City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Embattled president is sworn in in a surprise ceremony. We all share the benefits we all share the burden the European Union unveils a new refugee policy as leaders admit the blocks asylum process isnt working. Hello 2 Police Officers have been shot in the u. S. City of louisville during protests against the group grand jurys decision not to charge any officers for killing black women Brianna Taylor the jury indicted one of the 3 officers involved in the Fatal Shooting for firing into her neighbors apartment taylors family described incision as outrageous and offensive hundreds of people defied an overnight curfew to protest against the ruling they want the officers charged for murder or manslaughter and outrage has spread to other u. S. Cities including washington d. C. And new york large crowds of antiracism protesters gathered demanding justice for Brianna Taylor and the 2 police brutality. Reporting from there we felt. Anger in a sense of justice denied spilled over into the street
A suspect in that case there is no word that there is any other suspects and if you look behind me we had expected to be in that square but police told us if we were there that we would be arrested along with hundreds of other demonstrators who are in that square being cleared out by police on horseback and on foot and if that happens you you end up in those cuffs that weve seen so many people here wearing as a matter of fact if you look just over that direction there is a gentleman who just tried to walk past the police line and they said no its curfew and thats where hes ended up for the evening and we have seen police here respond in a much stronger way than weve seen in other cities they give an order to disperse and then they just start arresting people in this case they launched flash bang grenades and cleared this square with people in riot gear so police here are taking things very serious u. S. President donald trump has again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power
This, we are going to get through this together. I know it looks a little bit different today. Atts because we are over our Emergency Management operations center. Muchis the area where so do in response toin battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and every challenge we face and everything that happens here. An opportunity to show you a little bit to show the inside of our response. I want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management in kentucky. Gives him an opportunity to welcome you to the center. He has been doing a great job. Thank you, governor. Christened the building in 20 13. We have about 25,000 square feet on the roof. Currently at level three. We are under unified command. About 100 personnel working. If you have an opportunity to see some of the floor, we are spread out over a number of buildings to social distance and do our work. For this event, we are in support of our department of Public Health, also colocated with u
Operations center. Of the work that we do in response to battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and other challenges that we face. Some of it so much of it happens here. It gives us an opportunity to show you a little bit of the inside of our response. Inside of our response. And i want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management here in the National Guard has a joint Operation Center and we work in concentration with all cabinet. Every cabinet is represented on the floor, and we work shifts seven days a week, and we assist in procurement for ppe, obviously that is a strong issue about the nation and for our state, and we also do Resource Management in support of 120 counties. Thank you. Gov. Beshear michael has been team,aluable part of the as has all of his staff in everything from securing ppe to coordinating our kroger testing sites, we appreciate his work, and he is renowned across the country for his experience in Emergency Man