A look at your forecast. Meteorologist Jeremy Nelson in the weather center. A refreshing start to the day. Jeremy its incredible outside. We had 20 Straight Days with 80 degree highs were better. We break that string today with temperatures staying in the 70s. A huge dew point drop overnight, which means lower humidity. A comfortable dew point of 54 degrees. Its refreshing in the third ward, with 62 degrees. Into the 60s. You can have the windows open and enjoy this nice fresh air. Upper 50s in watertown, catching low 60s from sheboygan south to one point and racine and downright Pleasant Prairie in kenosha. The day for forecast today, a couple clouds above miller park and we see variable clouds throughout the day. From related afternoon, some sprinkles and a light passing shower with no heavy rain look ahead to mondays forecast and beyond in your sevenday forecast, coming up. Thema thank you, jeremy. Right now, fire crews in sheboygan are battling a fire at an apartment complex. One p
Brown good evening, scott is on assignment. Im james brown. Today, the food and Drug Administration took the extraordinary step of ordering the nations blood banks to begin screening for zika, even in places where the virus is not present. Zika can cause severe birth defects, and to date there have been nearly 2500 infections in the u. S. Linked to travel in countries affected by the outbreak. 42 were locally transmitted in florida, most likely from mosquitoes. Dr. Tara narula is a cbs news medical contributor. And i guess the first question up is why has the f. D. A. Called for a nationwide testing . These are updated recommend aegzs that come from the recommendationing in february. And it comes in the light of new scientific evidence, and the fact that were learning more and more about zika and how its transmitted. We know its transmitted sexually now. We know the devastating consequences that it can have on pregnant women, and now we have expanding area in florida of identified of i
And more about zika and how its transmitted. We know its transmitted sexually now. We know the devastating consequences that it can have on pregnant women, and now we have expanding area in florida of locally transmitted infections. In fact, there has been one case identified of infected blood in florida. Now, its no danger to the blood supply, but certainly, that just shines the light on the fact that this is something we need to be doing now. Brown and whats going to be involved in setting this up . Theres no question that its this implemented in such a quick time frame. The recommendation has been that 11 states implement this process within four weeks. And new york is one of those states. And for the rest of the country, within 12 weeks. Its going to require resources, and planning, and funding. And yet again, one more reason for congress to really take action when they come back into session, making sure that we have the resources funding we we need to implement this on a widescal
Brown good evening, scott is on assignment. Im james brown. Today, the food and Drug Administration took the extraordinary step of ordering the nations blood banks to begin screening for zika, even in places where the virus is not present. Zika can cause severe birth defects, and to date there have been nearly 2500 infections in the u. S. Linked to travel in countries affected by the outbreak. 42 were locally transmitted in florida, most likely from dr. Tara narula is a cbs news medical contributor. And i guess the first question up is why has the f. D. A. Called for a nationwide testing . These are updated recommend aegzs that come from the recommendationing in february. And it comes in the light of new scientific evidence, and the fact that were learning more and more about zika and how its transmitted. We know its transmitted sexually now. We know the devastating consequences that it can have on pregnant women, and now we have expanding area in florida of locally transmitted infecti
Brown good evening, scott is on assignment. Im james brown. Today, the food and Drug Administration took the extraordinary step of ordering the nations blood banks to begin screening for zika, even in places where the virus is not present. Zika can cause severe birth defects, and to date there have been nearly 2500 infections in the u. S. Linked to travel in countries affected by the outbreak. 42 were locally transmitted in florida, most likely from mosquitoes. Dr. Tara narula is a cbs news medical contributor. And i guess the first question up is why has the f. D. A. Called for a nationwide testing . These are updated recommend aegzs that come from the recommendationing in february. And it comes in the light of new scientific evidence, and the fact that were learning more and more about zika and how its transmitted. We know its transmitted sexually now. We know the devastating consequences that it can have on pregnant women, and now we have expanding area in florida of locally transmi