michael shure has more on what doctor fauci is saying now about the omicron variant. >> and what health experts are calling for us. this virus. just will not go away. things are looking good. we don't want to get over confident, but they look like they're going in the right direction right now. doctor anthony fauci saying sunday that he is encouraged by data trending in the right direction. but many hospitals are full and deaths continue to add up with more than 2100 announced on most days. >> the doctors saying this week that it is too soon to say that covid has moved from pandemic to endemic. when we look historically at pandemics and other human population, they last about 2 years, the viral pandemics were about that point. now, university of nevada, las vegas medical school, dean doctor mark saying that there is light at the end of the tunnel, even as fauci is still necessarily cautious to have presence. but it is prepped at a level that is not to it. >> society and society is still disrupted from the supply chain were 17 million chinese manufactured covid tests at and delivered for

. >> reporter michael shure shows us how the covid surges causing the lack of emergency services. >> it's been all hands on deck for government and emergency services since the start of covid. but now the fast-spreading omicron variant has made it harder to find those hands. from first responders to state and municipal agencies to schools and retailers. the workforce now thinned by those affected needing to stay home in denver, ems workers not knowing if there will be staff to accept their patients coming to work with with the the situation with all the hospitals being understaffed. it funnels down to us. >> we sometimes struggle with funding hospital to go to that makes the job even more difficult. >> id new york city, one-fifth of subway conductors are out sick. a quarter of the city sanitation workers unable to work and hospitals canceling non-essential surgeries due to staffing. los angeles mayor eric garcetti facing a shortage here in police and firefighters as of yesterday, 505 officers. >> alright, home quarantining after having gotten positive covid-19 test results. fraley fd

michael shure has the story. devastating. >> it's absolute devastating. so it's my favorite place. >> to make community nearly a 1000 homes and businesses burned at least 35,000 people displaced and 2 people missing and presumed dead and the devastating marshall fird that ripped through boulder county, covorado over the new year weekend governor jared polis addressing the situation today. you know this outpouring of love and support doesn't change the fact that families have lost everything. they had the work of determining the cause of the blaze continues with authorities now focused on a video of a burning shed as a possible origin of the fire that is now consume more than 6,000 acres. we've executed a search warrant and one particular location where we're investigating governor polis emphasizing sunday that people could be held responsible if there was any form of. >> or or accidental arson. i i fully expected any of those responsible will be held fully responsible under the law for the utter devastation that was caused investigators and rescue teams c

michael shure has the details. >> it's being called the worst security crisis between russia and the west since the cold war. >> the threat of russian military action in ukraine, lingering russian president vladimir putin now increasing military exercises in the region even in the face of severe economic sanctions. most sanctions on russia could be. >> fairly fatal. >> it's a very small economy, even though he's a powerful military force. and they kind of really compete economically with. but with the united states the european union, all of this stemming from kremlin concerns over nato expansion, putin putting a show of force behind demands that the alliance not expand into ukraine or other former soviet countries. university of alberta, professor of russian and eastern european history. david marple saying the russian german alliance could be a way out of the crisis with too much for putin to risk over the nearly completed nord stream pipeline, which would? >> actually. >> separate russian german economy is from that of the rest of the european union, which is what putin is wanted

shure reports. many of the passengers claim that simply forgot they had their guns with them. >> the transportation safety administration reporting a sharp increase in firearms confiscated at airport security checkpoints last year with cases up over 80% from 2020 across 268 airports nationally. but it will show an increase from. >> the 4,400. 32 that were detected in 2019 prior to the start of the pandemic. when many more people are lisa farbstein spokesperson with the tsa says that most passengers say they forgot that they had their firearm, but it goes further than that last year. 86% of those guns were loaded. so people are telling us that they forgot that loaded gun with them. it's almost unbelievable. that's crazy. i don't understand why somebody would even think >> that you copld get away with doing it. it is day in that's great. the tsa saying passengers can travel with firearms but they must be checked. unloaded packed in a hard-sided case and kept separate from their ammunition, which itsel

that was michael shure reporting blackberry devices powered by android. >> we'll still have service. if you still have one actor jared leto's latest movie has been pushed back again due to the omicron variant. a new film called more be us was set to open on january 28th, but it's now been pushed back to april 1st sony and marvel already delayed its release date several times due to covid-19 in the movie leto plays doctor michael moore be a scientist suffering from a rare blood disease, more rios and turned himself into a living vampire in an effort to try to cure himself. >> well, a new challenge on social media is paying tribute to the late betty white and her love of animals. the betty white challenge is urging people to donate $5 to local animal shelters in time for what would have been whites. one 100th birthday, which is january. 17th white loved animal so much as she wrote a book back in 2011. it was called betty and friends. my life at the zoo. she was even named an honorary zoo keeper in los angeles donations for the social media challenges have already generated thousands of