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conflict regents like hearing coke is far from resolve. can the government feel deliver on the promise p special coverage and all 0 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 walls. 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 definitely 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, had 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 cancer is 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. not want to know is that a lot to say

a neighborhood i want to know? do i come back to now? welcome back. the good thing i have the name, we need to know what is a prior to when to what a thing full loan struggles to houston, texas to follow community search for answers and justice. oriel barbara was diagnosed with suffered your cancer in may of 2018 benita. check from you starting to feel better, he said 9 chemotherapy treatments and reconstructive surgery on his esophagus. how would you describe the kind of payment as it is for sharing?

that's all i can say, and where you set up there and you hear a person say come quit. i feel like i'll, i'm gonna die. i need you here with me. that pretty big lump in your throat. and again, i could change it to give you that power no longer what you have. he's lived in cashmere garden since he was a child. like i say, 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 bear. he just don't look like himself and yet i just thought i'd try 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 a lot of would you would think he was 70 years old on a pitcher. but he's not always at the phone. you can see his reserves. in other words, right? you know, his dad had lung cancer,

his cousin that from lung cancer, his uncle's head throat cancer in all of them, the right, they're always at his mom's house right there on lab industry for years, residence pressure, 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 a soft guess bronchitis, larynx, and lun. cancers in kashmir gardens in 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, hey, a cancer, 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 a 19 would my mom,

it was an i andre west grew up with 7 brothers and sisters on lavender street in the 5th ward at the same street were shronda and oriental live. wonderful memory here. 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 ron, and plan on the bicycles in the wagons. just fog. it get bad out. they everybody start getting sick this is my sister center, george de one, that's the thief with the lung cancer. this is carolyn horn, cynthia, a year port 2 years and boy. and she passed away when lung cancer, also in 2015, under 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 was a smoker. my sister cynthia, she retired from her job to find out the following year that she had lot kids hard work. mother figure for us at the my mother passed my sister carolyn, which was next the next oldest to cynthia. very hard work, very loving mother and grandmother.

andries 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 increasing. chris, it is a mixture of hundreds of chemicals, many of them, toxic fumes can irritate the skin and eyes make breathing difficult. the smell was real strong, irritated, throw burned your eyes, smell like talk. and you definitely had to go inside, but going is i didn't hip it. we eliminate poverty stricken neighborhood. you know, we don't have ac conditions. we have the little ceiling, fans them up in the attic,

that blue to cool air down into the house. me gas, mental air could hardly breathe. like i said, i had balls to come up and my body rushes at the marks from scratch it. why do you think your family has been so affected by cancer? because of the christophe? because of the christophe? yes. because of it, there's nothing else. there's nothing else. if the chris so is the rail york the really hard stop treating wood with 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 6 percent were able to determine precisely where the cancer's in the cluster located. we know which census tracks are elevated and the census tracks that are elevated out of the 10 are surrounding being in pacific railroad site. do you think chris or contamination has anything to do with this cancer cluster? i don't know what is causing the cancer's. 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 no one what i know now. and if my mother would have known, she probably wouldn't never bought a c or chilly. sandra edwards grew up on lavender street next door to andre. she's part of a group called impact formed in 2016 to pressure the state to study the cancer rates in the community. i feel good to hear, man, it's cold. i've done. my impact is also demanding that union pacific, which owns the real yard address, the pollution in the neighborhoods campus. if you just, you're really in a band that you can come out of, i'm not going to, well, we stated lose alarm in saying 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 on the ground to i'm day and yeah,

better hope i don't have no time. union pacific made nearly $6000000000.00 in profits 2019. it's one of the biggest railroad companies in the world decrease all thing they cooked, any of straight down my street across that trick. straight a he was where the paper thing was, what a cookie. so we know when a ryan is out in our neighborhood, is, is, is, is everywhere. in january 2020 sandra spoke at the 1st public meeting about the cancer cluster. since the study was released, it was organized by congress woman, sheila jackson, lee grass, the state to study the cancer routes and kashmir gardens of the 5th ward, the early 2019. 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 in a big baggy in some way, lough, someone, someone gas leak or something, but we have all been affected in some way on other bodies. and every now stick

together, we are going, i gotta 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? how are you getting answer? who in this room has cancer or knows of someone that lives here that have cancer? is it normal? i don't know what else we have to do here and we do. 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 borrow i was diagnosed with lung lung cancer and

