we did receive a press release from du pont. but without a single word for the victims. they claim to have studied see it carefully for decades and affirm to have always acted responsibly. in two thousand and fifteen dupont finally stopped using c eight the company was also ordered by the courts to clean up the region. but how many generations are still to experience the after effects of this contamination. in the chemical world history inexorably tends to repeat itself. it takes decades to reveal the truth and just as many years for the multinationals to be prosecuted . in their laboratories new toxic molecules are constantly being developed. but in ten twenty thirty or forty years who knows how many new victims will be poisoned. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but none of us signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people saying stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government

. >> "eyewitness news" at nemore s ai du pont hospital for children in wilmington. patients continued the hospital's camp we belong celebration, and a very special guest was there a few special gets, phillies fanatic entertained crowd, wide receiver jason avant, former eagles receiver, helped hand out teddy base and impact charity services played a big part there was water ice, games and dance party. >> look out. >> look at those moves. >> yes. >> cupid shuffle. >> yesy like your signature dance these days. >> you got dot shuffle. >> your go too move. >> yes, great time by all, we have a lot of amazing children hospital in our area and du pont, nemores du pont is one. >>> thanks for watching we are back at 11:00 tonight. >> take care, "cbs evening news" is next from new york here's anthony mason. take care we will see you >> mason: the russia investigation. congress now wants phone and e-mail records of everyone connected with the 2016 trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer. also tonight... >> why are you stopping us? >> mason: baltimore police investigate whethe

a merger of one hundred thirty billion dollars with another american chemical giant du pont. a match made in heaven. deal and then. there's a lot of the chemistry between. dupont made its fortune with dynamite. nylon. and tough line get a magical material that prevents food from sticking to pans want. to. be built. however behind the success of teflon dupont hides a dark secret i just can't believe. the line more than people. dying because of what they. think five. years ago were at a window on. this respect. at the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg. lost in the eastern us. this city was built around the dupont factory. suzanne bailey came here in one thousand seventy eight to work on the tough line production lines. i went to work in may the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight that was my glorious day right there i took the pictures it's you it's me. without gray hair. in the middle yeah you know i was so happy just by you i was that was the lead job i mean everybody want to go there because of the money but the benefits and everything like that it was s

algorithms and the fact that men santo and bear and du pont all these guys know to is second in exactly where all their seeds are they know exactly what your profit is to the penny and they can make sure it like in this sort of big economy that these farmers only eke out the littlest of existence any time prices might go up and their profits might be rising they'll like grab it and like increase their seed costs or whatever that because they have the monopoly pricing and they can grab they're not going to want you to be successful and independent and basically any all futile sort of model right the same when banking they manipulate lie bore yes yes gold and algorithmic trading high frequency trading they do in the agricultural market with patented seeds and control of the monopolization of that industry to kill the competition literally in this instance and to become this monopoly pricing gouging pricing so the americans get the worst of all possible worlds price gouging on food here domestically with these one off lists jobs being shipped over to asia because of again monopolists and y

on may twenty second one thousand nine hundred eighty four a meeting took place at the du pont headquarters the directors are worried about the consequences for the inhabitance they plan to eliminate all c eight emissions. i wanted to show you these sentences here. but finally no measures are taken as opposed to their argument it's not economically attractive . that was what you're ready for. that's for we were married at all. oh no no. that's crazy that's all they said bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded kept going and every door it was company green cross this whole situation they knew what they were doing to us and they continued to do it for money that's the only reason they continued to do it. dupont refuses to collectively compensate the three thousand five hundred sick people they prefer to study the cases one by one as a result since two thousand and twelve only one victim has been able to get a trial. dupont was sentenced to pay her one point six million dollars the three thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like robots can are still waiting at t

du pont would not only put their employees in danger once again tens of thousands of people would be affected. they live up to seventy kilometers away from the factory. one man would discover this a bit by accident. joe kiger. on october thirty first two thousand he received a letter from the municipality concerning the quality of the tap water it mentions c eight the setting in my court yard the wife was watering the flowers and we got our water bill and the mail and with that bill came a letter. the psyching good form letters all the time saying like ants own banging in front of over and you think about the next thing you know you throw it away and that's basically what this was it just caught my attention and i start it and then the flag started first of all what was say here which is used by the or x. or what's dupont have to do with our. joe cocker sought clarification on the matter. and called them fun to try to find out so they put me in touch with a guy i don't name mr kent of a the. i'd like to know more about the cia if you see this film is not in the worry about about it w

during that attack, it was led by admiral samuel du pont.rian: so what was the atmosphere in 1862. guest: this was may. host: what was the atmosphere? guest: people realized the war was not going to end quickly. the union needed a victory. in they needed a court in which they could instill this blockade. they needed a way to resupply their ships. i think it was a time where anything was possible. the south could have won at that point. no one knew what was going to happen, and certainly in charleston people were just waiting, bracing themselves for an attack. just 70 miles away, you have 14,000 union soldiers now. and they knew what the target they were because of their involvement in secession. charleston is where the secession ordinance was signed. as i said earlier, it was the spiritual capital. brian: how did he take his family with him that night? and how many other families were allowed to get on board the planter? cate: there were 16 people total on board the ship. the enslaved crew there were a , few changes at the last minute. two m

