More than a thousand people in east chicago, indiana are scrambling to find new homes. Their entire neighborhood is contaminated with led and arsenic. The federal government knew about this for years, but apparently no one told the residents until recently. Reporter ana had her 3yearold son screened for led today. They just moved to the east chicago area and she wanted to make sure he was okay. So far hes safe. Not the case for 2yearold samyra allen who are six times higher than normal. Her parents have lived here for six years. They say all five of their childrens led levels are in the danger zone. So, i feel like they should be taking this a lot more serious. Reporter in 2008, the environment l pal protection ag declared it a contaminated Super Fund Site build on top of an old led refinery and addressed clean up options with the city and it wasnt until may this year, six years later that the epa shared alarming contamination levels with the city. Housing complex were living on ledlac
More than a thousand people in east chicago, indiana are scrambling to find new homes. Their entire neighborhood is contaminated with led and arsenic. The federal government knew about this for years, but apparently no one told the residents until recently. Reporter ana had her 3yearold son screened for led today. They just moved to the east chicago area and she wanted to make sure he was okay. So far hes safe. Not the case for 2yearold samyra allen who are six times higher than normal. Her parents have lived here for six years. They say all five of their childrens led levels are in the danger zone. I mean we are walking and living in poison. So, i feel like they should be taking this a lot more serious. Reporter in 2008, the environment l pal protection ag declared it a contaminated Super Fund Site build on top of an old led refinery and addressed clean up options with the city and it wasnt until may this year, six years later that the epa shared alarming contamination levels with the
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Serious and lifethreatening weather conditions are expected as early as tomorrow evening from outer banks to new england. New york, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia and North Carolina plus the district of column yeah have already declared states of emergency. A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. Well have more updates on sandy later in the program. Right now i want to turn to politics. This, my friends, is 26. 86. 26. 86, not a hunl amount of money. Certainly not enough for a spiffy new iphone 5. It will get you plenty of itunes downloads. Not enough to take the whole family to the movies, but you could probably treat yourself to lunch at applebees. Imagine that 26. 86 compounded every second. That is 1,611. 60 a minute. Thats 96,696 an hour or 2. 3 million a day. Suddenly 26. 86 doesnt seem so modest because 26. 86 is how much both candidates combined are spending every second of every day this election cycle which is why on thursday, we cross a milestone in ame
Today in las vegas. Lets watch. When members of congress question my authority to make our immigration system work better, i have a simple answer. Pass a bill. [ cheers and applause ] pass a bill. [ cheers and applause ] pass a bill. Nobody is stopping them from passing a bill. [ audience chanting pass a bill ] pass a bill. You heard the message, pass a bill. You know how he knows hes done the right thing on immigration, hes got the clintons, both of them, bill and hillary, betting on him. Both have jumped out fast in supporting his decision to give relief to over four Million People in this country without legal permission. That tells you more because no one has more riding on this success in the next couple years than the clintons. If they think hes on the right track, it explained why the president is doubling down. Now that the democrats are doing the part of Immigration Reform the republicans didnt want to do, its a great time for them to do what their party says they want to do,