2017. i've been treated i'm in remission. i want to know if there's some kind of funding move. i'm on the loan, 2 feet away from the loan. you something to help us help us. we are sitting on a time a. i got to know. i got a guy with the union. pacific representative was at the town hall with left before we could ask or any questions. hey, award. it's jason mark. log with paula. so we got 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. if they were talking to would you tell them it's still safe to live in these homes? a town water neighbor. experts say that once creosote 60 into the

earth, it's extremely difficult to take out. union assistant 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 increase or behave and they haven't done the testing. so to see whether or not that that mechanism is taking place. according to state records, regulators have known about the contaminated groundwater since at least the 1980s 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 will. so pace is just so much as much as my father gets seek at 80, something but can't from own counseling. and 2 months later he was taking this, it made me so angry for what the everybody on land street is. i know 5 or 6 families who watch just go is no way you don't know the thief, you came that made me believe you don't know that you were killing p. they looked

at it is what public community didn't care. they just safely get they'll never bow across the united states. communities of color are more likely to breathe polluted air than white woods and black residence in particular of 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 come 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 track down some of the men who used to work in the crease of 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 chris? oh, i had it took a tumor. yeah. long lung cancer. i'll find out on the 17. i just love. well i have a prostrate cancer. my. so what was it like working there? terrible smell, smell it. when you get a nice man, we go back home with chris. oh, they're strong. they would burn your skin, you know, in the summer time you know or yeah, real burn on. if it hit your skin, it would mix it. it would make with the water drinking water, it would mixing with a bit of water fountain entering the water. if in the water it was real, don't you know 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 did know what it was. it was like gas. you know, it just, bob, all over to your, you know, we're, chris was running down side of the yard for one in order to the other, into the railroad tracks into a neighborhood fac therapy where 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 breathing this in it. no, no, nothing. no. we never you know, protect the gear. no. so no, no, no, because we use the near, i guess we just had to work in order to support our family. and so they didn't say nothing, and i guess we 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 to do all react when you learned about the cancer cluster you. it lives with what we think and after that was enough, eric 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 to solve neighborhood for jesus and what, nothing else, nothing but the carissa min 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 to 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 in the 5th ward of 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 doing that. 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 get less, you're certain that these chemicals are these outcomes related to this chemical minuchi ticket. so it sounds like people are on their own. yes, unfortunately, people are on their own. 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 their mm hm. mm. i don't know who i

am with we want them to put account that we want them to make them me what that is. my object and my goal is to get a council clinic put in the field. what these people were affected by them. they brought the council to them, they didn't go out and kitch these, they'd an expertise. it's only right for you to bring a signal to them for them to get hill. yeah, that is right. yeah, yeah. cuz i'm proud of it. i yeah, yeah. you know, i didn't gone on so long gone on to low. so what we're gonna do is,

so your empathy is with how we are marilyn i live in may. i don't live in this area anymore. when i came back to fight, because this is a part of my hobble beginning, and you never should forget, jehovah, beginning and nestled mom. you always say when you can go nowhere, you can always go home. but definitely home over there any more. just like a, 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 phil ward and casner good deal the harbor and all these different places. it's time for them to shut up and put up. is the company doing enough to address your concerns? they 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 that 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 is no criticism pathway to reach property owners and 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 it. then they can see the toll that 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 thinking maybe once

we start getting the ball rolling then yes, our eventually i'll get some answers in our push until i get answers 2 weeks after we met shronda and her husband oriel 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 support filed lawsuit against you to pacific. when we got together, this is something in our cover for year and it was a long i'm a lot, i'm gonna get i'm gonna get what do you feel when you look out across this really are a lot of her pain, a lot of down to the community is since on calls. you know, we matter. we matter. i

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