tv [untitled] November 16, 2011 4:30am-5:00am EST
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well look. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. typer look at the headlines not here not the u.n. nuclear watchdog is debating iran's ambitions after its reports claimed it could be building a bomb some media are highlighting the evidence of a mysterious scientist who then wrongly claims russian and his credentials are dismissed by former colleagues. the wall street demonstrators demand to be let back into the h.q. after police swept out to cause the park in new york the court there is banned demonstrators from returning to set up camp after almost two months of protests. and money men moving to run greece and italy hoping to dig out of their debt hole
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but there's concern over whether the technocrats priority be to please the banks and the people face further hardship. plus three new crew members get a warm welcome from a cosmic colleagues of the region international space station following a two day journey all six are now in orbit off their russian so useful success speak up. next to part one of our special report on how the relentless pursuit of metal production is poisoning parts of oklahoma causing a potential environmental disaster. will rogers once they have somebody asking about i am they said well i just don't make much of anymore and we need. to be good stewards of what he gave us and we did a terrible job here we. knew
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nothing about peter i'd spent half of the football game back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four it was dark. and they were keen to appreciate that. the pitcher offers a check. so i do nothing really about pitcher at all it became obvious fairly quickly to me that you know we had a hard percentage of kids it more difficult in classroom super kids but. we had. we knew we had some problems. with that with the kids out there. kind of history you know. well he is ours around and we want him to be as normal as. the same thing. yes problem. or you
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need to come down here and say what what we. said will blow your mind so they ran up here and took a bunch of blood samples from. indian children and man i think down the highway can't set's when it started right there when they would never come in here and check the kids in the picture the health department went home but then i started checking in and i found a monster. no light. oil used. and so we actually went door to door in the mining communities and knocked on doors and found out how many people had children six and under and could we do lead
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testing on those children and we tested a little over one hundred kids and found out that forty three percent of those kids had elevated blood let's settle that stand up that was really shocking and you create came and did. a risk assessment your health risk assessment as well as finally did a record decision and they felt like the primary risk freiburg pathway was through dirt and some of the yards tested very high in terms of lead toxicity we think about work kids get lead there really to increase risk for us are a couple of reasons one is a child absorbs more lead through their gut told us about fifty percent more but with kiddie africa lead toxicity it causes what we call developmental issues it's only importance between zero and six years of age and it affects the belting your logic system rosalee what we consider the softer logic science school issues or the
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medical issues so that's really the difference the trouble is you can't ever make that go away that's a curse of permanent has a place get this bad some old cities are coated with lead paint that you don't hear of levels this high when you tell someone of my lead poisoning like this they need an explanation the words don't quite do it and with this much lead waste forty three percent feels like a success it could have been one hundred people don't realize the tar creek was declared a disaster a decade before they even discovered the lead poisoning but they took the kids ten years after the land had been condemned without thinking one might be connected to the other. back then they thought if you think the soil that would fix the children . but you can't fix this land where the way sits here you can't leave kids here while you take several decades to move on. when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all the minerals there
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will be for blades and cared no everything else and they would crush it break it smelt it to get the minerals out to get the metals out and then the little chips of rock that are left we call it checked well it's tailings it's the tailings from mars what's left over from the stuff they didn't use their real invitee you don't have to admit i self as an adult and when i first saw it chap pos i just i just couldn't imagine how it wouldn't be the funniest thing in the world ticket have fair and roll down the slide down them before we'll down them anything as a child can you just imagine looking at something that looks like a gigantic sand pile and be told now you can't go out there i can't imagine that we used also play on in the wintertime when the snow and ice was on we used to. go
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to a local salvage yard and get a car hood and you never have a good time to you come off one of these wells with snow and i swear we. in a car hood expect me with two or three a board pitch or a car and that's where most of the risk would be because you have so much nettles on the surface still surrounding area. and even if my yard clean is fun a little kid you'd be hard pressed to keep me from playing out some of those areas at least you know i do you do and so. i mean one time they even put your mind to self is a quarter mile high you can see from downtown the mile. you go way you need think man there are some really big piles there are neater never the biggest hugest four five six piles right there in picher but you keep driving around you know for miles and you forget oh yeah there's
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a chap bases over here were piles used to be oh yeah there's no ponds over here oh yeah there's piles the size of a house that i forget about or the size of an office building you forget about because you're just dwarfed by the big ones the volume here is hard to describe people don't realize how mine down and he has the. chance to put her through the us but most of that is going. problem with moving chair in that what's left behind is far more dangerous than what they take what's left behind are the small fine materials which are much more bioavailable which means that they can be absorbed easier by the stomach and secondly they're also much higher in lead content about a thousand times higher in lead and lead content than the gravel people say shape with the word chair most of the chat you see out there made this course material
