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very good monday morning. i m jim sciutto. and i m poppy harlow. we hope you had a nice weekend. a busy weekend, certainly in washington. right now the house is poised to vote on a bill that could grant much-needed relief to millions of americans. and send checks out to americans possibly within days. and just an hour from now, the cdc is going to announce long awaited guidelines for fully vaccinated americans. in other words telling you what you can and can t do after you receive those crucial shots. let s begin with elizabeth cohen. so elizabeth, tell us, one, what we expect to be in these guidelines, if we know, and just how essential they have as more and more americans get vaccinated. oh, jim, this is so essential. about 12% of american adults have been fully vaccinated. and i m sure you know because you ve gotten the questions, i know i ve gotten them, a lot of people have gotten them, i m vaccinated and what could i do now that i couldn t do before. questio ....
tapper. the cdc released its full set of guidance for americans, loosening some specific restri restrictions. if grandparents can be vaccinated they can visit their daughter and family even if they have not been vaccinated so long as their daughter and her family are not at risk for severe disease. vaccinated americans will still need to wear a mask in public and many other settings with unvaccinated people and travel is being discouraged for now. there s also a turning point in the battle against coronavirus today. there are now more than 31 million people fully vaccinated in the u.s., and that is more than all the americans infected during this entire pandemic, as cnn s nick watt reports. you can visit your grandparents if you have been vaccinated and they have been, too. reporter: finally, guidance for the fully vaccinated. how the government would like you to behave. fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without weari ....
$1.9 trillion covid relief bill makes its final passage. that s expected wednesday. thursday president biden will deliver the first prime time address of his presidency to mark one year since the nation shut down. we re also tracking fallout from that bombshell interview of the duke and duchess of sussex, whose allegations of racism and neglect have plunged the royal family into crisis. the interview is airing right now for the first time in britain. we ll go there live later this hour for the latest reaction. first, let s get the details of the new cdc guidance just out for more than 30 million americans, who were fully vaccinated against covid-19. our national correspondent, erica hill, is working the story for us. erica, new freedoms for those lucky enough to be fully vaccinated. reporter: that s right. that number is above 30 million here in the u.s. of people who are fully vaccinated. this guidance, we ve been waiting for it, for weeks at this point, as people ar ....
i m benjamin hall in for todd piro. jillian: i m jillian mele. minutes ago, the white house reveals additional executive orders president biden is set to sign as he aims to combat gender issues and sexual violence in schools. ben: doug luzader joins us live as the president always calls on congress to pasco individual relief. doug pass covid relief. reporter: hot off the presses, this adds to the pile of executive orders that the president has already signed. one of these asks the department of education to look into existing regulations to eliminate a sexual violence and evaluate changes made during the trump administration. the other sets up what they re calling a gender policy council. it s intended to combat what they call systemic bias and discrimination including sexual harassment, ensuring access to comprehensive healthcare and preventing and responding to gender based violence, promoting equity, that s a key word for this administration, not equality, but eq ....
why not at least say yes, our message is received or we need to work on getting the message out? i d say it s clear journalists are not why did the president make the visit himself? i don t have anything on his schedule. martha: also today, piers morgan is back today with some brand new insight in to prince william s fiery action to harry and meghan s stunning interview with oprah. we will have more from buckingham palace. a pill to treat covid? dr. marty makary on the beginning of the end of this pandemic in so many ways across this country. good news. lots to get to this hour. first to where we start today. kayleigh mcenany is here with the white house pressure over the open border policy. we begin with peter doocy at the just-ended press briefing outside the white house. hi, peter. there s not a lot of ton for the biden administration to make changes at the border. the team that went down there to scope things out and they have not briefed him yet. ....