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 secure the chemical industry is a growing growing by leaps and bounds. i mean you can just mention the dupont name and door sw

dupont -- the people trusted e dupont to be forthcoming about the situation and they were not. dupont claimed publicly that c 8 was harmless in humans. and if it were not for outside regulation, thousands of residents of the parkersburg area would still be exposed to unsafe water and would have never known it. that is why we must have independent regulation. obviously, self-regulation doesn't work. as a result of dupont's decades long coverup of the science behind the c 8 and the contamination in the ohio river and the water supplies in six water districts, have exceeded that regulatory level at th. at that time lawsuits were filed. the state health project was accomplished and the extend of diseases linked to c we8 were exposed. thousands of people in my community have been sickened by c 8 dumped in our water by dupont. we now that c 8 exposure is linked to cancer, ulcerative colitis. the project began in july of 2005 and was accomplished by june 2006. we collected data from nearly 70,000 residents that were exposed to the water there on at least a one year continuous basis. i

dupont, the people trusted dupont about being forthcoming about the situation and they were not. dupont claimed publicly that c8 was harmless in humans and if were not for outside regulation, thousands of residents in the area would still be exposed to unsafe water and would never have known it. we must have independent regulations. obviously, self-regulation doesn't work. the result of dupont's decade-long cover-up of the science behind the c8 in the contamination in the ohio river and the water supplies in six water districts exceeded that regulatory level and at that time lawsuits were filed and the state health project was accomplished and the extent of the diseases that were linked to c8 and were exposed. thousands of people in my community have been sickened by c8 dumped in our water and we now know that c8 exposure is linked to cancer, colitis and other serious diseases. without regulation the dangerous c8 may never have been known. that began in july 2005 and was accomplished by june 2006. to collect the data from nearly 70000 residents that were exposed to the water ther

safeway applied for a liquor license at one of its locations and dupont circle.eighbors are not on board. they say there are already enough liquor stores in the area and they do not want the shelf space to be wasted. >> on the shelves are empty and they devote more space to other things that are not food, the problem is exacerbated. ifson: safeway said approved, only 4% of product would be beer and wine. there is a town hall meeting set for monday and the alcoholic beverage control board hearing his next month. nancy: members of the virginia general against the design of your proposed bike and running path i along-66. virginiaer to the secretary of transportation, 18 lawmakers say the design is to be changed to address concerns about noise, load, and other issues. it is part of an interstate expansion project outside the beltway. alison: back-to-school shoppers, this is for you -- tax free weekend in maryland start sunday. no taxes on clothing and shoes, when hundred dollars or less, and the first $40 of a backpack or tax-free as well. the tax holiday runs throug

this was shortly after the dupont deal was announced.hink that make the whole quarter difficult for investors to process so the stock dipped a bit lower. but it turns out that anyone who sold the name made a big mistake. when they reported in august, they were strong enough to send the stock soaring into the stratosphere it had higher than expected revenue, not a perfect quarter, guidance for the full year came in a tad lighter than analysts were expecting. yet the stock jumped 8% in a single session the reason first, fmc told us they expect their asset swat with dupont to close on november 1st. second, management doubled down on the plans to spin off the red-hot lithium business as a separate company with the break-up being finalized sometime in the second half of next year. third, in the meantime, fmc is making a killing on the lithium, boosting production, adding 8,000 tons of capacity by the fourth quarter another 20,000 tons coming by 2020 makes sense given fmc's lithium sales grew 17% everover year most important, fmc's core agricu

the dupont descendent really didn't know much about it at all. i think being dupont, you probably have lots of other things to think about. but, yeah, it has been interesting. it's been fascinating. and i think picked up little things here and there. >> great. >> again, robert smalls is sort of an undertold story. were there things as you did your research, beginning writing, that surprised you or let me pose that another way. what surprised you most about the story? >> i think what surprises me the most was how i thought i knew a lot about what happened during that time beyond robert smalls, about african-american relationships to their owners, et cetera, et cetera, and i found that a lot of it was not exactly as i thought or it was a lot -- the brutality was there i was certainly aware of that. but i think that the -- how much the lives of the people were intertwined and i found that robert was in such a unique position because he -- his mother, lydia, was born on the mckey plantation, and the age of nine years old she was taken to to the house

