bang for the buck you see nowhere in all that gobbledygook of philanthropic buzzwords that we heard earlier was anything about oh no i don't know actually physically giving folks without a home a home imagine how many homes or shelters one could buy the four thousand some odd homeless living on the streets of san francisco with thirty million dollars instead this thirty million goes to the university because what we need right now is to better understand the reasons for home business not actually helping the homeless you see my friends you wouldn't need to put thirty million in research if you stepped down from the ivory tower of palantir b. and lived in the real world of skyrocketing rent and housing prices coupled with a diabolical health care system designed to bankrupt more than cure and the only way you can do that and find that real world is if you start watching the whole. the. real that this was. part of.

what they like you but i got. was that we. would. be. welcome on watching ox i am i robot and i'm. here is here's something interesting that this reminds me of a lot of sort of point this not pointless research but research for the sake of i guess giving someone a research grant more than anything. i remember this but years ago there was the c.d.c. report about fast food and of course you know fast food people are eating and it's bad for you with diabetes heart disease out of that so this whole thing saying you know that you know despite large number. as of americans saying that they want to

avoid eating sugar and salt and fat and that they were looking for healthier food they wanted healthier food the study found that nearly forty percent of americans at any given time on any given day will eat fast food so. if there's another millions and millions of dollars spent to discover what people don't follow their diets that fast food you get it because it's fats right right and this feels a little bit like that it does i mean look no one's mocking someone giving thirty million dollars to try to solve a problem i understand you know i understand by me off trying to do the right thing but you kind of like when you see that a number of them see that it's going to research or kind of like well the research is easy we have about you know the economy is only good for a small portion of people. read about health care that usually cripple through but look just so people understand what this will do the u.c.s.f. by the awful most innocent housing five year initiative will conduct academic research provide testimony in fact sheets and wait for

a train people who have been homeless to become expert speakers being homeless. come on that's money well yeah because it doesn't want to be going to make them in the instagram influencers list who i mean it's let him go as you know how to help people who don't have health care who don't have a home who don't have enough food who don't have you know anybody caring about them do those things they cost money i know why don't you actually spend the money on doing that i mean that was interesting is san francisco where this initiative is being placed is interesting that he part of the silicon valley is sort of group where you have a city that's four thousand people are sleeping on the streets practically every night in a place where because of silicon valley because of the one percent and because of the sort of real estate boondoggle that they keep getting us into the median price of need to bend your home in san francisco is one point three million dollars so after family of four earning one hundred or so. bonjean thousand dollars

a year is considered low income that's awful and when you try to build a homeless shelter when they actually do try to do that you have people in there there was one the mayor and the city were planning this two hundred bed shelter near the bay bridge but now they're getting pushed back because all the people have their fancy condos there are actually raising money a real estate attorney is using money to stop them from doing that so you want a pro you want to do with the homelessness problem you don't want to be awful but. that acronym was an m.b.e. not in my backyard i want to help all these people but don't let them out don't let them come near me you know and all of that there was a hundred give one hundred thousand dollars to fight against a little. and here's here's my thing you know people want to know what causes homelessness and i go spend thirty million and i'm like i said i'm sure that it'll help me any time you spend money like that i'm sure it's going to help people no one's arguing that and i'll be better ways there's better with people like you said building shelters building homes getting people food getting people health care

because one of the one of the reason i think terry gallagher an assistant professor and family nurse practitioner at rush university college of nursing she spent a lot of time volunteering at chicago homeless shelters and she actually wrote us lose the quote the reasons people become homeless berry addiction and mental health disorders are often cited but they are not the most common reasons the institutional practices at work lack of a livable wage a portable housing and medical but are the major reasons one becomes homeless usually she went on to write in this article usually it's because one major financial setback suddenly cripples you and then with the debt in the car loans in the house loan everything else you're done you're on the streets now then that's how it works but we don't we don't want to take the time or the little bit of money to this actually deal with the problem. we need more research more research.

