I was on 24 hour a day dialysis, a feeding tube, trach. It took me a long time to accept the fact i didnt know what was going on with me until i woke up. I thought it was the next day. And when i looked at my body, i realized i had lost a third of my weight. Reporter he was in a coma for a month. At that point, he weighed only 79 pounds. It was then that doctors diagnosed him with legionnaires disease. Hes one of eight people who contracted the illness in coop city in january. He was doing flooring work across the street from the cooling towers. Today sitting here, seven months after his ordeal, despite the daily struggles he faces, he says he still considers himself one of the lucky ones, especially when he thinks of the south bronx where the death toll from legionnaires disease continues to rise. This is not a joke. You know, it shut my organs down completely, you know. My prayers go out to every one of them. They dont know what theyre in for. In april, he and his attorney filed suit against coops owners claiming they knew about the legionella bacteria, but didnt do what was needed to protect untold numbers of people who could have been exposed. That includes the duty to test, the duty to inspect, to disinfect when needed. This is a travesty for him, whats happened to him, something that could have been avoided. The more recent outbreak brings it to the forefront that there has to be accountability. I believe this, you know. Nothing is impossible. Nothing. And the fact that im sitting here here is a miracle. Reporter we reached out to the defendants named in the lawsuit against coop city. But did not get a response. From the newsroom, jennifer lahmers, fox 5 news. Back over to you. Dari jen, thank you. This is a very big night for a lot of reasons. Right now seven republican president ial hopefuls are going head to head in cleveland. Antwan thats because its the first debate of the 2016 campaign season. 10 more will follow, including donald trump and chris christie. Dari ben is live at the quicken loans arena in cleveland with the latest on the quest for the gop nomination. Reporter hey. Cleveland. A mild 72 degrees. Were outside the quicken loans arena in downtown cleveland where the action is underway. The seven candidates you mentioned who did not qualify for tonights debate taking part in the forum. More on that in a moment. In the meantime, anticipation in cleveland has been building for weeks and across the country, dozens of media crews are lined up outside this arena, the home of the cavaliers and lebron james. Security is tight. Weve seen bomb sniffing dogs checking trash cans outside. Inside, its a huge venue. The stage is set for tonights prime time debate only on the Fox News Channel. 4,500 people will take part in the audience for that debate, along with the 10 candidates who qualified. We did see one of those candidates. Theyve been going through their walkthroughs throughout the day today. Ben carson came into the facebook lounge. This is a partnership between fox news and facebook. He answered some questions for the social media site, and he was asked what he thinks about donald trump. Heres what he had to say. I think hes popular because he speaks his mind. And he doesnt seem to care very much about what people think about it. And thats kind of a refreshing thing. Thing. Reporter these are the positions for tonights debate. Ben carson toward the middle of the stage. At the very middle. Donald trump next to jeb bush. Donald trump tweeted out earlier today i look forward to tonights debate. The word debate in quotes, but look far more forward to making America Great again. As i mentioned earlier, going on right now, the forum on the Fox News Channel right now for the seven candidates who did not qualify for tonights debate. Among them, former Texas Governor rick perry and former new york governor george pataki. Well have more on what is said in the next hour at 6 00. Live in downtown cleveland, back to you in new york. Dari going to be a big night. Thank you. Antwan were learning more about the man who pepper sprayed a movie theatre in tennessee before he was killed by police. Police say he also brought along a propane lighter as well as propane lighter fluid. They feared he may have been wanting to set off an explosive device, but a gash on the canister meant it wouldnt work. He attacked three people. Police believe the 29yearold was homeless and suffered from significant psychological issues. Dari theres been an arrest in the shooting of two people after a hiphop concert in new jersey that happened earlier on this week. The 27yearold was booked on two counts of attempted homicide as well as weapons charges. Police say that he opened fire outside the pnc Bank Art Center monday night after a big sean and jay cole show. Two men suffered multiple gunshot wounds and are in critical but stable condition. He is being held on 750,000 bail. Mayor de blasio is rolling out a 6 billion plan to tackle the citys growing homeless problem. Antwan a key part is to get help for those mentally ill. Lisa evers is live at city hall with details on this new hi. Reporter hi. Here at city hall this afternoon, the mayor detailed the plan to deal with the mentally ill who are prone to violence. Now instead of a revolving door of hospitals and jails, theyre aiming for a longterm solution. A new quinnipiac poll found that 53 percent of those questioned are seeing more homeless on city streets than in recent years. Reports of random attacks by mentally ill people are more common. The de blasio administrations response is a new program called nyc safe, to protect the public. Nyc safe specifically focuses on people with a Mental Health challenge and a history of violence, a proven mental challenge and a proven history of violence. When those two elements come together, this plan is activated. Reporter the city will target mentally ill people with violent tendencies whether theyre on the street or in private homes. The idea will be to identify them before its too late and an innocent person is hurt. In many of the cases weve all read about, there was always somebody who worried about that