Floridas governor confirmed today the first u. S. Cases of the zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes. Its in south florida. Dick brennan reports. Reporter the Florida Department of health believes three men and one woman contracted the disease within a mile in south florida. That has fear spreading. Health investigators in south florida are going house to house looking for places where mosquitos can breed stepping up virus from spreading. No mosquitos have tested positive for the zika virus, people are being tested in the area to make sure there are no other cases. Reporter transmission. Zika virus here in the u. S. Transmission of the zika virus here in the u. S. Was inevitable and there will be more cases. The critical issue is to make sure those local cases dont become disseminated and very aggressive mosquito the way you do that is with very aggressive mosquito abatement programs. Our mosquito zika action plan in new york is built on the very robust and strong experience and infrastructure that we have for 15 years here combating west nile virus. Reporter the deputy mayor for health in new york city says the mosquito in our area is not exactly the same as the one spreading zika. So its not going to be an effective transmitter of the virus. Health officials s changing their plans. They will be capturing more mosquitos in new york and will be spraying earlier. We anticipate being out doing our first seasonal spraying the same type of spraying we do every year for west nile but doing it on one day. Reporter make sure to eliminate any standing water incredibly even a bottle cap full of water is enough for the mosquito. Experts are trying to improve repellents. What we need to do is develop a spatial repellent mosquitos avoid that area. This would be useful not only in the United States but in other countries where they are really suffering from mosquito borne illness. Reporter now, Health Officials have been worried about miami as one of the areas most at risk for an outbreak of the disease because many people come there from countries where zika has been spreading. Thank you. More information now on zika. Most people who get infected dont even know it because zika often symptoms or just mild ones. The symptoms do include fever, rash, joint or muscle pain, conjunctivitis, usually called pink eye, and headaches. Infected people are rarely sick enough to go to the hospital and almost never die from the virus. A commuter alert now in queens. Major traffic delays near laguardia. Joe biermann is live over a reporter we have gone from chaos at the internal roadways add laguardia, now a little bit of controlled chaos. Port Authority Police out directing traffic. We showed you in the 5 00 hour we estimated a twohour wait to get into the internal roadways here at Laguardia Airport due to construction being a friday, getaway day, people on vacation. Those people you saw moments ago, they got out of their vehicles and they are walking flight. We are seeing a lot of people come across the 94th street bridge like these folks. Also a lot of people waiting to get picked up inside the airport. Port authority says theres no real reason for it. Just all volume. Live in chopper 2, joe biermann, cbs 2 news. Summer friday night. Thank you, joe, for the pictures and info. Justice today for a young mother murdered on long island. Sarah goode vanished two years ago her body later found in medford. Cbs 2s Jennifer Mclogan was in the courtroom today when the judge threw the book at goode killer. Reporter looking eerily relaxed and smiling, convicted killer dante taylor led handcuffed into criminal court in riverhead to learn his fate for raping, torturing and stabbing more than 40 times a young medford mother sarah goode two summers ago after she rejected his sexual advances and tried to drive away from the party where the two met. Taylor left goodes battered body in she was a beautiful girl. Life was so short now. Well never have her again. And i just dont know what im going to tell her daughter when she gets older. Reporter the courthouse packed with sarah goodes family and friends sobbing through powerful victim impact statements, some of her eight siblings describing their 21 yearold loyal and lovely medical technician sister. She had her daughter to take care of. And she was always willing to reporter the judge had received dozens of letters begging for the maximum and didnt mince words addressing the onetime marine. Quote, it is so loud, her absence. It is deafening. You may circle dates on the calendar, but they will mean nothing because there is no date for you to get out. There shall be no hope for you. Prison without the possibility of parole. Reporter when they came for the sentencing it was raining like the end of the world. So we said thats tears from heaven. And when you looked outside the window after the statements and after the sentence, those tears had stopped. Sarah got her justice. Reporter the defense believes this life sentence without parole stands a good chance of being overturned on appeal due to a police blunders and prosecution missteps. Goodes daughter finished kindergarten recently. The Corruption Case against new jersey senator bob menendez will continue. A federal Appeals Court refused to toss out the charges. The democrat is accused of accepting gifts from a florida eye doctor in exchange for political influence. Both senator menendez and dr. Salman melgen have pleaded not guilty to bribery and fraud. An update now at 6 00 on a child luring case in queens. Policere searching for. They say the map lured a young girl with special needs into his car yesterday in Richmond Hill while she waited for the Summer School bus. The Surveillance Video you see there shows the suspects car. Police say he told the 10year old he was a relative. After about an hour, police say the man dropped the girl off near her school unharmed. Connecticut, at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A new facility nearly four years after the massacre that killed 26 people. Lou young was among the reporters in newtown today to tour the new sandy hook. Reporter