no rest for the weary. senate democrats refuse to let republicans call it a night demanding a so-called vo vote-arama. and historic moment in christian muslim relations. and the vaccine hits the road, cnn rides down with a mobile vaccination team getting shots in the most vulnerable arms. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching around the world. i'm kind brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom".

the u.s. senate is in session this hour, powering through amendment after ae amendment as they grabbed with the relief bill, the process called a vote-a-rama got started only after democrats compromised with each other to end the epic roll call vote. it will likely last for some time since republicans have drafted more than 100 amendments. they say the bill is too expensive but democrats say it is the only way forward. >> senate democrats are completely united in our belief about how important this entire bill is for our fellow americans. for getting the vaccine to our people, for reopening our schools, for keeping american

workers, families and businesses afloat. and for putting our country on the road to a strong recovery. >> ramming through an ideological spending spree packed with noncovid related policy, but only 9% addresses the fight against the virus itself. we are already on track to bounce back from this crisis. that is not because of this bill. it is because of our work last year. >> ryan noble was on capitol hill during those marathon negotiations between democrats on friday and he has more on that and the rest of the day's developments. >> reporter: the senate is inching closer to passing that covid relief package that will deliver some $1.9 trillion worth of aid to americans from coast to coast. but it hasn't been an easy process. the senate republicans putting up road blocks along the way,

including throwing a potential alternative to the unemployment insurance extension that was put in the bill originally by the house. democrats had already changed the plan going from $400 a week to $300 a week, but extending it out until the end of september. but also including a tax credit of uunemployment insurance benefit. republicans thought that was too much and they offered up a plan that would end the unemployment benefit in july and that piqued the interest of joe manchin. so for several hours on friday, the two sides hammered out an alternative plan because manchin was considering supporting the republican version. they settled on a plan where it would be $300 a check, it would expire september 6, the tax credit eligible to people who

make less than $150,000 a year. that then kicked in the process known as vote-a-rama which is part of the bill that needs only 51 votes to pass, this is the opportunity for any senator to offer up an amendment that needs to be voted up or down before it can get out of the senate. and that process has continued throughout friday night into saturday morning. we're not exactly sure when it will all wrap up, but at the end of all this, we sxeexpect democs to have the votes they need to pass the legislation and then it will go back to the house and then president biden for his signature. still could be some wrinkles along the way before we get to that point, but democrats crossed a big hurdle by getting manchin's support for that unemployment insurance. we're not exactly sure how long this process will last, but democrats are hoping that they have this bill passed and on the president's desk by march 14th. ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. now, one democratic senator

was the subject of much debate on social media, not just for her vote, but for how she delivered it. this is arizona democrat kyrsten sinema literally voting thucmbs e gesture was reminiscent of the moment when john mccain's thumbs down ended efforts to kill obama care. but sinema angered many. abby phillip offered some perspective. >> reporter: first of all, i'm not sure that it is entirely fair to assume that she was being flippant. if you know senator sinema, she is a colorful personality. so that is kind of how she operates. but beyond that, i also think that, you know, look, the moderam moderate democrats are making a calculation that they can engage

on this down the road, maybe less than than $15. and it is not just a moderate democratic position. there are at lo oft of moderate republicans willing to do that. i get that progressives feel like this is a train moving out of station, it should be in it right now, and that is why you will see a lot of anger directed at sinema and manchin and those others, the six other democrats who voted against this amendment. >> as senators debate on capitol hill, president biden is still working to drum up support for his plan. he says friday's jobs report shows exactly why the legislation is necessary. jeremy diamond has that. >> reporter: as the senate began debate on this coronavirus relief bill, president biden continued to make the case on friday for the urgent need to

