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
preferring to call it a challenge and officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including an influx of young children we do have fox live team coverage on this. david spunt is in wilmington, delaware covering the biden administration s response to the border crisis. but let s begin with griff jenkins on the ground in mission texas so griff, tell what you say you re seeing there. good afternoon arthel we re just seeing what it looks like as this sort of epicenter of the entire border surge because right here in mission texas part of the rio grand valley they re seeing more traffic than they ve seen in a long, long time and let me sort of take you to our drone team in the air and you can get a sense really for this situation. where we re standing along a border fence a mielg two miles off the rio grand river that s where so many of the migrants are coming and walking ultimately to peacefully surrender to border patrol to claim asylum some families so
plan to keep him focused, walking americans through one rule of the law each day. and the biden administration is kicking off a new ad campaign to help sell the bill to a politically fractured nation. the resources in this plan will be used to expand and speed up manufacturing and distribution of vaccines, set up more vaccination sites to get the country in a place to get back to normal. this plan will get checks out the door starting this month. now, the white house says the checks for some americans will land as soon as this weekend. beyond the bill, the president is making some other big promises. in his first prime time address, he vowed enough vaccines to direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults 18 and older eligible for vaccination by may 1st. and he set a goal of july 4th as the first holiday during the pandemic when small groups should be able to celebrate in person together safely. as my cnn colleague put it, the light in the tunnel may be fir
we had already signed up 70,000 vaccine sites. let me remind you on january 20th, 1.5 million shots were in arms on that day. that had nothing to do with the biden administration. i think the biden administration are doing some good things in underserved communities and carrying the bat onwell. i think the roll-out was really about as well as it could be. miraculous given the short time. i think we ll look back on that and history will prove that to be correct. bill: thank you for your time and the job you ve done. dana: when you hear that fourth of july messaging small gathers maybe outside. even people as careful as you can be have been following their own monitor, i think, on what makes sense. you could be in the backyard, you can have a lot of space around you. i just keep feeling like the message that comes out is giving us the hold, hold, hold. brave heart, hold on. don t get excited or freak out yet. i understand you want to be cautious but it feels li
their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the cente