many americans could wake up this saturday morning to find desperately needed relief payments already in their bank accounts. the first batch of payments were processed friday, the same day that the american rescue plan was signed into law. now president bill bjoe biden a team plan to travel the country spreading awareness. here is jeff zeleny. >> help is here and we will not stop working for you. >> reporter: president biden celebrating his first legislative success, hailing the rescue plan as a triumph of to lift the nation from crisis. >> together with you, we're showing that it is possible to get big important things done. >> reporter: it was a rose garden victory lap. with biden soaking in his first official event there as president. to tout a law now part of his legacy. >> it changes the paradigm, for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. not hyperbole, it is a fact. >> reporter: but he made clear that the law that will touch the lives of millions of americans who endured economic pain and hardship came with deep responsibility for his new administration. >> we have to get this right. details matter. because we have to continue to build confidence in the american people that their government can function for them and deliver. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris praised biden's commitment to seeing the historic bill become reality, noting its focus on helping america's poor and middle class. >> help has arrived, america. this landmark legislation will get relief to families, get support to communities, and make sure more shots get in arms. >> reporter: the president's often repeated campaign man take -- >> help is on the way -- >> reporter: will not be put on the test as the first stimulus checks start arriving in bank accounts as soon as this weekend. for the white house, it is an audacious gamble, effectively circling dates on the calendar when normalcy may return. may 1, all adults eligible for the vaccine. and by july 4th, americans can safely celebrate in small gatherings like backyard cook jouts. jen psaki trying to set expectations for that optimism. >> we're not talking about a july 4th celebration on the mall. we're not quite there yet. this is a step more toward the kind of socialization and engagement with friends and family that he knows as a human being people have been missing over the last year. >> reporter: the white house is launching an extensive sales pitch next week with the president and first lady, vice president and members of the cabinet. traveling to points across the country to explain how the law can help americans. >> we'll be traveling the country to speak directly to the american people about how this law is going to make a real difference in their lives. >> reporter: the campaign is the first step in the administration's efforts to try to make permanent some provisions of the law. particularly aid to working families and others left behind. >> this law is not the end of our efforts though. i view it as only beginning. >> reporter: president biden calls the bill historic and transformational for millions of american families. but there are still questions about the price on this spending bill, $1.9 trillion. that is why he and vice president harris will be traveling next week trying to make the case to the american people while all this aid is necessary. he'll be traveling to pennsylvania and georgia, the have n vice president going to nevada and colorado, trying to make the case that this is worth it. even as they try to keep the optimism alive on the coronavirus fight. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. america's top disease expert dr. fauci is sounding optimistic now in the fight against covid-19. he told stephen colbert the virus won't be with us forever. >> can we be hopeful that this will come to an end soon? >> well, yes. not only hopeful, you can be absolutely certain that this is going to end and we will get back to normal. the question is when. >> u.s. coronavirus case numbers have been dropping and the country is making strides on vaccinations. about 20% of the population has had at least one vaccine dose and those shots are enabling people to visit loved ones they haven't seen in months. erica hill has more. >> reporter: the first hug in a year. >> it was blissful, it was wonderful, and it was something that i'm going to remember for the rest of my life. >> reporter: across the country, families reunited. offering hope for what lies ahead. to get there, the white house promising every adult will be eligible for a vaccine by may 1. with a new website and call center to find available doses by zip code, and more vaccination sites. >> up to 700 new community health center, a doubling of pharmacy locations and a surgery in vaccinators, we're ensuring that equity remains at the center of our response. >> reporter: though experts stress we can't rely on vaccines alone. >> we've always needed vaccines in the context of tried and true basic public health tackling. >> reporter: and yet more are being phased out. as of 5:00 p.m. today, most maryland businesses can operate at full capacity, masks still required, by quarantines for out of state travelers are not. new york state will eliminate them for domestic travelers starting april 1. >> i don't know if that is the state's idea of an april fool's joke, but it is absolutely the wrong thing do. >> reporter: nearly 1.3 million people passing through tsa checkpoints on thursday, the third busiest day since the start of the pandemic. >> every single time we have escalations in travel, right after that, we have a surge. >> reporter: travel itself is not the problem. it is more about what happens when people get to their destination. the 7 day average of new cases is at its lowest level since mid october. down 47% in just the last month. average daily reported deaths down 48% in the last month. gains no one wants to lose. >> i think may and june will be really good months and july will be terrific, but we do have to get through the next six week. >> reporter: a well-known model now predicting u.s. covid deaths could approach 600,000 by july 1. that is an increase of more than 22,000 since its last estimate less than a week ago due to increased mobility and a drop in masking. >> we need every individual do their part. we can provide the guidance, but if people are not doing their part to keep the infection rates down and to get themselves vaccinated, we are -- you know, this is in our control. >> reporter: more than 