hardly any birds squirrels you know. darts you know i don't know what's going on here. on me on the marquee. clothes headlines now for you here and i'll take the u.n. nuclear watchdog is debating iran's ambitions off its harshest report yet claim it could be building a bomb but there's a warning over so-called expert analysis that might be taking an iraq style. wall street demonstrators to mount speed that back into their h.q. after police swept out zuccotti park in new york the court then has banned demonstrators from returning to set up camp after almost two months of protests.

and the money men moving to run greece and italy looking to dig them out of the debts home but there's concern over whether the technocrats priority be to please the banks of the people place rather hardship. the next second part of how the hunger for metals and surrendering possible moment poisoned and then environmental peril. we're right at the eight hundred thirty elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming out right at a hundred. i. mean you can tell that when the red water mixes with the clear water that's the difference. although this looks clear it's still got a lot of metals in the because it's discharging out of the cat. the sides of the mine that has the minerals in it are submerged beneath the water and it's isolated

from oxygen oxygen it came. back when they first saw him up there was a lot of oxygen available in the mines and that was causing oxidation of the medals which in turn creates space crew sulfur so if you're a passive you have torque creep which starts up in kansas runs through the mining bill becomes contaminated at down that which is just south of pitcher and then runs on the east side of commerce it runs through the center of miami own into the osho river. on into graham like let's just say it's been doing essentially nothing to orange yucky smelly until. this watershed has been clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks and if water rolls into the mines or slides off

the chap pilot flows out from the underground it's real bad news. isaac newton says the reaction to the mining is a life time polluted water. this my system swallows any ground water hole one coughs up one flood. and a look at these problems and say this has been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years and superfund it's been since money. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it was a good thing for the united states but this is a legacy. kind of a obligation to fix. if you drive through picher right now you drive down doubtful road nothing's changed nothing is really. that but it's all the m.p.l. list it's a disgrace and it's sad but no one has done anything about

the water the a year and a machine right now there are no protection agency a bureau of indian affairs with a part of the interior because they've spent all this time talking to us telling us you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher and you drive down doubtful road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the pumps of the walk away no one cares about the people that live there this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fit they have been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all of this mine waste direct danger to children they can get the help they need it should have been easy to put a buyout together whether it's

a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time and human health dangers here seem to qualify her starkly granted and said an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim inhofe steered the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental buyout money goes in half was the faucet and you have a place like this in your home state you're cheering the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well. you could also know what he was going to . the problem was that in office a soldier industry. fact is inhouse brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies in office in deal with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and they could get expensive so they just pay in hope to make this buyout talk to sapir and the citizen set to stay but

to prove that he was working for auto walk county folks he put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together he was going to move all the check they were in the math on the plan the same day it was released if you are in fifty trucks a day all day it would take forty years just to move the check forty years moving the chair would cost two hundred twenty million not eighteen to complete by i was estimated at fifty million and everyone knows inhofe not much of a science man could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people i believe he's but it turned out he was no match guy either i think a news that not even enough can span if you got away from the.

thing didn't hear a new movies or anything there was always a problem and it just said. going on you're surprised it picher just all feel you know they looked at water and they looked at last. well the trouble is they forgot to look at subsidence risk which is of course the undermining that goes along with hard rock market you know it turns out a very significant on their mind which really shouldn't be a surprise to anybody since they took up i don't know two hundred fifty million tons of or maybe more in this underground mining was done sometimes clear up for really to work until they saw tree roots. when you have a several hundred foot mining room that's going almost to the surface guess what it's going to collapse on the. battle and that you're seeing out there it's all undermined and pitcher and cardinal her people are live and they could wake up one

day in the house that they collapsed in the moment. they didn't care what the. city. is just settling pillars and you know. basically. all medium sized cave in now this is media. this is a sunflower why it's the biggest cave in an area that's a field right here that's probably almost i know one hundred fifty foot deeper than what the water is right now. but i think there is a public policy issue here. if you can account for all the risk and part of the side should charge well i've been around these my whole life and i'm still scared i mean. there's just no forgiveness if anything happens around me.

