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
denying the allegations against him. i did not do what has been alleged, period. look, it s very simple, i never harassed anyone, i never abused anyone, i never assaulted anyone. and i never would, right? let s start with the new allegations coming from a former reporter, cnn s polo sandoval is following the latest developments. what are you hearing? reporter: fred, you re referring to jessica bateman, the latest in a growing list of women who have come forward recently with these allegations of sexual harassment and assault against new york s governor andrew cuomo. as you mentioned earlier, these are accusations that the governor continues to deny and continues to refuse to step down over, instead saying that he wants the investigation to proceed. but she s recounting when she was a reporter, she s now a reporter in miami. basically she self-penned a piece, a first-person piece in new york magazine in which she recounts multiple occasions in which she alleges that she
you re live in the cnn newsroom. thanks for staying with me. i m ana cabrera in new york. the vaccines are giving americans hope. and we need it. the optimistic news. round three of covid-19 relief is rolling out to millions of americans. it s $1400 per person. many of the cash payments are expected to hit bank accounts this weekend. covid vaccinations more than 101 million doses given to people around the country, according to the cdc, and about a third of the people are now fully vaccinated. public health officials are concerned when they see scenes like this. people packed together. almost almost nobody with a mask. and it is spring break for people and many are traveling, despite advice against it. this is the packed beach, this is miami beach right now. they are begging people to keep wearing masks and keep following safety guidelines. we have a team of recorders spread out. let s begin with cnn s natasha chen. she is in miami beach and people are starting 20 to flock fo
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
families of seniors who died of covid-19 in nursing homes. a letter from a group called voices of seniors saying it is clear that you put your own political reputation and personal profit above the well-being of our most vulnerable family members. the cuomo administration has denied any wrongdoing. same goes for the michigan governorship of gretchen whitmer who tells an nbc reporter she s proud how the state handled the pandemic, but the nbc report goes on that covid positive patients were placed as fox news @ night s negative patients. did end that practice after the first six month of the pandemic. the reporter claims whitmer s policy compares from new york cuomo, instead whitmer incentivize the process by taking homes to take patients who contracted covid-19. where defends what you said by saying that there was a national strategy. the quarantines will continue plus facts are that nearly half of debts were happening in nursing homes. and as for former president trump,