101 million doses of vaccines have been administered in the united states. some 35 million people are fully vaccinated. that is just over 10% of the population. and all of this happening almost exactly three months to the day since the first dose was administered on december 14th. in new york, i'm erica hill, cnn. in the last hour i talked with an internal medicine physician at the california pacific medical center and i asked her what her thoughts were on the recent guidance from the cdc for fully vaccinated people. and this is what she had to say. >> the most exciting update is of course that wholly vaccinated people, meaning if you are two weeks out from your second shot or the j&j shot can fully visit indoors without wearing masks or physically distancing. that is a huge departure from where we have been. we still don't know if those who are vaccinated can spread the virus to those who haven't been vaccinated. so the recommendations of course don't change when you are out in public or have a friend who is unvaccinated. we all still need to keep wearing masks and a voir gatherings. but what we expect is new guidelines on travel for vaccinated people which are coming soon and will help us, you know, slowly return back to normal life. >> we could soon have another vaccine as part of the arsenal. we're told astrazeneca is looking for approval of its vaccine. what are we do make of the number of countries that have suspended using the vaccine because of reports of blood clots? >> you know, i think that it is important to point out in this situation when you vaccinate millions and millions of people as we have, medical problems turn up by chance for people in proximity to receiving a vaccine. but they don't have anything to do with each other. so in the case of the astrazeneca vaccine for example, you know, millions of people have received doses without any problems. there is actually no evidence of any causal link between the vaccine and blood clots. we do have extensive data showing that this vaccine is safe and effective andventing s death and in many places across the world it is the only shot available. so the risk to people's health and safety from getting covid is. higher than the risk of extremely rare adverse events from this vaccine. >> so as i discussed it with her, astrazeneca's vaccine could become available to americans soon. sources tell reuters that the company plans to seek u.s. authorization after it gets the results from its u.s. phase three trial. meanwhile some countries are suspending it because of blood clot concerns. but the world health organization is still administering the shot while waiting on guidance from vaccine safety committee. denmark is among a hand firefighter of calling pauses the vaccine, but others are standing by the shot. melissa bell is joining us now to explain. we spoke yesterday about all the confusion surrounding this astrazeneca vaccine and the fears of blood clots. is there anymore clarity today? >> re >> reporter: well, as you say, some countries suspending either the entire rollout or some of its batches, others standing by it. and we heard last night from france's national health agency pointing out that it believed that the vaccine should continue be rolled out from the european medicine agency as well who said that there was no evidence of any connection for the time being. and of course from the company itself that pointed out that the vaccine for the time cannot only has shown no evidence of increased blood clots but in fact the number is maybe lower than in the general population. so all of these things investigt is happening in those countries where the national agencies have expressed doubts. but of course it won't help europe with its vaccination rollout already so far behind so many other parts of the world. it will not help those supply issues that we've been seeing. there is of course one piece of good news here on the european vaccination campaign front and that is approval on thursday of the johnson & johnson single dose vaccine which the eu has purchased 200 million doses. that has been approved by france's national agency so should become available here in the next few days and other european countries when their agencies have approved it as well. so there is that news that there will be one more shot on the market. but that trouble with astrazeneca is that it has been beset by problems ever since it was launched. delivery delays and now these questions about safety in some european countries. so we await the results of those investigations. denmark has given itself two weeks to look into the issue before making a decision on what happens next. >> appreciate the update, melissa bell. most of italy will be facing new restrictions on monday as it tries to stem the recent rise of covid cases. it is also plans a nationwide lock down owing over the heaste holiday weekend. officials are worried that more variants are gaining ground. let's bring in delia gallagher. so italy set to impose new restrictions. take us through why that is happening. >> reporter: well, it does seem to be a problem of the variants. authorities are saying that those are increasing substantially. the rate of transmission, variant first identified in the uk, they say is now prevalent in italy and the variant first identified in brazil is showing small clusters in italy. so that seems to be the underlying reason for taking these measures. what they are doing is they are doing a lockdown for ten of italy's 20 regions starting on monday. and that includes big cities like roam, milan and venice. and then a total national lockdown for the easter weekend, but they say we'll see how it goes. any region which is going to exceed weekly cases of more than 250 per 100,000 residents will go into an automatic lockdown. the prime minister mario draghi spoke to the country yesterday, here is a little bit of what he had to say. >> translator: the memory of what happened last still vivid. the government has adopted restrictive measures that we think are appropriate and propor proportionate. >> reporter: and draghi also said that he understood the effects that this is going to have on children's education, on the economy, on the psych long cal well-being of italians. it has been a very, very long year only to head back into lockdown. but he said that it was necessary and that he is planning on tripling the number of vaccinations that italy is currently doing. they are currently vaccinating about 170,000 a day and the prime minister wants to expand and accelerate that vaccination program, obviously a very important thing for italy to be doing right now. >> thank you so much, delia gallagher. new york's governor is rejecting all suggestions that he r should resign, but it is the leaders of his own party that are calling the loudest. those details straight ahead. plus the city of minneapolis agrees to compensate the family of george floyd over his death in police custody and offers one of the biggest cash settlements ever paid. we'll have those stories and more when we return. hi sabrina! >>hi jen! so this aveeno® moisturizer goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? 