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, a rose garden victory dance for president biden as he touted his first major piece of legislation. >> it's one thing to pass the american rescue plan. it's going to be another thing to implement it. >> reporter: because the plan was passed with zero republican support, the ceremony was bicameral but not bipartisan. >> we democrats made promises. we said if we gained the senate, kept the house and elected the president, we would finally get things done. >> president biden, vice president harris and their spouses will fan out across the country as he seeks to ensure that the american rescue plan lives up to its name. on the road, biden is also expected to tout the promises he made in his prime time address. >> if we do this together, by july 4th, there's a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout, barbecue and celebrate independence day. >> reporter: but biden said his july 4th timeline comes with conditions. >> i need every american to do their part. that's not hyperbole. i need you. >> reporter: meanwhile, top aides are cautioning it won't be a complete return to normal by july 4th. >> we're not talking about a july 4th celebration on the mall. we're not quite there yet, right? we're not talking about soccer stadiums being filled in communities across the country. >> reporter: to achieve his goal, biden is directing states to make all adults eligible for the vaccine no later than may 1st with this caveat. >> that doesn't mean everyone is going to have that shot immediately but it means you will be able to get in line beginning may 1. >> reporter: one challenge health officials are still facing is vaccine hesitancy. poll showing republicans are more hesitant to get vaccinated than democrats. >> we recognize that we may not be the most effective messenger to communicate with hard-core supporters of the former president. >> reporter: jake, a reminder, those stimulus checks will start to go out this weekend. as for the rest of the plan, you heard president biden say earlier the devil is going to be in the details and how they get this implemented. they will have an event here at the white house monday to talk about that. they've yet to name who it is that's going to oversee it. they're going to put someone in charge of that. i would be remiss if i did not wish you a happy birthday. >> no need to remind me. thank you so much, kaitlan collins. appreciate it. jackie, we've seen president biden, so far, undersell, presumably so he could then overdeliver. he talked about 1 million vaccine shots' day. >> right. >> though when he took office the pace was already at 198,000 a day. do you think his new goals for may 1st and july 4th are part of that strategy, underselling and overdelivering? >> it's interesting. experts we've spoken to at "the daily beast" aren't so sure. one of the biggest challenges in terms of distribution is that this is up to the states and each state is handling it a different way. maybe some of the smaller states he may be able to meet these goals but in larger states, perhaps not. kaitlan mentioned vaccine hesitancy. there's a lot of factors, why i think you have the president using the caveats, the devil is in the details and it's up to -- you have to do your part, that sort of thing. it is striking he put these hard deadlines for these milestones. he's going to be held to that. >> today the white house with an not say what specific metrics they wanted to see to make that july 4th goal happen. >> right. >> what do you make of that? if we see a surge of cases for whatever reason, including the new variants, is there a risk here for president biden? will he be blamed? >> yeah, i think there is a risk. he said last night in a speech, look, if i fail, i'm going to tell you i failed. i'm going to tell you the truth and be honest with you of the i think we can take him at his word on that. there are variations in the states on all of this. and i think that if there's a surge of cases, we don't know why there would be a surge of cases. maybe it's not only because of vaccine hesitancy, but maybe it's because, as our polls show, 77% of the people think that the -- you know, that we're through covid basically and they let down their guard. there are all kinds of reasons things can still go awry. and i think sort of setting these deadlines was not only risky business, but i think it was a way for the white house, which has been talking about the dark winter for so long, it was a way for them to give people a little optimism. like oh, wait a minute, it really is around the corner if we just do our part. >> take a listen to how president biden says we're going to achieve those two milestones, may 1st and july 4th. >> we're going to go from a million shots a day that i promised in december, before i was sworn in, to maintaining beating our current pace of 2 million shots a day. >> so, maintaining and beating where we are right now, which is 2 million shots a day. notably, he's not putting a new number on doses a day. he's not saying 3 million, 2.5 million, but saying maintaining or beating. that gives him a lot of wiggle room. again i see this as part of the underpromise