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everybody was family. and now everybody's day it that i grew up with their families. their parents are day. it is hot breaking because i know the life that was in these walls, you know, and now there's no live in the wall. andre west grew up in this house, in the 5th ward, historically black neighborhood, and east houston. for years residence here suspected that the number of cancer cases was unusually high, is say it, this is deb vastly to me now where it used to be. we were so happy running around

the your playing ball kickball riding in the little red wagon. we was happy you, you've got to find your own way, you know, because everybody's got home. in december 2019, the worst fears were confirmed. the cancer cluster was discovered in their community. the state concluded that the 5th ward, the nearby neighborhood, called cashmere gardens, at higher than expected roots of certain cancers. but they didn't explain what is meant for dante. what are you? we have been suffering. we have lost loved ones. we have lost parents. we have when i was free and we have wealth allowed. some residents here blame the cancers on decades of possible exposure to korea, so a likely human carcinogen. a nearby real yard use the chemical mixture to preserve wood for almost 75 years. i want to know, is it a good i want to know? do i come back to them?

welcome back. the good thing i have, maybe we need to know what is they prior to when, when a thing for loans travels to houston, texas to follow community search for answers and justice. oriel barbara was diagnosed with us, offered your cancer in may of 2018 benita. check from you in the field. he said 9 chemotherapy treatments and reconstructive surgery on his esophagus. how would you describe the kind of payment is for sharing? that's all i can say, and where you sit there and you hear

a person say come quick. i feel like i'll, i'm gonna die. i need you here with me. that pretty big lumping your throat and you're gonna continue to give you that power. now, along with what you have, he's lived in cashmere garden since he was a child legacy. he was a police officer, so he still has that spunk in him. he just wants to be able to get back to his normal life. is hard to see him like fair. he just don't look like himself and you know, i just start trying to make sure i see the man that i married, the person that i know he wouldn't have been man. he had some weight on him that was before the diagnosis. last level. you would think he was 70 years old on a pitcher, but he is no longer at to fall. you can see his rehabs in other words, right?

you know, his dad has lung cancer. his cousin that from lung cancer, his uncle's head, throat cancer in all of them, lived right beer. always at his mom's house right there on lavender street. for years residence pressured the state to look into why so many people in the community had cancer in 2019 the texas public health department found elevated rates of esophagus broncos larynx, and lung transfers in cashmere gardens and the 5th ward. a couple of nights ago when i got in from the hospital and i started counting the houses that the people just on my block that have cancer. i had had cancer, you know, 8 people in one block. and, you know, including those that have died from cancer, you know, so, yeah, something is definitely wrong. how many were you in this house? 8 of us, one, i would my mom,

it was an andre worse grew up with 7 brothers and sisters on lavender street in the 5th ward. yeah. they're the same street where shronda and or yell live wonderful memory. lot of good memories here. lot of good people in the community, lot of love and community. lot of families. you know, family. everybody was family. bunch of kids. you could have kids laugh and run and play and on the bicycles in the wagons. just fog. get bad out. they everybody start getting sick this is my sister, cynthia george. the one does the same with the lung cancer. this is carolyn horn, cynthia, a year part 2 years and boy. and she passed away long cancer, also in 2015. andre, his eldest sister, cynthia, died from lung cancer at 63 years old. 2 years later,

her sister carol and also passed away from lung cancer. my sister's wasn't smokers and for them to get lung cancer. there wasn't my sister, cynthia. she retired from her job to find out the following year. she had like it hard to work it mother it give us at the my mother my sister carolyn, which was next. the next oldest to cynthia. very hard work. very loving mother and grandmother

under his family moved to the 5th ward. in 1963. her child at home is a few 100 feet from a rail yard and by railroad giant union pacific from 1911 until nights and 84 railroad ties and telephone poles were preserved is increased soon. prisoners, a mixture of hundreds of chemicals, many of them, toxic fumes, can irritate the skin and eyes and make breathing difficult. the smell was real strong, irritated, throw burned your eyes, smell like tar. and you definitely had to go inside, but going is i didn't him it. we living in poverty stricken neighbourhood. you know, we don't have ac conditions. we have little ceiling fans them up in the attic that

blew cool air down into the house. me gas, mental air could hardly breathe, like a said i had balls to come up on my body rashes. add the marks from scratch and why do you think your family has been so affected by cancer? because of the cris huff because of the chris. so yeah. because of it, there's nothing else. there's not the deal as if the chris so is the rail yard. the really hard stop treating would would creosote in 1984. but now the ground water under more than $100.00 properties near the site is contaminated with chemicals found in korea. so this is the actual site, but these are the 110 properties that have grown contamination underneath dr.

