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Cancellations plague airports around the country. multiple states hitting records for new cases in the past week going back to the beginning of the pandemic. tomorrow, the cdc will release new data on how many new cases are listed as the omicron variant. meantime, the biden administration is facing growing pressure to deliver after promising to distribute half a billion free home tests and finally admitting more should have been done to prevent nationwide testing headaches. we have fox team cove...

Is where we are as a country right now. >> president biden says his administration is prepared for this omicron powered surge so he has admitted the federal government should have purchased more testing two months ago. >> if i had -- if we had known we would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. >> though a group of public health officials from the harvard th chan school of public health, the rockefeller foundation, the covid collaborative and several other organizations pitched the adm...

Bret? >> bret: steve harrigan in atlanta. thank you. we will have a closer look at those flight delays and some of the root causes with a live report from new yorks laguardia airport later this hour. president biden and covid response team met virtually with the nations governors today to discuss efforts to cure the omicron variant or deal with it effectively. the president maintains his administrations covid testing strategy is not a failure even as a new report says the white house rejected a ...

Administration rejected proposal for pretests for the holidays. told vanity fair while everyone present shared the same goal of rapid testing as soon as possible the plan could not be implemented at that time. would did not have the capacity to manufacture over-the-counter test in that scale. the problem was two fold the fda had authorized only a handful of different home tests and those had it authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough. byron? >> yeah, well, you know, the idea of m...

This president considering all the things he is facing inflation and build back better and repercussions from afghanistan but really this is the biggest. >> i agree no other issue more important that got president biden elected. there is no issue on which his presidency is going to be judged more first and foremost than getting a handle on the pandemic. one problem is he declared, i think, vink tri prematurely. remember july 4th he said independence day from wearing mask we had beaten the virus....

Thousands of people around the country are braving the winter cold today. high wait times and long lines, waiting to get covid tested so they can feel safe gathering with their family for the holidays. take a look at this line where you were at the site here in arlington, virginia. it is wrapped around the block since this morning. there has been such a high demand over the past few days. several locations have run out of tests today. the arlington public library ran out of covid tests about an ...

There in january when the information is available, and they will be able to request three tests. that is something that is a reflection of the presidents commitment to continue re-examining and improving our covid response, including as it relates to testing. go ahead. >> reporter: another on testing, because why not? theres more to ask here and i dont think weve had answers yet. is there any sense of whether you will be able to guarantee that, from the moment ordered online, how long one will ...

About sending tests to peoples homes, he said, "should we just send them to every american?" as you have reflected on the change in omicron here, have you reflected on your tone and that answer? >> secretary psaki: well, jeff, i will say theres not a day that goes by that i dont leave this podium and wish i would have said something with greater context or more precision, or additional information. that day there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing i conveyed a lot...

Now if the administration had done this a couple lisa go when jen psaki was first asked about it and said this? >> why not just make them free and give them out and have them available everywhere? >> should be just and went to every american? >> maybe. >> then what happens if every american has one test? how much does that cost and what happens after that? >> all i know is of the countries seem to be making them available in greater quantities for less money. >> jen psaki said the reasons other ...

The 500 million test kits that will begin be available in january is significant, the largest purchase we have sent to date, building on what we have done to date, in an effort to make testing more free, accessible, to people across the country. to go ahead. >> reporter: drill down on the specs of this, if you will. when can americans expect to see these tests? where they coming from, how many can a family or person order it once? is this website going to be able to sustain all these people who ...