the cord blood, as the baby was born, contained several hundred toxic elements. which terrified all of us. >> chemicals like bisphenol a, many different classes of flame retardants. >> we found ddt and pcbs, polychlorinated biphenyls. chemicals that we interact with every day from consumer products. >> we now know that along with the nutrients and oxygen that the mother supplies the developing baby comes a cocktail of toxic chemicals. [baby cooing] >> we know that chemicals will affect younger children, fetuses, newborns, babies, and young children in general more than older children and adults. and the reason for that is that younger children and fetuses are developing much more rapidly. their organ systems are much more sensitive. >> what science is starting to show now is that early exposures to toxic chemicals at critical points when a child's in the womb has effects later in life. >> endocrine disruptors are chemicals of growing concern. fetuses and children exposed to even minute amounts may develop a wide range of health conditions, from diminished intelli

>> the crisis began when a toxic chemical used to process coal looked out of a 38,000 gallon storage tank. it overflowed into the water north of water treatment plant that provides drinking water for the region. >> jon: i'm not an industrial evening near or a expert in sewage treatment or a city planner, or a doctor or a moyle -- but why -- [laughter] -- why would you build your toxic chemical storage tanks upstream -- [laughter] -- and drinking water adjacent? although i imagine because it was in such a vulnerable position it was highly regulated. >> this -- this toxic chemical source. from what i understand the tanks were inspected as recently as [clears throat] 1991. are you --1991? that's like six batmans ago. 1991. that is not even the most recent palindroneddrome year. yeah, that would be 2002. i think i probably just blew up a nerd's brain. [laughter] the point is this: apparently there are very few regulations vis-a-vis the riverfront storage of toxic chemicals in the sovereign state of west virginia. in lieu of cautions the governor had post cautions. >> do not drink it. do

these are just as toxic, and probably more toxic. because the form which they're present is a liquid, often flavored, which is going to be much more attractive to a child than trying to use a standard cigarette. >> the nca just found toxins -- >> that's okay, we're going to talk more about what the fda has and hasn't found. and there's a problem with e cigarettes, not only to small children, but with middle schoolers and high schoolers. some are asking if they're actually targeting teens. and we'll ask ray about that when we come back and some of the implications. >> welcome back to the stream. we're talking about the health and safety impacts of e cigarettes and their growing popularity among middle school and high school students, so ray, these cigarettes come in bubblegum and captain crunch and they're working hard to keep the fda from regulating them. and some believe that you're deliberately targeting teens. is that true. >> it's absolutely not true. we were the first to have agejestioverification online, ae want to make sure wh

the toxicity that he was talking about is important. you don't recognize whether you have flu symptoms or you are overdosing it. >> we are going to talk about chicago now. ask your doctor what drugs you are on and whether or not they have acetominophen especially if you are adding it. everybody likes a drink now and then and you have a study that said long-term heavy drinking can be more toxic to a guy's brain than a woman's. this is area where women have to worry a little bit less although heavy drinking is dangerous for all of us. >> i don't want to burst of bubble, but i think it's both men and women. the studies showed that any amount of alcohol affects thinking in men and women. the reason this shows more men than women is because they used 5,000 men and 2,000 women. they are suggest figure they had more women, maybe they would have proven the same thing. why is this happening? why is this a problem? what's new about this study is elderly people might think i have been drinking that way for years. what the study found is over the a

still to come, music from airborne toxic event.was named an all-star starter for the very first time. his team is in first place in the eastern conference. and he did this. >> got that steal too. >> and here he goes. >> p.g. puts on a show! >> oh, yeah! >> jimmy: from the indiana pacers, please welcome number 24, paul george. [ cheers and applause ] well, this is some outfit you have on here, huh? >> i try. i try to keep it -- >> jimmy: where do you even get something like that? marshall's? t.j. maxx? [ laughter ] >> i got a buddy that takes care of me. my sister as well helps with, you know, what i wear. >> jimmy: she does? >> she does. >> jimmy: and this is not a prank she's pulling on you, is it? [ laughter ] >> i hope not. >> jimmy: by the way, that dunk is -- you know, i've seen things like that in like dunk competitions, whatever. but to do that in a game. has anyone ever done that in a game before? >> i don't think so. i don't think so. >> jimmy: can we look at that in slow motion? because i really would like for you to take

