that biden will be laying out and here is where the urgency comes from, these graphs. the u.s. is averaging 1500 deaths a day from coronavirus right now. efforts to get more people vaccinated have hit a wall with daily vaccinateds declining in the last week. and with coronavirus infecting more children, los angeles would require all eligible students to be vaccinated. let's get to all of this. first with cnn's john harwood who is live at the white house this hour. john, on the the president's speech, what more are you learning about it? >> reporter: well, kate, he's going to talk, as you indicated, about three principle objects or areas of focus. but one is by far and away the most important one and that is vaccinations. trying to ramp up that level of vaccination, we still have about