pass this nearly $2 trillion package. president biden making that case despite the fact that we saw a. more positive jobs report released on friday. 379,000 jobs gained over the previous month. that was exceeding expectations. but the president insisting that this relief is not only still needed, but that really it is meant to ensure that the economy doesn't take one step forward and another step back. >> today's jobs report shows that the american rescue plan is urgently needed in our view. our economy still has 9.5 million fewer jobs than it had this time last year. and at that rate, it would take two years to get us back on track. some of last months's job growth is the result of the december relief package. without our rescue plan, these gains will slow. we can't afford one step forward and two steps backwards. >> reporter: and the white house

points out that if the economy continued to add jobs at the same rate, it would take until april 2023 to reach pre-pandemic levels. i asked how many years would be shaved off that time line and she said the white house believes that they could reach pre-pandemic economic levels one year sooner with this $1.9 trillion package. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. former state department appointee under trump administration is being charged in connection to the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. investigators say is that freed recompany klein was seen in videos like this one during the attack, he is accused of fighting against a police line and used awry riot shield to pr open a door. here we seem to have returned home, those were the words of pope francis as he

stood on the ancient plains of iraq, the place where it is believed abraham was born. right now pope francis is wrapping up an interfaith meeting before heading to baghdad. it has been a very busy day for the pope, his second in the country. he met hours ago with a sheia cleric. and ben wedeman is in baghdad. momentous day for people of may faiths. >> reporter: and this event scheduled today was hugely significant. he is meeting with one of the leading authorities of shia islam. keep in mind that back in 2019, he signed a document of fraternity with the grand imam,

so he is really trying to make sure that he is covering all his bases in his efforts to build bridges of fraternity and and after the meeting, a behalf of the grand ayatollah who bolstering the other important message of pope francis that the christians of iraq should stay here, grand ayatollah said that christians should live in peace and security full constitutional rights. and it is important to remember that during the war with isis, many of the christians who fled those areas that isis seized took reffuge and were provided with shelter and means of sustenance. and so this meeting is important.

and equally so this event that he attended with representatives of all the many religious sects in iraq. keep in mind that iraq particularly the northern part of the country has a huge number of various different religions and sects, some dating back to before the birth of christ. and we know that once he is done with all those events in the southern part of the country, he is coming back to baghdad to hold a church service. and of course tomorrow he is heading to the north where he will among other things pray in a church that was destroyed by isis when it occupied the city. >> so obviously there is great symbolism to this visit. but is there any sense that it might have some tangible or longer lasting effects after he leaves or is that too much to hope for at this point?

>> it is difficult to say. but the fact that he was able to visit, that he announced this trip back in december, the step by step of his schedule in iraq was made public and that it is such a high profile visit, to many iraqis it says things are changing. keep in mind for instance that president george w. bush, barack obama and president trump, every tinl every time they came to iraq, it was a tightly guarded secret, they meant most of their time meeting with u.s. and coalition forces, very brief low profile visits. and then they were gone. the pope is really doing a state visit the likes of which iraq has not seen for years. so whether you are a christian or a muslim or whatever, this

trip really does represent a dramatic change from what iraq was say 15 years ago. whether it will have long term consequences, that is very difficult to say. but certainly the tone of the visit and the coverage in the iraqi media and the comments people are making are almost universally positive, indicating that there is hope that this trip will indeed have a lasting impact. >> great points there. thank you so much ben wedeman in baghdad. coming up on "cnn newsroom," how long before the u.s. could begin to get back to some sense of normalcy. a recent cnn analysis may give us a clue. your body language when your underarms are cared for? ♪ ♪ it shows! our r new dove advanced care formula is effective... and kind to skin, leaving underarms cared for and you...

