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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 fl ....
full force, and masks are hard to spolt. americans are tired of more than a year of restrictions. the tsa reports that friday is the busiest travel day since the pandemic started. and the embattled governor of new york losing more support as he struggles to stay in office. even new york s two senators, both democrats, calling for andrew cuomo to resign. another come has come forward with accusations of sexual harassment. cuomo is quickly running out of support among all the series allegations. hi, he did, and you mngsed the two big names in new york politics. major leader chuck schumer and gillibrand adding their names to the list of the politics calling for the governor to resign. the latest coming from a reporter named jessica bakeman. she had been a new york capital beat worker, and covering the beat here, and he wrote a piece where she describes it was like covering cuomo, and she writes, andrew cuomo s hands had been on my body, my arms, shoulders, the small of m ....
is that the same kiersten julie brenda believed a single witnes before the witness even said a word when it came to brett cavanagh, and now it takes seve allegations for her to speak ou against cuomo? but the governor doesn t care what they think, he says he s not going anywhere. listen to this. politicians who don t know single fact but forum a conclusion, and an opinion are in my opinion reckless and dangerous. that my friends is politics at its worst. politicians take positions for all sorts of reasons. including, political expediency and bowing to pressure. people know the difference between playing politics, vowin to cancel culture, and the truth . i m not going to resign. it s by opening to go back and read with the media and other democrats were saying about him 8-10 months ago. they were giving him awards, they wanted him to be president they wanted him to be vice president. they wanted him to be the attorney general for the united states read what s also hi ....
meanwhile, the biden administration is still denying there is a border crisis preferring to call it a, quote, challenge. with officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including a new influx of young children. we have live team coverage for you on all of this. david spunt is in wilmington the, delaware, covering the administration s response, but first we start with griff jenkins who s down on the border in mission, texas. griff? reporter: hey, eric, good afternoon. we are here in the rio grande valley sector, mission, texas, part of that. and let me just show you the proximity to which we are to the border. you can see as we come around the wall, a hole in the wall, the levee in the distance about a mile two two miles is the rio grande river. that is ground zero where we see migrant after migrant, as well as some single adults. they are just coming in an overwhelming number that the border patrol agents here can t deal with. and it s not just ....
well, guess what? they re going to be getting that check soon. that $1,400 check could land in your bank account as soon as this weekend, president biden said. democratic congressional leaders were also present to tout the plan. though not a single republican was there, given that not one republican voted for the legislation. president biden is going to try to boost public support for the law as he marks two new dates on every americans calendar, may 1st. that s when he says every adult will be eligible to get a covid vaccine. and july 4th, to mark sfg a new independence from coronavirus with small gatherings with friends and family. though, we should note, many americans did that last fourth of july. right now about 66 million americans have gotten one vaccine dose with 2.2 million doses being administered every day. now president biden wants to m maintain and speed up that pace. wish i could come out and shake hands with every one of you. reporter: moments ago, ....