border. a crisis at the border starting to take shape. a surge of migrants crossing. fema stepping in to help with the more than 3,200 migrant children being housed in customs and border facilities as of last week. that figure is a new record. republicans are seizing on it. in a matter of hours, kevin mckathy and other congressional republicans will be at the border in texas. they are calling it a crisis. democrats are calling it a challenge that they inherited from the previous administration. that s where we start. garrett haake in el paso, texas, where a group of house republicans, including minority leader mccarthy, making the border visit. i want to bring in the former white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president obama. jacob is with us in california. we know that part of fema s role we don t have jacob yet. garrett is in el paso. congressional republicans making a visit to the border in a matter of hours. this visit coming as congress preparing to
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
i m laura jarrett. happy friday. happy friday. i m christine romans. nice to see you. march 12th. 5 a.m. exactly in new york. start the clock. president biden offering this hopeful path out of the pandemic and he s giving a time line by early summer. in the first primetime address he urged all-americans to do their part. if we do all of this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th there s a good chance you, family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard, neighborhood, have a cookout, barbecue, celebrate independence day. here the president urging all states to make all adults eligible for a vaccine available in two months. jasmine, we have dates here. vaccines on the way for everyone. lay out the president s goals. reporter: well, last night, laura, the president really did two things. he tapped into the empathizer in chief role that we are getting to know from him so well meeting with americans, as you said, to do their part. he
in fact, the white house says the checks for some americans could come as soon as this weekend. cnn s kaitlan collins is at the white house. william news to many. give a sense what we re about to hear and what the plan is for biden to take his message on the road next week? it will be welcome news. really the easiest for people to grasp. they will get the checks if you k qualify. it is $1.9 trillion and why biden will hold and event talking about how to get it implemented. they re picking someone to oversee that because it s a big plan. look for that on monday. i think first this afternoon it s going to be more of a celebration for president biden in the rose garden signing this. only democrats you ll see in attendance given zero republicans voted to actually pass this plan. the white house saying, yes, by camera meeting. both houses represented but not a bipartisan event given none of the republicans were a part of getting this actually signed into law, of which presiden
and correspondent shaquille brewster. so shaquille, $27 million. reporter: $27 million. and that was just approved unanimously by city council. this was a regularly scheduled meeting that they had, but we started to get indications that something was in the works when a late agenda item was add he had. we saw that it was involving the estate of george floyd. and counsel had a closed session and then announced that $27 million settle little. we know the family of breonna taylor, their family received $12 million in louisville.littl. we know the family of breonna taylor, their family received $12 million in louisville. the city of minneapolis gave out about $20 million for the family of the australian woman killed several years ago. and now george floyd and his family getting $27 million. we also see in a statement from the city counsel and from the floyd family that 500,000 will be dedicated to the community where he was killed, to that intersection, i m sure you have seen m