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I think what youre going to see tomorrow is people who are angry and are going to show it and the position of civil disobedience works in a democracy and that doesnt mean you cant be angry and it also means you can be respectful and also means you can stand your ground in a way that is not violent and i want people to watch what happens tomorrow because that is how its -- tomorrow is how its done, not january 6th. >> yeah. and once they take away your rights over your own body, youll see what ha...

The white house considering a new crackdown on travel as fears of the omicron variant spreads. >> dr. anthony fauci also said that he could see boosters as part of a mandate. not there yet, but he could see it. also contact tracing for that individual that has omicron variant and those other people that are close contact were negative. on the travel, the cdc is looking at changing the guidelines. its on place yet, but theyre looking at making it a 24-hour window before you get on a flight to com...

>> it sure was. we already suspected that oma crown was artie in the united states. its been identified in other countries including europe african nations and others. not surprising that its in the you united states theyre doing adequate amount of sequences and their tracing for reek stomach recent travel and the cdc is doing their part. now that we have our own samples, they can start studying them and look at how the vaccines protect against them as well as the treatments. >> sandra: sorry, w...

Theyre expanding surveillance of four big u.s. airports to look for omicron, sanjay. will they be able to find cases and contact trace to contain omicron? what should we be bracing for as this goes? >> well, you know, this whole idea of the testing and tracing, you know, the things we talked about two years ago in the beginning of all this, we never really got to that point. we still, in this country, were doing about a million and a half tests per day. you may remember, don, the road to recover...

This goes? >> well, you know, this whole idea of the testing and tracing, you know, the things we talked about two years ago in the beginning of all this, we never really got to that point. we still, in this country, were doing about a million and a half tests per day. you may remember, don, the road to recovery sort of counted on getting 20 million to 30 million tests per day. were not anywhere close to that, and its not really a surprise to me that we have not found evidence of omicron in the ...

Omicron around you, that will protect you against this new variant as well. >> thats such important information. lets ping-pong a little bit and go back to kaitlan because shes continuing to gather more information. what more can you share with us, kaitlan? >> reporter: we need to look at what the cdc has done the last several days to pinpoint this. they said it was really, ana, looking for a needle in a hay st haystack trying to find this. you heard dr. fauci saying the cdc could find this vari...

Family members, to notify co-workers. we actually shut down offices when they were in a situation with somebody infected. that became increasingly futile when the infection became so common. once it got out there, contact tracing was not the way to go. you have to isolate people and create a bubble for it to work. thats why we switched to measures like masking to keep things going. if a micron remains relatively infrequent, can you go back to contact tracing and try to get a handle on this, and ...

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International airports. increasing the capacity on arrival to the united states, and enhancing our surveillance. thanks to our updates travel policies this month, were also actively working with the airlines to collect passenger information that can enhance act tracing should a case be identified in the traveler. were holding regular and daily calls with local county and state health officials and our public health partiers. they include state, county, and city health officials. state e epidemio...

And tracing? >> so, number one, yes, i do. i believe we can do that. but we absolutely need more testing. as you know, testing plummeted sort of toward the midsummer to less than 50% of its rates in january. and there was a lull in the production of the antigen tests. i think the administration is trying to reverse that. but i do agree with andy slav it that one of the things you can do aside from getting boosted is get those home tests. i literally just went to walmart yesterday and picked up t...