in fact, the white house says the checks for some americans could come as soon as this weekend. cnn s kaitlan collins is at the white house. william news to many. give a sense what we re about to hear and what the plan is for biden to take his message on the road next week? it will be welcome news. really the easiest for people to grasp. they will get the checks if you k qualify. it is $1.9 trillion and why biden will hold and event talking about how to get it implemented. they re picking someone to oversee that because it s a big plan. look for that on monday. i think first this afternoon it s going to be more of a celebration for president biden in the rose garden signing this. only democrats you ll see in attendance given zero republicans voted to actually pass this plan. the white house saying, yes, by camera meeting. both houses represented but not a bipartisan event given none of the republicans were a part of getting this actually signed into law, of which presiden
cooling, but everywhere i go people say things are so expensive. when you look at cpi inflation year e over year, rent is up 8.3 president. eating out up 77%. car 7.7%. car insurance up 6.9%. 16.9%. for good, honest, decent, hard working folks, that has to hurt. what s the impact, john? well, i mean, the interest rates have rah really hurt especially the middle class, but everybody, right in you re seeing it in the pump, gas in the pumps, you re seeing it in rent, right in so when people in the past, they re making a decision whether they re going to rent or they re going to buy, with interest rates being high and mortgage rates being high, they re going to tend to rent even though the rents are going up on top of that as well because the landlords have to charge more. and on top of that, people, you know, what s going on with crime in some of the major cities like new york, chicago and san francisco, they don t want to commit long term as well, so so they re going to rent instead,
pre-existing conditions and veterans and the elderly and make sure i do everything i can and whatever tool i have left in my toolbox i m going to use to it make sure serve the people of illinois and the people of this country and not going to le republicans do this to the american people. do you want the party to be more moderate or progressive. look, i voted against the medical device tax. i m a pretty moderate democrat but progressive when it comes to things such at making sure that working american, hard-working folks have access to health insurance. you don t get rid of something before you have a fix for it and that s what we re faced here and, you know, i m open to allowing them to buy into medicare to get more folks covered and that s certainly an option more progressive but more realistic and we re actually offering real solutions to the issues we re facing as opposed to pushing something through. some of your colleagues down in the house some democratic colleagues are br
capitol. if you take your car into the garage, the raburn garage where joe used to work you show your i.d. and let you in your car. they do a cursory search. if you have that i.d. they wave you in. this individual had that i.d. hat the first step to get you through the door. you re seeing enhanced security all the folks starting to come in to the navy yard, the gentlemen from the navy are out there searching their vehicles and making sure they have the proper credentials. in d.c. for most of the government buildings you show the i.d. you re brought up to the next stage. thank you. we ll be getting updates from both of you throughout the morning. in a speech yesterday president obama addressed the navy yard shooting praising the first responders. but he quickly turned to his planned speech on the economy where he criticized republicans for threatening a government
tell us a little bit about that area, the community at navy yard, what the set up is, how he might have gotten in there. reporter: well good morning. one thing that s been lost on the american public so far when you hear the term navy yard you expect a base that s isolated from the community. and this is very much the opposite here. this is in the mid. a thriving neighborhood in d.c. that s experience ad rebirth in the last few years after the nationals ballpark has been built further down the street. you have workers here that number in the thousands. many of them are middle class folks, hard-working folks that come from the surrounding areas. they are not all military. you have a lot of civilian folks who work in the building behind me. two of those victims that made it to the hospital at washington general are getting the status of designee so they can get all their treatment at walter reed. those are the type of people you