And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple
That, you see some famous sites of new york as it passed through the statue of liberty sailing into lower manhattan. World trade center in background of one of these sites, brings up memory this ship has been here before. Three days after 9 11 it helped out with first spenders then. It is back for a second go around. You have 12 operating rooms. 700 beds put into circulation right away. Mayor de blasio speaking, talking about new york has been asking for help and now the help has arrived. Heres the mayor. I cant tell you how much this means. It is so much more than even we realized at this moment, that our nation has heard our plea for help here in new york city and there could not be a better example of all of america pulling for new york city than the arrival of the usns comfort. Some major, major moment in this long battle. Connell mayor de blasio thanking by name both President Trump and defense secretary mark esper in participate of his remarks. You see numbers. New york needs hel
Sidewalks, driveways but new skies have cleared, and temperatures have listen. Look at these numbers at 44 degrees in philadelphia. 12 degrees warmer then this time yesterday when we were right around freezing, it is 45 in dover, 41 wilmington and 40 degrees in allentown but there is a problem, snow really did start to melt. I dont know if you saw it but drifting off my gutter pipes all day so there is a lot of water, puddles, wet spots so temperatures do drop below freezing again tonight. There is potential for re freeze as we head into tomorrow morning not a ton but if there is something that looks wet when you walk outside tomorrow morning watch out it could be ice once again we will continue to melt that snow. Temperatures got back to normal and then we will climb higher by friday, 60 degrees and we said taste of april, 60 but also april is men for one or thing, april showers, i will tell you when rain returns to the forecast as well, coming up. So looking like weather wont be a pr
She lives just yards away. We heard sounds that sounded like explosions we wanted to come down here just in case the building would go. Reporter her first grader madison was home friday the fire forced parkland to close schoo schools. State police the pa fire marshal and federal alcohol, tobacco and firearms could be seen digging through the rubble looking for a cause. We going to pull the Metal Aluminum from the building to get it off the top so the fire marshal can do his job report rot the structure was lump nim with wood ten poles used to shield buses from the regions snow and heavy weather says the district. Drivers say block heaters were sometimes placed to warm engin engines. Its a disaster says dustin houcks whose brother got unexpected day off from school. Yeah, my step dad woke him up this morning. Said hey, youre not going to school your bus exploded and that was a pretty big shock for him. Reporter the School District hopes to reopen classes on monday. It says its leasing b
Investigating. Reporter 22 people were killed. And dozens of on thes injured. 20 of them critically. When an improvised explosive device packed with nuts and bolts was detonated. Police have now spoken with all the immediate families of those who died and confirmed that one of the victims was a Police Officer. Very sadly i can confirm that one of the victims is a serving Police Officer. Jeu due to the number of victi victims, the are likely to take four to five days after this we will be in a position to formally name the victims. Reporter Terror Threat in the uk now up to its highest level critical. The show of force is evident with nearly a thousand military troops being deployed to high profile sites. What i say to london and visitors is, you will see Additional Police officers on our streets. The key thing is to be calm and to be vigilant. Carry on as normal. Reporter police confirming they have arrested the older brother and younger brother of the suicide bomber. The bombers fathe