Theres a shortage of caregivers.
There's a shortage of caregivers. PeopleImages/Getty Images

Caregiver shortage is stranding people in hospitals: Over three months, 1,441 were stranded in 11 Western Washington hospitals, according to a KING5 investigation. These people have no reason to be in the hospital other than that they can't find outside care. That's because there aren't enough caregivers—an industry where the turnover rate is about 50 percent—in Washington state. Caregivers are paid $12 an hour for really labor intensive work. It costs hospitals approximately $60 million to house and care for all these people.

It's still unclear what caused Saturday's crane collapse: According to experts, the crane may have fallen because of human error. It doesn't seem likely that Saturday's wind alone could have caused the accident. There is little new information about the accident that killed four people.

Mueller's response to Barr's summary of his findings: Special counsel Robert Mueller didn't agree with Attorney General William Barr's initial 4-page summary of the Russian investigation, namely that it cleared Donald Trump of obstruction of justice. He made that clear in a letter he sent to Barr in March. We don't know what specifics Mueller objected to in Barr's initial findings.


Barr is scheduled to testify this week: He appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and before the House on Thursday. Mueller has been asked to testify also but there isn't a date set for that yet.

Caption this: Public spaces in Seattle—I'm talking your bars, your gyms, your restaurants, even your stadiums—will have to click on the closed captions on any tv sets during business hours starting in May. Portland and San Francisco already have similar laws in place. The move is meant to create a more inclusive environment. Enforcement won't actually happen for six months.

We green lit delivery robots: Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law today that will allow autonomous delivery robots on Washington sidewalks. Amazon was testing a similar technology earlier this year. After today, that tech will be allowed to make deliveries. There are a lot of regulations tacked onto the bots like it has to use crosswalks and can't go faster than six miles per hour.

Nice weather will continue: April is sticking to the "out like a lamb" thing, huh.


Shooting on University of North Carolina Charlotte campus: Two people are dead and four are reported injured in a shooting on the campus Tuesday. The situation is still unfolding and it is unclear whether the victims are were students. The shooter is reportedly in custody.


Meteor attacks are a real threat and why aren't any of you taking them seriously? That's pretty much what NASA’s chief said at the Planetary Defense Conference on Monday. Apparently meteor crashes aren't being weighed seriously as a threat. He said, essentially, that meteors crashing to Earth aren't as rare as we think and that he wants to be more prepared.

Shit is bad in Venezuela: The national guard and police faced off against antigovernment protesters in Caracas today. Clashes have erupted across the city after opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan GuaidĂł called upon the military to support him against the current president NicolĂĄs Maduro. Allegedly, Maduro was ready to leave Venezuela Tuesday but Russia intervened.


Empire drops Jussie Smollett: The actor will not be returning to the Fox show next season in the wake of his allegedly fake hate crime report in Chicago. Smollett claimed that two men beat him, doused him in a chemical substance, put a noose on him, and hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him. The Chicago police asserts that these claims are false. Smollett's character was removed from the last two episodes of Empire's fifth season.