dr. max gomez joins us to help us understand this new threat! dr. max, just how worried should we be about this new study? >> it's not clear yet. up until now the main concern with zika was if a pregnant woman passed the virus to her baby which could cause a devastating brain malformation called microcephaly. a study in the journm infect and possibly kill off developing adult brain stem cells. but in mice. that's the important thing. >> that's important. the big question would be, what does it mean for humans? >> reporter: it's not clear. mice and people are obviously very different. and healthy adult humans may be able to fight off a zika infection and prevent it from attacking brain stem cells but immunocompromised adults might be susceptible to zika. we don't know. >> what would be the long-term know right now because the stem cells that zika attacks may be the source of replacement brain cells as we age. it's theoretically possible that this could have long-term impact on everything from personality to dementia but this is very, very speculative.

dr. max gomez, cbs2 news. >> wow. sounds legit. research. some real science going on. >>> let's talk the weather. money is here, wasn't it just the other day we were talking heat wave? >> eight straight days of 90 plus heat at laguardia. today, monticello, barely above 70 degrees. you were away from the heat but, look at what you're doing with with the cloud cover out there, chance of some rain currently. a bunch of 70s up here. let's pick a spot. go out to the island. 71 right now, this comes in from matt in selden. he's got the clouds matt is saying, lucked out with no rain today. looking forward to less humidity in the coming days. i will say this much for you, the area where you are from, you need some rain, probably more than any other portion of the tri-state area. and you are right, you did not get any today. i don't see a lot on the horizon. outside right now, not a lot on the horizon for eastern long island. cloudy right now, 73 degrees. your high temp today was 80 4 degrees cooler than average. we were just saying, where's all the

dr. max gomez, cbs 2 news. outside these days, right? >> it is is so thick, the air out there. i mean the heat and the humidity, lonnie quinn here with the latest and wondering if we will get any relief any time soon. there will be some relief. it won't disappear all together. but as we go through this week, i think you will find every day, we will get a little bit better. i think tomorrow is going to be the stormy day but after that, you start moving in the right direction. let's check in right now with the weather watchers and the temperatures, and upper 80s and lower 90s for some folks. the pictures that are being given today, some pretty ones from ed rhodes, west of new york city. this is kind of cool, and learning to fly a glider plane, sullivan county and looking for updrafts for gliders to stay up in the air a long time. you want the hot air. except for the fact that cold air is more stable. so it is a hit or miss for you guys out there. but kind of a cool looking shot that you can see the haze in the air as well. let me get you outside as of right now. there is the pict

dr. max gomez shows us what it means to melt the fat. >>> plus, taking tracking to a whole new level. the popular family destination that could soon start to follow in your every footstep. >>> those stories and much more coming up at 11:00 on cbs2 news, dana? >> i don't know, kristine. thanks. >>> finally tonight an adorable rescue. all caught on video. nypd officers are pulling four kittens and the mother kitty from the storm drain the officers were responding to a call about a landlord tenant dispute in jamaica when they noticed that stranded cats. you'll see there, one of the officers, they went down the ladder, they pulled out the cats one by one and they were taken back to the 113 precinct where one of the police officers adopted one of the kittens. >>> up next on the cbs evening news, the war on zika. the number of cases that were growing rapidly. pregnant women warned to avoid south florida. thank you for joining us good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >> rose: the zika zone, the c.d.c. issues an extraordinary travel warning for miami neighborhoods as the number infected gro

dr. max gomez says the delusions that he was experiencing are associated with more severe forms of bipolar disorder. >>> days after the brutal murder of a jogger in cream -- queens, local leaders held a meeting to discuss the case. the meeting was held with the intention of providing comfort and answers to a deeply shaken neighborhood. last tuesday, katrina votrano had gone jogging in spring creek federal beach in howard beach and never came home, she was sexually assaulted and strangled, sense of security. >> i hope they catch the killer quick so we can get back to normal life. and not be afraid to go out at night with my husband or children. >> investigators also thanked members of the community for their cooperation in the investigation. only days later another new york city woman found murdered aiello has more on this. >> reporter: the victim lived and worked in new york city but was found murdered 2 miles north and central massachusetts. 27 year old vanessa marcotte went out for a run and never made it home, just like katrina votrano. a connection between the cases is unlikely, but au