lauren hopkins, that a community survey in january 2020 to learn more about the people within the cancer cluster of the 30 household, your team surveyed, 43 percent reported the cancer diagnosis. the city average was 6 percent. were able to determine precisely where the chancellors in the cluster located, we know which census tracks are elevated and the census tracks that are elevated out of the 10 are surrounding the union pacific railroad site. do you think chris contamination has anything to do with his cancer? cluster, i don't know what is causing the cancers. we do know that those, those are the kinds of cancers you would expect with exposure to those chemicals on you want the lemonade? i think because of all the chemicals that he's been living around, being a little boy growing up, living around, railroad tracks, the air pollutants, the water and stuff, all that had a lot to do with this cancer. how does it feel?

now, knowing that you spent a lot of your life growing up in the area where you're more likely to get cancer. terrified, terrified because knowing what i know now. and if my mother would have know, she probably wouldn't never bought a c o 2. sandra edwards grew up on lavender street next door to andre. she's part of a group called impact, which formed in 2016 to pressure the state to study the cancer rates in the community with feel good to hear, man, it's cold, i've done a night. impact is also demanding that union pacific, which owns the real yard address, the pollution in the neighborhood. if it's, if you just, you're really in a bad that you can come out of, i'm not going to, well, we stated lose them and said that people don't lose what is then up to you. i am ready to fight and i am going to fight you to go underground to i'm day and yeah,

but i hope i don't that no time union pacific made nearly $6000000000.00 in profits 2019 it's one of the biggest railroad companies in the world the crease, old thing, they cooked an air straight down my street across that trick. straight a he was where the paint thing was, where they cooked so we know when a ryan is out in our neighborhood is, is, is, is everywhere. january 2020 sandra spoke at the 1st public meeting about the cancer cluster. since the study was released it was organized by congresswoman sheila jackson lee who asked the state to study the cancer routes and kashmir gardens of the 5th ward in the early 20. 19. i don't want to be full of badness, but i do want to say that this is serious. some way. i know that we now have been a big baby in some way. now someone or someone got sick or something, but we have all been affected in some way on other bodies. and if we don't stick

together, we're not gonna make why everybody is here. well intentioned, to help find out the answer. we've been waiting a long time nationally renowned environmental activist erin brockovich was also there to support the community. so tonight, where everyone is here, could i hear from you? are you frustrated? are you getting an sir? oh, who in this room has cancer or knows of someone that lives here that have cancer is in normal. i don't know what else we have to tell you. and they need to know that the community wants union pacific to clean the contaminated groundwater clue and compensate people for the pollution in the neighborhood. i, my name is barbara. i was diagnosed with cancer and

2017. i've been treated i'm in remission. i well, you know, there's some kind of funding to help me move on the loan to love to fade away from these fun fellows, pillows we are sitting on a client. i work for you. i got i got a guy with the union. pacific representative was at the town hall but left before we could ask or any questions. hey, award. it's jason mark. log with paula. so we got her on the phone and we've just been to some of the streets near the site. most of the houses are vacant, just a handful of people still there. you know, if they were talking to you, would you tell them it's still safe to live in these homes? a connect cameron's toilet water with experts say that once creosote,

6 deep into the earth, it's extremely difficult to take out. union pacific is removing only what's closest to the surface, but leaving the rest behind. one of the things that union pacific had proposed for the korea, so basically just wait and see, let mother nature do her thing. rodrigo can to the environmental lawyer who's advising impact the chemicals and it can actually seep up through the soil and they can come into the atmosphere. and if there's someone living above or recreating above or simply walking on their property, they may be breathing in those vapors. we know this is how the chemicals and korea so behave. and they haven't done the testing. so to see whether or not that that mechanism has taken place. according to state records, regulators have known about the contaminated groundwater since at least the 1980s the residents we spoke with. so they didn't hear about the contamination until

decades later. the state environmental agency in charge of overseeing the site in the state health department both declined or interview requests even though you were on a railroad track. yeah, it will fall pace. it was so peaceful. it is so much says my says my father get seek at 80, sent in what can some on counseling and 2 months later he was taking just a made me so angry. i'm sorry that everybody on black street is i know 5 or 6 family watch. just go is no way you don't know. the thief you came that made me believe you don't know that you are killing people. they live there. it is. what public community didn't

care they just safely give feel, met him bow across the united states. communities of color are more likely to breathe polluted air than white woods and black residence in particular are the most likely to live near polluting industries and toxic sites. why is it the continued sites are disproportionately founder, communities of color, the historical institutional racism that has gone on in this country that has led to sort of the limiting of where black and brown people can buy homes and live. stephen lester, is a toxicologist with nearly 40 years of experience helping people in contaminated communities find answers. it's probably no coincidence that many of these communities, many of these cancer clusters that we see, many of the industrial clusters that exist in this country today happened to be around. and in the midst of communities of color,

