00:00This is Veterans Day. City of Pittsburgh offices and facilities are closed.
00:04Allegheny County offices and courts are closed along with many municipal offices and buildings.
00:09Postal Service mail delivery is suspended and banks are closed.
00:13And there are parades this morning in Beaverboro and downtown Butler.
00:17Veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder have a new treatment at their disposal
00:21and it's free. State Senator Devlin Robinson told KDK's Rob Pratt
00:26about the Aurelius program. It's a hyperbaric chamber used to treat PTSD and traumatic brain
00:32injuries. They've seen a lot of success and if any veteran out there, you know any veteran
00:38that has a traumatic brain injury, Aurelius will treat those veterans completely for free
00:44because of this grant funding. Senator Robinson said a quarter of a million dollars has been
00:49approved to fund the program. People for and against U.S. Steel's proposed hot strip mill at
00:54the Edgar Thompson works turned out for a public hearing in Braddock Tuesday.
00:58The Allegheny County Health Department hosted the hearing and is considering an air quality
01:02permit for the project to replace an aging mill at the Irvin Works in West Mifflin.
01:08A Trib Live report says environmentalists and Braddock residents expressed concerns
01:12about an increase of pollutants from the new mill. U.S. Steel and union leaders say the
01:17$3 billion project will create high-paying jobs and boost the local economy.
01:22The threat of a teacher's strike is looming over Forbes Road's Career and Technology Center
01:27in Monroeville. The school trains students in career and technical skills and the deadline
01:32for a new contract is December 1st. Teachers union president Philip Green told KDKA-TV,
01:37We're not asking for anything that's unfair. We want to be treated fairly and we want to be
01:43paid competitively and right now the offers are not aligned with the competitive market value.
01:48Green says the teachers at Forbes Road Career and Tech Center have been working without a contract
01:53since the end of June. Contract talks began in January. Pennsylvania is seeing fewer opioid deaths,
02:00but more people are being hospitalized for opioid-related complications. News Radio KDKA's
02:07Tamara Rush has details in the newsroom. Paul State data shows hospitalizations tied to opioid use
02:12jumped 18 percent last year, reaching more than 37,000, the highest number in seven years. Experts say
02:19a veterinary sedative called metatomidine now showing up in the fentanyl supply is contributing
02:25to the problem. It can cause dangerous withdrawal symptoms, sometimes so severe that patients need
02:31intensive care and longer hospital stays. So even though overdose deaths are declining,
02:37those ending up in the hospital are often more sicker and need more treatment. In the newsroom,
02:42Tamara Rush News Radio, KDKA. The winds of change will be blowing in 2027 at Arnold Palmer Regional
02:49Airport as Breeze Airways service to Myrtle Beach in Orlando begins. News Radio KDKA's Paul Alexander has that.
02:56Between now and then, there's a lot of work to be done. The airport will be looking to fill 14
03:00new
03:00part-time positions by January, and that number could grow as the airline's presence grows.
03:06Breeze will be operating under a two-year agreement with the airport with an option to extend. When the
03:10flights begin to Myrtle on February 9th, they'll be using a newly completed terminal. Fares start as low
03:16as $49 one way. Then in May, the service to Orlando is scheduled to start. They hope if things go
03:22well,
03:22Breeze could expand operations. Paul Alexander, News Radio, KDKA.
03:28From the Zero Res Commercial Sports Desk, the Chiefs, Broncos, Bills, and Jaguars were active
03:33before the NFL's trade deadline yesterday. The Steelers were not. GM Omar Khan reportedly
03:38had discussions about three receivers that didn't work out.
