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
york magazine. she said her job was to report on the governor s every move and alleges he often touched her without her consent, on her arms, shoulders, small of her back, her waist. it led her not to even want to go to events like the one she describes, when she was 25 years old she went to a holiday party at the executive mansion and said the governor approached her and as she described it, held her firmly in place while gesturing to a photographer that he wanted their picture taken. the governor said to her, i m sorry, am i making you uncomfortable, i thought we were going steady. it s a moment she subscribed as humiliating, happening in front of her colleagues. she says she felt the governor s actions weren t about wanting to have sex with her but about wanting to show that he had power over her and he used touching and sexual innuendo to stoke fear in women. we ve reached out to bateman and haven t heard back. we ve reached out to the governor s office. they haven t a
and this week. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi tonight. i wouldn t have given it another thought. your conversation with osha really interesting. if osha systematically went through every business in the united states with an inspection, if it were sort of routine, you d get an inspection about once every 100 years. that s how badly funded it is. and there is, you know, there are real efforts particularly in the time of covid and immediately post-covid to wrap that up and it is being met with resistance from america s corporations. but if it ever matters, in the 50-year history of osha, it matters now that somebody is there to keep those rules safe. thank you for draug attention to that, rachel. thank you, ali. they very, very rarely do one of these temporary emergency rules. the last one they did was a asbestos decades ago. if they do one on covid, it will be a huge deal. thanks, my friend. appreciate it. it needs to be funded because it costs money
support to communities, and make sure more shots get in arms. so the administration now begins a seven-week sprint to open vaccine access to all american adults by may 1st. cdc reports 100 million doses of the three approved vaccines have been given out. white house announced latest plan to get more shots into arms. over the coming weeks we ll deliver vaccines directly, up to 700 additional community health centers that reach underserved communities. we ll work to double the number of pharmacies participating in the federal pharmacy program. we will make the vaccine available at more than 20,000 pharmacies across america. now to a big unraveling story in world of politics, new york governor andrew cuomo who drew national attention for handling of the pandemic early on, facing a growing pressure campaign over allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior on the job. seven women have now accused cuomo of misconduct. both new york senators and majority of the
backyard barbecues, saying vaccines will be available to everyone on may 1st. i need you. i need every american to do their part. if we do this together, by july 4th, there is a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. empathy is a singular biden strength, and his prime time address underlined the great american sorrow. ha hate, the president says, must stop. the truth offers the country forward, a light in darkness. the president said that cookout in july is dependent on americans keeping their distance and their masks on in the meantime. travel now, the cdc worries, rivals the track back on thanksgiving. that, we recall, was the gateway to the horrific winter surge. an update from the coronavirus team highlights new steps to make sure every american will soon get a shot in the arm. we need to make it easier for every american to get vaccin