And good monday morning. We have to start with Severe Weather thats hitting several states producing strong wind hail and tornado. Its showing its heading east moving across to Detroit Heading toward pittsburgh and albany right now. This image showing what the storm system is capable of producing. Strong tornado was spotted west of des moines iowa some reported damage there. Oh, my god. Oh my god no. Im going to shut the gas off. Youre okay. Panic in eastern michigan as a tornado rolled through that area. The twister damaged several buildings including a school. Severe storms turned deadly in illinois. High winds caused a tent to collapse at a festival. More from abcs bazi kanani. This is horrible. Reporter festivalgoers described the frightening moments that led to this. At least 15 injured and one killed when a sudden storm barreled through 9 annual prairie fest near chicago. Powerful winds sent the main tent and its poles flying. Rescuers had to cut holes in the tarp to trap those i
New york city housing courts, the bronx hall of justice, and a post office and samuel governorrers high school. They have been disinfected. The cause is one of the five original sites tested positive. They dont know if it was one or more of those. The office is trying to figure out why this occurred now. This is literally unchartered territory and its very important that we acknowledge that. We have never seen an outbreak of ledge theirs like this in the history of new york city. Reporter the outbreak deemed a wakeup call by new york city mayor bill de blasio with 108 cases, according to him. His office didnt know how many cooling towers are in the south bronx or where they are located until now. The towers are where the bacteria grows and can spread casing a type of ammonia. We have used aviation, a variety of methodologies to canvas a part of our city looking for something we havent had to look for before and then meted oddically going build i by building. Reporter tomorrow all build
A total of 10 people have died. Cbs 2s Steve Langford has more on the effort to keep more people from getting sick. Reporter state officials leaving Montefiore Medical Center in the bronx saturday with a test sample from one of the hospitals cooling to yours as part of a blitz to stop the spread of legionnaires legionnaires disease. The state effort for exampling on testing 100 cooling towers in five sections of the bronx, fordham, mount eden, hunts point, mott haven and highbridge. We are here today to help manage this process. We are in constant communication with all levels of government including the city. Reporter the governor and mayors offices are teaming up to fight the outbreak despite growing tensions and concerns over who is in charge just hours after the governor deployed 150 state workers to the bronx, mayor de blasio held a news conference. The mayor revealing five new sites in the bronx where legionnaires bacteria has been found including a verizon facility, bronx housin
Good morning, 6 00 a. M. , sunday, august 9. Im diane macedo. Im andrea grymes. Todays top stories are straight ahead but look who we have in the studio. John elliott in the house. Welcome john. Who is enjoying the treats . You got to be kidding, this is great. You guys both look lovely. I dont know how you do it every sunday morning. Me, this is just luck, i just kind of throw this together. How about this . It is just sublime out there on your sunday. I know lamenting the absence of the rain we need but Perfect Timing for the second half of the weekend. Got some plans outside . The weather will cooperate. It is delightful. 55 in monticello. 58 in sparta. 59 in summit. 65 in roslyn. 68 in the city. Pretty skies overhead. Another way to tell the tale. The vortex satellite and radar, there is the big low sitting and spinning kicking up the waves for the shore. But it is going to pave the way for a nice day for us. Around 80 at lunch time in the city. Your high today about 83 and feeling
Will be tested by the end of this weekend. A lot is still unknown, but the mayor did tell us this today. We believe as we have felt for i des now, that this outbreak occurred in one or more of the original five sites. Five new locations have been detected to have the bacteria, they include this Verizon Office Building at 11 06 avenue. The bronx hall of justice, a post office at 554 grand concourse that will soon be decommissioned. All activities at Samuel Gompers high school have been postponed. The mayor says its proof the outbreak is on the decline, and says there have been no new cases in four days. This graphic shows where legionnaires has been active. Where the cases can be found, the red triangle showing the locations testing positive for legionella bacteria. Wtodays meeting was to let the public take it cautious sigh of relief, Health Commissioner mary bassett ending with this. We are very optimistic about the waning of this outbreakp p. The mayor says there are 42 buildings lef