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Lead the world in confirmed cases with more than 136,000 americans now infected. And that number is expected to rise as testing expands. Steve harrigan is live outside cdc headquarters in atlanta right now. Steve. Reporter jon, amid all the developments today, a few facts and figures do stand out. First, the death toll in new york state alone topping more than 965, that would place new york state by itself as eighth in the world as far as death toll goes. The other is texas is now expanding the ...

Government not doing . We are going to see the task force and the president in a little while give a press conference, but what are they not doing . Why do we keep hearing from governor newsom, Governor Cuomo, other governors, governor whitt mer in michigan, and it seemed like they are stable. But when we hear from the federal government, the president says things that sometime in midsentence he changes and were dealing with an unstable time. People are frightened, afraid, and we need stability ...

Billboard mass erred terd on muni buses in San Francisco. Is this free speech too far. Drug abuse not in back alley but at the pharmacy counter which state lawmakers want to do to stop that. Plus i worry about my kid every day she goes out of the house. Concern about crime in oakland. But we explain what happened today that has some local activist optimistic about the future. Bold move by hacker to be sure from Hillary Clinton to the Vice President. What cybervandal are doing with [ boy 1 ] hey ...

Far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, mainte...

To do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if th...

Narrator stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. Ryan i dont even want to imagine what my father had to go through. When we first started, it was a rough job. Everything was dynamite. Now, they have these machines called moles. Its like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. So theres no more dynamite. And its still a rough job, but its gotten to a point where its a lot safer. In the 70s, we lost a man a mile basically...

Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tunnel Number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. So youd lose half the ci...

We have to stay out of the ocean for three days. Moriarty to be sick after surfing isnt like, oh, i have a runny nose, and tomorrow its gone. Can be a lot of different things. Nelsen they include gastroenteritis, which is an upset stomach, and sinus infections, ear infections, eye infections, and theres also virulent versions of streptococcus that can actually cause severe illness and even death. Moriarty our goal with Surfrider Foundation is essentially to have the city understand that the wate...

Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspection...

Surfaces in our watershed, which are surfaces that dont let the water soak in and then create more pervious surface, whether its by having driveways that allow water to soak in or different landscaping to try to eliminate the amount of runoff that comes off our land so that the system, even with the development it has, acts more like a natural system and filters that water. Water quality and sewage infrastructure isnt the sexiest of political agendas, but by raising the awareness about Water Qua...