if you start going down if that is your history. it sounds crazy but those holes are actually a blessing and state can afford to move everyone out and often already pounded his gavel that the current problems were bad enough so things had to get worse to get anything done several areas collapse that summer on and off finally agreed to a study to prove the extent of the undermining. not had need to be proven another study felt exhausting you know it felt tired to have to prove that the land was actually undermined and more holes were coming but it was a material chance to get a buyout so nobody feeds this two million dollars to. well you can't ignore the there or what the data shows in regards to the severity of the underground mining it was not a predator and it can not because he didn't anyway as

we were able to see our political support to evaluate their risk when it became obvious that people should live there and it's best for in the long run because they have to worry about anymore kids being raised in this environment you know we've got to put an end to it what we're doing is we're going in finding comparables outside the project area. and you can keep in mind superfund site is a bigger area and the project area project area is that area that i told you about the forty square mile area that was in that subsidence team study they're finding properties outside that area and then giving them comparable value for their property the trust has tried to make some provisions to make sure that everybody gets a minimal decent level of housing so in other words if you live in a in such danger of housing we don't want to give you just enough money to go live

in some senior housing and i am are somewhere else people get an appraisal and and i don't care if you live in a five hundred thousand dollars house you can appraisal and you know i honestly thought my house was worth more than you know and so what i keep telling people is be realistic in reality if you took that house in the condition that it's in take it and stick it in my oklahoma one sign on the front yard how much do you really think you're going to get for that house kind of interest and we've been so busy trying to do the appraisal issues and those kind of things to get people help what are very first values i mean that's our camp. like with any appraisal that everybody's happy with their phrase fact. it's that it's a chance for these people that they really would never have otherwise i might stay braced for my life fast here because had i feel like i got maybe a year or two years you know i didn't even had said to god but years i got paid.

i hate to move you know margaret you stefan it wasn't pictures. but you have to get rid of. different things that's about average would be nice to have a nice chance you know but i know they took a carefree and it's a hard and so. yeah they much but it's home and it's got to be hard leaving home practically being made to leave this places are just on their health and their children so it's one of the property values but it's still. and once the bio reaches critical mass or won't be any more fire department any more police any more electricity or water or stores it'll just be paved country lined with rusted street signs and when you go through all that and are told the one place you can't live his home he deserve by

a process that is dignified and clean so the trust was appointed to represent the citizens during the buyout process here that they carry out orders from the federal government and all appraisal issues and cut checks for the homes and i'm just making a little short statement i was offered a fifteen dollars a square foot for my business and there's no way that you can build i mean a story i know it's not dark any it's just forty buildings and but it is not so i'm not there only to look at it we're staying in from our health and for the base by age the gunshop the house the land three lots eighty thousand dollars and there's no way you'd go to mom and wife is for eighty thousand dollars is impossible. hundred two thousand there yes and i don't think i can actually go in i'm in replies of one hundred. and i went through all of trying to find out why they said well that's just what we're buried today the predator has been in

business for twenty five years they should know what they're doing live below the dole. the appraisal company cinnabar services out of tulsa is doing shoddy work and the trust is paying them one point eight million dollars to do shoddy work they're rude to the people they have an consistencies and the trust will not hold him accountable. to listen now they say can i i listened what you guys listen we have people want to say this is not like the first by a well it essential things we put something out for bid we hired a contractor we have gone and and gotten their praises and we've had that we're view i mean and in all honesty the values are higher in this buyout than they were in the first one and what do you see in the news record here's today's news record trust the fans buy out approach the trust is circling the wagons

and you know the truth is supposed to take care of these people and they're not doing are they're going to be people who feel like they were do more yes what i can to share with you is that there's been no conspiracy on the part anyone to get higher values for certain people now let me finish. what there is is a lot of innuendo and accusation and yet there is no proof. ok we're coming up on to now the brother this again hard. gray have his lap siding hundred fifteen thousand. their houses. were very. probably. ok this house on the left long. beats

and i've been offered seventy thousand cinnabar said there is something wrong with the beats appraisal so they use a trance why did you not tell me we did it we asked for your rebate but you didn't raise that as it means we did treat you just because we did work and i were there standing around with the meter trays also listening to the same and. i don't what it means we got to read it properly if it is significant that a. marquee can link you mean tell me you didn't find anything wrong. thank you. the appraisers probably have a tough with this town there are some poor people here there are some bad looking homes and i'm sure those create some challenges you know missing sammy's house is

the same size as the hearts missing sami's is much newer and even if you're blind and a little crazy and think these homes are in similar condition and they can bedroom isn't a bedroom if it's not close to a bathroom there's still a forty five thousand dollar difference in a town where the average home is fifty eight grand that's almost the cost of a whole other house this is the kind of appraisal work a trust as behind and they said mrs home on her couch and say maybe we gave the heart's too much work i mean we made a mistake. and in the same breath or anything missy and sammy got a good run five thousand dollars if here is not a hollywood story and where does this leave those who've already worked a lifetime and of course an ok i pay back a chapter eleven and i need two years old. and i say i did then it. jackie bird see if she calls me the of the day she's so worried about hoover it seems that one she got neighbors run across the street so she's god and she don't know about

