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Let's go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> that's correct. you're talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so let's go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. 60,000 across all the sites that are run by the county here. ...

The Gaines Park drive-thru COVID-19 testing site will be closing early at 2 p.m. Tuesday to accommodate all of the people in line.

Testing site in miami. layla, how long is the wait for people there? >> you know, it kind of varies around what time you come, but bottom line it is hours. people have been telling us anywhere from two to three hours, and, you know, this is one of the busiest sites in miami-dade county. it is run by n ho mi health. they tell me that this site in particular, they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. countywide 60,000, and let me put that in perspective for you. when you compare that to the last peak of the delta wave, that's about a 50% increase, so what does that mean? well, that means t...

Quote, what am i, rosa parks? this is all according to a complaint, by the way. the other passenger told cornwall that was inappropriate. it escalated from there. cornwall now faces one year in prison and a $100,000 fine according to the faa. there have been nearly 5800 unruly passenger incidents so far in 2021. most of them mask related. saying unruly is sort of putting it mildly at this point, paula. >> right. people need to calm down. have some peanuts, a drink and chill. it's not that long a flight. >> you can't get a drink now. maybe that's the thing. >> anyway, overseas, demonstrations...

For more let's go to cnn contributor barbie nadeau live at a testing site in rome. a similar sort of pressure on testing there that we've seen in other parts of the world? >> reporter: well, you know, actually testing is fairly easy to do here in italy. you've got these sort of pop-up t tents outside of pharmacies in rome and villages. people getting tested not because they feel symptomatic. but because they want to gather with friends on new year's eve or they want to travel. it took a year to get a test here. free testing if you have a prescription from your doctor as well. we're not seeing ...