. >> my name is amanda kiger, i am a community organizer for communities united for responsible, a resident of liverpool. i'm fortunate or unfortunate to be able to work in my own neighborhood. now when you look two out of three store fronts are shut down. >> dennis dreer is 60. he lives just a couple of blocks from the hazardous waste insin rater. except for time in the army, he's lived here all their life. >> depending on what they're incinerating up there you'll get this fine dust all over everything. it seems to me like there's an awful lot of cancer down here. an awful lot of it. within two blocks three people who have serious cancer, and how many other people that i don't know about it that keep it private. you can't crawl in a hole and cry about it. you just got to deal with it. i mean it's the cards you're dealt. >> dennis dreer has also been dealt cancer. colon cancer that he said has spread to his lungs and he already had two rounds of chemotherapy. >> that chemo, don't wish that on anybody. it's rough on you. >> at the end of the day, dreer says, he's left with one basic question