Special panel to try to understand what led to the water crisis where it is clear the local water was poisoned by a number of toxins, including dangerous led. Now the feds are looking for answers too. Our correspondent first reported on these concerns here weeks ago, before flints crisis made the headlines. They are not people that are disposable. We just are not. It is a crime for people to be serviced with water that is classified by the e. P. A. As toxic waste reporter in this ladys house in flint michigan i have a filter here. This is one of the certified ones that filters out the led. Reporter cold water runs through a new filter, but the 52yearold stroke survivor says she still wont drink it i have to depend on others family members and friends to take me places and help me to go and get bottled water. This is water that came out of the tap. Look at this green at the bottom reporter it was only a few months ago when she says she collected this from her unfiltered faucet. It came out brown reporter at a time when state and city officials insisted that the water was okay to drink yeah. Its orangey when it settles all the way down. Reporter for more than a year now she and tens of thousands of Flint Residents, mostly minorities, and many low income, have been without certainty that their Drinking Water is safe. Most recently hers tested positive for high amounts of led, a toxic element especially dangerous for children. Go look at the other pumpkin. Do you want the pumpkin back . Reporter her 12yearold daughter is developmentally delayed and has a heart condition. Bring it back. Reporter when you hear led poisoning or led problems in the water, what did that mean to you and your family . It raises your anxiety level and it is really unknown. I feel like im numb because im still dealing with rebuilding from a water issue in my home in addition to my daughter being exposed to led. Reporter how much had she been drinking the water . I mean, it was almost a year before i got my own filter to put in there, so we were drinking the water and so we were expoached and we were cooking with the water. Its overwhelming. Its just something that every day you have to deal with. Put it back up there. Reporter flints water problem started when the city under the control of a stateappointed emergency manager opted out of a long time agreement to get its water from the city of detroit. That move meant the city would save upwards of 3 million, but it also meant flint would no longer source its water from lake here and used the local flint river. Three two one reporter at the time officials celebrated the switch. Soon after there were problems with the discolored water and eventually news of led. A year and a half later flint switched back to detroyed water the kindest thing you could possibly say is that they were completely incompetent, sloppy, lazy and uncaring. Reporter mark edwards is an environmental engineer who specialises in water treatment. His team has independently tested water samples at hundreds of homes throughout the city. When we first got the results, we just didnt believe it. It was Hazardous Waste levels of led coming out of this persons tap. Two and a half times Hazardous Waste levels of led in her water. Reporter it turns out the flint river water was so corrosive that it started to eat away at peoples pipes causing led from some of those pipes to leach into the Drinking Water. What is it about the flint river that makes it so corrosive . Theres high chlorine in it, but the salt level in the water will tend to eat up pipes, including led and iron pipes. Thats what happened in flint reporter even though the flint river is no longer being used as a water source, edward says people in flint are still at risk we know from history that this can cause death, it can cause miscarriages, it can cause elevated blood led, all kinds of health effects. Reporter where are we now . Is the water safe . It is going to be probably another month or two before we can say that its meeting federal standards we have no idea the enormity of this exposure. So we are assuming that every child has been exposed. Reporter this doctor is the director of the paediatric program at the hospital in flint. She spent weeks analysing health data and confirmed the water switch caused a spike in the blood of children. We see it later. So in five years we will have more kids who need Early Intervention and in 10 years theres going to be more kids with an adhd diagnosis. In 15 to 20 years, there will be more kids with violent behaviour. We dont see the effects now; we see them later. Reporter now several flint schools only allow kids to drink bottled water. It was jaw dropping to realise what had been going on. I think what made me physically mad was that it didnt have to happen, that it was preventible. I will check to see if the water is boiling. Do you want to help me . Yep. Reporter many Flint Residents like this woman worry about future health effects. She has a sevenyearold daughter and another child on the way. When this has been going on and noone has been aware of it for a long time period of time, i think it would concern any parent because most of the damage that is caused from led is irreversible. Reporter amber is also concerned about her grand mother, 70yearold amy penrose they found an n osh de on my kidney and my granddaughter said you can get kidney problems from drinking the led water, the water thats contaminated with led. You have all your different tips. Reporter the state is distributing free filters similar to this to help people like amber and amy. Its also providing free Water Testing to flint regulation dents and pledged 9 million to help mitigate the crisis. But for a finally troubled financially troubled city with nearly 42 living in poverty, the ongoing led crisis is a mounting burden we were already