SANTA FE, N.M. —

Discussions of workplace safety are now front and center after the fatal 'Rust' movie set shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch.

On Oct. 21, Santa Fe County deputies said Alec Baldwin, the actor and co-producer of the film, discharged a prop gun that misfired. The weapon fatally wounded cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.

Questions also remain, like how live rounds showed up on the set.

The lawyer for the film's armorer, 24-year-old Hannah Gutierrez, released a statement Friday.

Jason Bowles said Gutierrez had no idea where the live rounds came from and added that the guns were locked up every night.

The incident has been a big concern for many people, including Baldwin.

On Saturday, Baldwin briefly spoke with reporters in Vermont, where he and his family have been laying low since the shooting.

"An ongoing effort to limit the use of firearms on film sets is something I’m extremely interested in," Baldwin said.

The actor added safety measures are needed when it comes to guns on movie sets.

"We have to realize that when it does go wrong, and it’s this horrible, catastrophic thing, some new measures have to take place," Baldwin said. "Whatever other people decide is the best way to go in terms of protecting people’s safety on film sets."

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the state may take action to address those concerns.

Her office provided the following statement to sister station KOAT:

"Workplace safety in any and every industry in New Mexico is absolutely paramount. A workplace death is never acceptable and must compel an analysis of what can and should be done better. My full expectation is that the film and television industry will, at the conclusion of the investigation into this tragic incident and once all the facts are in hand, bring forward comprehensive new safety protocols to ensure this kind of incident never, ever happens again. If that sort of comprehensive new approach does not materialize, the state of New Mexico will take immediate action, throughout whatever means are available to us, to ensure the safety of all personnel on all film and television sets here in our state. This industry is important to us economically and to so many workers throughout New Mexico, and I look forward to a full accounting of how this could have possibly happened, and we will determine our next steps from there."

The investigation is still ongoing and no charges have been filed.

Production on the movie 'Rust' has since halted.

America has an opioid problem and more mothers are struggling with sobriety.

“At the height of my addiction, I could take anywhere from 20 or 30 Percocets a day if I had them,” said Amanda Martin, who’s opioid addiction started shortly after the death of a child.

“My third born son died shortly after he was born and that just made a huge impact on me,” Martin said.

During her fourth and fifth pregnancies, Martin, a former nurse, started taking pain pills which she says impacted her other children’s health.

“They both had delayed speech patterns,” she said. “My youngest son that I took the most opiates with, he did have some developmental delays.”

Martin’s opioid addiction eventually led to heroin use and ultimately put her in jail.

New research shows during the past two decades, four times as many pregnant women are struggling with opioid use disorder and almost eight times as many infants are diagnosed with opioid withdrawal.

Now, health experts say that many are having a hard time getting proper treatment.

“Hospitals are providing variable care,” said Stephen Patrick, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy. "And we see systems in communities really stretched, everything from local community hospitals to the child welfare system."

He says every 15 minutes in America, an infant is born having an opioid withdrawal, which accounts for half a billion dollars in healthcare expenditures nationwide.

“This year it looks like we’re on record pace once again to have to have a record-number of opioid overdoses,” Patrick said.

While the COVID-19 crisis has made it harder for pregnant women to get into treatment, Patrick says this is a fixable problem, but that America currently lacks to funding and political will to change it.

“As we start to usher in a new administration, I really hope the unique needs of pregnant women and infants affected by the opioid crisis are front and center,” he said.

More help is something Martin agrees with, especially during the COVID crisis.

“We see a lot of people coming in that are relapsing just simply because of the pandemic,” said Martin.

Now three-and-a-half years sober, Martin is working as a recovery coach for Vertava Health in Mississippi and encouraging pregnant moms battling opioid addiction to get help, no matter how hard it may be.

“There’s help out there,” she said. “And there’s non-judgmental places that you can come and you can get your whole life together and never have to live that way.”

CINCINNATI —

Doctors said more vaccines could soon be weapons in the fight against COVID-19.

