this landmark legislation will get relief to families, get 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 cuom
and maybe we can even be closer than six feet apart. imagine what that would look like with your friends and family. president biden says it s a realistic goal if we all buckle down a little longer. in his first primetime address last night, the president pledged to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by may 1st. that s just seven weeks away. and a month earlier than the last projection. so the president spent only part of his speech touting the $1.9 trillion relief package that is now law. but the hope is here tour, as they re calling it, is about to begin with the president and vice president hitting the road to promote it. the first round of direct payments to americans will arrive in bank accounts this weekend. we ll speak to a member of the biden cabinet in a moment. we begin with john harwood. great to see you this morning. what was the takeaway from president biden s speech last night? some people thought he would be doing more of a sales job, but th
members of congress and child tax credits. and call it a presidential booster shot. all four living presidents, except for drunk, just out with a new psa encouraging vaccinations. this vaccine means hope. i am getting vaccinates because we want this pandemic to end as soon as possible. we are all doing our part. this is our shot. our reporters are spread out for our special coverage of covid one year later. i am hallie jackson. monica alba is outside the white house. gabe gutierrez is in new york and dr. john torres. we have many reporters we want to get to for our special coverage. monica, let me start with you and what we expect to hear from president biden tonight, a day before he signs the coronavirus bill into law. reporter: the president is going to acknowledge everything that this country has been through over the last year, while also trying to talk about and hint at the hope that on the horizon, more vaccine become available, we will talk about his americ
americans. this more than, there s reason for hope. more than 95 million vaccine doses have been administered. more vaccines are being delivered. despite this, the message from our nation s top health experts remains the same. we can t let our guard down. we are covering this historic day from every corn are of the united states, because there s no place the virus hasn t touched. we start this hour with nbc kerry sanders in fort lauderdale beach, florida. dr. gupta is in seattle. godi, i will start with you. one story line is how much more deadly and vicious this virus has been for minority communities, especially. what s california doing to fight that part of it? reporter: it s the minority communities that are often the essential workers. some of the disparities we have seen here in los angeles have really spurned authorities to try to make sure that those underserved communities and the essential workers are getting vaccinated first. what we have seen in the past is a li
scientists into the spotlight with dr. anthony fauci becoming the trusted voice in fight to defeat the pandemic. this morning dr. fauci recounted what he was experiencing last march 11th with savannah guthrie on the today show. if i told you we would have 530,000 deaths in this country inside one year, would that number have shocked you and honestly, how would you have evaluated the response in light of that? well, i have to tell you, it would have shocked me completely. i knew we were in for trouble and you remember you go back, i said it then. we better be really careful. that day at a congressional hearing, i made the statement things will get much worse before they get better. that was at a congressional hearing a year ago today. it was march 11th, 2020. i said that. i did not, in my mind, think that much worse was going to be 525,000 deaths. when do you think we are going to see this country return to the normal that we re used to? well, i think it s going to b