Reporter theres plenty of snow left over, if you want me to bring some back. We just got brand new information the Sanders Campaign confirmed to us that it took the senator just four hours to raise 1. 2 million from 42,000 different donors. So sanders is already starting to piece together the coalition that helped him win more than 13 million primary votes in 2016. Were gonna win. We are gonna also launch what i think is an unprecedented in american history, a Grass Roots Movement to lay the ground work for transforming the political and Economic Life of this country. Reporter sanders said he surveyed the landscape and realized the things he put forward last time like medicare for all are popular. Theres one thing the hopefuls are not hoping to copy, thats his title, democratic socialist. People of New Hampshire will tell you, i am not a democratic socialist. Reporter one thing Bernie Sanders needs to do to compete in the democratic primaries is become a democrat. The dnc changed their
wellness manager elston stevenson at the grand canyon national park. he claims the exposure risk to tourists and nash natural park employees was potentially up to 400 times the health limit for adults, 4,000 times what is considered safe for children. the radiation came from uranium rocks. uranium was mined for many years around the grand canyon until safety concerns led to a ban in 2012. the rocks in question here were for some reason stored in buckets and left in the grand canyon s museum collections building, stored for years next to an exhibit where two groups including children would often stop for 30 minutes or more. the whistle blower wrote an e-mail to his colleagues to warn them saying, quote, if you were in the museum collections building between the year 2000 and 2018, you were exposed to uranium by osha s definition. osha being the federal occupational safety and health administration.
and elston stevenson just told us in a conversation with our producer that his bosses at the park service dragged their feet, ignored his complaints. he said, dana, their behavior was essentially immoral. dana: what are park officials saying to that? reporter: well, they say they ought to have been removed and an investigation is under way. in an e-mail, emily davis, spokeswoman for the national park service, also said a radiation survey was recently carried out at the building in question and it, quote, found radiation levels at background levels. the amount always present in the environment and below levels of concern for public health and safety. and she added, quote, there is no current risk to the public or park employees. left unaddressed in that e-mail, though, is what was the risk, not what is the current risk. very different when you re using the present tense rather than the past tense, dana.