Get rapid results to let the patients know if they are carriers, even if they are asymptomatic to quarantine and know they are being quarantined for a reason. The commissioner released a statement saying, today marks an important step in expanding the availability of testing and importantly rapid results. There are more than 23,000 expert machines in operation worldwide. The new test ship friday with a rollout on march 30. Kpix 5 a fire station is being set up as a drive up screening station. Tents have been sent to the station. They can handle up to 370 tests a day. They will operate from 9 am to 6 pm starting monday. Open to anybody without a referral but the city cautions that there is a screening process. What we are asking is that people only with the symptoms, i merrily fever or other symptoms come to the site so it is not overwhelmed. If you show up, it does not mean you will get a test. People will be screened before getting cleared. People that are tested will wait for results
3 3 Early Morning showers, then increasing sun. Seasonable and pleasant. High in the midto upper 70s. Low in the low 50s 3 3 3 3 3 happening today a big change. Coming to the st. Petersburg skyline. Its the groundbreaking, for a brand new tower. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us now from st. Pete. To explain why it could be breaking a record 3 3 in health news 3 in health news the zika virus continues to spread here in florida. 3 the state Surgeon General updated the states count on thursday. Three new cases were added. All in miamidade county. That brings the statewide total to 47 cases. Three zika cases wer confirmed locally. All in hillsborough county. And four of the patients are pregnant women. That group is most at risk for the virus. Zika has been linked to birth defects. The state of florida is now getting several hundred new test 3 this morning in polk county haines city has a natural way to clear up its waterways. City officials will release more than 280 carp into lake elsie. A
Homocide in america from last weekends Los Angeles Times festival of books. We wrap up at 11 00 with a Panel Discussion on cspans latest book, first ladies. That happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Pulitzer prizes were awarded this last weekend and other Elizabeth Kolbert won. Her book, the sixth extinction. The and this one will be the most devastating. Sheer he is here she is now on booktv. [applause] thank you very much. I, tomorrow, am very impressed that such a large number of people are here on a friday night, and i really appreciate it. So thanks very much for being here. I want to start by introducing you to this fellow on the screen who is a hawaiian crow, otherwise known as an alala. Know he looks loot like an ordinary crow but there are actually significant differences of his beak is thicker and his legs are thicker and the Hawaiian Islands used to have six species of crows and they probably diverge from the crows that we find on the mainland u. S. At least several hundred th
Against the Prime Minister. Dozens of people lose their lives in the latest wave of bombings in iraq. Im Barbara Sarah from london. Two members of the band pussy riot are arrested in russia. And how hundreds were forcibly removed from their indian ocean homes to repopulate the french countryside. The opposition in ukraine says that three protesters have been killed in street battles with the police. Much of the fighting was outside the offices of ukraines ruling party. Several thousand antigovernment protesters here fighting with police. It is the worst violence they have seen in more than four weeks. And ukraines capitol city on another winters evening of discontent and rioting. You can see the smoke there moving across independence square. We are told that tempers have cooled just a little bit, but the situation still extremely tense after the death of those three protesters. Reporter a return to scenes that ukraine hasnt witnessed for weeks. Antigovernment protesters fighting with p
Venezuelans rally in the capitol. Two from pussy riot are arrested in russia. The moment of truth. Find out whether this stadium will make the cut in brazil. Hello there. Welcome to the program. Its ukraines Bloodiest Day in nearly three months of unrest. At least seven protesters and two Police Officers have been killed in the fighting. The vie list broke out after parliament delayed a debate over changes which could limit the power of the countrys president. Opposition groups have accused the government of stalling reporter a return to deadly fighting after weeks of relative calm, for hours on tuesday, antigovernment protesters took on riot police Near Parliament in kiev. Police sources say there have been deaths on either sidewhere while dozens of people have been injured in the clark. Some demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs. The police fired stun grenades and later, rubber bullets. Earlier, more than 10,000 people marched from independence squ e square. Their aim to restor