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today. vice president kamala harris will be in colorado. but promoting the plan isn't the only thing on the president's agenda. addressing the situation at the southern border is quickly becoming a growing challenge. kaitlan collins has more. >> shots in arms and money in pockets. >> reporter: president biden is betting on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill to shape his pandemic response and now he must execute it. >> it's one thing to pass a historic piece of legislation like the american rescue plan and it's quite another to implement it and the devil is in the details. >> reporter: biden announces he's tapped long time democratic economic aide gene spurling to oversee the spending, a job biden held when the 2009 stimulus bill passed amid the great recession. >> i learned from my experience implementing the recovery act just how important it is to have someone who can manage all the moving parts. >> but spurling will be in charge of a bill price the size of that as republicans are watching closely for missteps. >> we had to input into actually what transpired. >> reporter: like many americans gene spurling will work from home for now. >> he will be working remotely for a period of time until he has his vaccine. >> reporter: although stimulus checks began hitting bank accounts this weekend biden wants the american people to know what else the massive bill does. >> the plan does a lot more. >> reporter: the president and his top aides will spend the next week traveling the country promoting the plan while hoping to make some of it, like the expansion of the child tax credit, permanent. >> we recognize that signing the bill is just a first step. >> reporter: but another crisis is at risk of overshadowing biden's cross-country tour. >> i know the president is going to travel this week. this is where he should bring air force one. >> reporter: record numbers of children are crossing the u.s. southern border and being held in jail-like border patrol facilities for longer than legally allowed. republicans who traveled to the border are blaming biden for the crisis. >> all because the policies of our president has changed and told them something different. told them to risk their lives and broke families apart. >> reporter: the department of health and human services has opened an imagine take site and the administration even sent fema to the border to help shelter migrant children, yet top officials still refuse to call it a crisis. >> i know that we always get into the fun of labe around here, but i would say our focus is on solutions. >> reporter: republicans aren't the only ones saying biden needs to step up. fellow democrats say they agree. >> and we could do so much better than we're doing now. >> reporter: after biden sent a delegation of his senior staff to the border other democrats have called for a presidential visit. >> as you know the president sent a delegation of two secretaries and a whole bunch of folks who were in the white house. they didn't talk to anybody, not even members of congress down here. >> reporter: and right now the white house says president biden doesn't have any trips to the border scheduled, but we should note that we are told the biden administration is planning to use a convention center in dallas toe house about 2,000 migrant teenagers at least temporarily. of course, that does raise the question of whether or not they will have to find other facilities as the surge across the border is continuing. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. meantime, covid-19 vaccinations are ramping up across the united states. about 2.4 million doses are now going into arms each day. that's according to the latest estimates. and about 11.5% of the u.s. population is now fully vaccinated against the virus, but there's still a very long way to go. health experts say we won't reach herd immunity until 75% to 85% of people have all their shots. while the biden administration is pushing hard to roll out vaccines the u.s. remains vulnerable. nick watt explains why. >> reporter: here is a split screen of our current situation, on the right a record high 3.2 million vaccine doses in arms reported saturday, but on the left, that's miami beach on saturday. >> we have seen footage of people enjoying spring break festivities maskless. this is all in the context of still 50,000 cases per day. >> reporter: back to the good news. more than one in five americans have now received at least one shot and new evidence suggests those fully vaccinated are unlikely to spread the virus. >> if that's the case the vaccine creates what we call dead end hosts, a lot of dead end hosts meaning people will no longer be able to transmit the infection. >> if i have an anxiety it's that something worse than the south african variant is out there that we will get to the point that the vaccines no longer appear to be fully protective against a bad outcome. >> reporter: every single state and d.c. teachers can get vaccinated. meantime a new study suggests that if kids and teachers all mask up then whether it's 6 feet or just 3 of social distance doesn't make any difference. >> the cdc is very well aware that data are accumulating making it look more like three feet are okay under certain circumstances. >> reporter: which would make it much easier for more schools to reopen. expect an update to the cdc's guidelines soon. >> it won't be very long, i promise you. >> meanwhile, college kids at duke in a seven-day lockdown after 180 confirmed cases last week, driven by parties, say college officials who warn if this feels serious, it's because it is. these past four days the busiest air travel since this pandemic began. wednesday is -- >> st. patrick's day. >> reporter: and of course there's this. >> spring break. >> reporter: but with more contagious variants circulating sobering tales from europe for those south florida throngs. take italy where case counts are climbing once more and fast. why europe? >> they simply took their eye off the ball. i'm pleading with you for the sake of our nation's health, these should be warning signs for all of us. >> reporter: meanwhile italy, france, spain and germany temporarily suspended use of the astrazeneca vaccine while authorities investigate some safety concerns. astrazeneca says there is no evidence their vaccine might cause blood clots. it's not yet authorized here in the u.s. now, part of what's driving that surge in europe right now is that variant first found in the uk, more contagious and more deadly. and the cdc here in the u.s. says that variant will become dominant in this country within just the next few weeks. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. and portugal is joining that growing list of european countries pausing the use of astrazeneca's covid-19 vaccine. the more follows reports of blood clots in some who were vaccinated. astrazeneca says its analysis shows no evidence of an increased risk in vaccine recipients. the european medicines agency is set to hold an emergency meeting on thursday to advise on possible next steps. cyril vanier a in london, frederik pleitgen is in berlin, they join us live. good to see you both. cyril, the uk had no problems with their rollout of the astrazeneca vaccine, so what's being said there about the multiple european nations now suspending its use due to these concerns about blood clots in only a few people? >> reporter: yeah, the rollout here of the vaccination program has been extremely successful and it has allowed the uk's contamination numbers to go from 60,000 a day at the very beginning of this year to just 5,000 a day now. so they see the benefits. everybody here from politicians to scientists to, it seems, the general public are in full support of the continued use of astrazeneca. prime minister boris johnson writing in an opinion piece in the "times" today that that vaccine is safe and works extremely well. that's a direct quote. as for the british health regulatory agency, the mhra, it says, given the large number of doses administered and the frequency at which blood clots can occur naturally, the evidence available does not suggest that the vaccine is the cause of the health issues that have arisen. so everyone here supports the continued use of astrazeneca and on the other side of that argument there are, of course, a majority of european countries, member states of the european union that have now put on pause their vaccination rollout because they've seen, as you say, a handful of cases that they can't explain. and for which they do not have a good explanation, including deaths, including instances of very rare combinations of symptoms in people who had no known illnesses and who displayed those symptoms following the -- receiving a dose of the astrazeneca vaccine. so they want answers from the european health watchdog and we hope that will be forthcoming on thursday, rosemary. >> all right. thanks for that, cyril. we turn to fred now. fred, you are there in germany, one of the countries adding to this list of other european nations suspending the use of the astrazeneca vaccine due to these concerns, but where does this leave efforts to contain the spread of covid-19? of course, we're talking about 17 million doses handed out and then 37 blood clot cases. the numbers are extraordinary and probably tell a story of their own. >> they certainly do and i will tell you what, rosemary, the fact that astrazeneca has been paused in germany throws a wrench into the efforts to get the german vaccination campaign going which of course has been sputtering and in big trouble for a while. there was actually one health expert who i just watched on german tv who said there simply is nothing else that could fully replace astrazeneca until the summer. so they certainly see that all this is a big problem and one of the things the germans have been trying to do to try to give a spark to their vaccination campaign is they've been trying to move it from not just being in centralized big vaccination centers to also moving it into general practitioners' offices to make sure that more people can get the vaccine and astrazeneca was going to be the main one that was going to be used by those gps. of course, now that simply isn't happening. right now the german government doesn't seem to have very much of an alternative. there was a meeting scheduled for angela merkel and her state governors to happen on wednesday, that's now been called off because they say they want to wait for the european medicines agency to see if there's going to be any developments there. all of this coming as angela merkel and her government are losing a lot of trust here in germany in large parts because that vaccination campaign has been going so slow. on top of that, rosemary, to make matters worse, germany is now again -- and this is something a health expert also said this morning from the german health institute, he said that right now the cases of the novel coronavirus are rising exponentially once again here in this country. so big problems here in germany. of course, for a lot of other european countries as well as they try to come to terms with this news about astrazeneca. >> hopefully they can get this investigation done quickly and nations can move on with their vaccination programs. frederik pleitgen joining us live from berlin, many thanks. two men have been arrested and charged for the assault on police officer brian sicknick who died after responding to the capitol riot. we will have the details on you on the other side of the break. do stay with us. on the other side of the break. do stay with us. hi. i'm wolfgang puck when i started my online store wolfgang puck home i knew there would be a lot of orders to fill and i wanted them to ship out fast that's why i chose shipstation shipstation helps manage orders reduce shipping costs and print out shipping labels it's my secret ingredient shipstation the 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>> reporter: wayne cousins will be appearing in two hours' time in the central criminal court. the last time he appeared was on saturday, just a few hours before that fateful vigil near where sarah everard was last seen which was swept aside by police officers and that has become a focal point of ire for many women across the country and also elsewhere. when cousins was from kent, he was arrested at a property in kent, as you said, sarah everard's body was found also in kent a number of miles away from his house, but the investigation continues and there are still large parts of kent that are actually cordoned off as the search continues there. it's emerged overnight also that a probationary officer of the metropolitan police who was guarding one of those cordoned off areas linked to the every r