cnn s paolo sandoval joins us now from outside of a fire station and i guess the concerns as some protests ensue is of staffing shortages and what this could mean really for spus responders. i know that this is something that the mayor recently spoke out b.what did he say? well, bianna, he says that they have the resources. they have the personnel and most importantly they have a contingency plan to make up for the loss in the workforce and staffing issues that they have actually encountered. they are started tone counter over the weekend having to reshuffle some of the resources around to make sure that the calls don t go unanswered and to make up for the roughly 2,300 fifthers that have called in sick for one reason or another. we heard over the weekend from northern s fire commissioner who said that many of the absences are directly linked to anger about the mandate. at this very spot i heard from one of the firefighter s unions early this morning and they said that s not the case