Youre making plans. August 1st. I know, i dont like it. Its moving too fast. Slow down, mother nature, slow down, relax. Well, really, if you think about it, summer is like two months. Here, yeah, exactly. Whats up with that . Its too short were robbed. I know, its brutal. Im not ready for it yet. Im rob nelson. Im michelle charlesworth. A nice day ahead and i think less humidity than a few days ago. Exactly. Keeping with yesterday. If you like the hot stuff, amy, this has been your week, huh . Thats right. I like the hot stuff we all like the hot weather, the three of us. Amen. Temperatures have been in the upper 80s, low 90s. We had 89 yesterday, were going to go for 90 again. A beautiful blue moon, by the way, last night. A lot of pictures sent in to social media. Thanks for all of those. Love to see what you saw last night. From brooklyn into lower manhattan, we have a beautiful look day in front of looking day in front of us. Look at the sun glistening on the buildings so gently.
Continue through early afternoon. Were going for a forecast high of 90 degrees. Coming up in just a few minutes well see if we can hold this for the second half of the weekend and ill show you the string of 90s ahead in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Michelle. All right, amy, thank you so much. Developing right now, major roadways shut down in brooklyn. Last nights water main break, giant one, still causing big problems this morning on flatbush avenue. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis joins us live from Prospect Heights right now with the details. Good morning, marcus. Reporter good morning, michelle. Well, fives still without water, but many more people were affected as they try to get around this mess on the roads. More on that in a second. Hear you with hear the jackhammer and see the work that continue, and this all because of a 12inch water main that burst yesterday. It happened around 8 15 on flatbush avenue and st. Marx avenue. So crews had to wait a little bit. There w
It could be anywhere. It could be anywhere. How do we know . Reporter Health Officials say they became aware of the first case around july 10. People with the disease live in highbridge, mont haven and hunts point. And the source has not been found. More than two dozen buildings were checked for the legionella bacteria which grows in warm water. The testing focused on cooling towers and the results came back positive for the concourse mall on 161st street, Lincoln Hospital, the Opera House Hotel and two more buildings. And this building that houses a plastics building and the building that the Health Department says includes offices for verizon. All are disinfected. We will see what happens in a affects anybody else. Symptoms include fever, cough, chills and muscle aches. Contagious. So it is not spread from person to person. People get sick after breathing water vapor from faucet, showers and whirlpools or cooling towers. And people middle aged and older are at highest risk especially
Over . By simply inhaling the air we breathe, thats how 65 people in the south bronx were sickened with the potentially deadly legionnaires disease. Four of them have died and 55 remain hospitalized. Thats public, you know, public places, thats very scary at a father. Reporter the outbreak was first detected on july 10th after all 17 commercial rooftop ac units were tested in the area, five came back positive for the area. The affected sites are lincoln hospital, concourse plaza, the opera house hotel, Verizon Office Building and the streamlined plastic company. Legionnaires disease is not contagious. Health officials suspect people were infected by inhailing the mist given off by infected units. Once a year inspectors from the city should go around and then thats part of maintenance. Reporter symptoms include high fever, coughing, aches, but it is highly treatable if you receive prompt medical attention. Officials say the water supply here in the bronx is completely safe. Still, many
Killing a lion in the same area where cecil the lion was shot. It comes a mid confusion about the state of another animal in that area. We will have the details for in you just a moment. The roads are cooperating. Dry. A cool down on the way. We are laughing about it because we are cooling down to the 80s. Really . I know youre just like whatever, but i remember the days, meisha, when we were just begging for 50 degrees day. Oh, wow. The cool down to 80. Exactly. What . I know. It takes a moment on a monday morning to get that in check. Humidity not too bad. It will be starting to ramp up on us a little bit. Because we are tracking a cold front. That will a lot of times start to get the southerly push of air, moisture source gets pushed in here, you ends up with just little more humidity. Right in you it doesnt feel too bad outside. Do you have really good start. We start things off quickly by getting you on out to whats going on with the pattern we talked about the cool down breaking