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Exactly how the white house is going to finalize the delivery mechanism for those tests including that website that they have promised to get up where americans were request to get the at-home tests sent to them for free. so were still waiting for a lot of details. frankly, this speaks to the gap of time that exists now, continuing to exist, between the testing shortages over the holiday season. and when americans can finally expect to get the rapid at-home coronavirus tests. and you mentioned t...

With testing shortages nationwide. >> the pcr test after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks. that is not going to be helpful. >> why not test people at that time? i myself feel thats a reasonable thing to do. >> trace: the confusing guidance is causing some to question whether public health officials are making decisions based on science or merely prevailing opinion which is troublesome especially when you consider vaccines for americans as young as 12 could soon be widely available. t...

Weve got a fentanyl poisoning ep idemic. there should be some really significant issues that we should be able to come around and coal ase around and get it done and we need the president, and we need the administration to lead the way. theyre in charge. the buck stops there. there is no doubt about and were not doing good enough. >> so you mentioned both the pandemic and the president, and of course, president biden ran on the idea that he could come in, govern in a competent manner and fight b...

Develop that will contain covid and other strains of covid. >> so certainly, there has been just a sense of frustration thats been building up, as this pandemic really enters its third year, but wolf, plenty of blame to go around. the cdc is not in charge of testing. that is the administration and the testing shortages and issues that is a challenge that theyre working on back at the white house, not at the cdc. >> and jeff, another top priority, of course, for the biden administration is the u....

Point this month, but president biden has also acknowledged some of the frustrations with these testing shortages that have been seen across the country. and yesterday he offered this assessment on whether covid is here to stay for the long haul in the united states. >> no, i dont think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as were dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesnt have to be -- we have so man...

For free covid test kits for household. its covid test.gov. theyre are also some members o his own party tonight that are ratcheting up their criticism o the white house which in their opinion didnt expand testing nearly soon enough. to give the administration either knew or should have know that testing shortages were occurring across the country th letter read, steps to increase testing access should have happened before the current wav hit. not several weeks into the surge . >> we cant guaran...

Kids rely on in-person learning because thats where they get their meals, thats where they are safest and it allows their parents, some of them who are single parents, to be able to go to work and support their households. but we will continue to see this back and forth between parents, teachers and school districts and governments throughout the next couple of weeks as they decide how to best go back to in-person learning, if they can do it safely. fred? >> operative word, safely. nadia romero,...

New jersey. officials say while the flames are contained, they are not completely under control. the blaze at one point was so intensity could be felt miles away in new york city. officials say one firefighter was injured from debris and taken to the hospital. the u.s. still facing an uphill battle against the coronavirus. the cdc has now updated its guidance on masks, saying n95 or kn95 masks are the best options. but these testing shortages continue to cause trouble. states like georgia are ...

With testing shortages, senator collins wants to know why massive amounts of covid funding were averted to another biden crisis. take a listen. >> staff investigation found 850 million dollars out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile were instead used to deal with the crisis at the southern border. >> todd: gop house committee reporting diverted funding was used for emergency housing for illegal immigrant says. >> carley: 50,000 illegal immigrant...

That hes facing testing shortages when it comes to the pandemic. cold russian relations start to heat up along the ukrainian border. poll numbers that continue to kind of go down, really, things that threaten right here you see on the screen, it says 42 approval. thats considerably down from where he started out last year. so these are things the president is continuing to face. this is not how he wanted to start his 2020, facing a real downturn of momentum at the end of this second week. laura?...