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Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live at the long haul at the hospital now she explains why they walked out sarah. Martin thats right. Im live here at the santa rosa Memorial Hospital or caregivers are out here on strike trying to be as safe as possible, but also fighting for change. In the contract that theyve been negotiating with the hospital for over a year now take a look at this you can see there on that side of the street a little more distance and they go all the way down the street along the hospit...

Disappointed their staff is on strike during a pandemic. These are Health Care Workers of all kinds medical technicians and susie all just theyre seeing assistance respiratory therapist even people who disinfect the rooms used by coronavirus patients all working alongside nurses and doctors, they have been in contact on in those negotiations as they said for months over a year now hospital workers say even though coronavirus numbers have been surging across the county the last 2 weeks they still...

What some officers are accused of doing and how the police chief is responding tonight. But first, help is on the way. The new covid testing method that could speed things up. Tonight there is an urgency to clear the backlog of covid19 tests as people are sometimes waiting more than week for results. So the fda is now giving the green light to major Testing Companies to use a new technique to speed up the process. Nbc bay areas ian cull explains. Reporter in the beginning, covid testing was scar...

Tonight remembrances continue to pour in for the man known as the conscious of congress. John lewis lost his battle with pancreatic cancer last night at the age of 80. Today a memorial is growing below a mural of representative lewis. From selma, alabama to capitol hill, lewis was dedicated to the fight for civil rights. Chris pallone has more for us on how people are remembering the man who spent his life fighting for equality. Reporter in the midst of his georgia district, people have ay to pa...

The occasion was an organizing effort to get people from San Francisco and the bay area to travel to the south to assist in the Voter Registration operations that were being conducted primarily in mississippi. Reporter he says over the years he would introduce him at events, or they would dine together. He recalls a strong, principled man. John was the most evidence of love, without being confrontational. Reporter the longtime georgia congressman, who was there for critical moments in the fight ...

Are treating it as a crime scene. Workers cleaning out the fire damage before the Police Department released the unit back to the landlord and they put a lot of investigators on the case at one point the Coroners Office came out to investigate. The fire happened after 8 00 in the morning. They reported smoke in the downstairs unit of the duplex. The windows are crack in the wall is hot possibly coming from the kitchen. The First Company found the building with smoke forcnt the stov and firefight...

Have to shut down again. Reporter Taylor Martin opened the weight room barely one year ago. I worked for ten years so i could establish this business of my own. Taking everything i have and putting it into a business. The reverberations are serious. For all these workers in these small businesses. That are obliterated. He supervisor thinks the county will land on the watch list by tuesday, maybe monday. He says the resulting blow to the economy something well be dealing with longterm. Its that e...

Today in the bay starts right now. Students to get their diplomas even if their spring classes were interrupted by the and a good thursday morning pandemic. Another would enable the food to you. Im marcus washington. Sector, employees in that sector, to take more sick leave and im kris sanchez in for laura garcia this morning. Boy, i have to say i feel like and paid leave. It would also require food its already a warm start to the facility workers to wash their day, but kari would know best. Han...

And so that patients low leave the Emergency Department without knowing whether or not theyre positive for coronavirus and thats really a function of how few tests we have. Available to us whether thats here in in the hospital or uncertain clinics. So you really need to get up our game here. With testing as you may have heard the fda recently. A lot of Quest Diagnostics to do some degree cool testing which is really the force was in the same test kit to see whether someone review positive within...

Courthouse. This is downtown oakland right near lake merritt, all happening within the past hour. Video of the entrance filled with flames and smoke posted on social media. You can see fireworks going off in the area, but the extent of the damage to the courthouse not yet clear. Earlier tonight several protesters broke off a peaceful demonstration downtown and vandalized a police station. You see a photo of it right there. Oakland p. D. Tweeted, asking organizers to keep the protests peaceful af...