person. But didnt have a way to act on it. Reporter the first lady is helping to lead the 22 million effort. This initiative has been constructed to increase Public Safety and provide longterm solutions to folks who struggle reporter the plan calls for police to communicate with the department of health and Mental Hygiene in realtime and train police to recognize the signs. Whats new is were training officers, over 5,000 officers and the in the future well be going with city agencies as a team. Team. Reporter the mayor says if they commit a crime, they will be arrested like anybody else. But the difference here is they will receive Mental Health treatment while in custody. Were live at city hall, im lisa evers, fox 5 news. Back to you. Dari thank you. Antwan new york city and the Uniformed Firefighters Association have reached a tentative agreement on a new seven year contract. The financial terms were not announced, but as part of the deal, the city has agreed to restore disability benefits for firefighters who are seriously hurt on the job. Currently only firefighters hired before 2009 qualify for those benefits. Theres part of the agreement that needs to be ratified in albany. Dari preparations for the popes visit to the u. S. Next month in full swing right now. Antwan workers in westchester will be crafting the chair and altar he will be using during a mass at Madison Square garden. Linda schmidt was there as the cardinal inspected their handiwork. Reporter this is the chair that is currently being built that pope francis is going to be using next month to celebrate mass at Madison Square garden. The vatican had one request for its design. It needed to be simple, poor and humble. Craftsmen are busy building the chair for the holy father and making the altar linen. Cardinal dolan visited the workers to check their progress. It was the cardinal who selected immigrant day workers, saying they are especially close to the heart of pope francis. Theyre part of a grassroots commute group. We thought not only would it mean a lot to pope francis, it would mean a lot to the workers, to think that theyre doing something for the glory of god. Reporter the chair which the pope will use to celebrate mass is made of oak. The trim will be stained red mahogany. This will be the finished project. They realize this is a once in a lifetime honor. I feel pretty good, you know. This is only one time for a long time, you know, for in my life. I am very happy i working on this one. Its not just a chair, you know. Its not just gluing and gluing and nailing and painting. Its not just a chair. Its the connectivity, the spiritual connectivity. Cardinal dolan defended immigrants against political attacks including comments made by donald trump. They are allies. They are proud, hardworking people who have tremendous skills, and they enhance our culture and our society. They help our economy. Antwan reporter they may get the opportunity to see the pope in person. Linda schmidt, fox 5 news. Dari i bet they will. Antwan absolutely. Dari hes that type of pope. Antwan awesome guy. All right. Natural products we understand are more popular than ever. Dari we will introduce you to the women who started their own natural tampon company. Antwan and a bizarre sight in times square. Well explain why all these people are wearing masks. William shatner appears to be going somewhere no antwan many Health Conscious women shop for organic beauty products. Dari a pair of entrepreneurs decided to start offering all natural feminine products. And Alison Morris is here with their story. There are a lot of layers to this issue. Reporter its fantastic. These arent products that come in conversation. We dont sit around talking about feminine products. But the founders of lola discovered that when you get women talking about tampons, they have a lot to say and they have a lot of questions about whats in the products theyve been using for all these years. I was running to the store every month, knowing that i needed those products, but i never had them. Reporter so they teamed up to create lola that delivers tampons to your door. The goal, to make things easier for women and better for them, too. Lola is 100 percent Cotton Tampons in a bpa plastic free applicator. Its just cotton. We didnt know what we had been putting in our bodies. Reporter most women didnt either. Kieran spends a lot of time talking to ladies about the products they use. We ask, hey, whats in your tampon . What do you think . There was always a few seconds of line. Lola launched last month but theyve been working on the brand a year. Raising 1. 2 million in funding from a combination of angel and institutional investors, many of them men. We would go in with the product and put it on the table. The first conversation is this is a tampon. This is how women use it. Some men had never seen one. They really got it. They were excited about the business from the beginning. Reporter women are getting lola, too, like this supermodel who instagramed this lola box as the shelfy campaign. How does it work . Start by heading to my lola. Com. You custom your box of 18. You can get many light, regular, supers as you want. The next is pick how many boxes do you want, one or two. The third step is whats the cadence for delivery . Every month or every other month . You can adjust, skip or cancel. Reporter how did they lands on the name lola . We wanted a name that was cool, sophisticated, a little sexy, reminded nobody of their period. Theres a Family Member who has that name, and so we were like, okay, sorry, but were going to use this name. Now its a tampon brand. Now its a tampon brand. Reporter whats next . They hope to expand to include a variety of products and theyre working on business partnerships and the program to get it in bathrooms around the country. One box is 10. Two are 18. The first two box order is 9 bucks. Dari theyre taking deliveries now . Reporter they started last month. They bring everything to your door. No need to schlep to the drugstore. Dari wonderful. The greatest International Scavenger hunt the world has ever seen is taking place over the big