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restaurants, retail, gyms, bars all allowed up to full capacity today. masks are required and so is social distancing. here in new york city, we have indoor dining going up to 50% today. safe for new jersey as well. the mets and the yankees can fill stands up to 20% on opening day. april 1. americans are flying a again with travel recovery. the tsa screening a record 1 million passengers a day for the past week. that s the most over a week now since the pandemic started. the big screens are also open to movie fans. amc says 98% of movie theaters are open across the country. limited capacity depending on state laws. all of this made possible with the roll-out of vaccines. the u.s. reaching an important milestone today. we reached our 100 million shots goal in 58 days. weeks ahead of schedule. so the accelerating pace, of course, of vaccines making this all possible at this point. many on wall street forecasting strong recovery in the u.s. economy. so look at the fede ....
election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. wh ....
it sounds like it s not much of a difference but i imagine that it will be, that it s sort of less of a burden but of course schools still have to make sure the children wear masks and perhaps the most challenging part of this is they need to come up with testing strategies. dr. rochelle walensky has said that this week, that she wants to see more robust testing systems in every school in the united states. it s been impossible actually i think to keep kids six feet apart in some cases considering the confinement of the classrooms, so perhaps this is going to make people feel like they are actually operating within the guidelines. elizabeth, thank you so much. elizabeth cohen. just two days after the shooting rampage, another minority group is being forced to reckon. the president ordered flags at half staff for victims killed in the atlanta area shootings. and tomorrow he and his vice president plan to meet with asian-american leaders when they visit the city. and to ....
united states and all around the world, we have reports from rome, berlin, the white house and tokyo. this is early start, i m laura jarrett. good morning, i m christine romans. we begin in europe, it s cheaper, simpler to deliver and is being pulled off the market, some countries in the last few minutes halting use of the astrazeneca covid vaccine after a small number of patients experienced blood clots. it s another blow to the eu s sluggish vaccine rollout. in vaccine is not authorized in the u.s. yet but it is being counted on to fight the uk variant spreading around the world. all this comes at a really difficult time. a third wave of infections is sweeping across europe and forcing renewed restrictions, hospitalizations on the rise in france, germany seeing a spike in cases and italians back under lockdown. that s where cnn s melissa bell is live for us this morning, she s in rome. melissa, good morning. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, lawyer ....
weekend. 2 million a day. those are great numbers 16781% of the country has been fully vaccinated, a weekend have have now cnn reporting releasing right now. the biden administration launching a $250 million media blintze targeting the vaccine. what s the goal? the concern? that s coming up. health experts warn complacency could trigger another deadly surge. they don t want to see any more scenes like thissing large crowds hitting miami beach, masksless in the streets, other places as well. for more details, let s bring in cnn s medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. good morning. good morning. this is a large campaign. a quarter of a billion dollars. let s take a look at where that money is going to go. it s go doing go largely to tv, radio, billboard print, and digital ads. there will be a podcast by a well-known figure. we don t know who that is. while it will talk about social distancing and staying away from crowds, it will focus on vaccination and they re goin ....