lockdown speech in the words of white house press secretary jen psaki, but rather talking about the vast differences between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. saying it's not like 2020 when there were shutdowns and the things of the like because of vaccinations. but there is a strain on the hospital system. there is a strain on the health care system largely because of the unvaccinated. president biden trying to get ahead of this, trying to really point out the administration is on top of it. but the reality is this is raging out of control, and the next few weeks, perhaps even longer than that, will be a dire situation, particularly for the unvaccinated. now, the white house has been struggling to get adequate testing here in the u.s. that has been a key problem or shortcoming. we are told the president will be addressing testing as well in that speech from the white house, but certainly officials here are alarmed at the spread of omicron and that's why the president addressing the nation tuesday here at the white house.