[dogbyte12]

Dear Moderators. 2 people on life support, hundreds quarantined is breaking news. Please let this thread live.

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[Mo1]

I don't mean to spook anyone but you won't believe what the story on ER is tonight

They are doing a show on small poxs

[ChadGore]

YONKERS - Mayor John Spencer to have a press conferance at 10 PM

[livius]

Why would terrorists attack an apartment building in Yonkers??? Unless, of course, they were mixing something up and had an "accident." Still, it seems a little out of line. Could it be perhaps some kind of industrial leak from a factory around there?

[TomGuy]

May be no relation at all, but also in the NE US, posted this morning:

[Lyndonville, VT] Residents Warned Not To Use Water: Contaminated

Lock at water system was tampered with. Unknown if any "problem" but alert is precautionary.

[ChadGore]

6 people brought St. Joseph's Medical Center

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Nepperhan and Elm - nasty area.

FYI Yonkers has a large "middle eastern" population.

Shame, It was once a beautiful city. Majestic old victorians still overlook the Hudson. Golf in America born there. Once was a haven for Italian, Polish and Irish families escaping the Bronx.

[xJones]

Googling on Yonkers + cyanide, I found some trivia. Click

Back in 1986, a woman died in Yonkers from potassium cyanide-laced tylenol. Just throwing that out while we're waiting for real news.

[firewalk]

I don't understand why I'm not seeing any more about this. Did the Mayor give the news conference yet?

[SamAdams76]

I wonder why this thread has been removed from Breaking News. It certainly seems breaking to me. Hopefully we will get some hard news on this before I go to bed. Guess the news media are too busy trying to make hay of what Bush knew prior to 9/11 to care about the possibility of another terrorist attack in progress.

[Lady GOP]

Sorry am just catching this...are there any updates..?

[areafiftyone]

They said that Egyptian Nationals had the material.

[hole_n_one]

Atlanta Channel 2 confirms "possible cyanide poisioning in Yonkers"

[mrfixit514]

Atlanta Channel 2 just confirms 6 people on life support. Being reported as "possible cyanide poisoning".

[rintense]

Sounds like what I just saw on ER.

[Lady GOP]

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[Don Myers]

bttt

[hole_n_one]

Yonkers building evacuated after chemical scare; 6 people sick

[antidisestablishment]

Why isn't this in breaking news?!!

[knak]

this story from AP says it could be food poisoning? Or cyanide?

AP article

here's a tidbit

The two critical patients were unconscious and on life support, Mayor John Spencer said.

The other residents of the 18-apartment building were taken to a nearby parish hall.

There were "some other people" in the apartment with the victims who did not get sick, and health officials were leaning toward a cause that was food related and was not airborne, Spencer said.

"Some did not eat," he said, "and they're all right."

The FBI and state terrorism officials were helping local police with the investigation "due to the sensitivity of it and the times we live in," the mayor said.

The contaminant was "some sort of poison ... possibly cyanide," he said.