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by nick watt explains, vaccine hesitancy is still a big issue. >> reporter: the city of detroit just declined a shipment of johnson & johnson single shot vaccine. h more than 6,000 doses. the mayor claims he has enough of the other vaccines to meet demand. >> moderna and pfizer are the best. and i'm going to do everything i can to make sure the residents of the city of detroit get the best. >> we've been in constant dialogue with the mayor who said in fact that was not what he said. >> reporter: well, it is what he had. maybe he misinterest. either way, it is wrong. all three vaccines are -- >> extraordinarily effective in preventing severe disease and we don't compare one to the other. the only way that you can effectively do that is by having head to head comparisons in a clinical trial. which was not done. >> reporter: more than 10% of

american adults are now fully vax vaccinated, but still no cdc guidance on how they should behave. >> these are complex issues and the science is rapidly evolving. we're making sure and taking the time to get this right. and we will be releasing guidance soon. >> reporter: meantime vaccine optimism is fueling the rollback of restrictions. michigan upped indoor dining capacity. no more mask mandate in mississippi. the governor of texas doubling down on his controversial decision to end the mask mandate and open businesses. >> we are in a situation where it is safe to open up 100%. and every texan here and every texan across the state, they have learned for the past year the safe strategy to say use. >> reporter: more data published showing that mask mandates do reduce covid-19 case counts and

deaths. and when restaurants reopen in person, cases and deaths do go up. >> wear a mask now so we can get to a place where you don't have to. >> reporter: case counts were heading there, but plateaued about ten days ago. could be fatigue, complacency and or the more contagious variants. so when might the u.s. reach herd iminemmunity? analysis shows that 70% of the population could be fully vaccinated by the end of july. throw in those people already infected, and you could have herd immunity sometime in june. but models, projections, hopes don't always pan out. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. europe has a message for coronavirus vaccine maker, deliver the doses you promised. this comes after italy decided

to block the export of a quarter million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine to australia. meanwhile officials in germany say 40% of the new cases there are the variant first identified in the uk, it is more contagious and health experts fear that it will become the dominant strain. and some good news for britain where the reproduction number has fallen below 1 which indicates the epidemic is shrinking. matt hancock gave an upbeat appraisal. >> we're on course to hit our target of offering a first dose to everyone who is over 50 or part of and at risk group by the 15th of april and all adults by the end of july. >> so for more on all this, let's bring in nina dos santos joining us from london. we'll get to the uk in a moment, but in europe where the rollout seems to be getting more

fractious by the day. >> reporter: that's right. it certainly is. this is all about vaccination versus variant. and when it comes to the vaccine front, there is acute embarrassment across the european union over how bochlbo this effort has been. and it has pitted the private sector that is developing and delivering these vaccines against member states, in particular one of the three vaccines that is approved by the european medicines agency, the one made by astrazeneca, that is the one that is currently drawing the focus of the ire of the eu. in particular as you said, it will i. italy. italian minister made the decision of curtailing the shipments, first time the new rule has been used to try to safe guard some of the vaccines made on eu territory.

she said effectively astrazeneca has only delivered 14% of its contractual commitments. and as such, we need these vaccines more than other people and we'll prevent them from being exported from our territory. add astrazeneca's response is that the eu negotiated late, and it put less money on the table comparatively, it negotiated hardly at a time when others say they needed as much as they could and also they needed to be sensitive to the fact that scaling up advantage production for hundreds of millions of citizens is a huge block of people here would have taken time and had some challenges. the reality is that astrazeneca is not the only one of the three vaccines that are approved that is facing shortfalls in its production as demand comes online in large numbers. we saw biontech and pfizer, the first one to be approved by the uk and eu, having to curtail

some of its shipments because it had to change its manufacturing procedures to up scale manufacturing. also moderna has issues as well. so it is not just astrazeneca. and i should point out that there are concerns by some member states that they need to stake out on their own and make parallel deals with other countries or extra deals with some of these suppliers. germany made an extra deal for extra doses, denmark made their own deal. and hungary has decided to start inoculating its people with sputnik-v. so all of this shows a splintering of the saechls s splintering of the saeceams of so-called joint vaccination effort. >> so from the mess in the eu, on the opposite end of the spectrum, a growing success story in the uk.