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but then there's others group larger concentrations of metals are in the size of the mine waste of course you can you can imagine that this stuff's not going below near as much as this stuff so this these fine particles get blown around and they have the highest concentrations of metals then it gets deposited in a residential yard children can ingest it you know it's just a lot more mobile home a long time ago residents and petrie's to come out on sunday and have picnics on the beach they were actually have a picnic song use this piece find caylee. i had been doing three things and that lead poisoning i mean the thanks and goodbye. i was looking through my tiny little publication made him sad had found that exposure to lead between ages seven and
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twenty when he went to extreme fifteen later in life. and there is a high school counselor dealing with young people with eating disorders in a with youth that have trouble learning held a lot of dealings with those kind of camps one particular student studio out to me and i knew that she'd grown up in quapaw and cherry chat pile on her property her hair hair down got her fame bought. a new name saying he'd taken out their travel but he had taken something. there are no doubt in my heart that somebody knew what all they could possibly do. and made until now about. this much chat the kids didn't hardly stand a chance. and i wish i could say that all the problems begin and end with chad
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piled elevated blood leds and that there is only one problem to solve. this chair just a throw away from one of the largest led strikes on the planet. tri state produce thirty five percent of all metals worldwide for over a decade. every one of these problems was struck from the walls in the mines. now we did need this metal during the wars. so the government kept these mines humming . remember that iraq i was talking about. yeah this is where those rebel start. my grandfather he was a war and discovered a late palmer way back old probably around one thousand and four but he was drilled in the water will want to show off where sportive cornish. paul got a hold of the room and told him get back here and here we see. the picture we also
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long up about michael twelve am on the future we all got started it was a very wealthy as strong as it had you they put me on a header and shot up. powder monkeys that's you guys it looks and i'm not into the drill holes only time i was really skewered was when i would hit the stick of dynamite and machine me and the guys agree on that over the internet machine or. replay old when they turn it on i mean you hit that dynamite and they make sure that machine want to meet you kind of a little bit you know i started in the summer of nineteen forty one i was i was sixteen i went service in the. early in forty three and my ship got hit by a kamikaze and hurley in forty four and i was discharged and one hundred came back
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from the navy i went to work ground combat over there were knobs and it's kind of funny because he was he was still pretty much of a policy could he could shell that dirt so i want to shove a hole there to lay by as over here and they'd bring in seven and strength of empties and he'd get five of those when i was getting two and i like to kill myself trying to catch up with him and it was a training to make him little ones out of big ones with the sledge hammer. is a job at times specially when they would kill him on the roof and they should do. it just brings up a lot for being on old mrs briggs coordination going from what they are to know. they drilled on a person who worked in the mines the temperature in a moment whether i like the snail. any experience he played me on the share some of
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our mission will you know there's going to be a shake ups and smile share your coming out with. everyone else about the trail of tears of the cherokee nation. i'll thirty nine try an oklahoma have a trail of terror story because the north. of the pop was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river mississippi river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally and they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time of discovery was estimated that the quark was could feel seven day some more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand kuapa
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a major village garden today they call themselves so. it is france perversion and will go up and you know it just kind of fell that way so here in so many hundred sixty seven smallpox playing it's the trial and begins to wipe them out and you can rely on a record in the congressional record i've read it is serves that the cross posts are no longer the tribe i used to be quote was do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their size then the army began rounding them up. eighteen thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw was to bring noon to where they are today you
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know you arrived here you know eighteen thirty five and when they arrived to this area it was only a hundred and thirty five cop i was remain out of thirty five miles and back in eighty thirties they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a map and the only way we could be quite was inside that line so we can't go anywhere else. so the call progs are coming up in my dreams you know it's a thousand and thirty. and they're dropped off you know this is your land. so they explore you know basically the east side of the spring river and it's exactly the kind of land they're used to its lows are
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a couple of lookin you know across the river and it's the most high bloods. and. big bluffer out across it's called the doubles. the reason it's called. is because they got there and they were working on how to give cross the rest of there and when home and the devil was marching parading them down top of the. block and everyone who tried to swim across drown and so they couldn't cross a river and go. across. were removed from their original lands and place right here on a reservation inside indian territory seventy years before the war was struck
