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Shaq, whos been at a testing site this morning in chicago. how are things looking there? how have they changed over the past hour? >> well, this one just opened up in the past half hour, but its people taking advantage of a free pcr testing option here in chicago. and look, we know that as cases rise, so, too, usually, do hospitalizations, but one thing that officials here are watching are the rise in pediatric hospitalizations, because those are increasing based on an nbc news analysis at faste...

Return to the classrooms, but you again have those issues and questions about whether or not the rapid tests that people have detect the omicron variant. i want you to listen to what we heard from the cdc director this morning on the "today" show. >> we do know that the antigen test may not perform as well as it had for prior variants. the alpha variant and the delta variant, but its still picking up quite a bit of infection. if you have a negative antigen test and if you have symptoms, then you...

Down to ten, so we want to make sure that that is working as we would expect it to be. but that brings us back to lateral flow tests. for the system to work, there has to be enough of them to go around. labour says the government needs to get a grip and provide enough tests. catherine burns, bbc news. and cathjoins me now. a huge amount of pressure on the testing system at the moment? notjust an not just an issue notjust an issue with lateral flow test but also pcr test. at one stage this mornin...

With an increase of cases nationwide, here is where you can get tested for Coronavirus in the area

DECATUR — With another rise in the number COVID-19 cases, Decatur testing facilities are expecting to be busy the next few weeks.

Lets go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> thats correct. youre talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so lets go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administ...

The Gaines Park drive-thru COVID-19 testing site will be closing early at 2 p.m. Tuesday to accommodate all of the people in line.

Testing site in miami. layla, how long is the wait for people there? >> you know, it kind of varies around what time you come, but bottom line it is hours. people have been telling us anywhere from two to three hours, and, you know, this is one of the busiest sites in miami-dade county. it is run by n ho mi health. they tell me that this site in particular, they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. countywide 60,000, and let me put that in perspective for you. when you compare that to the ...

Quote, what am i, rosa parks? this is all according to a complaint, by the way. the other passenger told cornwall that was inappropriate. it escalated from there. cornwall now faces one year in prison and a $100,000 fine according to the faa. there have been nearly 5800 unruly passenger incidents so far in 2021. most of them mask related. saying unruly is sort of putting it mildly at this point, paula. >> right. people need to calm down. have some peanuts, a drink and chill. its not that long a ...

For more lets go to cnn contributor barbie nadeau live at a testing site in rome. a similar sort of pressure on testing there that weve seen in other parts of the world? >> reporter: well, you know, actually testing is fairly easy to do here in italy. youve got these sort of pop-up t tents outside of pharmacies in rome and villages. people getting tested not because they feel symptomatic. but because they want to gather with friends on new years eve or they want to travel. it took a year to get ...