican voters say they support the bill. a bill republican leaders say they ll not vote for in part because they feel left out of the process. it didn t have to be this way. we could have had a bill that was, you know, a fraction of the cost of this one that could have gotten bipartisan approval and support, but the speaker decided to go in another direction. now, there certainly can be legitimate reasons not to like this current relief bill like there were legitimate reasons republicans and democrats didn t like the last one. feeling left out of the process was listed as a reason then, too. few leaders making decisions without significant input from members and feeling rushed but it passed by wide margins it passed because the whole out weighed the individual parts people didn t like. 359 votes in the democratic controlled house and 92 in the republican senate. it was largely bipartisan, same