dr. max gomez says there is an alternative for post op pain without narcotics. >> one of the best beach known volleyball players and won three gold medals and nike's first woman spokesperson on her knees. >> felt like metal on metal burning. >> reporter: it led to a knee replacement and took painkillers for two days. >> i'm respectful of the fact that they are addictive, so i thought, i'm as strong as i am and strong in my mind, i thought why temp faith. relief is needed. >> by the second and third days most patients can take over the counter prescription medication without the need for narcotics. >> reporter: a way to ease it is with a local anesthetic. this drug is encapsulated in tiny fat >> we can dramatically reduce the exposure. >> reporter: gabby is a paid spokesperson for anti opioid abuse campaign and website at plan against pain.com. >> give the power to the patient. say, you have other options besides excruciating pain and opiates? they let you print out a questionnaire to discuss your concerns and pain relief options with your doctor before i won't prevent all addiction but empowe

dr. max gomez explains, some are taking it with a grain of salt. >>reporter: is there anything more than kids like better than candy, cake and ice cream and anything parents like less, at least what it does to their >>reporter: even some kids say they can tell what sugar does to them. >> it makes me hypersometimes. >>reporter: but a recent article in new york magazine has taken that long-held belief and called it a myth. author carry ram pointed out several scientific studies, including an analysis by more than 20 studies by a pediatrician at the university of oklahoma that found no corelation between kids consuming sugar and hyperactive behavior. >> the research is actually showing that kids do not get but, actually, their behavior is just the same as if they didn't have any sugar at all. >>reporter: clinical psychologist and new mom jamie howard says the sugar myth has stuck around because parents believe sugar affects their child. >> there'll be more likely to notice things, so they'll be on the lookout for more sort of jumping around, seeming m

dr. max gomez with more on this ancient practice. >> reporter: that's right, indeed, to have originated from china and appropriately enough, more than 2,000 to asthma and even herpies, but it is what they do with sore muscles that would have some cupping. >> reporter: it is probably the best known and most decorated olympic swimmer of all times. so when michael phelps seem to grand a photo of himself getting cupped, showing up for a race in rio with bruises on the shoulders, people take notice. even his teammates are on the bandwagon. >> my fiance aly does it to me it uses glass or heat or a mechanical pump to create suction drawing skin up into the cup. athletes will often use cupping therapy believing that it'll increase blood flow to an area, promote oxygen nation -- oxygenation and increase blood flow. one theory is that pulling s draws blood to the area. but it also breaks tiny blood vessels in the skin leaving some pretty good bruises. although it is painless. >> i think it was a low-key trend. but now that michael phelps has been seen with the cup marks all over his body that more ath

dr. max gomez tells us about the growing feed of sports vision and how you can improve your visual performance. >> good vision in sports is pretty complicated and it depends on your sport. boxers don't need great acute but need depth perception. archers need great acute and contrast sensitivity and baseball players need all of and train all of those. it's called the single hardest thing to do in sports. hit a small fast moving ball that's even curving. it's no surprise then that major league ball players see on average 20/12, two lines on the eye chart better than 20/20. good sports vision is more than just that acute. >> the size of the target is important. the contrast of the target is important. the depth perception, 3d vision of the target is important and how fast you can perceive the in >> what number is that? >> two. >> keep going. >> nine. >> it's about how much visual information your brain can handle at the same time and how fast you can process that information into action like hitting a baseball. 13 year old luke is testing his ability to detect and react to visual cues. the buddin

