Nonunion employees in case Union Members walk off the job. A number of buildings that tested positive for legionella. A fourth person now died and 675 gotten sick. However, were told that all of the people who died did have underlying medical conditions that had weakened their immune systems. On saturday, Health Officials revealed that the bacteria turned up in two additional bronx buildings. Steam Line Plastics on park avenue and a Verizon Office Building on 167th street. News 4s Michael George as the latest. Reporter infections on the rise. Now four people have died and 65 are sick in the outbreak of legionnaires disease in the bronx. Its got a lot of people who live here worried about their own health. Try to avoid this area as much as i can. Not much i can do. Its caught when people breathe in an airborne bacteria. Thats been traced to cooling towers on the roofs of buildings. Shopping center a plastics business and now a verizon office. I am concerned. There are a lot of Old Build
They said they do not have anyone under arrest or suspects that have been identified. Were live from east new york, peisze cheng, today in new york. Well continue to follow the story as the day progresses. The midnight deadline for thousands of verizon workers to strike has passed. The workers remain on the job at least for now. Workers rallied in rye where negotiations are still going. But a deal looks elusive. The union offered the company a deal with retiree cost savings and health care. Verizon cam back with a new proposal thats unfair. Theyre a rich corporation, its time that verizon take some of that money and return it to their most important assets, their employees. In all honesty, theres a lot of work to be done. A lot of issues to be resolved. But theres a lot of talking going on. Thats also a good thing. Verizon says the strike would have minimal impact on customers. Theyve trained 15,000 nonunion employees in case Union Members walk off the job ziefrnl the number of buildin
Say at this point. Seattle slew was so worn out that he won poorly. American pharoah, you have to wonder, did triple crown take anything out of him. He looked better today than the last time we saw him. I dont particularly go to races that i dont work at. But i would go. If we did not televise this next race, i would make a point to see this horse run. Thats how special i think he is to the game and to america. Hes special in so many ways, not only his ability to run but his personality and just the way he conducts himself, and that beautiful, beautiful stride that carried him to the easy victory today in the 1. 75 million William Hill Haskell here on the breeders cup challenge series. He wins the breeders cup. Special thanks to the industrys official data base for thoroughbred racing. Saturday the challenge continues in saratoga with the whitney. Thats saturday 5 00 eastern on nbc. Coming up, except on the west coast, its your local news. And then its americas got talent followed by a
In a coma. A private Funeral Service was held yesterday near atlanta. Happening today, City Council Members are holding the town hall to tackle questions about a deadly legionnaires disease outbreak. The number of cases climbing now in the south bronx. Four people are now dead, 71 others sick. Health officials expect to see even more cases. The town hall is tonight, 6 00 to 8 00 p. M. At bronx museum of the arts. 4 34 just about. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Its monday morning. As michael says, it was feel more pleasant. I thought so. The humidity is coming back, right . Compared to what we had over the weekend, it is coming back. It was a fantastic weather weekend. Today the mugginess creeps back in. Especially by later this afternoon. You can see in the weather headlines, continued hot temperatures near 90 all weekend long. Well do that again today. Tracking a chance for storms tonight and tomorrow. We have a cooldown coming our way deeper into the week. Heres a live look
Well start with Raphael Miranda. Raphael, we havent had a triple digit day in the summer, have we . No. Havent had a heat wave. Its like 89, raphi. Kept saying 89. That was the third day of the heat wave. Never happened. Weve had a string of 90degree days, though. Were going to get close again today and tomorrow. Flirting with 90. Youll see in the weather headlines, the heat does continue. Were turning up the humidity hey bit. It was comfortable over the weekend. That is ending a little bit. Chance for storms later tonight, especially north and west of the city. Then a cooldown is coming. No 90s towards the end of the week. Mostly clear right now. A quiet start in Westchester County and Rockland County. This is our weather maker later this afternoon. If you live well north and west of new york city, this cold front approaches, sparking off a few showers and thunderstorms. Probably just in time for the evening commute. Thats well north and west. Sullivan county, pike county, pennsylvani