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announcer: it s 10:00 p.m. do you announcer: it s 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are? right now on fox 5 news at 10:00 p.m. dari: dire warnings about legionnaires disease after 100 cases in 10 deaths have been reported. the city officials are doing to get that outbreak under control. we are going to start seeing them disinfecting cooling towers across the city. the cdc is also sending in a team to investigate. arthur has more. reporter: that s right, such a long incubation period that is involved. city officials believe that the numbers continue to go up even though they believe it s under control. three additional cases identified, two additional deaths reported. a total of 100 cases in 10 deaths. reporter: the unprecedented outbreak of the legionnaires has reached triple digits in cases and double digits in lives claimed. now that the source has been treated, in the south bronx would have filled a larger proportion of patients than usual. the sense ....
and effective death penalty reform act which made it nearly impossible to use habeas corpus to free innocent prisoners. despite all of the setbacks come 2002 was a blockbuster year for the innocence movement. 25 people were exonerated by dna testing. still the highest number of dna exonerations in any one year to date. teenage exonerations became part of the public consciousness and people starte are starting to understand that the system made mistakes. it also is a big year for mike mcalister. people have forgotten about him, but his mom wrote to frank green, reporter at the richmond times dispatch who began writing about his case. a new lawyer also signed on to help mike and defiled a partner s petition within virginia governor mike warner. virginia was no stranger to the problem of wrongful convictions and had seen its share of eyewitnesses but in 2003, mike s petition was denied. the governor s staff said they would be one thing if my cat dna evidence, but he didn t ....
itself issues. texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. and these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. and in response, they re issued identification vehicles. identification cards. but the state of texas has seen fit to say, that s not valid in order to vote. and i think that one example, and we ve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. it s a sham. the whole argument behind it is that we re trying to protect the integrity of the voting system. here s the problem. you re protecting the integrity of the voting system by imposing a solution in search of a problem. because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. in fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion i ....
brought to the up and rising stars on wall street and the legends out there. kate kelly is here covering all the big movers out of the events today. kate, we have a long list of movers to cover. that s right. maybe i ll just start with carson block from muddy waters. he presented a short on bank of the ozarks. they were down 14% in the opening minute or two of the presentation. he thinks he s worried about the unfunded loans within the real estate portfolio among many other things. so that was a really interesting case. creton polleymer. that is a chemical company. that is a pong position presented by david rosen. and that popped about 8% or 9% on his thesis. way also heard a remarkable presentation from larry robins of glenview capital. he had a really rough 2015. reportedly has had a rough start to the year, too. he s known for his prowess at picking health care stocks. if you like the fundamentals but not the stock price, hang in there. i have no actionable ideas t ....
a little more than a year since the disastrous government shut down by a do nothing congress. they agreed on a spending bill that will keep the government funded through september. lawmakers have until tomorrow evening to read it before a suspected vote hours ahead before the trigger point of another government shutdown. republicans only approved funding for the department of homeland security until february. homeland security handles immigration, so the bill will give republicans a chance this winter to block president obama s executive order that protects five million unauthorized immigrants. in this bill however, there is a lot more from federal spending. in the horse trading that prompted this preliminary agreement, both sides agree to the ten-fold increase to what donors can give to the international party. they prevent the district of columbia to use it s own money to regulate marijuana, which voters legalized last month. it legalized swaps and regulations on tr ....