warning about scenes like this one. huge crowds, huge of spring breakers gathered on florida beaches prompting major concerns at another avoidable surge could be on the way. we ll have more on that in a moment. and the biden administration kicking off its nationwide tour to sell its $1.9 trillion economic relief plan. that is just moments away. let s begin though with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on the state s opening up morning eligibility for vaccines today. right, poppy. it is getting easier to get a covid-19 vaccine. many states are changing the eligibility requirements, widening them. take a look at a smaterring of states and see what they re doing. for example, in alaska, they re saying you just have to be over the age of 16 in order to get a vaccine. in california, they say anyone 16 plus that has certain health conditions and so on and so forth. just getting easier. so because there is more vaccine out there, the federal government and the nex
fantastic group here to help us understand all that s going on in the political news. kelly o donnell in the white house, the co-founders of punchbowl news and the editor of the nevada independence. kelly, what are the president and vice president going to say about this bill that hasn t always been said? a lot of it will be a focus on the real underpinning of this. the biden administration, president in particular, wants to sell to the public that government can work for them. that they can accomplish golds that were campaigned on, promises that were made. in the specifics today president biden will talk about the limitation phase. it s not the sexiest part of this kind of a law but it is critically important and also one of the areas where there s all kind of land mines and things that could go wrong. president biden knows this firsthand because he had been in charge back in the obama administration of implementing the recovery plan at that time so he knows there are a lo
admin administered yesterday alone. nearly 70 million americans have gotten at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine, which means one out of five americans has received a shot. this as those $1400 stimulus checks are starting to hit bank accounts. despite the progress being made, thoupds of people are traveling and attending spring break events across the country. many not wearing masks. no protection. masks and social distancing don t seem to be priorities. health officials are warning of the potential consequences. saying the next few weeks will be critical in determining if we ll see another surge. even though the numbers have gone down, over the last couple of weeks, they ve plateaued and when you see a plateau at a level as high as 60,000 cases a day, that is a very vulnerable time to have a surge to go back up. we can avoid that, if we continue to vaccinate people, get more and more protection without all of a sudden pulling back on public health measures. all right.
out of five americans has received a shot. this as those $1,400 stimulus checks are starting to hit bank accounts. but despite the progress being made, there are concerns about the thousands of people who are traveling and attending spring break events across the country. masks and social distancing don t seem to be a priority and health officials are warning of the potential consequences, saying the next few weeks will be critical in determining if we ll see another surge. even though the numbers have gone down, over the last couple of weeks they ve plateaued. when you see a plateau at a level as high as 60,000 cases a day, that is a very vulnerable time to have a surge to go back up. we can avoid that if we continue to vaccinate people, get more and more protection without all of a sudden pulling back on public health measures. and many people are spending their spring breaks in florida. the state is seeing a rush of people despite health warnings. cnn s natasha chen is
the cdc now reporting more than 107 million people in this country have received at least one dose. and the average over the past week is about 2.3 million people getting vaccinated every day. let s begin with cnn national correspondent natasha chen for us in florida. visitors are there in huge numbers for spring break despite the pandemic. are people taking precautions? reporter: anna, most of the people we are seeing walking along ocean drive here are not wearing a mask. and you have mentioned there is not a lot of social distancing going on, especially with the evening crowds. here s video that someone took from friday night. this is an incident that happened a few blocks from where i am standing where there was a very large crowd. miami beach police tweeted about this saying two of their officers got injured in the situation as they tried to disperse the crowd with pepper balls. a couple of officers had to be sent to the hospital. that s just one example of the rowdines