apple. Thats the actual name of the week long event that deploys hundreds of people across the city in hopes of completing inspiring and weird challenges, a la the shatner thing. As you see, participants had to wear William Shatner masks today as they followed instructions jumbotron. We come every day this week, do a challenge and then we get points for the challenge. Hopefully to win a trip to costa rica. Im having a great time. I got to meet a ton of tourists and dress up in a kale tutu. Cant get better than that. Antwan kale tutu. Dari thousands of participants from more than 100 countries are taking part in the hunt, which runs through saturday. Boy, i was thinking to myself, its so lucky the weather for good for this. Who would want to be running antwan i thought you were going to say you were going to put on a William Shatner mask. Dari no. Id rather put on a kale tutu. Antwan hi, nick. Nick hello. The weather was great. We had a drop in the temperatures. The humidity was low. Really perfect august day. 83, 67. There was a bit of mid clouds from time to time, but overall nice. 84, 69 average. Were back where we should be for this time of year. 97 the record high. 57 the record low. 82 now. Humidity still quite dry. Only 34 percent. We are seeing some high clouds moving in. Wind out of the north and the pressure 29. 90 and falling. Theres a mid deck of clouds, but as you look at fox 5 sky guardian, no rain nearby. There are showers west of philly going back to harrisburg and beyond. Thats the system weve been talking about all week. Looks like a near miss for new york city and it looks like there could be a few showers moving through central and southern new jersey tonight and the first part of tomorrow morning before that system heads out to sea. 88 poughkeepsie for their high. Didnt get out of the 70s in parts of northern new jersey. We talked about that happening today. And bridgeport. But it was low 80s across long island. 82 down to belmar. 85 towards newark. Were in the 70s to lower 80s across the area. Sussex hanging on to 77. 77 at belmar. Montauk, a comfortable 78. A nice evening is coming up. The clouds will be increasing as we go through the evening with the system off to the south and the wind will come around again basically out of the north. It will be light, north to northeast at 5, 10 miles an hour. Heres fox 5 sky guardian 3d. Heres the precipitation shield. You see its generally driving eastward. I think the risk of the shower threat occurs across central to southern new jersey into tomorrow. Youll look at that on futurecast in a second. Cloud cover will be around. A bit of cloud cover tomorrow and then clouds give in to sun. The system will continue to slide off to the south and east. Wont be a big factor. Theres more of the cloud cover and mid and upper 60s in the morning. 77 lunchtime. More sun in the afternoon. Well still get into the middle 80s tomorrow. Were on the edge. The main rain stays off to the south. And that goes out to system saturday. A good august weekend is coming up. Its mild tonight. Tomorrow, clouds and sun. Late tonight and tomorrow morning the risk of a shower. Central, southern new jersey. Back to 84 tomorrow afternoon as the sunshine gets to work. Then we get into the weekend. Sunshine both days. Some clouds at times, but 84 saturday. 82 sunday. Maybe a shower and thunderstorm later monday. A better chance during tuesday. The entire day as we stay around 80. Back to the lower 80s as we improve for wednesday and thursday. Looking good most of the time. The weekend looks okay. Dari it does. Nick last weekend was good too. I hope youre taking notes. Dari i remember it all. Antwan well, if you want to see the three little pigs, check out an exhibit at the Prospect Park zoo. The curious and intelligent creatures are the smallest breed and are known for their spots. Theyre joining chicken, goats, sheep in the barn area. Dari pretty pigs. Adorable. Well, a new look at one of the citys most polluted waterways. Antwan simone boyce takes a trip on the ga Gowanus Canal. Dari and trying to fight sexism in the workplace. [africanstyle music] take my hand to the land take my hand to the land, whoaoh narrator only one family goes to incredible lengths to make sure your family time never becomes endangered. Kalahari resorts. Now open in the pocono mountains. Book now at kalahariresorts. Com so, i needed to deposit a check. I was about to head to the bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. Like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone. Mobiledeposittechnothingy to the rescue. Im rayna. And i bank human at td bank. Dari the Gowanus Canal in brooklyn has had a big pr problem for quite a while. Antwan for quite a while. One activist isnt ready to give up on the polluted waterway. Simone boyce is here to tell us how hes trying to raise awareness. Reporter everyone will think im nuts for doing this. And i am. I welcome it. I looked up on google the weirdest things to do in brooklyn. I saw this. I thought it would be really interesting. I want to do this. I know im crazy. On this tour of this historic superfund site, i got more than i bargained from, including a unique perspective on brooklyns beginnings. I have a tour guide, owen foot, and he runs the dredgers society. Theyre about restoring the canal and getting new yorkers to appreciate the canal and hopefully clean it up one day. Hey, owen. Welcome to the Gowanus Canal. Thank you. So glamourous. Reporter you enjoy this, canoeing on the canal . When we first started the program, people said youre out of your mind. Nobody will go canoeing. Weve had 20,000 people canoeing and chi kayaking and rowing and paddling in the harbor. Reporter the next time i see you, ill be a super hero with mutant powers. And were off. Reporter this is wild. I feel like were paddling through a land that time forgot. Theres barges, i think, on the right, old tires and rusty fences on the left, concrete plants. This is crazy. There is an underlying smell, kind of like rotten eggs a little bit. Oh, this is so gross. Can we get out of this area a little bit . This is nasty. Is that what i think i