Digging through the debris realizing just how much they lost. Two feet of water, soaked everything. Including the family piano. It was my wifes something that was very valuable to my wife. Reporter life remains difficult for many. 5,000 are still sleeping in red cross shelters. More than 130,000 properties are damaged. Overall, some 223,000 people have applied for federal harvey assistance, with 305 million approved. But what lies beneath the floodwaters is becoming a growing concern. Along with exposure to mold, toxins are floating around too. Tested floodwaters by Baylor College of medicine and Rice University show some neighborhood are contaminated with lead and arsenic as well as bacteria like e. Coli found in one area levels 135 times what its considered safe. Baylor college of medicines researcher helped lead the research. What we are seeing bacterial levels that are roughly 20, 30 times hyperthan what we are seeing right outside of the same place. Is it going to get worse . Yes.
Equifax about the hack that exposed Sensitive Information about 143 million customers including Social Security numbers, birthdays, and drivers licenses. Pure gold to thieves. Anna werner spoke with a victim. Business professor David Anderson fell victim to two other major hacks and now equifax as he showed us. They think youre impacted. Im their product taking my information telling me and release that out to who knows who. Eva valazquez says theyre getting an earful. Hearing from folks who are complaining that they dont understand what this means. And that they dont understand how they are supposed to react. The best step to take, a credit freeze. Thats where you instruct the credit reporting agencies to stop any one from accessing your Credit Information. For instance, as they would to offer you a new credit card. Credit freeze will lock the criminals out of oecuof opening accounts in your name. There are other types of identity theft. Medical. Criminal and governmental. At first eq
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