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mosquitos in this one square mile area in hopes of stopping further unnext. >> the state is prepared. we think about this like a hurricane. the way you do well at this is you get ready. >> reporter: people living in and visited the affect area are concerned. >> that's very terrible news that it's coming so close to home. but i guess it's because of the climate. >> reporter: just this week the fda called for blood collection to stop in south florida. but it's still allowed at one blood, the largest company in the region. >> one blood implement a systemwide testing for the zika virus effective immediately. so all collections in south florida and throughout our entire service area are now being tested for the zika virus. >> reporter: zika has been linked to microcephaly a birth defect in which a baby is born with a small head. health officials are asking women of childbearing age to be particularly careful. immunologist dr. anthony faucci says scientists are fast- tracking the development of a vaccine.
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happened over the last several months and to a few months ago to last month to last week, to yesterday, this is indeed a pandemic in process. >> reporter: the cdc says the infections occurred at two separate workplaces in early july. governor rick scott says that doctors offices, visitors centers and different local department of health offices will be receiving zika prevention kits for di good job dealing with it. but congress needs to approve more funding. >> thank you. these cases of zika raising serious questions, new health questions around the country. dr. max gomez joins to us answer questions. so a lot of mosquitos out there. how do people know whether or not they have even been infected? >> most people have been bitten and infected, and they won't
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mild symptoms usually. the most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint, muscle pain, pink eye, and a headache. these symptoms usually last a few days to a week. now, infected people are rarely sick enough to go the to hospital and almost never die of zika. the real issue is for protect women who are at greatest risk because a virus can cause birth defects known as microcephaly where the baby's brain fails to develop normally. b mosquitos. >> correct. >> so do we protect ourselves the same way we would protect ourselves from other mosquitos? >> exactly. pretty much exactly the same way. so lacking a vaccine or treatment, the best protection against zika is prevention of mosquito bites using insect repellent containing deet. wear long sleeves and pants tucked into your socks and avoid being out at dusk or dawn when they feed and avoid wooded areas or freshwater lakes,
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breed. finally, infected men and women can transmit the zika virus through sexual contact so the cdc recommends safe sex practices for anyone who has been to areas known to have zika. >> is there any way to know at this point what the long-term effects of this might be? i know you say this has to do with childbearing age women and their partners. what about everybod else? >> we don't know. we haven't followed it for an extended period of time. as far as we can tell, like many other viruses. you get it you're infected, then the body clears it so there shouldn't be any long- term effects other than of course to, um, a baby that's born with microcephaly so we believe that once the body clears the virus, you're out of the woods. >> hopefully. >> hopefully. >> all right. >> entering into territory we just don't know. >> exactly. >> all right, dr. max, thank you. other headlines now. an 87-year-old new jersey woman stranded for two days after making a wrong turn on the
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from dying. national guardsmen were in the right place at the right time. cbs 2's tony aiello spoke with the woman, saved by soldiers. >> reporter: jeanette haskins didn't think she would be alive today. >> i had resolved the fact that i was going to die. >> reporter: saturday, while driving from little egg harbor to baltimore, she somehow got stuck on a remote trail in the woods used by tan a there. i wasn't really concerned because i thought somebody will find me and help me get out. >> reporter: she was traveling with her cat. she had no food or water and her smartphone was dead. two days passed and no one came. >> it was so hot. it was really a nightmare. >> reporter: she grew dehydrated and started hallucinating. >> i would get out of the car, i thought i saw a car coming. and i would blow the horn.