dupont descendent really did know much about it at all and i think being dupont you probably have lots of other things to think about. [laughter] >> it's been interesting. it's been fascinating and i think picked up little things here and there. >> great. >> again, robert smalls is sort of an under told the story. were there things as you did your research as you began writing that sort of surprised you or let me pose that another way, what surprised you most about the story? >> -what surprised me the most was how i thought i knew a lot about what had happened during that time beyond robert smalls about african-american relationships to their owners etc. etc. and i found a lot of it was not exactly what i thought or, i mean, the brutality was certainly there. i was aware of that, but i think that how much the lives of the people were intertwined and i found that robert was in a unique position because his mother was born as you know on the plantation and at the age of nine years old she was taken to this house in town to raise that the key children. ripped from her mother, but she spok

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we're headed to dupont circle. >> i'm so happy to see you. >> how are you doing? >> dupont studio. they're holding a workout to raise money for hurricane harvey relief. >> i saw the video this morning and broke down crying and i'm like, it's horrible. i've lost everything before. i know how they feel. so there's no reason why i wouldn't do that. >> [indiscernible]. >> i've been in a domestic violence relationship and he took everything from me one time so i started from scratch sleeping on the ground and everything and i can feel how much devastation they are having to be in and they have lost their houses and their cars and everything. so sad. i'm going to cry . >> we're in leesburg. kd started talking about her dogs and she might not stop. she works at spanky's shenanigan and evay this week the money goes to animals affected by hurricane harvey. >> we got together and made this little thing that's blown up into a huge thing to collect supplies and blankets and all kinds of things for the dogs that need it. >> it's the least we can do. it's a little something, but it's something.

dupont would have walked away from the largest worldwide contamination of a toxic substance uncontained and untouched and legislation cannot be allowed to hinder proper and timely regulation. bills like our aa should not be passed by congress. if it is passed, what happened in parkersburg will continue to happen again and again. thank you.

. >> the dow chemical will merge with duponte. >> do you-duponte will trade on the new york stock exchangeer 1st. the company will have headquarters in michigan. >> the company has 3600 workers. >> a man was gunned down in his drive way and now his mother is coming to you for help. here is rick williams with the crime fighter report. >> he was my rock, my best friend. my life will never be the same. >> she says her son paul was a good man. >> he was a good person, father, son, did anything for anybody. >> wednesday september 3rd, 2015 the 40-year-old was returning home from the barber shop. he pulled into his driveway in the overbrook park section about 7:30 p.m. >> when he left the barber shop and came home, somebody ambushed him. >> he was shot in the chest and died at the hospital. >> i think the plan was to rob him. >> they tried to get paul to let them in the house, and he didn't, and he shot him. >> the city of philadelphia is offering up to $20,000 in reward money for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible. 215546 tips. all calls will remain anonymous. >> he was here on

behind the drug tried to cover up the truth and later in the show i'll talk to you about how an old dupont plant contaminated a river in virginia now they have to pay forty two million dollars to begin correcting their disaster so don't go anywhere america's lawyers starts now. rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease affecting more than one point three million americans and as much as one percent of the worldwide population the specific cause of rheumatoid arthritis isn't known and there's no known cure for the disease rheumatoid arthritis is one of the most common auto immune disorders and symptoms are triggered when a person is an odd body's attack this in no view joint fluid causes chronic inflammation act. ammar is a suppressive medication used to treat the symptoms of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis the medication was first approved by the f.d.a. in two thousand and ten the drugs been marketed to doctors as not increasing the risk of heart failure stroke or lung disease which competing drug makers admit rheumatoid arthritis medication usually does the problem is that temora

algorithms and the fact that men santo and bear and dupont all these guys know to his 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 same when banking they manipulate lie bore yeah for a 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. 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 have

risk and in the end 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 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 x. turn allies in risks as you say and let's remember that this particular dumping episode all of this happened before our landmark environmental laws like superfund the clean air act the clean water act the safe drinking water act and so forth and so on these laws are designed to ensure that polluters cannot just shift to the risk and don't their pollution on the rest of us that's why it's so important that we enforce these laws and enforce the ability of ordinary citizens to go to court and get justice when those laws are broken. but let me ask about the justice look

