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Epicenter of the new wave. high school students studying in some of california's largest school districts will no longer be allowed to fail. that's because schools are banning anything below a c. teachers in districts like l.a., oakland and sacramento are no longer allowed to give out ds or f's for poor work. students are allowed to retake test or do the work again. those behind the new testing system says it helps black latino and low income students who have been hurt by the pandemic. guys over to you. steve: interesting stuff out in california, thank you very much, carley. it is now 17 minu...

>> if you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. it's dying out. >> we followed them with this terrible china virus. and we are likewise getting under control. >> that was july when about 50,000 people per day were being diagnosed. this was trump on testing. >> anybody that wants a test can get a test. >> we took over an obsolete broken testing system. >> there's not a lot of issues with testing. >> we have done more testing than any other country combined. by doing all of this testing we make ourselves look bad >> testing makes you look bad? no. it tells you how sick an...

29th. went ahead and got tested and let the contact tracers know about their travel history and where they had just come from. what they are doing in san francisco county is they have a very robust testing system. and everyone who tests positive, they then send it to the university of california san francisco who then checks those positive tests to see what variant they are. in fact, take a listen to one of the doctors from ucsf about how quickly they moved on this. >> i heard about it actually yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. and we were able to receive the sample in the laboratory by 8:00 p.m. w...

Cooled testing system. we can sample of wastewater from a building or several buildings every day. and if the wastewater is positive, we can issue targeted notifications for the people living and working in those buildings so we can most efficiently test people where there may be a possible infection. >> when it comes to the omicron variant specifically, they're looking for what's known as an s-drop. that is something that is somewhat unique to the omicron variant. it's not found in the delta variant. that is a result of multiple mutations within the spike itself. once they detect an s-drop, t...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. you're his chief medical adviser. do you think that's something the country should adopt? >> i'm not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. let's get them vaccinated, let's get the people who are vaccinated boosted, let's get the children vaccinated. that's where we want to go as opposed to a requirement. >> reporter: some people say you have extinguished many of your options to...