sweeping pieces of legislation in most recent history, set to impact american life on many, many levels. by now you probably heard about the $1,400 stimulus checks, which could start going out via direct deposit next week but the bill is also expected to add 7 million jobs to the economy. it s designed to cut child poverty in half, specifically helping black and hispanic families through the tax credits and family aid and it will fund nationwide vaccine distribution that should help bring an end to this covid pandemic. to underscore that, we just learned in the last hour, the biden administration will announce plans to buy 100 million additional vaccines from johnson & johnson. we should make it clear, that while there is a lot of hope and a lot of potential surrounding the new covid bill, we will not be sure how effective it s going to actually be until it s put into action. i want to bring in garrett haake on capitol hill. also with us, chief white house correspondent for n
merck. president biden will announce the purchase of an additional 100 million doses of that johnson & johnson vaccine. an eye on this minneapolis courtroom. it s day three of former police officer derek chauvin s trial. he is charged with murder in the death of george floyd. a fourth juror was seated minutes ago. more on the legal maneuvers coming up. first, our reporters as the house moves closer to passing this covid relief bill. we have garrett haake, carol lee and i want to bring in business correspondent, the one and only stephanie ruhle. garrett, help us understand how this process is going to play out right now. when do you expect we will actually see the house take a vote on this? reporter: i think the house will probably vote late in the noon hour, maybe 1:00 this afternoon. house democratic leaders have scheduled an enrollment ceremony for later this afternoon. they remain that confident that this bill will pass. you are looking at kevin mccarthy having one o
landmark relief bill. the house gearing up for a vote on the $2 trillion plan. it could get to the president s desk as early as tomorrow morning. that s a big deal. as a matter of calendar, it would beat the sunday deadline for renewing programs for the jobless. biden visited a hardware store that will benefit from this kind of support today, and he contrasted this money and the way he is going to deliver it, the new approach here with discredited trump programs where some of the money went the people who just didn t need it. an awful lot of that went to bigger businesses that in fact weren t supposed to qualify. in the last administration fired its inspector general. so a lot of money went to people who shouldn t have gotten help. we ve got several aspects of this story, but we begin immediately with our experts, former governor of vermont and former presidential candidate and also a doctor howard dean, and washington post reporter libby casey. good to see both of you.
the question is, how will the biden administration handle it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that knows some very, very happy grandparents this morning. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 9th. we ll start with the news. the cdc has released new guidelines for those who are fully vaccinated, offering hope that life could soon return to normal. we ve been through a lot this past year, and with more and more people getting vaccinated each day, we are starting to turn a corner. fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or physical distancing. visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk of severe covid-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. and refrain from quarantine and testing following a known covid-19 exposure if the vaccinated person remains asymptomatic. however, the cdc continues to recommend tha
the daily death toll falling to a four month low on monday. at the very same time roughly 10% of the population has now been fully vaccinated, while nearly 20% have gotten at least one shot. an average of 2.2 million vaccinations are being given out every single day in this country. and we ve got to remember, all of this is happening just a year after the country first shut down. i want to start with my colleague peter alexander at the white house. peter, what is the administration doing to mark this one-year anniversary? yeah, that anniversary, of course, a somber one this thursday, now 48 hours away, and we at nbc news can now confirm president biden will be delivering his first primetime address at 8:00 p.m. eastern time this thursday to commemorate the day that the outbreak, the coronavirus outbreak was first declared a pandemic. jen psaki the press secretary detailing the tremendous loss, more than 525,000 americans who have now lost their lives in the course of that t