On today’s episode of The Confluence: Six people were injured in a shooting at a funeral Friday in Brighton Heights, but police say they’ve arrested two people suspected of being involved; what’s next for autonomous driving research at a Pittsburgh university now that Argo AI has folded; and how UPMC Children’s Hospital is responding to respiratory diseases on the rise and a surge in emergency room patients.Today’s guests include: Jillian Forstadt, WESA reporter; Matthew Johnson-Roberson, director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University; and Dr. Ray Pitetti, director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UPMC Children’s Hospital.
The cemetery clean-up honored the lives of Bernice and Sylvan Simon. The couple was killed while attending Saturday morning prayer services at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.
Jillian Forstadt is a general assignment reporter at 90.5 WESA. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she covered affordable housing, homelessness and rural health care at WSKG Public Radio in Binghamton, New York. Her reporting has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Home heating prices are up as natural gas supply costs continue to surge worldwide. This comes as households in New York face staggering utility debt, which advocates worry will be difficult to pay back in time.