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Federal solution to covid. david spunt is live in washington with more. david? >> hi, good morning to you three. there is a new gallup poll out of the approval of 11 federal officials that has president biden third from the bottom. the president coming in at 43% approval. 451% disapproval. the vice president at 44% approval, 54% disapproval. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell bottoms out the list while chief justice john roberts sits at the top of the list. the poll comes as the president and his team continue to be criticized for the testing shortage. the president yesterday admitted in...

Senator ben cardin has been outlining the strategy in recent days. fake had a listen. >> our democrats are hoping to scaling it back even more or passing various pieces of stand-alones may be attracting senator manchin or maybe even some of the gop on some of these issues? >> that's a strategy decision that's being negotiated. we're open to a way to reach the finish line. >> i think our best strategy is to find a common spot where all democrats can agree and move that legislation. that's what we're trying to do now. that's what the negotiations are about between the president and joe manchin a...

Cases are more mild than what we have experienced previously. >> reporter: broadway canceling more performances more sports teams weighing whether to postpone games and snl this weekend getting going without a live audience or most of its cast >> where is everybody? >> reporter: omicron cases doubling every two to three days. ahead of the holidays, the testing lines are eerily familiar. >> frustrating, to say the least. >> this is my third clinic i'm going to today in the last one hour. >> reporter: still authorities insist because of vaccines, boosters and effective treatments -- >> this is n...

Vaccination and booster efforts that will help keep us safe during the next three weeks as omicron cases rise. >> so, obviously getting ready for a surge in the hospitals and the surge most likely will be for those who are unvaccinated. i want to show you some graphics that we played earlier in the show that i think really hone in on the problem here. if we can play those now, let's listen to it. >> according to the latest cdc data, here's the difference between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. among the unvaccinated, there are 451 covid cases for 150,000 people. among those vac...

Risk. i think as far as government action goes, testing and encouraging vaccination, these are of course the tool kits we need, but we really need for everybody, everybody to recognize that this is a new ball game. they're going to have to go back to hunker down mode. they're going to have to be willing as ted rose, the head of w.h.o said yesterday, sure, it's tough to cancel an event, it's harder to cancel a life. that's where we are right now. >> so dr. bhadelia, to the point of miami-dade mayor, we've been talking about the power of vaccines for more than a year now. i want to play a little...