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The current crisis in hospitals didn't begin with the pandemic but with years of chronic understaffing, the ONA says.

That would be me, and i agree that the alert needs to be continued. >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is in the newsroom with details. pete, this is a long awaited change. will it make a big difference to all of us who had finally gotten used to, i guess, the code oranges? >> reporter: i think the department of homeland security had decided that we had become so used to the color codes that we weren't really paying attention to them anymore, they were backgrounds that few people actually knew what the color codes were or indeed when they changed them, what that meant we were supp...