and now they seem to be reaping the benefits. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. ministers have a look at some of the figures, as of yesterday uk had inoculated 20 million of its citizens, it is managing to get vaccines out into the community with this mass vaccination effort and also it is rather controversially decided to spread out the time frame from between the doses to make sure more people were covered early and then they could get their second dose later. f rather than focusing to getting people do fwtwo doses. they have vaccinated 32% of its citizens. and the real test as you said with the r number coming down is not just the vaccinations, it is the fact that the country has bee

been locked down for quite some time and children will be going back to school on monday. so that will be the real test. >> thank yu you so much for tha. up next, taking the vaccine to the patient rather than the other way around. >> to have somebody come to the house especially when you have a latina, 92-year-old beautiful mother that has dementia. >> cnn rides along on a vaccine field trip to one of the pharmacy deserts. stay with us. someday i'll ask you a question that will change me forever. ♪time after time begins to play softly♪ yes. ♪time after time continues to play softly.♪ start your someday today with 20% to 40% off all bridal. antibacterial or moisturizing body wash? definitely moisturizer! antibacterial can i have both? new dove care & protect body wash eliminates 99% of bacteria and moisturizes for hours two for one! can i keep it? new dove care & protect, zero compromise! ♪

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coronavirus vaccines to those who need them most, right in their own homes. rush university medical center is going directly to people 65 and older. we rode along. >> reporter: jackie just got vaccinated in her own home. now it is her mother's turn. jackie and her mom, 90-year-old hadi, are getting the vaccine thanks to a mobile program from rush university medical center. they have limited transportation and hadi can only get out of the house if someone carries her. >> it is a blessing and it is great. i hope everybody that can't get it that they do well. >> reporter: a few miles away, a vaccination team is this family's home, they are among 120 people in the program targeting those hardest hit by covid. 71 people have received the

vaccine. >> this is a blessing to have somebody come to the house especially when you have a latina 92-year-old beautiful mother that cannot do hardly nothing for herself. >> reporter: but there is a problem. not everyone who needs the shot gets it. and it falls along racial lines. the kaiser family foundation tracks vaccination rates in 27 states by race and ethnicity. according to their data, the overall vaccination rate among white people is about three times high than the rate for latinos and twice as high as the rate for blacks. the challenge in chicago and cities all over the country is many of the most vulnerable residents are going unvaccinated. >> the structural racism that underlies it, we know that ther health care sector as well. >> reporter: in this case, many live on a pharmacy desert and can't get themselves to a

vaccine. as of mid-february in illinois, latinos make up 26% of covid cases. but only 9% of vaccinations. in maryland, blacks make up 33% of cases but only 16% of vaccinations. and in california, the numbers are staggering, latinos account for 55% of covid cases, but only 18% of vaccinations. it is a problem president biden says that he is trying to fix. >> the fact is, if you are 70 years old, you don't have a vehicle and you live in a tough neighborhood, meaning it is a high concentration of covid, you are not likely to be able to walk five miles to go get a vaccine. all ri >> reporter: the president's covid package include funding for mobile operations. texas is starting a door to door program. jackie and her mom say this program may have saved them not

only from the virus, but from an unequal system that nearly left them behind. >> ain't nobody above no one. everybody is the same way. we die the same. >> reporter: and taking the vaccine from this clinic to people's homes is labor intensive. when we traveled with the rush team, there was a moment of panic, someone who was supposed to receive the vaccine had a scheduling conflict. so the team had two choices, find someone on its backup list or toss the extra dose. thankfully they were able to find someone that day. adrienne broaddus, cnn, chicago. so we just heard about the vaccination problems in california, but its blueprint for a safe economy program is trying to change that by targeting the hardest hit areas with the vaccine. officials want to reserve 40% of doses for underserved communities. the state has a four level color coded system signifying levels of transmission and those levels

establish the guidelines for covid restrictions. officials will now tie vaccination rates to those tiers. sonia diaz is founding director of the ucla latino policy and politics initiative and also a civil rights attorney. thank you so much for joining us. so despite how hard minority communities have been hit by covid, people live management wealthiest parts of california have been getting double vaccine decembers than people in the poorest parts have been getting. do you know what is behind this disparity? >> i think a number of things. we have health systems that really do not ensure that people that are disadvantaged are able to survive this pandemic. we've seen that with the infection rates and now with vaccines. one of the reasons is that there is a lack of digital access to really be able to get these appointments. and there is also protocol in

