Potentially deadly disease. Melissa russo is here with the latest. Reporter city officials stopped short of calling the legionnaires outbreak over, but they are calling it contained at this point. Take a look at the latest numbers. A total of 121 people have now been diagnosed in this legionnaires outbreak. Thats two new cases identified since yesterday. The death toll remains at 12, where its been since monday. And to the citys knowledge, there have been no cases of anyone getting sick, as in developing symptoms since august 3rd. No new contaminated buildings or cooling towers the today. The mayor was in the legionnaires impact zone this afternoon at lincoln hospital, thanking Health Care Staff for their work during this outbreak. And downtown at city hall, the city council was voting on a bill regulating cooling towers. The bill passed unanimously by a vote of 420. The centers for Disease Control called the citys response at this afternoons News Conference to the outbreak swift, dili
Good evening, everyone, im sandra bookman. And im rob powers, joe torres is off tonight. The beach in queens packed today with families trying to escape the heat. The incident leaving the people shaken. You can see crowds of people gathered on the beaches rescuers tried to find that little boy. Now identified as 5yearold ezekiel gray. His body was pulled out of the Eyewitness News reporter a. J. A. J. . Reporter sandra, rob, one minute he was on the beach, the next he was gone. And tonight, family members and witnesses are mourning the tragic loss of 5yearold ezekiel gray. Who was found lifeless in the water here at the park just hours ago. Helicopters. Ambulance, fire department. I knew something terrible happened. Reporter witnesses say there was little to no warning before helicopters and First Responders suddenly swarmed the beach here at Jacob Riis Park saturday afternoon searching for 5yearold gray. Beachgoers say the boy was with family when he somehow managed to slip away. Like
Far rockaway went up in flames. An eyewitness tweeted this picture as the home burned. It broke out on the first floor on cornaga avenue around 1 00 this afternoon. Kemberly richardson at the scene in far rockaway with our lead story. Joe joe, fire marshals are going over each and every part of this house. As the chief told me, there is, quote, something odd about this. He said it is highly unusual to have this much fire shooting out of all of those windows right there on the ground floor at this time of day. Just after 1 00 this afternoon. Typically a fire like this is able to spread so fast because it goes down at night when people are sleeping. I spoke with the man who tried to save the two people trapped inside. It was a Daring Rescue youll only see here on Eyewitness News. Take a look. I opened the door and i shouted barbara, get out seconds before in this video youll only see on Eyewitness News, that is aleck in the white shirt kicking down his neighbors door desperately trying t
Now, new yorks number one news. Channel 7 eye witness news. Im pushing, im pushing, shes coming. No, shes coming now. Stuck in traffic and in labor. An expectant mother forced to deliver on the side of the road when two Good Samaritans rushed to her aid. A home goes up in flames. Exclusive video of neighbors as they try to break down during the door to reach people trapped inside. Good evening, everyone, im joe torres. Im lauren glasburg. We begin with breaking news. A pellet gun was fired at gracy mansion. A member of the Security Team hit in the back. Two were just arrested were told. A member of the Security Team rushed to the hospital is expected to be okay. Gracy mansion the home of the mayor and his family. There are no other reports of any other injuries. Were hearing the mayor was not home at the time. No word just yet about the fired. When we learn more well bring throughout the next hour. Queens. Two people died in the fire. It started at 1 this afternoon in far rockaway. Clu
Minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist jeff smith in for bill with the accuweather forecast. Its going to be a muggy monday out there, we have a couple of showers especially well east of the city. Check that out on the accutrack radar. We zoom into that area right now, east hampton. Were talking out by montauk, to south hampton, a couple showers out there. Might even be a downpour or two. These are moving from south to north. These are going to be dissipating for the next few hours. See that little wedge of clearing moving into eastern pennsylvania, that moves in during the day today. That means were going to be having a lot of sunshine. 74 in the park. Laguardia temperatures in the upper 50s. Dew points are in the uncomfortable category. 72 at 8 a. M. , 82 at noon, probably top out around 86 at 2 00 before falling back down to 82 by 4 00 in the afternoon. We send it over to Debbie Duhaime right now. Shes in for heather. Good morning jeff, good morning to everybody. Well