♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, on strike. nurses walking off the job are straining two of new york city's biggest hospitals. >> nurses united will never be defeated! >> the latest workers revolt as more and more say it's not just about the money. >> nurses are walking away from the beds because of the abuse, mentally and physically. we can't take it anymore, we can't take it anymore! >> why your town could be next. >> we're going to see more strikes, larger strikes. plus property brothers. >> we're taking our sibling rivalry to whole new levels. >> the dynamic duo with the inside info. is now the time to buy or sell? >> whatever you can do to make

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♪ thanks for joining us. tonight, thousands of nurses still refusing to be on the job in new york, striking they say over staff shortages that have sent many to the breaking point. nurses now, lo many other work change. some warning that the ripple effect could impact patient safety across the country. >> what do we say? >> health care is an emergency! >> reporter: braving cold to demand increased staffing and better wages at two major new york city hospitals. it's the largest nursing strike here in decades. >> this was really the last resort. we tried since september to reach an agreement, and unfortunately, we're here.

>> in general, striking is scary. we lose our benefits. we lose our pay for however long this lasts. not just these three days. it can go on for weeks. >> reporter: these nurses taking to the picket line after last-minute negotiations collapsed between their hospitals and the new york state nurses association, >> nurses are walking away because of the abuse, mentally and physically. we can't take it anymore! >> reporter: more than 7,000 nurses still reeling from the pandemic and burdened by burnout finally at their breaking point. carol mcgowan is a neuro surgical icu nurse who's worked at mount sinai in manhattan for 30 years. >> i've done nothing else, this is my passion. this is what i love doing. >> reporter: like most mornings, she's headed to mount sinai. but today, instead of going

inside the hospital, she'll be standing outside. along with most of her fellow nurses. calling for change for the third straight day. >> you have to sign in. >> it's exhilarating, being out on madison avenue with all your colleagues dressed in red. but it's also very, very sad because we shouldn't be on madison avenue, we should be in the building, doing the job that we were trained to do, that we love to do. >> reporter: carol is a 45-year veteran nurse who came to new york from scotland three decades ago. >> they had a shortage of nurses in new york city, so recruits came out all across the world to recruit nurses to come to hospitals. go through circle to 2023 and even bigger staff shortage cries is than we were then. >> nurses united will never be defeated! >> reporter: the irony isn't lost on her, that she's the one

demanding hospitals fill that staffing gap amid a surge in demand for health care. >> we have had enough of telling management time and time again that this is unsafe. when you're 500 nurses short in an institution, those 500 places that are not filled, somebody's suffering from that. and it's the nurses, it's the patients, it's the community that we save. >> reporter: a recent new york state analysis predicted that a better nurse to patient ratio would result in shorter hospital stays and fewer readmissions. over two years, it would save an estimated 4,300 lives and $720 million. these strikes are the latest example of the tension that exists between hospitals and their medical staff. not just in new york, but across the country. do you think there will be a ripple effect across the country? >> there's some nurses who feel very strongly about unionization and the need that, if you need to, to strike. and there are other nurses who feel that they could never do that.

i think it will have ripple effect. we'll have to see how it plays out. >> i don't have a crystal ball, but until this staffing crisis is solved, we're going to see more strikes, larger strikes. because it seems that that is the only way that we've been able to deal with this issue. >> reporter: these nurse strikes have also become a global movement. similar demonstrations cropping up in countries like turkey and lebanon. in great britain, nurses and ambulance workers went on strike for the first time in uk history. >> i just feel it's something that we have to do because we have to have a voice. nobody's listening to us. >> reporter: in new york, mount sinai hospital responding to this week's strikes. >> it has not been a very fair thing that our nysna executive team have asked our nurses to make this decision, whether to come to work or to be outside striking.

>> reporter: in a statement, mount sinai called the strike reckless and said the nurses union refused to accept the exact same 19.1% increased wage offer agreed to by eight other hospitals. >> we had submitted to them a very robust staffing enforcement proposal, and we were waiting to get a counter on that. and we did not receive it at the time that they left negotiations. >> reporter: mount sinai has also blamed their vacancies on the national workforce shortage and said that they've hired 4,000 new nurses over the last three years. just a few miles north of mount sinai, hundreds of nurses at monta fee 84 medical center also advocating for what they call safe staffing. >> it's not fair to the patients, because we cannot take care of them how we want to take care of them. >> they promise, we're going to have staffing for you, we're going to have the ratios for you. and you know what, they don't.

