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New york city housing courts, the bronx hall of justice, and a post office and samuel governorrers high school. They have been disinfected. The cause is one of the five original sites tested positive. They dont know if it was one or more of those. The office is trying to figure out why this occurred now. This is literally unchartered territory and its very important that we acknowledge that. We have never seen an outbreak of ledge theirs like this in the history of new york city. Reporter the outbreak deemed a wakeup call by new york city mayor bill de blasio with 108 cases, according to him. His office didnt know how many cooling towers are in the south bronx or where they are located until now. The towers are where the bacteria grows and can spread casing a type of ammonia. We have used aviation, a variety of methodologies to canvas a part of our city looking for something we havent had to look for before and then meted oddically going build i by building. Reporter tomorrow all build
To track down and disinfect possible sources of the bacteria. Good evening. I am sandra bookman. Dozens of wilderness were tested and disinfected today. The number of cases now stands at 108. But no n new cases have been diagnosed in four days. Ten have died. Five new tested positive for the legionella bacteria. Reporter well, we begin with the good news. City officials now believe that the legionnaires outbreak is now contained. However, they continue to find the legionella bacteria in new locations, including the bronx county hall of justice behind me. Five more buildings in the bronx were disinfected today disinfected today. The additional sites are at this bronx courthouse. New york city house court, Ava Post Office on the grand concourse. This is unchartered territory. Reporter according to the mayor this has been learn as you go. They didnt even have a comprehensive list of cooling towers in the bronx, which is where it can breed. We have to canvas a part of our city. Today the g
Details on injuries. Good morning, everybody. A live picture from our camera in brooklyn over Lower Manhattan, and another gorgeous shot to cap off a gorgeous second half of the weekend. To me it was pretty much spectacular, and its on repeat today. We are just lucky. You know what . Thank you thank you all for watching, thats all we have. Nice, nice, nice. Im toni yates in for michelle charlesworth. And im rob nelson. Always glad to have you. It is. Is this going to be like a 20 weekend . I think it may be a 19 weekend. It may be a 19. Yesterday was a 10, and today may be a 9. A few more clouds are coming our way, and it all has to end. Nothing scientific to make it that much worse. Just high thin clouds, leftovers for yesterday, and 68 degrees right now in central park. Looking at the numbers across the board it appears as though we could get back into the low to mid80s again. A high of 82 degrees yesterday afternoon. 68 humidity. Winds are calm right now, and cold spring is sat 53.