Of nearly 1200 miles an hour. Mystery solved. A lot of nerves rattled. A lot of nerves rattled also about the zika virus. The World Health Organization describing the spread of the mosquito born virus as their words explosive and it could infect up to 4 Million People in south, central and north america. The virus is linked to birth defects. So far there are seven cases in new york state, three of those in new york city, two on long island. In new jersey a woman visiting from columbia was diagnosed with zika and she is back home and has now recovered. Now there are serious travel warnings to women who are pregnant and women trying to get pregnant. Eyewitness News Reporter n. J. Burkett with the story. Hes at jfk for us. N. J. Reporter yeah, absolutely right, bill, the risk to pregnant women is apparently substantial but, no, zero risk of getting the virus here. It is of course the middle of winter. The more immediate concern is for americans traveling to the affected regions, whether a
Everybody keeps thinking about aircraft meteorite. Lets go ahead and look at this radar with a little spec and i looked at some other parts of the country that have seen sonic booms on radar and they are not necessarily what you would think like waves, they are just more clusters like this. So very possible that this is what the radar was picking up. We will obviously be investigating as we go through the night. Fascinating. Meanwhile a wonderful looking sunset off to the south. High clouds coming in, we are at 40 degrees right our numbers are above freezing. They will be below freezing north and west later tonight. Clouds are increasing, we are nestled in between two storms but we are worried about this clipper to the north, which is bringing snow showers to northernmost new england but look at the snow showers between cleveland and chicago. They are going to swing across our area and then some big winds behind it. We are not all going to see snow showers but there will be some gusty
New york, they do not anticipate a major outbreak. Were optimistic that well not see zika transmission happening here but out of an abundance of caution we are going to be enhancing our surveillance and control measures. Reporter the mosquito that transmits zika has a cousin thats active in our region in warm weather months. Annual eradication efforts will be stepped up as a precaution and a number of airlines and cruiselines are allowing concerned pregnant women to cancel travel plans without penalty. Dr. Max gomez just wrapped up a live question and answer check about the virus on our Facebook Page. Max joining us now with some of the most common questions people have. Max. Reporter thats right, dana. We took a number of questions and a popular question tonight was, where is the zika virus . The answer is, it varies a lot. There are about 22 countries that have in the caribbean, central mark and south america list. They believe the virus will spread to every country in the americas e
Right now, were learning more about the indiana property thats now an active fbi scene. Agents are searching it in connection with the disappearance of lauren spirer. Katherine creag is in the newsroom with the story. Kat, what happened here . We are also hearing from the mother of lauren speerer about the developments. Agents are sifting through dirt. They took photos in and around a house and barn in martinsville, indiana. Its the area where she was last seen. The i. U. Student was 20 years old when she vanished. She would have turned 25 last week. The property theyre searching was once the residence of justin wagers wagers, a registered sex owe fep der. As for her mother. There have been so many hear. That never said it was related to justin wagers is currently in jail. Hes awaiting trial in a public indecency case. The fbi hasnt said yet how wagers could be connected to lauren spooirer. We expect to learn more from the fbi later today. Theyre only saying the property theyre searchi
Sinkhole. Next at 11 00, cracked ceilings, what was that that was shaking new jersey . Weve got an answer. Im a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly. And the candidates come out swinging, but donald trump did not let tonights debate go by without having his say. Maurice is off tonight. Many wondered how would Donald Trumps dropping out effect well it was a fight to take the spotlight tonight in iowa. Reporter the ghost of donald trump haunted the republican debate, held just days before the iowa caucus. It started at the very beginning. Fox anchor, megyn kelly, sending trump a sharp elbow. Senator cruz, lets address the elephant not in the room tonight. Donald trump has chosen not to attend tonights debate. What message do you think that sends to the voters of iowa. Reporter cruz responded with a sarcastic tongue in cheek. Let me say, im a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly, and ben, youre a terrible surgeon. Now that weve gotten the dona