ft. lauderdale, florida, is temporarily shutting down its labor and delivery unit. the hospital spokesman told "the sun-sentinel" that it is facing a critical staffing shortage no word on when a reopening date will actually happen here's nbc's anne thompson >> reporter: new year, new rush for at-home covid tests. >> how are you happy new year. >> reporter: cars lined up in connecticut for one per household. others waited in long lines over the holiday weekend to be tested as the omicron variant surges. while omicron's infection may be less severe, because it spreads so fast and infects so many, it's already straining a health care system struggling to treat the unvaccinated. >> even if you have a less of a percentage of severity, when you have multi-multi-multi-people getting infected, the net amount is you're still going to get a lot of people that are going to be needing hospitalization, and that's the reason why we're concerned about stressing and straining the hospital system. >> reporter: as for the much criticized and shortened five-day isolation period for pe

ft. lauderdale yesterday.upposed to arrive on the "crystal symphony" in miami on saturday, but the ship docked in the bahamas instead to avoid being seized as part of a lawsuit over $4 million in unpaid fuel. the cruise company has suspended operation through april. >>> a college basketball record was shattered in manhattan, kansas. kansas state's player dropping 61 points in a 94-65 win. it broke the women's division mark of 60 held by two players. afterwards, she said she thought it was just going to be another sunday. >> another sunday getting buckets. >> not another sunday in the little apple, that's what they call manhattan, kansas. >> i like that. >>> coming up, the toddler who went on a furniture-buying spree. >> i've been so worried about this. >>> but first the future of tom brady, after seven super bowl wins, is the star quarterback done? you're watching "world news now." you're watching "world news >>> l.a. is the site of this year's super bowl, and right now four teams still have a chance to make i

ft. lauderdale. >> we were all very scared. we didn't know what was going to happen until this morning.d not know we were going to get off the ship. >> will i go again, yes. will i make sure they're financially solvent, probably. >> last week crystal cruise's parent company said it was liquidating and suspending all cruises until at least april. >>> "the washington post" says the organizer of the australian open is defending banning where is peng shuai messages at the tennis tournament. fans were asked by security to remove t-shirts with those words. the chinese tennis player disappeared from public view for nearly three months after she accused a former vice premier of sexually assaulting her. last month she posted a video saying that she had been misunderstood and was free. tennis australia expressed support for peng but said the messages violate rules banning political statements. >>> and "usa today" says all 100 lab monkeys are now accounted for after several escaped from a truck when it crashed on a pennsylvania highway. the truck was towing a trailer with 100 monkeys when it colli

ft. lauderdale, where andrea lynn and her kids were trying to get out thursday we had to stay in a home and they're outrageous new years eve. >> reporter: the airline industry has been under staffed for months, before this latest surge with covid going back to the summer >> reporter: so far this as i remember, we have 400-plus flights canceled nationwide. that is a vast improvement over monday, when we had 3,000 flights cancelled, 18,000 flights cancelled. so it is very much all about trying to recover today and giving the airlines the time and the space to get everybody to their final destinations back to you. >> a lot of headaches for those travelers. tom, thank you well arc pair of telecom giants are putting the brakes on the launch of 5gvm at&t and verizon were set to roll out the service on wednesday the faa warned the signals could interfere with plane's systems the wireless companies have offered to make changes to mitigate and in addition the faa thanked them for agreeing to that delay >>> representative bobby rush is officially expected to retire. he served 15 termsin the house bac

ft. lauderdale on sunday. >> we were all very scared. we didn't know what was going to happen. until this morning, we did not know if we were going to get off the ship. >> reporter: crystal symphony is owned by crystal cruises. the ship treading on hot waters after a fuel company filed a complaint in court, claiming crystal cruises and one of its sister lines owes them more than $4.5 million in fuel bills. >> we started reading on our phones about news, "usa today," "wall street journal," about what was happening with the parent company, and then of course the petroleum company. >> reporter: crystal cruises struggling to stay afloat after recently announcing it expects to run out of money by the end of the month. the company says it will provide refunds to passengers, adding, quote, this was an extremely difficult decision but a prudent one given the current business environment. so sor what's happened to rtin it, and i hope the brand continues. >> reporter: other passengers a bit annoyed. >> most of us work full-time on the ship. i have to be back at work tomorrow morning. >>

ft. lauderdale, cleveland, and denver, where weary passengers grabbed a nap wherever they could. >> had a couple of flights canceled yesterday so i got moved to today. >> reporter: nationwide, more than 4,000 other flights delayed. airlines tripled by covid cases among their crew and severe weather. some families facing worst case scenarios. >> i don't think we'rementally prepared to make a 24-hour drive back to iowa >> reporter: but that's reality, who told us their flight from orlando was delayed and then canceled even finding a rental car took hours. >> i felt helpless as a parent, i have three children down here, my husband you want to be able to get everyone home safely, and there just is no answers >> reporter: in chicago, snowy conditions prompted southwest airlines to cancel all flights in or out on saturday. aaa calling this sunday the end of a holiday travel season, but stresses check and recheck travel plans that could change at a moment's notice >> i think the wild card we've been warning all along has been covid. we always want to remind folk it is you're booking, don't skip

