classroom. it s put the power of the parents movement at the center of the race. this is no longer a campaign. this is a movement led by parents. led by virginians. reporter: jeff zeleny, cnn, fairfax, virginia. we ll have much more on the governor s race right here throughout the day on cnn. now, a cdc advisory committee is set to meet in the coming hours to vote on the use of the pfizer biontech vaccination on children. the reformulated shot is one-third of the adult vaccine, and the white house already has enough shots waiting to vaccinate 28 million children. even though the new program is ready to take off at full strength, officials want parents to feel comfortable as well as informed. we ve been planning and preparing for this moment. wore ready to execute pending cdc s decision. and starting the week of november 8th, our vaccination program for kids ages 5 through 11 will be running at full
ahead. okay, and look, i know you ve been looking at some of the poll numbers about parents and whether they re willing to vaccinate their kids and what we have seen is that there are parents who may not be vaccine hesitant for adults or for themselves, but had iwhen it coo their kids, they re approaching this with more hesitancy. how do you combat that? there are a lot of parents who are ready to have their 5 to 11-year-olds vaccinated and i said we ll be ready pending cdc and fda recommendations to do just that. as the vaccine was introduced back in december, the level of questions and confidence was lower, and what we have seen is across time it has grown. we have 78% of adult americans with at least one shot. i would anticipate that as parents and their children have questions of their pediatricians and other local health professionals and gs and they ge