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and then i would realize it wasn't anything there. and i knew that was a bad sign. we had a heavy rainstorm monday morning and i had some bowls that i had brought to feed my cat and i set those out and i got water in those. so i drank those. that's the only water i had. i was resigned to the fact by monday that i wasn't going to get out. and right after that was when the men came. >> reporter: the men, four army national guardsmen from mission at the military base. they stumbled upon haskins' car, gave her water and oxygen, and got her help. >> i passed out in the car, i know. and i came to, and there were these men's faces. it was the best thing that ever happened. we have so much to be grateful to them for. i'm convinced if they hadn't found me i wouldn't be here today. >> haskins is recovering from dehydration. unfortunately, during the
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located. she says waking up and seeing those soldiers was the best feeling of her life. the national guardsmen will be honored tomorrow at that are home base near boston. >> thank you. campaign 2016 pain. the conventions are over. the race for the white house is on. the candidates taking their messages to voters in swing states. jessica layton has more. >> i have to tell you it was also kind of overwhelming. >> reporter: still reflecting off her campaign as the official democratic nominee looking ahead on what could be the hardest and most important date of her political life. >> it's not so much that i'm on the ticket. it is because of the stark choice that is posed to america in this election. >> reporter: the former first lady today told supporters given the tone in the two different campaigns, she and
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talking about different planets, slamming him for painting a picture of a divisive nation in decline as the democratic pick for president blasted her opponent at this temple university rally, the tweets keep on coming from trump. quote, i am watching "crooked hillary" speak. same old stuff. our country needs change. and he still is fuming over comments made at the democratic national convention. >> i was going to hit one guy in particular a very little guy. i was going to hit this guy so hard his head happened. >> reporter: that particular guy is believed to be like cal bloomberg who called -- michael bloomberg who called trump a con man. trump spoke in colorado springs this afternoon. >> isn't it good to have trump running for the presidency? [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: the balloons at both conventions have dropped. and now the real work begins. both candidates have about 100 days to make a case to the country. >> hillary clinton and running
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day bus tour through pennsylvania and ohio, two critical swing states. donald trump is speaking right now in colorado. his vp pick, mike pence, is campaigning in ohio. live in the newsroom, jessica layton, cbs 2 news. >> thank you. the fbi is now investigating another democratic party hack. this time, a democratic congressional campaign committee. investigators say the breach resembles the recent hacking of the democratic national committee. yo exposed embarrassing emails that forced party chairman debby wasserman schultz to resign. democrats say they are cooperating with the investigation and have increased security. now to a developing story on long island when police -- where police are investigating a deadly stabbing. a man found dead near a restaurant in nassau county. chopper 2 was over the scene in glen cove where someone discovered the body this
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a restaurant. nassau county police say a 25- year-old man was stabbed to death. investigators believe the attack was not random. so far no one has been arrested and police are not naming any suspects. >> disbelief in brooklyn. a neighborhood there where a man was viciously beaten and a woman tied up during a robbery. the attack happened inside an accounting firm. the suspects are on the run. cbs 2's steve langford reports. >> reporter: ct robling street in williamsburg about 5:30 thursday afternoon this small accounting firm invaded by two men who police say savagely beat a 60-year-old man and tasered him after tying up a 19-year-old female employee. >> looks like they were hit on the head. i don't know exactly. >> reporter: this man works next door. he saw the victims. >> put her to the ground and tied her up. >> reporter: a suspect seen running away in a fedex uniform
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police say the suspects got away with cash. witnesses say the suspects ran this way. they have not been seen since. >> sorry. he is not available. >> reporter: is he okay? >> yes. he's fine. >> reporter: the victim not available but neighborhood friends openly upset. >> he is a wonderful person to everybody. >> i feel sorry for the whole thing. i feel bad. i hope they are going to get these two people. >> reporter: the accounting firm closed for now, surveillance video to be reviewed, focusing in on a suspects who' outfit may have proved dangerously deceptive. in williamsburg, steve langford, cbs 2 news. now it our wet weather and the flooding left behind especially in gowanus, brooklyn where drivers tried to travel through flooded streets early this morning. this is 9th street between smith and second avenues. there was a foot of waterer surrounding cars at one point. one driver escaped through his
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on 1 and 9 caused a backup. police redirected traffic during the morning rush. don't put away your umbrella yet. there could be more rain over the weekend. we'll have the full forecast coming up in just a few minutes. meantime, there's trouble off the coast of new jersey. a man falls off his jet ski and then ends up stranded in the water. see how divers rescued the man from the air. >> plus, a new beginning. several years after tragedy, we go inside the new sandy hook elementary school and show you the security designed to >> also ahead a first for the staten island ferry. the city considering adding a new stop in manhattan. >> and ice cream without the
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moving beyond the unimaginable tragedy. a new school is opening in newtown, connecticut, this fall. a new school with an old name.