>> reporter: montifiore said it offers proposals including expanding the number of nurses on staff, expanding nurse to patient ratios, introducing new ways to increase recruitment and retention. >> what do we want? >> safe staffing! >> reporter: they say union leadership still hasn't agreed to the concessions. in the interim, both have relied on physicians, residents, and nonstriking nurses to help take care of patients. these protests come as the profession faces national nurse shortages. according to the u.s. department of labor. what do you think is causing it? >> one is that the average age of the practicing rn is early 50s. we knew this before the pandemic, that the next ten years, a significant number of registered nurses are going to retire. and then we don't have enough nursing faculty. there are significant numbers of students who are qualified

turned away from nursing programs every year because we don't have the faculty to teach them. >> reporter: the crisis exacerbated by nurses who want to leave the profession. a survey done last year by t ican associa criticalses foundad % nurses plan to leave their job in the next three years. but union leaders say no such shortage exists. >> the industry wants to say that there are not enough trained nurses, that they can't get those nurses. there are plenty of nurses to go around. what there is a shortage of is nurses that are willing to put themselves, their patients, and their license on the line to help the hospital industry continue this staffing crisis. >> according to all the national data that we have from national nursing agencies and workforce experts, there is a shortage. and it's only projected to get worse before 2030, especially in

the south and the west. >> reporter: nurses on the wicket lines in new york. >> shut it down! >> reporter: -- following the lead of their fellow health care workers in minnesota. this past september, nearly 15,000 nurses at more than a dozen different hospitals went on strike. the largest ever among private sector nurses. >> all right, we've been standing strong -- >> it's nurses who are continually striving to give the absolute best world-class care they can to their patients. so we care deeply about the care we give. but it's incredibly distressing to not be able to meet the standards that we hold for ourselves. >> reporter: nurses there were set to strike again in december but came to a deal that included historic pay increases and a say in staffing. >> people are feeling hurt and people are feeling like this was a good deal. i would just point out that the feeling amongst our nurses here in minnesota is that this isn't the end point, this is just the end of the first phase. >> reporter: in new york, 65-year-old carol, who plans to retire later this year,

considers this strike her last stand. >> i want this profession to be safer for the new nurses coming up, for the next generation of nurses. >> reporter: nurses like allie seznick. >> to stand in solidarity with them is what the union's about. it's unity, it's coming out in strong numbers to support each other and make a difference. >> reporter: the nurses here say they're eager and ready to get back to their patients, hoping to come to an agreement with the hospitals soon. >> i would love to get back to work today, but it looks like tomorrow, yeah. take care of your nurses, because we take care of you when you're sick. let's get back to work. when we come back, you know them from the popular show. what the property brothers have to say about the housing market and their legendary sibling rivalry. my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... the itching... the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine.

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for later. for life. drew and jonathan scott. twins best known to their regions of fans as "the property brothers." and they know real estate. i had a chance to catch up with the siblings. thanks for joining us. >> of course. >> i'm so happy to be here with you guys, because you guys are famous real estate gurus and we know that mortgage interest rates have virtually doubled from a year ago, which has wreaked havoc on the real estate market. what advice do you have for sellers? >> i think the important thing is to understand why you're looking at selling. a lot of people get a bit frantic if they don't know, there's pending recession coming, what's happening?

let's sell and get out now. the thing is, that's a part of the problem if there's panic selling. and so i feel, if you have the ability to hold on to a property, if you have a property you need to rent out, make a little extra money off it while you can right now, whatever you can do to make sure you're not doing a panic sale is a good thing. >> what happens when, you know, buying slows down? or when selling slows down? more people have to rent. so having that ability to potentially look at renting a property instead of forcing yourself to sell -- any time you have to make a desperate move, you're going to lose money or make a bad decision. >> both of you are known for showcasing and renovating. how do you time that? especially in a seller's market. i know you weathered the 2008 real estate recession as well. >> so actually, very interesting things when it comes to renovations to consider. not even just with the economy where it is and interest rates, but also during covid, we saw material costs skyrocket. and so i've had so many people say to me, i want to take on

