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botulism. we talked to a family in montgomery county who had a real scare with botulism after their 5-month-old baby was hospitalized earlier this month and had constipation and loss of strength and stopped eating. all signs of botulism. the baby was given an antibiotic and now the parents are letting you know what signs to look for. >> she would slip through your arms if you tried to pick her up. she had no facial expressions and high incident of boss uism spores in the montgomery county and bucks in delaware. >> so many cases in southeastern pennsylvania. olivia is doing fine and back to smiling and laughing and all of those things she wasn't able to do a few weeks ago. >>> drivers today could see more police activity and work crews along shore routes. the new jersey department of transportation and emergency crews will be conducting a hurricane evacuation exercise to refine their response to a major storm. no roads will be closed. the drivers should use caution on the evacuation routes inclu

. >>> a baby in northern virginia is improving as he fights botulism a bacteria illness.is rare and can be deadly. julie carey talks with the baby's mother and doctor. >> reporter: benjamin marked his three month birthday with breathing tubes. he's one of 100 babies nationwide stricken with botulism this year. >> i was honestly thinking how am i going to tell my two older sons that their brother is not coming home. >> reporter: the rapid decline started about two weeks ago when he suddenly stopped nursing. when he reached the fairfax hospital, two weeks to open his eyes, doctors immediately suspects botulism. >> it is the most potent toxin known to man. that toxin makes somebody weak and affects breathing muscles and the children around able to breathe. >> the baby shows some improvement right away. still a most frightening moment. >> it got bad to the point where they had to resuscitate him. >> reporter: she and her husband take turns at benjamin's bedside there's an outpouring of support on social media. they hope the crisis will educate others about the danger of botul

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fighting a rare case of botulism. julie cary has good news. the community is supporting their family. >> these pictures show what benjamin looked like as he turned three months old on july 4. a breathing tube and feeding tube keeping him alive. >> i was honestly thinking of how am i going to tell my two older sons that their brother is not coming home. >> his rapid decline started at home about two weeks ago when he stopped nursing and became konscon constipate constipated. doctors here immediately suspected botulism. >> i didn't know that my infant could get this. >> this doctor has seen just three pediatric botulism cases in his career. >> it is the most potent toxin known to man. it makes somebody weak and affects breathing muscles so children are not able to breathe. >> given specific medication the baby showed some improvement right away but it was frightening. >> it got bad to the point to where at one point they had to resuscitate him. >> friends and family turned to social media for support. a facebook page seeks prayer. a go fund me p

all botulism. she was given antibiotics and later recovered. >> continue to get worse and slip through your arms if you tried to pick her up. she had no facial expressions. a high incidents of botulism scores in this area. >> so many cases in southeastern pennsylvania it's called the botfelt. olivia is back to smiling and laughing and doing well now. >>> a decades old tradition is over for new mothers in delaware. yesterday, hospitals in the first state stopped giving new moms gift bags with formula when they are sent home from the hospital. health officials say they are trying to promote breast feeding and trying to stop companies from pushinging their ingtheir brands of formulas in hospital. a similar ban in philadelphia too. >>> if you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes here during "nbc 10 news today" there is a cool way to find out. >> up close and personal! too these are people from our friends from parascope. you can follow us using the app parascope and then we talk during commercial

we're talking about botulism and it's affecting local babies. >> it's being called the bot belt.durante met up with a montgomery county family who knows a lot of this disease firsthand. >> reporter: for olivia to smile, chew on her fingers and look at our camera is a major feat. look at the expression on her face after being hospitalized. the treatment here is the end of a story her family will never forget. >> it was the scariest week of my life. >> reporter: it was july 4th weekend and she stopped eating. >> we took her to urgent care they told us it was an ear infection. we took her home with some amoxicillin. they told us she would bounce back and would be fine. >> reporter: the next day her parents took her to a local er. >> a day later it continued to get worse, she would slip through your arms if you tried to pick her up. she had no facial expressions. >> they didn't know they were seeing the signs of baby botulism also called floppy baby syndrome. it attacks the body and causes major muscle weakness. >> there's a high incident of botulism spores in our area that we had no

botulism is so rare only about 100 babies get it each year. >>> a man is being honored as advocate ofear. his name is connor cummings. he's 23 years old. he received the award last weekend for his efforts to push connor's law in virginia. that law requires parents to continue to pay child support to spouses caring for severely disabled children over the age of 18. virginia is the first state to have such a law. connor could not speak until he was 7 years old. now he speaks before hundreds of people at a time wearing the trademark mickey mouse ears. >>> all this as we brace for the potential threat of storms in our area later tonight. >>> and a local hospital disqualifies job applicants who smoke. this is chris gordon. is it legal? we'll talk to >>> smoke-free on the campus of one local hospital has a whel new meaning now. one announced it is screening job applicants now for signs of tobacco use just like it screens for illegal drug use. people who test positive won't be hired. it's a policy that's sparking a lot of debate in the community there. chris gordon has more on that and on wh

