And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple
He called me and said, nana, my mama has died. Reporter she is a mother convinced this medical device played a role in her daughters death. Its called the vegas nerve stimulator or vns. Back in 2010, shelly thought it was the cure for her epileptic seizures. It is supposed to block seizure, but four months after surgery she started feeling abnormally painful feel anything. She said it shocked her really bad and almost dropped her to her knees. She planned to call the doctor on monday. She never made it to monday. She died on sunday. Reporter her daughter found her dead on the bathroom floor, her cause of death cardiac arrest brought on by a suspected seizure. I dont think well ever get over it. Shelly wasnt the only one complaining about the nerve problems with the device. Some of those reports had a startling discrepancy. I had to do a double take. There are a lot of reports in there that made me question the integrity of the reporters. Reporter a former fda consultant runs a company
Weather. Raphael miranda is standing by. And a break from the heat on the way. One more day to get through. Very muggy on this sunday. More unsettle the weather as well. Similar to yesterday. We saw scatter showeders and heavy downpours throughout the day. For some of you it was dry, a great beach day. For others it rained heavily. You can see we are tracking a few showers off to the east. Otherwise mostly cloudy around the city. Mild and muggy temperatures well into the 70s. 77 in central park. 76 for farmingdale. 70s in danbury. 60s off to the west. 64 at this hour in morristown. Those 70s in central park feel very sticky. Thats the same tropical air mass in place. Thats going to give us another round of showers and storms popping up. Isolated in nature through the early afternoon. Later today, towards the afternoon and evening, better chance for strong to severe thunderstorms moving through. We do have to watch out for that nasty weather as the day goes on. Well time out the storms
Two and a half. North wilmington bell ka two and a half. Kenneth square two. Philadelphia international, one inch of snow. Most places had between oneandone and a half inches and it doesnt take much to cause those problems when it is anyway the morning rush and its also 20 degrees when that happens. And speaking of temperatures its going down a whole lot more than that. Meteorologist seena mar convenient has more on that. Reporter the snowfall we had today im outside the studio on the patio, its very light, fluffy snow. So you really see how light and fluffy it is but when you walk on the sidewalk and cars drive on the road it creates slush and overnight tonight that will be refreezing. Temperatures well below freezing overnight tonight and then the winds pick up tomorrow and it becomes even colder. First alert weather day out into thursday morning. Refreezing tonight. High winds tomorrow and then into thursday we have negative wind chills setting up. Negative feels like temperatures w
Others hurt. Including a 4 Year Old Girl. And david henry live at cooper hospital in camden where the victims are being treated. David . Yeah, good afternoon, shirleen. Two of the victims, the most seriously injured are here at Cooper Medical Center right now in Critical Condition. One of them is a 4 year old child. Police say six people were . Were in the pick up truck, three in the cab and three riding in the open bed of the truck. All six were ejected when the truck flipped over. 35 year old jammes dennis riding in the cab was killed. The other two people in the cab, 45 year hold roselyn kornegay, who was driving, and a 4 Year Old Girl were critically injured. They were flown to Cooper Medical Center. The three in the truck bed were taken to Atlantic City medical certain. 19 year old Brian Gregory and 18 year old shaniqua dams. And the truck was headed westbound towards the city and just passed the Service Plaza and hit a guard rail and flipped over. And the accident shutdown the ex