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Thousands of people around the country are braving the winter cold today. high wait times and long lines, waiting to get covid tested so they can feel safe gathering with their family for the holidays. take a look at this line where you were at the site here in arlington, virginia. it is wrapped around the block since this morning. there has been such a high demand over the past few days. several locations have run out of tests today. the arlington public library ran out of covid tests about an hour after opening. they said they won't be able to get any new shipments until after the new year, ...

There in january when the information is available, and they will be able to request three tests. that is something that is a reflection of the president's commitment to continue re-examining and improving our covid response, including as it relates to testing. go ahead. >> reporter: another on testing, because why not? there's more to ask here and i don't think we've had answers yet. is there any sense of whether you will be able to guarantee that, from the moment ordered online, how long one will have to wait to receive them? are you going to be relying on fedex, ups, amazon, the postal serv...

About sending tests to people's homes, he said, "should we just send them to every american?" as you have reflected on the change in omicron here, have you reflected on your tone and that answer? >> secretary psaki: well, jeff, i will say there's not a day that goes by that i don't leave this podium and wish i would have said something with greater context or more precision, or additional information. that day there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing i conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests that we were making ava...

Now if the administration had done this a couple lisa go when jen psaki was first asked about it and said this? >> why not just make them free and give them out and have them available everywhere? >> should be just and went to every american? >> maybe. >> then what happens if every american has one test? how much does that cost and what happens after that? >> all i know is of the countries seem to be making them available in greater quantities for less money. >> jen psaki said the reasons other countries have been able to get tests out more quickly and for less money is because they don't have...

The 500 million test kits that will begin be available in january is significant, the largest purchase we have sent to date, building on what we have done to date, in an effort to make testing more free, accessible, to people across the country. to go ahead. >> reporter: drill down on the specs of this, if you will. when can americans expect to see these tests? where they coming from, how many can a family or person order it once? is this website going to be able to sustain all these people who want to get on and get these tests? >> secretary psaki: to answer your last question, yes, that is o...