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Gatherings. it only took visiting four different pharmaies and spending 150 bucks. god bless america. i know this man is not alone in his frustration. i experienced it over the weekend. can you tell us what's happening? >> reporter: it is really complicated because there are basically word of mouth. people recognize they need to get tested. so i'm at a testing facility where you can get a rapid test. you get a pcr test here. just to give you an idea of the anxiety, i think, we're seeing here, look at this drone shot as we look over here. this location is open 24/7. come at 2:00 in the morning,...

In new york and tommy rahm. gabe, let me start with you. i know you're getting this interesting inside look at a testing facility in new york that is processing pcr tests. talk about what you saw and learned there. >> hi, there, hallie. this prosing facility is handled about 25,000 pcr tests aday. it is northwell court and has hundreds of outpatient centers across the region and we got an inside look and saw how much they were scrambling to really meet up with this demand that has been rising not just here in the northeast but across the country. and yes, 25,000 tests per day. about a third of...

Flames and smoke tore through a high-rise building in the bronx. 19 dead. nine of them children. >> it was dad. i see kids crying for help, and at that point we couldn't do anything. >> you know about the surge in cases. but also right now in this country, about 138,000 people are in the hospital with covid. that's just short of the all-time high of 142,000, and right now medical professionals don't see an end in sight. >> i'm here to tell you we're tired. we're exhausted. and we're literally on the edge. >> and that is where we are going to start this morning. we are at a testing facility in ...

Level of infection. what this testing facility is doing is nothing short of remarkable, 40 to 50,000 pcr tests in this country. the demand has skyrocketed. they're telling me the positivity right now is 30 to 35%. at the beginning of december it was 2 or 3%. there is also conversations going on right now about the latest guidance from the dissatisfaction when it comes to quarantining and then advising but not requiring a negative test to return to work after five days. the american medical association right now with some harsh words for the cdc, saying that it is both confounding and counterpr...

Now in chicago with the teachers voting to go virtual. that's because they couldn't test the kids. and now the city locking them out. t it's leading to some dramatic situations. one final area, craig, that he highlighted in the interview was vaccinations. the rate for 5 to 11-year-olds is still very low. about 20%. he said the administration is urging more vaccine clibices that can be set up in schools but it's going to take partnerships with local labs, local health departments. >> yeah. we talked about the test to stay policy with regards to not being able to afford the tests. a lot of distr...