00:00Nurses at Allegheny General Hospital voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if necessary and to hold an informational picket.
00:09News Radio KDK's Tamire rushes in the newsroom with more.
00:12Pat, the 99% vote gives nurses a stronger position as they continue contract negotiations with Allegheny Health Network.
00:19Union representative and flight nurse Anna Leobi tells KDK Radio's Larry Richard what the vote means for nurses moving forward.
00:26We haven't sent strike notice. What this 99% vote did is give our negotiating committee the authority to issue
00:34a strike notice if it got to that point in negotiations, if we felt it was necessary.
00:39Yobi says nurses need more investment in staffing and retention as patient numbers rise and cases become more complex.
00:46She says current staffing levels aren't keeping pace with those growing demands.
00:51In the newsroom, Tamire, Rush News Radio, KDKA.
00:53Investigators in Bend, Oregon warn it may be a while before they find answers at the latest deadly school shooting
01:00in America.
01:01Three young students ages 5, 8, and 11 all killed along with a teacher.
01:06The shooter killed by a bystander who followed him into the school and shot him.
01:11ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Aaron Katursky has the latest.
01:16The shooter's a minor here, a 16-year-old, and this morning investigators are urgently working to determine whether he
01:21had a connection to the elementary school or knew any of the children or the teachers he killed.
01:26Police have yet to establish a motive, but once again, a troubled teen has opted to pick up a gun
01:31and turn it on a school.
01:32This time, sources told ABC News a pump-action shotgun purchased by his mother.
01:38A 7-year-old student and another teacher are critically hurt.
01:42A group of Republicans are sponsoring legislation following the murder of Dr. Idris Evans in Edgewood.
01:49His wife was also critically injured in the attack.
01:52News Radio KDKA's Paul Alexander has more.
01:56House Bill 2856 requires consideration of prior violent convictions and other criminality when a decision is made regarding bail.
02:03There's also a plan to introduce legislation to require complete and current criminal history reports to be provided to judges
02:09or magistrates before bail is set or modified.
02:13One of the lawmakers, Representative Natalie Mihalik, says Dr. Evans should still be alive.
02:18Oh, it's to the family and family of so many others that we've lost senselessly because these perpetrators are out
02:23walking the streets when they should be behind bars.
02:25The lawmakers cited other violent murders committed in Allegheny County at the hands of violent offenders.
02:30They said the goal is to ensure that cases like this never happen again.
02:34Paul Alexander, News Radio, KDKA.
02:37Today, hundreds of people lining up to get a free medical and dental checkup.
02:42It's the annual Mission of Mercy Health Clinic, a massive two-day health care clinic that provides critical medical care
02:49to underserved individuals and working families in Western PA.
02:53Keith Young is one of the founders of the event, and he spoke with Larry earlier this morning.
02:59The line is already around the end of the, you know, they're underpassed by the bottom of the convention center.
03:06It goes all the way back up towards the street.
03:08It's around that corner.
03:09So I would guess there's probably 400 or 500 people in line by now.
03:13The clinic requires no insurance, no appointments, and no eligibility or income verification.
03:18All services are completely free.
03:22KDKA Sports.
03:23North Hills host Plum in the KDKA Radio High School Football Game of the Week tonight.
03:28KDKA kickoff begins at 6 o'clock.
03:31The Brewers complete their sweep of the Dodgers in the NLCS and are going to the World Series for the
03:37first time since 1982 after a 6-4 game for win.
03:42Cleveland took a 2-1 series lead in the ALCS after beating Tampa Bay 3-2 in Game 3, Game
03:494 at 8 o'clock tonight.
