sandra: kristin fisher has more. president biden will be delivering his first prime time address hours after signing his biggest first legislative accomplishment in to law. this american rescue plan 1.9 trillion. now, remember, this was supposed to be a bipartisan package. in the end, it had zero republican support. now the white house is proudly calling this the most progressive bill in american history. that is not sitting well with republican senator john kennedy. listen here from this morning. we tried with president biden. he said look, i ll meet you halfway. we said okay. well then he just ignored us. if he was meeting us halfway, he s a damn poor judge of distance. in terms of what to expect tonight, the white house says the president will mark the one-year anniversary of the country shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. he will be talking about the sacrifices that the american people have made over the last year and what they have to look forward to
la unified, second largest school districts in the country, did require a baseline negative test in order for students and employees to return to class in august. they re requiring that again now before class resumes in person on tuesday, and there s required weekly testing for students and employees as well. so the highschooler i talked to said no big deal, we do this every week, and in fact, the la unified board president spoke to us about how just this baseline testing in the past week has cost the positive cases and prevented those people from coming into the building in just a couple days. here s what she said. we re so grateful to all of our employees who have come back and gotten tested as of this morning, 85% of our employees had done their baseline test and more than 70% of students had done their baseline tests and that s allowed us as you said to protect staff and students on tuesday because we caught 50,000