Plus the majority of local students will be back inside classrooms in a few days. But hundreds are choosing a different direction. Selecting a virtual academy. Instead. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock. Im Ken Wayne and i pale more across the state. More than 5500 people are currently in the hospital with covid. That is the highest number of hospitalizations since february and again, many doctors and nurses are feeling overwhelmed. Kron fours. Michelle kingston takes a look at how hospital staff, how they were feeling before the state reopen done. How theyre feeling right now. You know, now were back at full capacity again and nurses and doctors and respiratory therapist are exhausted. Weve had to do double shifts extra chefs. Tammy, the check is an Icu Nurse at kaiser in Walnut Creek where the number of covid patients is rising. Theyre seeing upwards of 35 patients a day. Thats hard because theres just not enough resources and where start having what we
President became emotional as she read aloud the names. I wouldnt say the names of the 9. People that weve lost our vta family. And i want to honor them. I want to mourn for them and with their families. Udell a train. Alex. Day. Lars. Michael. Paul. To chuck e. Timothy some of us get training on what to do. When theres an active shooter event. But not about the aftermath. And yesterday i was at the family assistance center. And i saw that aftermath. And i saw the immense pain. In the faces of the families. And i heard their cries when they got the news. And it was utterly hartman san jose Mayor Sam Liccardo was among the local leaders at the vigil tonight. So lets begin our Team Coverage with kron fours, theresa she is at the vigil sites surrounded by those who are attending teresa. Can and catherine, im going to get out of the way so that you can kind of take in the scene for yourself. In past couple of minutes. And there has banned just disk. Well, of people. And so so many emotions
now a 9 bay area labor unions are calling on the city of oakland to defund its police department thanks for joining us at 9 o clock everybody. i m grant lotus and i m vicki liviakis demonstrators gathered outside oakland s police officers association headquarters. demanding for change in police budget. kron sir rather kron four s gayle ong explains their demands and how the officers are responding. outside oakland police officers association headquarters wednesday. protesters demanding change within the oakland police department budget our labor movement is about fighting for the common good and making sure that the voices of the unheard or heard george floyd s death sparked widespread protests around the world against police brutality and now calls to defund police department the oakland police department annual budget is million a budget sanjay garland vice president of s e i u says needs to change we need to do is invest in our communities and make sure that they re abl
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