>> the royal family simply don't recognize some of the things that harry and meghan told oprah. >> this is actually a slap in the face, i think. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." it is wednesday, march 10th, 6:00 here in new york. and this morning, the house of representatives is poised to take president biden's massive rescue plan over the finish line. in just a few hours, lawmakers will debate and hold a final vote on the $1.9 trillion relief package. it will deliver the largest ever direct payments to americans, bringing help to millions who are struggling. this will be a major legislative victory on president biden's 50th day in office. the president plans to sign it ahead of a prime-time address to the nation tomorrow night. that's one year after the pandemic plunged the country into shutdown. >> so he doesn't really have much selling to do when it comes to this legislation, because how popular is the plan around the country? the answer, really popular. we have a brand-new cnn poll releasing now, just then. it just released. >> wow, i like how you did that. >> it shows that 61% of americans spupport the bill overall and even more support when you break down what's inside it. still, not a single republican member of congress is expected to vote for the relief plan. we'll take you inside those numbers in just a mome. when will this historic vote happen? >> reporter: in just a couple of hours, you can expect the house of representatives to begin debate and shortly after that, they will have their vote. this is the last stop on capitol hill before this gets sent to the president'n deske next few days. it's also important to remember that those unemployment benefits begin to run out across the country over the weekend. so this is all happening before that critical deadline. the democrats had really tried to carve out over the last couple of weeks, as they've push forward to pass this legislation. now, looking forward, democrats are going to be drying to sell this bill to the american people. like you noted, it is very popular already, but they want to keep informing americans about how this legislation affects their day-to-day lives. and that's in a few ways. of course, those $1,400 direct stimulus checks to americans making $75,000 or less. there's also an expansion of the child tax credit. more money for vaccines. more money to get kids back to school. more money for small businesses so they can continue reopening in a safe way. so all of that is coming to americans across the country. democrats want to make it clear, they're the one who is did that. because like you noted, republicans are not expected to support this bill in the house. they didn't support it in the senate. and that is a very big distinction that democrats want to make sure is clear to the american people. so, in just a couple of hours, that final vote will take place on capitol hill. this really is showing, this entire process, how difficult it may be for democrats moving forward to navigate with these very narrow majorities. they got this across the finish line, but it wasn't without some heartburn. it wasn't without some democrats arguing that there were provisions in this bill they didn't like. if you remember, just a couple of days ago, you had joe manchin giving his colleagues a little bit of heartburn over the fact that he held open a vote potentially for 12 hours as they were trying to work out how to make him happy. so, yes, a huge victory for the president. but also just making it clear that everything going into the future is going to be tough for democrats to keep accomplishing things that the president wants to accomplish, whether that's infrastructure, immigration, given those narrow majorities. >> lauren fox on capitol hill, keep us posted over the next several hours. so, moments ago, i unilaterally and single handedly released cnn's new national poll that shows pretty serious support for the pandemic relief bill. cnn political director david chalian here to look inside the numbers. david? >> good morning, john. it is pretty substantial support. 61%, as you just noted, favor, overall, this economic relief bill. take a look, when i break it down by party in our brand-new poll. and you'll see that it's got support in all areas. 94% of democrats, obviously. 58% of independents sport this bill. john, a quarter, 26% of republicans in this poll support this bill. that looks no like the zero republicans who are going to be voting for it. and the news gets better for the bill proponents when you look at individual pieces of it. 85% support for the larger tax credits. 77% support for the money that's in the bill to help schools reopen. 76% support for those $1,400 stimulus checks. and 59% support for aid to state and local governments. now, look at that by party, and i think this may be one of the most interesting findings in the poll. look at the right-hand column there of republican support for these measures. 73% of republicans support the larger tax credits here. 55% of republicans, a majority of republicans, support the money for the classroom. 55% for the stimulus checks. and 28% support that aid to local government. that's the one place where you don't see a majority of republicans coming onboard with democrats, overwhelmingly supporting this, in the poll. again, zero votes in the congress. and then, finally, we asked folks, how do you think this bill is going to impact the economy if it becomes law? add those top two numbers together. 28% say a lot, 38% say some. 66%, two-thirds of americans in this poll say they think this economic relief bill is actually going to help the economy. >> that's a big number right there. and again, zero percent support with republicans in congress, which is notable. we mentioned, president biden is going to hit the road to sell the plan. the plan doesn't need much selling, but what about president biden. we have some new numbers on him, as well. >> yeah, as you noted, it is the 50th day of his presidency, so this halfway mark to those first hundred days, and we have a new approval rating for president biden, majority support. 