Ready . Every rock does a different tone. Its really fun to drum On The Rocks to make unique noises that you dont get to hear every day. Its just a great place to enjoy the outdoors, the view, and spend the day with the family. Hello again, everyone, thank you very much for being with me. Im fredricka whitfield. All around the country businesses are reopening and life for many is starting to move towards normal. That has a lot to do with this, coronavirus cases are way down, the lowest theyve been in close to a year. The country is averaging fewer than 30,000 new cases a day for the first time since june of 2020. But a point of concern for Health Officials, the pace of vaccinations is also falling. Its down about half from its peak last month. The number of fully vaccinated americans is expected to hit 40 soon. Slowly moving closer to the number that matters the most, 70 to 85 herd immunity mark. Natasha chen joining us live in atlanta. Natasha, tell us more about the Reopening Plans a
relationships and shine the light on the plaque of iraqi christians. translator: we are gathered in this cathedral of our lady of salvation, hallowed by the blood of our brothers and sisters who share the ultimate price to fidelity to the lord and to the church. always here to start this saturday with you, it is march 6th, i m victor blackwell. good morning, everyone, i m amara walker in today for christi paul. right now, senators are working. live pictures here, they re working on president biden s $1.9 trillion bill. it s getting closer. the process under way right now known as voterama almost fell apart due to a nearly 12-hour delay, the surprise road block with senator joe manchin who faced off with democrats on enhanced unemployment benefits. senator manchin is back on board on extending through september 6th. now republicans are running out of options to stall voting, forced to keep going after democrats refused to call it a night. now that this agreement
will benefit both sides. china says reunification with taiwan is still inevitable despite the vote, and mr lai s victory will not change the basic landscape of cross strait relations. my colleague, steve lai, has been following the day s events in taipei. polling began at 8am and it closed at lipm. eight hours is all it took, and four hours of counting, and we have a winner already. it s been quite a fascinating thing to watch and to be a part of, i have to say. let s cross now, though, to shaimaa khalil, because she is at the dpp headquarters and she s been listening to william lai make his victory speech. shaimaa, tell us more about what he said. william lai, the now president elect, has thanked people for turning out, thanked the supporters for voting for the dpp and giving them that record third term in power. but he was also very robust on the stance with china. he said it s his responsibility to maintain safety across the taiwan strait, but also he vowed to maintain the
more than i palestinian territory, where more thani million people need food, water, as well as medicines, and a short while back, egypt did confirm that it will open what it called a sustainable aid corridor through the rafah crossing into gaza. the announcement comes after a visit to israel by the us president, and whatjoe biden called a very blunt negotiation, to get as many aid trucks into gaza as possible. president buys and is now on his way back to president biden is on his way back to the us in a short while ago he spoke about his phone call with the egyptian president. he agreed that what he would do is open the gate to do two things one, let up to 20 trucks through to begin with. satterfield, my ambassador, is down there. not down there, in cairo now. he s going to co ordinate this. he has my authority to do what is needed to get it done. they re going to patch the roads. they have to fill in potholes to get these trucks through and that s going to occur. they