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first graders and the six educators were murdered in december of 2012. cbs 2's lou young has the story now from sandy hook elementary school. >> what's meant to make you feel like you're coming home. >> reporter: our tour of the new sandy hook elementary school comes more than 3.5 years of the massacre of 20 students and the six adults in newtown. the old school because of the horror. this is adjacent to the crime scene. >> we would trade it if we could change the past. >> reporter: the $50 million marvel of uplifting architecture and state-of-the- art security was built with federal and state money with welcoming natural colors, full camera coverage, a gated property perimeter, and doors of thick steel and ballistic glass. there is even a type of moat
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it strikes me as a gentle fortress. >> it is. and it does create a natural separation between parking and the building. >> it's more like a home to us. and home where students can really grow and mature and be nurtured and feel safe. >> reporter: roughly 35 of the 400 students coming here for school in the fall will physically remember taking the old sandy hook. just inside the main entrance, they will be greeted by shelly, a 28-year-old turtle that also lived at the building is peppered with architectural details based on student artwork. all of the incoming students have already seen the place and we're told they are anxious to begin again. >> we had one little guy who was upset because he wanted to start school tomorrow. they are ready to come back. >> reporter: the new sandy hook elementary school begins the school year on august 29. we are in newtown, connecticut, lou young, cbs 2 news. >> always think about those kids. we have a warning if you are heading to the beach this
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health department in suffolk and nassau counties are advising against swimming at more than 80 beaches on long island. storm runoff can elevate bacteria levels in the water. 62 beaches in suffolk county and 19 beaches in nassau county fall under this bathing ban. if you would like to see the full list, go to cbsnewyork.com. we have the whole advisory there for you. a little inconvenient when you think it's the weekend. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> let's check in with nicole mitchell. she is in for lonnie quinn. and what about that weekend, nicole? >> we c got through everything today, it was so lovely outside. so as the sun broke through, temperatures were much cooler. here were some of those totals and we have a few more clouds out there right now. but partly sunny skies, a temperature of 83 degrees. and a lot of us over an inch of rain, some places closer to two inches of so balance mar, new jersey, parts of new jersey got the rain earlier so saw some of
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at one inch. this was needed rain. almost the whole area is in a drought. some of the worst of that is in suffolk county. so the beaches are not appreciating it but it was definitely needed rain. here's the radar right now. more quiet than the soaker we saw into the morning hours. but we have a little bit of rain here. so if you are near port jervis, for example, you're seeing some of that go through. it will stay spotty through this evening. then some the weekend. i'll talk about exactly when because we still have beach chances coming up. back to you guys. >> thank you. let's take you up to chopper 2 right now. breaking is a situation on the highway right outside laguardia. major delays. joe biermann overhead right now. joe, what do we have? >> well, you better have a friend who flies in a helicopter if you are trying to catch a flight into or out of laguardia.
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laguardia traffic is just ground to a halt here off the grand central. it's due to internal road congestion here at laguardia. port authority done doesn't have a reason why all the congestion. part of it is part of the construction. it's friday. a lot of people on vacation. but well over an hour and i would guess maybe a two-hour delay if you're driving in here to laguardia. it's just all congestion on the internal roadways. so just allow a lot of extra time. live in chopper 2, jo >> joe, i have never seen anything like that. is that just too many cars? that's what going on? >> it happened i want to say, maurice, back in, um, a month or two ago and it just comes to a gridlock, grinds to a halt and takes hours and hours and hours for both port authority and nypd to unwrap gridlock. >> okay. >> i hope they figure out a cause for this so it doesn't
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airport to catch a flight -- >> missing flights. >> they may miss their flight, that's for sure. >> exactly. >> if you have friends or if you know somebody or if you're leaving, heads up. pope francis made an emotional visit this morning to the nazi concentration camp in auschwitz. he toured the complex where people were killed. seth doane is traveling with the pope in poland. >> reporter: the pope walked alone through that infamous gate at auschwitz. his white vestments a sharp contrast to barbed wire of this place. for nearly 15 minutes, he sat in silent prayer. the pontiff then prayed again in the blackened prison cell where catholic st. maximilian kolbe volunteered his life to save another. at nearby others gathered to watch the pope. >> if you are jewish, he is a