the sunset shouldn't be the gold stated as judged by toxics we don't want to drink the chemicals from this project. what i suggest respectfully to the commissioners in discretionary of this ground water supply please postpone this newly the toxics are - >> thank you sir, your time is up. >> any additional general public comment? okay general public comment is closed >> commissioners, if there's any interest in resending our previous vote the commission chair can open that up for item 6 if you choose to. i don't see did interest >> hearing none commissioners we can move and places you under your regular calendar the certification for the environmental impact report. >> good afternoon president fong and members of the commission. i'm tim from the environmental planning department. the item before you is the certification of a final impact environmental impact report or eir for the san francisco ground water project. given the other jerald agenda items before i relative to this project and following my presentation we thought it would be appropriate to have the puc provide a brief overvi

. >> i would like to state that may be one or two of you commissioners know this is a toxic site. in fact, they were trying to make it a park i was opposed to it by an e.r. no child and i call all the children at bay point my children no way should they be allowed to go there. and i'm glad you're not making a decision tonight because when i heard the speaker talking about green that building is not green that's toxic and i'd ask that you go on the internet and get the er that was done by the department and look up harris park and you'll see how many hours to be there. it was built for the fact the youngest lady spoke about educating our children but i don't want to see anyone going to that unhealthy area. she talked to k34u79 leader. i haven't even heard of the group that she spoke about i've been here since 1948 and i want to say they pulled out because they knew it was toxic. we've never had wetlands there that was all bay and the majority of land is toxic because of the shipyard. and people are dying many people are dying and have diode and continue to die if i be having those

shares toxic dead with mark carney's bank of england so there are warehousing toxic debt now the forensic people days are saying oh my god that's toxic debt this bank is insolvent technically as it has been for five years technically insolvent if this comes push comes to shove they will have a crash and then a bell out again and the cycle will repeat itself but don't be fooled this is all baked into the cake this is exactly what we predicted was going on it is exactly what i've been saying about h.s.b.c. and now some asian forensic accounting firm is saying yes max kaiser is correct there insolvent they're hiding a black hole of debt but the u.k. may celebrate the fact that they'll go up on heritage and wall street journal's list of economic freedom once they have to bail this bank out now remember during the financial crisis when they were looking around all these governments of the world to bail out the banking system they needed to raise some revenues as everybody's tatt everybody lost their job and all the tax receipts declined and h.s.b.c. threatened to leave london remember they wan

and by the cities own admission the tire is an in fill represents it's credit card toxic by the cities oppose be admission. it went through a sequa suit that san francisco 13ushg9 and just terry jackson ruled that on that last week and it will go to appeal. the plans i looked at the construction plans for the beach immediacy installation and they show a 20 mill hazard mat liner underneath the field itself and this would adequately hopefully adequately contain any of the wastewater that would be toxic as it would attempt to enter our watershed to the nature processes. and there's also a curb around the fields that attempts to contain the tire crumble that would below into an area that would effectively. there's collections for run off and perk late into the watershed too. the sunset shouldn't be the gold stated as judged by toxics we don't want to drink the chemicals from this project. what i suggest respectfully to the commissioners in discretionary of this ground water supply please postpone this newly the toxics are - >> thank you sir, your time is up. >> any additional general publi

all of syria's toxic chemicals have been neutralized. most of it, that it planned to produce the weapons have been declared non-operational and the plants are being dismantled. that for many in the region is a huge progress. >> just give us an idea as to what was due to happen to these weapons as they were loaded on to the ships? well, by now hundreds of tonnes of toxic chemicals were supposed to have been loaded to trucks and moved to the syrian city. they would have been loaded to norwegian and danishships, taking them to an undisclosed location in italy to put on a u.s. vessel that would have been able to mix the chemicals with other chemicals and declare them finished. this process has been delayed because the toxic chemicals are not under tracks. they had to go back to cypress, and they don't have a scheduled date to return. >> despite that, there seems to be an optimism that the 2014 deadline for chemical weapons to leave syria, can be med. >> yes, it's not just optimism to meet the deadline. according to u.n. officials, what is im

