xxxx many frustrated americans are waiting in long lines for tests if third quarter earnings conference call get them at all. speak spe speak to governors on monday, the steps he took to scale up capacity were not enough to meet demand. it s not enough. it s clearly not enough. if we had known, we would have gone harder, quicker if we could have. we have to do more. we have to do better. and we will. reporter: the president has pledged to distribute 500 million testing kits beginning in january. but that won t help this week s holiday crunch. let s go to cnn s leyla santiago outside a miami testing site with more. lela? reporter: john, we are still seeing very long lines here. people telling us at times they ve had to wait up to three hours to get tested. so much so that the county, miami dade county now plans to open four to five new testing sites in order to meet this unprecedented demand for testing of covid-19. as the omicron variant tares across the country,
i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. and we begin with the cdc cutting the recommended isolation period for many infected americans in half. the agency now reducing the number of days from 10 to 5 if you are asymptomatic. the cdc also is now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they are exposed to the virus with no quarantine at all if you are boost. tr dr. anthony fauci says it is part of an effort to get people back to work faster amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses because of the omicron surge. president biden is now grappling with the failure that could have been foreseen as the omicron wave has exposed shortages in the u.s. and access to testing. many frustrated americans are now waiting in long lines for tests if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president conceded that steps he took to scale up testing capacity weren t enough to meet the demand. we wen
Dolphins defense, picked off twice, sacked eight times. big moment, but he wasn t ready. and jalen waddell on the other hand had a pretty big night, a touchdown on this misdirection play. so the dolphins pick up the win and they have won seven straight after losing seven straight. no team in nfl history has had streaks like that in the same season. and just one other note for you with the cdc shortening of isolation guidelines, the nba is now allowing vaccinated players and coaches to shorten their time in quarantine as well from 10 days down to 6 if they are tested and no longer deemed infectious. all right. thank you so much, your day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, december 28th,