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Major u.sair lines have called off. cruise lines with testing requirements. a small number of people on board tested positive for coronavirus and the ship was denied entry to two ports at caribbean islands. let's get to cnn's laeyla santiago at a testing site. what are you seeing this monday morning? >> reporter: well, kaitlan, we are at one of the busiest sites here in south florida. when we arrived around 4:00 in the morning, the library of cars already wrapped around what is a large recreational park here in miami-dade county. now, the operator of this testing site tells me compared to the ...

Criticism of this new cdc guidance from some public health experts, specifically because of the lack of testing requirements to come out of it. putting that aside for a momentc there's also been a lot of criticism from the general public, i'm sure you've been following that. people have been following public health guidance closely for the past two years in order to stay safe and healthy, people who have specifically come to trust you most of all, and some of them are responding to this guidance ono isolation with confusion, nervousness, and some new distrust. what would you say to them this e...

Get out. now they're basically saying you don't need it, but if you can find one, do it. i know what they're trying to do here, trying to get as many people tested amidst a shortage of testing. would it be better to leave this aside and say no need to test? >> i think many of us in public health would put the testing requirements aside. you have to interpret the importance of the test. the fancy, best test, the pcr, it can remain positive for a very long time and you're perfectly fine. what the test is doing is detecting remnants, pieces of the virus, but you're no longer contagious. so if you...

Predeparture is widely expected that the predepa rtu re test is widely expected that the predeparture test element will be dropped as part of a review of the rules happening today. there are many in the travel industry who would like the government to go much further and get rid of both testing requirements, because they would argue that now omicron is so widely spread both within the uk and around the world, these measuresjust aren't effective any more but whatever the government does decide to do when it makes that decision this afternoon, a lot of other countries still have travel restricti...

Turning the corner on the omicron surge. but it's too early to say for sure. >> the supreme court on thursday blocked the biden administration's sweeping vaccine mandate for larger businesses. but it did keep the administration's mandate for health care workers to get the shot. help us understand what that decision all means. >> well, as you know, this really has become a flash point in the country. the battle over vaccine mandates and the testing requirements. the u.s. supreme court weighing in and blocking the biden administration's vaccine mandate and testing requirements for companies over...