negotiations with sutter health. they failed to resolve numerous disagreements. gil diaz is live in oakland with the main sticking points. gil. reporter: hi, grace. good afternoon. for these strikers right behind me, it is hour 5, and 19 hours to go. some of them are still here and you can see. some of them headed to the alta bates campus in berkeley where there is a noon rally going on right now. some of these protestors holding picture signs like this, the sutter is the grinch. but according to the hospital, the real grinch is the nurses union for calling a strike just days before christmas. what s this about? patient care! reporter: and with bull horns and picture signs, nurses at alta bates summit hospital pounded the pavement for a 24- hour strike. one person worked a grueling 12.5-hour shift and then joined the protest. i m having a happy holiday. don t you see me with my coworkers? reporter: christmas is only three days away. instead of earning holiday mone
brave men and women rushed into those burning buildings, smoke pouring out of them. and when the smoke stopped, the debris was still there. the debris was cleared. but the problem is the people rushed in and fought those fires and brought people out and helped clean the debris, they re the ones that will never, never forget what they did because they have the disease to prove it. every american remembers the fear, anger and sadness of the hours, the days, weeks and months that followed that terrorist attack of 9/11. we can all remember where we were that morning on 9/11. i can remember where i was. and s-219, we had our leadership meeting every week. i was the first one to get there. john burrell walked in and said there s something going on in new york. we flipped on the tv. some pilot was off course.
breaking news from washington where the senate just passed the bill to provide health care for the 9/11 first responders. i ll talk to we ll call one of the most outspoken on the issue. he s a, woulder that spent months and months at ground zero after the 9/11 terror attacks. we re also as ali had been watching, we ll continue to watch here the vote on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. we have just gotten word it passed. we are waiting on comments from the president specifically on this s.t.a.r.t. treaty, on this nuclear arms treaty. we re told he will take questions from reporters shortly after the 4:00 eastern time. we will bring that to you live of course here on cnn. and i m going to take you to chicago in a moment where tragedy really struck this city this morning. two firefighters died. more than a dozen are injured had he this building this abandoned building totally collapsed. first i want to begin with the breaking news out of washington. a couple of very busy few hours