>> Gio: GOOD MORNING, AMERICA. STORMY HOLIDAY WEEKEND. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS UNDER ALERT.
THE THREATS FOR SEVERE WEATHER FOR WHAT THE TSA SAYS WILL BE THE BUSIEST LABOR DAY TRAVEL PERIOD ON RECORD. THE BEST ADVICE IF YOU'RE TAKING TO THE SKIES OR THE ROAD. >>> CLARIFYING THEIR POSITIONS.
NOW HE'LL VOTE NO ON A BALLOT MEASURE AIMING TO OVERTURN FLORIDA'S NEAR TOTAL ABORTION BAN WHILE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS EXPLAINS HER STANCE ON FRACKING AS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE HEATS UP. >> Whit: HOCKEY FAMILY TRAGEDY. JOHNNY GAUDREAU AND HIS BROTHER STRUCK AND KILLED BY AN ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER ON THE EVE OF THEIR SISTER'S WEDDING.
THE CHARGES FOR THE DRIVER AS TRIBUTES POUR IN THIS MORNING. >> Gio: MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES NOW RISING. HEALTH OFFICIALS SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT WEST NILE AND TRIPLE E.
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND. >> Rhiannon: HOLLYWOOD BANKING ON SEQUELS TO BE BOX OFFICE BLOCKBUSTERS. >> I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU SO HAPPY.
>> Rhiannon: THE FAMILIAR FACES BACK ON THE SILVER SCREEN. >> Whit: ROOKIE RIVALRY. CAITLIN CLARK AND ANGEL REESE AND CLARK SCORES A CAREER HIGH.
>> CAITLIN CLARK, ANOTHER THREE-POINTER. >> Whit: WHILE REESE MAKES DOUBLE-DOUBLE HISTORY AND STUNNING UPSET. THE SHOCKING DEFEAT OF NOVAK DJOKOVIC AT THE U.
S. OPEN. ♪ BECAUSE I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD ♪ >> Gio: AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL KICKOFF.
ESPN'S DESMOND HOWARD JOINS US LIVE IN COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WITH PREVIEWS AND PREDICTIONS. ♪ I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD ♪ >> Gio: A PERFECT WAY TO START THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND. HAPPY TO HAVE RHIANNON ALLY BACK HERE.
>> Whit: WELCOME BACK. >> Gio: JANAI ENJOYS HER LAST WEEKEND OF MATERNITY LEAVE. A LOT OF NEWS AHEAD INCLUDING THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND TRAVEL CRUSH AS MILLIONS OF US SQUEEZE IN THAT LAST SUMMER TRIP IN WEEKEND.
>> Rhiannon: THAT'S RIGHT AND COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE NORTHEAST ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM. TWO MOSQUITO-BORNE ILLNESSES ON THE RISE. TWO DEATHS FROM WEST NILE WERE REPORTED IN NEW JERSEY AND WE'LL HAVE THE LATEST COMING UP.
>> Whit: WE BEGIN WITH THE INTERNS STORM SYSTEM HITTING THE NORTHEAST AND MID-ATLANTIC JUST AS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HEAD OUT FOR THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. RIGHT TO SOMARA THEODORE TRACKING IT ALL. SOMARA, GOOD MORNING.
>> Somara: GOOD MORNING, WHIT. SO YESTERDAY IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WE HAD TWO HOUSES GET STRUCK BY LIGHTNING OR ONE GOT STRUCK AND ACTUALLY THE FIRE SPREAD. TOOK ABOUT 70 FIREMEN 45 MENS TO CLEAR THE FIRE AND UNFORTUNATELY, THAT THREAT PERSISTS TODAY.
THIS COLD FRONT DRIVING THROUGH FROM CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA TO THE OHIO VALLEY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. THEN AS WE HEAD INTO THE NIGHTTIME WE HAVE STORMS LINING THE I-95 CORRIDOR.
HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING. ANY PLANS YOU HAVE TODAY KEEP THAT IN MIND. LABOR DAY FORECAST.
WE'RE DRY THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE COUNTRY, COOL IN THE NORTHEAST AND MIDWEST. WARM OUT WEST. DOWN SOUTH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CHANCE FOR FLOODING.