we tracked on some of the men who used to work in the chris or facility at that real yard during the 1960 seventy's and eighty's. how many of you have health problems that you think were caused by korea? so i had it took a tumor. yeah, long lung cancer. i'll find out on the 17 of this month where i have a prostrate cancer. my. so what was it like working there? terrible smell, smell, or when you get in is when we go bag along with chris. oh, they're strong. they would burn your skin, you know, in the summer time you know. yeah, we'll burn on it. your skin, it would mix it, it would make, with the water dripping warm, it would mixing without, i've got to go, but a water fountain hindering to water. if in the water it was real tone on the ground . when it would rain, you know, the ground knew it would bubble, you know,

just like it was. i don't know what, we never didn't know what it was. it was like gas. you know, it just, bob, all over to y'all or, you know, we're chris was running down side of the yard for one in order to the other, into the railroad tracks and into a neighborhood like there were they were the houses or did anyone ever complain and what happened if you did? no, i didn't. i didn't know all we didn't do that. we was on the breed in this in it. no, no, nothing. no. we never you know, protect the gear. no. so no, no, no, because we use the new year. i guess we just had to work, you know, to support our family. and so they didn't say nothing, and i guess we didn't, i didn't even actually we didn't know we didn't actually know question, but you know, how many people here think the cancer cluster in this community was caused by chris of contamination?

i do not know how did you react when you learned about the cancer close to you? is lives, are you, are you thinking after there was enough error that got out there? they added up. yeah. say the government answers, they can't prove what caused the hire marina cancer. here, what do you do next? it's no way this whole neighbourhood went to jesus and what? nothing else, nothing but the carissa me i have they come back to say this, not that you're lying and you're not gonna tell my people there. and they got con, i believe you the state of texas decided not to do an epidemiological study, but could explain what's causing the higher cancer. it's saying it wasn't feasible . will the people with war cashmere gardens ever find the answers they're looking for?

there is no clear way to distinguish what's causing without investing a great deal of money and government stop to it. and then of course, you have the corporate side of this who's, who's putting pressure on government to say, well, in fact you leisure certain that these chemicals are, these alpha comes related to this chemical minuchi ticket. so it sounds like people are on their own. yes. unfortunately, people are on there and until there's a change in this country until people stand up and say enough, till people get involved and force government to address these questions. people are going to stay on hulu . i don't know who i

am. lou with we want them to put account that we want them to make them me what that is? my object in my po is toolkit a cancel clinic put in field what these people were affected by them. they brought the castle to them. they didn't go out and kitch these, they didn't expertise. it's only right for you to bring a signal to them for them to get hill. no, it's not. it is right. yeah, yeah, cuz i'm proud of it. i didn't gone on so long gone on to low. so what we're gonna

do is, so your empathy with how we are marilyn i live in the mid. i don't live in this area anymore. when i came back to bite, because this is a part of my hobble beginning, and you never should forget, jehovah, beginning and nestled mom. he's always say when you can go nowhere, you can always go home. but that's not home over there any more? just like, it's like a dead zone over there is a dead zone over there. and it's just, it breaks my heart, but it makes me angry. it's time for them to make it right. make it right what, what the people in field ward and casner go on yoga harbor and all these different places. it's time for them to shut up. and buddha is the company doing enough to address your concerns. they're not doing anything, sir. they got a hot blood, they have a hotline, they don't you much have a nerve compassion to talk one on one with the people. they give us

a hotline union pacific didn't agree to our request for a non camera interview. instead, they sent a written statement saying important quote, decades of testing, sure, there was no korea, so pathway to reach property owners. in recent health studies, lack scientific testing needed to make any firm conclusions about the cause of their medical conditions. once everything comes out in korea, so is the reason behind is been vacancy the toll then it's taken on me if in war. so especially my husband and how, you know, loss of income, increased medical bills, all the pain and suffering, you know, ah, plans that we had to do, things are just on hold right now. are you optimistic that you ever get answers about what's causing maybe once we start

getting the ball rolling, then yes out. eventually i'll get some answers in our push until i get answers. 2 weeks after we met shronda and her husband oriole, died from complications related to cancer. he was 55 years old. after royal died, shronda became one of more than a 1000 other residents from kashmir gardens in the civil war, filed lawsuit against you to pursue when we got together, this is something you don't cover for union with a lot of general. so i'm going to let him get him going and getting what do you feel when you look out across this really are a lot of her pain, a lot of death to the community. is since uncalled. you know, we matter we matter. ah,

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