the global oil market may may and may have entered a fascinating new chapter you see today marks the first day that iran's oil is completely sanctioned by the united states that's not a joke you see the trump administration has been effort in to completely sanction iranian oil and to date the waivers that once allowed countries to continue to import oil from iran have expired r t correspondent sara montessori joins us now with the details thank you for joining us sarah sarah always a pleasure having you on so these waivers were placed last november is there any change the u.s. why make the reconsider extending the way that you know. other countries doing runs what they were able to buy which is really the company while the u.s. gave these waivers placed these sanctions six months ago and allowed for these waivers to continue for six months allowing eight countries who are some of the largest exporters of iranian oil and to continue purchase limited oil from iran of

these include china india japan south korea and last week the trumpet ministration did say that they were not going to extend those waivers and that the reason that they allowed these countries to do so for the six months was because they didn't want to see a huge decline in the oil market now iran's oil minister spoke out today and said that. the u.s. cannot really are they wouldn't be able to give the oil market what they needed and that the oil market will suffer and this is what he said. what are the reviewers are not as simple as america and some of its supporters might think you can't manage the oil market with your statements and ultimately it's the real production of oil and offering it to the market is decisive. the extra capacities that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. talk about are exaggerated overstating their capacities but the reserves as well.

now the u.s. is looking for new or else sources including saudi arabia who has pledged to help the u.s. to output oil if needed however saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have a fields now they have a field that's called the partition neutral zone and it's part of land both saudi arabia and the u.a.e. own but there have been conflicts in there in the last three years three years ago they actually shut that field down so they're trying to figure out how they're going to replace the oil that came from iran where so one of his other countries that are involved in this now where obviously china is already we're already in a trade war here in the united states with china have they responded to this or any other country china and india are the largest consumers customers of iranian oil so they're not happy about it china said that this what they do is legitimate lawful and transparent business with iran and that it should be respected qatar's foreign

minister who's actually host the u.s. largest air base actually came out and spoke against washington and he said the sanctions should not be extended because they have an adverse impact on countries benefiting from iranian oil and said that in qatar we do not believe unilateral sanctions bring positive effects for crises which must be solved through dialogue and dialogue only opec has already suffering and cut down production so we may be seeing just a summer right. around the corner gas prices go way up for us right in time for summer right i'm so excited sara thank you so much for coming on and giving us this little bit of information tragically oil still makes the world go around us right now that's why we kind of keep track of these things thank you so much for coming on today. as we're going to watch is don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook you tube and twitter and see our four shows that are teach dot com coming up we take a big drink of the truth about the state of the united states public water systems with a look at the fifth anniversary of the flint water crisis with the man who blew the whistle the mark of words stay tuned to watch the.

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let it be an arms race is also a spear a dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. on april twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen then flint michigan mayor dane walling and director of flint public works howard crawford joined city and state officials by literally raising a glass of water to toast a momentous event that event the moment flint cut its water flow from detroit after nearly fifty years. it was also the beginning of a crisis that is open the eyes of many to the dangers lurking in our failing toxic infrastructure five years into the flint water crisis lead pipes are still in the process of being replaced with the last ten to twelve thousand service lines

supposed to be replaced by the end of this year nevertheless the one hundred thousand lives affected by what was to be known as the flint water crisis were just the beginning cities from baltimore to milwaukee to new orleans found lead in worse and their water you think the five years later we would be working together and fasting in infrastructure and focusing on treating the long term health effects. some of the very people whose research and whistleblowing save lives are having to defend their work against those who would use the crisis for personal and political gain one of those people defending their work is noted environmental engineer and whistleblower mark edwards he and his team were the ones who went to flint tested the water and announced and september of two thousand and fifteen that some five thousand homes in flint had lead levels above world health organization standards now edwards is fighting for the soul of the science that helped begin the process of saving flint from poison tap water joining us now from virginia is charles one

