. good morning. i m kristin fisher. and i m jim sciutto. just moments ago president biden speaking in warsaw, poland as he met with the nato countries closest to russia s borders. the u.s. and its allies are facing the daunting challenge of how to keep the momentum on ukraine s side one year after russia s invasion. and this morning vladimir putin meeting with a top chinese diplomat in the kremlin as china denies reports that it may be sending weapons to russia. still, putin says they are reaching new milestones and there may be a meeting in the works between the russian and chinese presidents pretty soon. let s begin with president biden meeting with members of what s known as the bucharest 9. cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly live in warsaw. phil, we just listened to the president s fairly brief remarks. what was your takeaway from his comments? reporter: i think what s most interesting about what the president is doing today, his final event befo
putin would have boasted about it in some way during his hour and 45 minute speech. instead there was no mention of any missile test. it s worth noting that this is a missile that putin has boasted about in the past. in the last successful test back in april, he said this missile would give thought to those who choose to threaten russia. so, again, the officials say it s likely that had this test been successful, putin would have brought it up in his state of the nation speech. when cnn asked the kremlin about it, the spokesman declined to comment saying it s sicmply a matter for the ministry of defense. it is worth noting that the u.s. did get notification from russia under new s.t.a.r.t. treaty obligations ahead of the launch. u.s. officials say it wasn t deemed a threat, but the timing here very interesting of the not only ahead of the state of the nation speech where putin was looking for a victory, one he couldn t get on the ground in ukraine so perhaps he was looking to a success
few days have been yet higher. daily hospitalizations are up 72% in the same two-week period, striking a daily average of more than 121,000 people being admitted, but again, if you look at the right side of the screen you ll notice the days have been higher than that. vaccines and testing are the two best tools in the fight against covid and we re dealing with a crisis of the unvaccinated a omicron drives a spike along testing shortage that s nothing short of a debacle. long lines and long delays in getting results. joining me is dr. laila stanford, pediatric and general surgeon and founder of the black doctors covid-19 consortium and she administered my first covid-19 test back in 2020. dr. stanford, thank you for being here. you, right in the beginning, before we had vaccines, before we had a talk of vaccines, you were sitting there saying people
think it s about kids being in the safest place possible but also safe not just from covid but safe for their well-being. yeah. you know, the biden administration announced that each month now they are going to distribute 5 million free rapid tests to school, 5 million free pcrs and i m curious does that change anything for you? you have a robust testing situation already, and considering you have 640,000 kids in your district and you re trying to test them weekly. well, i think, you know, again, our positivity rates are lower than the overall county. that s a great indicator. there s a different need for pcr tests and rapid tests. we tested every single employee and student before they came on campus, and if anyone had a positive test, we said please stay at home, test back in a week and come back to campus when you re no longer testing positive, so there s numbers you quoted, again, were a preventive measure before we even started our schools. i think when once we re in school
season. the most common question i m getting from patients is can i go to this holiday party? is it safe to go to this restaurant? i have tickets for a play. i m sure the mayor of new york city realizes so much rides on the confidence consumers and citizens have. that s why i support what they re doing. i will say i have been to the theater quite a bit over the last month. it is great to see every theater in this city requiring vaccines, making sure we re showing our cards even for our children. antonia, talk to us about these new rules for travelers. reporter: well, stephanie, people are waking up this morning to a slightly different travel landscape and new testing requirements. as of 12:01 this morning, if you are already going abroad, in order to fly back to the united states, you re going to have a one-day window to get a negative test back, and that could look like a pcr test, some at-home or specific antigen tests that might require you to do a