. >> coming up at 10:30 did you notice a new addition to dupont circle. >> it's an inflatable raft to made to look vaguely like the president. >> and we go from dominos pizza to burger king we want to you have it your way especially if you where are just fired. and whoer severance package. this is america 2017 >> right no, i at 10:30 a local liquor store fire bomb injuring two people and an up state on the recovery and what we're learning about the suspect. >> sheriff deputy killed after a car chase and shootout in a hotel in california. >> and how people are pitching in to save and shelter pets standed by harvey. the 10:30 starts now. >> off the top a vicious attack at a maryland liquor store. >> two people were hurt after a man threw a molotov cocktail inside. >> sarah a part time worker told me off camera the suspect was seen in this giant parking lot hours before the attack. apparently game back angry and of the liquor store injuring those two workers one has burns to 25% of his body. he he is in the burn unit icu washington med star hospital center and that suspect, 22-year-old k

and punches were thrown in dupont circle all over a make america great again was it self defense or something else? the news at 11 starts right now. and off the top tonight, the former director of d.c.'s va hospital fired. i'm sarah simmons in for tony. and i'm shawn yancy. this all start ed with a scathing report back in april detailing unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the hospital that was putting the lives of veterans at risk. the er is disgusting. i see it as a basic failure of management. this safe is for veterans and that's why i put place. the secretary david shul kin originally reassigned the medical director but now he's out after internal investigation revealed additional serious issues. lindsay watts joins us with the the details reporter receiptor dewe found out about additional misconduct at the d.c. va hospital. this is the new report we just got. it says that when brian hawkins was director of the district's v.a. medical center he sent sensitive information to his own personal e-mail as well as his wife's personal e-mail, a violation of v.a. policy. we don't know exactly wha

. >> reporter: when someone created a yelp review of the dupont circle rat sanctuary last map, the parkk note, spending about 30 grand to ditch the surrounding hedges, relocate trash cans and scented plants with wire mesh under the soil. the number of rats in that park dropped by 80% in the first month. there's also a new contract with d.c.'s department of health to treat rat problems on national park land. in fact, when the news 4 i-team spotted these holes under the already worn sidewalks at recall lins park, we waited until dusk to i.d. the culprit. d.c. crews showed up the very next day to treat the burrows hidden among shrubs just like the ones replaced at dupont circle. >> that's far more preferable than repair sidewalks or do major construction. >> reporter: but it isn't just parks. lined sidewalks and alleys across the district. >> they live down in here. >> dozens and dozens of them. they're big. >> reporter: behind tall office bu daylight, the tell tail signs of cracked sidewalks can cause trouble. >> analyzing all kinds of data trying to figure out how we're going to model th

listen guys, you want to see me at dupont circle. i'll be here for 10, 15 minutes. are you guys excited? >> high fives all around. we've got a good crowd. had a lot of people follow us. you guys need glasses? i'm like the most popular guy in the city this morning, guys. this is ridiculous. we've had people chasing us. more here at dupont circle. thank you for coming. ep joy the eclipse. be safe everybody. take care. >> you be safe too, adam. i know half the people came to see him. >> adam is like be safe. peace out. >>> news 4, we have everything you need to k eclipse in the nbc washington app. we have -- they're hosting four viewing sites around the area today. you can see where they are by searching eclipse events. >>> it's 6:35 right now. we're following breaking news out of france involving a deadly crash there. french media reporting a van rammed into two bus stops. this is near the city of marsail marsaille, the second biggest city. another man is hurt here. the driver of that van has been arrested at this point, reports are saying that the government official

