Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Im andre senior and im claudine wong. Happening now nurses in Santa Clara County are officially on strike. They say hospitals in the county are asking them to do too much and not offering enough. Ktvu james torres explains how the two sides got to this point. Nearly 4000 nurses finished their shift early this morning and immediately took to the picket lines. Its all about ensuring Patient Safety and nurse safety. Strikes happening at a total of three area hospitals run by the professional registered nurses association. They say theyve not had a contract with Santa Clara County in months. Theyre demanding improvements in staffing, keeping nurses to just one hospital and improved security to prevent workplace violence. I was punched in the face by a patient simply because they were hungry and were upset that they couldnt eat anything, but it was doctors order because they were going to go in for surgery. And as a normal practice, youre not all
Noon here on cnn if you ever missed an episode of the lead, you can listen to the show from whence you get your podcasts. The news continues on cnn with wolf blitzer, right now in this Situation Hapappening now, the Biden Campaign launches a new Attack Ad Warning that donald trump has quotes snapped the president s team, sharpening its free Debate Strategy against trump. This as Robert Kennedy jr. Is potential as a spoiler, is on display today with his due appeal to the Libertarian Party also this our wide Defense Secretary, lloyd austin, is returning to hospital tonight and temporarily transferring power to his deputy the pentagon, sharing new information after the uproar over previous medical treatment that austin kept secret . And china unleashes a show of force around taiwan for a second day, sending an ominous message that the Military Drills or a test of beijings ability to seize power welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I will flips or a urine
That a third convoy of aid has now left for gaza. It explosions can be seen across the rafah border in Southern Gaza as the israel hamas war continues. It israel hamas war continues. It comes after a second convoy of 14 trucks carrying humanitarian suppues 14 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies went through the rafah crossing last night. Now, despite that latest delivery, the United Nations says the current volume of aid is just 4 of the usual daily average. Health authorities in gaza say the death toll there has climbed now to just over 5000. Israel military say its Ground Forces have now mounted limited raids into gaza and launched airstrikes targeting Palestinian Militants massing to repulse any wider israeli invasion. It comes wider israeli invasion. It comes after israel accused hamas of exploiting civilians in gaza. Exploiting civilians in gaza. The Israel Defence forces released aerial footage of several blasts at various compounds overnight confirming that theyve hit 320 targ
Things. But we want to make sure people know about this. Yes. Lets look over here at some video we have from the weekend. This is along 680. You can tell because of the color of the tape. No, you cant. This is 680 because im telling you thats whats going on. When they had their work going on between al costa and 580, actually both directions were impacted by the southbound resurfacing work going on. So that is a continued project. And well keep telling you when there are lane closures. The freeway was open, but it was congested throughout the entire area because of those lane restrictions. Now, another section was highway 37 that was fully closed eastbound. The second weekend. Weve had this. You can see the water there between mare island and sears point is where that was going on. Theyve resurfaced it. They still have to restripe it. So even though eastbound highway 37 opened just minutes before 5 a. M, when it was scheduled, lets look at the map. Well talk about overnight work going
At a refugee camp in the centre of the palestinian territory killed at least 20 people. Benny gantz, a member of the war cabinet has threatened to withdraw his centrist party from the coalition unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out a post war plan for the gaza strip. In response, Benjamin Netanyahu said implementing his demands would amount to defeat for israel. First lets hear those comments from benny gantz. Translation something has gone wrong. Essential decisions were not taken. Acts of leadership required to ensure victory were not carried out. A small minority has taken over the Command Bridge of the israeli ship and is leading it towards a wall of rocks. While Israeli Soldiers are displaying incredible bravery on the front, some of those who sent them to battle are acting with cowardice and a lack of responsibility. Security will remain in our hands only. We will not allow any outside power, friendly or hostile, to impose a Palestinian State on us. Earlier, i spoke t