I'LL HAVE THAT A LITTLE LATER ON. FOR NOW, GIO, BACK TO YOU. >> Gio: ALL EYES ON THAT FORECAST AS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HIT THE ROADS AND THE SKIES FOR THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND, WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE, OF COURSE, STARTING WITH ABC'S MORGAN NORWOOD AT NEWARK AIRPORT.
GOOD MORNING, MORGAN. >> Reporter: IT'S PROJECTED TO BE THE BUSIEST ON RECORD WITH TSA EXPECTING TO SCREEN CLOSE TO 70 MILLION PASSENGERS AT AIRPORTS FROM COAST TO COAST, WHICH COULD MEAN LONG LINES, THANKFULLY NOT SEEING THAT AT NEWARK BUT KNOW THAT WILL CHANGE AS THE MORNING PROGRESSES AND SPEAKING OF THE MORNING, MOST AIRPORTS WILL BE BUSY WITH O'HARE THE MOST HECTIC. AMERICAN AIRLINES SAYS THEY EXPECT TO FLY 740,000 PASSENGERS ON FRIDAY ON 6400 FLIGHTS.
UNITED LOOKING AT 500,000, TSA LINES ARE OFTEN WHERE THE HANGUPS HAPPEN. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF WAITING EMPTY OUT YOUR POCKETS AND IT WILL SAVE YOU TIME WHEN YOU GO THROUGH SCREENING. ARRIVE EARLY AND GIVE YOURSELF SOME EXTRA TIME.
RHIANNON. >> Rhiannon: GOOD ADVICE THERE, MORGAN, THANK YOU FOR THAT. >>> IT IS NOT JUST THE AIRPORTS.
THE ROADS WILL BE PACKED ON THIS LAST LONG WEEKEND OF SUMMER AND ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS JOINS US NOW WITH MORE ON THAT. GOOD MORNING. >> GOOD MORNING, RHIANNON.
WITH MILLIONS EXPECTED TO TAKE TO THE ROADS THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND, TIMING IS EVERYTHING. SO, TODAY EXPERTS SAY TRY TO AVOID THE MORNING AND PLAN ON HEADING OUT AFTER 12:00 P. M.
TOMORROW IT'S BEST TO LEAVE BEFORE NOON, AND IF YOU'RE COMING HOME ON MONDAY TRAVEL BEFORE 10:00. IF YOU ARE MAKING IT AN EXTENDED HOLIDAY WEEKEND THE BEST TIME TO TRAVEL, TUESDAY AFTER 1:00 P. M.
WHEN YOU GO TO FILL UP THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND, YOU'LL BE PAYING THE LOWEST GAS PRICES IN ABOUT THREE YEARS. ACCORDING TO AAA, THE NATIONAL AVERAGE FOR A GALLON OF REGULAR NOW $3. 33.
MORE THAN 50 CENTS CHEAPER THAN A YEAR AGO WHEN IT AVERAGED 3. 82 A GALLON. THAT RELIEF MAY STICK AROUND FOR AWHILE.
ACCORDING TO GAS BUDDY PIECES COULD DIP BELOW $3 THIS FALL AS GAS STATIONS SWITCH TO LESS EXPENSIVE WINTER BLEND OF GASOLINE LATER THIS MONTH. WHIT. >> Whit: ALEXIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>>> THE TRIBUTES POURING IN FOR NHL STAR JOHNNY GAUDREAU AND HIS BROTHER. BOTH KILLED BY AN ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER WHO IS NOW UNDER ARREST. THEY WERE HIT WHILE RIDING BICYCLES IN NEW JERSEY BEFORE THEIR SISTER'S WEDDING.
ABC'S IKE EJIOCHI IS HERE WITH THE LATEST. IKE, GOOD MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING, WHIT.
THE TWO WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GROOMSMEN JUST HOURS AFTER THE ACCIDENT. NOW A FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN MOURNING. THIS MORNING, TRIBUTES POURING IN FOR NHL STAR JOHNNY GAUDREAU AND HIS BROTHER MATTHEW AFTER THEIR SHOCKING DEATHS.