this project, i want to paint the house, do all these things, but i can't believe the prices that i'm getting in the quotes. don't rush to do those things now. because we're seeing all of hose prices come back t normal. so if you were to take on a renovation project right now versus take on a renovation project in six months, you'll actually probably see that the prices are better in six months. >> supply chain and inflation. >> exactly. >> you're here because season eight, congratulations. >> thank you. >> i'm told this year is brother versus brother? no rules? how is this season different than the other seasons? >> we've had rules in the past seasons. but see, i thought i was being pretty -- >> i don't know why we had rules, he always breaks them. >> this season, great, no rules, i can do whatever i want to beat jonathan. i did win last season so i'm on a bit of a high now. >> we don't talk about that part. >> jonathan came out of the gate with his girlfriend zoe helping him. she should be a real estate agent. >> yes. >> she knows more than -- >> she's the ringer.

she's wonderful at finding houses. she's on all the apps. she knows in a neighborhood, this one just went on the market, this one sold for this. as soon as i say there's a competition, she was born and raised in l.a., she immediately had to -- >> she knows the market well, that's amazing. i know that you have had a little bit of a sibling rivalry throughout your childhood? >> just a little. >> this season in the first episode, apparently, jonathan, you play a prank? can we take a look at the clip? >> oh, sure, yeah. >> this looks suspicious. >> congrats, drew? >> huh. kind of knew you could do it, but i still did it better. >> jonathan. >> interesting. >> what's this? oh! ow! why? >> this is my question. what if i opened it with my face over it? >> we had a lot of conversations about this. it was a prop builder i know. originally he put in one cannon.

i'm like, no, more. put in two cannons. he's like, the one thing is make sure his face is not near it. i was watching through the window to make sure that you stepped back. >> weeks later, i'm revealing the property. i want to win this challenge. it's the first challenge of the season. and i'm still finding confetti everywhere. >> like i said, it could have been glitter. >> how competitive are you in real life? >> very. >> drew's the most competitive man alive. even as kids, he had to be the first one to get to the car. >> i did win the original challenge, i was born first. >> he says that but i sat on his head in the womb for nine months. >> do you prank each other in real life? >> we do, but our older brother is the moderator on "brother versus brother" and he's the biggest prankster of all. he takes pleasure from seeing us lose each challenge. >> you're a new father. >> yes. >> parker, my niece's son's name. >> we named parker -- my wife

was born on earth day, we're big environmentalists. parker means "keeper of the park." he's just an adorable guy. you have kids, you know. john that is kids. i'm seeing him do all these things for the first time, or see things for the first time. like a cup being the most amazing thing in the world. >> my favorite is parker has learned how to give applause. if something exciting happens, he starts. >> that's amazing. and he's half-asian, which i love, biracial kids rule. how are you doing as uncle? >> not bad. uncle duty is easy because parker's not mobile, he's not moving around. as soon as he's big enough to take candy, i'm going to hop him up on sugar, send him back home, and that's the social experiment i've been waiting for. >> parker finds jonathan and my dad's faces the funniest thing in the world. he looks at them and laughs. >> it's a moneymaker. i know you don't -- aren't really into trends and hot stuff. what's the coolest trend in home renovation and home display? >> honestly, technology. technology is where it's at.

the stuff you can do today. green technology as well. heating and cooling without fossil fuel. technology is state of the art. induction -- there's so many -- >> i track everything in my house. if you're watching tv too long, i'll shut it off. showering too long, i'll shut off the water. >> big brother much? thank you so much for joinin us. this was good fun. good luck on season eight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and the new season of "brother versus brother" airs wednesdays on hgtv. it's available to stream the same day on discovery plus. when we come back, damar hamlin reaches a major milestone on his road to recovery. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me♪ ♪nothing and me go hand in hand♪ ♪nothing on my skin♪ ♪that's my new plan♪ ♪nothing is everything♪

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finally tonight, the remarkable homecoming for the bills' damar hamlin. the 24-year-old safety left a buffalo hospital just nine days after his heart stopped on the field during a game with cincinnati. doctors said he will continue his recovery at home and with the bills. buffalo plays their first playoff game sunday. that's "nightline." you can watch all our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america.