hold on to to believe in this living is just a hard way to go our thoughts are with all those who are missing a loved one tonight. the news continues. let s hand it over to chris for kcuomo primetime. what a year, what a year, my brother. so nothing is the same and nothing will be the same and we still don t know where we re going to wind up but the president was certainly pointing us in the right direction tonight. great coverage. i m chris cuomo, excuse my voice. it s allergies and emotion. tonight marks one year since start of the pandemic, the deadliest year in the century. literally it started one year ago with the presidential address on our watch and now a year later, literally to the hour, a very different president with a very different message. the biggest anti-poverty measure in a generation. the law aims to lift 11 million americans out of poverty and cut child poverty in half, but president biden spent most of his first address to the nation not takin
this is a tough night. we mark one year of our nightmare collectively, right? here at cnn and our family, it s not just tough because what we ve all lived through with covid. the president was right. we need to be the answer for one another, and that is brought home in such painful variety today. yeah, it s a year for all of us. but there s something else today should have been. today would also have been the first birthday for a very special little girl to us, francesca, known forever as beans. that s what they called her. the daughter of our dear friend and colleague, the brain behind the k-file, investigative genius. his wife, rachel, beans smiled bravely in the face of another health monster, a rare form of brain cancer. she fought. they fought. they moved. they did everything. they believed. they loved. inspired all of us. with what they were clear eyed and committed to. she didn t make it. she fought. she died on christmas eve. i remember it. i remember hearing about it