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are human beings. the holocaust was not only a jewish tragedy. it was a european tragedy. it was a tragedy of mankind. >> reporter: this is not the first time a pope traveled to to auschwitz. john paul ii and benedict also came. this pope decided to remain silent, not a speech. [ indiscernible ] [ extremely heavy accent ] >> shouts, cries, shouts, screams. silence in this place even stronger than words. >> reporter: the pope's only words were those he wrote down in the guest book. lord, forgive us, for so much cruelty. seth doane, cbs news, krakow,
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over books. sidewalk vendors and police square off in one part of the city. the confrontations that have some people outraged. >> plus, baseball season is in full swing but a lot of people are talking about football. how the sport is uniting and dividing families. >> we're killing ourselves trying to be perfect and it's making us insane. >> moms overworked and overcommitted as well as exhausted. a sneak peek at the new comedy just ahead. when we became teachers, the state made a commitment to us. i knew that i wasn't going to make a fortune. but i would have a secure pension plan when i retired. each and every one of us made that contribution from every paycheck we ever earned. they've been negligent in their responsibility
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i'm dana tyler. coming up on cbs 2 news at 6:00, coming up at 6:00, a lawsuit against the nypd and an officer who didn't know c pr is dismissed. at 6:00 hear from the parents of the person asthma attack after police arrived on the scene. also tonight, a coyote attack in new jersey. a man needed 40 stitches after being bitten while he was in a park. plus, a pasta company in hot water. scott has that. >> it is the case of the pasta lawsuit. a pasta making giant accused of misleading its customers by underfilling its pasta boxes. we'll tell you which ones we're talking about coming up. >> thank you, scott. see you at 6:00. right now at 5:00, as you
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jets and giants both on the practice fields today. that means in just a few weeks, sunday routines are going to be changing around here. cbs 2's steve overmyer has more on what lies ahead. >> reporter: the clock is started on the countdown to the end of summer. sunday also soon no longer be filled with sand and surf but soon pigskin and turf. >> it's get prepared for game day early on. and then we're there watching the game. >> just watching football all th >> reporter: we are still in july and the football display is front and center at modell's in times square. it's the most popular sport in america for 30 years. >> of all the sports, they are secondary. football is number one. >> jets, jets, jets! >> reporter: the infatuation with the favorite team begins at camp but it doesn't end until after the new year. otis livingston was at jets camp and found during football season, some mothers earn a new title.
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though during the season? >> i am. i have three boys and a husband that all love football. so by the end of the season, i'm a little done with football. >> reporter: according to a harris poll, two-thirds of americans watch football including 55% of american swi -- women. >> girlfriends. >> yeah? >> so now you have an answer? >> yeah. exactly. i'll take some me time, get my nails done, they can ch football. >> reporter: it doesn't mean the end of family time. it moves from the dinner table to the tailgate. steve overmyer, cbs 2 sports. >> i'm ready. >> let's do it. >> i'm ready. >> let's go. a warning for parents. is your child's car seat defective? we have a new recall to tell you about. >> plus, new video of a man wanted in a subway crime. the unusual weapon police say he used to attack a rider. >> and then later a babysitter killed on long island. the tragic chain of events and
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driveway when it was hit. a bay shore grandmother was killed and two other people were hurt. the road is notorious for accidents. cbs 2's sonia rincon reports now from brentwood. >> reporter: the woman backing out of this driveway was driving her kids' babysitter back to her house nearby. but that babysitter, 52-year- old maria alfaro, never made it home. her daughter got the call around 10:00 thursday night. >> i arrived at the hospit. with an unlicensed driver at the wheel hit the passenger side. >> came running try to see if we could help them out. my husband and my brothers and some neighbors, we pushed the car, you know, because it was really smashed. >> reporter: anna says she tried to talk to the driver of the other car, who police identify as 33-year-old wilson neives of brentwood. >> he was scared in shock and he never left the scene of the accident.
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crooked hill road like a highway. >> this place always has had accidents. >> a lot of people been diving here for years and they don't know nothing. >> reporter: a traffic light was recently installed at the next intersection but neighbors say it's in the wrong place and it's clearly not working yet. no one is slowing down. alfaro's daughter says she doesn't fault either driver. the woman driving her mom was a family friend. and she had a message for the driver who struck their car. >> i forgive you not only but the lord. i don't want to press charges against you. it's not in my heart. >> we have to do something about this. okay? especially in this street. >> reporter: for now, neighbors are urging drivers on crooked hill road to slow down. in brentwood, sonia rincon, cbs 2 news. we have new video tonight of a crime where the suspect used a unique weapon. nypd is looking for a man who attacked another man at a subway station with a cane.
