white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight. good evening, jacqui. good evening, shannon. we are seeing a groundswell of opposition to something that hasn t yet happened. the return of any federal mandates in some schools and localities are trying to tamp down on this recent rise in cases. tonight the governors of south carolina and florida are announcing that their states will not bring back any restrictions. as president biden s cdc is warning people to remain vigilant. we know that masks don t work. we knew that from the very beginning. president biden flouting cdc mask guidance this week after being exposed. 10 days or something. i got to keep wearing it but don t tell them i didn t have it on when i walked in. support for a republican bill ban the return of federal mask mandates. democrats unwilling to go that far. i think that would depend on the lethality of covid, if hundreds of thousands of people are dying, the government response is
until the coming hours, many americans wocould wake up to fi long awaited treasury payments in their bank accounts. the first payments were processed friday and are being distributed this weekend. president joe biden took a victory lap in the rose garden friday after signing the legislation. he offered a message of hope for struggling americans. think of the millions of people going to sleep at night staring at the ceiling going, my god, what am i going to do tomorrow? lost my health care, don t have a job, unemployment runs out. i m behind in my mortgage. what am i going to do? well, guess what? they re going to be getting that check soon. here is chief white house correspondent katelynn collin wes more. wish i could come out and shake hands with every one of you. a rose garden victory dance for president biden as he touted his first major piece of legislation. it s one thing to pass the american rescue plan. it s going the be another thing to implement it. becau