very warm welcome to you this is on the line from moscow headlines for you now almost. fierce clashes on cairo's tahrir square as the craven libyan gyptian revolution becomes the center of a new protest demonstrations against the country's military rule organized by islamist group the muslim brotherhood. and other stories that shape this week clouds over the syrian government has a deadline set by the arab league to end the violence. and president assad is

defined in the face of growing international pressure and russia says both sides must lay down on. corporate protests in america three thousand strong marches all over the u.s. hundreds arrested many and pepper sprayed as occupy rallies were met with a heavy handed police response. and greeks give an unfriendly welcome to new unelected leaders who seem committed to tackling the crisis with yet more cuts that's already fears the troubled state solution is suffering because of harsh economic measures dictated by brussels. right next to a nazi a poisoned place it's our special report telling the story of how it's put on the verge of environmental disaster i've managed to get through this after being ravaged by the mining. will rogers once he asked me about why and they said well i just don't make my term anymore and we need the

lord in cannes for us to be good stewards of what he gave us and we did a terrible job here we did it for. you know nothing about theater and i'd spent half of the football game picher oklahoma back in one thousand nine hundred four it was dark didn't have the. pitcher off. so i do nothing really about pitcher it all. became obvious fairly quickly to me that you know we had a hard percentage of kids it more difficult in the classroom super kids but. we had. we knew we had some problems. with that with the kids out there. kind of as they. delve into.

well here's our sound. we want to be normal. as anybody else's. problem. or you need to come down here and see what what we've got. blow your mind so when they run up here and took a bunch of blood samples from. indian children and man i found high lead camps that's when it started right there when they would never come in here and check the kids and picture the health department when. but then i started checking in and i found a monster. i

don't know why. origins. 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 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 leds so the extent of that was really shocking and the e.p.a. came and did. a risk assessment health risk assessment as well as finally did a record decision that they felt like the primary risk from very pathway was through their work and some of the yards tested very high in terms of less toxicity we think about work it's good lead there really to increase risk for such a couple of reasons one is a child absorbed for lead through their gut and our adult is about fifty percent

more but with pediatric lead toxicity because what we call developmental issues it's only importance between zero and six years of age and it affects developing a logic system mostly what we consider the softer logic science school issues or the medical issues so that's really the difference the trouble is you can't ever make that go away once it occurs as permanent. as a place get this bad some old cities are coated with lead paint that you don't hear of levels this are when you tell someone about lead poisoning like this they need an explanation or is not quite do it 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 decade before they even discovered the lead poisoning but they checked the kids ten years after the land had been condemned without thinking one might be connected to the other. back then they thought if he thanks the soil that would fix

the children. but you can't fix this land while the way sits here and you can't leave kids here while you take several decades to move. when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all of the minerals are really for blades and care and 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 chapped but it's tail it's the tail winds from the mines what's left over from the stuff they didn't use their real inviting you don't have to admit myself as an adult and when i first saw that chap i just i just could imagine how it would be the funniest thing in the world to get out there

and roll down them slide down them four wheel down them anything as a child can just imagine looking at something that looks like a gigantic sand pile and be told no you can't go up there i can't imagine that we used also play on in the wintertime when the snow nozzles on we used to. go 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 swollen eyes. in a car hood expressway with there are three aboard picture a car that's where most of their risk would be because you have so much that also on the surface still surrounding the area. and even if only yards clean if i'm a little kid you'd be hard pressed to keep me from playing out in some of those areas at least you know i'd be doing something. i mean one time the eagle

pitcher minus self is a quarter mile high she could see from downtown. miami home. you'd go away and you'd think man there are some really big piles there and you'd remember the biggest q. just four five six right there in picher but you keep driving around you know from miles and you forget oh yeah there's a chap maces over here where piles used to be oh yeah there's a mill pond 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 to work by the big ones. the volume here is hard to describe people don't realize how mine down in the us. that are. there he gets most of the old way. problem with moving chad 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 on the stomach and secondly they're also much higher and lead content about them thousand times higher in lead and lead content than the gravel people so shape with the word chance most of the chaff you see out there may have this course material but then there's other stuff. larger concentrations of metals are in the size of the mine waste or so you can you can imagine that this does not come blow near as much as this stuff so this these fine particles get blown around and they have the highest concentrations of metals in them gets deposited in a residential yar children can ingest it you know it's just a lot more mobile 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 and use this these fine tailings. i had been doing can rethink about lead poisoning i mean they fixed the place. i was looking for syria a tiny little publication that compact had found their exposure to lead between a tooth seven hundred twenty when they take fifteen liter of. and there is a high school counselor dealing with young people with eating disorders and with youth it had trouble learning elbow out of dealings with those kind of camps and one particular student stood out to me and i knew that she'd grown up in quapaw and she had a chat pile on her property her dad hair down built her stand up. and in a faint he'd taken out that gravel. that he had taken fucking. her

no doubt in my heart that somebody knew. what lay ahead good partly due to your. maiden film 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 chat piles and elevated blood leds that there is only one problem to solve. but 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 home. remember that iraq i was talking about. yeah this is where those ripples start. my grandfather he was so warm that discovered the only engine for home british way

back all probably around one thousand and four that they was drilling the water wheel on the shelf we explored cornish. rand paul got a hold of the helm and told them get back here and you saw something in. the picture feel strong enough about my writing well yeah i want to get your feel got started it was very well feel strong it had you. put me on a pattern shot. that's it guys it looks like i might in the real only time i was really speared was when i went to put a stick of dynamite i mean machine me and the guys at real who would turn it on the female and we'd wailed only colonel and i mean you could dynamite in the lake or that machine you know what i mean you kind of

