brand new hour, glad you're here with us, i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. we begin with what president biden is calling good news in the pandemic. pfizer says its early lab data showed a booster shot of its vaccine can neutralize the omicron variant which has now been detected in 21 states. the president's chief medical adviser says he's encouraged by this booster news. >> when you're entering into an arena of a new variant with very many unknown aspects about it, you always have a degree of anxiety about how it's going to turn out. so the news we got last night and this morning about the effective boosters does make me breathe a little bit better. >> pfizer also says its lab results found two shots did not provide specific protection against omicron. efficacy matches the findings of