congress and in moments he will sign it into law. this as vaccines are being delivered to americans with the goal of having enough vaccines for all adults by the end of may. nearly 1500 americans are still dying on average each day to a disease that didn t have a name just 15 months ago. i m going to turn now to chief cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, before you get into the details of the president s speech tonight, tell us what you know about this signing event. reporter: well, so this was a bit of a change. we were not expecting president biden to actually sign this bill until tomorrow when they were going to have a signing ceremony at the white house with all the lawmakers. but now the president says they got this bill last night earlier than going through those procedural motions up on capitol hill, so he wants to sign this as quickly as possible so it can go into effect. you ll see this in about 30 minutes or so. we re going into the oval office
it comes as a growing number of states ease restrictions. texas today opening businesses 100% capacity, lifting its mask mandate. other states taking steps, too, but tonight, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky warning 90% of the population is still not fully vaccinated. urging caution having come this far. president biden late today on another 100 million doses of johnson & johnson s single shot vaccine. and what dr. fauci said today about achieving herd immunity here in the u.s. and when. it was encouraging. the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, charged with killing george floyd. what we learned today about the three other officers charged. the attacks on asian-americans in this country and tonight, the brutal new case involving a 75-year-old asian-american man viciously targeted. what authorities are now saying tonight. we re tracking the severe storms from california to the middle of this country. heavy snow, rain and severe thunderstorms in s
texas today opening businesses 100% capacity, lifting its mask mandate. other states taking steps, too, but tonight, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky warning 90% of the population is still not fully vaccinated. urging caution, having come this far. president biden late today on another 100 million doses of johnson & johnson s single shot vaccine. and what dr. fauci said today about achieving herd immunity here in the u.s. and when. it was encouraging. the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, charged with killing george floyd. what we learned today about the three other officers charged. the attacks on asian-americans in this country and tonight, the brutal new case involving a 75-year-old asian-american man viciously targeted. what authorities are now saying tonight. we re tracking the severe storms from california to the middle of this country. heavy snow, rain and severe thunderstorms in some places and we ll time it out. and the images tonigh
have been allowed to cross. healthy average american neanderthal want to live in an open state. they let people go across the border. wins las vegas. great job. ainsley: good morning to you. it is 6:01 here on the east coast. thanks for waking up with us. brian is back. he was down there in florida. brian: i was with you on friday. like you never missed me. ainsley: you went to interview desantis that was shot so beautifully. his wife is so cute. they have all their kids in the governor s mansion with him. you will see the whole interview. brian: a couple of parts spending the day in florida where you can walk around. people are happy. they wear masks inside when they are supposed to. they can walk outside alone without one. it is interesting. steve: that will come up in half an hour. ainsley: steve and brian spent a lot of time in florida. i will come with you all. steve: florida is where the action is. it is 22 degrees in new york city. we re going up to 60 tomorr
these key states. we need to win going down into georgia. those states are benefiting significantly from the infrastructure bill. the inflation reduction act the rescue packages. all of the local government funds these local governments are passing out now. for key projects that have not gotten done for 30 or 40 years. here is the only thing i would say. this has got to be a robust and vigorous campaign. it needs to be on the ground. it needs to be energetic and it can t be the rose garden strategy. we are going to cut ribbons. people want to get excited of what the future of america would look like. and the president is very well positioned to articulate that. and has the initiatives behind him. so i just hope that we bring the energy. that will isolate the viruses the pathogens that want to take over. and i think that we can have a fairly successful and stable few years ahead of us and rebuild the middle class. time to bring the heat is