Thousands of nurses have gone on strike at two of New York City’s major hospitals.

Negotiations to keep about 10,000 nurses from walking off the job are heading into a final weekend.

Mount Sinai said it started vaccinating seniors 75 and older Thursday, but are waiting for next step instructions from state health officials who have gone radio silent. “What is interesting about that population is they want to be vaccinated,” said Steven Sonenreich, president and CEO, Mount Sinai Medical Center. Mount Sinai will expand vaccination eligibility to individuals who are 75 years and older and community first responders. Sonenreich said the hospital has already started vaccinating seniors 75 and older by appointment only. Local 10 News reached out to state health officials several times over the past two days and no one has responded.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Officers arrested an 18-year-old man on Wednesday in Miami Beach to face charges in the death of 36-year-old Joseph Chhuong, better known in South Beach as “Journey” for his love of travel. Detectives said surveillance video show Nathan Roe standing between the Loews Hotel and the Royal Palm Hotel on the beach access walkway on Sunday. “My brother was well known, loved and would give his last meal to you, if you needed it,” a relative wrote in an email on Thursday. “Everyone loved his outgoing energy and he wears his heart on his shoulder.”Full Screen 1 / 5 Joseph "Journey" Chhuong died in South Beach. “My brother has 3 young children and was in Miami looking for a job,” the relative wrote, adding Chhuong and Roe were friends on Instagram.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Amid the world’s novel coronavirus spread, the emergency medicine staff at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach’s only emergency care provider, has been getting prepared for the possibility of a pandemic. Dr. David Farcy, the chair of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said the emergency room, which has an eight-bed minor care unit, now has a unit with isolation rooms with trained staff. “Once we have identified a patient with an airborne disease, we move them into the isolation room, especially if we think they have coronavirus,” Farcy said. Doctors will keep patients who need to be tested for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, in the isolation room for 24 to 48 hours. Farcy also said the isolation rooms have an airlock that is designed to keep bacteria from spreading to other parts of the hospital.