announcer: it is 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are: right now on fox 5 news at 10:00: we have 81 reported cases can of legionnaire s dy sews and seven deaths. legion in ale disease running wild through the south bronx as the death toll continues to rise? a pelham meet was held where city health leaders righting there announced the updated numbers and tried to calm resident s concerns. they have traced that dy sees five south bronx buildings. it is unclear which wince spreading the bacteria. fox 5 s stacey delikat has the latest. good evening, stacey. at 6:00, the town hall meeting begins here at the bronx museum behind me that will feature representatives from the health department, and from the office of emergency management, they will giving the latest facts and also trying to dispel rumors. now let s recap the latest numbers. according to the most recent information from the mayor s office, four people have died from the disease. i am concerned. mo
reporting from the south bronx, jennifer lahmers, fox 5 news. back to you. dari: without a doubt. thank you. and later in our show, fox s dr. manny alvarez is going to join us and tell you all about the legionnaire s 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 fire in the parking lot after the performance. hip-hop superstar j. cole of st. john s university has been selling out venues all over the world. after monday night s performance at the pnc center, new jersey state police say someone shot and wounded two people i
steve: gangster rap alive and well with many artists maintaining their ties to street gangs, this is not just east coast-west coast feud we knew of in 9s. they reflect what they see on streets, they personalize it, lisa evers with break it down. allison. and antwan, hip-hop has grown. now some wonder if line between gangster rap, and gang afilliated with too blurred. you don t have too look too hard for gang colors or tattoos in hip-hop, lil wayne makes no secret of his assessiation with bloods in atlanta, in los angeles the game, haven t r&b singer chris brown is seen in red, all hip-hop to the come ceo, said that when you are a easy target. i don t think that have is pressure on rapperring to join gangs but i think that rappers get in the game it is like jail or something, where whether you get in you have to find an association that is stronger than you as an individual. reporter: for many gangs are what they see of day in their neighborhood, said big by from br
i was on 24 hour a day dialysis, a feeding tube, trach. it took me a long time to accept the fact i didn t 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. he s one of eight people who contracted the illness in co-op 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 don t know what they re in for. in april, he
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 of al