trying to promote just the progress that has been made against the coronavirus pandemic. the president is currently touring a cherry farm up in antrum county, a county that president trump won during the 2020 election even as president biden carried the entire state of michigan. one thing the white house has said, that during that tour he s also planning to talk about the benefits of that bipartisan infrastructure agreement as he is looking tokt more republican sign-on onto that plan. but right now this tour across the country trying to highlight the progress of the coronavirus pandemic also runs up against the reality that this white house has missed its target that it had set for the fourth of july holiday when this white house had wanted to have 70% of american adults with at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine. right now that figure sits around 67%. the white house has acknowledged that they have much more work to do, as communities remain
adults in the united states by the fourth of july. that s a goal the country s just not going to meet. currently only 2/3. 66.8% of adults have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. remember, the concern this morning are the delta variant. the white house is set to deploy response teams to low vaccinated areas to assist however they can. jasmine wright is with us. happy holiday to you. i know it s been a busy weekend for the biden white house. what is on tap? good morning. good morning. the message is the same as president biden heads to michigan and that is to get as many americans to get the shots into arms as quickly as possible. that is despite them missing that 70% goal. so president biden will travel to travers city, michigan, where he will tour a cherry farm trying to make an example for
we hear informal remarks from him as he visits the cherry farm, to tout the infrastructure and bipartisan deal that has been struck. the president wants to sort of keep the momentum going, the political momentum that he feels he deserves because of the tackling the pandemic and carry that through his economic agenda as well. mike memoli, the people behind you, it certainly seems like quite the feat from where we were just a few months ago. thank you so much. president biden will fall slightly short of his goal to have 70% of all adult americans with at least one shot by the 4th, and while we may not want to even mutter the word coronavirus this weekend, we aren t yet completely free of it. the highly contagious delta var variant is spreading and the cdc expects it to become the dominant variant in the next few months. this week los angeles county
ferris wheel. what do you think he ll say today? reporter: it was two months ago the president said the ambitious goals for the 4th of july, one to have 70% of american adults partially vaccinated by independence day and then to also have 160 million americans fully vaccinated to park as they put it the independence from this virus. now, by the numbers, obviously the president falling short of this goal and they made it clear a few weeks ago that that was going to be the case. but what today is all about is showing even if by the numbers they don t hit the goal, the spirit of the goal is very much realized here. i m at traverse city where we have the festival kicking off just today. the biggest driver of local tourism in the city throughout the year. last year there was no cherry festival because of the pandemic. so when the president touches down, first he s going to be stopping at a cherry farm and you might expect to hear him pushing for the infrastructure package as well, touting
it is the first day of the festival, a festival cancelled last year because of the pandemic. today it is drawing hundreds of people to the area from all over northern michigan. the president spent most of his day actually at a cherry farm not far from here, picking some cherries himself, picking up some to take home with him. the message, of course, is that, yes, they set the 70% goal of having adults get one single vaccination at least. didn t hit it quite as they had hoped by the 4th of july, but clearly the fact that the country has returned to a pre-pandemic, almost sense of normalcy, is really seen as success by the white house. you have the president here, the first lady in maine and new hampshire today, talking about how great it was to be able to be back together. the vice president today also in nevada, touting not just the success in getting to this point of the country reopening again, but also pushing their infrastructure plan there. we did just in the last few moments thou