nearby lies dupont circle, center of a district of magnificent homes and embassies of foreign nationsit is a historic part of the city, known with the memory of great names. this striking building of grecian design is a government patent office. millions of inventions are kept here. here is the world's largest printing plant, the government printing office. thers of ink flow here into congressional record, and how the congress and love it. within this decaying building was committed a crime which shocked the world, here in for theater lincoln shot down on april 1960 5 -- w again in the air we fly over the mall now being actively developed into the sweep of beauty dreams by its planners a quarter of a century ago. the glorious memory of the first president. in its simple austere beauty, the washington monument, 555 feet in height, dominates the landscape. the top affords panoramas of the hills and rivers. from the northern end of the mall, we see a list of unforgettable beauty. across the lagoon, the shaft is a tribute to another great american. the lincoln memorial is the greatest mon

well so but i want to say you know here so you're going to have only two two giant companies dow dupont to monsanto bear controlling three quarters of the seed market farmers are already being squeezed however the price of corn seed you mentioned price of prices go up with monopolies the price of corn seed has more than doubled in the past ten years from fifty dollars fifty one dollars per acre in two thousand and six to one hundred two dollars and twenty fifteen so their prices have prices have doubled their profits have plummeted by fifty percent remember farm aid yeah willie nelson yeah yeah and then willie nelson need to. do that it's a cycle now well i mean there's an enormous amount of information there but you've got monsanto are going to merge potentially and it would undermine the dynamism and competition in the food business american farmers are being destroyed and this is something that anyone who would be supportive of jobs in america or competition in america or american values certainly the cornbelt of american farmers don't get more american than that and yet no one is st

well so but i want to say you know here so you're going to have only two giant companies dow dupont to monsanto bear controlling three quarters of the seed market farmers are already being squeezed however the price of corn seed you mentioned price of prices go up with monopolies the price of corn seed has more than doubled in the past ten years from fifty dollars fifty one dollars per acre in two thousand and six to one hundred two dollars and twenty fifteen so their prices have prices have doubled their profits have plummeted by fifty percent the number of farming willie nelson. and then willie nelson. now well i mean there's an enormous amount of information there but you've got monsanto are going. it would undermine the dynamism and competition in the food business and. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a special memory warning for delaware coastal waters from cape may new jersey to keep the loop in delaware all twenty nautical miles until five pm it's three thirty four pm strong thunderstorm was located near fourteen foot. the strong thunderstorm wa

proposed merger would result in just two companies in the agricultural space monsanto bear and dow dupont controlling three quarters of the u.s. corn seed market hey there's peter schiff right behind. that's right you guys are sure i am going to tell you. we're going to come times you get a lot of flak from the cryptocurrency is always you know something else carol the. defending gold against a crypto of the during the entire freedom fest you know they're all accused of cutting inside a shill for the global soros yes. george soros. i read that somewhere to play with insider died and i was not a part of these that was. the. over all these years ago i've been waiting for this moment we're going to come and talk to you in a few minutes you all and if you don't mind. talking we're going to ask you how would you travel around the camera yeah all right well no matter who you know we have the full beard to be coming up like a half hours so i will be all right in a few moments right here thank you piers schiff leisure gentlemen better ship. all right well so but i wanted to say you know here so y

coming up on "fox news morning" a man gets into a fight in dupont circle because of a hot he was wearing. >> and daily or weekly headache could be related to the lights in your home. >> as we head to break let's go ahead and look at lights outside. people up and moving we see the car taillights right headlight as well. 71 on this tuesday morning. we're glad you're with. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only $24.90 more per month. our lowest price ever on this offer. but only for a limited time. call today. comcast business. built for business. comcast business. z2fwbz z16fz y2fwby y16fy >> missing in loudoun country. search for missing woman and cuz anyone a tragic end. white house shakeup and communications director anthony scaramucci is f