having trouble trying to purchase just food and now what little assistanceance i had from the state has to go completely towards water. In the meantime, our water bill, even though were not using it, is like 120 a month. Reporter amber using food stamps to buy bottled water for cooking and drinking it frustrates me when you see things on line and people who dont live in flint say things like, well, why dont you just move. Im, like, its not that easy. Mobile phone of us dont have a choice. We financially cannot move. Were stuck here. Theres nothing that we can do about it. Reporter sympathy says the people she says the people of flint deserves an explanation as to why the Publics Health has been at risk to so long you have a responsibility. When you take that office, you are there to protect me, you are there to protect my friends and family. There are no excuses that story comes to us from our correspondent who began her reporting on the flint crisis weeks ago. She is back in the city now investigating new concerns of how the poisoned water might also be a report on legionnaires disease. We will have a report that soon. Next up here, the zika virus. Its tiny carrier and what else might be putting us at risk. Later here, america tonights adam may follows up his indepth look at a new movement. What looks like another Health Crisis emerging in communities across the country. Increasing reports that even the small sting of mosquitos can create an enduring legacy, a very serious illness, even death. Health workers are struggle against the zika virus. There are many other nightmare diseasess travelling across our borders. Reporter martin is on the move trying to coral killers roaming around houston. We will be there in around 15 minutes. Reporter this is what he is looking for. Mosquitos. Culprits behind a growing public Health Crisis. Theyre now testing positive for tropical diseases which are spreading across america. Houston is now one of the worlds top ten hot zones for tropical diseases. Thats why he goes out every day checking some of the 268 mosquito traps. Why are they enemy number one for you . Because they are the ones that cause these illnesses reporter they are serious yes. They are reporter illnesses you are more like no associate elsewhere to seesht elsewhere but here. One of these neglected diseases are everywhere. Reporter including 12 million americans nearly all undiagnosed. One of the worlds leading experts in neglected diseases, neglected because there is so Little Research being done on them and no approved medicines or vaccines i thought when we started finding tropical diseases about a year after i moved here in houston and texas, i thought people will care about this issue. It was just the opposite. Nobody cared. Reporter why . Because most victims are poor. Not exactly the ideal demographic for big pharma. He showed us why some poor areas in america are breeding grounds for necessity dplektd tropical diseases neglected. On the righthand side are piles of discarded tours. Reporter tires. Gentleman theyre perceived as an immigrant problem we have to get over this mentality that these are not diseases that are coming across the southern border. Theyre for the most part diseases having transmission here. Reporter case in point, this woman born and raised in texas. I did not live in a mud hut. I lived right here in texas. I grew up in a brick home. I dont live in poverty. Ive never even been on a cruise, so ive never left and went to another country. Reporter yet . Yet i have chagas. Reporter chagas is blood born and causes heart disease. It can go undetected for decades. Two years ago she happened to learn she had it after donating blood. Reporter you know that you must have come into contact with some kind of socalled kissing bug thats right. Thats right. Reporter sometimes a kiss isnt just a kiss no. It is not. This is a deadly kiss reporter typically found in latin america, kissing bugs are snasing. It is estimated 3,000 people in the country is infected by chagas. Here theyre studying the bugs as part of research into chagas it is huge. Imagining that being on your face. It can either bite close to your lips. Reporter is that where it tries to go . Is it trying to get to your lip . Yes. It will go to your lip. Thats why its called a kissing bug. Reporter this man helped to establish the National School of tropical medicine, the only one of its kind in north america. With financial backing from nonprofits, including the gates foundation, the doctor and his team are doing what big prarma isnt. Reporter what happens in here . Were making vaccines. Reporter so far they have made six. Theyre still in the testing phase but showing promise. He warns the effects of these tropical diseases go beyond the physical, and a huge cost as well it costs poverties because they make people too sick to go to work reporter most doctors dont screen for such deceases. Many diseases. If chagas is going to affect my heart, i want to know. I dont want it just to sneak up on me and i die from a heart attack and not have plans for my children. Ive already increased my Life Insurance because i dont know when its going to happen. Reporter an innocent victim finally sounding the alarm so more unsuspecting people dont die a surprising danger increasingly evident on our radar. Next up here concerns about another challenge in our communities, faith, family and the quiver full. A followup report on a movement you might not know much about and the centers to its growth strategy. Following up on faith, the family and the quiver full movement. America tonights adam may has been investigating it, something that has grown up in some christians. It is a way to grow their faith which others see as a threat to their families our house felt like some prison where nobody was allowed to be actual humans. Reporter this