built on the same property but not in the same footprint as the old building, the new sandy hook elementary is school is ready to open a blend of beauty and security now completed nearly four years after the mass shooting that left 26 dead. This would be a gate when a visitor comes through during the course of the schoolday, the first stop will be a surveillance gate. Reporter an entrance fortified with thick steel doors and ballistic glass, walkway approaches cross something called a biosubway that reminded this reporter of a moat. Theres nothing foreboding or intimidating. A natural wood facade curves out wood as if to embracing. Details are based on student natural light. The class hallways are meant to mimic the main street and like addresses in a small town. Its meant to feel like youre coming home. Reporter everything is new except the name. We are proud to be sandy hook school. The fact that a bad thing happens doesnt erase the wonderful things that have happened. Reporter one former thing is already in place. Shelly a 28yearold turtle has a special tank at the main entrance. Students are anxious to begin start school tomorrow. Reporter we were invited in today because every one of us is so curious about the place but after today, thats it. At the end of august, the kids return around once again this place will belong to the students and the teachers and the future. At Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, connecticut, lou young, cbs 2 news. As it should. The building was designed and built at a cost of 50 million. Most of that money coming from woods for days no food no water. How she survived and the heroes who came to her rescue. A coyote attack a man needing 40 stitches in a new jersey park. A Pasta Company in hot water. Why consumers are suing over what they say is not inside the pasta box. And Nicole Mitchell here for lonnie quinn. After a washout this morning, its still just a couple of showers out there. So how was our weekend looking . Ill forecast coming up. Thank you, nicole. Coming up next on the cbs evening news after us here at 6 30, more on the zika transmitting mosquitoes in the u. S. Scott pelley back here after coverage of the conventions. Hi, scott. Great to be back. Nice to have you. I appreciate that. Thanks very much. We have been waiting for this, of course, for months. It was confirmed today that zika is now being carried in the United States by mosquitos. We are going to be on the front lines in florida and dr. Tell us what young women should do to protect themselves. All that coming up on the cbs evening news at 6 30. Thank you, scott. See you then. Still ahead here at 6 00, the giants open camp with a healthy victor cruz. See him run thats all later in sports coming up. . . . . Not just anyone can pitch like allstar jacob degrom, but anyone could save money with geico. When we became teachers, the state made a commitment to us. I knew that i wasnt going to make a fortune. But i would have a secure pension plan when i retired. Each and every one of us made that contribution from every paycheck we ever earned. Over the years of not funding this pension the way it should have been funded. They have made a promise, theyve made a commitment, four Army National guardsmen save an elderly woman stranded inside her car for two days. Her name is jeanette haskins. She was driving from Little Egg Harbor to baltimore with her cat saturday. She made a wrong turn and got stuck on a muddy road in the woods. She had no phone no food only rainwater to drink. She was hours from death when she was found by the guard i passed out in the car. I came to and there were these mens faces. It was the best thing that ever happened. She is recovering from dehydration. The cat is missing. They will be honored in boston tomorrow. A possible coyote attack in new jersey. A man walking his dog at the powmia park in manchester on wednesday. And bit him repeatedly. He says he said it was a coyote and it was unprovoked. He got 30 stitches. A major Pasta Company could be in hot water. Barilla, Scott Rapoport says you might be overpaying for the price of pasta. The pasta lawsuit. Whats wrong with the pasta . Reporter seems barilla has some customers boiling accused in a lawsuit of deceptive packaging of essentially misleading customers by underfilling some of its boxes of pasta by as much as 25 . Thats not good. Reporter according to the lawsuit, brought by four new others come in similar sizes of other products but filled with less pasta in some cases like the glutenfree pasta according to the lawsuit 25 less. I think that might not be bad for peoples health. Reporter according to the lawsuit, barilla relies on consumers familiarity with the box size and appearance to mislead consumers into thinking they are purchasing the same quantity of pasta when in reality, the company is filling the boxes with materially less the suit does admit that the new reduced weight of the pasta is noted on the box. It says its in small print. Still, the actual weight can be seen on the box. Buy glasses. I dont know. [ laughter ] reporter the defendants in the case are claiming they have endured out of pocket loss and have been overcharged after buying barilla pasta over the years. We wanted a comment from barilla says it doesnt comment on pending or rumored lawsuits. But that its products are high quality that meet or exceed all state and federal regulations. It remains to be seen with the lawsuit if the pasta maker will land in hot water. Scott rapoport, cbs 2 news. No word on how much money the lawsuit is seeking in damages. Nicole mitchell here now for lonnie quinn. The heat is back pretty much after some rain earlier today and overnight. T caused it was a problem. It caused us some flooding concerns and then the sunshine came back out and we warmed up although not as significantly as the last couple of days. Its a little more comfortable in terms. Temperatures. A lot of temperatures in the 80s. Anthony from new jersey, temperatures into the 80s. Also sharing a picture of how nicely the sunshine did come back out once everything cleared out a little bit. 85 degrees ava saying