that supply into american arms. nine governors in a letter pleading for more cooperation and coordination. now dr. fauci saying it will take until may or june before vaccines are widely available to the general public. may or june. that s later than his previous prediction of april. this, in part, because the johnson & johnson vaccine is way behind when it comes to production. vaccinations are desperately needed to get the economy and life as we once knew it back on track. and cnn s phil mattingly reports, tonight president biden will attempt to reassure the public that he and his administration are up to this daunting challenge. tonight, president joe biden center stage for the first time since taking office and focused on one thing. the president will continue working on getting the american rescue plan passed. that s his top priority. $1.9 trillion relief package to address the dueling public health and economic crises. even with coronavirus cases, hospitalizations a
deaths remain above 1,000 a day. a number that is slowly decreasing, but still represents enormous pain and heartbreak for families across the country and now new cases of covid-19 are rising. averaging around 57,000 a day. one of the reasons for the continued high covid-19 numbers, states relaxing or eliminating pandemic health restrictions. consequently that s playing a part in other good news, weekly jobless claims were just 684,000 last week. still a huge number. but the lowest level in more than a year. in fact, it s the first time during the pandemic that we ve seen weekly claims below 700,000. the situation is aided by biden s newly enacted relief package which zero congressional republicans supported. not a single solitaire gop soul could get on board with helping american people still suffering under enormous economic pandemic pressure. instead many republicans have been attacking voting rights in the name of a delusional lie and with racist undertones. in georgia re
this time. it is going to take time before we see emergency authorization come through, at least another week or couple weeks. beyond that, you still need to have distribution of the vaccine. i think given that we already have 1such a large supply of th mo moderna and johnson&johnson vaccine, they have been trained to distribute those. i think it s highly unlikely the astrazeneca will be a major player in the united states. it further complicates the distribution process? it maybe speaks to the success of the vaccine rampup in the u.s. by the time astrazeneca will be available, there will be many more vaccines on the market. one other finding in this large, very large study was no serious side effects, including no sign of that blood clotting that they had been concerned about in europe so what does that tell us? right. i think that s what s really most important about this trial here in the united states is that we do have large supplies of this vaccine and are in a positi
a midair emergency in the western united states could have become a deadly disaster, instead everyone walked away safely and deeply relieved. parts of a passenger plane plunged from the sky above colorado after a boeing 777 blew an engine. it eventually landed safely and the incident is now being investigated by the national transportation safety board. fascination quickly turned to concern for those watching from the ground. get josie. i just want to go home. hey, can you grab josie. why? so that she doesn t get hit by something. pieces of the jet rained down on suburban broomfield near denver, ending up in front yards and soccer fields. a witness described the moment it happened to cnn earlier. i was playing with our two kids at the local elementary school, honestly on the basketball court just having fun. an airplane was flying really high overhead and basically what sounded like a sonic boom made everybody look up. as we did we could see there was a gian
to his agenda and coronavirus. in just a few minutes, biden is expected to land in milwaukee for his first time as president. as of this hour, the virus killed more than 87,000 americans, 74,000 of those americans died since biden took office now, since biden left on his first official trip, he was asked about his covid relief package which he is expected to sell to the american people tonight. mitch mcconnell said opposing covid relief would unify republicans. what do you say to that? it hurt america badly. the president also will be taking questions on reopening schools and the vaccination rollout. on vaccination, the biden administration today fully back pushing the time line back for when everybody can get a vaccine. here is dr. anthony fauci today. if you stop talking about when vaccine will be more widely available to the general population, i was hoping that that would be by the end of april. that time line will probably be prolonged maybe into mid- to late-may