jacob soberoff, and garrett we will start with you. we have a surge in migrant children. there is a scarcity of shelter beds. what will fema s assistance mean for the situation now at the border? well, fema is the federal government s emergency logistics experts. that s why they show up after hurricanes and natural disasters. their goal is to try to alleviate the overcrowding situation. the border patrol stations here and at hhs shelters that are limited in how much they can take. so they re hoping to expeditiously move the minors. while that s going on you talk about the political battle here. they re trying to lay all of this at the feet of the biden administration, and they give important context that i got from veronica escobar last night, look at what she told me. part of why ibristle at the terms that there is a crisis at the border is because they want to ignore what is causing it. the real crisis is what is happening in the northern triangle. and what happens to t
package and it s this new child tax credit which is really revolutionary. it s very, very popular. 70% popular with the american people. what is the thinking behind this big kickoff this week to promote it nationwide? well, look, we are still in the midst of this pandemic, and we know that we can t get out of our economic crisis until we get through the health crisis. so the thinking behind the american rescue plan is that we need to address the problems caused by the pandemic. part of it is is to help get the vaccine eggs and get the shots in people s arms. we recognized since the beginning of the pandemic we ve lost 9.5 million jobs and we ve got over 4 million people who have been unemployed for at least a year. people are struggling and one in five adult renters are behind in their rent payments and millions of adults and children are struggling to eat and put food on the table. so it s important that the federal government provide the resources that people and business
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
this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. a live look at the rose garden yesterday, we heard three word, help is here. and you will hear that more as these $1400 stimulus payments start to hit bank accounts. yeah, soon president biden will hit the road to tout his nearly $2 trillion rescue plan. andviewed the pr push yesterday. and the other message, normalcy is near. the president saying that may 1st is the deadline if all documents to be eligible for a vaccine. and he has his eye on independents s from the virus b the fourth of july. and health experts are worried about americans traveling for sbrpring break an more states ease restrictions. and we start in wilmington, delaware with jasmine wright. we know the president is spending his weekend there, economic aid starting to roll out. what do we know about what comes next? well, the president turned his focus noimplementing his cod relief bill. he said it yesterday, the devil is in the deta
could be upended from scenes like this. this is live pictures, from miami beach, and you can see crowds are in full force. and masks are hard to spot, as americans, tired of more than a year of restrictions, let loose. the tsa is reporting that friday was the busiest travel day since the pandemic started. we are finding the embattled governor from new york losing support as he struggles to stay in office. even new york s two senators, both democrats, have called for his residegnation. and governor cuomo is running out of support among all the serious allegations. reporter: hey, ana. you re exactly right. big names in new york politics. the two u.s. senators came out in a joint statement friday, and it shows he is losing support among the allegations. the latest one from a woman named jessica bakeman. she had been a capitol beat reporter for albany. and new york magazine, she alleges multiple incidents. she writes, andrew cuomo s hands have been on my body. my arms, shoulder