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24-year-old man in the head and body with the cane. it happened in jamaica, queens. the victim was treated at the hospital and released. a frantic rescue off the coast of new jersey after a man got stranded in the water after falling off his jet ski. two nypd helicopter crews received a radio call to raritan bay near keansburg last ni spotted the 21-year-old victim. two divers and a basket were lowered to the water and the divers pulled the victim inside. he was taken to the hospital for observation. new at 5:30, it's a battle over books on the upper west side. video shows police collecting literature sold on the street something the sellers are legally allowed to do. so why are police taking these books? cbs 2's ali bauman talks to vendors who they say are being bullied out. >> reporter: police packing up
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and vendors saying they are being written off the block. >> this is our bread and butter what we do to survive. this pays my rent. >> reporter: kirk has been in the bibliophile business for years. police cleared his piles of paperbacks overnight. a bookseller on 68th and columbus avenue had the thinhap and today it's inlawful. >> reporter: the first amendment protects the right to sell books on the street even without a permit. >> fundamental issue is that there's a law on the books that says if you are going to sell something, books or anything, you can't leave the table unattended. >> reporter: some of the vendors leave them there overnight after clearing the books, the precinct returned them to davidson and gave him a court summons. this video in daylight shows officers clearing the area
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>> before police came on july fifth there were about a dozen book tables on this block. now it's down to 2. and the vendor here says it's because the other sellers don't want to deal with the hassle. but some upper west side residents are worried they are losing a bit of their culture. >> this is a joy of the neighborhood. >> these books are classics. they still have them. so you have to take advantage of that. >> reporter: police say they were responsibling to community complaints at - community complaints at board meetings of tables constructing sidewalks which was confirmed by the local councilwoman. some community members are complaining over a lack of literature. on the upper west side ali bauman, cbs 2 news. from staten island straight to midtown plans for a new ferry stop are under consideration. in a letter to the transportation department staten island's borough president suggested the 34th street ferry terminal on the east side as a new spot. department of transportation says existing staten island
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but the department will work with the borough president to explore the proposal. a benefit of dancing. the tango is much more than just music and rhythm. it's actually helping people walk again. we'll show you the new treatment that's improving lives. >> then later special delivery at a long island hospital. a unique bond between a family of doctors and a family of children. >> and today in history, in 1981, britain's prin london. the total cost of the wedding, 30 million pounds. that would be close to $110 million in today's currency.
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jason bourne fans are rejoicing about the latest film in the franchise and moms everywhere can relate to a new comedy about mothers going bad. jill nicolini has a sneak peek at the new movies out this weekend. >> i know who i am. >> reporter: it's been almost
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portraying former cia assassin jason bourne. he reprises his role and comes out of hiding only to uncover some hidden secrets from his past. >> he has had a dark decade and he has been still running. he is on the run but living on the margin and surviving and running out of road. >> reporter: the cast and crew spent time in las vegas filming these scenes. >> i can't believe they let us do it. we were blocking up traffic for a month and a half or so at night and, um, it just -- it was an effort. >> reporter: critics predict it will take the number one spot this weekend. >> in this day and age it's impossible to be a good mom. >> good. >> bad mom. >> reporter: in bad moms, three overstressed moms rebel against some uptight mothers at their children's school. >> so realistic comedic portrayal of what i think every woman who has had a kid has gone through. >> no nuts or eggs or milk or
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who knows it all. in real life that's not the case. >> i try to have a good balance of like hippie parent and type a. >> reporter: this crime thriller nerve may be a fit for the younger tech generation. emma roberts plays a high school student who tries to pay truth or dare online. she then meets ian played by dave franco. >> my favorite scene in the movie probably the motorcycle dare. it feels like that that scene in the middle of the movie that amps you >> reporter: the game is dangerous and stakes high as she makes decisions that will impact her future. jill nicolini, cbs 2 news. storms could come back for the weekend. which day would be better if you have outdoor plans? >> plus, living out a food fantasy from a pool of sprinkles to a room of chocolate! we will take you inside an ice cream museum. >> wow. where do i get a ticket? dana tyler looking ahead to the news at 6:00. >> hi.