it is toxic and so the state the taxpayer is having to clean it up they reckon eight million dollars just for this twelve hundred abandoned wells there's thousands more to come right where this is a classic corporate predatory behavior they knew going into the whole industry that they. would be declaring bankruptcy once they frakt and they exist and they exhausted all the gas that they could through the fracking and they declare bankruptcy and therefore they're not responsible for the cleanup they know that going in and that's what they tell investors on the private memo that says look we're never going to ever clean up why don't we sign a contract saying we will clean up or we're going to declare bankruptcy well before we need to clean up we want spend a penny cleaning up this is actually the unintended consequences of artificially low interest rates because the return to these investors when it all works out after tax and after cost they're making about five percent return on investment and why do they even bother with a five percent return on investment because the federal reserve

tonight we take you to one of the most toxic places on earth.the public, and for the few who gain access, it's still a place you can only visit with the upmost precaution. covered head to toe in protective gear, lichlted time because any more than an hour there could cause permanent damage. our sbep pid team suited up to find out what's happening now. here's abc . >> my alarm is going off telling me we're being exposed to radiation right now. i'm about to enter one of the most toxic places on the planet. not one inch of skin exposed. the darngs here, radangers here can't see or smell. but the threat is all around me. this is japan's fukushima daiichi power plant. this is the site of one of the worst nuclear catastrophes in history. the closer we get, these things are just skyrocketing. 2 1/2 years after this country was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the meltdown, we gained rare access to examine the fallout by land and by sea. to find out if fukushima is still a threat to japan and the rest of the world. they suspect some

these are just as more toxic. the form is a liquid flavoured, which will be more attractive to a child than trying to eat a commercial standard cigarette. >> that's okay. we'll talk about what the f.d.a. has or hasn't found. there are concerns with egrets, not only related to small children, but with a hike in ecigarette smoking among middle schoolers and high school users. are some targetting teens. we'll ask ray about that when we come back. some of the implications after the >> welcome back to "the stream", we are talking about the health and safety of e-cigarettes, and the growing popularity among middle and high school students. they come in flavours like bubble gum and captain crunch. ecigarette lobbying organizations are trying hard to stop the f.d.a. monitoring the products. some lead you to believe that you are deliberately targetting teens, is that true. >> that's not true. we were the first to do verification online and pushed for the program so that we can educate the retailers, making sure they make a

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highlights a problem or tasting of course to keep our incredibly convenient but a sole business in using toxic products has already floated into the big about this problem one that gets class everyday. his look at some sites that will actually make us think twice next time it's the position of the weather was like the back. everyday he ruled the world over use plastic shopping ethics there likely are twittering an often come for free the channel harmful or plastic bags to put went every year more than six hundred billion plastic bags of manufactured worldwide. i support percent of the crude oil consumed globally every year ends up in plastic that next. the toilet use of fossil fuel supplies are slowly coming to an end manufacturing and shipping applies to the next requires large amounts of energy. it also causes sixty tonnes of steel to emissions every year the average plastic bags are in use for just twenty five minutes. then there's thrown away the few of them are recycled the most plastic bags end up in rivers on the streets or in the ocean some countries have banned plastic bags and tired

these are just as more toxic. the form is a liquid flavoured, which will be more attractive to a child than trying to eat a commercial standard cigarette. >> that's okay. we'll talk about what the f.d.a. has or hasn't found. there are concerns with egrets, not only related to small children, but with a hike in ecigarette smoking among middle schoolers and high school users. are some targetting teens. we'll ask ray about that when we come back. some of the implications after the the state of the union on al jazeera america. join us for complete coverage of the issues facing all of us from health care and immigration to the economy an national security. we're talking with those affected most. understanding where we are, taking a critical look where we're going. >> there is much progress to report. >> immediately after stay with us as we get your reactions live from around the country and across the globe. don't miss special state of the union coverage as only al jazeera america can deliver. right here on al jazeera

toxic mud flooded the village. during the communist dictatorship, no one was permitted to talk about the cyanide catastrophe and its victims. these photos were found later in secret police archives. i am driving south. after decades of gold mining with cyanide, this is what the place looks like today. he survived the disaster. he lives at the site and remembers what happened. "they were all drowned in the mud and i could not pull them out," he says. "i tried, but i got stuck in the poisonous mud as well. it was really thick and sticky. the clothes they had on were practically burned off of their bodies. they were naked. the cyanide and rock mix came down from up there. -- up there." i am back. there was gold mining here during communist times. i meet up with one of the last people employed at the site of the old communist era mining company. but gold was mined earlier. he is showing me into what is a museum now. we are heading down to where the miners dug for gold 2000 years ago. he works mainly as a tourist guide

