the reference to radium, saying this is terrible stuff.n another context you wouldn't allow under epa rules. why is it allowed here? >> well, the -- that is a difficult question to answer. the situation with regulation, with respect to state, federal regulations for this industry is abysmal. no one is minding the store. no one looking into this. >> because it is new? >> i think it is because of many, many years of watching that whole regulatory system collapse. in terms of hydraulic fracturing, those fracking fluids themselves they're except from the safe drinking, well, disclosure of fracking fluids which should be required. required by any corner dry cleaner not required for the industry in the state of pennsylvania or around the united states. in fact we don't have a law. they became exempt from safe drinking water act. under 2005, bush cheney. that persists. these companies do not have to report what they're injecting into the ground. in many cases they don't have to actually tell us what is being transported. where it is disposed of.

uranium will break down to radon, radium. they are classified as carcinogens. i think it would be very interesting to find out exactly what the source of the uranium contamination is, largely because her case was a little severe. i think it's a little unusual. >> now donna has no safe well water coming to her home and must rely on bottled water for everyday needs. >> you can imagine how many i go through and just the, um, you know, not being able to just have the simple convenience of running water in your home that's--that's safe. so it's a-- it's a chore. >> the story isn't much different in one tri-county area of pennsylvania. instead of one coal-fired power plant, there are 6. unlike plant scherer, which burns pure coal, these plants are burning coal waste left over by previous mining. coal waste, also called culm, can now be burned to generate power. but there are some downsides. not only is coal waste less efficient than regular coal, it also has higher concentrations of heavy metals. >> matter doesn't disappear. metals don't just disappear. they can't. a

. >> the most the common are radium, cesium and strontium. you are the concern with bone cancer. things like that down the road. >> reporter: he says the public can't be confident soil leaving hunters point and soil that remains here to be used as back fill underneath future development is radiation free. he alleges tetra tech management cut corners to save money. >> it's been botched. it's been botched. >> it's not right. they can't be shipping potentially contaminated soil as clean landfill into the city of san francisco. this can't be done. >> reporter: andrews says she raised a red flag when she discovered that tetra tech managers made a decision involving this, a portable monitor that sounds an alarm when it detects radiation. this is an internal manual obtained by the nbc bay area investigative unit. it shows in 2011, the set point was raised to 8.5. its original level in 2008 was 6. andrews says that dramatically lowered how much radiation the monitors would detect. >> they're trying to get dirt out that's contaminated that should never have left hunters point shipyard. >>

we can say that the radium in this vial is thousands of times over the legal drinking water standardsmits. >> i would dare them in public to drink flowback. it would be public vomiting. >> it's naturally occurring radioactive materials. it's just one of the things that must be clearly addressed with regulation. >> we're stake holders. it's in our interest to be as environmentally responsible as possible for no other reason to not get sued. >> sometimes we get some gas industry guys come in and get large to go orders, and sometimes they leave us nice tips, which we really appreciate. >> thanks to our partners at vocativ for that report. we're back with our panel. ashley of "rock the body both" and jake policymakers. do you see fracking and environmental issues in general as a big wedge issue in the elections coming up? >> you know, i think that the environment is going to be a huge issue. young people care about protecting the environment right now, and rock the vote is really focused on making sure that we are out there making sure people are registered so they can have a voice on the

in two thousand and eight going to how it killian admitted that it was in breach due radium and why but he argued that there was no danger for the population don't . know. the winds are against the u.s. military presence because it goes against the desire to remain neutral they demand independence and osa the withdrawal of the military from the islands. the military absolutely needs to go i mean for one thing you made compromises are neutrality you know we made it a point to stay out of the rest of the world's conflicts because i mean who has a problem with the war with the winds for one thing i mean. from my personal perspective ideally what i think it should be is that all why should be a neutral buffer zone between the chinese power and the american bar. here is certainly something that's. discussed a lot by many people it's almost become so normal that i think some people don't realize how prominent the military is while. living cost cultural alienation and military threats are the direct result of the presence of the united states and why despite all of that those hawaiians who hav

legacy of complete destruction of the country's infrastructure the toxic mike legacy of the teacher radium and things like that but are back cannot even begin to face those problems because their lives are still dominated by the violence of the war and the sectarian violence all the strafe we see today is a direct result of the u.s. occupation is the u.s. military didn't go to war against an enemy army the u.s. military went to war against a broad based national uprising against an occupation and so to fight it how does one exploit all of the ethnic and religious divisions they could find a few of them with violence and today we're seeing the aftermath of that. coming up the u.k. please get a slap on the wrist for brushing a large number of criminal cases under the carpet someone you want to check it out recent survey suggests as many as one in five crimes in britain go unrecorded all the details on investigation are just a click away along with this to the u.s. putting is in flew across the pacific now striking a deal now to access military bases in the philippines find out why what the g