people who shop at the tiny safeway near dupont circle tell us the grocery store is too small to add wine and beer to the options. tom sherwood reports on what they want instead. >> reporter: there are lots of booze deliveries along 17th street, east of dupont circle. but none delivered to this decades-old tiny safeway tucked on the corner. at least not yet. safeway's application for a beer and wine license is irritating nearby neighbors. they want better food options, not more booze buys. >> they're concerned that the store is small already. if they devote a couple of aisles to beer and and it is a grocery store. we can't go to the liquor store to pick up celery and carrots. >> reporter: safeway told nbc4 it's been a good neighbor. we constantly look for ways that we can provide great service and value to our customers. beer and wine will make up less than 4% of the store's inventory. still, safeway plans show alcohol shelving takes up space in the middle of the store. barbara donaldson is a parent leader at nearby ross elementary. she says parents, teachers, and school staff shop a

people who shop at the tieny safe way store near dupont circle tell us the grocery store is too small to add wine and beer to the options. tom sherwood reports on what they want instead. >> there are lots of booze deliveries along 17th street east of dupont circle. but none delivered to this decades old tiny safe way tucked on the corner, at least not yet. safe way's application for beer and wine license is irritating nearby neighbors, they want better food options, not more booze. >> they're concerned that the store is small, already. if they devote a couple of aisles to beer and wine, it will be smaller yet. and it is a grocery store. we can't go to the liquor store to pick up celery and carats. >> safeway told nbc 4, we've been a good neighbor. beer and wine will make up less than 4% of the store's alcohol shelving takes up space in the middle of the floor. barbara donaldson is a leader, parents, teachers and school staff shop at safeway. >> if they want to make some improvements to the store, it could be around the quality of the food that they have. there are so many opportunitie

safeway has applied for a liquor license at one of its locations in dupont circle.ut people in the neighborhood aren't on board. they say there's already enough liquor stores in the area- and they don't want the shelf space wasted at an already small store. meeting is set for seven tonight. the alcoholic beverage control board hearing is next month. it's time to stock up on school supplies. tax-free week in maryland is now underway. qualifying items include clothes and shoes under 100 bucks.. and the first 40 dollars of a backpack are tax free too. tax-free shopping runs through saturday. maybe d.c. sports teams aren't cursed after all. a little bit of good news this morning for the nats... the injury to bryce harper is not as bad as everybody had feared. the nats all-star has survived a nasty looking incident saturday with only a bone bruise, the team says. harper hyperextended his knee as he crossed first base running out a ground ball./ right now - there's no timetable for harper's return.. but nats g-m mike rizzo says he expects to have but nats g-m mike rizzo s

. >> reporter: there are lots of booze deliveries east of dupont circle but none deliver to this decades-old tyiny safeway tucke on the corner. safeway's license is irritating neighbors. they want more food options not booze buys. >> they're concerned that the store is small already. if they devote a couple of aisles to beer and wine, it will be smaller yet. it is a grocery store. we can't go to the liquor store to pick up celery and carrots. >> reporter: safeway told nbc4 it's been a good neighbor. we constantly look for ways that we can provide great service and value to our customers. beer and wine will make up less than 4% of the store's inventory. still, safeway plans show alcohol shelving takes up space in the middle of the store. barbara donaldson is a parent leader at nearby roth elementary. parents, teachers and school staff shop at safeway. >> if they want to make some improvements to the store, it could be around the quality of the food that they have. there's so many opportunities for them to do that. >> reporter: safeway says it has been upgrading store shelves and service in th

again that's cleveland park and dupont circle on the red line. .oblem outside dupont. pictures on social media show smoke and firefighters down in the station but, again, passing along a travel alert for you red line service suspended between cleveland park and dupont ci circle. more details as we get them here on good day. all right. steve over to you. >>> tucker jealous i was in the car with geo and not with him i tried to climb in the back of weather center with tucker and he kick me out. i'm sitting at the kids table now. >> just the two of us. >> shall we play? >> i feel very small retama. >> ♪ just the two of us ♪ note. >> red red red ties. just the two of us. ♪ [ laughter ] >> don't do it back. then it's creepy. >> what's going on out there. >> timing of the music beautiful f we go to maps that would be fantastic long lingering look get uncomfortable. 77 now in washington. winds out of the south at 6:00. we're going to be in the low 80s later today. it has been raining pretty good for the last couple of hours. that batch of yellow and orange

