On the get severe storms alert tab right at the top of the screen and well walk you right through it. Turning to other news. Breaking news on the latest legionnaire cluster in the bronx. One person has died from that disease and the number of cases in morris park has jumped to ed ed 13 and this is also new. 15 cooling towers have now tested positive for the bacteria. John chandler is gathering details for us right now. John . Chuck, thats right. This is the first death that is attributed to this cluster here in morris park and that has residents i spoke here in the bronx downright terrified over this developing situation. It has the city even with all of those new cooling tower regulations that went into act this past september has the city fighting to stay in control of this. We have a situation here in this Broader Community that i want to say at the outset is different than what we experienced a couple weeks back in the south bronx. Calming fears in morris park, mayor bill deblasio
Take a listen. Its important for people to be prepared and to have information in addition to notify nyc. Reporter have emergency kits, have food thats not perishable. Thats what the city is saying. Also, we want to give you a live look at this boardwalk. Its new. The city has build nearly a mile of elevated boardwalk. Its designed on to d ed to be stronger in a storm. Those dunes we were talking about, six miles of dunes. One of them is right here. You can tell how high it is. Again, the conditions right now, windy and rainy. Back to you. So windy. I noticed it driving in this morning. Kat, thank you. All right. Now we want to check in with chris. I want to say overall, what a change from last friday and the weather we had last week to this week, right . Were talking about payback. Guess what, this is a week that turned out to be ugly and nasty, and the worst is yet to come. Rain covering a large portion of the area. Its generally a light rain. Doesnt feel like a light rain when its t
Management handed out emergency go bags to more than 150 concerned residents on the upper east side. It is still unclear what joaquin will do, but people who came out say they would rather be safe than sorry. I think well be prepared. I think its going to be okay. Reporter and officials at the meeting also helped people with their hurricane preparedness plans. They say they dont want to overly alarm people, but they want everyone in the city to sign up for notify nc yc alerts. You can track hurricane joaquin. Get Severe Weather alerts sent to your smartphone and advisories about road closures and other trouble spots. Go to nbcnewyork. Com. Click on the get severe storm alerts tab, and well walk you right through it. Stormy new questions tonight surrounding the mother accused of killing her newborn daughter. The woman also had an infant son at the time the medical examiner ruled that death an accident. But now investigators want to take another look at it. News 4s Michael George is live
Evacuations should be co i nsidered. 5 04 now. Lets get a check of the weather with raphi. Well in advance of Hurricane Joaquin, potentially affecting the tristate. We have a bit of a rough stretch. Its one of those cool and raw days. The winds picking up. We have some wind and rain to deal with, especially south and east of town on friday as we head into the afternoon. Of course, were tracking Hurricane Joaquin a major hurricane that could affect us as we head into the late weekend, early next week time frame. You can see on Storm Tracker some light showers right now off to the south and east. Very light, nothing heavy like what we saw overnight into yesterday. Your first forecast shows its cool outside. Jacket weather this morning. 56 degrees. Some 40s well north and west of town. We dont warm up today. No sunshine, lots of clouds, and temperatures stay in the school 60s. Its time to swap out that wardrobe for today. Much more of a fall feel on this thursday. Well have the latest on
Tall. Thats how tall this is. People. The idea is to prepare for something and hope it doesnt come rather than watch it come and be unprepared. This is not a drill. Belmar, new jersey, bulldozers have piled up sand barriers. Lake levels are being brought down. A thousand miles away, Hurricane Joaquin is casting a shadow over the weekend. For those who live here and witnessed the cost of being ill prepared, underestimating a hurricane is a cost they are unwilling to pay again. I cant believe it. You know, just to prepare for the hurricane again. Survive and we survived sandy. Now were not looking forward to this. Reporter waves pounding the new jersey coastline are already noticeably stronger. Surfing may be the only way of conditions. Smart. The cost wouldnt so much to the town but to the residents who rebuilt their homes after sandy, who spent tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild and stay in our community. Reporter heres the key to why were talking about Hurricane Joaqu