Name: Businesses changing COVID-19 protocols on heels of Cooper's latest annoucement
Uploaded: 2021-07-29T18:33:34-0400
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Description: Gov. Roy Cooper's message to private businesses on Thursday was to verify that employees were vaccinated and if not, have them wear masks.

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Gov. Roy Cooper's message to private businesses on Thursday was to verify that employees were vaccinated and if not, have them wear masks. 

BACK TO YOU. >> ADAM OWENS LIVE IN RALEIGH, THANK YOU. >>> THE GOVERNOR WAS STRONG TODAY TO PRIVATE BUSINESSES ASKING THEM TO FOLLOW THE STATES LEADS, VERIFY WORKERS VACCINATIONS, AND IF NOT, MASK. ALL OF THIS COMES ON THE HEELS OF THE CDC'S NEW GUIDANCE FOR EVEN THOSE WHO ARE VACCINATED TO MASK UP INDOORS IN HIGH TRANSMISSION AREAS. AMANDA LAMB SPOKE TO SEVERAL BUSINESSES TODAY AND IS JOINING US WITH WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. AMANDA. THEY ARE KEEPING THEIR PROTOCOLS IN PLACE. THEY TELL US 85% OF THEIR EMPLOYEES HAVE SELF REPORTED THAT THEY ARE VACCINATED. BUT THEY ARE NOT MANDATING VACCINES. WHAT THEY ARE MANDATING, IS PROTOCOLS INSIDE OF THEIR BUILDINGS INCLUDING SOCIAL DISTANCING AND WEARING A MASK. >> IT'S A STRONG RECOMMENDATION THAT THESE COMPANIES VERIFY VACCINATION STATUS. >> Reporter: THE GOVERNOR IS URGING THAT PRIVATE BUSINESSES VERIFY THAT THEIR EMPLOYEES ARE VACCINATED. AND IF THEY ARE NOT, THEY SHOULD MASK UP AND GET TESTED WEEKLY. CREE WHICH EMPLOYS 2600 PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA, IS NOT REQUIRING THEIR EMPLOYEES TO GET VACCINATED. >> WE HAVE NOT MANDATED. WE RESPECT OUR EMPLOYEES PERSONAL CHOICES FOR WHAT THEY THINK IS BEST FOR THEM ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY GET A VACCINE. >> Reporter: BUT CREE IS ENCOURAGING VACCINATIONS. >> WE WERE SET TO MAKE SOME CHANGES AS OF NEXT WEEK TO THE INDOOR MASKING REQUIREMENTS. BUT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, WE'VE DECIDED TO STAY WITH OUR CURRENT PROTOCOLS AND NOT MAKE NEW CHANGES. >> WE ARE HOPING THE GOVERNOR DOES NOT MANDATE MASKS FOR RETAIL. >> Reporter: SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS LIKE MANDY BECKER WHO OWNS STORES IN RALEIGH AND CARY AND EMPLOYS 25 PEOPLE, DON'T WANT TO SEE A RETURN TO STATEWIDE MANDATES AFTER SO MANY PEOPLE WERE THRILLED TO GET RID OF MASKING. >> OUR CUSTOMERS ARE HAPPIER, OUR EMPLOYEES ARE HAPPIER. >> WHEN YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO YOUR EMPLOYEES WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY YOU ARE DOING IT. >> Reporter: CONSULTANT BRIAN CROP SAYS BUSINESS OWNS ARE IN A TOUGH SPOT. OF HAVING TO CONSTANTLY REASSESS THEIR COVID GUIDELINES. >> YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO BE FLEXIBLE AND ADJUST. AND REINTRODUCE MASK MANDATES IF THAT IS WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR SAFETY. >> Reporter: OF COURSE IT IS A DIFFICULT SITUATION, BUT A LOT OF THE COMPANIES I SPOKE WITH TODAY SAY THEY ARE EDUCATING THEIR EMPLOYEES ABOUT THE VACCINES AND ABOUT SAFETY. HELPING THEM FIND A LOCATION TO GET THE VACCINE. AND THEN GIVING THEM TIME OFF OF WORK TO GET THE VACCINE. THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO ENCOURAGE THAT, DAVID. >> AMANDA LAMB LIVE IN DOWNTOWN RALEIGH. ALL OF THIS HAPPENING ON A DAY WHEN WE SAW 3200 NEW CASES. THAT IS THE MOST WE'VE SEEN IN A SINGLE DAY SINCE LATE FEBRUARY. AT A 24% INCREASE OVER YESTERDAY. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 100 DAYS, THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES PASSED 2,000. TODAY IT'S STANDING AT 2135. 100 DAYS AGO WHEN WE HAD SIMILAR NUMBER OF CASES, THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF DEATHS WERE

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

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A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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