a fight over a hat led to blows near dupont circle and it wasn't just any hat. eu9 was a popular make america great again hoot much we've seen president trump wearing it from time to time. the florida man who is wearing it is now . according to police he he was the aggressor. he attacked three people who were arguing with him about this hat fox5's evan lambert is live. i understand the man they arrested says there is more to this story >>reporter: he does. i spoke to his lawyer and he says that this was a matter of self defense. that man was eating dinner with his family and that's when the man said the hackling over his make america great again hat. that's when the lawyer says his client had to defense himself and his family. the police report tells a much different story. it makes 32 year old lewis traf yea a of tampa out to be the main aggressor. an argument broke out over the make america great again hat. the fight continued when he and his family were the getting into an uber. he people he was arguing with. the pun chess thrown right in front of traf yoas o

alcoa up more than 45% free port and dupont up around 16, 13%. and newmont mining is up around 9% >> we look attal ko, this week, copper just put on a 7th consecutive advance that happened since the low argument could be that it's overdone al ko is going to pop here let's try to figure out and i'll start with a general commodities chart. what we know is that the softs have been terrible go quickly copper it's up and to the right next one aluminum, up and to the right. next one, zinc up and to the right. next one steel. rebar. what you find on the roads up and to the right. what's also up and to the right? alcoa. so the question is, is there more to go is this an inflection point? roll through charts. okay there's a five-year. you could draw the lines like this what's not random is where we are now. there's your head and shoulders. next, your cup and handle. the bad is we're going to take out this range now, here's the chart. here are the drawings. want to be long alcoa. fine >> got it. great breakdown. mike, what's your trade. >> this is an inter

. >> i get the idea if you live -- if you're leaving dupont circle and go to bethesda, that's outside their all right. the next time you need to stock up on groceries, you might want to head on line to walmart. they're taking on amazon when it comes to grocery delivery. walmart says it's fulfilling orders from more than 900 stores. amazon announced it's buying whole foods. >>> those stinky corpse flowers could bloom at any minute at the u.s. botanic gardens. thousands of people are lining up already and apparently, it's horrific. we'll have more on that. i put it on my facebook page. "news4 today" continues now at 5:00 a.m. >>> good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> i am eun yang. first the latest on your weather and traffic. >> let's check in with chuck bell before we go to wtop's dave gill dine. outside on the weather deck, hot out there, chuck. >> at least there's a puff of a breeze. that is really helping things a little bit. but it is really warm and incredibly humid outside. that's not going to change until we get to about 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. outside, there's a live

freeport and dupont up around 16, 13% and newmont mining is up around 9%.ter, do you say some of these names have more room to run? >> alcoa, copper just put on the seventh consecutive advance. that hasn't happened since the '09 low. alcoa as a stock i think is going to pop here. let's try to figure it out i'm going to start with a general commodities chart. what we know about commodities is the softs have been terrible. corn, wheat, soy beans energy has been basically down this is broad aggregate. by contradistinction, take a look at the following. copper, it's to the right. next one, aluminum, to the right. next one, zinc, up and to the right. next one, steel, rebar, what you find in the roads, up and to the right. what is also up and to the right, looks identical, alcoa. okay so the question is is there more to go or is this an inflection point? let's roll through some charts okay here's a five year you could draw the lines like this ready? and it's played out perfectly. you could draw the lines like this either way, what is not random is there we are no

