Announcer its 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at 10 00 p. M. Dari legionnaires disease has been detected in another location in our area. A worker from Rockland County has contracted the disease. Sky sox is over the plant where the person worked. This is breaking tonight. We have no word if this patient in Rockland County had any contact in the south bronx. That is where more than 100 cases of legionnaires disease has been found. Sky fox flew over the corporation tonight. There is no evidence that the unidentified worker contracted to bear. A Company Spokesperson says that the cooling towers on the roof were treated to kill any potential bacteria and we did confirm activity at about 8 00 p. M. Tonight on the real. In the meantime the cdc is there to help with the outbreak and arthur has more. Reporter thats right, at least 500 legionnaires cases have been reported. The city. Optimism is the word that Public Officials have been using because the
Risen to 108. Meantime, the state is also now involved in trying to curb this outbreak. State employees plan on testing 100 cooling towers in the bronx today. Today Governor Cuomo dispatched approximately 150 state workers to test cooling towers on buildings all across the bronx for the bacteria that causes legionnaires disease. New York State Health commissioner, dr. Howard zucker. Id like to see those numbers go to zero and that we have no cases, no other mortalities. The pneumonialike illness has already taken ten lives and sickened more than a hundred others in the south bronx. Five towers have tested positive, and in a press conference this afternoon, the mayor explained the difficulty in tackling the outbreak which began three weeks ago. When this began, no one, understandably, had reason to think that cough might be something much worse, that shortness of breath might be something much worse because we had never had such an outbreak before. City officials are now requiring that
Right now on fox 5 news at 10 but we do know clearly weve had no new cases reported in the last four days. Some encouraging words from mayor de blasio who says the citys deadly legionnaires outbreak has been contained. Hello and good evening, everyone, im Christina Park. Antwan has the night off. The mayor announced no new deaths from the legionnaires outbreak in the south bronx, even though five additional buildings tested positive for this potentially deadly bacteria. All this while state Health Officials have sent out crews to test cooling towers in the infected areas. Lydia she ran knew is in the norwood section of the bronx, a lot of people worried out there tonight, lydia. Absolutely, christina. The cooling tower here at the hospital is one of about 100 state employees tested. Now, this is, obviously, a huge outbreak thats been happening, so 108 cases have been reported so far. So thats gone up. Now we have ten infected buildings, all of which have been decontaminated, but the ma
Suspension for the role in using underinflated footballs during the afc championship game. The judge will have to decide if the punishment handed down by the commissioner will stand. Dari School Bus Accident in irvington, new jersey, this dozen people. The driver of the bus says she went out. That bus collided with an suv right there and slammed into a liquor store at the corner of sanford and springfield avenues. 11 children and two adults were on the bus. Lucky nobody was hurt. Steve a stretch of the new jersey turnpike is in business 24 hours after a crash involving two tractortrailer trucks. Crews reopened the lanes between interchanges 6 and 9 in East Brunswick earlier today. You can see the damage and fire marks on the highway. The roadway was shut down since last night when the rigs collided setting off the massive fire. Somehow miraculously, both drivers escaped without serious injury. Dari and new measures to regulate water cooling towers believed to be the source of the legio
Announcer its 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news at 10 00 p. M. Steve waiting on an overcrowded subway platform. It doesnt look like things are going to get better anytime soon. Why the delays appear to be getting worse. We are talking more than half a million train delays over the course of the past year. Dari it appears that the mtas respond is to lower its own standards. Arthur has more tonight in the village with reaction to a new on it. Reporter thats right, if you are unfamiliar with the goalpost, its when your kicker isnt Strong Enough to reach it end you move closer. And perhaps that is what is going on here. You never know. That is the trick, leaving early. Subway rides are probably a lot less stressful especially considering underground delays are becoming more common. The numbers that we just got show that its not quite nearly 92 or 90 . Mta trains are running on time 74 of the time and now it wants to change to 75 . Dont you want to im