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island mother. we're in the courtroom today with that. also, more information on the zika virus and the first mosquitoes-to-people cases in the united states. how the new york health officials are preparing. and the giants open camp with a healthy victor cruz. you will see the wide receiver running again and you will hear from him, as well. those stories and more tonight at 6:00. there's one place where america's pastime is preserved for all time. ?? and that's not the only thing
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when the weather clears you can expect more new yorkers to hit the streets and getting around can be challenging for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians in the city. so cbs 2 joined forces with aaa for the columbia circle with reminders about the ruse of the road. all the rules that apply to cars apply to bicyclists. pedestrians need to know that they need to walk safely. you see a lot of people engaged with earbuds, these kinds of things on their smartphones and walk out into the street against the light. >> always looking both ways. both ways because bikers don't always follow the right lanes and right directions.
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cards were handed out with safe cycling tips. these days more people are winning the battle against cancer. >> but that battle can come with collateral damage especially to a patient's balance and walking. cbs 2's dr. max gomez says that dancing can help in the form of a tango. >> that's right. specifically, argentine tango which is more varied in its music and styles than it seems that argentine tango lends itself to improving the gait imbalance that's impaired when chemotherapy damages nerves in the legs and feet. tim never considered himself much of a dancer but after spending a few weeks in a program for cancer patients, he surprised even himself. today tim's doing the tango but not long ago, he could barely walk. >> the only thing i could feel in my feet was the balls.
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>> reporter: that's not uncommon. the chemotherapy used to wipe out the cancer damaged nerves in legs and feet. >> when you lose activity in the nerves it can affect the feedback that your system gets so that your system isn't able to control its balance quite as well. >> reporter: computer analysis shows how loss of feeling in legs and feet can impact a patient's ability to stand and walk. so researchers at the ohio state university comprehensive center teamed up with with things like balance and sway. as a dance major, she came up with a way to help by teaching them to tango. >> even with just five weeks we were able to decrease the medial and lateral sway by 56%. >> reporter: when it comes to nerve damage in hands, feet, or neuropathy from chemo nearly 70% of patients are affected a month after treatment. nearly one in three have it
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therapy something tim dreaded until therapy turned into dancing. then he began to look forward to every step he took toward recovery. >> the improvement was remarkable. and i don't think we would have improved nearly that quickly without it. >> in addition to nerve damage, many cancer patients also experience muscle loss. doing the tango also rebuilds leg muscles and increases stamina which also helps to improve the balance. the research was bike ride that's raised over $100 million for cancer research. so who knew you could dance your way to better health? >> that kind of dancing you have to have a lot of coordination. its not easy. >> exactly. that's why i hear that it's good for you. [ laughter ] >> i'm not sure that i know -- >> take your word for it. >> i'm not sure that i know for sewer. >> thank you, doctor. this important consumer alert for you tonight. a recall on child car seats. the company is recalling more
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it involves the convertible child restraint. the company says in a crash the seats transmit too much force to the chest. the recalled seats were manufactured from january of 2009 to this past june. if you haven't heard already there's a new way to beat the heat and feel like a kid again. the museum of ice cream opened today. it's a six room experience. starting with free edible balloons. a swing and seesaw for adults. big attraction is a pool filled with 11,000 pounds of fake sprinkles. >> this is something that's like it's really willy wonka- esque. sucking in helium takes you from outside of new york city into a new space and there's a very clean line juxtaposition and gets everyone the mind set of a child. >> each week the museum offers custom frozen treats from ice cream shops around new york.
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museum is $18 per person or $30 per couple. we are pro ice cream on this broadcast. >> oh, yeah. >> anytime we can have some. >> i'll all about ice cream. >> bring it on. >> even in the winter i will take it. >> never too cold. >> doesn't matter. let's get a look at our forecast now. lonnie quinn is off. so nicole mitchell is in with us once again today. beautiful day. not as humid. >> perfect for the ice cream. by the afternoon we got more sunshine into that forecast. and it actually warmed up nicely after a big those high temperatures yesterday. so looking outside from our empire state building cam, we have a lovely rest of the evening. there are a couple of showers out there. so i'll get to those in a minute. but once the sun broke out we got into the 80s. much cooler than yesterday. so much more comfortable i would say. partly sunny skies right now at 83 degrees. and the humidity still in the 60% range so not as humid.
