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
plus, how two people are helping turn arizona into a former covid hot spot and we get closer to the end of the episode. this is american voices. long awaited relief is officially trickling into bank accounts across america right now. that s not the only benefit from the massive american rescue plan. while the $1,400 checks are huge, there s also a $300 unemployment boost in the bill and it expands the child tax credit. there s also billions of dollars to pay for vaccines that help schools fund the changes required to ensure student safety. it provides rental assistance and sends funding to local governments. if we stay on track, president biden believes we can return to a sense of normal by the fourth of july. and now with light at the end of the tunnel, the big question turns to what life will look like after the pandemic. will we still wear masks? will we baseball get together with family, soccer games and friday night football and monday night football? these are questio
not really about the virus. it s such a major piece of legislation. it s the most significant change for middle class people, for poor people, people trying to get into the middle class in decades in a very long time. it has amazing things in it. if everybody is vaccinated by june, then it s clearly not related to covid. there is $350 billion for state and local government. california is getting $41 billion. that $41 billion is not related to covid, it s related to kind of helping a blue state. meanwhile, a humanitarian crisis is growing at the u.s./mexico border. fema ordered to help shelter and transfer a record number of child migrants. the biden administration addressing this situation last hour right here on my show. when you look at the past four years, just the rule inhumane way that the last administration moved forward with immigration, it did not enhance our security at all. and so now we re in a situation where, you know, this president and the administrati
the country remains divided in terms of its willingness to stay the course on mask wearing and social distancing for the final month before the vaccine has been distributed. president biden is expected to preview what a return to normal will look like here. he ll also address the grief of a nation consumed for one whole year. the anniversary marks the day for many americans, the grim reality, from the washington post, quote for most people march 11th was when the crisis first became real. it was the day of a high-profile diagnosis, and official decidingation of pandemic. schools closed, streets emptied and commuters stayed home. we didn t know it then, but the virus had already infected thousands. over the next 12 months, leaders bungled opportunities to quell its spread. case levels rose, fell, rose again. hope endured and more than 525,000 people lost their lives. dr. anthony fauci, who has become a household name, first for his beleaguered attempts, acknowledged today
of the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan ignites a powerful recovery from the pandemic and helps lift global growth. the organization for economic cooperation and development said the economic recovery coming alongside the country s emotional recovery, images of vaccinated grandparents reunited with their families flood the news and social media. those reunions likely to surge permitting vaccinated americans to gather. hospitals declaring the worst of the third wave of covid in america is over. the numbers back that up. hospitalizations are down nearly 70% from january and the reduction in cases is ushering in the closest thing to a national effort to return kids to the classroom after a year of uneven remote learning. the new york times reporting on children across the country heading back to school. from nathan, i was a little scared because i didn t want to get the virus. i feel better because of the safety precautions. we have tissues and hand sanitizer everywhere. from aaron