this as more cities and companies announce changes to their policies with some doing away entirely with mask requirements. both cvs and target said monday they ll no longer fully require will no longer require fully vaccinated shoppers to wear masks unless mandated by local leaders. but some states and local leaders, not moving as quickly. new jersey eliminated its mask requirement outdoors but kept it in place for indoor public spaces. california also plans to keep its mask mandate for indoor activities in place for a month. so far, about 37% of the country is now fully vaccinated. let s begin with alexandra field in times square. so new york drops the mask requirement tomorrow. a highly anticipated day for one of the places hardest hit by the pandemic early on. what does it mean? yeah, it really is this major step forward, an absolute turning point. truly some symbolism. when you look around times square, most people are wearing masks today as they re supposed to be.
the american people who so desperately need the help, many of whom are lying in bed at night staring at the ceiling, wondering, will i lose my job if i haven t already? will i lose my insurance? will i lose my home? over 85% of american households will get direct payments of $1,400 per person. senior congressional correspondent manu raju is on the capitol hill right now. manu, you were in and out of the senate chamber as this marathon session was going on. what did it take on both sides to get this bill passed, and what happens now? reporter: well, it took a lot of fraught negotiations among democrats behind the scenes to get to the point where they are now. house and senate democrats, in fact, have been trying to resolve their differences privately for some time with the white house. we have not seen a lot of that in public because this has been done behind closed doors. after the house passed its version, then it moved over to the senate. the senate democratic leaders t
next few minutes. let s go behind the scenes of the ousting of lou dobbs. it is not cancel culture here. it is consequence culture. what are the consequences for riling up people with reckless lies about a democracy that most americans cherish? well, lately there have not been many consequences. but maybe that s changing. maybe. the pro-trump love-in. the lie fest known as lou dobbs tonight was canceled on friday one day after dobbs was singled out in a the.8 billion lawsuit from the voting company. the company alleges that fox and dobbs and rudy giuliani waived lies at the company in a desperate bid of power. there were lies to against another company smeared by the likes of dobbs. yeah, he is off the air, but ja neen peerry was named, too. as you can see. they were both on the air, back on the air this weekend. fox is vowing to fight the lawsuit. and the plan to cut dobbs loose was in the works before the filing in court. why was dobbs dismissed? what does this tell us abou
qualifications, character, experience and integrity, and that that person will be a black woman. we are reporting on who the likely front runners are. but right now, though, under an hour after that major event, the president is on a major call, speaking with the president of ukraine as the russian collar around ukraine tightens, vladimir putin s army conducted combat drills earlier today, live fire exercises with troops and tanks along the eastern border of ukraine. if the u.s. and nato were looking for signs of deescalation, this was not it. those drills happening just 24 hours after the u.s. hand delivered a letter to moscow yesterday addressing putin s demands. we don t know the contents of that letter, but russian morn minister sergey lavrov told reporters it failed to address nato expansion. the kremlin now warning that when it comes to diplomacy there is, quote, not much cause for optimism. putin himself has been largely silent on the matter, but he was seen in public
that will be within a month. as on the hill, democrats get ready to control a nominee s path for the first time in more than a decade. with most of the drama coming not from whether dems will hang together, they probably will, but how many republicans, if any, will get on board. new reaction coming in this afternoon. developing at the white house right now, president biden and the leader of ukraine may be still on the phone. what we know about what they re saying with the white house worried about a russian invasion of ukraine. plus, back here at home new polling out of georgia and spoiler alert, things are not looking quite so peachy for democrats. what the numbers say for people like joe biden and stacy abrahams going into the midterms. with reporting we broke here on the expensive lifeline to save vulnerable house seats. i m hallie jackson along with the rest of the team. ali vitali on capitol hill and peter is our justice correspondent and let me start with you. presi