place that disadvantage minority communities because of age. latino in the u.s. median age is 30, for white americans, it is 58. so when you privilege older people in california, that will leave out so many individuals who unfortunately are dying at rates higher than their share of the population. >> this new policy to reserve a certain percentage for minority communities, there is an ethical moral reason for doing this, but if you were to look at this dispassionately, if you were an ai machine that is designing a strategy to bring down the covid numbers and reopen as soon as possible, these minority communities are the ones that you would need to get at to both stop the community spread, you know, to lessen the risk for everyone and to get the state back oem anpen and working agai. >> that's right. so for two reasons. first, there are people that are hardest hit, los angeles is the

epicenter of covid-19 in the united states and arguably in north america. a lot of this has to do with the fact that we are putting our workers at great risk and these workers live in crowded communities with multigenerational families. and they also don't have the same access to health care coverage and transportation and jobs that permit them to work at home. so they have to leave the house every single day and that puts them at risk and we've seen for latinos in particular 55% of all of californians who have been infected are latino, yet latinos only make up 39% of the state population and are fairly young. the second reason this makes a lot of sense in terms of really targeting these working class communities is that these workers are in their most productive years. so the capacity of california to not only reopen but to solidify its standing as the world's fifth largest economy is depend end to having a healthy

workforce which right now is in great peril. >> but then a program like this, we've already seen problems in l.a. people in wealthier communities using access codes to get vaccine appointments that were meant for lower income neighborhoods. how are they planning to get around all the cheating? >> well, i think that that is really interesting. as you said that, i couldn't help but be reminded of a lot of public policy debates. colleged a hi admd a, the fact wealthy were cheating the system. that will continue to happen. and so what the government can do, they won't have the same advantage. ensuring that when people sign up, they have to put their zip code with their home address or that there is a targeted place, it is not just citing vaccine stations in low income neighborhoods, but making sure

that the dosages are plentiful to the people who live in those zip codes and actually going into people's arms. and that is that these additional ven investments or helping people goatet an appointment online because it is pretty arresteduous. >> thank you so much for joining us. president of chwhi chile sa hopes the country will achieve herd immunity before the end of june. he spoke about the fast paced vaccine rollout and why he believes it has been so successful. >> the process of our vaccination is first of all voluntary and absolutely free. we have faced very little opposition because we put

together a very strong information campaign to convince people that it was necessary, useful, safe and efficient to get vaccinated. but basically one of the key aspects that have made our case successful, first of all that we started to negotiate for the vaccine very early, april, may. and at that time, we were able to sign contracts or reach agreements that can guarantee us that we will have 36 million doses of the vaccine. our immunization program is a very sound and solid one. chile has always had a sound public health system. and therefore we have vaccines and we have the capacity to distribute them all over the country, so that is why -- yesterday we vaccinated more than 300,000 people in one day. and that is why we are really pushing this process because we

want to vaccinate our population as soon as possible. the coronavirus pandemic has been especially devastating in brazil with one person dying nearly every minute. and the intent receive care units are reaching their limit and several are on the brink of collapse. shasta darlington has more. >> reporter: hospitals bursting at the seams. medical staff pushed to the brink. with each minute that passes, one person dies of coronavirus in brazil as new infections soar to record levels. >> the health system in brazil is on the verge of collapse. icu beds are missing, there is no national coordination to combat the pandemic. >> reporter: in an interview, the governor of sao paulo paint as grim picture. after wednesday saw more coronavirus deaths than any other day of the pandemic. he puts brazil's largest state

on lockdown in what he calls phase red. it is a move the country's president is fiercely against. stop this fussing and whining, eb he said thursday, how long will you keep crying criticizing restrictions. last week he threatened to cut off emergency aid to states that r resort to lockdown measures. this is as a second wave of infections surge across brazil. which the country's health minister largely blames on a coronavirus variant first discovered in the northern brazilial city and now spread across the world. but it also comes after large gatherings and parties during carnaval festivities last month. >> yes, we arescenario since it.