dr. max gomez, cbs 2 news. >> you're saying 's chance. >> dr. max always has great stories. >> one day. we'll see. >>> now 5:26. still ahead, new hope for a long island community still reeling from superstorm sandy. >>> plus this: >>reporter: protesters are calling for the firing of the nypd's top cop. what commissioner bratton has to say and the plans for today's protest coming up in a live report. >>reporter: travelers heading to miami, a lot of them concerned because of a zika outbreak in a small neighborhood of miami. the details coming up. >>> and is your child a picky eater? find out how you can get them out of their comfort zone and trying new foods with a few simp isle tricks. cbs 2 news this morning i'm robert de nind e to visit in the world and now it's the easiest, because now there are new tourism guides on the road, and on your phone that make it easier to find the places you love. find great dining, amazing history, and world-class entertainment, no matter where you are. take the ultimate road trip and see why i love new york. >>> it's 5:30, 71 degrees on this tuesday, aug

dr. max gomez tells us now of a woman who almost lost her leg after surgery. thankfully, doctors saved it. he is here with the story. max. >> reporter: that's right, kristine. an infected knee or hip replacement is i disaster. the prosthesis has to be removed leaving a useless leg for weeks or months before another one can be put in. if the infection or other complications get bad, it great lengths to prevent infection in total joint replacements. surgeons wear special spacesuits, scrub themselves and your skin with germ killing solutions, but sometimes that's not enough. hazel was in a serious car accident that broke her legs. she ended up with one total knee replasticment that eventually loosened and got infected. >> several doctors in the hospital said that it was time to give up leg. it still brings tears. [ crying ] >> sorry. >> reporter: but hazel found a doctor who was willing to try to save her leg. normally that means taking out the artificial joint and placing special antibiotic- impregnated spacers but -- >> there's no commercially available spacers

dr. max gomez cbs2 news. >> that's stunning. >> it really is. >> those numbers. >>> coming up next all day they -- all they want is to protect their home, but for years red tape has left them in a limbo. a new life for homeowners to get to higher ground. >>> disturbing calls over police radio. the hacker threatening to attack an nypd captain. >>> surveillance cameras see how bystanders jump in to help. i have asthma... ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a

dr. max gomez says don't be so sure. >> reporter: never be so sure. ask any parent or grandparent what happens when a child eats cake, candy, ice cream, even sugary soda has them bouncing off the walls. that's just another myth. is there anything kids like more than candy cake and ice cream? and anything parents like allegedly does to their behavior? >> they get more active and crash. >> reporter: even some kids say they can tell what sugar does to them. >> makes me hypersometimes. >> reporter: but a recent article in "new york" magazine has taken that belief and called it a myth. the author said several studies including an analysis of more than 20 studies by a pediatrician at the university of oklahoma that found no correlation between kids hyperactive behavior. >> the research is actually showing that kids do not get hyperactive after eating sugar. actually it's just the same as if they didn't have any sugar at all. >> reporter: a clinical psychologist and new mother says the sugar myth has stuck around because parents believe sugar affects their c

dr. max gomez explains. >> reporter: melanoma is very curable when it's caught early. but it also spreads very quickly even when it's a small mole. that's when it turns deadly. now a whole new class of drugs called immunotherapies is revolutionizing the treatment die and decided there were things that i really wanted to do and people i wanted to see. >> reporter: cindy had good reason to think she was going to die when the melanoma on her shoulder spread to her lungs. her doctor at the nyu perlmutter cancer center knew that survival stats for her stage cancer were grim. >> most patients would survive only about six months because were infecteddive. >> reporter: but a new breakthrough combination of drugs unleashes the body's only immune system killing the cancer. >> they get the body to recognize the kansas something to a-- the cancer something to attack and the immune system goes after it. >> reporter: this person's melanoma that started as a bleeding mole eight years ago had since spread to his lung and thigh. >> i was begging for one month, two months, three months,

