Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Snow spotted on Anchorage’s Hillside on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. (Matthew Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

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Tuesday on Alaska News Nightly:

Doctors and nurses describe caring for sick and dying COVID-19 patients in the ICU. Also, the new health director in Anchorage describes the city’s strategy to help residents access vaccines. And snow blanketed parts of Alaska’s largest city this morning, as Anchorage saw an early, though unofficial, first snowfall of the season.

Reports tonight from:

Lex Treinen, Kavitha George and Wesley Early in Anchorage
Izzy Ross in Dillingham
Bridgett Dowd, Jacob Resneck and Claire Stremple in Juneau
and Tim Ellis in Delta Junction

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, produced by Annie Feidt, with audio engineering by Toben Shelby.

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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him atcgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Caseyhere

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