this, as president biden's nearly $2 trillion relief bill is nearing final passage. the final vote now expected wednesday. the president plans to air his first prime time address to the nation one day later, marking a year since the coronavirus shutdown in this country. >> we're also getting new reaction to that bombshell interview by harry and meghan. we'll go to the uk where it just finished airing. the couple raising serious concerns of racism and neglect by the royal family. let start with nick watt. the new guidance for the cdc for vaccinated americans was highly anticipated. break it all down for us. >> well, wolf, let's start with the definition of fully vaccinated. the cdc says that means it's two weeks after you have had your second dose or your only dose if it's johnson & johnson. and the headline, for now, being fully vaccinated does not mean that you can dance bare faced through the streets. >> you can visit your grandparents if you have been vaccinated and they have been, too. >> reporter: finally, guidance for the fully vaccinated. how the government would like you to behave. >> 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. >> reporter: but even fully vaccinated still avoid travel and, out and about, still wear a mask. >> there is still a small risk that vaccinated people could become infected with milder or asymptomatic disease and potentially even transmit the virus to others who are not vaccinated. >> reporter: they'll update as the science evolves, but for now, definitely don't do this. >> not all at once. >> reporter: the mask-burning protest in boise, idaho, over the weekend. >> it's not helpful for people to be burning masks. we want people to choose to make the right decision to wear a mask. >> reporter: masks, of course, no longer required in the likes of mississippi. >> the fact is, we've seen significantly reduced levels and, oh, by the way, unlike president biden, who wants to insult americans and insult mississippians, i actually trust mississippians to make good decisions. >> reporter: but will they? meantime, nearly 2.2 million vaccine doses now going into arms on the average day. >> i know the pace is challenging. this is a war. we can't let up. >> reporter: new cases now averaging just over 60,000 a day. lowest number in about five months, but about 20% of those cases could be the more contagious variant first identified in the uk, according to one testing company. >> today is wreaking havoc in parts of europe. we are in the the eye of the hurricane right now. >> reporter: still there is a creeping normalcy. this past weekend, air travel, biggest numbers since the holidays. spring break is here. >> miami is the place to be. >> reporter: also, there's this. just announced. >> high schools will reopen on monday, march 22nd in new york city. >> reporter: the final group back inside buildings in this, the biggest school district in the country. now, andy slavitt, one of the white house senior advisers on covid said the current guidance for fully vaccinated people is based on where we are now, which is around 10% of the american population vaccinated. that guidance will change, he says, as we get up to 20%, 30%. he also said it wasn't difficult to figure out what the guidance should be, but they took time getting the communication right. he said that they learned lessons from last year and all that mixed messaging on masks. wolf? >> nick, thanks very much. nick watt in l.a. joining us now, dr. tom frieden, former director of the centers for disease control. thank you for joining us. what do you hope our viewers will take away from these new cdc guidelines for 30 million plus fully vaccinated americans, and more than 2 million americans are getting vaccinated now, on average, every day? >> well, this is good news. it's science based. it's sensible. you can hug your grandkids again. if you've been waiting to get a haircut, see a dentist, you can do that. it's not an all-clear. we're not done yet. covid isn't done with us. the variants are still at risk. you don't declare victory in the third quarter. so, keep your masks up. avoid places where lots of people are congregating indoors. that's where the virus can spread rapidly. and we'll have to keep an eye on the variant and see what happens with with that. >> the cdc director, dr. rochelle walensky says that americans will have to avoid unnecessary travel until there's more data about whether vaccinated people can transmit the virus to others. when can you expect to have that answer? >> i think we're getting emerging data that these vaccines are really good. they drive down cases. they drive down deaths, and they almost certainly drive down the likelihood that you'll spread it to others. but, remember, nothing is 100% with vaccination, and there are some people who can get sick after getting vaccinated. there are people who can spread infection after getting vaccinated. that's one of the reasons we say mask up even after being vaccinated. but, really, there's lots of good news here. wolf, i was just looking at the nursing home data. nursing home cases are down almost 15-fold from their peak. that's a reflection of vaccination in nursing homes. that's making a huge difference. over the next few months, we're going to see a lot more progress around the u.s. so, hang on, mask up. avoid risky places and a much safer future is just a few months away. >> one of the big problems out there still, and i'm sure you agree, is what's called vaccine hesitancy. the new cdc guidelines, do you think, go far enough to reduce vaccine hesitancy among so many americans still that are reluctant to get the shot? will it motivate more americans to get the shot after they're told, as they were today, by the cdc, what they can now do once they're fully vaccinated? >> i hope so. one of the interesting things is that the more people get vaccinated, the safer it will be for all of us. this is one of those things like masking up where what everyone does affects everyone else. the more we're in it together, the more we mask up, vaccinate, the more we can get our economy back, our kids back to school. we can go visiting with friends and relatives and get to a new normal. >> dr. tom frieden, as usual, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. let's go to the white house right now. president biden is on the brink of getting his covid relief