this could have been avoided and the most important factor is gathers. >> reporter: so fathr their attempts with vaccinations have been patchy at best. after political in-fighting, many are fighting it nearly impossible to get inoculated. >> translator: there are lines. saturday the line was eight hours long. >> translator: everyone is afraid. the vaccination needs to be faster. it is taking too long. >> reporter: less than 4% of the population has been vaccinated with only 1% receiving the necessary two decembers to get fully immunized. the health minister says 138 more doses can be expected by may, months away as hundreds continue dying each day in brazil's coronavirus pandemic. shasta darlington, cnn. straight ahead, pro democracy protestors in myanmar

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u.s. ambassador to myanmar has spoken with the nation's deputy military chief. they discussed efforts to hold future negotiations on an array of issues, this as pro democracy demonstrators are clashing with security force, police seen firing rubber bullets and stun gra enades into crowds. many are begging for international support. >> these illegal military regime has declared war on the people of myanmar. so no one is safe. number one, we need to save them. that means the international community have the

responsibility to protect where the state failed to protect its own people. so we are asking the community to look at that. >> as protestors wait for an international response, they are showing no signs of backing down. will ripley has been following the latest developments from hong kong. >> reporter: pictures we're seeing out of myanmar demonstrate an extraordinary act of bravery on the part of the hundreds if not thousands who despite an increasingly deadly wave of brutality by the military dictatorship continue going out in the streets, continue to peacefully protest, to demand democracy, to demand that the results. election back in november that were a landslide for the national league for democracy be honored by the brutal dictatorship which only got a handful of votes for their proxy parties and decided that it was because of widespread election fraud, a claim that is unfounded. at least 55 people have been killed since february 1 in these

peaceful protests and we need to underscore that these are peaceful. the military has claimed that some of these people are armed, using one example citing two people who may have had smoke grenades on them. soldiers are using live ammunition on these people. and more than half of those who have been killed are young people under the age of 25, 17 of them under 20. these are people who came of age after the military gave up 50 years of a brutal dictatorship that crushed any dissenting voices, these people grew up in a time where myanmar was starting to experience for democracy, to hold elections, even though the military still kept its hand in the leaders of power. reserved high level positions for itself. but after the landslide defeat in november, that simply wasn't enough. human rights groups say for the military leaders, dismissing the claims of election fraud and

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"perseverance" is officially on duty. earlier this week it took its first test drive on mars. it only went less than 2 dozen feet, but it did make an impressive turn and sent back its first images including the one that you are seeing now. >> these are actual images from the rover that we got back which was super cool. >> and what we see in this image from the first high resolution panorama are deposits of the delta in the background and the rocks look notably different in that that you can resolve layering within the rocks.

these resistant layered rocks were likely deposited by rivers. >> and nasa announced that the landing site is named octavia eve butler in honor of the late scienc science fiction author. xloo a japanese billionaire is planning a trip around the moon and is willing to pay to have company. >> reporter: he is looking for each eight members of the public to join him on a six day trip around the moon, slated to take off in 2023 on spacex's starship rocket. anyone can apply from now until march 14th. and the trip will be free. he made his fortune by starting the online ecommerce fashion company zozo town and elon musk said that this trip could

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rocket is still in early stages of development. only early prototypes have been tested so far and recent test flights have ended in explosion. but elon musk says he is confident that safe rocket will be ready by 2023. >> i'm highly confident that we'll have reached orbit many times with starship before 2023 and that it will be safe enough for human transport. >> reporter: in a video he says he is scared but more curious. selina wang, cnn, tokyo. >> and that wraps this hour. i'm kim brunhuber. for international viewers, reconnect south korea is next, for those of you in the u.s., "new day" is just ahead.

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