hospitals reporting across the country a critical staffing shortage. with final preps underway for the new year s eve ball drop in times square, covid cases keep rising to record highs. to fight the surge, incoming new york city mayor eric adams said it will keep in place a first in country vaccine mandate for private sector workers. our focus is vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing. reporter: city services are feeling the strain. several subway lines suspended operations because of staffing shortages. the fire department says 30% of its e.m.s. personnel is out sick and 21% of nypd officers are out, too. the cincinnati, the mayor declared a state of emergency after more than two dozen firefighters came down with covid with those remaining foced to work overtime. nobody can recall a time in recent history within the last almost 50 years where firing fighters have been forced to stay beyond their normal hours. reporter: nationwide, covid
happen which appears to be at least that s the direction of all the preps are looking at. i know it could be a game but is there any sense of what putin wants out of this? well, i think you put your finger on it, we know he wants to fracture nato. but what we don t know, we don t know is whether he s using military force. we know he s using cyber attacks against ukraine that we saw some cyber attacks against the ukrainian ministry last week. he launched the cyber attack against the power grid of 2016 and other times. we know he s willing to send little green men to evoke the
clean up. that happen is an incredible memory for all of those fans who were there. that is if any of them can remember it by tomorrow morning. that is the question. those fans had one less beer than they otherwise would have because they were celebrating with it and throwing it on there. all right. don, always great to see you. we are counting down to the big game. just hours away. the rams are ready, the bengals are ready, and our natasha chen is ready to show us the final preps under way. reporter: i m natasha chen in the skies above sofi stadium. i ll give a firsthand look at the unique security in place to keep the super bowl safe. a thing of the past. by relieving pressure points and supportiting your body in a way no other mattress can. for a limited time, save up to $500 on select t tempur-pedc adjustable mattress sets.
with the. even acknowledging that you can never game out from everything. tell us what you know about the preps? that s exactly right. there are two tracks to think about this. the first is what s playing out in public, these information wars. and the second, which i reported on with my colleague today, is this tiger team that the white house has stood up internally in the meanwhile is to say, everyone is focused on preventing the worst case scenario. we are going to plan for the worst-case scenario. it s an inter agency effort that synthesized dozens of keepers and intelligence community assessments and basically looked at, especially in russian base, what happens on day one, what happens in day two, what happens on week one and week two. and they looked at a couple of different scenarios. something from a limited incursion, something that sun invasion where they propose to