bill passed. he's also preparing for his first prime time address to the nation. phil mattingly is joining us right now. this relief bill certainly a top priority for the president and a critical test of his ability to get things done, right? >> reporter: no question about it on both counts, wolf. six days before president biden took office he introduced a $1.9 trillion relief package, making it clear it was essential to his administration's plans to try to get a handle on the pandemic. now he's just a couple of days away from signing it into law. >> and one more thing. this plan is historic. >> reporter: tonight, president joe biden on the verge of clinching a transformative victory, as he prepares to deliver his very first prime time address this week. >> the bill as amended is passed. >> reporter: the senate competing its marathon consideration of biden's sweeping $1.9 trillion relief bill on sunday. the house planning to follow suit later this week and biden making clear he's unequivocally ready to sign. >> as soon as i get it. >> reporter: even as his administration continues to work behind the scenes to ensure the pathway is clear. >> obviously, our focus continues to be on the american rescue plan, getting it across the finish line. the president is taking nothing be for granted. >> reporter: gop opposition unyielding. not a single house or senate republican voting for the plan. >> this isn't a pandemic rescue package. it's a parade of left wing pet projects ramming through, they're ramming through during a pandemic. >> but the house vote will complete biden's top task from the moment he step foot in the oval office, passing a sweeping bill to address the dual economic and public health crises. the scale of the bill and its focus on those at or below the poverty line almost without precedent. the stimulus checks, which would provide $5,600 for a typical family of four making less than $100,000, emergency benefits for 11 million americans, unprecedented expansion of the child tax credit which would reach 66 million and is estimated to cut child poverty in half. an expansion of the earned income tax credit for 17 million. tens of billions of dollars for rental and homeowner assistance and quietly bolstering the affordable care act to reduce premiums for millions. top biden advisers, in an internal staff memo calling the package, quote, an historic response to the moment of crisis we face. >> we can't lose site of what the bill actually means for the american people. >> still, warning signs for biden's future plans in the form of democratic senator joe manchin, demanding bipartisanship on issues like infrastructure and immigration. >> i'm not willing to go into reconciliation until we give bipartisanship, work together, or allowing the senate to do its job. assuming they'll never work with us, that's the other side. this is tribal. republicans will never agree on anything, or democrats will never agree. i don't subscribe to that. >> reporter: for now, biden firmly in manchin's camp in maintaining the rules of the senate in search of bipartisanship. >> the president's preference is not to get rid of the filibuster of the look what we've been able to accomplish in the last six weeks. >> reporter: making clear that whatever lies ahead for his agenda, his cornerstone proposal is a big deal. >> i pass this plan, we will have delivered real, tangible results for the american people and their families. we'll be able to see and know and feel the change in their own li lives. >> reporter: wolf, at this point, the house is still waiting for-to-extend the passed bill over to the house chamber. they could vote as soon as wednesday with the president expected to give that prime time address on thursday. advisers made clear he will talk about this law when it's signed into place during that address. they want to spend the next several weeks ensuring that people know what's in the bill, ensuring they can get those $1,400 checks out the door, ensuring that the programs that is expected to be put in place. march 14th is when those emergency unemployment benefits expire. president biden making clear that is a deadline that has to be met. at this point in time it looks like he's on track to do just that, wolf. >> he wants to sign it into law before sunday. otherwise, millions of americans will lose that emergency unemployment, those benefits. thanks very much, phil mattingly at the white house. just ahead, how are prince harry and meghan markle's allegations playing in britain right now? we'll get reaction to their bombshell interview that just aired in the uk moments ago. >> and there's more breaking news out of new york right now on the investigation of governor andrew cuomo and allegations of sexual harassment. we started with computers. we didn't stop at computers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your business, you know we'll stop at nothing. [ announcer ] we are now boarding. get away... without going anywhere. be one with nature. get to know the locals and sample the cuisine. book a dream vacation delivered right to your door. sometimes the greatest destinations aren't far away. ♪ wayfair you've got just want i need ♪ president biden may be days away from the first victory in his first 47 days. he's planning to address the nation thursday night. let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borgeer and former ohio governor john kasich. gloria, the final house vote was supposed to be tomorrow. it's delayed now until wednesday. some progressives aren't happy with the senate changes in the legislation, like dropping the minimum wage increase. do you think the president can get this across the finish line this week? >> i do. even progressives who are upset that the minimum wage was dropped understand this is a $1.9 trillion policy revolution. it is a huge bill that aims to end childhood poverty, that deals with people who live at the lower end of the income scale in this country. very often we have measures that deal with people at the top end and give them breaks. this is people who have suffered during this pandemic, who need the help, who will get direct assistance, and they also understand that almost 70% of the american public right now says they support this bill. i think when you look back on it, republicans might think, wait a minute. the public was really in favor of this. i