a little bit you know i started in the summer night kane forty one i was i was sixteen i want service and i. early in forty three and. my ship got hit by a kamikaze and we met her in forty four and i was discharged and one i came back from the navy i went to work and ground combat over there were dogs and that's kind of funny because he was he was still pretty much of a policy if he could show them what they were so i want to show them over there the lay by is over here and they bring in seven and strength of empties and he get five of those a lot was getting two and i like to kill myself trying to catch up with he wasn't screaming. making the little ones out of big ones to sledgehammer. is a job at times specially when they would go in there and shoot down the roof and they

shoot him if he just brings on the waterfront bring on the russians because coordination going from a little. he grows one person at work and one inch the temperature in a moment i like the snail. only experience we played going to share some of our mission when i was going to go shopping or since we all share your company. everyone knows about the trail of tears of the cherokee nation. all thirty nine tribes in oklahoma have a trail of terror story require some new york sort of symbol 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 of the system the quapaw of could feel seven to eight thousand more years which per the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand copies of the major village was so garp and today they call themselves they'll go up and clap our is french perversion and bogart. you know just kind of fell that way so here in seven hundred sixty seven smallpox plague hits the try and begins to wipe them out and you can read it in the record and there is no record i've read it and it serves that there are no longer of the tribal use to be caught was not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas our own and we

need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their size then the army began rounding them up. in eighteen thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw was to bring to where they are today when they arrived here and you know eighteen thirty five and when they arrived to this area there was only one hundred and thirty five remaining out of thirty five thousand that could take the thirty's they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a man out and the only way we could take well pauses inside that one so we can't go anywhere also. so the call calls are coming up and running and you know it's eighteen and thirty

five. and they are dropped 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 where you students are. looking you know across the river it's those hard bloods. and. big bluffer out occur. it's called the devils. and the reason it's called. is because they got there and they were working on how to get across the rest of their way. home but the devil was marching praying and top of them blood and

everyone who tried to swim across drowned. and so they couldn't cross a river and double. cross. were removed from their original lands and placed right here on a reservation inside indian territory seventy years before the war was struck oklahoma wasn't even a state back there most of the or was on part of our land so the money coming as lease tribal land and allotments to start this operation the story about land is a story about land owners and the stories as much as it is american and they call it all story changed forever just a minor something for chef to. hear huge grain that moved north east through the snow card and picture it became the picture

field that was the boom and it was a huge rush you know a lot of people into that area to start leasing because. then you could buy the secretary of interior forty acre lease since. they stole land from the tribe to create the town of picher for the roads and for the town itself from school but they took they just took the land and this was the largest mining. district in the world at one time so all the munitions for war want a lot of the most time for war two on the american side one came protests. so there was a huge incentive to keep the mining going even at one time the government subsidized the mining. because it was a strategic mineral the catch him. law was that if the

secretary of interior found any of the indians to be incompetent when the secretary of interior would manage their release. so the f.b.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 had individual tribal members declared incompetent and it turns out that most of the company use were the words. on the property and a quarter board or more in the ones that were the company were the ones that were quarter bloater less and didn't have mining since with rare exception the government had a lot to 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 after the creek that runs through. its forty seven square miles of virgin prairie turned in a permanent wasteland. if they're meant to federal cash tartrate you would know what it's like newton's law every action has an equal and opposite reaction you punch a wall the wall gets a hole or you hang it broken. beat the hell out of this granite here and she came back swinging. and of course we were declared a superfund site back in nineteen eighty three so i'm going to miss this for a long time yeah the reason they call it super fun is because congress those side barge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this fund big three to any large amount of money that they called the

super fund it was established in the early eighty's to deal with these environmentally contaminated sites where the responsible parties you know can't be located or are not claiming responsibility so the government has to take over the sites and initiate the cleanup and i remember hearing about it being a war superfund site in the country and that was based on e.p.a. has a model they call the hazard braking system model h.r.s. model and they changed it 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 primary focus was on water quality or they cooperated you know and they came in and they tried to do some diking kind of

stuff and it failed so we get one was trying to solve the surface water impacts from the from the contaminated mine water being discharged i just. about eight million dollars their theory was water equals water and doesn't work that way but during the mining they had twenty four seventh's to get rid of all of the water that was in the crew of the mine for the ok you had tremendous amounts of water that you had to deal with it just wasn't surface water causing this problem that ninety's that folks came. let issues of children and it was kind of a national trend for the e.p.a. if they saw a way that levels 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 unit to e.p.a. hard core of engineers as their prime contractor to come in and do yard clean ups

it's pretty simple you go out and dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new clean dirt 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 and i spent eighty thousand dollars to redo my yard. about three feet. deep all around my forearms all of the damage. but the best estimate i've gotten from the 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 and not believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials come to my office and they told me what they want to do i said come go

with me so we all got my pick and i drove them up on a chair and i said you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made a statement to me on top of that check all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their editing it's not about what's best for these 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 had managed to the waste differently. probably they could've done a better job of it but i think about it. you know should we think about it now their street we better think about. yeah the chats bad the grounds bad 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 on it. and water the pours out of mines as you know but. back in their day the quapaw trying to cross the river to get to their new home. has some mean water out here. nine hundred seventy nine 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 stored coming up from the underground mine to create yet to pump the water out see keeping my system dry even so when you stop that builds up over time so they were do you know a marker for that's why we had to continue pumping and they see just a bit of food here and of the stop pumping there within two years the mine water would surface and kill all the fish and turkey that was ignored. when the water is

running is where most of the water comes out is right here there are so many so much water coming out here it goes that away. and goes out that way there's luck and there but that walk that's not the kind that somewhere else will grow old or something else this is actual ok mine were right here the fella. machine would be soo much brighter if you move out sound from funds to british and so forth. from the stars on t.v.

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