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oklahoma wasn't even a state back then mostly or was on call by land so the mining companies lease tribal land and allotments to start this operation the story about land is a story about land owners in the stories as much as it is american. cost or change forever just a minor something for chef to. the here huge brain that will move ne through the snow card and pitcher there became the pitcher field that was the boom and there was a huge rush you know. people into that area to start leasing call. and you could buy security of interior forty acre elisa's. they still. try but to create the town of picher but for the roads and for the town itself the
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school kind of thing. they just took a learner this was the largest mining. district in the world at one time. so all the munitions for war warner a lot of most them for war through on the american side were came from vests. so there was a huge incentive to keep the mining go even at one time the government subsidized the mining. because it was the strategic mineral the catch in the law was that if the secretary of interior found any of the indians to be incompetent then the secretary of interior would manage their release. so that could be i was under a lot of pressure to have these tribal member sign mining leases if you didn't release to the mining companies the i went to congress and individual tribal
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members declared incompetent. turns out that most of the confluence were the ones mines on the property and a quarter board or norm and in the ones that were competent were the ones that were recorded word or less and didn't have mining since with rare exception of the government had a lot of hand in and what's going on out here. is not a county or town or neighborhood it's the country's worst environmental disaster there's a creek that runs through it it's forty seven square miles of virgin prairie turned into permanent waste land. they've thrown into federal cash talk radio you would
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know what it's like news all every action has an equal and opposite reaction. to all their wallets a hole where you hang it broken he's beat the hell out of this granite here and she came back swinging. and then of course we're going to clear the superfund site back in nineteen eighty three so we've been dealing with this for a long time yeah the reason they call it super fund is because congress those. barge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this bond and agree to a pretty large amount of money that they called the super fund it was established in the early eighty's to deal with these environmentally founded sites where the responsible parties you know can be located or are not claiming responsibility so the government has to take over these sites and they should clean up i remember
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hearing about it being the worst superfund site in the country and that was based on e.p.a. has a model they call the has a great thing system model h.r.s. model and they've changed over the years but at the time the way that model was set up this site scored very high and i'm the original four hundred eleven or some odd sites that were added to the national priorities list this was the top scoring site and once we were declared superfund site that was the beginning of the end because . you just don't bounce back from the initial part of our focus was on water quality but what they call operating you know one that came in and they tried to do some type seen seven it failed so we get one was trying to solve the surface water impacts from the from the contaminated mine water being discharged. about eight million dollars their theory was water in equals water and doesn't work that way back during the mining they had twenty four seventh's to get rid of all of the
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water that was in there where the mine for located you had tremendous amounts of water that you had to deal with it just wasn't surface water causing this problem that ninety's the focus became. let this use of children and it was kind of a national trend for the p.t.a. if they saw a little thing with dirt that's what they did we had an unusual situation here that caused a new effort out here and that's when e.p.a. designated the surface soils operable you know too hard the corps of engineers is their prime contractor to come in and do yard clean ups it's pretty simple you go out you dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new cleaned or take the top six inches where it's hot or it's above the cleanup standard if you have some below that in that spot you take the next expenses etc like a man may spend eighty thousand dollars to redo my yard.
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about three feet. deep all around my forearms always advantage. the best estimate i've gotten from e.p.a. is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate your by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house in now believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials kind of my office and they told me what they wanted to do i said come go with me so we'll go not pick it up and i drove up on a chair pile and i said you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made the statement to me on top of that ship all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their attitude it's not about what's best for these
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people how can you justify digging up a yard when you have three million turns of contaminants across the street could they have done things differently in the twenty storm the mining boom could they have have managed the the waste differently. probably they could've done a better job of it where they think about it. no should we think about it now damn straight we better think about. yeah the chance bad the grounds that lead poisoning is high but the reason the e.p.a. came here on day one called this their worst was the water. since the mines closed they filled up with water so bad nothing can live in. the water that pours out of mines is no better back in their day to cloth died trying to cross the river to get to their new home has some mean water out here.
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ninety seven i was actually from what i can remember about the first time the e.p.a. . started sniffing around here so to speak that's when the contaminated water storage coming out from the underground mine occurred yet to pump the water out so you can keep the my system dry him so when you stop that fills up over time as they were do you know the market for that's why we have to continue to pump and you may see just a bit further have to stop pumping it within ten years mine water would surface and kill all the fish you know. that was ignored. when the water is running is where most of the water comes out is right here there's only so much water coming out here it goes that away. and goes out that a writer snuck in there had walked this one off and come out somewhere else the girl told her. this is the actual chat line we're right here the
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