Seven people so far have died from this disease. 81 others have gotten sick. Five cooling towers in the bronx have tested positive now for legionnaires. Those towers getting clean, but none of them definitely the source of this outbreak. Eyewitness News Reporter josh einiger in the bronx where people tonight packing a town hall meeting. Theres a lot of concern out there, especially on social media since ive posted about two hours ago on facebook about this topic. Nearly a thousand people have weighed in or shared the post here at the town hall meeting. The Health Department saw more people than they saw at a similar meeting about ebola several months ago. New tonight, we hear from the mother of one legionnaires patient who for the past week has been fighting for his life. Reporter for 40yearold ramel hagan, it was a 991 a 911 call that meant life or death. His sugar was up. They said it was some kind of bacteria and a bad strain of pneumonia. Reporter he was already in a medically indu
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He said that the women were waiving their hands and asking for help. The waves were pulling them back. He and another guy went inside to help them. Reporter his son translated, as he described how he and others tried to save the woman and her child. The girl that was unconscious, the guy that got her gave her to me and i brought her to the beach front. The ems and everybody else was here. Reporter less than an hour earlier, a woman in her 60s was rescued from a far rockaway beach. People nearly lost their lives on a beautiful beach day. It marks dangerous and deadly days at the beach. Nearly two dozen swimmers had to be pulled from the waters. One of two distressed switchers was rescued on long beach standard. Unfortunately, the other died, a victim of the rip current. The analogy of being on a treadmill in the ocean. Youre trying to swim but not going anywhere. You tire and go backwards. Reporter and those three people who were pulled from the water this evening, their conditions are
Across the region, a big one moving through this city, and and august 4th. If you are up trying now all you have some sun. Meteorologist looks like one huge cluster of storms coming through, and dumped a lot of rain in a short time moving northeast pretty steadily behind it. That is not to say we are done but looks like as far as the worst is concerned in this city, it is moving out into western long island through brooklyn, queens, into Nassau County up the Hudson Valley into connecticut as well but there is more action to the southwest, and fluoridating swell stay unstable and potential for more storms will be out there. The cold front coming in we were fizzle out over a period in the tristate, through the heat and humidity, ingredients necessary to pop up significant storms, that is what we will have, we have that happening out there and did you get caught in it you will get wet and real quick down. A lot of lightning too, 69 degrees at central park, 77 in bridgeport and islip, a sp
Reporter in lower manhattan, kemberly richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Another case of gun violence in a movie theater, this time in tennessee. Police in nashville shot and killed a man armed with a gun, a hatchet and paper per spray. Police say the and pepper spray. Police say the man came in with a surgical mask. A cop came in the theater and he started shooting. That officer left then the s. W. A. T. Team came in and the man was killed. Three people were exposed to pepper spray and one person was wounded with a hatchet. The bomb squad within the last hour blowing up the gunmans backpacks. Confirmation that a piece of debris found last week is indeed a wing fragment from the missing Malaysia Flight 370. Experts examining the debris making that determination. French authorities are being less definitive. It was found on reunion island. Investigators believe more debris from the triple 7 will be found in this area. Its not clear what caused the plane to crash nearly 17 months all