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83 was the high. that's really normal for this time of year. if you remember, not yesterday, 95. this has been a big break in the heat. and the low at normal. so that was more comfortable, too. actually i had the windows open for just a little bit earlier this morning. some of the other highs, edison, new jersey, some of the places that cleared out earlier got warmer faster. so a little more heat there. 88 degrees versus looking at white plains, new york, for example, 82. now, i mentioned we still nothing like that widespread stuff this morning and the heavy rain and even some spots of flooding that we had to deal with. so as we continue and watch this, you can see it's headed towards the city. but going to be dying out in the meantime. so whether any of that holds together, if it does hold together and we still get a couple showers out of that, it will be about 6:45, 6:30 for yonkers. so not a lot of activity. we have some better chances,
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weekend. here's the futurecast. saturday morning, looks pretty good for us. the more westward you are, the more likely that you could see some of those showers and storms. into the evening, those are some of the better chances that we could have for some rain and that holds with us into the day on sunday. so we'll watch for that. not the whole weekend a washout but we do have some chances mid- 70s for a lot of saturday. highs in the 80s. and then as we get into the sunday forecast, or the mo for some of that rain. but not a washout weekend. and to me, so much more comfortable with those temperatures consistently in the 80s for the next week. >> yeah. we haven't seen that in a while. >> thank you. up next, a bond over babies. >> the family faith. >> it's wonderful. >> two families with a special relationship, the connection between several generations. >> and then at 6:00 one of the world's leading pasta producers
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doctor who delivered the baby also delivered the baby's mother and that doctor's father delivered the baby's grandmother. cbs 2's raegan medgie breaks down this unique family bond. >> reporter: benjamin is the latest addition to a a unique family tree, a family from long island and a family of doctors. >> back in 1958, cathy was delivered by my father. >> reporter: in 1986 cathy had a baby. >> i took care of her and delivered elise. >> i still hear mom. [ laughter ] >> um, i feel wonderful. >> reporter: dr. steven sherwin was there and so was his daughter, dr. elise sherwin. >> she went into labor the day i was on call. my father was on call as well so we were able to deliver her together. >> a family thing.
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mother, myself and now my son in between three generations of the sherwin family, as well. it's just remarkable. >> reporter: you might notice something else about this story. dr. elise and new mommy elise have the same name. plus, these two were born three weeks apart. now, the doctors and families are hoping to continue this unique family tree. >> now we are the proud third generation to deliver three generations of this family. so we're very proud. and i think it's som t three generations of doctors have delivered three generations of a patient's family and hopefully we'll be around for the fourth generation. >> reporter: which started as a doctor-patient relationship back in 1958, and has grown into a family affair that's still blossoming. in mineola, raegan medgie, cbs 2 news. >> when the new parents were dating, elise took her now husband to meet dr. sherwin. michael says that's her
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sherwin's approval and they got it. >> that's right. i need a scorecard. [ laughter ] >> who's on first? >> it's all good. that's it for the news at 5:00. we'll see you again at 11:00. the news at 6:00 starts right now. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com reliving heart break all over again. a family's lawsuit after their daughter died of an asthma attack thrown out. why the ju against the nypd. >> a zika first. mosquitos infecting people in the united states. how health experts here are preparing. >> a legal debate over the price of pasta. why four new yorkers are seeing a leading pasta maker. good evening, i'm dana tyler. a brooklyn family devastated tonight after a judge dismissed their lawsuit against an nypd officer and the city.
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of 11-year-old bryanna ojeda who died from asthma six years ago. steve langford spoke to her parents about today's ruling. >> reporter: six years after bryanna ojeda died of an asthma attack as her mother tried to race the 11-year-old to a brooklyn hospital only to be stopped by a police officer who say told them he didn't know how to do cpr, this family is struggling to make sense of a judge's ruling. this was going to be the right thing, they were going to do the right thing. >> reporter: a judge dismissing their lawsuit against the city and the police officer because the city does not require cops to know and be willing and able to perform cpr. the court concluding the traffic stop does not trigger a constitutional duty to provide medical assistance. >> he told me to call 911. i mean, you are 911. you're stopping me from getting to the hospital!
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henry street when she was pulled over by a police officer. here at the corner of kaine street, the hospital was five blocks away. >> you all waste time standing there arguing. do you really want to help you would bring her inner car or escort her. >> reporter: the family wants the city to change its policy to train all police officers in cpr. >> they are trained in how to shoot their firearms. i'm like, come on, why not treat them as through early july this year it has retrained more than 5,000 police officers in basic life support including cpr. the family says it will not stop fighting to prevent heartache like this from happening to anyone else. steve langford, cbs 2 news. >> the family's attorney says it will seek any possible appeals following the court's dismissal of the lawsuit.

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