scott gottleib who's also a board member at pfizer. good to have you here. >> good to see you. >> give us a sense of the scale of this? the cdc numbers are out they say there's only eight women, no children. you're saying this is a pa pandemic. that's not a word the administration is using. what level of emergency are we at? >> i think they're going to be reluctant to use the word pandemic. we're now at the cusp of this becoming an endemic virus. i think the window for getting control and containing it has closed. if it hasn't closed, it's starting to close. 11,000 cases across the world, 1800 cases in the u.s. we're probably detecting just a fractif ctua cases because we had for a long time a very narrow case definition and by and large we're looking in a community of men who have sex with men and at std clinics. we're looking there, finding cases there but it's a fact there's cases outside that community right now. we're not picking them up because we're not looking there. this has spread. i wouldn't be surprised there's thousand of

scott gottleib says there's an under count of covid cases because many who home test do not self report>> there's over 100,000 cases being reported. we're probably detecting 1 in 10,000 so it's probably 1 in a million. in los angeles county they could be less than two weeks away from requiring masks indoors. >> hospitalizations are going up it's expected the mask mandate will come back. i think people are used to the masks by now. >> reporter: now here in los angeles county, almost 75% of people are fully vaccinated. although omicron specific vaccine is expected sometime this fall, doctors say if you are eligible to get the shot, just get one. erroll? >> joy, thank you. >>> as california traffic delays go, this one no doubt left drivers astonished. check it out. a small plane landed on a busy street in san marcos. the plane developed engine trouble. a car was damaged as was the plane. thankfully only one minor injury reported. >>> straight ahead, the fear of sharks had as a name. the science behind that fear and why it may be changing. >>> plus, j. lo's got a new role. the life imitatin