for a lot of people. we are finally turning the tide on the virus. if there is ever a time to put on the mask, this is it. everyone says covid doesn t exist. we have a problem with too many people coming here to let loose in ways that are not proper. we want people to have a good time on spring break. don t put your guard down completely. be prudent a bit longer. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. you just heard those words from dr. anthony futauci. be prudent a bit longer. they are begging americans to avoid travel, wear the mask, they are making pleas in a time when 1 in 5 americans received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine. help is now also arriving nationwide. the form of cash. many people telling cnn their covid relief payments have now appeared in their bank accounts. the payments, they are part of the covid relief package that impacts families dir
the federal aviation administration ordered a ground stop into la guardia. officials through boston, philadelphia, baltimore and washington, d.c. could be impacted. the transportation secretary pete buttigieg says the faa is fully prepared. as the thick band of smoke moves south, the air quality in new york is expected to improve ever so slightly. jennifer grey has the layest on the forecast. reporter: dense smoke has blanketed much of the northeast, portions of the mid-atlantic and ohio valleys today with incredible amounts of smoke filtering in the city. the pictures we ve seen out of new york city, have been incredible. looks like there the smoke is peaking and will start to improve later today. look at the pictures from wednesday, throughout the day, progressively, the smoke got worse and worse. you could barely see the
omnibus. any idea if there s going to be a holdup? or do you expect it to pass? look, i m optimistic, we will get the om mi bus done, it will be part of that package, the senate sometime tonight and the house sometime tomorrow at the layest the next day. all right, so you re confident this 43 billion in aid, this is the last chunk of aid that is going to be coming from congress for some time, or do you think that the republicans will get on board in the future? i think the reason you re seeing a package this large is because there is some concern that with the transition and uncertain leadership on the house side, that something wouldn t necessarily be there. and this is obviously a great deal of money. and should be able to get us through a very tough winner in ukraine, with the war going on, and on into the next fiscal year. so i m hoping it takes us there. and i m hoping that president zelenskyy s speech tonight will remind all of my colleagues just how important aid is. wha
we are learning new details about the drone strike by the u.s. that killed the top al qaeda leader and key plotter of the nerve attack. ayman al zawahiri killed by a cia drone that was apparently targeting the balcony of a safe house in a wealthy neighborhood in afghanistan. officials say u.s. intelligence located him earlier this year and spent months watching his movements trying to figure out his patterns, look a at his daily routines. the man hunt has been going on for two decades. we expect to hear more about this when national security council spokesperson and adviser john kirby takes the microphone in a couple minutes. i want to bring in white house correspondent monica alba for more on this. talk us through the layest on what we re hearing and specifically some of the new details about the planning that went into his killing. the white house and president biden really here touting the
adviser tested positive releasing a statement saying he s having mild symptoms and tested positive after taking a rapid antigen test. they saying he s fully vaccinated and twice boosted. this is layest senior government official to test positive for covid in cent months. we have seen a number of cases. dr. fauci is the face of the