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Shows are cancelling performances, "saturday night live" dropped its live audience and musical guests and the rockets -- rockettes cancelled the rest of their season. the long testing lines are back. we're also seeing a mini outbreak in congress. senators elizabeth warren and cory booker tested positive for covid. new restrictions in place in europe including another lockdown in the netherlands while closer to home here in washington d.c. the city's indoor mask mandate goes back into effect tomorrow morning with a stricter vaccination mandate for government workers. it's the same now familiar ...

Gotten his booster shots. it may be one of the few things he and i agree on. people with booster shots are highly protected. >> reporter: with growing testing lines around the country, the president announced plans to distribute 500 million at-home testing kits next month, available for order online for free. and new federal testing sites will be opening nationwide, first in densely populated new york city. to deal with the ongoing crush at some hospitals, fema is already deploying emergency medical teams to six states, and 1,000 military health professionals are ready to deploy. even with thi...

Quickly and efficiently is something we need for months and maybe years. >> gabe, take us to queens. why are these people waiting in long lines for hours and hours? are they sick or are they traveling and need it for work and need a negative test to move forward with their lives? >> reporter: hi there, stephanie. several people here in line tell us any variety of those reasons. one woman thinks she might have been exposed by a roommate. she's here checking. others say no, they don't feel any symptoms however they plan to travel in the next couple days as you mentioned. stephanie, new york stat...

Its in person new year celebration in grand park. the mayor saying he'll make a decision before christmas. >> thanks god based on everything we have seen, cases are more mild than what we have experienced. >> reporter: broadway cancelling more performances and snl this weekend going without a live audience. >> where is everybody? >> reporter: omicron cases doubling two to three days. the testing lines are eerily familiar. >> frustrating to say the least. >> this is my third clinic i am going to in the last one hour. >> reporter: because of vaccines and boosters is an effective treatment. >> th...

The public school system. i spoke to the head of the union, the head of the teacher's union here. he says they also don't want to go remote, but they need to see quicker testing in the schools. right now, they're seeing a turnaround time that's way too long, in terms of possible exposure. i talked to a couple of parents this morning. let's listen to what they told me. all right. it doesn't sound like we have that, but basically, a lot of parents are in line because their own kids in school have had classmates who have been exposed. they're frustrated with the long testing lines, as well. they ...