More than 10,000 nurses at five hospital facilities across New York City are oped-nurses-20230105-vvt4x24k6vevphvycbyx4iy7fm-story.html">on strike today. They're protesting staffing shortages and demanding wage increases and better working conditions as they head into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, hospitals have scaled back services, canceled some elective surgeries, and are diverting the majority of ambulances to other hospitals.

We speak with Nancy Hagans, President of the New York State Nurses Association and a frontline nurse at Maimonides Medical Center, about the strike and working conditions.