package and it s this new child tax credit which is really revolutionary. it s very, very popular. 70% popular with the american people. what is the thinking behind this big kickoff this week to promote it nationwide? well, look, we are still in the midst of this pandemic, and we know that we can t get out of our economic crisis until we get through the health crisis. so the thinking behind the american rescue plan is that we need to address the problems caused by the pandemic. part of it is is to help get the vaccine eggs and get the shots in people s arms. we recognized since the beginning of the pandemic we ve lost 9.5 million jobs and we ve got over 4 million people who have been unemployed for at least a year. people are struggling and one in five adult renters are behind in their rent payments and millions of adults and children are struggling to eat and put food on the table. so it s important that the federal government provide the resources that people and business
out of five americans has received a shot. this as those $1,400 stimulus checks are starting to hit bank accounts. but despite the progress being made, there are concerns about the thousands of people who are traveling and attending spring break events across the country. masks and social distancing don t seem to be a priority and health officials are warning of the potential consequences, saying the next few weeks will be critical in determining if we ll see another surge. even though the numbers have gone down, over the last couple of weeks they ve plateaued. when you see a plateau at a level as high as 60,000 cases a day, that is a very vulnerable time to have a surge to go back up. we can avoid that if we continue to vaccinate people, get more and more protection without all of a sudden pulling back on public health measures. and many people are spending their spring breaks in florida. the state is seeing a rush of people despite health warnings. cnn s natasha chen is
coronavirus. and there is plenty to herald on that front. the cdc now hayes 107 million vaccine doses have been administered. and today, dr. anthony fauci said it is possible that three feet of social distancing instead of six would suffice to reopen schools. and he teased that new guidance should be coming from the cdc soon. also today we are closely following developments surrounding new york governor andrew cuomo. house speaker nancy pelosi saying cuomo needs the look inside his heart but ultimately stopped short of calling their his resignation as multiple women now accuse of him sexual harassment. we will go live to albany new york in i don t want. first to south florida where spring break is in full spring despite health officials advice. cnn is in miami beach. what does spring brack look like? is the feeling there that the pandemic is over? certainly people have told us they are here partly because they are escaping more restrictive conditions wherever they came f
Of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. The u. S. Senate has passed one of the most sweeping overhauls to the u. S. Tax code in more than 30 years. The tax cuts and jobs act, as amended, is passed. gavel bangs applause sreenivasan just before 2 00 a. M. This morning, with Vice President mike pence presiding, the u. S. Senate narrowly passed a nearly 1. 5 trillion tax bill by a vote of 5149. After lastminute negotiations on the floor of the senate, the final text of the nearly 500 page bill was released just hours before the vote. The senate
Journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Thank you very much for coming here today. We are at the Kennedy Center. You played here many times, i assume . Yoyo um, once or twice. David well, im very honored to be interviewing you, because i am the chairman of the Kennedy Center, and we gave you the Kennedy Center honors at one point not too long ago, and you have also been the recipient of the president ial medal of freedom and every other award one can get. You are traveling around the world all the time. What drives you at this point when you are already so successful . Yoyo i want my wife to approve of me. David that is hard to do sometimes. Yoyo that could be the ultimate prize. David well, that is important. Yoyo well, what probably drives me is i want to be useful. So, i play th