that rainfall today almost an inch out there. But beautiful blue skies and a lot of people were seeing that rain. So an inch was typical as we were headed out the door this morning. A few places got more especially into new ey earlier so it depended where you are. All needed because most of the region has been dry if not in drought conditions. This is a look out there. Beautiful right now. Partly sunny skies 83 degrees. Relative humidity in the 60 range so a little less humidity. We have a lot of moisture earlier today so theres plenty of that. Laguardia at about an inch. York maybe within the next halfhour but a lot of this has been continuing to die down as it moved in. So through the rest of the next couple of days, just some spotty areas out here that we could see that. The best chance is from fight is into sunday morning. Thats something that well watch. Heres the futurecast for the next couple of days. Saturday morning stays pretty quiet out here it looks like for most of the region. Your better chances for rain are as we head west. So the more west you are, the more likely that. And then a little bit more widespread from saturday night into sunday morning. So that is the best chance for more of those showers and then over the next couple of days, the planner, here it is. Saturday afternoon temperatures into the 80s. That chance of rain not until later into the day. And we stay in the 80s and i love this. The overnight temperatures are in the low 70s maybe even some 60s out there. The next week ahead. Save electricity on the air conditioning. Thanks. A dynamite day on the golf course. Otis livingston with whats ahead in sports. The good times continue for jimmy wager as he is still the walker as he is still the leader at the pga championship. Not everyone is happy that Ryan Fitzpatrick signed with the jets. One fifth of all the fresh water in the world nt find anywhere else. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. . . . . You can find it all only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Got your dancing shoes. Giants fans thinking a little salsa. Its been a while, we need to see some victor cruz. Giants opened with no fans because of lightning. The team practiced inside. The story of course once again victor cruz after all, its a day he circled on his calendar for a long time. Our Steve Overmyer was with big blue in the meadowlands. Popped up super early today just to feel good. Reporter in the past two years if the victor cruz has been on the field its usually watching from the sidelines. Is he completing a practice was a major step forward. To be back out here with running routes, to not be on the sideline with the medical staff, um, it was a huge accomplishment for me. Reporter victor cruz says he is going to be on the same program as the other receivers with no restrictions. But lets not forget, even though he has been in those meeting rooms and he knows the playbook, he has to run out and learn the plays. We need him practicing to get back to making plays, making catches. Reporter five years ago, he was a top three receiver. But can he be the cruz of old . I think i can be. I think i to build to that. I think it definitely makes just because i havent been out here, i think as the days go on, thats the plan. Reporter to spend more time doing the salsa. With the giants, Steve Overmyer, cbs 2 sports. Meanwhile, most jets fans and players were fired up and excited to find out Ryan Fitzpatrick had resigned with the club on wednesday night. Geno smith was ped off at the situation. Beat the 7 p. M. Deadline, agreed to 1 year, 12 million moving geno back to backup. But because he is a competitor he wants to lead the team. He it adds fuel to the fire but he adds he has to watch how he responds to set backs. I have to, you know, watch the way i handle things. Everyone is watching how i react. Those 32 teams in the nfl i react to this situation. I have to handle it with class and thats what ill do. The mets will face the rockies in the game 2 of the series. Lagares on the dl missing six weeks because of a bad thumb. Brandon nimo called up from aaa las vegas. Yankees a threegame series in tampa. Round 2 of the pga championship going on right now at baltusrol. Four back. Jayston day with him at 6 under. Meanwhile Phil Mickelson is on the good side of the cut line at oneover par with three holes to play. Dont forget, you can catch third and final round action from the pga championship tomorrow and sunday. Our coverage begins both days at 2 p. M. On cbs 2. Thank you. What super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out. Before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. Just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. Heres whats coming up tonight on cbs 2 news at 11 00. Im maurice dubois. Right outside the studio, if you dont like having to carry a keycard, imagine only using your hand to swipe in at work . Microchip implants could make you a personal row meet control. But is it worth it . And a thief accused of breaking into homes hobbling along. And lines of traffic heading into laguardia causing headaches as we head into the weekend. Dave carlin is on the way. He will have the latest for you tonight at 11. Up next on the cbs evening news with scott pelley, a controversial voter id law is struck down in a key swing state. How it could impact the president ial election. Thank you for joining us here at 6 00. Have a good night. Captions by caption colorado pelley zika virus arrives in the u. S. Now its war on mosquitos as doctors warn pregnant women to protect themselves. This is not just a florida issue. This is a u. S. Issue. Its a national issue. Were just at the front of it. Pelley also tonight, a strict voter i. D. Law i state is struck down. Clinton and kaine hit the road while trump threatens his critics. The little guy gets up, knock the hell i said i want to hit him back so hard. Pelley what happens to traffic deaths when cities remove red light cameras. Plus Steve Hartman and his dad arrive at one of lifes crossroads. I prefer to stay but you also
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