its going to take at least i don't know maybe two trucks >> stanley:east oakland councilmember larry reid is on the phone reporting this large pile of debris dumped at hale and douglass in east oakland to city officials for years kron 4 has been showing the problem of illegal dumping which has plagued east oakland and west oakland except this time we reached out to councilman reid who agreed to go on a tour to look at the problem first hand douglas and hale is an area where you have people who lived here 30 years 40 years who raiist there children, children's have gone off the college or moved away and the parents still live here and it has never been this bad larry reid a transplant from cincinnati is councilmember for district 7 and he admits the amount of dumping in his district is overwhelming and unlike anyplace else he can recall this really bothers you it really does i mean wfrom where i grew up at this never happened if you go back to cincinnati ohio you don't see the kind of illegal dumping that you see in oakland california i mean this is absolutely disrespectful. if i live here

a cart full of bicycle parts nats: ambiance but i also wanted to check on the other areas that larry reidsited . remember hale and douglas trash piled almost 6 feet high well here is what it look like now barely a trace of the garbage that was there. however, a few blocks you have all of this stuff a few blocks away on cary ave. this street appears to be a bit resistant to the clean up because when i returned there was not only the old trash but someone had a car barbeque and a pitbull that's in need of some serious medical attention was running around yea man it's messed up everyday car stolen trash like this everywhere around the city we got kids around here playing and stuff this sint nice remember the maggie? we feel that we're not important well she still feels let down nothing has changed um i've called they say my work order was from august 8th and they say it usually takes them that long so i just make it a point to call them every two to three days apparently larry reid has also put in multiple calls for a cleanup in this area, that being said on one side of the fence is union pa

. >>> i returned it to the three areas i toured with larry reid to see the cleanup or lack thereof. i will explain in the next addition of people behaving badly. on this cushion for generations. alright kiddos! everybody off the backpack, we made it to the ottoman. i like to watch them clean, but they'll never get me on the mattress! finally there's a disinfectant mist designed for sofas, mattresses and more. introducing new lysol max cover. its innovative cap has a 2x wider spray that kills 99.9% of bacteria. max cover is another great way to lysol that. ♪ ♪ >>> viewers have been emailing kron 4 and stanley roberts, looking at how they can help with the cleanup over the illegal dumping in east oakland. >> it appears progress has been made in some areas but improvements are still needed in a lot of other places. let's take a look. >> reporter: stanley roberts found some people behaving badly. >> we wanted to show you after you came out here. they actually came and cleaned up. >> reporter: this was video sent to me by a -- a viewer after i toured it with larry reid. >> thank you stan

video sent to me by a viewer shortly after i toured it with oakland"s 7th district councilmember larry reidyou stanley this is 89th and g streets in east oakland the area was cleaned up. if you don't remember i was out with council member reid where he had this to say i will tell them to continue to be patient that hope is not lost that we are in fact going to make this a cleaner and safer neighborhood for them to live in i returned to see for myself and a city working was there removing tagging off some of the buildings . but i can confirm with my own eyes that this area was in fact cleaned up. that being said there is evidence that people are still continuing to dump here and a new resident has moved in he has a cart full of bicycle parts nats: ambiance but i also wanted to check on the other areas that larry reid visited . remember hale and douglas trash piled almost 6 feet high well here is what it look like now barely a trace of the garbage that was there. however, a few blocks you have all of this stuff a few blocks away on cary ave. this street appears to be a bit resistant to the cl

gone off the college or moved away and the parents still live here and it has never been this bad larry reidnsplant from cincinnati is councilmember for district 7 and he admits the amount of dumping in his district is overwhelming and unlike anyplace else he can recall >> stanley:this really bothers you it really does i mean wfrom where i grew up at this never happened if you go back to cincinnati ohio you don't see the kind of illegal dumping that you see in oakland california i mean this is absolutely disrespectful. if i live here how i would invite folks to come over to my home to visit if this is what they go to see we walked around different parts of his district along with ken houston who has also been on the forefront of the problem .looking at all the garbage i mean this is what's so depressing, you got homeless folks sleeping over here and all the illegal dumping then you have all of this stuff . normally we hear that the dumping comes from people outside of oakland but on this day councilmember reid found something that contradicts that belief this is an envelope city of oakland t

. >> larry reid, a transplant is a council member for district 7.agrees it is overwhelming and worse than any place he can recall. >> it really bothers you. >> it does. from where i grew up, this never happen and when you go back to cincinnati, ohio, you don't see the kind of dumping you see in oakland, california. this is absolutely disrespectful. if i live here, how would i invite folks to come over to my home to visit if this is what they got to see. >> we walked around with kenny who is also at the forefront of the problem. >> this is depressing. you got homeless folks sleeping over here. and all illegal dumping over on that side and all of this stuff. >> normally the dumping comes from people out of oakland, but on today, he has evidence that contradicts that. >> here is an envelope from the city of oakland. so someone that lives over here. oakland police department criminal investigation division. >> so some of the trash and garbage is home grown, he also found something interesting, what appears to be a pried open and dumped door of a safe. l

illegal dumping problem which is affecting east and west oakland but were are out on a tour with larry reid just feel like they just leaving up here and and and you know we hat to have a nice neighborhood too we want to go out front and have a barbeque but we cant no you can't how you going to go out and have a barbeque when you have to smell the stench of all this garbage and you have to see all of this and then you can't invite your friends over because you're feeling embarrassed but maggie's not the only one alejandro litterly lives next door to one of the dumping locations this is something that obviously does not help the community and it brings and embarrassment to our neighborhood what it also does it diminishes the living situation of the citizens in this neighborhood and it not just the adults who see the problem its really bad because if affects people here and how is it there are going to dump things here and plus we walk to school and it smells really bad he even mentioned how once he almost fell in some garbage on the way to school to make a long story short residents are feeli

illegal dumping problem which is affecting east and west oakland but were are out on a tour with larry reidt feel like they just leaving up here and and and you know we hat to have a nice neighborhood too we want to go out front and have a barbeque but we cant no you can't how you going to go out and have a barbeque when you have to smell the stench of all this garbage and you have to see all of this and then you can't invite your friends over because you're feeling embarrassed but maggie's not the only one alejandro litterly lives next door to one of the dumping locations this is something that obviously does not help the community and it brings and embarrassment to our neighborhood what it also does it diminishes the living situation of the citizens in this neighborhood and it not just the adults who see the problem its really bad because if affects people here and how is it there are going to dump things here and plus we walk to school and it smells really bad he even mentioned how once he almost fell in some garbage on the way to school to make a long story short residents are feeling h