you know east liverpool was the place to go. now when you look, two out of three store fronts are shut down. we have two used furniture stores. we have a used game shop. you know lots of churches. even the churches aren't doing well. we are definitely, it is a sacrifice zone here. we have high cancer rates. we have low rates of education. of graduation. you know out of our high school. >> dennis dreer is 60 and he lives just down the street from the hazardous waste incinerator. except for a couple of years in the army he has lived here all his life. >> they call them inversions. depending what they're incinerating up there, you'll get a fine dust all over everything. it happened three summers ago, it was a really bad one. it got on everything, it was summer, everybody was running their air conditioners. they went around and replaced -- they said it was not harmful but they replaced everybody's air conditioners, gave everybody vouchers to have it washed off their cars. they were giving everybody produce and everything. it seems l

there have been protests in east liverpool and in washington, even arrests but nothing has changed. >> the waste industry pours so much money into donating to politicians, and their elections, that we can't compete with that. and their dollars are always going to win. >> that said, we took out for clinton. >> 87-year-old alonzo spencer has been fighting the hazardous waste incinerator for more than three decades. >> shut this facility down! tear this facility down! and move it out! you know you have probably heard of gore and his running mate promised us that they would shut this plant down or it would never go on. online, but they didn't do it. the politicians kind of stay away from it because it's not -- they have seen what happened to this area and it's not a positive thing to run on. it's all negative. >> the incinerator is worth 100 jobs to this depressed town but spencer and others say its presence have kept other businesses from moving in. the population of east liverpool has dropped more than half from 26,000 in 1970 to just 11,000 today. this junior high is now closed. an ele

. >> in 1992, desperate for help, the people east liverpool turned to the men promising change, bill clinton and al gore, both campaigned here at eastern ohio and promised that they would be the ones to look out for the little guys. >> i went to wheeling and actually shook hands with al gore and he autographed a no wti poster of mine and assured all of us, over and over and over again if we are elected we will put a stop thi to this. >> but they didn't. the hazardous waste incinerator went on line and they have been fighting ever since. releasing lead and mercury and other toxic chemicals into its smokestack which they blame to health problems in the community. >> it's not right that we have all these cancers in the community. >> dennis, except for a couple of years in the army he has lived here all his life. >> there's time when the wind blows, they call them inversions, depending on what they're incinerating up there you'll get the 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 poo people who

the 25-year-old man is going to be okay but the baby spent hours cleaning up a chemical leak in east liverpool at the eastern edge of our state. leaked from a semi. the driver did not do proper checks and originally contained but 10 to 20 gallons did make it into the al does not mix water that made clean up easier. >>> officials are asking to report anything that may be debris from two copters that crashed off of the coast of hawaii. the marines are searching for the survivors. the two helicopters were six crew members when they crashed during the nighttime training and all of the marines are still missing. >>> only on five tonight. a suspect ts away from deputies. >>> that is until he chases in the wrong direction. this body cam from a deputy deputy but by 5 6-year-old mechanic jeff mullin. the suspect led the deputy on a chase and then jeff jumped into help. >> he turned around running and i hooked him here and threw him on the ground. >> jeff held him down until the deputy caught up. deputy ryan coster stopped by to thank jim for his help. >>> they are basically no records of this person an

a they went friday looking at radar, beaver falls down to east liverpool and dover/new philly getting clipped by the edge of the winterstorm of the east coast . won out the fax is a northeast wind that is bringing lake erie moisture with reversed because of the wind direction, east-northeast, . there is a light snowfall and cleveland metro and within the last 15 minutes has seen some lake effect . this is where the snow is . it iss coming down heavily, you say the transition from above phrase reason that keeps it liquid form been the moisture from the atlanticqu is running into the cold air and most of these lower .s in the southeast part of pennsylvania, with 1 foot possible today, we are an island of tranquility cotan,is . who hopefully brighter skies today and gusty winds throughout the afternoon, tonight, a full wolf . about 34 degrees and check the alec calling for highs near 40 monday, and 36 tuesday with early rain showers lee stolfo should wrap up early thursday it will be dry friday less chance of snowfall on saturday next week . fox 8 the official school closing station with

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>> in sport liverpool and norwich are playing in the english premier league and find out who prevailed. ♪ now six people have been killed in the united states as a huge blizzard hits the east and expected to bring inasmuch as 60 centimeters of snow in some areas, thousands of frights flights cancelled and people told not to drive and stay in doors until the storm passes and let's find out what the situation is in washington d.c. where tom ackerman is joining us from, tom? >> well, the storm has hit washington now for the past 20 hours and the forecasters say we can expect 16 hours of this kind of weather and as the day progresses we expect the winds to kick up even further. you can see now there is a driving snow right now. it's expected to be a bit fiercer as the storm begins to lend its way further east and towards the atlantic ocean. you mentioned people being told not to venture outdoors, you see very few people out here on the streets in washington. as for the roads, in one part of delaware near the coast the governor has ordered people just to stay off the roads. that is the first time there has been a mandatory ban on driving and they learned their lesson in kentuck