ft. lauderdale, florida, was forced to close its maternity ward because of covid-related staffing shortages. and it's not just healthcare. museums and stores are also impacted. macy's tonight announcing it will cut store hours for the rest of the month. cbs' omar villafranca is outside a testing site in fort worth with the very latest. omar, let's begin with that new guidance tonight from the c.d.c. >> reporter: good evening. the c.d.c. said originally you should isolate for five days if you test positive. tonight, they've updated their guidance and say after isolating for five days, if you're still showing symptoms, you should get a test. it's not required, and that's also if you can find a test. these people in this line behind me, they're trying to get one of those tests at one of eight locations here in tarrant county. and what they're finding is not good. the positivity rate here in texas is more than 33%. omicron is omnipresent. the c.d.c. announcing today it now makes up an estimated 95% of all cases nationwide. dr. peter hotez with the baylor college of medicine says omicron may not

ft. lauderdale is just announcing that they're going to have to shut their maternity ward because of staffing issues. there is this cause and effect of the increase of the omicron throughout our communities. >> absolutely. that's exactly what we're experiencing, and it's particularly challenging, because the treatment modalities that work very well for delta are not working or not working very well for omicron. >> hey, heidi, you've been following how the surge is affecting some of the nation's biggest school districts. what have you learned? >> jose, many of the school districts were already facing really critical staffing shortages. and now, a number of them, the largest districts, in fact, are reporting up to 10% of their staff calling out sick. nationwide, that breaks down to about 2,100 k-12 schools that are going to close for in-person learning for at least part of this week. i talked, for instance, to teachers in syracuse last night, which had to close altogether on monday, just because there were too many staff who were sick. and they're making decisions about whether they can open no

ft. lauderdale, florida, taking him intot. custody.y arrived before dawn there before 6 a.m., just after 6 a.m. a dozen officers, we're told. >> fbi, open the door! >> tucker: so they coordinate with cnn, just to make sure it's all preserved on tape to send a message to everybody else for encouragement of the others. and then they send guys with automatic weapons to your house to shut you up, to destroy you. now, the people who ordered that raid should have been brought up on charges themselves. but they weren't. they were promoted. now thanks to joe biden, they have more power to harass their political enemies. do you feel safer? a former cia officer who knows a lot about these tack ticks. he blew the whistle on the secret water boarding programat and they prosecuted him for that. they wrecked his life. thankfully he's still here. thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: so you have seen what efforts coordinated between politicians, the agencies and media organizations can do to human rights in this country

ft. lauderdale temporarily closed its labor and delivery unit as covid cases have led to quote, critical staffing levels and in new york, fdny tells us 80% of firefighters and ems workers are currently out on leave. that's higher than the height of the pandemic at the first wave of spring of 2020. and the impact even being felt in the court system. several counties in colorado today suspending jury trials until at least the end of january. >> you can't delay having a baby sometimes. that's an incredible statement about what's happening, meg.uchg thank you so much. our meg tirrell. >>> dr. bhadelia, director for the founder of the boston university medication center, also an nbc news medical contributor. doctor, thank you for joining us tonight. let's talk about this isolation period reduced to five days. supposed to help ease the disruption now there's talk of the cdc potentially adding a testing requirement at the end of that but we know people might test positive weeks after being infected do you think that requirement would be prudent >> yes, kelly, i think we're between a rock and ha

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ft. lauderdale. what is the latest here? good morning >> reporter: well, good morning.h the plane's radar altimeter, critical for safe landings but as you just said, at&t and verizon spent billions of dollars for the signals and they along with the faa have yet to figure out how this will all begin. with just two days until at&t and verizon go live with their 5g coverage, the faa is getting very little cooperation from the major phone carriers and overnight, the world's largest pilots union backed a top airline trade group calling to delay the rollout of 5g near certain airports it comes after at&t and verizon declined a request from federal transportation officials to postpone the launch of their 5g signals for up to two weeks. the faa has warned this next generation of cell service could interfere with some vital monitors pilots rely on to safely land planes in bad weather. this morning, the phone companies say they won't fully put their plans on hold, but for the next six months they would agree to fade or decrease 5g signals around some airports it is the same appro

ft. lauderdale, florida, this morning. we have encouraging signs to report in the covid pandemic. that is making a huge difference for some hospitals that were up until very recently overwhelmed. nbc news correspondent blayne alexander has the latest. >> reporter: at the cleveland clinic icu the load was crushing. as one bed emptied there was another patient right there to fill it. the national guard and air force called in to help. now a different story. across cleveland clinic's ohio hospitals the number of covid patients dropped from 1,200 to 393 in less than a month. starting next week elective procedures are back, the national guard moved out. overall, do you think, doctor, the worst is behind you? >> i think so, i hope so. i hope we don't see another variant. we will remain optimistic. >> reporter: a reflection of the cases nationwide, a drop in new cases and hospitalizations down 14%. deaths, which lag behind, continue to rise in some states with 31 states seeing an increase in the last 14 days. >> the numbers tell us we're likely looking at the rearview of the worst part o

ft. lauderdale including brad and tina oklahoma who say they feel badly for the crew. >> those people had declined to comment on the lawsuit writing this end to the cruise was not the conclusion to our guests' vacation we originally planned for. crystals guests are among the most passionate and loyal and we thank them for their patience and understanding during this challenging time. >> i'm heart broken. i actually thought to myself, you know, am i ever going to be on the ship again? who knows? nobody knows. >> nbc's kerry sanders reporting for us. >>> coming up, one of history's most amaing music festivals that few people have ever heard of. the roots drummer quest love is working to change that. he sat down and talked with joe about his fascinating documentary, the summer of soul. their conversation and the amazing footage is next on "morning joe." "morning joe." potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge your best with emergen-c. (burke) with farmers auto multi-policy discount, the more policies you have with us, the more you could save on your auto insurance. (man) hey, hon! (wife) h