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>> yeah. that point is a key one because first of all, there's also -- there's a lot of delta in the country and there's a lot of hospitals -- there's a lot of hospitalization in the country from that delta wave that never sort of subsided, right? we had sort of one and then it was moving northeast. but also you've got these staffing issues. i have already started to hear in new york city like you've got a lot of staff in new york city hospitals that are testing positive. so you have staff constraints there. you write that basically you say you can't surge a circuit that's been burned out. and...

Planning, and getting our civil disturbance unit up to where it needs to be were the three biggest issues. those were the ones we worked on first, and those were the ones that frankly are largely completed. >> reporter: still the department faces daunting challenges. at least four january 6 responders have died by suicide over the last year. the department also has not been able to fully address staffing issues. it has lost over 130 officers through retirement or resignation after january 6, and the force is still about 400 officers short of where it needs to be, and those who remain still hav...

Protect the other vulnerable patients at the hospital. so all of this is factoring in and causing problems that really from what we understand talking to doctors there's not an immediate end to when it can be resolved because these staffing issues this is not something that's entirely new. prior to the pandemic we had a nationwide nursing shortage. add in the pandemic, a lot of people have retired early or decided to leave because they were simply burnt out. one thing in some circles people have brought up and tried to argue as maybe causing some of the issues in hospitals right now are vaccin...

>> sandra: fox news alert. airline staffing shortages that have been cancelling flights across the country, combined with brutal weather to make matters even worse. now the feds are warning that even after the storms clear there is yet another major hiccup threatening to snarl travel. live from philadelphia international airport for us, now, it looks freezing there, jeff. thank you for reporting from there. but how bad is it out there today and how many stranded travelers are there? >> well, i will get to tomorrow's disaster after i get to today's disaster which as you report, sandra, has to d...

So more testing, good news, not such good news is hospitalizations. surging to higher levels than the previous peak which was this time last year. in oklahoma alone where omicron's peak could still be weeks away, nearly a quarter of the hospitals have already reported critical staffing shortages. one of the doctors sounding the alarm in that state, dr. dale bratzler. thank you so much for being with us, doctor. we know omicron is less likely to make patients severely ill, but icus are having trouble keeping up. what's going on in oklahoma? is it a crush of patients? is it staff becoming infect...