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>> meantime in new york city, the mayor bill de blasio announced a new vaccine mandate for all city workers. >> on september 13th, the entire city workforce will be mandated under the covid safety mandate to either get vaccinated which is far preferable or get tested once a week. >> add to that a new joint statement from 50 state worker groups to mandate the vaccinations to keep the vulnerable populations safe in the surging. joining us is rehema ellis in queens, new york, and nbc medical contri...

Pay cuts ending for 130,000 California state workers. Others must negotiate Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Wes Venteicher, The Sacramento Bee May 14—Work for the state of California? Get the latest news on pensions, pay and more in the State Worker newsletter. Sign up here. Pay will be restored automatically for about 130,000 California state workers represented by two unions, while the rest of the workforce must wait for their unions to bargain new agreements over wage reductions ...

Vaccination center worker, 48, is arrested for selling stolen doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm for $53 on streets of Argentina Leonardo Alvarado was arrested in Berisso, near Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday for selling four doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine Cops set up an undercover operation after a woman approached the mayor of the town of Berisso and told him she had met a man who offered her the vaccine Investigators recorded a conversation between the woman and ...

In fairness to the Tribune, it may have confused its circulation numbers with the population numbers. Conflation and obfuscation, not contrition is the SOP for the Trib editorial board and it’s rightwing columnists. Capt Fax must be on be nice to the Tribbies mode…sad Trashing the state is a continuing theme with no real clear reason. The result has been that nearly no one pays much attentopn to their mish mash anymore. ==it may have confused its circulation numbers with the population numb...

Voicemail sent from one of the engineers to department of transportation state worker on tuesday, two days before this. the state worker was out of the office and did not receive the voice monitor friday after the bridge collapsed. this is what the voicemail had to say. >> im calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some cracking that has been observed on the north end of the span. the span that we moved this weekend. we have taken a look at it and obviously...

That tragedy just coming into our newsroom. steve herrigan live in miami at that collapse site with the latest tonight. good evening. >> good evening. its clear there was a crack in the bridge. whats not clear yet at this point is who exactly knew about it and when they knew. there was an e-mail from an engineer to a state worker department of transportation worker, voice mail also two days before the bridge itself collapsed. that voice mail was not heard until the day after the bridge collapsed...

The army is said to be prepared to meet that threat. while u.s. military preparations are ramping up, u.s. anxiety is way up and nothing el straits that better than this weekends false alarm in hawaii where a state worker mistakingly sent out a warning of incoming ballistic missiles that caused 38 minutes of panic across the islands. listen to a pastor on hawaii followed by a mother of five. >> we dont have basements here in hawaii. we dont have bomb shelters. so my family, were all together. my...

This is really a bad accident and perhaps the worst you could even imagine, scaring everybody in hawaii into believing that perhaps they only had minutes left to live. is being blamed on a state worker who accidentally flipped the switch her touched a button during shift change. clearly that is being looked into. >> as we have seen it came from hawaii with the governor and emergency management that only are they investigating an offer more training, the fcc is also investigating it. >> the feder...

A journalist from the washington examiner. first of all, what phil just said, its a state worker, i mean should state workers, with all due respect to them, should they actually have responsibility for something as serious as this? i mean they run the dmv. you are asking someone who has these type of responsibilities to have such a major impact in world affairs? >> well, right, happy weekend. and i think that this probably is a surprise to -- surprise to me actually that were hearing that state ...

Future. that error being blamed on a state worker who accidentally pressed the wrong button as he was leaving from his shift and a new person was coming in. the federal corrections commission is also investigating, the fcc regulates state as well as interstate traffic, communication, be it, radio, tv, satellite, cable in all 50 states as well as d.c. and the u.s. territories. they will get to the bottom of exactly how the this happened and if its determined that this mistake false alarm was in f...