algorithms and the fact that men santo and bear and du pont all these guys know to is second in exactly where all their seeds are they know exactly what your profit is to the penny and they can make sure it like in this sort of big economy that these farmers only eke out the littlest of existence any time prices might go up and their profits might be rising they'll like grab it and like increase their seed costs or whatever that because they have the monopoly pricing and they can grab they're not going to want you to be successful and independent and basically a feudal sort of model right saying when banking they manipulate lie bore yeah yes gold and algorithmic trading high frequency trading they do in the agricultural market with patented seeds and control of the monopolization of that industry to kill the competition literally in this instance and to become this monopoly pricing gouging pricing so the americans get the worst of all possible worlds price gouging on food here domestically with these one off lists of jobs being shipped over to asia because of again monopolists and you h

agro chemical sector have had to make some sacrifices to finalize deals tao was only able to acquire du pont after promising to sell research and other assets and kemp china had to sell off parts of a subsidiary and some of its business is to get the commission's approval to take over syngenta in order to get the blessing of south african regulators buyer offered to sell its liberty crop chemical and seed that resists its plant killing effect so far it hasn't done much to impress some of the deals biggest critics like environmental activists afraid of how it could impact farmers and consumers however the commission has made it clear it will be reviewing the deal only from a competition perspective and won't be debating other potential effects but that doesn't mean buyer won't have to face those critics especially in the us or monsanto is busy taking on a global health organisation. let's talk about the sponsor a story which organization is it actually going out they are going after the world health organization and yeah so in two thousand and fifteen who released a study that said round up w

algorithms and the fact that men santo and bear and du pont all these guys no two is second in exactly where all their seeds are they know exactly what your profit is to the penny and they can make sure it like in this sort of big economy that these farmers only eke out the littlest of existence any time prices might go up and their profits might be rising like grab it and like increase their seed costs or whatever that because they have the monopoly pricing and they can grab they're not going to want you to be successful and independent and basically any all futile sort of model right the same when banking they manipulate lie bore yeah yes gold and algorithmic trading high frequency trading they do in the agricultural market with patented seeds and control of the monopolization of that industry to kill the competition literally in this instance and to become this monopoly pricing gouging pricing so the americans get the worst of all possible worlds price gouging on food here domestically with these without lists of jobs being shipped over to asia because of again monopolists and you h

du pont is set to pay more than forty two million dollars to restore the south river in the wildlife along that river they've been poisoned one one of the former plants in waynesboro virginia was responsible for that high levels of mercury were detected in the one nine hundred seventy s. make it dangerous enough that you couldn't eat the fish in that area for many years joining me to talk about this is john rocker sea news attorney with the environment america john my first question has to be how mercury poisoning in a river and the fish swimming could still be a problem since this is dangerous levels of mercury were discovered in one thousand nine hundred how how we still have to worry about this why are people longer still having to fight this problem what you know why isn't government done something about this mercury is what we know as a persistent bio cumulative toxin persistent meaning it it stays in the environment pretty much forever bio cumulative meaning it goes up the food chain from the insects to the fish to predators like eagles it bio accumulates there and so and it's

guest: well, as soon as smalls got to the union ship, he was immediately taken to samuel du pont, whoas in charge of the whole south atlantic blockading squad, and he said, i need this guy. he's valuable. he's a great pilot. we need him. and so he actually made smalls a civilian boat pilot for the union, and he did that because if he had enlisted smalls, african-americans, particularly former slaves, were only allowed at that point in the war to be classified as a boy, which was the lowest classification. so we think that the other crew members were enlisted as boys, but smalls was not enlisted. he became a civilian boat pilot and immediately started working for the union. but word got out in the north immediately, and he was considered a hero almost overnight. suddenly harper's weekly and all these other publications were touting him as the hero, and because he was the master mind behind the plan, he was really given the major kudos, above the other men. they were included in the story, but it was definitely smalls who was elevated to hero stature. host: where did they live then? >>

it was a navy attack and led by admiral samuel du pont.ost: what was the atmosphere in the united states in 1862. it that he as escaped? guest: people were realizing the war would end quickly. been several large battles. port.needed a they need a supply there to ships. their i think it was a time where anything was possible. the south could have won at that point. was going to at happen and certainly in charleston people were just waiting, bracing themselves for attack. just 70 miles away, you have . ,000 union soldiers now host: how many other families were allowed to get on-board the planter? there were 16 people total on-board the ship. there were a few changes at the minute. a few men decided they couldn't go through with it. assuming now y. i'm there was fear of reprisal, what could happen to their family members even if they made it. of course, they could have been concerned with their own lives out safely. but the first mate had his family on-board. his wife and two children and then there were two other women. we don't quite know t

you know i've dealt with du pont in the ca litigation up in ohio all along the ohio river valley and here is my tell you going to tell me this is sounds familiar it's as if the company understands that they can externalize all of their risks they can simply put their garbage into somebody else's property you know that's the equivalent of one neighbor saying you know i really don't want to have to pay for sewage i think i'll dump it monday abers pool that's called externalizing risk you're just shifting the risk and in the in the taxpayer has to pay for this isn't that exactly what happened here i mean dupont says you know we're just going to take the ship the cheapest route will it taxpayers pay for it we're going to run the risk of harming the health of of citizens all in that area mercury's extremely dangerous causes all types of physical illnesses but they let this go on for decades what's your take i mean is this isn't this pure purely simply externalizing rich risk and cost absolutely this a classic example of a polluter externalizing risks as you say and let's remember that thi