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Gatherings. it only took visiting four different pharmaies and spending 150 bucks. god bless america. i know this man is not alone in his frustration. i experienced it over the weekend. can you tell us whats happening? >> reporter: it is really complicated because there are basically word of mouth. people recognize they need to get tested. so im at a testing facility where you can get a rapid test. you get a pcr test here. just to give you an idea of the anxiety, i think, were seeing here, look ...

In new york and tommy rahm. gabe, let me start with you. i know youre getting this interesting inside look at a testing facility in new york that is processing pcr tests. talk about what you saw and learned there. >> hi, there, hallie. this prosing facility is handled about 25,000 pcr tests aday. it is northwell court and has hundreds of outpatient centers across the region and we got an inside look and saw how much they were scrambling to really meet up with this demand that has been rising not...

Flames and smoke tore through a high-rise building in the bronx. 19 dead. nine of them children. >> it was dad. i see kids crying for help, and at that point we couldnt do anything. >> you know about the surge in cases. but also right now in this country, about 138,000 people are in the hospital with covid. thats just short of the all-time high of 142,000, and right now medical professionals dont see an end in sight. >> im here to tell you were tired. were exhausted. and were literally on the ed...

Level of infection. what this testing facility is doing is nothing short of remarkable, 40 to 50,000 pcr tests in this country. the demand has skyrocketed. theyre telling me the positivity right now is 30 to 35%. at the beginning of december it was 2 or 3%. there is also conversations going on right now about the latest guidance from the dissatisfaction when it comes to quarantining and then advising but not requiring a negative test to return to work after five days. the american medical associ...

Now in chicago with the teachers voting to go virtual. thats because they couldnt test the kids. and now the city locking them out. t its leading to some dramatic situations. one final area, craig, that he highlighted in the interview was vaccinations. the rate for 5 to 11-year-olds is still very low. about 20%. he said the administration is urging more vaccine clibices that can be set up in schools but its going to take partnerships with local labs, local health departments. >> yeah. we talked ...

For northwell health, just outside of new york city. and as you mentioned, theyre dealing with 25,000 tests a day. about a third of them are coming back positive. and virtually all of them as he said, are coming back with the omicron variant. they only test a subset of the overall tests, but of the ones they are testing, theyre virtually all omicron. it was 20% a few weeks ago omicron to 80 % after that and now almost all the cases are omicron. and we got that rare look inside this testing facil...

If they can find it, so they are hoping to expand this program even more, not just because there are places in the country unlike new york where theres still a surge, craig, but also because of concerns that this may not be the last variant and we may need these masks for some time to come. this will be the largest distribution of personal protective equipment ever in the history of the u.s., craig. >>is jansing, outside the testing facility in new jersey. doctor, lets go from new york to new je...

Seen? >> well, with this surge the number of people that are seeking testing is higher than its ever been before. and the number of positive cases is increasing more rapidly than its ever been before. right now a third of our cases are positive. a third of our tests are coming back positive. thats higher than weve ever seen it before. >> and again, craig, that testing center was for northwell health, just outside of new york city. it services 19 hospitals. hundreds of outpatient centers. right n...

Florida, said he wouldnt attend because you dont have time. i can tell, you the testing facility in this capitol is about 100 yards from the door of the chamber, it takes about five minutes. >> [applause] garrett is in the gallery live as we are watching members of the diplomatic court here. we see members of congress and senators applauding us people arrive. just to tell you, we saw the second gentleman, duggan hough, the husband of vice president kamala harris speaking at length with the woman...

Killed today. 300 wounded. by all accounts they seemed pretty accurate. remember, these missiles got to test firing in syria in 2015 when the russians deployed forces there. president obama at the time said the russian forces would end up in a quagmire, really a testing facility if you will for the russian forces. in fact, when the russians invaded georgia in 2008, they used about half the troops they used to invade this country today and the results were not great. there is a lot of friendly fi...