syria has to collect the toxic chemicals. transport them, and then the danish and others will take them to a port in italy, and a u.s. ship which has the capacity to neutralize the chemicals. they missed the deadline, but the process is on track. they point a very important thing, this is a mission, to eliminate records. the roads are not safe, there's a lot of fighting and all these hurdles that will be in the way. they do say that so far all of syria chemical toxic weapons are under u.n. supervision. and the plans and the facilities that can be used or can be used to produce such weapons are unoperational. syria's capacity to produce chemical weapons is zero. >> a day of celebrations for kim jong un's birthdays in north korea. he's chosen the day to announce elections will go ahead in march. there will only be one candidate in each constituency. >> unlike the birthdays of his father and grandfather, the birthday of kurn is not a national holiday. it's marked in a low-key manner. last year he was reported to have given out s

the waste as toxic in 2007. then the director told us after she left, the department was pressured by industry and backed off. >> there's no accountability for an end-to-end process and making conclusions. >> reporter: tonight in oakland, the dtsc is again studying the issue, now in its 30th year of debate. why is it taking so long? >> those are all good questions. that's one of the things that our director also was frustrated with, the idea that these issues have been coming up repeatedly. >> reporter: as for the meeting requested by redwood city leaders to talk about the fires, that is scheduled for january 29th. the bay area air quality management district issued public nuisance violations for both fires but tell us the penalties have yet to be determined. >> thanks. if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call or send us an e-mail. >>> ahead, concerns about the coloring in your soda and the possible link to a deadly disease. >>> it deserves a condition that yes, it can be deadly. >> the dange

it's what we call a hepatic toxin, a substance toxic to the liver like alcohol. this is when we see non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and what we used to see as belly is now sugar belly. for people who don't have alcohol have a considerable amount of fatty deposits around the weight with the sugary products. so very complex cascade of events that go on inside the human body. it's not exactly easy to present to the public but there is a very, a growing and important body of evidence that fructose is a toxic substance that harms the liver and causes a very similar set of consequences in the human body and in the liver to alcohol. it makes perfect sense when you think about it because where does alcohol come from? sugar. so the connection that we are seeing between alcohol and sugar is related. i'm speaking from the journal one of the most prestigious journals in the world and one of the most rigorously received journals in our scientific community. i'm not speaking from -- i'm speaking from a place of high scientific credibility when

tonight from state senators in sacramento after we exposed problems at the department in charge of toxic regulation. >> vicky nguyen was at the hearing and joins us now with more. >> reporter: leaders at the department of toxic substances control were on the hotseat today, called before a senate committee to answer questions about what leaders are doing to protect the public from toxic harm. >> the jig is up. enough. dtse is a very important responsibility to provide the safety for the people of the sate and it has not accomplished that. >> reporter: lawmakers on the environmental quality committee wanted answers from the top. >> what is dtsc going to do to prevent repeating these problems? >> reporter: they asked the director what the department has done to protect public health since her appointment 2 1/2 years ago. >> as you know, you are to be the enforcer. and as the enforcer, you're the sharp tip of the spear. and the spear has been rather dull as of yet. >> reporter: senators asked about the department's two most important functions, permitting and hazardous waste checking. in the

we need to do more to understand toxic substances.ut most importantly, we need to enforce the law that's already there. host: and what is the law that is already there specifically talking about the west virginia case? what wasn't enforced? guest: i think that if the people knew that there was a tank that was in bad shape above a drinking water supply, and had that been on their radar if they had known about that they could have required emergency planning, which basically would have meant building a basin around the tank so that if it leaked the water would not run down the slope into the river. host: angela, this question of more regulation or enforcing the laws on the books, where do you stand? guest: i think we need to enforce the laws on the books. i agree about making sure that these things are planned and that we have emergency measures in place. under the emergency planning community right to know act they're supposed to be doing that and they didn't do it. so we're not actually enforcing the laws that we have or not implement

