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That omicron has peaked in their states. they hope they're coming down the other side of this now. but the u.s. still averaging 543,000 new cases every day. cases in children going down last week. this is the first time since thanks giving they've seen this. but still, that number, 808,000 children testing positive over just the last week. and authorities with a warning tonight about getting churn vaccinated, saying we're still in this, and to protect against any new possible variants. 15 states tonight are reporting icu beds still in short supply. and here in new york city, the news that they...

Partners has been to bring her home. we will continue to work with the fbi in this search for more answers. and there are certainly a lot of questions remaining. lots of folks wanting to know exactly what happened and hoping that in finding brian laundrie that they can provide those answers. christine? laura? >> leylah, thank you for that. it's worth noting here, fbi data shows more than 543,000 people were reported missing last year, and that number is actually lower than usual because of the pandemic. now many of them were found, but thousands of people go missing every day. just this week e...

Their loves ones. he admitted to serious problems in the agency and calling the inaccurate reporting of wait times indefensible and unacceptable. molly has more on what else sloan had to say. the acting secretary of the va said there is progress in cutting down the wait list in the veterans administration or vha. >> the vha reached out to over 650 and made 543,000 referials for veterans to get service. this is in the last two- month period. >> reporter: he said there are more clinic hours and looking to buy a state-of-the-art

Congress today did a check-up of the troubled va system. you know, cnn first reported how veterans were waiting months and months and months to see a doctor. the new secretary of veterans affairs told us in a committee in the last two months that va has contacted 160,000 veterans to get them off those long waiting lists and conducted 543,000 referrals for vets to be seen by private doctors. and, he says, he is reforming the scheduling system. >> we're putting place a comprehensive external audit of scheduling practices across the entire vha system. we are building a more robust, continuing sys...