Any questions or concerns that you would want to ask Health Officials . I would like for them to get a grip of it before it gets out of hand. Reporter so can you get sick if you come in contact with contaminated water or if water from a leaky airconditioning system that has legionella drips on you . Experts say no. This is a disease of the lungs. You get sick by inhaling water particles or inhaling a mist. Hotels, large buildings and cruise ships are places where traditionally spread. Any place with a cooling system that is not properly treated is susceptible. Tweet me if you have any questions for the doctors tonight. I will have answers later tonight on cbs2 news at 11. For now reporting live in the thank you. And here is some more disease. It cannot be spread from person to person. Its contracted by breathing in water mist that contains the legionella bacteria. The symptoms are similar to the flu. A cough, fever, body aches. And the disease is treatable with antibiotics if caught in
Months. The city manager said they had no idea what was going on until an anonymous pitch told them in may. That prompted the city to hire an outside agency to start an investigation which reveals on four different dates in 2014, the fire chief drank alcohol on the job and drove a city vehicle. He failed to answer calls to supervise a fire at an apartment last year and found to have wrestled with a subordinant during an argument. He is a 20year veteran with hayward fire and promoted to chief in 2012. He is seen in this department recruiting video posted on youtube. Contreras was suspend for a month in june. He is back to work. The city explains why they decided not to fire him. He has been an excellent fire chief and excellence employees. Everyone makes mistakes. People are human and he has taken full responsibility for his actions and he has been subject to appropriate discipline. Part of the discipline he has to sign a last chance agreement with the city conditions including not drin
Head out there. Im ken rosato. Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Showers and thunderstorms are coming in the area from the city eastward through rockland, Westchester County across brooklyn and queens. On the l. I. E. , 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. That will continue across the area. Here is another look from our accutrack radar. You can see the lightning strikes that are there. They decreased. They are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. We will have that a couple of hours. Then we look at a hot day today. The high will get to about 90 later on. Real feel 95. A spotty thunderstorm this afternoon. Heather is looking at the commute. Any flooded roadways . Nothing just yet. Take it easy if you are out driving around. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about a couple of incidents. Belt parkway, eastbound at irrelevant sten two lanes are cheesed. B. Q. E. Northb
City penn station. We will keep you posted on that story. Absolutely. Now to breaking developments in the legionnaires outbreak. A new Health Department order was issued. Anyone who owns or controls a building with a cooling tower is required to test and disinfect their cooling tower. We have just learned that the death toll is now up to 10. The number of cases is at 100. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis is in the melrose section of the bronx with the latest update on the story. Marcus . Reporter dare and shirleen, the number of cases has slowed. Only three new cases but two of them fatalities. To make sure that the outbreak is under control, a new Health Department order regarding those cooling towers which are at the heart of this outbreak. Building owners will be required to test the cooling systems within 14 days and failure to comply will be considered a misdemeanor. The mayor announcing the numbers r number of cases in the the number of cases in the bronx has hit triple digi
The number of cases is 100, ten fatal. Mayor de blasio announced that any building with a cooling tower will have the system tested asap. The order instructs the owners or manager to test and disinfect their cooling tower within the next 14 days. Failure to comply with the commissioners order is a misdemeanor. Reporter the state is getting involved as well. Today the Bronx Borough president invited the state Health Commissioner to tour concourse plaza, a Shopping Plaza where one tested positive for legionella, the bacteria that can grow in water based systems. Time is not our friend. We need to make sure that the borough is safe. The governor ordered that the state provide testing of cooling towers for free. Incredibly populated area. A lot of people, a lot of cooling towers and we are trying to figure out how it started. Reporter the mayor says the required testing is out of an abundance of caution. Until the numbers come down, wendy rivera plans to avoid the affected neighborhoods. I