earth senate would look like. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip and to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. eight week news his presidency, joe biden is grappling with a national tragedy in georgia and a humanitarian crisis on the border. but he s also marking two big wins. the enactment of his nearly $2 trillion relief bill and now smashing through his goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days. behind these 100 million shots, are millions of lives changed when people receive that dose of hope. grandparents can hug their grandchildren again. front line workers who could show up their jobs without the same fear they used to have. teachers with the confidence to head back into the classroom. with his first gold met and the pace of vaccinations picking up, the president told reporters on friday that he s hoping to double it. things may get worse as new variants of the virus s
becerra, went security secretary alejandro mayorkas. the most recent numbers from the administration, 16,513 unaccompanied children in health and human services and customs and border protection custody as of yesterday. there are 2897 confirmed covid 19 cases among those unaccompanied children, 319 tested positive the remaining medical isolation. the good news, none require hospitalization. no surge, it is our responsibility to do it humanely and to stop what is happening. reporter: we had a chance to see what was happening yesterday because for the first time an independent news organization was allowed inside one of the processing facilities in texas to give the american public an idea what these facilities look like. white house press secretary jen psaki after weeks of fielding questions when we with the cameras in, the administration once all of them to look like. what about access to the facility where there is overcrowding and an actual problem. we are providing
crews have been working to dislodge the ship from the canal. cnn just obtained this video, and that appears to show the stern of the ship away from the suez bank, and it got stuck a week ago and has been blocking the canal every since. ben wedeman is live. i want to go to you first. what do you make of the good news, at least the good signals and messaging we are getting out of the region? reporter: well, it does seem that on the seventh day there is movement. we just heard the chairman of the suez canal authority saying that the ship has been shifted, he says 80%. it appears the stern has been moved away from the western bank of the suez canal. clearly the waterway is not free yet but this is significant progress. it happened in the very early morning hours before sunrise, and he did say that they are hoping to actually float and completely free the ship. around 11:30 is when high tide occurs. that s about 3 1/2 hours from now. when that happens they are hoping to move the
millions of americans in the the state of texas are struggling to find drinking water after deadly winter storms left them without power for days. while the lights have largely come back on, more than half of the state s residents are being told to boil their water if they have any at all. long lines are now the normal mass water distribution sites as store shelves run bare. the damages are adding up as frozen pipes burst and frigid temperatures persist. u.s. president biden says that he will sign a natural disaster declar declaration. omar jimenez has more. you never used your fireplace before this? no. reporter: jen studebaker and her family were burning chairs, pieces of book shelves, before eventually scavaging for bits of wood without even a means to cut it. that hammer is what we were splitting it with. reporter: using their nearly abandoned fireplace now as a means of survival. this is the head of the futon bed so it would be closer to the heat and he d all
congressman gonzales of texas saying the way were doing it right now is catastrophic and it s a recipe for a disaster in the middle of a pandemic. what s got him so worried? well, take a look at biden s plan. it starts with a path to citizenship for more than 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country. but he s not stopping there. his plan would provide amnesty for illegal immigrants who ve already been deported by the trump administration. that could be up to 900,000 people. the way forward to do this? well, millions of american citizens including hispanic-americans are unemployed. the economy is still in shambles thanks to the pandemic. he is now the time to flood the job markets with undocumented workers when our own people can t find work? vaccines might help the situation but guess what? they are going to illegal immigrants too. i submitted just this week that some detainees are already being fascinated against covid-19 wile vulnerable americans wait. why s