last week, releasing 50 million barrels of oil from the nation s emergency stockpile in order to bring down gas prices. and in a message to holiday shoppers about importance of shopping small despite all this inflation saying that there is some relief on way for gas prices hopefully to come down soon, molly? molly: jack key hine jacqui heinrich, we appreciate it. thanks. arthel? arthel: all right, thank you. for more on omicron variant, let s bring in a professor at ucra department the of end epidemiology. ucla. i m so glad to to speak to you, doctor. it appears to be highly contagious among young people. how young, i ask, and when will we know if our current vaccine will protect us from this new variant? well, hi, arthel, thanks for having me here and, of course, this is a big question. all of these questions you just