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fallout. plus. thousands of demonstrators flooding the streets of tel aviv, protestering netanyahu's w government. we're live in jerusalem. and -- >> we are not out here for wages. we are out here because we want patient safety. >> the covid pandemic left unsafe working conditions for thousands of nurses striking across new york. we'll explore the larger nationwide epidemic of nursing shortages. political problems are rapidly mounting at the biden white house. the president's personal attorney says an fbi search of biden's private home in delaware has turned up even more classified...

Meet that demand. the study also shows the shortage may worsen due to who exactly is leaving the profession. between may 2020 and may of 2021, registered nurses between the ages of 25 to 34 saw a decline of 5.2%. now, those between the ages of 35 to 44 saw their numbers decline at an even higher rate of 7.4%. so here's how one nurse who was striking in new york describes the shortage in her hospital. listen to this. >> at all times, there are too few nurses. if there are only two nurses, you can't leave. so i would come in for a 13-hour shift and not be able to go -- not be able to leave the u...

When you are short staffed in a hospital, that you do end up with harms to patients. you end up with more hospital-acquired infections, you end up with more deaths, you end up with more complications. we're doing a study now on labor and delivery care and we're finding you have fewer people who are breast-feeding when they are discharged because they didn't get the support they needed in the hospital to start breast-feeding successfully. so it really plays out across a number of different health outcomes for patients. and that is apart from worrying about the workforce itself, we need to worry...