york times bestselling, i alone can fix, it can be better, justice department reporter for the new york times. and, doctor irwin red, letter founding director of columbia s national center for disaster and preparedness, with advises us on public health. he s a professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine. thank you for being with us tonight. doctor red letter, let me start with you. on a normal night, the reporting out of defense one, there might be a new vaccine that can handle omicron and is structured the way that it can handle the covid virus. that s the biggest news. but we re dealing with an outbreak that s taking root faster than vaccines can fix it. good to see you. this is been a very extraordinary day in that sense. we now have omicron taking over the predominant strain, that s in our environment right now, it s a dangerous situation, it moves very very quickly, it