dr. max gomez says a new device is making that surgery safer and more accurate. max. >> reporter: that's right, there are few elective operations that people fear more and try good reason. there is a lot of vital structures in the spine that can be disastrous if damaged. here's how 3d technology called an o-arm makes it safer. a simple stroll with his wife used to turning into a painful experience for joe d'antonio. >> it started slowly and then all of a sudden, i couldn't walk ten feet. it was killing me. it was pain right down my leg. >> reporter: turns out joe had several spine problems causing his pain. a couple of bad disks, bone spurs and vertebrae that were unstable and slipping past each other. surgery to fix it involves placing screws and rods to stabilize and fuse the problem area. >> very concerned. i didn't want to wind up in a wheelchair. >> reporter: joe's concern wasn't unreasonable. >> we're right near arteries, nerves, spinal cord, and so it's a very rich environment where a patient can come to >> reporter: that's where that large donut shaped de

dr. max gomez says delusions are associated with severe bipolar disorder. >>> the cause of a raging fire on the lower east side remains under investigation this morning. flames eresulted on the roof of 190 bowery which is near spring street. there were also several explosions. the historic building is best known as the former home of the jamania bank. it was completed in 1899. there were no ur in westchester county thanks to a quick-thinking emergency roadside truck. a car was headed in the eastbound lanes of 97 near the tappen zee bridge just after the morning rush. the driver of the state d.o.t. help truck positioned himself in the car's path getting the driver to slow down. >> i tried to stop the guy because i know he was going to be a disaster. finally opened the door and grabbed the -- put the car in park and grabbed the key. >> the wrong-way driver suffered a medical emergency and drove for a mile and a half before the car was stopped. >>> new jersey congressman frank palone, jr. is calling on the house to approve immediate funding to fight zika. palone, a democrat has criticized r

dr. max gomez sorts it all out. >> i love coffee, espresso shots, twice, three times a day. >> i need it at least three or four times a day. >> that's pretty much when everyone on the street told us. okay, we er starbucks but something like 85% of americans consume some version of a coffee drink every day. what to do about studies like the ones in mayo clinic proceedings that found people who drink 28 cups a week, that's about four cups a day had a 21% higher death rate than noncoffee drinkers and those younger than 55 years old had more than a 50% increase of death. >> it's upsetting but i don't think it's that surprising. >> other studies have shown decreased risk of developing alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease and type 2 diabetes. other studies have shown drinking coffee can decrease the likelihood of developing certain cancers by 20 to 40%. judging by consumption figures few people have changed their habits but some coffee drinkers do have a bad reaction to their beverage, it depends on whether you're a fast or slow metabolizer. >> 8 ounces drink it within an hour and you don'

dr. max gomez says a 3d device called the o arm is making that surgery safer and more accurate. >> it wasn't too long ago that a stroll with his wife would turn into a painful experience. >> it started very slowly and all of a sudden i couldn't walk 10 feet. it was killing me. it was pain down my leg. it was unbearable. >> joe had several spine problems causing his pain. a couple of bad disks, bone spurs and vertebrae that were placing screws and rods to stabilize and fuse the problem area. >> i didn't want to wind up in a wheelchair. >> joe's concern wasn't unreasonable. >> we're right near arteries, nerves, spinal cord and so it's a very rich environment where a patient can come to harm very easily. >> that's where that large doughnut shaped device in the background comes in. it's actually a highly sophisticated ct scanner that operating room. the scans can be superimposed on the patient's anatomy so dr. kerr knows exactly where to safely place the hardware. >> decide the perfect size, length, and trajectory of a screw before anything is ever placed in the patient so i know with a high deg

gomez. >> dr. max says the pills are especially important when young patients hit their teen years, when they often are rebellious from the rules they have to follow. >>> some jewels are are hitting the auction block next month. some of the for money pieces are these red, white, and blue items. >> there's also a pair of cowboy boots that president reagan wore. a little bit of fun for everybody. >>> they went in to rob the place, but they could not get out. how store workers trapped two managed to get away. plus this. >> it was just the happiest time of my life. >> he didn't know where his dogs for an entire day, but after a heroic rescue, he's home again. their heart felt reunion after the break. >>> all right, there. 75degrees, and 6:22. elise says it's going to be hot and humid. we are used to that. >> we are. >> and storms on the way, but she will have the latest on the forecast coming up. welcome back to cbs 2 news saturday morning. >>> two nypd officers showed their sense of humor. two officers st