Nonu. S. Citizens won t be able to come to america from india until this ban is lifted. The country is in dire straits, reporting more than 300,000 covid cases for the ninth day in a row. Crematoriums are overflowing with bodies. Hospitals are out of oxygen for patients and multiple variants are circulating there. Only about 2% of india is vaccinated right now. Here in america, we can t afford any more setbacks. We re so close to some semblance of normalcy. The white house just announced today 100 million americans are now fully vaccinated. That s 30% of the u. S. , which is amazing. But what would be more amazing is if the other 70% would join in or even 50% more to achieve herd immunity. 26% of americans right now say they will not get the vaccine. Among republicans that number is 44%. So how do you change minds of folks like this? are you getting vaccinated? no. I don t need a vaccine. I had covid last march. Sick for all of five hours. I don t need a vaccine for that. We re the ind
to spiral out of control. we have brand-new numbers from border patrol tonight. 171,000 migrants were apprehended at the border in th month of march. that s up 60 percent from february and it s the highest monthly total in 15 years. even more disturbing, the net record number of unaccompanied borders minors, 18,500 children. that is 7,000 more than the previous record from may in 2019 . we saw how two of those unaccompanied minors across-the-board or last night. two little girls, sisters, age three and five years old tossed over a wall, left to fend for themselves in the middle of the desert miles from civilization. thankfully the girls are okay. here they are, pictured with their hero border agents that rescued them. she was horrified by what the coyotes did and she is looking to hold them accountable. to get a kneeled down wondered as they were talking to me what kind of experiences or nightmares they went through from ecuador all the way to our border that we don t even kn
on the $3.5 trillion human infrastructure plan as they call it. but there s an impasse between progressives and moderate democrats. progressives say they will not sign off on the bipartisan infrastructure deal unless the bigger social safety net bill comes with it and moderates don t like that. so, cnn s ryan nobles and lauren fox are on capitol hill to explain all of this to all of us. ryan, let s start with you. are they going to vote to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling in the house today? reporter: well, nothing is easy on capitol hill. i think we ve learned that, alisyn and victor, and even this process has not been easy. house democrats were prepared and are now prepared to pass this continuing resolution and the language that would lift the debt limit for more than a year, but ran into a snag earlier today because some house progressives were concerned that it included more than a billion dollars in funding for the iron dome security system for israel.
our health lead. moments ago the white house covid response team wrapped up its meeting highlighting today s big news from the fda. authorization of the first antiviral pill for covid patients. it could not come at a better time. look at the timeline. it took the delta variant about two months to become the dominant variant in the u.s. how long did it take omicron? two weeks. now already it accounts for 90% of new cases in several regions of the u.s. cnn s athena jones starts us off this hour with the urgent actions happening now to save more lives. reporter: in a season of setbacks, a glimmer of hope. the fda granting paxlovid emergency use authorization. folks who took paxlovid early within three days of symptom onset had a 90% reduction in hospitalization or death compared to those who took placebo. this is a very potent agent. reporter: one problem, the highly effective treatment has to be administered within the first five days of symptoms, making hard-to-come-by t
presesus christ. president joe biden didn te d speak publicly to the press about the deadliest fires in moderlifire in n american hir five straight days. why wasays. that?sk well, because he was afraid the press was going to ask him about hunter. and he should be afraid because every answer he ever giveswer hgives immediately col. he never talked to his a son about business. mo his family never took money from china. he never met hunter s business r me partners. all lies. and the new live from the bide n white house is this. i ve been asked thia st is question a million times. the answer is not going to change. the answer remains the sam theev the president was never in business with his son. i just don t have anything else. to add. all right. well, let s examine this. what does it mean to b s itn toe in business with someone? well, the dictionary says being in business with someonegn means you re both engaged in the same business activities or pursuit s. same