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Shortage. the white house says they have tens of millions of tests ready to go and are spending $4 billion to deliver the first 500 million, passing pressure to the postal service to quickly deliver. the postmaster general saying they are well prepared to accept and deliver test kits on the first day the program launches. but right now the u.s. postal service is facing some problems with communities in several states dealing with mail delays because of omicron. >> it is mostly bulk mail. >> reporter: derrick reynolds just got mail delivered to his home for the first time in three weeks. >> it ...

Failure. i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i've ordered half a billion of the pills, 500 million pills -- i mean, excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering half a billion pills two months ago before covid hit here. >> reporter: so the president seemed to struggle to really articulate the difference between pills and tests. of course, he is sending about a half billion tests to peopl...

Employees to either be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask if unvaccinated was supposed to begin monday, enforcement wouldn't go into effect until if february 9th. economies worry the surge in cases could stunt job growth in the coming months. >> america's back to work, and there are more historical accomplishments. >> reporter: but the president optimistic over the latest jobs report despite falling short of expectations, adding 199,000 jobs. the good news for the white house, unemployment fell to 3.9%. this as the administration scrambles to ramp up testing despite shortages...

And the policy decisions made, the intentional policy decisions made are creating a spiraling crisis across the world. when joe biden ran for office, he said he was going to restore dignified and respected leadership across the world and where are we? you outline what's going on in afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis that's going on. what's happening in ukraine? we are challenged by russia, being challenged by china on taiwan. decisions made by the president that have now spiraled out of control. you just outlined covid but you he made the intentional decision on the vaccines, stumbled on the...

Weeks ago. here's how they describe it. >> way too chaotic now. that's the same thing that happened the first time. like, everybody's going their way about it. >> there is a spot right by my house where i would go. it would take less than five minutes. i would just walk there and that's it. and now the line extends into the next street. it's crazy. >> reporter: still very active. this is the busiest part of the morning for this testing site, anyway, so we are seeing that line sort of build up, and it really hasn't let up at any point at this 24-hour testing site as we've been here over the las...