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
nationwide. moore states are expanding eligibility every day. you can see in the numbers that the vaccine rollout is ready speeding up. the united states is averaging more than 2.3 million shots per day. with saturday marking the largest single day jump in vaccinations that we ve seen so far. nearly 70 million americans have now received at least one dose. more than 37 million americans are now fully vaccinated. that is more than 11% of the population. and while those numbers are great news and they really are, there is also real concern for the 89% of the rest of the population, if you will, as spring break travel is leading to scenes like this. large crowds packing beaches in florida and plane travel just hit a pandemic record despite the cdc still warning against it. we re going to wait to hear from the biden team on. that we re also standing about toy by to hear about that. a massive effort to try to tackle vaccine hesitancy that is still a really problem across the count
betty white, beloved actress and comedienne passed away friday. just days before her 100th birthday. with a hollywood career that spanned over eight decades she became one of the most enduring and iconic faces of television. cnn s stephanie elam looks back at her incredible and extraordinary career. reporter: betty white s cheerful hollywood career began in her teens and by her 20s she was a fixture on television with her own daily talk show. ahead of the times, white co-founded her own production company in 1952. she worked on a variety of television and film projects over the years before burning a 1973 guest appearance on the mary tyler moore show into a permanent role. white was a scene steeler as the man hunger sue ann nivens. i think a man should be viral and macho and just reeking with
work. like you heard him say, it was on purpose. he knew it was time for him to take another look at what he was doing. it s going to be interesting what happens. you get more phone calls if you get a win. that just ups your absolutely. don t forget he s had a very good year. wolf of wall street. he was the scene steeler in that stealer in that film. and mud where he plays a tree-dwelling fugitive that started everyone thinking he s different now. he s had a good year. he s catch the entire is interview with matthew mcconaughey, that s going to air tonight 10:00 eastern on cnn. wait that s 7:00 p.m. on the west coast. since we re here we have to recognize. also if you re watching the