at our front door never stopped. the donald trump administration didn t stop them. i am pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. in florida, brspring breakers a cutting loose after a year of lockdowns and quarantines, and health experts warn highly contagious variants rapidly can spread. joe johns has more on the collision offing spring break and the pandemic. that s true, pamela. good evening. the cdc said there s about 4,900 cases involving variants that have been spotted all around the country, but the biggest concern right now at least this weekend at least is there could be a spike in the numbers because spring break is upon us. spring break in south florida where college students might not be the only ones hitting the beaches. experts fear covid-19 and variants of the virus are coming, too. as the decline in cases across the country starts to level off. even tho
more states are easing restrictions. the standard for normal cannot be zero cases. in oklahoma the standard for normal is freedom. you wear your mask not because your governor tells you to. you wear your mask because you want to protect yourself, your loved ones. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world this is new day, friday, march 12. 6:00 in new york. president biden is targeting july 4th as the day that america can start feeling a sense of independence from the pandemic. in his first prime time address last night the president pledged to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by may 1st. that s just seven weeks away and a month earlier than the last projection. but first president biden is pleading with all americans to buckle down until then to beat the virus. putting dates on it is really interesting. really interesting to have an actual finish line t
everything we had in this bill. and i believe, and i think most people do as well, this historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving working people in this nation, middle class folks a fighting chance. that s what the essence of it is. now, this signing today comes exactly one year after the world health organization declared the covid-19 outbreak a pandemic that has since claimed nearly 530,000 american lives. it has crippled the economy and really changed life as we all know it. tonight, the president will assess where the country has been and chart our path forward in his very first prime time address. and our cnn senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is with me with more on that in just a second. but we know the president was initially planning on signing this thing into law tomorrow. why the change? they got the bill. [ laughter ] simple as that. without wandering down the rabbit hole of enrollment and engrossment pro
americans. this more than, there s reason for hope. more than 95 million vaccine doses have been administered. more vaccines are being delivered. despite this, the message from our nation s top health experts remains the same. we can t let our guard down. we are covering this historic day from every corn are of the united states, because there s no place the virus hasn t touched. we start this hour with nbc kerry sanders in fort lauderdale beach, florida. dr. gupta is in seattle. godi, i will start with you. one story line is how much more deadly and vicious this virus has been for minority communities, especially. what s california doing to fight that part of it? reporter: it s the minority communities that are often the essential workers. some of the disparities we have seen here in los angeles have really spurned authorities to try to make sure that those underserved communities and the essential workers are getting vaccinated first. what we have seen in the past is a li
sign it tomorrow after he was going to speak in prime time. this makes more sense on the timeline, getting to talk about already having signed it for his speech tonight. this is a singular achievement for his first 100 days in the agenda. as we keep talking about, a year ago today, a freight train was essentially about to hit this country. we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. we have therefore met the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. is the worst yet to come, dr. fauci? yes, it is. can you elaborate? we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. we are moving very quickly. the vast majority of americans, the risk is very, very low. and just look at how startling a year it has been in this country as measured by, well, every single metric you can come up with. infections, multiple sushlgs in cases, each one with more confirmed cas