botulism is so rare that only about 100 babyies get it every year. he will rejoin his family in woodstock virginia. >> and new details on a new device that uses a video gaming system to help athletes with their injuries. >> it's an idea that makes a lot of sense. the device uses cameras so that therapists can get a close look at how a patient is healing. >> his season was cut short last year after her to his acl. >> i like pushed off and that's when i heard the pop. >> jake had surgery to repair the torn ligament in his knee and he faced weeks of rehabilitation. but when therapists checked his progress they used this device to get a bird's eye view to see where he has made progress and where he needs help. >> studies have shown that if you can isolate what risk factors are there and eliminate them. >> john is a physical therapist with nrh rehabilitation network. using the same cameras used in an xbox entertainment system, it performs a series of tests and that technology creates a digital image of the skeleton which helps identify problems with align

we're talking about botulism. wen!< talked to a family that had a scare. the 5-month-old was hospitalized earlier this month. doctors gave her an anti-toxin. she finally began to improve. now her parents are telling her story. >> it continued to get worse. she would just kind of slip through your arms if you tried to pick her up. it was a very high instance of botulism spores. >> there are so many cases in southeastern pennsylvania that it's being called the bot belt. olivia is back to smiling and laughing. all things she wasn't able to do just a few weeks ago. >>> a decade's old tradition is over for new mothers in delaware tonight. hospitals c stopped giving new moms gift bags with formula. delaware is the third state to ban the gift bags. there's a similar ban in philadelphia as well. begins tomorrow bringing live music, carnival rides and all the food you can eat. it's all happening at the delaware fairgrounds. the new kids on the block, counting krouscrows anddd megyn trainor are just some of the musical acts. the

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. >> a baby suffering from botulism.e of the rarest tox ins that can strike a child. >> this 3 month old was rushed to the hospital day ace go after he became too weak to nurse. the hospitals closest didn't know what was wrong. they quickly suspected botulism and began treating it with special medication. he is one of only about 100 babies in the country. you will hear from his mom about the moment she almost lost him and about how the community has rallied to support the baby and his family. >> all signs this afternoon . >>> one of the americans gored is a woman and she was gored in the arm bit. the british runner was gored in the groin. the injuries are not serious. all together 15 people have died since it began keeping records back in 1924. >> a train has derailed in tennessee. this time at least four cars have come off the tracks. that's razing new concerns. >>> and a flag from outside the state house. >> the battle in the house? that could be a tougher fight. we are live with the battle that's brewing. >> to the ex

from food and drink to a rare case of botulism in the area. our social media editor has more. >> about 100 babies suffer from this nationwide and a baby from virginia has been stricken with botulism. he's making progress but the medical costs are enormous. there's a go fund me page set up. >> i'm going to try to convince aaron to buy us a glass of that martini that is $125. >> we can have it with our chicken pizza. sound good to me. thank you aaron. >>> it's probably not a good idea ever to steal a car but especially a police officer's car. >> and you probably don't want to do it naked. ♪ (piano music) ♪ fresher dentures, for the best first impression. love loud, live loud polident. ♪ ♪ fresher dentures... ...for those breathless moments. hug loud, live loud, polident. ♪ ♪ >>> high temperatures today in the mid to upper 80s in addition to that we'll be tracking scattered showers and thunderstorms around this morning on into mainly the early evening hours. future weather timing it out. 1:00 p.m. hit and miss activity. otherwise plenty of clouds

. >>> we want to bring you good news about the virginia baby suffering from botulism, he's on his wayome to woodstock. benjamin was on a breathing tube and feeding tube when he arrived. there he is smiling as the 3-month-old left the hospital. botulism is so rargs only about 100 babies getting it. >>> 150 years of magic and fantasy all going away after today -- sort of. fao schwarz, the iconic toy store on fifth avenue in new york city is closing today. the legendary to be has been at the big apple for more than three decades. remember tom hanks in "big" on that giant piano in the store, that's fao schwarz. >> chopsticks. >> apparently rising rent has forced owners to look for a new location. there is talk at this point that he might reopen a new store in times square sometime next fall. >> chopsticks playing. i played piano for years and forgot everything except "chopsticks." >> that keyboard on the piano in "big" has been the attraction for years. >>> painful cuts for agencies in montgomery county as that county deals with a budget deficit, the impact those cuts could have on fire a

botulism is so rare only about 100 babies get it each year. >>> and the search is on. this comes as police released video showing the fact moment the this man escaped from a maximum security prison. there's more on the escape on the search. >> reporter: this video released by the mexican government shows el chapo on a security camera the night he escaped just before 9 pnl. he can be seen pacing going in and out of the shower stall where the tunnel entrance is. he bends down, goes out of the camera's view and disappears. tuesday they recorded video of the tunnel entrance and went into the tunnel itself where an old motorcycle with a cart can be seen on a set of tracks. mexican officials say he laid on the cart and was pulled through the tunnel carrying him to this partially constructed house about a mile away. following his escape the chicago crime commission once again named him public enemy number one. >> with a very powerful drug leader like him when they are repay traited with their cartel oftentimes there is held to pay. >> the cartel dominates the drug trade in th

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