until the coming hours, many americans wocould wake up to fi long awaited treasury payments in their bank accounts. the first payments were processed friday and are being distributed this weekend. president joe biden took a victory lap in the rose garden friday after signing the legislation. he offered a message of hope for struggling americans. think of the millions of people going to sleep at night staring at the ceiling going, my god, what am i going to do tomorrow? lost my health care, don t have a job, unemployment runs out. i m behind in my mortgage. what am i going to do? well, guess what? they re going to be getting that check soon. here is chief white house correspondent katelynn collin wes more. wish i could come out and shake hands with every one of you. a rose garden victory dance for president biden as he touted his first major piece of legislation. it s one thing to pass the american rescue plan. it s going the be another thing to implement it. becau
communities. a joint statement from others say it is clear that governor cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners. i did not do what has been alleged. it is unacceptable. the governor must resign. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. oh, that is a beautiful shot of the city of pittsburgh. good morning to you. good morning wherever you are. thanks for being with us this morning. help is here, that s what we heard from the white house as the first $1400 stimulus payments are hitting bank accounts as early as today. president biden is going to hit the road for the nearly $2 trillion rescue plan. themessage, normalcy is close. and may 1, for all vaccines for all adults. and end of the virus as he called by 4th of july. and for those traveling for spring break, to not let guards down and there are more states easing restriction. let s go to the white house and cnn s jasmine wright is there. jasmine to you, the bill, signe
enough of a benefit of the booster. we have not seen the u.s. data and this is really important for us. it is important. we will watch for it. let me go through of the case count. number one, this map. it s horrific. 99% of the population right now lives in communities who are high, the red, or substantial coronavirus transmissions which is why the cdc says if you re vaccinate put on a mask when you go indoors because of the threat. case count. look at the steepness. 131,000 cases on average right now. two weeks ago, it was 80,000 cases. we were last at 130 cases on the way up last november. look how steeply we went up. two weeks 200,000 cases. the hospitalizations, doctor, are up as well as you noted. august 1st 50,000 people and now 83,000 people. i want to bring up this here to your point in your most recent op-ed piece in the washington po post . you talk about children going back to school. children and children and staff and custodians back in school.
seems to be unwilling to do. one of those things right now that needs to be done is indoor mask mandates. ideally, there are also vaccination requirements and there will be ways to increase the vaccination rate substantially over time. but the immediate step that needs to be taken is masking because masking does work, and we know that crowded indoor settings, that s the breeding ground for all these coronavirus transmissions that are currently happening. we also know that it s not just care to coronavirus patients who are impacted. it is also patients coming in with heart attacks and strokes, car accidents. medical care doesn t stop during covid-19. and those patients are being impacted, too. you re so right. if they could just start embracing masks down in florida, it would make a huge difference. thank you so much for being with us this evening. hope you stay safe. talk again real soon. appreciate it. thank you. all right. just ahead, a live report from
yeah-h-h. (laugh) keep your downstairs dry with gold bond body powder. the white house issued a reversal on evictions after a member of congress camped out for days on the steps of the capitol. on tuesday, the white house authorized the cdc to issue a new eviction moratorium that would prevent millions of renters from being kicked out of their homes. the new ban covers 90% of where the country lives and high levels and transmission of coronavirus transmissions. cori bush who has dealt with homelessness herself slept for days on the steps of the capitol to urge the white house to act. hopeful that it is what will help 11 million people stay in their homes. million families to be secure in housing.