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News team, dr. John torez and tom costello, stephanie gosk, Kerry Sanders and meghan fitzgerald. Dr. Torez, i want to start with you and what were watching across the line from where we are in d. C. At bethesda at the nih. Dr. Fauci getting the vaccine. Talk about why its so important for the public to see this, specifically when it comes to somebody like dr. Fauci who is widely viewed as a nonpartisan figure. Hallie, youre right. I think this is a huge important step to get that confidence, that trust up in the vaccine across the country, and we talked about this a couple months ago about how...

Banning or restricting travel from the United Nation where the variant was identified. Today the Trump Administration is thinking of a plan where they have to prove a negative covid test before coming to the best. But dr. Fauci said its likely already here. You really need to assume that its here already, it may not and certainly is not the dominant strain but i would not be surprised at all if it is already here. Big question now, will the vaccines already rolling out protect against this pmutation . This variant . Pfizers ceo is confident it will as cases in the u. S. Climb, 190,000 more cas...

Picking up the omicron variant. can you help us make sense of this? >> absolutely. now, here's the thing. the fda and nih team look specifically at the take home tests and they found a few of them had lower sensitivities for omicron than other variants. because they can have false negatives even though people have the disease. here's the thing. they're good tests to start with especially if they come back positive, or if you're just testing because of the fact that you maybe had an exposure or at a gathering and don't have symptoms. if you have symptoms, you're absolutely right. even if you ha...