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Lives amongst things like bargaining power. this is the wrong hill to die on. >> reporter: the looming mandates triggered concerns over staffing shortages. seattle's public schools cancelled about 140 bus routes fearing too few vaccinated drivers. on friday, just 82% of the city's police department was in compliance with the vaccine policy. that number now jumping to 98%. massachusetts moved preemptively to offset possible staffing shortages among state troopers by calling up its national guard to assist in prisons if needed and to stare covid tests to kids in schools. as of today deadline day...

Departments are bracing for potential staffing shortages as some unions refuse to comply with city vaccine protocols. alexandria field has the latest. >> reporter: the battle over life saving vaccine mandates now pitting cities across country against their own police departments. >> this notion that individual officers get to be insubordinate as they choose and pick and choose, we're not having that. >> reporter: chicago limiting time off for all officers as a vaccine mandate takes effect, while warning officers who fail to share their vaccine status could ultimately be fired. baltimore's poli...

Up a public health crisis and a vaccine that can save lives. amongst things like bargaining power. this is the wrong hill to die on. this is really a circumstance where those police officers are particularly high risk because of their occupation. yeah, just this year already, more than 200 chicago police officers have died of covid-19. many of those probably unnecessary because vaccinations weren't taken advantage of. so everybody take a breath here and try to figure out if you got something you need to settle about negotiating with the union, settle it somewhere else. not on this life saving ...

There could be a come back? >> kat: i want to know what would possibly lead to that. based on what evidence? he resigned. this was all really bad. he's a bad guy. but there is still all these other things that he did. >> greg: the nursing home. >> kat: priority testing for family and friends. i lose track, so many horrible things. misusing the funds for the book. what a weird hill to die on. why, chuck todd? maybe he got the test. >> greg: there you go. he could still run again as governor or he could run for mayor of new york. i would take him over de blasio. up next, rand paul's message wasn...

That no human would want to live there, you know who did, mr. president, i did. >> now, i understand why blackwell is emotional, he's news anchor and accusing the president of targeting black and brown people, is that the role of news anchor? >> you're not to become the news and report the news sometimes there's a mountian to -- mountain to die on. look, i'm a white woman, i don't know what it's like to walk in the skin of an individual such as víctor who is an african-american male all too often to have words like this at them and their community, i don't know that pain and i think the pain ...