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Antwan and tonight a fourth person has died in legionnaires disease in the south bronx now the investigation is underway to track down that source opinion hello good evening everyone im antwan lewis christina is off. New York City Health department announced fourth death today. 60 cases have been reported in the south bronx since early a last month. Fox 5 Lidia Curanaj has the very latest from the mott haven neighborhood. The cooling tower here at Lincoln Hospital is one of five site it ises that tested positive for the bacteria that caused legionnaires disease. All five sites decontaminated but people here in the bronx say they cant help but wonder is the worst over . We have to walk around around we have to breathe. Yet that is how 65 people in the south bronx were sickened with legionnaires disease. They all inhale ....
Reporting from the south bronx, Jennifer Lahmers, fox 5 news. Back to you. Dari without a doubt. Thank you. And later in our show, foxs dr. Manny alvarez is going to join us and tell you all about the legionnaires outbreak. If you have any questions about the disease, tweet me at Dari Alexander or Alison Morris at fox 5. Extra security tonight for the big sean concert at Madison Square concert. Dari two people were hurt in a shooting last night. Lisa evers tells us about the Safety Measures that are being put in place tonight and the hunt for the shooter. Reporter tour comes to the garden tonight. It was a sold out show. Across the river in new jersey, state police are still looking for the gunman who opened ....
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 ....
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 ....
Dari we appreciate that. Steve the mayor taking flak for his absence during the standoff. Dari particularly because he was working out at a gym in park slope, brooklyn. Dan bowens is live on Staten Island to tell us how the mayor has responded to all this criticism. Reporter this all unfolded on Destiny Court in Staten Island on the other side of that large black nypd vehicle. Officers out here still collecting evidence. You can see the yellow evidence markers, likely many of the shell casings that were fired during the shootout. While the shootout and standoff unfolded, mayor de blasio as you mentioned was at a gym working out according to his aides for 80 minutes, the mayor refusing to answer questions about this as he briefed the public on what happened here according to the nypd. The suspect set off a smoke bomb when po ....