THE BROTHERS WERE RIDING BICYCLES THURSDAY NIGHT WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK AND KILLED BY AN ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER IN NEW JERSEY. >> YOU'RE CHARGED NOW WITH TWO COUNTS OF SECOND-DEGREE VEHICULAR HOMICIDE. >> Reporter: 43-YEAR-OLD SEAN HIGGINS APPEARING IN COURT FRIDAY AND INVESTIGATORS SAY HIGGINS WAS DRIVING RECKLESSLY WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO PASS A SLOWER MOVING VEHICLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE HITTING THE BIKES FROM BEHIND.
>> GRAY OR BLACK SUV HATCHBACK DRIVING ERRATICALLY. >> Reporter: IT UNFOLDED AS THE BROTHERS WERE SCHEDULED TO BE PART OF THEIR SISTER'S WEDDING THE NEXT NIGHT, INSTEAD, THE CELEBRATION NOW CALLED OFF. THE GAUDREAU FAMILY RELEASING A STATEMENT MOURNING THE LOSS OF TRULY TWO AMAZING HUMANS AND ASKING FOR RESPECT AND PRIVACY DURING THIS DIFFICULT PERIOD OF GRIEF.
>> THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD HOCKEY PLAYERS IN SOUTH JERSEY AND HE WAS PROBABLY THE BEST. THAT'S WHY HE WAS JOHNNY HOCKEY. >> Reporter: ON FRIDAY FANS AND MOURNERS GATHERING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS OUTSIDE THE NATIONWIDE ARENA IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, WHERE JOHN PLAYED LEFT WING FOR THE BLUE JACKETS.
HIS FORMER TEAM, THE CALGARY FLAMES HONORING NUMBER 13 ON THEIR SCOREBOARD. THE 31-YEAR-OLD KNOWN AS JOHNNY HOCKEY WAS A SEVEN-TIME ALL-STAR DURING HIS 11 SEASONS IN THE NHL. >> NOTHING WAS GIVEN TO HIM AND TURNED INTO ONE OF THE BEST LEFT WINGERS IN THE ENTIRE LEAGUE BUT ANYONE WHO KNOWS HIM KNOWS THAT HE WAS ALL ABOUT THOSE CLOSE TO HIM SPECIFICALLY HIS FAMILY.
>> Reporter: HOCKEY, THE UNBREAKABLE BOND BETWEEN THE BROTHERS BOTH PLAYED FOR BOSTON COLLEGE WHERE THEY WERE RECRUITED AS A I'M. >> IF YOU ASKED US TO NAME OUR FAVORITE PLAYERS, THEY'RE GOT TO BE BOTH BOYS GOT TO BE AMONG THEM. >> Reporter: 29-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW THE HEAD HOCKEY COACH AT THEIR FORMER HIGH SCHOOL.
HE AND HIS WIFE WERE EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD TOGETHER THIS WINTER. ACCORDING TO THE ARREST WARRANT HIGGINS FAILED A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST AFTER OFFICERS SAID HE CONSUMED FIVE OR SIX BEERS BEFORE THE ACCIDENT. HE WILL REMAIN BEHIND BARS UNTIL HIS NEXT HEARING SEPTEMBER 5th.
>> Gio: AN AWFUL STORY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> TO THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE NOW. HEADING OFF TO A NEW PHASE NOW OF INTENSITY THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
THE FIRST MAIL-IN BALLOTS GOING OUT TO VOTERS NEXT WEEK AND THE ABC NEWS DEBATE IS TWO WEEKS AWAY AND MARYALICE PARKS IS HERE. GOOD MORNING, MARYALICE. IT'S QUITE LITERALLY GO TIME.
>> THE END OF SUMMER, THAT MEANS THE START OF THIS FINAL LEG IN THE SPRINT TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THE CAMPAIGNS ARE COUNTING DOWN TO THAT DEBATE AND WORKING TO GET OUT THE VOTE NOW WITH SOME BALLOTS IN CRUCIAL STATES LIKE NORTH CAROLINA MAILED OUT THE END OF THIS WEEK. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING AT THE NATIONAL SUMMIT OF THE CONTROVERSIAL PARENTS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION MOMS FOR LIBERTY KNOWN FOR PUSHING BOOK BANS AND UPPING ATTACKS ON PUBLIC SCHOOLTEACHERS FOCUSING ON IMMIGRATION.