. >>> no water for hundreds of thousands in west virginia after thursday's toxic chemical spill. >>> 50 years ago, the historic announcement that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. . >>> word came early this morning that the former prime minister offitsis, ariel sharon has died. the deck rated ex general and leader has left an indelible mark on the mid east, he passed away in a tel aviv hospital. he was 85 years old. >>> in 1984 at the tender age of 13, he joined the underground para military force where he fought in the battle for jerusalem during israel's war for independence. in 1967 he was in battle again, commanding a division during the 6-day war. during the yon space kippur war, they surrounded the egyptian third army which turned the tide of the army. he was appointed defense minister in 1981 just in time for israel to invade lebanon in 1982. a commission indirectly found the defense force responsible for a massacre of palestinian simpleians, eventually leading to shareon's reluctant resignation. he stays a political -- staged a comeback in 2001, winning a victory to becom

the result is a toxic mixture of old rocks which will be stored out here in the hills. but the gold corporation still wants a green image. and so we visit a water purification plants after two thousand years of claiming that they are on the nile and streams in russia more time to look like this. the waters washed out heavy metals like cadmium what to say is that getting a new bottom of the vote. so basically yes yes. this lot all of it would be the beacon of light the non jewish life. but there's no life in him and that's when the kids. argument over europe's largest gold mining project has turned into a war of interpretation. dorsey says that gold corporation does more good too. they are deluded. and the dunedin to join us full for the tour will have to work. and am on my own way i'll put in a stall with the with the miners away. and for the first time and realize what the men are doing here fall break and going for gold. some of them are in the old roman mining shafts occasionally they turn up some old artifacts. i like is the ancient wooden ladder. it was the wrong w

what i'd really -- i really hope to do in future is have something that more relates to the actual toxicity of the various chemicals that we're youthxing. there are some measures out there we might be able to apply some metrics we can apply. i just want to point out quickly, the blue line is insecticides that aren't used for public health. hiding that, i'm sorry you can't really see the detail of it. we've actually had a 99% reduction in insecticide use since the beginning of the program, nonpublic health insecticides. but you notice some bumps there and those bumps are golf tournaments. the other big driver in pesticide use in the city really is tournament golf. and this is kind of a separate issue on its own. i think what we've concluded in the ipm program is you really can't have tournament golf without having a lot of pesticide use. and, so, it's a community decision as to whether we want to have these deals with golf tournaments. i know there are a lot of benefits as well from the tournaments themselves, but i have to sort of treat that as a separate category of pesticide use. and to t

that is one of the most rich toxic area there is. i'm hoping you do not support this because they are lying about what is going on. and there was a report done about the schenn gans of the city hall. what i see is all the people where are they now? they are at city hall. the money talking about, the tenants themselves requested they come from san francisco back in 1992. guess what, now the city has the funds. the bayview community don't have anything at all. every dime that came here through grant to san francisco came through hunters point. from eoc and the hope program and the housing development, development housing. it came from us. we are the ones who stayed up 24 hours a day mostly to get these programs in. but now we are not involved. i hope you do not enforce this and like it was stated. stuart, he has gotten millions of dollars from bayview hunters point. no one in my community makes $48,000 a year. supervisor scott weiner: thank you, miss jackson. next speaker? >> i had not planned on speaking on this. but i was around the

the toxic substances control act. essentially this decades-old law grandfathered a lot of existing chemicals in with very few safety testing requirements. this chemical in west virginia being one of them. basically, it's big enough to drive a truck through. this chemical and many others we don't know a lot about in terms of human health risks. >> there is flou a proposal from senators rockefeller and boxer to introduce some kind of reform legislation in the wake of this spill. those are some of the main items established a state inspection programs for chemical facilities, sets minimum inspection requirements and standards for facilities. directs states to identify at-risk facilities. the question, are we seeing a gap in the law here or a gap in the enforcement of the law and would this new piece of legislation fix it? >> well, the bad news is we're seeing both. >> right. >> this legislation if it passes, would also honestly, chris, require another bill updating this bill from 1976, in order to have stronger testing s

should more folks downstream be worried about west virginia's toxic wash? >> the industry is not regulated and it happened because these were old holding tanks which were not properly maintained. >> and faith in flux. the catholic church faces new reports, what a change in leadership may bring. >> good evening i'm joie chen. thanks for being with us. getting there but it's not over yet. that's what authorities in west virginia are telling hundreds of thousands of residents who have now had to endure a full week without run being water. an environmental crisis has been unfolding in the state capitol city charleston after toxic chemicals leaked and contaminated the area's water supply. now it's safe to use the water but then it could be a few more days. before a water ban is fully lifted for the nine counties that are affected. "america tonight"'s correspondent christophe putzel has been in the valley reporting on the environmental accident and he joins us with an update. >> for more than 50,000 residents a sight for sore eyes, finally clean water running fro