couple weeks ago. we brought that to 3 inches, again kind of show you 2021 coming in with number one and number two heaviest rain events with a short duration there in new york city. so the atmosphere is absolutely saturated. i often talk about this when a comes to let s say looking at the climate change anglech and we know for every 1 degrees celsius our planet warms and our atmosphere holds about 7% more water vapors. when you warm the atmosphere you re able to retain more moisture and what goes up must come down and that s what s happening here across new york city. pedram, correct me if i m wrong. we expected to have some bad weather here in the northeast. i m not sure they expected this amount of rain and also to, you know, have tornado warnings in the northeast and actually, you know, there was a tornado. we saw the video of it in new jersey. yeah. we had a couple the storm prediction center give us a high risk of 4 out of 4 for excessive
and disinfecting the towers in the bronx. andrew cuomo putting trained health inspectors and city health workers to test the water cooling towers and testing for the bacteria. people get sick from breathing in water vapors contaminated with the bacteria. it is not contagious from person-to-person. as many as 18000 people are infected nationwide over the year. and 500 in new york and rare for so many in one community to have gotten it here like they have is in the south bronx. fi five new locations tested positive and they were disinfected. two locations less than a mile from yankee stadium. what will they do to prevent it from happening again. it is very scary.
legionnaire s disease outbreak has been contained and the worst of it is behind us. but they still don t know why exactly this unprecedented outbreak happened in the first place. over the last month, 108 people have gotten sick from legionnaire s disease here if the south bronks, new york. ten people have died. there have been no new deaths in the last two days and no new diagnoses in a city in the last four days. the mayor says they are sure the outbreak began in water cooling towers in five locations in the south bronks which tested positive for back tear why which causes legionnaire s disease. a type of severe pneumonia. cooling temperatures provide cool air and heat for buildings. people get sick from legionnaire s from breathing in water vapors contaminated with the bacteria. you don t get from drinking water and it is not contagious. the city and the state have now been testing and disinfecting water cooler towers throughout the bronks. governor cuomo deploying 150
the officials are taking samples testing for bacteria which causes legionnaires disease, a type of pneumonia. we recognize the community rightfully so is nervous in any kind of situation of this nature. and from the standpoint what the government has asked is to make sure that we solve this problem. reporter: now, people get sick from legionnaires from breathing in water vapors contaminated with that bacteria. you don t get it from drinking it. it s not contagious from person to person. so far 101 people have been diagnosed in the south bronx, new york. ten people have died. now, the cdc says as many as 18,000 people across the nation are infected every year with legionna legionnaires disease. but it s rare so many people in one community have contracted it during this time. what s most unfortunate about it is it preys on people who are
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