>> OUR COUNTRY IS BEING POISONED, POISONED AND YOUR SCHOOLS AND YOUR CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING GREATLY. >> Reporter: EDUCATION FRONT AND CENTER. GWEN WALZ, A PUBLIC SCHOOLTEACHER HERSELF HOLDING HER FIRST SOLO EVENT WITH FELLOW EDUCATORS.
>> SAY IT WITH ME, WE ARE NOT GOING BACK. ONE MORE TIME IN YOUR BEST TEACHER VOICE, WE ARE NOT GOING BACK! >> Reporter: EARLIER FRIDAY TRUMP CAMPAIGNING IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA TICKING THROUGH ISSUES LIKE ENERGY AND CLIMATE HITTING HARRIS FOR SAYING IN 2019 SHE WOULD BAN FRACKING.
IN THAT NEW CNN INTERVIEW HARRIS EXPLAINING HER POSITION. >> NO, AND I MADE THAT CLEAR ON THE DEBATE STAGE IN 2020 THAT I WOULD NOT BAN FRACKING. AS VICE PRESIDENT I DID NOT BAN FRACKING.
AS PRESIDENT I WILL NOT BAN FRACKING. >> Reporter: SHE ADDED HER VALUES NEEDING TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE HAVE NOT CHANGED AND ABORTION, TRUMP FRIDAY NOW SAYING HE WILL AS A FLORIDA RESIDENT VOTE NO ON A BALLOT MEASURE AIMING TO OVERTURN THE STATE'S NEAR TOTAL ABORTION BAN. EVEN THOUGH JUST THE DAY BEFORE, HE INDICATED THE STATE'S NEW SIX-WEEK BAN WAS TOO RESTRICTIVE.
>> WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT, I DISAGREED WITH IT. AT THE SAME TIME THE DEMOCRATS ARE RADICAL. >> Reporter: OUTSIDE TRUMP'S EVENT PROTESTERS FOCUSED ON THIS VERY ISSUE.
>> HIS WORK AT APPOINTING THREE OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO OVERTHROWING ROE V. WADE IS A HUMAN RIGHTS SLAP IN THE FACE. >> Reporter: TRUMP SUPPORTERS LOOKING AHEAD TO THE DEBATE.
>> I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HIM CONTRASTING HIMSELF WITH KAMALA HARRIS, OUR CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT, BECAUSE IT'S DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT AND SHE KEEPS COPYING HIS POLICIES. >> NOW HARRIS PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING SHE PROMISED SHE WOULD PUSH FOR A NATIONAL LAW RESTORING ABORTION RIGHTS. LOOK, ALL OF THIS BACK AND FORTH ON THE ISSUES, CLEARLY A SIGN THAT THE CANDIDATES ARE GEARING UP FOR THAT DEBATE.
THEY KNOW JUST HOW CONSEQUENTIAL THAT HEAD-TO-HEAD WILL BE. >> Gio: ABSOLUTELY. SO MANY THINGS TURNING AND TWISTING IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS.
THANK YOU, MARY ALICE AND THE ABC NEWS DEBATE WILL HOST THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, TAKES PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 10th IN PHILADELPHIA'S NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER BEGINNING AT 9:00 P. M. EASTERN.
OUR OWN DAVID MUIR AND LINSEY DAVIS ARE GOING TO BE THE MODERATORS AND IT IS LIVE RIGHT HERE ON ABC AND STREAMING ON DISNEY+ AND HULU. >> Rhiannon: WE WILL BE WATCHING THAT GIO. >>> TO THE MIDDLE EAST AS ISRAEL LAUNCHES MORE RAIDS ON THE WEST BANK WHILE SOME FIGHTING SET TO PAUSE IN GAZA FOR THE SAKE OF POLIO VACCINATIONS.
ABC'S BRITT CLENNETT IS IN JERUSALEM WITH MORE ON THAT. GOOD MORNING, BRITT. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING, RHIANNON.
