president biden traveling to pennsylvania tomorrow as part of his administration s week-long tour to introduce americans to his nearly $2 trillion rescue plan saying his goal is to get 100 million vaccine doses in people s arms and 100 million relief checks in people s pockets. checks began arriving over the weekend. the president also announcing that gene sperling, a former top economic official in the clinton and obama administrations will oversee the massive spending in the new law. so joining me now, cnn white house correspondent, john harwood and senior political analyst, kirsten powers. so big promises, 100 million shots, 100 million checks in pockets. all in the next ten days. how will he get this done? that s a lot. well, the truth is those promises sound a lot bigger than they actually are. remember, joe biden came into the presidency promising 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days. that s the rate of a million a day. we were approaching when he came into office. w
york magazine. she said her job was to report on the governor s every move and alleges he often touched her without her consent, on her arms, shoulders, small of her back, her waist. it led her not to even want to go to events like the one she describes, when she was 25 years old she went to a holiday party at the executive mansion and said the governor approached her and as she described it, held her firmly in place while gesturing to a photographer that he wanted their picture taken. the governor said to her, i m sorry, am i making you uncomfortable, i thought we were going steady. it s a moment she subscribed as humiliating, happening in front of her colleagues. she says she felt the governor s actions weren t about wanting to have sex with her but about wanting to show that he had power over her and he used touching and sexual innuendo to stoke fear in women. we ve reached out to bateman and haven t heard back. we ve reached out to the governor s office. they haven t a
you re live in the cnn newsroom. thanks for staying with me. i m ana cabrera in new york. the vaccines are giving americans hope. and we need it. the optimistic news. round three of covid-19 relief is rolling out to millions of americans. it s $1400 per person. many of the cash payments are expected to hit bank accounts this weekend. covid vaccinations more than 101 million doses given to people around the country, according to the cdc, and about a third of the people are now fully vaccinated. public health officials are concerned when they see scenes like this. people packed together. almost almost nobody with a mask. and it is spring break for people and many are traveling, despite advice against it. this is the packed beach, this is miami beach right now. they are begging people to keep wearing masks and keep following safety guidelines. we have a team of recorders spread out. let s begin with cnn s natasha chen. she is in miami beach and people are starting 20 to flock fo
since taking office 51 days ago. and cnn just learning the president will direct all states to open vaccine eligibility to all adults by may first and that he would like to see some signs of normalcy like small gatherings by july 4th. this comes just hours after biden signed a landmark piece of legislation, a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. i believe this is and most people i think do as well, this historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving people in this nation, working people, middle class folks, people who built the country a fighting chance. biden is seizing the moment. according to cnn s new poll, 77% of americans now believe the worst is behind us. that is up nearly 30% over just the past two months. there is an undeniable sense of hope across this country after a year that the cdc says was almost certainly the deadliest year on record for the u.s.. the deadliest year on record. and tonight does mark one year to the day that th
more than 529,000 americans have died, the highest death toll of any nation in the world and nearly 2,000 people in the united states are still dying each day. this isn t over. and the numbers don t tell the whole story. it is the lives interrupted, the families suddenly broken, so many people left to die and grief alone that really hit that does hit the hardest and cannot be forgotten. mothers and fathers and brothers, sisters and friends and coworkers, so many taken too soon. i know i m going to remember michelle, a nurse whose brother-in-law, sister-in-law and mother in law were all admitted to her hospital and she was the only person able to hold her mother-in-law edna s hand as she passed. unlike in a normal circumstance where you would be together gathering as a family, we ve all had to work through this separately. and there is also danielle lopez whose uncle was killed by the virus last summer. it just i m sorry, i m trying to even process that all that th