her house since they offered two hundred two thousand on it i think she said tell me so i don't know russians wonder. they offered eighty four years young jackie because the twenty two thousand dollars for her home it doesn't matter what her home is like we're going to move on that she says gentleman the purpose of this letter is to explain why i do not have a bill of sale when i was twenty one i bought my home in picher oklahoma in the fall of one nine hundred forty three from three fields for three hundred seventy five dollars i've lived here for almost sixty three years and now almost eighty four years old and have lived in the neighborhood seventy seven years longer as far as i know than anyone now living or dead it is with much regret that i will have to leave my home at this late time in my life but i cannot stay without police protection sewer service utilities and safe neighbors please let me be among the

last to go. how do you expect an eighty year old woman usually in their house for sixty years who is on a fixed income. how do you expect her to move out of the superfund site out twenty thousand dollars you know you know it's easy for us solders to come and look at nasa oh my gosh a house in worth five thousand dollars that's right but that's a ladies home that's all she has and now you're going to take it away from her and now you've got to make her get into it to get out of here and the funny thing is we kind of mean here and spend seventy thousand dollars to dig up her yard but we can't give her enough money to move out of town. you know he when he was only

through everything he does and her hair is what environmental problems look like her they look like people problems environmental problems are people problems as long as gravity still holds us here. they aren't separate you said that your offer . and these folks have been stolen from their land raped the names dragged through the mud but they are tough as hell break everything else you can grab at these people and breaking on your science on your say so on your legislation of the month hell yes they get red headed now the one thing same counterfeit what else do you have and there ain't much. it's your word or so and you're back. one hundred years later they're still here still fighting for their health and their cool spite of their. weather is fair weather elaine

they are gone this will not be home anymore. and a hundred years after the first pickaxe struck oklahoma go they're handing this place back to the crop or appreciate your here's the worst superfund site in the country. there are three. daughters. who don't just because the bio school on doesn't need to go over to do this just who they can buy these people out which is what they're going to do but the tribes going to be here forever because the government's not going to give them any more land or you can see that with all this mind why it's covering the landscape it's really not news in the sixty's you go post through this person for them to get out of their leases you know it's a movie also offered cookbooks. back in the nonce. and the

department of interior denied stating that there. were no longer really good for anything they were for agriculture or any other purpose but the only economic derivative left. was the gravel on the surface and they could sell ground when they started realizing that chad had heavy metals and was was an environmental hazard. part of the interior realize that that's a liability since they manage the asset for the try if they allow that to be sold and they would incur liability because this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place not become a superfund site they're lucky there's so little left today there's no telling what they have a demick would look like if there are five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks making the ground tremble but eighty years later there's it's

seventy five million times eighty years of kids best through struggling in school. here gone this chad didn't just started the kids who tested i mean that was here in mountains before anyone was running test. so not only is the chad left on the indian lease where the tribal member can't use the land then they found out they couldn't sell it either so their land became useless result the cats and just sitting here for eighty ninety hundred years you know were being restricted for more sales but the money indians are not this check causes lead poisoning that's not an opinion it ruins this very land that was given to the quapaw to replace what they gave up in the b i a made sure this jet stayed right here the b.a. said these are the people who are going to bleed because of this waste. and what is

now so clear about this function is that damaging the land is not a separate act and then in jena culture. the whole reason that the government gave the tribe just one hand was to replace the land where they came from you know the quapaw tried occupied most of what is now arkansas. you know and i feel bad for the people that are living over in picher. i feel bad that they're going to have to move i feel bad that they're going to have to be relocated but you know what all posed in one leader can so. so. it's getting bad out here. but not seeing hardly any birds squirrels you know. ducks geese you know i don't know what's going on here

this this is like rachel carson's and i mare today you know we're having a silent phone you know where are the birds were the wildlife. just don't see this is really unusual i've never been on this river and seen it you can even hear a bird chirping you know. i think the worst story would have to be.

so we're story would have to pick the kids we let slip through the cracks and. the kids. didn't get any help early on. because if you look back and. look what i can still see history if you talk to families. those problems are going to get. them we didn't know. hundreds of towns and cities have diminished and even died when industry pulls up stakes but these towns in oklahoma began to die because industry arrived way back

when it would have been impossible to know the dimension of destruction they'd be left with or who would be hurt by it back then jobs trumped everything maybe they still do back then they had no concept of the future and now we are the heirs of our grandparents miss and here we are about to shoot the porch light out on this town and how many more times can we strike led by your rainy i'm more oil before there's no more country.