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,