The number of cases is 100, ten fatal. Mayor de blasio announced that any building with a cooling tower will have the system tested asap. The order instructs the owners or manager to test and disinfect their cooling tower within the next 14 days. Failure to comply with the commissioners order is a misdemeanor. Reporter the state is getting involved as well. Today the Bronx Borough president invited the state Health Commissioner to tour concourse plaza, a Shopping Plaza where one tested positive for legionella, the bacteria that can grow in water based systems. Time is not our friend. We need to make sure that the borough is safe. The governor ordered that the state provide testing of cooling towers for free. Incredibly populated area. A lot of people, a lot of cooling towers and we are trying to figure out how it started. Reporter the mayor says the required testing is out of an abundance of caution. Until the numbers come down, wendy rivera plans to avoid the affected neighborhoods. I
Some entertainment. Roll the trump video, please. I dont care a toupee, its my hair. It is. Please, please. Yes, i believe it is. So the news media, anybody want by the way, theres more in there, but i dont want to report it. Hey, im just showing the stuff in the front. I dont have to go back. First out of the block, take a look where facebook will open today. About unchanged from yesterday, but its been a very big week for the stock and for the company. Please listen to this. On monday, one billion people logged on, thats a milestone, that means one in one day, one in every seven people on the planet were on facebook. Now this. Aljazeera reported that story like this. Six out of seven people did not use facebook on monday. [laughter] just sometimes. Look at the futures market. Well be down 120 odd points when the market opens, 28 minutes from now. But were at 16,500, a long way from where we were say on monday afternoon. Look at apple, they are the masters of hype and we will have mor
Pocket, he wants a fast sixbilliondollar down payment from congress, surely he will get that quickly. Private money flowing in fast jerry jones dallas cowboy guy gives a million j. J. Watt is now up to 13 million in pledges, and 33 companies pledged a million bucks or more that list growing volunteers they are still showing up in droves. Americans generous the rescue and relief effort has gone very well nations economy is growing. The stock market going up more, Varney Company is about to begin. Any significant way, it looks like the dow will go up some more at the opening today, did he spite all of the negatives in the nice background, i got to tell you, that the big movement on the markets this week has been in gasoline, and gallon regular comes in. 51 per gallon that is your National Average, that is up 7 cents. Just over night price spikes, in texas, this again overnight, dallas up 14 cents a gallon, el paso 16 cents houston 6 cents, san antonio 11 cents okay got it. Now the well h
[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. A wrecking ball almost tore
Coverage of this storm we are in Bonita Springs and Jackie Deangelis out there and diana olick north in atlanta we want to start right now with carl good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. As becky said, the storm is very much a force in northern florida, will be in georgia later. Were in southwest florida landfall was southwest of naples were on a bridge overlooking one of the waterways the good news if you can call it that, the estimates of storm surge, 10 to 15 feet, didnt really happen. You have all of these condos, hotels, gated communities that dont look that much different from the pictures that we shot here yesterday of course, im going to give that a big calf fee at given we dont know the fate of tampa and tampa bay. When this was considered to be a doomsday scenario in miami beach, the impact there was very real, when it was considered to be a direct hit, that was a high end real estate story. That picture remains true. A lot of these homes out here, mental heal mu