furred professor of civil and environmental engineering at virginia tech mark edwards thank you so much for joining us today mark. having me mark you you first had to fight the elected officials and state in places like flint and even here in washington d.c. to get them to admit there was a problem with the infrastructure around our tap water here in the united states how has the fight evolved in five years and are we ready to handle or prevent another one from happening. well the e.p.a. i think is largely been resolved they don't want another flint to occur and they're they're not covering up a lead in water problems across the u.s. anymore they're issuing violations when it's appropriate that's really going to see they're trying to revise the letter and copper rule and it's now eight years overdue and i'm hoping to get an improvement in comparable here soon but you know

the issue really is money and lack of will to get this infrastructure fixed to get lead pipes on the ground to replace these old antiquated galvanized iron iron pipes that should have been replace you know many many years ago and the reason is it's hundreds of billions of dollars. it's interesting because we've been seeing it here in washington d.c. street by street on my own street a tyros story we have seen this getting fixed and it's good to see but in the midst of all that is especially with flint there always seems to be what we call here an activist olympics that kicks off whenever something like flint happens where or a natural disaster people fight for the limelight they fight for those moments more and more and the actual issues get sort of left to the wayside in the case of flynn how do you feel the media could have done better in representing the problem or how

did that affect your ability to educate the public and then counter sort of that activism on top of all of it how did the media do and how can we do that better. well at first it was really hard to just get attention to get anyone covering it because when all levels of government were failing and were covering this problem up who was going to listen to professor from virginia tech or the residents who were complaining or you know other activists and so but after the apple cart was upset. overturned and you know we proved that this was a historic failure of government at all levels that the tide was then reversed and then anyone who came to flint and had an opinion whether they knew what they were talking about and not could get on national international television and in some cases spread rumors that we think were harmful and it almost became

a situation where in this vacuum of trust people were drawn in and yeah fighting for the limelight fighting for money fighting for fame the truth was the first casualty of the foot water crisis and as a pride be the last as well. it's interesting when you when you when you see that because i think that's truth as well the most important things that you need in a crisis like that is you need to get people informed you need to get people understanding the merit of the situation and how it affects them and part of that need is not just for the community that's directly affected but so other communities can start looking up their own you know water systems or whatever the crisis is a new study from the environmental working group is now claiming that california tap water is contaminated with things like arsenic and even your radio possibly contributing to over fifteen thousand cancer cases in the future now some of these chemicals are left over from the disinfectant process of making water possible as a scientist are you worried about these numbers or is there more to it than than

the headlines are suggesting. well you know in the case of the environmental working group report we've known about these chemicals for a long time for example. arsenic was at the top of the west and that's truly occurring and for every regulation we have to do a cost benefit analysis to say whether it's worth it to get it out of the water because there's no such thing as completely one hundred percent safe water even bottled water has some risk for example and so you know the question is how much do we really want to pay to reduce the risk and obeidi the way if we pay to get these contaminants of the water we don't have the money to replace the you know it's a quite a pipe you don't have money for schools and other things so you know it really becomes an issue of priorities and right now frankly people look at those students which are real it's absolutely the case but it's been argued that we have higher priorities you know given given the fact that we've got an opiate crisis we've got

problems with with schools with school infrastructure water pipe infrastructure it's hard to argue to the contrary it's sort of true right and it seems that we're we're seeing sort of the effect of it's like a stacking of problems so we see that there's more plastic in our water in plastic in the oceans you're getting a lot of runoff because of water systems we're seeing you know there are literally shrimp in places in the u.k. is testing positive for cocaine i mean there's the things that you know our water isn't that great and i think what's interesting about that as someone who grew up on well water being in a rural environment which is not that many people it's only about ten percent of u.s. residents have access to clean well water and you know it's great it would be great . that if everyone had access to an artesian spring well that didn't have chemicals process and we didn't have to worry about all these things but that's just not a reality anymore it's not reasonable meaning we have to use some kind of chemicals

