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Los angeles. last hour i spoke with former fda chief dr. scott gottlieb where we are right now on the coronavirus pandemic. and he laid out a possible target date for an end point to the deadly delta surge. >> probably by thanksgiving i think it will have run the course. you have seen dense epidemics in the northwest and pacific northwest, enflamed earlier than that. the question mark is whether the northeast sees a surge of infection. with high vaccination rates and high prior exposure that it's impercent you and people that believe that the surge of delta in the summer was the surge that y...

Be getting the shot? here's former fda chief dr. scott gotlieb now on the pfizer board. >> depending on how long the fda takes to review the application whether it's a four-week or six-week review, could you have a vaccine available to children as early as probably by the end of october, perhaps it slips had a little bit into november. >> if this vaccine is authorized for kids 5 to 11, that would make another 28 million people eligible. that's another 9% of the population, a chunk that could get the country much closer to that herd immunity goal. this news comes as the cdc's vaccine experts we...

Were taking place ended. >> reporter: before covid schools accounted for 25% of collected blood. now, demand for blood products is up 10% nationwide. >> this is this huge backlog of operations that really needed to get done. >> reporter: some hospitals have had to delay scheduled surgeries. at n.y.u. langone health, in new york city, surgeon in chief dr. paresh shah says they came close to doing the same. >> we were down to such a low inventory of blood that if we had one major transfusion event we would have been depleted completely. >> reporter: can you take us through a scenario where you'v...

Cyber criminals to justice. he is prepared to do that in the united states. he would like to see vladimir putin do that. this is not about exchanges or swaps or anything like that. >> and covid still very much on the agenda. both the recovery and its origins. in fact even the w.h.o. chief dr. tedros has also now admitted that lab leak theory cannot be ruled out a big series of meetings ahead today. look closely for that one with president erdogan happening this than. interesting one to watch. all eyes than meeting with vladimir putin on wednesday and president biden announcing wednesday that h...

Vice-president kamala harris was at a pop-up vaccination center in greenville, south carolina. kicking off a new nationwide vaccine push in an effort to reach the administration goal of setting 70% of u.s. adults vaccinated with at least one shot by july 4th. the president is also trying to combat misinformation about vaccines. she told the crowd getting vaccinated is the neighborly thing to do. meanwhile in the uk the prime minister just announced he is keeping covid restrictions in place for another four weeks because of concerns over the highly transmissible variant known as the delta var...