Digging through the debris realizing just how much they lost. Two feet of water, soaked everything. Including the family piano. It was my wifes something that was very valuable to my wife. Reporter life remains difficult for many. 5,000 are still sleeping in red cross shelters. More than 130,000 properties are damaged. Overall, some 223,000 people have applied for federal harvey assistance, with 305 million approved. But what lies beneath the floodwaters is becoming a growing concern. Along with exposure to mold, toxins are floating around too. Tested floodwaters by Baylor College of medicine and Rice University show some neighborhood are contaminated with lead and arsenic as well as bacteria like e. Coli found in one area levels 135 times what its considered safe. Baylor college of medicines researcher helped lead the research. What we are seeing bacterial levels that are roughly 20, 30 times hyperthan what we are seeing right outside of the same place. Is it going to get worse . Yes.
Equifax about the hack that exposed Sensitive Information about 143 million customers including Social Security numbers, birthdays, and drivers licenses. Pure gold to thieves. Anna werner spoke with a victim. Business professor David Anderson fell victim to two other major hacks and now equifax as he showed us. They think youre impacted. Im their product taking my information telling me and release that out to who knows who. Eva valazquez says theyre getting an earful. Hearing from folks who are complaining that they dont understand what this means. And that they dont understand how they are supposed to react. The best step to take, a credit freeze. Thats where you instruct the credit reporting agencies to stop any one from accessing your Credit Information. For instance, as they would to offer you a new credit card. Credit freeze will lock the criminals out of oecuof opening accounts in your name. There are other types of identity theft. Medical. Criminal and governmental. At first eq
Heres meteorologist Matt Peterson with the eyewitness weather forecast. Good sunday morning. Feeling very much like fall on october 1st where did the time go. I dont know but we have turn the page to fall, extremely quickly. Fall started officially at the 22nd of september. Now we are a week or so after that and we are looking at temperatures that are really reminiscent of what we should be expecting for maybe the middle of the fall season rather then the beginning of the fall season with some 30s out there in a few areas this morning. Outside though down the shore, this is our scene in ocean city, live, looking outside, at a few folks that are out there on the beach, this morning, they are even joying the sand, even though it is a cool start down the shore, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s at the shore points water temperature still in the high 60s to around 70degree. Water temperature is 20 degrees warmer then actual air temperature. If you are going to be down the shore soaking
Involving two tractor trailers and several cars has shut down the turnpike in both directions. The violent impact in the northbound lane at 30 00 even knocked over a concrete divider. Two people are hurt but their injuries dont appear life threnning. This is Washington Township high school. Right now it is a troubled community because of racial discourse. Nerves are rubbed raw by a recent text message. There is racial tension at a new jersey suburban high school. This is not part of a lesson plan. Concerned parents came to where their concerns and grievances could be heard. Christie ileto is live at the show. Jim, we spoke to some of the students involved in the incident. They say they never resorted to violence. They wanted to confront the person that called them the n word as it quickly escalated, they found themselves suspended. One of the kids out of the group must have felt bad, so he screenshot it to one of my friends. They co confronted them. This is the source of the confrontat
Their concerns and grievances could be heard. Christie ileto is live at the show. Jim, we spoke to some of the students involved in the incident. They say they never resorted to violence. They wanted to confront the person that called them the n word as it quickly escalated, they found themselves suspended. One of the kids out of the group must have felt bad, so he screenshot it to one of my friends. They co confronted them. This is the source of the confrontation that led to this. They say their heated discussion end wd a teacher stepping in and two other friends getting suspended. I never threw a punch and he never through a punch. All we did was say why would you say that . Speaking passionately at an Emergency Community meeting, parents and students voice their concerns to the district. As long as you are talling people [bleep], its not the first time and nothing has been done about it. How are they going to prevent this from happening. As a parent, you shouldnt have to worry that