nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan into law, meaning millions of dollars will flow into bank accounts and the hands of americans. another 12,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment claims, lost their jobs just last week. tonight s prime time speech is a new time for the president. look behind with sorrow, look ahead with hope. we re one year into the start of the new world. sports stopped, offices and schools began closing. the world health organization one year ago today called covid-19 a pandemic. one year. nearly 30 million cases here in the states, 118 million plus globally, soon to be 530,000 american deaths. the president will outline his two-track path to post-pandemic life tonight. a spring surge in the covid vaccine rollout and a surge in economic help to families, small businesses and to schools. but the president s hope does come with a messaging challenge. telling folks if there are ball games or a family picnic coming up, mask up and be extra careful ju
sad over everything we ve gone through, the lives that have been lost but i m hopeful because of the vaccines and because we are seeing reopenings. i m really hopeful on this day that it will be better for us. remarkable jump by some governments, not so good by others. over in the uk everything is still sharp, every restaurant, every nonessential shop, families allowed to see other families. we ve had a lockdown that is taken away personal liberties, we look across at the us within the and hope that our leaders can follow suit and fall you guys out of what has been a pretty dire year here and around the world. jillian: we say good morning, you re watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. benjamin: tonight president biden will address the nation to mark one year since the pandemic started in the us. jillian: the white house releases new details on the speech. reporter: minutes ago we received additional guidance from the white house on what the speech would loo
adding to the more than 532,000 deaths and more than 29 million cases so far. five hours from now, the president will give his first prime time address to the nation from the white house. we have special coverage spanning two continents throughout this entire hour, beginning with nbc news correspondents, kelly o donnell covering the white house, sarah harmon in munich, germany, and joelene kent in los angeles. i ll begin with you at the white house. the president signed the american rescue plan moments ago. one day earlier than what was scheduled. did the white house realize waiting two days did not reflect the urgency of the crisis that millions of americans need that had money? reporter: well, the white house decided to act as quickly as they received the bill from capitol hill. so that s a standard part of how it works. it takes a few days to turn even a just passed piece of legislation into a document for the president s signature. so they hurried it up. by doing so, it
El paso, texas outside another American Crime scene, another sight of a massacre by guns. Welcome to our viewers here in the u. S. And around the world. Any minute now, we will hear from President Trump. This as the nation mourns 29 People Killed in two states just 13 hours apart. What will the president say . What will he do . What will he push for . What will he deliver . So far he has floated the idea of tying universal Background Checks to something hes desired for a long time, Immigration Reform, which normally means money as well for a wall on the border. He also took a moment to blame the media for the attacks and the violence. Left unsaid anything about White Supremacy. In fact, since these shootings, particularly the one here in el paso where the shooter referenced white supremacist views, the president has not used those words. Look at the comments of his fbi director, Christopher Wray emphasizing the danger in this country right now. The country is mourning the lives of so m