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Ahead. >> i use it as a gauge when i drive to work this morning, near our office this morning there is a bus central station that's converted into free testing site and so i don't know about 7:00 in the morning when you drive by in the last two or three week, i would see 80 cars waiting for that thing to open. and this morning i saw maybe six or seven cars. so antidoantidotally, maybe thi have been tapering down. what do we do with these for tests that we get? what do we do, andy, with these free masks that we'll be able to get at the pharmacy? >> well, look, i think we get a little too pessim...

Understand that in order to validate a test, depends on how much virus that person has and that also depends on the day and the course of the disease. you start with little virus. the next day, huge amount of virus and you steady that amount of virus for about six days. not five. like we just heard today. actually five is too short. it should be seven to be honest. so then it starts tapering down. so what we wanted fda to hear us is to show that we wanted to show fda that depending on the viral load, the test was excellent but if you go to the tails, that test does not perform. no test can per...

Hit the deadline. >> reporter: yeah. i mean, the pace has been pretty incredible. for a while, the last few days you have been seeing planes coming in and out almost every hour or hour and a half. in fact, more than 20,000 evacuees have come through rthe air base. having said that, in the last 24 hours or so we've definitely seen a decrease in the number of flights arriving here and as was pointed out in the other report there, the numbers going out of kabul airport seem to be going down. there is what they describe here as a strategic pause. but it could be also a tapering down of those evacu...

Weeks. that was the maximum set before the recession hit. that's when the benefits were temporarily extended. at its peak, the program was providing up to two years of coverage that has since been tapering down. since it was not included in the budget, lawmakers are now at a stalemate. democrats are pushing for an extension. house minority leader nancy pelosi released a statement which reads in part, neglecting to extend this vital lifeline to millions of workers is simply immoral. we have an obligation to support those who worked hard and lost their jobs through no fault of their own. republi...

we'll explain. i want to begin this morning with politics. as you know, the presidential race tightened up with rick santorum winning in missouri, colorado, arizona. as we go forward, we want to check up on the claims regarding health care. what adds up and what leaves something to be desired? something you have read about, the contraception controversy. they chewed out the president for a rule that requires insurance plans to cover contraception. even plans for those with religious organizations. like catholic hospitals and universities. just in the last several days, the admini...