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something that we have to focus on. >> from a physical perspective, many of us are seeing tremendous amounts of weight gain because of lack of physical activity. the american heart association recommends 60 minutes a day of vigorous physical activity for school aged children and during the pandemic, many are not receiving that. so i have seen children as young as 8, 9, 10 years old gain 30, 40, even 50 pounds during this pandemic. this will have detrimental effects on their cardiovascular outcomes further down the line. >> parents of school aged children say they are fed up with the schools in their area still being closed. and now some are expressing outrage with lawsuits. bee breonna oig spoke with those getting their schools reopened. >> garbage workers who pick up my frickin' trash risk their lives every day more than anyone in this school system. >> reporter: across the country, exasperated parents like this virginia dad are demanding more of their school boards. >> it is maddening because why is my kid suffering and other kids get to be in school. it is a game and the kids are, you know, being used as pawns. >> reporter: this attorney was representing 17 equally frustrated families. pro bono in lawsuits against two new jersey school districts. montclair and south orange maple wood. it has been almost a year since students filled the classrooms in these districts. >> this has been such a tremendous battle for all of us. >> reporter: the suit asserts that students have been denied their right to an in-person education. >> i myself as a teach told her they need to be in school with their peer, with their teachers. >> reporter: for donahue, these cases hit close to home. >> the department not responding to my own child's specific needs and realizing, oh, you know, not that -- they are not going to open the schools and it was like i can do this, you know. i'm going to speak up for her because no one is speaking for the kids. >> reporter: her 11-year-old daughter mary has not stepped foot inside of a classroom since last march. >> what grade are you? >> 6th grade. >> do you worry about when you can possibly return back to school? >> yeah. i always ask mom, when aimm i going back to school. and she go. >> reporter: diagnosed with adhd, she had been on an iep prior to the pandemic and had been thriving. >> they said when she goes in to middle school, she no longer needs like the intense special services she was doing so well. >> reporter: today donahue says her daughter is a completely different person. and refuses to participate in online classes. >> she is progressively declined to the point where she is diagnosed with high levels of anxiety and depression. and it was recommended that we put her like on antidepressants to help her, you know, get back to somewhat normal state. it is heartbreakingly sad. >> reporter: the family she represents in the lawsuit describe similar setbacks. >> he was a star pupil a year ago, thriving, happy, all of his in-school supports were helping him. my son is an emotional mess thousand. he is depressed, he is not interested in anything. he doesn't talk. he wasn't even participating, he wasn't turning his camera on. and this is a kid who had tested as gifted in the 99th per seb tile now getting essentially d-level grades. >> reporter: similar lawsuits have been filed against school districts and teachers unions in over a dozen states from maryland to kentucky, wisconsin, and california. >> getting our schools back open safely. >> reporter: but while the push to reopen schools has garnered national sympathy from the white house, there is little that the federal government can actually do. the majority of the country hinges on decisions made by local school districts. for these moms, the battle is halfway over. on thursday, the montclair school district one of the two named in donahue's lawsuit reached a deal to return to the classroom april 12th. >> and i'm so, so grateful. >> you know your mom is out there fighting for you. >> thank you. >> reporter: bee anna naanna. and there is a monumental isk of task in trying to reopen all public schools without jeopardizing public health. and a big challenge is trying to keep students engaged until classrooms can reopen safely. he spoke earlier with jaskke tapper. >> our students have worked twice as hard trying to stay engaged. and if we do provide summer opportunities, which i think are critically important, we need to make sure that they are not more of the same, that the after school programleprogramming, ste getting out, visiting museums, doing things to build community and learning in the process. so i do think that we should have summer opportunities for our students to engage in learning. >> when do you think in this country that there will be an topportunity for all schools to offer five day a week in-person education? when will that be? will that be in the fall? will that be not until 2022? given us an idea of what you are thinking. >> jake, you know, as soon as possible. and i'd like to think that in many places we can do that this spring. i know schools that are functioning all day every day five days a week for all students currently. and we need to continue to grow and make sure that we're giving students an opportunity to be in school as much as possible. there is no substitute for in-person learning. >> and countries around the world are struggling to bring students back into the classroom. here is how two countries are tackling that challenge. >> reporter: in london, prime minister boris johnson has made the opening of schools the first stage in his cautious four step roadmap out of lockdown. but the reality looks very different for students returning. very strict coronavirus rules, from one way corridors to hand sanitizing stations to face coverings that have to be worn at school and in classes by students as well as teachers. they will also have to have regular rapid coronavirus tests. 