just turning up in areas where homeless reside we travel to iraq your area and at plum island we discovered a used needle within five minutes of hitting the beach jimmy murphy father of three was shocked to know needles were in places like plum island where his kids one of them just six years old were merely yards of the needle we came across it's very scary and it's very much a part of real life and it's like you've got yourself has this this reality and it is yeah this is supposed to be a nicer part of town how surprised are you to hear that this issue isn't just some other places where there's homeless counts but it's actually here on the beach it's very very surprising and shocking and i think it's pretty telling where you know it shows that it's the epidemic is everywhere and i don't know what digital's of the same whether george charros has run a business near plum island for the last several decades he says needles haven't been an issue in the past but now people are finding them on the beach and turning them and there's a lot of people want to be you know occasionally go bring up a.

but needles aren't just turning up in areas where homeless reside we travel to your area and at plum island we discovered a used needle within five minutes of hitting the beach jimmy murphy father of three was shocked to know needles were in places like plum island where his kids one of them just six years old were merely yards of the needle we came across it's very scary and it's very much a part of real life and it's like you write yourself is just this reality and it is yeah this is supposed to be a nicer part of town how surprise. to hear that this issue isn't just some other places where there's homeless counts but it's actually here on the beach it's very very surprising and shocking and i think it's pretty telling where you know it shows that it's the epidemic is everywhere and i don't know what digital so to say no whether george charros has run a business near plum island for the last several decades he says needles haven't been an issue in the past but now people are finding them on the beach and turning them in and there's a lot of people want to be you know occasionally go burn

colleagues from new york and ekt can cut on legislation to repeal the statutory requirement to sell plum island which unnecessarily ties the federal government's hands and prevents you from considering all options for the use of the island including continued federal ownership by a different agency. that said, i would like to ask you a few questions about the sale process that you're currently undertaking. if you don't know these answers for the record, that's fine. what entity will be required to clean up any environmental contamination associated with the plum island federal disease center? >> the federal government or if there is anything that hasn't been addressed the government notifies whoever acquires the company that they must be aware of what is in the soil on the property. >> will there be stipulations on where and how the cleanup has to occur? >> i'm not familiar around the specifics on that particular issue, but we can get back to you on that. >> thank you. how does it propose to use the revenue from the sale of plum island. >> they will be returned to the miscellaneous receipts and

hitting the beach jimmy murphy father of three was shocked to know needles were in places like plum islandwhere his kids one of them just six years old were merely yards of the needle we came across it's very scary and it's very much a part of real life and it's like you what you asked of was just this reality and it is yeah that's what kills you when you find this choice. when you find kids toys that are here around heroin a while shocking it's nothing new as these images reveal massachusetts coupled with new hampshire are reportedly the fastest growing states in this epidemic across the country to california epidemic there is worsening to an entirely new level in the city of san francisco alone there were reportedly two thousand one hundred syringes found in march of twenty sixteen and just one year later this past march a whopping thirteen thousand syringes were found in two thousand and fifteen eleven point five million americans abuse prescription opioids in two thousand and fifteen resulting in a whopping fifty two thousand deaths in overdoses that year an all time record and authori

record about - i've been working with my colleagues to refill the statutory requirement selling plum island which i believe unnecessarily ties the government hands from considering all options for the use of the island including continued federal ownership by a different agency. that said i would like to ask you a few questions about the sale process that you currently are undertaking. if he did none of the answers just for the record fine. what entity will you be required to clean of any environmental contamination associated with the plum island animal disease center? federal government or the buyer? >> the federal government or if there is anything has not been addressed, the government notifies owner the properties that they need to and must be aware of what is on the soil in the property. >> weatherby stipulations on when and how the cleanup has to occur? >> i am not familiar with specifics around the issue but i can get back to you. >> had his gsa proposed is the revenue from the sale of the island?>> revenue is returned to believe either miscellaneous receipts account to the treasury