The AstraZeneca vaccine is still being carefully studied at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, but it has just been given authorization in the United Kingdom and officials expect to see applications for emergency use in the United States in the next month or so.

Medical experts said AstraZeneca's vaccine could come just in time.

They believe it will be more than capable of defending people against the latest mutation of COVID-19 and it appears to have few side effects.

"I think we soon are going to have four vaccines that look very effective," Dr. Robert Frenck said.

Frenck, professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, shared words of hope.

He expects an application for emergency use authorization could be weeks away for the Oxford University, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

It's now authorized in the United Kingdom.

Frenck has been studying the two-dose vaccine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

"For both the Pfizer and Moderna, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the exact same thing for Janssen and Astra-Zeneca, is that the vaccine has shown equal efficacy across the ages, and regardless of your race, regardless of your gender," he said.

Frenck said 502 people in Greater Cincinnati have volunteered in the trial.

He said side effects have ranged from nothing to headache, fatigue and muscle aches and those faded.

As a more infectious variant of COVID-19 has surfaced in the United States, Frenck said viruses normally mutate.

The AstraZeneca vaccine uses a weakened version of the common cold virus and he thinks it will work against the mutation.

"It's not really worrying me that much, as far as that the spike protein is what we're having this target for our vaccine and that still looks pretty much conserved," Frenck said.

AstraZeneca's vaccine is receiving praise for only requiring refrigeration which makes it easier to distribute.

Company leaders have said they believe the vaccine will prove as effective as its rivals.

With the Phase 3 trial nearly complete, Frenck anticipates a safe AstraZeneca vaccine will soon be added to the arsenal to protect you.

"To me the biggest travesty, the biggest horror is that we have vaccines and then people don't get them and then people die that could've been saved," he said.

Frenck expects the Johnson and Johnson Janssen vaccine will also be up for emergency use consideration by mid-to-late January.

It's important to note that during the AstraZeneca trial, there were some dosing issues and it is not clear if that will impact the EUA process.

Frenck said timing for the AstraZeneca vaccine will likely be similar to the other vaccines, with a first vaccine given and a second given about four weeks later.

That's to be seen once federal officials receive an application for emergency use and review the data.

CINCINNATI —

After a quadruple shooting in Westwood on Saturday left two children in critical condition, community members are outraged.

Officials are already pushing for more effective solutions to gun violence this summer.

The shooting happened at McHenry and Cavanaugh avenues just after 6 p.m.

Investigators said a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old were shot, and at least one has life-threatening injuries.

It's a situation that leaves people feeling uneasy and angry.

"I heard this about this 6-year-old and 8-year-old and I said, 'Look, it's time for me to get back out there,'" State Sen. Cecil Thomas said.

Thomas sees a troubling trend in Cincinnati, one that seems awfully familiar.

"Right after we had civil unrest in 2001, we started to see an uptick in violence, you know, shootings and I remember a child getting shot, and this brought back those memories and I said, 'Wow, we've got to do something about this,'" he said.

It was this most recent shooting that jogged his memory.

Cincinnati police said, in broad daylight, a 6-year-old and 8-year-old, as well as two men in their late teens were shot.

The young victims, who were caught in the crossfire, are at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in critical condition.

The men, we're told, had non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Thomas looks back at the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence at its inception, examining what's happening in the lives of those who are in the streets, tempted to pull the trigger.

He said Cincinnati needs the focused approach it once had, which has been weakened by slashed funding.

Thomas said it starts with investing in 15 new street advocates who could make all the difference at just the right time.

"Where now, this individual that may be thinking about firing a gun at 2 o'clock in the morning, he had that advocate that he could call on his cell phone. That advocate was available 24 hours a day. He'd call him and say, 'Hey man, I'm thinking about doing something', so the advocate would meet him and say, 'Naw man, let's talk this out,'" Thomas said.

Thomas' vision is that 15 advocates would work with about 30 or so clients to help curb the violence this summer.

He said the price tag sits about $500,000.

Cincinnati police said they have no suspect information in this latest shooting.

Mayor John Cranley said police have "strong leads."

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.