The people they are monitoring for potential exposure to ebola from 100 to just 50. And only 10 of those 50 people are considered highrisk. The white house is holding a briefing at this very moment, youre seeing pictures of it right here, talking about the governments role and its response to the crisis. The headlines are this. Assurances from officials that they have this thing under control. Also the United States will beef up the response effort in west africa and assist the government there to get the crisis under control. Take lacen. Every Ebola Outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. We know how to do this and we will do it again. With americas leadership, im confident and the president obama is confident that this epidemic will also be stopped. Were going to continue to monitor this briefing during the show. Well bring you any news that we get. Meantime lets dr. Bob lah independent da of beth israel medical center. Gerri, great to be here. Gerri you heard the Governmen
Outside. Mike nicco joins us. Im right about that. You do have to breathe, correct . Yes, or you two can hold a contest while i do the weather and see who can hold their breath the longest. All right. All kidding aside, todays big story, the heat. It will peak everywhere, even out to the beaches. Heat advisory until 9 00 for all of us. Lets see those high temperatures as we look at the lack of cloud cover and the lack of a breeze. Inland, 93 to 96. Look at the coast. Mid to upper 80s. Wouldnt be surprised if a few 90s pop up there. Around the bay, 91 to 95. As we mentioned, unhealthy air today. It is a spare the air. Please, be careful if youre outside. Leyla . Yeah, spare the air. Take mass transit. We can all help and do our part to eliminate some of the pollution. We have 34 b. A. R. T. Trains running on time. Ace train number one is also running smoothly. Take a look at this. Your drive through berkeley, pretty empty. Not too bad as you head into the maze. Thats going to be your he
here is a live look at philadelphia. Big changes are coming. Lets look at radar. See the green band there off to the left . It looks like its past east of cincinnati . That system is going to bring rain to our area. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking the system that could affect our weekend plans. Right . Its going to affect weekend plans as we head into saturday. Keep that in mind. A closer look at headlines. Cloudy conditions today. A rainy start to your weekend. A rainy saturday morning. And then cooler temperatures in store for us as we head into sunday. Our right now conditions at 68. A mix of sun and clouds. Humidity at 70 . Wind at 11 miles per hour. Satellite radar shot knows clouds throughout most of our area, in allentown, philadelphia and right along the shore. We are going to look to the west. This system will bring us rain as we head into your overnight hours tonight. Dont expect any rainfall until after midnight. Lingering as we head into the r
Specialist. That is where we will find Eyewitness News reporter Charlotte Huffman who talk with doctors there about how the cameraman could have contracted this virus. Charlotte. Reporter chris, doctors hearsay it is important to know and for people to remember, that it is only contagious if the infect person is actually experiencing active symptoms. Infectious disease doctor neil fishman says ebola is not transmitted true air or casualty contact. You are not going to contract ebola by shaking, and certainly in the by sitting next to someone. It is not transmitted, like a respiratory tract infection. Reporter the contagious person has to get into your bloodstream. Doctor fishman says that can happen two ways. Fit is ingested, and, and significant amount of bodily fluids from an infected person. Blood on your hand, diarrhea on your bare hands, or your bladder, splattered with some blood or other body fluid. Reporter his mom says that, he thinks that he could have gottene bowl through sk
Is enterovirus d68 but to date, the paetschs that weve reported today from c. H. O. P. Have not been confirmed to have enterovirus d68 infection. Reporter three cases may not seem like a lot but in a year, they would normally only see maybe four to eight cases. To see three cases in the last two months here is quite a bit something theyre concerned about. One initial test of one of the children being treated here has shown they are exposed to an enterovirus. Its to early to tell if any of these children were exposed to enterovirus d68. Live at Childrens Hospital, lu ann cahn, nbc 10 news. The enterovirus d68 is in 43 states including pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. There are more than 100 other types of enteroviruses. As news of this surfaces, concerns are spreading as well. Definitely. Nbc 10s christine madella is live at a south jersey Urgent Care Center today. A lot of folks are worried, even Staff Members are worried. We just stepped out of this advanced care center, advance