didn't like some of it, but not one republican voting for it? i think some of them may regret that. >> john kasich, not one republican in the house or senate for that matter voted for this bill. you've been critical of parts of the bill. if you were still in the house of representatives, i suspect you probably would have voted against it yourself. >> whoa, whoa, wait. >> would you have voted against it? >> wolf, here is where i think went wrong, to tell you the truth. >> well, would you have voted against it? >> over in the -- well, you see, i think we would have had a different bill if i were there. that's what i did when i was in congress. i forced compromises. that's how we got balanced budgets. >> let's say you didn't succeed. >> no, i would have supported this, because i think it's necessary. but here is the issue. had republicans been serious about delivering votes, particularly in the senate, they could have received some compromise from biden. they could have dropped some of the state and local stuff. there were things that could have been taken out of this bill that are not critical to the crisis we have right now. but they couldn't deliver any votes. >> right. >> the question is, were the democrats particularly interested in being able to work with them to deliver the votes? i don't think so. so we have another breakdown. in the end, wolf, what everybody is increasingly concerned about is the debt. what is the impact on inflation, and what can this do later to create misery for the very people we're trying to help? at this point in time, i would have supported it, but i'm not sure i would have been in this position. i would have tried to rally people to try to say let's make a deal. let's get it down to 1.3 or 1.2. it's not fair to say what would you do right -- it wouldn't have been like this. i would have rallied people to improve the bill. it's clear, as gloria says, the things necessary in there. the pain that people have gone through. but left with nothing else, i'm sure that i would have gone ahead and voted for it. it's a mystery to me why republicans would pound their chest, who had gone along in the last four years in spending all this money and then all of a sudden be concerned about the price tag. but going forward, wolf, with these other bills that are going to come, they better figure it out or we're going to sink our children. >> the truth is that governor kasich is one of the last republicans left who is actually talking about the impact of all of this spending on the debt and how that could affect the economy in the future. republicans, in opposing this bill, are not so much talking about the debt. they're on the culture wars argument. they've been spending money for the last four years during the trump administration, but it's just helped people at the upper end of the scale. so, while some may be talking about the debt, they're really deep into dr. seuss and everything else, and they're not -- we don't hear them arguing about the debt the way they used to, like john kasich is talking about, quite frankly. >> go ahead, make your final point, governor. >> i just want to say we are in a culture now of "i" and we are not in a culture of "we." it's affecting politics. it's affecting everything in our country today. all we do, most of us today, we've lost the moral underpinning that says we should live in a country where we care about we and not just about i. in politics what's good for me? how do i get re-elected, how do i have power? this is something i'm going to be talking about all the time. that is, we need to get back to a we culture where we work together and not cancel other people who don't think like us and work together to solve the problems that people have. >> that would be nice and productive. let's see if that's possible. governor, thank you very much. gloria, thanks to you as well. how much damage has been done to the british family from the eye-popping interview with prince harry and meghan markle? we're going live to the uk where the interview just aired for the first time. the trial with the former police officer charged in the death of george floyd after a sudden delay. it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? ...delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. the explosive harry and meghan interview just aired on the british royal family's home turf for the first time. let's get reaction from the united kingdom to the televised allegations of racism, neglect and so much more. our royal correspondent, max foster, is putting it all together for us. has there been any immediate response, any response at all from the palace? >> reporter: no response from the palace. we're in lockdown here in the uk, which obviously boosted the audience for this show. everyone is talking about it, of course. we're getting a sense of public reaction, if we look at the newspaper front pages, i've seen a preview of the ones coming out tomorrow. they're all about palace in crisis, a palace in turmoil. w wolf. >> i've spent a long time now not commenting on royal family matters, and i don't intend to depart from thating the elephant in the room, uk prime minister boris johnson sidestepped the question of harry and meghan's bombshell interview with oprah winfrey, commenting only about his admiration of the queen and her role as unifier. the royal palace having no comment whatsoever on the interview that highlighted just how disunified the royal family had become, leading to the so-called mexit. airing for the first time in full in the uk, the question is how damning will this interview be to the royal family? after all, it was everything it was billed to be and more, detailing a royal rift between father and son. >> i feel really let down. >> reporter: a gulf between brothers who weathered so much together. >> i love william to bits, but we -- we want different paths. >> reporter: candid and intimate, no topic off limits. >> i just didn't want to be alive anymore, and that was a very clear, and real, and frightening, constant thought. >> reporter: the revelation that, amongst other things, isolation, a barrage of character assassination by tabloids had driven the duchess of sussex to thoughts of suicide in and of itself is shocking. leading to a show of support today from the white house. >> for anyone to come forward and speak about their own struggles with mental