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
As well, so, this is quite literally the moment that they have been waiting for. It is such a momentous point in their lives. Something they will be telling their families about, their children, their grandchildren. Really, a very spiritual, exciting and important moment for all of these children here. There are about 250 supposed to be gathered outside. That was the idea. Looks like the crowd may be larger than that. And there will be a number of kids as we mentioned inside. There ar 24 of these, six of each of four schools in the catholic arch die in harlem. The school, our lady queen of angle ls, has about 282 students one of six in harlem operated by the arch. More than half the kids are on scholarship. Which is one of the issues facing the Catholic Church and schools right now because theyve had some difficulty keeping schools open. A lot of schools have been closed over the past number of years. And thats one of the reasons why hes there. They wanted him to focus on that as well.
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