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And so, you see that happening on a bigger level. the president meeting with his team. of course, the cdc also meeting with state labs talking to them every day because that's how they find these -- these variants. and so, that's been happening. of course, all of this leading up to a big speech that president biden is giving tomorrow to talk about what's ahead in the coming months. >> do -- i mean, what might they do? do we know? >> i think in the speech tomorrow, you will see the president lay out some concrete steps. the white house has been preparing that. i don't think you should expect an...

President and his team have basically been meeting nonstop. whether that's within the agencies, people meeting and talking about how they are going to respond to this. or the president meeting with his medical team directly. they have had hours on ends of meetings where he has been peppering them with questions about the data here, the timeline of what they are going to know more to those big questions, like how severe of disease this could cause or whether or not it evades vaccines because the president has been clear that he wants to know more. and of course, anderson, today, it was the day ...

Omicron around you, that will protect you against this new variant as well. >> that's such important information. let's ping-pong a little bit and go back to kaitlan because she's continuing to gather more information. what more can you share with us, kaitlan? >> reporter: we need to look at what the cdc has done the last several days to pinpoint this. they said it was really, ana, looking for a needle in a hay st haystack trying to find this. you heard dr. fauci saying the cdc could find this variant. that's what they've been trying to do but also do this tracing not just done through the cdc...

Right now president biden is in minnesota touting his domestic agenda as his administration is keeping a very wary eye on the new coronavirus variant. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is working on that part of the story for us. so what is the biden administration doing right now to track down this variant to see if it's already here in the u.s.? >> that's their main priority right now, wolf. you are seeing the president continue on with business as usual, selling this infrastructure bill, but scientists are very much racing behind the scenes to try to figure out if this var...

Weekend of serious public health officials at the state and local level. these calls included state, county, city health officials, state of a geologist, laboratory partners and public health organizations. so that is something that was started over the last several days. and we are continuing around the clock to coordinate, as well. the cdc is also a meeting today with state labs and throughout the week we will engage the state health association in order to make sure we are and continued close contact. >> reporter: in terms of states and local municipalities, the president was asked and mayb...