and overdeliver strategy. >> and the other thing that he can't really control is the production of the vaccine, because right now that has been slower, i think, than the white house anticipated. so, yeah, they definitely need this wiggle room. another thing i didn't mention earlier and should have, different states are dealing with lifting restrictions differently in terms of these factors. texas doesn't have any, any more. will we see spikes there with all these variants? that is possible. again, there are a lost things that could go awry here. this is a risk, putting hard deadlines on everything from schools to vaccinations. >> gloria, president biden is vowing only a majority of k through 8 classes open up by the end of his first 100 days but has gotten funding for school upgrades through this covid relief legislation. he has prioritized vaccinating teachers. why not make that goal a bit loftier? is it again part of this underpromise? >> it could be. these changes in schools take a while. they just don't happen overnight. you get the funding. then you have to get more classrooms, put dividers between students. all the stuff that costs a lot of money, as you know. there maybe a little in getting this all done. again, you don't want to prochls something to parents who want their chern to go back to school and then not being able to deliver on that. >> yeah. >> they're being really, really careful, some say too careful, about getting kids black in classroom. >> jackie, gloria, thank you. have a good weekend. >> happy birthday. >> thank you. >> it's where george floyd gasped sochl his last breaths but that memorial is also a source of tension in the twin cities. we'll go inside to show you how. >> grandparent getting to hug their grandkids for the first time in a year. a hope that normal is approaching with a warning the pandemic is far from over. >> miss you. >> miss you, too. >> hey! but i've seen centuries of this. with one companion that hedges the risks you choose and those that choose you. the physical seam of a digital world, traded with a touch. my strongest and closest asset. the gold standard, so to speak ;) people call my future uncertain. but there's one thing i am sure of... keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo at novartis, our goal is to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. if you're taking cosentyx and your insurance or coverage changes or you need help paying cosentyx connect is here to help. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen or if you've had a vaccine, or plan to. serious allergic reactions may occur. call us or visit us online. we're here for you. - [narrator] grubhub perks give you deals on all the food that makes you boogie. call us or visit us online. (upbeat music) get the food you love with perks from- - [crowd] grubhub. a major milestone ahead in the health lead and it's a good one. more than 100 million covid vaccines, more than 100 million have been administered in the u.s. since shots starting going into arms in december. covid deaths have dropped 48%. hospitalizations also trending down with a 48% drop in the last month. daily cases of covid also down 47% since february. now, despite all this, health experts are warning do not get complacent. they caution, we're nowhere near done with covid, as cnn's amora walker reports. >> take off your mask. >> reporter: after one long year, grandparents finally able to hug their children and grandchildren. >> my daughter and granddaughter came to my apartment to give me a little gift, they said, and the gift was the prescription from the doctor and it said you are allowed to hug your granddaughter. >> reporter: more reunions like these are on the horizon. greater numbers with 2.9 vaccinations reported today. prime time address setting a date to get closer to normal by the fourth of july. imploring everyone to get vaccinated. >> i need you. i need every american to do their part. >> reporter: encouraging states to make may 1st everyone eligible to get the shots. >> may 1st you should be able to make a date to get a shot if you haven't had one already. >> reporter: restaurants, gyms, places of worship at full capacity. mask mandate and social distancing compliances will remain in place. restaurants to increase to 75% with masking and social distancing still required. it it's scenes like these in florida that make officials nervous. officials in miami beach tell cnn they expect the highest number of tourists since the pandemic began this weekend and next. >> everyone keeps saying covid doesn't exist here in florida so -- >> reporter: prompting the superintendent of atlanta public schools to move the district to virtual learning for one week after students return. tsa reporting a spike in air travel. tsa screened 1.28 million people on thursday, making it the third busiest day at american airports since the pandemic started. the cdc, however, is cautioning against travel even for the vaccinated, saying it would consider revising its guidance once more people get their shots. >> a lot of them have come through our travel corridors. we're being extra cautious right now with travel. >> reporter: and, jake, you can