ron mentioned working with karen hill and her team. we basically came up with a task force on how to do this and make it better. one of the things we talked about is how we can get a pool of people to be able to draft from when we need them because someone is out on family medical leave or such and we've been moving that along. so that is coming. as you know, because we are in the city and we know it's a little bit brureaucratic we have to go through all the steps to get people in. that's working in our favor. we are making strides. i hope to see it get even better. >> sheehy: i just have one clarification. andrea wasn't here but january 1st, 2015 so now we added positions in that unit. we added positions when we moved into the hospitals. a lot of other rns and other positions but in this case 68 to 92. >> one of the big drivers of our decrease in frankly our projected budget deficit is an increase in patient census in general than they anticipated when they built the hospital. it's providing more funding to the city than we anticipate

she's also worked with karen hill, our personnel manager out there who has developed a leaves team to reduce v reduce vacancies due to leave. we want people to use protected leave but manage leaves so we don't have such a high vacancy rate. this has resulted in less over time use and we continue to work to reduce registry. the hospitals generally can't operate without registry because they are needed to fill in in certain circumstances. we submitted a proposal which susan guard will talk about and which we would encourage the union to accept and adopt but that's another process. with that i'll just say that we have a proposal to increase pay for those modalities that we truly need and that we have reduced vacancies and we've added staffing and reduced over time and we strive to reduce regis r registries. that will conclude my presentation. thank you. >> sheehy: you have someone else? >> andrea, would you like to come up for a moment? >> good afternoon, board. my name is andrea turner. the reason that i wanted to speak is to speak on behalf of my team as well as the hospital.

. >> on capitol hill, karen kafa. >>> in a statement house miernlt leader nancy pelosi said despite differences his steadfast commitment to our country during his final months democrat are hopeful he joins us to work constructively to advance better futures for all americans. >>> united airlines now facing a it new lawsuit over the infamous dragging of a passenger off a flight last year. this one from the security officer who did the dragging. james long was fired for forcibly removing dr. doud from the plane a year ago this month. he is suing the airline and the city of chicago claiming he wasn't properly trained to respond to the situation. no comment so far from united. the dr. settlewood the airline fo an undisclosed sum shortly after the incident. >>> well former house speaker john boehner apparently changed his mind about cannabis. we'll explain. plus. >> they say i'm inspiring others but i received that inspiration to keep going. >> what a great story. the rookie making a big name for himself. >>> i'm spencer christian looking at increasing clouds ahead of the next storm hours away. i'll

karen packs holly's lunch and then she's off to teach second grade at scotts hill elementary. you say good-bye before you left? >> she was sitting at the kitchen table. studying and i kissed her goodbye and told her i loved her. just like every other morning. >> reporter: holly gathers her lunch and homework and walks out to get into her mustang in the carport. at about 7:40, holly's older brother, clint, is asleep in his bedroom, the house is quiet. until the scream. >> around 7:40 that morning, a neighbor was getting ready to go to work, and was outside and he heard a scream from next door. >> holly screamin', "stop, stop, stop it!" >> reporter: her brother clint doesn't hear holly screaming, he wakes up to the family dog barking. >> so i decided to get up. see what he was barking at. >> reporter: clint hears voices in the carport behind the house. >> i listened just briefly, and i could tell it was a male, and a female voice. i never was really able to tell what they were saying. >> reporter: you couldn't tell if they were shouting, if they were arguing? >> well, as i liste

karen mcdougal. tonight, prosecutors digging into whether there were any election finance violations. they want to know, were secret deals being made during the campaign. david? >> kyra phillips with us again tonight. >>> and on capitol hill today, the first confirmation hearing for secretary of state nominee mike pompeo, the current cia director. pompeo, who sought advice recently from hillary clinton to prepare, was grilled today about russia, about the firing of fbi director james comey and if he would be willing to stand up to the president if he disagreed with him. >> will you stand up to president trump and say no, you're wrong in that view, mr. president, or will you be a yes man? >> i have no discomfort with directness or confrontation. >> pompeo also acknowledging today that he has spoken to special counsel robert mueller. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" from bay route this evening. and the news back home of the missouri governor under pressure to resign tonight. the former political rising star now fighting off allegations of assault by a former mistress, who we've now learned described being tied up in a basement. >>> also ahead tonight, the 16-year-old boy crushed to death inside his