It's Friday, April 29th. I'm Gideon Resnick.

And I'm Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day where we're reminding celebrities that

the clock is ticking if they want to sing songs in a Range Rover with James Corden.

Yes, the twisted mind behind Carpool Karaoke will stop hosting the late late show next year.

So for every celebrity that had a booking, we're going to do it here. I think that's the only choice.

On today's show, the FDA announced a plan to snuff out menfall cigarettes,

plus Oklahoma is close to enacting another near total ban on abortion just weeks after passing a

separate measure. But first, today, some important updates on the pandemic in the US,

because there is some movement on vaccines for young kids. For contacts, nationally,

cases have risen and estimated 61 percent over the past two weeks, though they remain

drastically lower than during the initial Omicron wave. And in recent days, Dr. Fauci has had

to clarify his own comments that the country is, quote, out of the pandemic phase. He meant that

we were out of the most acute part of it. But Gideon, for the news on vaccines, it's about the

group that can't be vaccinated at the moment, kids under the age of six. What was the recent update

there? Yeah, so this has certainly been at the very least headache inducing for parents for a while.

Now, I'm sure there are stronger words that other parents have. Yesterday, Moderna said that they

were asking the FDA for emergency use authorization for their vaccine for children under six. They

would be the first if they get authorized to have one for the youngest of kids in the country.

So all the supporting data would reportedly be submitted by around May 9th. But this has been a

really arduous road overall to get a kid's vaccine approved. And as we talked about on a recent show,

the CDC estimates that at this point already around 75 percent of children may have been

infected with COVID at some point over the pandemic. Yeah. So if Moderna vaccines were available,

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