because i won it during the day because i won a grammy that nobody wants to see a performance about. so it was like on the earlier part of the day when they do like the smaller grammys kind of yes. you are very nice, lawrence. i was susan and i were on a beer run and we had driven to a local brewery to pick up some hooch and we were driving down the massachusetts turnpike when we heard the news streaming on susan s cell phone and it was very surreal. i can imagine. and so the audience should know that this is not an easy category. you were in the audiobook category. by the way, your director scott also i believe gets a grammy for his role in this, the greatest he deserves them all. he is fantastic, yes. he has directed my audiobooks and of course has gotten so recognition for it because why would he? because they re me. but but, rachel, so here s who else was in the field you were nominated with. okay? because wait. i lost you. oh. rachel has to hear this.
well, good evening once again. day 55 of the biden administration and tonight we may be entering the most critical point thus far in our nation s fight to crush this virus. we re being warned that we could still see another surge of infections, even as the new data are out showing we appear to be headed in the right direction. the vaccine rollout is expanding. nearly a fifth of all american adults have had at least one shot. we re averaging nearly 2.5 million vaccines a day, while hospitalizations continue to decline, yet experts are sounding the alarm that we are not out of the clear, not by any means. the concerns are mounting that we are next going to see a spring break spike in cases, giving highly contagious variants a chance to spread in our country. that, plus a rebound in air travel has the administration s coronavirus team on high alert. this past friday we saw more travellers pass through our airports, over 1.3 million. this is the most travellers that we have had
shots into arms, and america is a world leader in the vaccine distribution, and there s big news today from moderna which has began testing vaccines on children from babies to preteens. the news so many parents have been waiting for. but and this is important, we are at a critical juncture, and i know, i know, i know you have heard this a million times before, still, how we handle the next few weeks could either propel us back to normality by midsummer or we could end up like europe, gripped by what the french president called today a third wave. italy has returned to lockdowns. more infectious variants have become the dominant strains there and we are in a race against time before they become the dominant strains here. across europe the vaccine rollout has been sluggish and now there are concerned about the astrazeneca vaccine which is widely used there. a wave of european countries hitting pause on the vaccine because of concerns over dozens of cases of blood clots out of
maria: now, even though the biden administration will not admit that we have a migrant crisis on the southern border, they have to know it. they see the surging numbers of migrants, more than 100,000 last month alone. and quietly, they are scrambling to meet the moment. mobilizing fema to house and help process the exploding number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border every day. that s right. fema, the agency we use to clean up after disasters like hurricanes and wildfires. biden wouldn t be sending fema to the border if there wasn t a disaster there as well. and it s not just families and unaccompanied minors being picked up at our borders. it s criminals as well. here is texas governor gregg abbott told me yesterday on sunday morning futures. first two and a half months of this year they made about 110,000 apprehensions including in those apprehensions are 800 criminal aliens, criminal aliens who have previously been arrested and exported from the united state
demonstrations since the coup last month . u.s. president joe biden is kicking off a nationwide messaging blitz to promote his newly passed covid relief package. it starts today with a speech at the white house. and as our john harwood reports, the president wants people to know there s more to it than the checks already arriving in bank accounts. reporter: last week congress passed president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this week president biden and his team hit the road to promote the legislation. it s already broadly popular in the polls. it won t hurt that those $1,400 per person covid relief checks have already started hitting americans bank accounts over the weekend. but president biden wants to make sure people understand other benefits in the bill including expanded child tax credits, aid to state and local governments, expanded health care subsidies, and also aid to small businesses that didn t qualify for previous rounds. the sales job will include