51% approve of the overall job that president biden is doing in this poll. 41% disapprove. if you break this out by party, you see he's got the support, 92% of democrats give him an approval rating there, 48% of independents approve of the job he's doing. only 8% of republicans, showing we still live if a pretty polarized universe. all the more impressive he's broken through with this covid relief bill. look at where joe biden falls at this point in the presidency. he's above donald trump and below bill clinton is where he's residing at this sort of mid-march mark in the first year of a presidency. and take a look at the issues overall, john, that we tested here. coronavirus, the handling of coronavirus is by far and away his most popular issue. his best issue. 60% approval on how he's handling the coronavirus, well above his overall approval. but then it drops. 50% approval on the environment. 50% approval on helping the middle class. 49% on the economy, 47% on dealing with racial injustice, 44% on foreign affairs. and the lowest issue we tested, 43% pay appapproval on immigrat. that's a growing crisis that the administration is dealing with, as well. >> david chalian, do not go far. we require more of you in just a second. >> also new this morning, the mask mandate in the state of texas is over, despite health experts warning it is too soon to relax restrictions. some cities and businesses say they plan to keep masks in place despite the governor's order. cnn's dan simon is live in houston with more. what's the situation, dan? >> reporter: well, hi, alisyn. as of midnight, the texas economy is fully reopened, that mask mandate is gone, but most businesses still requiring them and that has led to some pushback as one restaurant owner tells us. texas is fully reopened this morning and its mask requirement expired. despite the state restrictions being lifted here and houston and elsewhere -- >> we decided to keep the status quo. we're going to continue to have the mask and have social distancing. >> reporter: restaurants like this one aren't changing a thing. the owner says most people have been following its requirements, but a few people took to social media threatening to call immigration to check on the green cards of restaurant staffers. y'all deserve i.c.e., read one message. >> why attack us like that? had i been a statestatehouse, d think that comment would have been made? no. we are following what is senseblese sensible and logical. >> reporter: as some states loosen restrictions, the director of the cdc warns -- >> now is certainly not the time to relax restrictions. march and april are going to be pivotal times. >> reporter: following a year of virtual learning, public school students in los angeles may return to in-person classes in mid-april. this after the district reaching an agreement with the teacher's union. starting monday, the final three states will allow teachers to get vaccinated. and in rhode island, officials are hoping to get all of its teachers at least a first dose of vaccine by the end of the month. >> we're going to do everything that we possibly can to make sure that we salvage some of this school year. >> reporter: with three coronavirus vaccines at hand, nearly 13% of the u.s. adult population is fully vaccinated. alaska making the vaccine available to all residents over 16. >> we'll put this behind us as soon as possible. >> reporter: as more americans become fully vaccinated, the cdc recommending they hold off from traveling for now. this cautious guidance as health experts fear new variants could become a problem, even with the rate of coronavirus-related deaths and hospitalizations falling across the u.s. >> the vaccine is a great answer to it, but we don't have nearly enough, fast enough, to dramatically impact on it. >> reporter: well, sources tell cnn the cdc considered revising those travel recommendations for those that are fully vaccinated, but then opted against it. health experts suggest that that could change as more americans continue to get vaccinated. alisyn, we'll send it back to you. >> dan, thank you very much. coming up in our next hour, we will talk with president biden's chief medical adviser on the pandemic, dr. anthony fauci. final package of president biden's historic relief bill is now hours away. so what does the gop opposition to this popular legislation say about the challenges going forward? 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>> it's potentially quite fertile, right? you don't think tim ryan's final point there about dr. seuss and the distraction tactics, it points to something important we've seen in this debate over the bill, is that republicans have not been able to get a foothold in making sort of the substantiative argument against this bill. partially because they voted for so many of these kinds of components in previous covid relief bills last year. so there are arguments that now, all of a sudden, while people are still in need, that this is somehow an unthinkable thing to vote for doesn't seem to be holding water with the american public. >> i just want to pivot for a second to what donald trump is up to. and this is important, because donald trump successfully used mail-in voting yesterday. >> that's impossible! he's so against it! >> you know, it's rife with election fraud, you know, voting fraud, as he would claim, david. let me remind you of what, in fact, he said in august about this. >> there is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating. >> unless you're me, but he didn't say that part. there was a local election in florida. he resides at mar-a-lago now in florida. he asked for a mail-in ballot. he received a mail-in ballot. he filled it out. they have received it, as you can see on your screen. so i guess he does like mail-in voting after all. >> when he said that in august, also in august, he voted by mail in the primary in august. you may also require, when -- late in the campaign, when he realized that he was going to need a lot of his voters to vote by mail, since it was going to be dominant form of voting amidst the pandemic, all of a sudden there were some states that he thought did it really well, florida being one of them, a state he, of course, won. but if you're trying to find consistency here, you're not going to find it, right? 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