System wide. And we are continuing to follow the latest on the situation. Well have updates online and on nbcnewyork. Com. New york City Construction worker who spends his down time singing sinatra songs is missing. If you pass by the 2nd avenue subway project, gary russos voice probably sounds familiar. Hes known as the 2nd avenue sinatra and hes been missing since last tuesday. Police say russo was last seen at his howard beach home in queens. The crooner made headlines for setting up his karaoke kit during his breaks to serenade residents near the construction site. Cleanup continues after a 300ton construction crane crushed an underground water main. Workers were fixing a sensor on the crane yesterday when they noticed water gushing on to the street. Crews are removing the crane and making repairs to anderson avenue, which will reopen tomorrow at the earliest. Business owners on that busy block say they are already taking a hit. Im standing out here. What does that tell you . Yeste
Risen to 108. Meantime, the state is also now involved in trying to curb this outbreak. State employees plan on testing 100 cooling towers in the bronx today. Today Governor Cuomo dispatched approximately 150 state workers to test cooling towers on buildings all across the bronx for the bacteria that causes legionnaires disease. New York State Health commissioner, dr. Howard zucker. Id like to see those numbers go to zero and that we have no cases, no other mortalities. The pneumonialike illness has already taken ten lives and sickened more than a hundred others in the south bronx. Five towers have tested positive, and in a press conference this afternoon, the mayor explained the difficulty in tackling the outbreak which began three weeks ago. When this began, no one, understandably, had reason to think that cough might be something much worse, that shortness of breath might be something much worse because we had never had such an outbreak before. City officials are now requiring that
Right now on fox 5 news at 10 but we do know clearly weve had no new cases reported in the last four days. Some encouraging words from mayor de blasio who says the citys deadly legionnaires outbreak has been contained. Hello and good evening, everyone, im Christina Park. Antwan has the night off. The mayor announced no new deaths from the legionnaires outbreak in the south bronx, even though five additional buildings tested positive for this potentially deadly bacteria. All this while state Health Officials have sent out crews to test cooling towers in the infected areas. Lydia she ran knew is in the norwood section of the bronx, a lot of people worried out there tonight, lydia. Absolutely, christina. The cooling tower here at the hospital is one of about 100 state employees tested. Now, this is, obviously, a huge outbreak thats been happening, so 108 cases have been reported so far. So thats gone up. Now we have ten infected buildings, all of which have been decontaminated, but the ma
It doesnt matter, you know, gays, straight, everything. Its a parade for everybody. I love it and im glad everybody gets a chance to participate. This is america. Land of the free. I think its fine. They have been marching all along but they just didnt carry banners. Reporter the mayor said pope francis visit to new york city and the intervention of Cardinal Dolan helped get parade organizers to change their tune. Maurice and kristine . Thank you. Starting next year, new york city Public Schools students may get the day off to attend the parade. State Senate Passed legislation that would make st. Patricks day a school holiday. If enacted the measure would take effect on march 17, 2017. For the second time this week police say a student took a loaded gun to school in jamaica, queens. A 15yearold boy at York Early College academy allegedly brought this gun to class this morning. Investigators say the student was showing off the weapon to a classmate who then n school officials. Until Pol
Great. In fact, they are not even fully known. Relying upon the limited data publicly available to answer the health risks would be negligent on my part. I have identified Significant Health risks in the current data. Could Push Administration that Bush Administration officials be tried . They are being accused of war crimes. A man was held in afghanistan as a at a secret cia prison. And the a blindfold door was closed. I was hit from all sides. I was humiliated. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Top u. S. General in charge of forces fighting the Islamic State in iraq and syria says it would take a minimum of three years to reach a turning point against the group. Speaking to reporters, the Lieutenant General james terry refuse to give a more specific timeline. Inthe first strikes were august. This is december. What is that . Four months. I think we have made significant progress in halting th