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have people dying right now. >> the director also said that he spoke with houthi leadership about a nationwide cease fire plan that the u.s. prenltseprpr. and he says an agreement is imperative. he told our nima elbajir that the saudi-led coalition is responsible for the humanitarian crisis and denied that the houthis are responsible for worsening conditions east of the capital. >> do you trust america to take full negotiations to bring peace? >> translator: truly america is seen as a moderator and most of the countries that it has reached. they are the martyr of our people. first of all, president biden was a partner of president obama and during that time they declared that they would join the coalition against our country. they also agreed and give the green light for the coalition to continue perpetrating the killing in our country. trust is created by actions, not words. trust must come about as a result of decisions. so far we have not seen any decisions. >> what is your responsibility for the humanitarian crisis? there are half a million displaced people within that city while the fighting is happening on. and the offensive continues. >> translator: the humanitarian crisis involves 18 or 19 million people or more who are in the areas under our control. because they are suffering, because the shortage of water, food and medication and they are suffering from the restructuring of blockade. sick people are dying every day. with regard to the children, a child dies in yemen every five or ten minutes as a result of the suffocating blockade. >> reporter: to return to the peace process, you say so far the american administration has not actually done anything. practically. hasn't come forward with a plan or any points to bring about a resolution to this conflict. if they did come to you with key points, would you be willing to go back to the negotiating table? >> translator: we are always -- i have presented many initiatives to the republic of yemen. we have 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>> absolutely. and i mean, that is divided too because people of color here are british too. so there is a divide running down that as well. i've met members of the royal family. you know, for a couple minutes or whatever. they didn't seem racist to me. but -- and that is what a lot of black british people are saying who have met them or worked with them. but they still exist on the same divide. the issue becomes after this queen passes, if there will be a commonwealth particularly among the countries of color. so that will be interesting too. queen elizabeth has made her first appearance since that explosive interview with prince 45ir harry and meghan. anna stewart is joining me. so take us through the latest. the queen i understand back at work? >> reporter: yes, isn't it interesting the palace released this video of the queen back to business as ish usual having a ex-call. and the queen is lighthearted, you get the impression that she isn't dealing with of course a huge royal rift at home. and don't forget her husband prince philip has been in the hospital for well over three weeks and we have not had any update on his health for over a week. and we heard from the queen where she said amongst other things that they would handle the issues that were taken ververse seriously but they would handle it privately. that is kind of the approach that they are going for. although prince william did appear to break with that when he answered a question saying that they are not a racist family. it has been a very busy week. and there were so many bombshells in that interview that we really haven't had the time to unpick. including the secret wedding. have a watch. 2 it was a fairy tale wedding watched by millions. and yet in oprah winfrey's explosive interview, meghan revealed a secret. >> you know, three days before our wedding, we got married. no one knows that, but we called the archbishop and we said look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world. but we want our union between us. so like the vows that we have framed, just the two of us in our backyard with the archbishop and that was the piece that -- >> reporter: they exchanged vows. but were they really married? this revelation has caused some conclusion. church of england weddings require two witnesses and they can't take place outside. the world witnessed a wedding take place in st. george's chapel and they saw the couple sign the register. the part of the wedding that makes a marriage official. as well as confusion, it has caused some consternation. some called the royal wedding a fake, others said that the couple should refund the taxpayers who paid the securities bill. >> this was just a way for the couple to actually remember their vows and the blessing that they had from the archbishop. i think both have been nervous that they wouldn't really remember a second of the big day which of course went out in front of millions. so this was just a personal touch for them. it carries no legal significance, it doesn't change royal record. but it was something that they could keep just to themselves. much like their engagement which happens months earlier than it was announced to the world. >> reporter: ultimately the royal wedding was a spectacular occasion and the whole world got to celebrate the union. whether or not they were married a few days before. i'm not sure that we'll ever have a sort of, i don't know, a decisive answer on that. now, other bombshells that were dropped, and there are so many that can't be ignored, the fallout when it comes to the debate on racism and mental health is raging on and we've seen some high profile exits this week, not least piers morgan from itv, he had to leave after many complaints about he portrayed the interview of particularly meghan. i think this week as been one that will go down in royal history, we'll never forget it, and i suspect that it will make one day in the future a jam-packed episode of the crown. >> yeah, exactly. well said. thank you so much, anna stewart, appreciate it. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. for international viewer, connecting africa ifrica is nex. for those in the u.s., "new day" is just ahead. anna could only ie a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? 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