woman is a wellknown, some might say controversial name in the quiver full world, the follower of Nancy Campbell is now an outspoken opponent of the lifestyle she once faithfully live reporter you sent your daughter to live with the campbells because you were such a blooifr why . Because i believe with an opportunity for my daughter to serve the lord and serve this whole ideal by the fact that Nancy Campbell was doing gods work, that she was encouraging to women, she was promoting true biblical family values reporter how do you look back at that now . Now that youve sent your daughter there . That was one of my biggest regrets. I had god central in my mind that i was willing not only to murder myself but martyr myself but make my childrens also children are the fruit of the womb of his award reporter she has been called the godmother of the lifestyle. She publishes a magazine promoting procreation, urging women to birth as many babies aas god grants not many people believe that today, but it is the bible and its true because god is the one who created us. Now getting back to the woman, we see there in psalm 127 that blessed is the fruit of the womb. Well, a lot of women dont like to hear that word womb, today reporter why . Theyve been brain washed to get out on their career and cant stay at home looking after some children. Yet this is who they are, who god created them to be reporter after the birth of her third child, vicki and her then husband, who is blind, decided their family was complete. She says running a household with a physically challenged spouse while also suffering from a painful bone condition herself was overwhelming. But then she was exposed to quiver full and her life took a turn then we got into home schooling. I started getting this idea that god designed women to give birth, to bear children. And that god loves big families. He wants you to trust him with that area. Reporter vickis husband had his vasectomy reversed. Vicki eventually gave birth to four more children. I knew that i was putting my life at risk, but i was willing because i was so consumed with that mindset that god is all powerful, he is all knowing, he has the perfect plan for my life, and i just need to trust him for that. If that does involve dying, then heap has his reasons for that. Reporter did you begin to question give full . It took me a while. Its an exhausting lifestyle, but what really made me question was seeing how unhappy my children were. We had become so isolated. They had no friends, it was a very oppressive lifestyle. Come and eat, andrew and lid i cant. Liddya reporter we spoke with her children. 23yearold said it ruined her life. You think its good for your kids at the time, but you cant shelter them forever and once the world hits them, it is really bad for a while. It does mess with you. Its, like, me getting my real world. Very scary and freaky. Reporter until a few years ago, vicki owned a christian newspaper that published from her home. When she turned against quiver full it was front page in the local newspaper. Eventually she and her husband divorced and in 2009 she launched a blog called no longer quivering, which she described as a Gathering Place for women escaping and healing reporter you call it spiritual abuse the reason i call it spiritual abuse is because people have like this innate desire to connect with their creator or the universe. These leaders hone in on that and they exploit that feeling. Reporter what do you think leaders like Nancy Campbell are really trying to sell . I think shes sincere. I dont think shes trying to scam. I think that so many of the leaders in quiver full, they really buy it themselves first. Reporter is there a political motivation . It is very much a domionist movement. That verse where it says blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them, comparing children to arrows in gods army. Having all of these children, these arrows in your quiver in order to increase your political pour, so its power, so its very much this idea that youre going to take back america nor god and the way to do that is outabouts populating the men me. Outpopulating the enemy. Have many children and train them up to be leaders in all of the institutions, in government, in education, politics, entertainment. They want to Institute Christian order, biblical order into society. So that is really the goal of quiver full. Reporter whats the danger of it, though . Its soul crushing for individuals. You are not allowed to have feelings. The one approved feeling is joy, the joy of the lord, and that is joy, jesus first, others second, yourself last. We left out the u in quivering and the tag like is there is no u in quivering because youre not allowed to consider yourself, your preferences, your likes or dislikes. Its like what does god want . That is all that matters. Reporter now, a few years after quitting quiver full, the family sees faith completely different. Do you guys identify with any religion . Do you see your christine, athiest . Im agnostic. Reporter what does that mean to you . You dont believe in god, a god, any god, or gods. Reporter do you have a shadow of doubt that you made the right choice . I do not. Reporter what about inviting the devil . Im having so much fun. I can be myself and relax. Its freeing reporter are you still a christian . I am actually athiest of the year. Reporter by who . I was at the American Atheist convention and they named me. I have a plaque and everything. Literally 12 years ago we were a family of the year named by Nebraska Family council. Reporter now youre ateist of the year atheist of the year all right. Always the extremist, right correspondent adam may will continue his report on the quiver full movement. A full session will be shown here on america tonight. 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