welcome to friday. it is meet the press daily. president biden is preparing for a rose garden event this afternoon with the vice president, democratic leaders in attendance. this is the fourth or fifth time we had some sort of event marking the passage of this bill, the senate, the house, the signing last night and then this signing today. his remarks will come after prime time address last night after he laid out a series of goals and promises to defeat the virus and get life back to some semblance of normalcy. the president is planning to tout the relief package he signed into law and the various elements believes will sell well to the public. the white house is also con fronting the challenge of everything else because they got to decide now what. covid was job one, two and three for this new president. they have an agenda beyond covid. the president and vice president are planning to hit the road next week to sell the massive covid relief package to the public after it pa
saying after the bombshell meghan and harry interview. f.b.i. manhunt new security footage of the person suspected of placing pipe bombs in the nation s capital ahead of the capitol riot the $100,000 reward. covid relief plan: could the ne tax credit help 10 million children currently living in poverty? george floyd murder trial: jury selection begins in the trial of ex minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. pandemic prediction: we speak to a harvard epidemiologist who predicted the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. his projection tonight for the rest of the crisis. and we ll introduce you to officer l.c. buckshot smith still on the beat at 91 years old. you won t want to miss this one. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin with some new warnings and some signs of progress in the fight against coronavirus. just
meghan s interview with oprah? cuomo resists calls to resign. the new york governor says he won t step down as two more women come forward with allegations of sexual harassment. george floyd murder trial. no justice, no peace! o donnell: tensions are high in minneapolis as the officer who knelt on floyd s neck goes on trial, why jury selection was suddenly delayed. crisis at the border. documents obtained by cbs news show a record number of unaccompanied minors flooding into the u.s. as the biden administration scrambles to find shelter space. it is international women s day. people around the world commemorate female achievement and fight for the future. and unifying america. how a community came together with get well cards. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capitol. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin with our first real glimpse of what life could soon be
january, this might not be happening at all. after a lot of democratic internal wrangling, the bill passed the senate over the weekend with exactly zero votes from the house. president biden said he would sign it as soon as he gets it, and the legislation could not be more urgently needed, as he indicated over the weekend. we took office 45 days ago. i promised the american people help was on the way. today i can say we ve taken one more giant step forward in delivering on that promise, that help was on the way. today the white house said the $1400 checks included in the plan could start going out by the end of the month. make no mistake, this bill is massive. it stands to help millions and millions of americans who have been economically crippled by a near year-long pandemic. the bill spends most of the money on the american people, describing it as the most generous form of aid ever going out. more than 93% of children, 69 million, would receive benefits under the plan.
have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a