FOUR DAYS SINCE THE IDF LAUNCHED MASSIVE RAIDS RELEASING VIDEO FROM THE OPERATION THAT KILLED A TOP HAMAS COMMANDER IN JENIN. THAT CITY NOW SEALED OFF EFFECTIVELY AS INTENSE FIGHTING CONTINUES AND THE IDF CLAIMING THEY KILLED 20 MILITANTS IN WHAT THEY SAY IS A MAJOR COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION BUT FEARS THAT THE WAR IN GAZA COULD BE COMING TO THE WEST BANK. WE SAW FIRSTHAND SOME OF THE DESTRUCTION IN THIS CAMP, LOCALS ANGRY AND PICKING UP THE PIECES.
LATE LAST NIGHT TWO CAR BOMB ATTACK, THE IDF SAYING AN TERRORIST INFILTRATED. NO CIVILIANS KILLED. IN GAZA VIDEO RELEASED SHOWING FURTHER DESTRUCTION IN KHAN YOUNIS AS THE IDF WITHDRAWS AND NINE BODIES RECOVERED AND AN AIR STRIKE HIT ANOTHER AID CONVOY BELONGING TO THE U.
S. NGO AMARA. IT WENT ON TO DELIVER THE AID TO A HOSPITAL EVEN AFTER THE STRIKE AND WITH LIMITED PAUSES IN FIGHTING EXPECTED IN THE COMING DAYS TO HELP FACILITATE A POLIO VACCINE ROLLOUT, CEASE-FIRE TALKS WITH NO BREAKTHROUGH.
HAMAS ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM THE PAUSES IN THE FIGHTING AND IT IS NOT THE START OF A MORE ENDURING CEASE-FIRE. WHIT. >> Whit: BRITT, THANK YOU.
>>> WE TURN TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A NEIGHBOR NOW UNDER ARREST IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF AN ELDERLY COUPLE MISSING FOR NEARLY A WEEK. MELISSA ADAN JOINS US FROM LOS ANGELES WITH THE LATEST.
MELISSA, GOOD MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING, WHIT. SO POLICE MAKING A GRUESOME DISCOVERY FINDING WHAT THEY BELIEVE ARE THE BODIES OF THE MISSING COUPLE UNDERNEATH THEIR NEIGHBOR'S HOME.
THAT NEIGHBOR IS NOW FACING MURDER CHARGES. THIS MORNING, A MISSING ELDERLY COUPLE FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESUMED DEAD ACCORDING TO POLICE WHO SUSPECT THEIR NEIGHBOR OF HOMICIDE. 79-YEAR-OLD DAN MENARD AND HIS WIFE, 73-YEAR-OLD STEPHANIE VANISHING A WEEK AGO LAST SEEN WITH THEIR DOG CUDDLES AT THEIR REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, HOME LOCATED IN A NUDIST RANCH.
POLICE FINDING THEIR CAR ABANDONED NEARBY. THE COUPLE'S CELL PHONES AND STEPHANIE'S PURSE INSIDE THEIR HOME. DAYS LATER POLICE INVOLVED IN A STANDOFF WITH THE COUPLE'S NEIGHBOR, S.
W. A. T.
TEAMS SEEN APPROACHING SPARKS' PROPERTY THEN TEARING THROUGH HIS HOME EVENTUALLY GOING IN WITH GUNS DRAWN FORCING HIM TO SURRENDER. >> WE DID LOCATE HIM UNDER THE HOME. >> Reporter: POLICE ARRESTING 62-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL SPARKS IN CONNECTION TO THE COUPLE'S DISAPPEARANCE CHARGING HIM WITH MURDER.
ON FRIDAY, CADAVER DOGS DETECTING AT LEAST ONE BODY UNDERNEATH HIS PROPERTY. HOURS LATER, OFFICIALS SEARCHING AND FINDING A BUNKER UNDERNEATH THE HOME. >> GREAT COUPLE, GOOD CHRISTIAN, GOOD PEOPLE AND SO WHEN THEY DISAPPEARED IT WAS A VERY BIG BLOW TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
>> Reporter: THE EXACT MOTIVE OF SPARKS AND WHAT LED TO THEIR DEATH REMAINS UNCLEAR. POLICE TELL US THAT INVESTIGATION CONTINUES WITH THEIR CURRENT FOCUS ON PROPERLY IDENTIFYING THOSE DISCOVERED BODIES. GIO.