or some kind of process to make sure that clean water is available for all you should be able to turn on your tab and have. water that isn't having cancer causing cancer causing agents in it as a scientist how do we balance the concerns of activists and residents with the goal of really providing clean water out of that at a mass scale across the united states. wow yeah really the goal is to provide reasonably clean water at a reasonable price we can achieve any level of cleanliness sir or safety but it would drive us bankrupt and so too even with private wells we've done a study of those and they had lead levels equal to that of flint michigan during the height of the water crisis. private ones have their own set of problems and and we've also in a recently identified road saw get in

a private wells as well that from you know just icing the ice in the roads so we've got a lot of problems in this world we're going to prioritize we've got to decide where to spend our money that's why we have politics that's why we have good healthy debates and arguments and we vote in the end we can only fix a few of the problems and i hope we're fixing the right ones in the us one of them is i also want to ask you too is is you know what what do you feel should be the price if you have the you know the magical magic wand and we're able to kind of prioritize the infrastructure needs of this country you know where where do you see you are given that responsibility where would you start. well i would start with these old pipes because if we invest a dollar to fix them today we'll save six dollars tomorrow we've been so negligent with our infrastructure we've gone so past its useful life time or her current mode of replacing these pipes is oftentimes to fix it on failure and then you've got to pay people over time introduce contaminants to the water you flood downtown

sections when that happens so if we're more proactive on this particular issue will actually have more money down the road to fix other problems that's what makes this so annoying it's like the equivalent of running your car without oil to let these old pipes just sit there until they break the next course and i have to as you know as an engineer and an expert in this field you know can the united states at this point. upgrade its infrastructure in order to really provide the the clean water that we need to replace these pipes and can we do this in the time we shouldn't because there's something that can be done in the next you know two five ten years or we want some long term what is looking like. well you know right now we have to fix these pipes when you break them when they break and so again it's not a discretionary item when that happens you have to go or else you're going to flood the downtown section and so you know you can either pay

a lesser amount of money today or pay more tomorrow. frankly i think we're prepared to continue to do in the dumps and keep fixing pipes on the failure but i'm maternally optimistic and. you know it is what it is let me ask you we've got about a minute left and i want to ask you because you're in the water guy you know you're the guy they are spirit but i'm going to go through and as you know since the first days of plant you're the one that i have gone to as a researcher to look at and see what you're saying and sort of bounce things around one of things i wonder is what does the future look like you know we have obviously a very old technology that we're basing off of do you see things coming into desalinization these things that could help us find a new way to provide water for people in a way that will be affordable that will be acceptable and the ways. oh yeah no we've got great new solutions coming the older ones work just fine it's just

a matter of like upgrading these materials certainly anything's an improvement on letter online diary. and yeah just give us a few hundred billion dollars that this problem fixed. you know i want you know we can find out for the simple as that because i think we can have weather here by then for water that's always wife thing and i hate seeing us waste a hundred you know one hundred million one hundred billion dollars fighting a war is that we don't need to fight and killing people overseas when we could be using it to fix our own infrastructure here at home and in other places around the world mark i want to thank you so much for coming on the great great pleasure and honor to have you and keep up the great work out there. likewise keep up the great work and. discovered by an undergraduate student in two thousand and ten a ten point two inch long footprint might just beat out another footprint found in canada last year for the oldest in the america it's found in chile at the palookas

site the evidence of humans dates back over fifteen thousand years beating the canadian footprint by a few thousand years just five hundred miles from santiago the team that found it has worked tirelessly for almost a decade to verify that it was made by a homosapien through among other things carbon dating the discovery proves that human beings have been in the americas for a much much longer than we previously suspected it also gives even more credence to the theory that in happens of the americas originally got here by crossing the bering strait it's almost as if more and more evidence is pointing to the fact that we aren't nearly as far apart as we've been led to believe that is very true look at humanity even its footprint. school that's the oldest oldest footprint fifteen use of fifteen thousand six hundred usa and that it can anyone was about thirteen thousand. still much longer than we assume that people were already in the

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