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Huge line this morning. however, just a few moments ago, they realized this location is closed so the crowd dispersed -- >> what? >> yeah, i know. so they were waiting in line for who knows how long to get the covid test but there is another line across the street from here in midtown manhattan, there's a huge line, in fact. we were there a few minutes ago. they told us they are separating folks for pcr tests as well as rapid tests and there are huge lines for both. hours are limited today. obviously because it's christmas eve. so we're told that things will shutdown at 2:00. we were there, we...

Heard from a city health official, and they're processing 170,000 tests each day now which is a record in itself. the past record was 120,000 tests, but the good news is that help has arrived in the city across all of the bureaus. the mayor pledged that expanding testing locations across the city, hoping to have 112 covid testing sites. the federal government is stepping up. there are sites available to the public as well and starting next week the governor said there will be testing options as well at subway stations. so testing is expanding but obviously the help needs to come as soon as pos...

And available by request by you and me. he's deploying 1,000 more members of the military to help at overburdened hospitals. biden is also adding some 20,000 testing locations nationwide, as well as, this is important, 10,000 new vaccine pop-up clinics staffed with help to speed up appointments. all this to slow two concerning trends. first, the skyrocketing number of covid infections up 16% in one week and, second, severe cases in hospitals. often, most often among the unvaccinated. up 35% in the last month. cnn's jeff zeleny starts us off at the white house with the president's message to am...

Choke points all around. he said they will be adding more testing locations this week. they'll be distributing more at-home tests. and they'll be doing a lot more quality control moving forward, obviously because there are a lot of choke points and a lot of issues that people are running into, as we get into the holiday season. >> i know people who have had to cancel their holiday plans because they needed a test to go out of the country and they haven't been able to do that because the testing sites are overwhelmed. kelly cobiella, things overseas don't look any better, in fact they look wors...

So we were responding to the experiences we were having, and we did not, and i've been clear about this, what i said yesterday, we did not expect omicron to move quite this quickly. >> and garrett, to address some of these challenges, this week we heard from the mayor there that they are expanding testing locations. they're also making more at-home tests available to folks in the community, and then we also learned they're going to be doing more quality control to ensure that things are moving more smoothly as we head into the winter months. garrett? >> thank you, kathy. telly, over there in l...