>> Gio: SUCH A MYSTERY. ALL RIGHT, MELISSA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. >>> ONE OF THE TWO DOCTORS CHARGED IN THE OVERDOSE DEATH OF BELOVED ACTOR MATTHEW PERRY APPEARED IN FEDERAL COURT IN LOS ANGELES ON FRIDAY.
DR. MARK CHAVEZ SURRENDERED HIS MEDICAL LICENSE AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT EXPECTED TO PLEAD GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO DISTRIBUTE KETAMINE. HE IS FACING UP TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
RHIANNON. >>> >> Rhiannon: THERE IS A NEW TWIST IN THE SAGA OF ADNAN SYED, SYED, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER WAS FEATURED ON THE HIT PODCAST "SERIAL. " MARYLAND SUPREME COURT UPHOLDING A DECISION TO REINSTATE HIS MURDER CONVICTION AND ORDERING A NEW HEARING.
THE COURT RULING THAT THE 2022 HEARING THAT FREED SYED VIOLATED THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF THE VICTIM'S FAMILY. SYED REMAINS FREE THIS MORNING. >> Whit: COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ON ALERT AS CASES OF MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES ARE ON THE RISE.
ABC'S EM NGUYEN IS JOINING US NOW AND, EM, THEY ARE HAPPENING ON A BUSY HOLIDAY WEEKEND. >> BUSY INDEED, YEAH. HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM AMID A RISE IN MOSQUITO-BORNE ILLNESSES INCLUDES WELL NILE VIRUS AND EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS OR TRIPLE E.
TWO OLDER ADULTS DIED OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN NEW JERSEY AND THE NUMBER OF CASES UP TO EIGHT. IT COMES ONE DAY AFTER OFFICIALS IN WISCONSIN REPORTED TWO PEOPLE DEAD BECAUSE OF WEST NILE. THIS MORNING AROUND 290 CASES REPORTED ACROSS 30 STATES.
WHILE MOST PEOPLE INFECTED WITH WEST NILE DON'T GET ANY SYMPTOMS, 1 IN 150 MAY DEVELOP SERIOUS, EVEN FATAL ILLNESSES. NOW, COMMUNITIES ALSO ON HIGH ALERT FOR THE RARE BUT DEADLY TRIPLE E DISEASE AFTER OFFICIALS IN MASSACHUSETTS SAID A SECOND CASE WAS DISCOVERED IN THE STATE. THE FEAR OF AN OUTBREAK IN THE NORTHEAST PROMPTING SOME PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN MASSACHUSETTS TO CHANGE THE TIMES OF THEIR FOOTBALL GAMES.
NEW YORK CITY ALSO TAKING ACTION TO REDUCE THE SPREAD OF WEST NILE WITH REGULAR SPRAYINGS ACROSS THE CITY AND EXPERTS POINT OUT WEST NILE KILLS ROUGHLY 100 TO 200 PEOPLE EACH YEAR IN THE U. S. NOW, SYMPTOMS OF WEST NILE INCLUDE HIGH FEVER, HEADACHE, DISORIENTATION AND EVEN PARALYSIS.
TRIPLE E SYMPTOMS OVERLAP WITH MANY OF THOSE BUT INCLUDE DROWSINESS AND SEIZURES. GIO. >> Gio: THE U.
S. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT SAYS DOZENS OF HEALTH VIOLATIONS HAVE BEEN FOUND AT THE BOAR'S HEAD PLANT LINKED TO A LISTERIA OUTBREAK. THERE WAS MOLD, INSECTS AND PUDDLES OF BLOOD.
57 OTHERS HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED AFTER THEY ATE BOAR'S HEAD PRODUCTS CONTAMINATED WITH LISTERIA. VERY IMPORTANT TO WATCH FOR THAT. WE GOT TO GET THAT HANDLED.