see all around me that the spring break crowds have already begun to descend upon miami beach. as i was mentioning, it was expected to be one of the busyest weekends since the pandemic began for the greater miami area. look at the numbers. i'm told by tourism officials, they project a 72% hotel occupancy rate for this month of march, compare that to 88% in march of 2019. yes, before the pandemic. when you compare the two, not a big difference between then and now. >> amar a. walker in miami, thank you. let's bring in dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, there is nuance in the president's push to make all adults eligible for a vaccine by may 1st. even biden acknowledges not everybody will have a shot in their arm by may 1st, but can start getting in line and there will be enough vaccine for them. do you think that's true, that there will be enough vaccine to meet the possible demand by may 1st? >> yeah. i think numbers wise, there will be enough vaccine. we've been sort of trying to piece this together as well. look at the three vaccines that are out there, moderna and pfizer, we knew there would be 200 million doses of each of those. of course, it's two shots each. that's 100 million people for each of those vaccines. what we've learned over the last day or couple of days is what's happening with joh johnson & johnson, we knew there would be 20 million doses by the end of march. then we were told by the beginning of july, there should be 100 million doses total. now we're hearing johnson & johnson lot will be accelerated as well. that may have something to do that they're bringing merck, another pharmaceutical company to help with that production. logi logistics, it's a challenge, especially to get to the harder-to-reach areas. everyone can sign up, everyone eligible by may 1st and over the month, 250 million people roughly, if they wanted, total, will be vaccinated by then. >> biden was quick to clarify for backyard cookouts to be held. >> that doesn't mean large events but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. >> sanjay, we saw in amara's piece, spring break in there is going to happen. there are a lot of people there, that are converging on the spring break destinations. i know the concern about outdoor activity is much less than the concern about indoor activity. you see states relaxing the rules on masks. soon that might not apply in the workplace. what about -- what are we learning about a plan possibly coming from the biden administration when it comes to when people should mask, especially at work? >> yeah. this is really interesting. this is something that's sort of being planned almost since the beginning of this administration. so this has to do with an organization called oshaa. they regulate lots of different, both public and private, workplaces. the situation is this. the federal government may say we're recommending masks through the cdc. 16 states at least have lifted their mask mandates. now this third organization may come in and say okay, that's fine. but when it comes to the workplace not only do you have to wear a mask but you have to wear a certain type of mask, specific filtration of mask. if you don't, there may be fines. it gets a little complicated, jake. but we'll hear about this on monday whether that sort of regulation will come into play. >> putting off other important medical care at alarming rates today, dr. rochelle walensky says children may be less at risk for covid, but how much are they more at risk for other diseases because they're not going to hospitals to get these immunizations? >> well, i mean, this is a significant concern. you may remember, jake, before we were talking about covid, a year and a half before that, there were measles outbreaks around the country. a lot of that was because of vaccine hesitancy. it's not a new issue. people were hesitant about those childhood vaccines as well. these were preventible diseases that may have resurgences because people haven't been getting their immunizimmunizati. not because of hesitancy, but because people haven't been going to their doctor during this time. measles is a good example of something we may see recurrences of. >> hope not but we'll see what happens. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. the year after the shooting death of breonna taylor, her mother is still waiting for justice and talking to cnn. i'm a verizon engineer. we built our 5g nationwide so millions of people could do what they love in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities, we have ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. this is 5g built right. only from verizon. when all this is over, and the world starts finding its way back, will you be the same person you were, before it began? 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>> the police, they need to work on themselves. there's a distrust. they've not corrected themselves. the police work for om people and not to others. >> the police chief prayed at the intersection while the city raged over his death says it's time for the square to open up again. >> anyone at that space says it's about uplifting that intersection in his nam