for dow and is a member of the hawaii crop improvement association, which represents dow, monsanto, dupont, pioneer and syngenta. >> the difference between the parakeets and the other animals, is the parakeets have that ability to totally wipe out the entire field in a short time period. our scouts came in on a friday-- to check the field out. the field was looking great, in good condition. we came back on monday and every ear of corn had been totally eaten. it was down to just the cob. >> reporter: the companies also hire people to scare the birds away. wiederoder estimates all of it costs the four seed companies hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. >> and this is one more thing that increases our price, and makes it less and less attractive for us to be here, in hawaii. >> reporter: bill lucey says the birds are hard to control because they're so smart. they seem to be able to recognize farmers who've threatened them before. >> they recognize their jackets, the trucks they drive. what they'll do is send in two birds to scout the fields. they'll look for danger. if they see someone el

agro chemical sector have had to make some sacrifices to finalize deals tao was only able to acquire dupont 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 facts 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 organisation is it actually going after 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

it is temporary addition to dupont circle. rat is headed next once it leaves dupont. it's 8:21. ♪ ♪♪ >>> eight. that's what's sitting in the middle of dupont circle a lot of people stopping by to take pictures with the trump rat giant inflatable rat you can't miss it's 15 feet high. john post lee helped to manufacture the inflatable and brought it to d.c. he calls it satirical art. the inflatable leaving d.c. headed back to new york it was on display near trump tower. >>> florida homeowners spotting unwanted guest in the pool. can you see it? first of all what beautiful pool. let me just say that. >> beautiful pool. >> okay. >> somebody left the door open. >> what happened? that thing looks so prehistoric, doesn't it? it's a 7-foot gator it caught -- >> actually quite beautiful in the pool. >> okay. it was caught taking a dip on hot day which was yesterday. >> if it's in the pool upping where it is and the water is clear enough you won't go swimming. >> look at him coming up the steps like he's the homeowner. sir, you are not

and sent it almost sounds like a bit like story to me when i think back on that disaster by thing dupont was manufacturer of that but what's your take on this overall. well the camp is on its own herbicide it's been around actually in use since about the late one nine hundred sixty s. but it was for use in very very small amounts on not very much of the acreage nationally anyway and but monsanto decided about ten years ago that they wanted to make monsoon make their herbicide so that the premier this diet can buy herbicide and so they marketed they produce and market it what are called the extra six cents system is called the extend system and what it is is the seed and then the corresponding herbicide to be used with it is die campa but the problem with the camera is that it is extremely volatile which means it's very difficult for it to stay on target so when one farmer spray it on their crops they're campbell resistant crops it then goes off target and then harms other people's vegetation everything from their crops to trees on a mental isn't everything it's really wreaking havoc as y

crazy that's hard to pronounce they were originally developed by our lovely friends at three am and dupont they were over the years have never put a second third fourth it was used in consumer products like test one. scotchgard and then we stay in. the good stuff for the seventy's and eighty's. they were used all the way up into the seventy's by you know in fire fighting foam and and you know there's tons of this stuff sort of sitting around so here it was used it was washing all of these air force bases it drains down it gets in the water if you're training at an air force base. and you're putting this firefighting foam on over and over because it doesn't magically just go away yeah i got so down in the fifty's but it was only going to get one person to is the you know what really hurts i think a lot of these people is what's coming out about when the military actually knew right was dangerous and well i mean we worked to remove it yes i mean it was in one thousand maybe one that the air force actually looked into these specifics the air force aerospace medical research laboratory started

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proposed merger would result in just two companies in the agricultural space monsanto bear and dow dupont controlling three quarters of the u.s. corn seed market hey there's peter schiff right behind. me right you guys are sure i am going to let me tell you today. we're going to come times you have to get a lot of flak from the cryptocurrency always always you know somebody else. defending goal against a crypto of the during the entire freedom fest you know they're all accused of cutting inside a shill for the global soros yes. george soros. i read this somewhere to put up with insider died and i was not a part of this that was a bit of the. over all these years i've been waiting for this moment we're going to come and talk to you in a few minutes you all and if you don't mind. talking we're going to ask you how would you travel around the camera yeah all right well by anything you know we have the full beard to be coming up like a half hours. i will be over then a few moments right here thank you peter schiff pleasure gentleman ship. all right well so but i want to say you know here so y