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Under 18%. and the hope was that today they would launch a statewide effort to give out new testing kits and n95 masks to residents all over the state. 3 million at-home testing kits and 6 million masks was the hope. but the governor had to announce last night that because of supply chain and shipping issues, they werent able to get those supplies in. and so now all these local governments, these municipalities, dont have the supplies they wanted to have on hand today. and they really wanted the...

Guidelines. >> i believe that anything that we do that is not putting the priority on keeping students and educators and their families safe is a mistake. we should be using every tool we have in our toolbox to mitigate the spread of covid-19 in our classrooms. >> reporter: the biden administration says it plans to make up to 500 million tests available to americans for free this month. one emergency physician in houston remains skeptical thats going to be enough. >> we need them now. 500 millio...

Sort of widely panned. this is what she said. what could the administration to to improve what theyre doing on covid. heres what she said. >> it is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. every day, it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down. >> that wasnt a very strong answer, obviously, john. >> look, that was the answer, she didnt want to acknowledge in that interview the fact the administration ha...

>> sean: all right. it seems like vice president kamala harris has realized that people arent exactly happy in her and joe bidens america. you might want to take a look. >> no doubt covid for example, we are all frustrated with that and i understand and i fully appreciate that there is a level of malaise. we are two years into this thing. people, we want to get back to normal. we all do. >> sean: back to the america malaise speech because of the pandemic. whose fault is that? is it donald trumps...

Administration says it plans to make up to 500 million tests available to americans for free this month. one emergency physician in houston remains skeptical thats going to be enough. >> we need them now. 500 million wont be enough. every american should have at least two to three tests per week to be testing and 500 million is not even going to get us near there. >> reporter: with demand for covid testing still high an additional problem is emerging. fraudulent testing kits. according to federa...

Something that he supports, and something that has the support of all 50 senators. but what is at question now is not the contents of the legislation, but how to pass it through the senate because current senate rules means you need the support of 60 senators and there is white house covid-19 response coordinator just said in the coming weeks americans will in effect start to receive those testing kits, he did not say how, but he said that there will be more information coming.

>> vice president kamala harris has realized people arent exactly happy in her and joe bidens america. take a look. >> no doubt, covid for example, we are all waiting on everybody who is frustrated that. i understand and fully appreciate there is a level of malaise. we are two years into this thing . we want to get back to normal. we all do. >> back to the america malaise speech because of the pandemic. whose fault is that? is it donald trumps fault that they ran out of testing kits? is it donal...

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>> well, there is legislation moving through our general assembly that in fact says, absolutely. schools must be open five days a week. that in fact, virtual learning is a tool of last resort. right now, we need to get our kids back in school. i also think theres a tremendous opportunity for us to revise the protocols that we are using when a child is exposed but showing no symptoms in school. an incredibly important tool for us. the challenge we have is we dont have enough testing kits. here we...

Since taking prevagen, my memory has gotten better and its like the puzzle pieces have all been [click] put together. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪♪ good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. on the eve of his first anniversary as president, president biden will hold his first white house news conference since march today. only the second since he took office. with his poll numbers at a personal low, the president is facing challenges with inflation ri...