of course, all of this was untreated.the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants across the united states. today, with evolving technologies, the waste travels through multiple stages of treatment, removing tons of solids... settling out microscopic particles

. >> i'll tell you about a medical condition in teens that's common, painful, and often untreated. >> we hear about them in the news all the time, but what exactly is a diplomat? we visit the u.s. state department to find out. >> i'll tell you why there's a blindfolded woman on one of our state flags. >> i'll tell you about dinner companions we can only dream about. >> that and much more, so keep watching "teen kids news." >> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm livia. here's our top story for this week. >> headaches can be a huge pain, but for some teens who get an extreme type of headache, it's an even bigger problem. tyler has the story. >> when daniel beecher complained about constant headaches, people thought he was making excuses.t hehes were read more severe than normal. >> i had it for a week straight. i was having two a day. >> that was during the summer. then school started, and daniel's headaches began to really get in the way. >> i'd have to be in a dark room, away from light, away from noise, 'cause that only makes the headaches worse. so i really had to s

it can be deadly if untreated. in a deep vein in the lower leg. if part of that clot breaks free and goes up. symptoms to watch out for include pain, tenderness, sp swelling of the affected portion of the leg. now one of the biggest risks is a period of long travel, like being on an airplane where the legs aren't in motion. once the clot is found, it can be treated with a blood thinning medication, which is what marion barry is getting. >> problems in the city today after a bus caught fire. it happened inside the 3rd street tunnel near the capital and as we hear from bruce leshan, it started with a boom so loud, some witnesses thought it was a terror attack. >> it's coming fast. >> youtube video gives a sense of just how scary this was. do you think it was a bomb, his passenger asked? just before they looked back to see what looks like the bus in flames. >> what was scary is the smoke. smoke was bad. >> firefighters say they do not think it was a bomb. just a mechanical malfunction that set off a fire that all but destroyed the bus. which was empt

is "way too early," the show that's polling well in battleground states among likely voters with untreatablerders. i'm glad you're up with us this morning, watching on msnbc or listening on sirius xm radio. shoot me an email or tweet me @williegeist 1. or text your response to 622639. we'll read your best responses later. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this thursday, may 31st. a lot to tell you about, including seattle in a state of shock after a deadly shooting spre

devastated with the circumstances though they face today that they've been living with for years with untreated post-traumatic stress disorder with illnesses and cancer is caused by agent orange their children are ill their grandchildren are ill in these families are devastated they're having to fight for any benefits that they get this straw in my family killed my husband and that's enough to keep me going to a day i die and i get discouraged yes and then i meet somebody who says you help me and that gets me to the next day. surety kate's parents divorced soon after she was born. her father who she reconnected with when she was twenty six was a vietnam veteran who carried deep scars from the war he died of cancer in two thousand and nine. more or less an accident they got married long enough so that i would not be considered illegitimate so that i would have my father's name by the time i was two i think i'd been to. four or five different doctors about it and it to a dermatologist diagnosed me with alopecia universalities in my in my case which means i don't have anybody here really anywhere

medical stpd, but that also does not make public health sense where you are leaving this individual untreated and the person continues to spread the disease to others. >> other thoughts on that general subject? >> yes. i think one of the things we mentioned was we're living in a time of treatment as prevention. if the treatment is $25,000 as opposed to $200, the 300,000 people of the 1.2 million don't know they're affected. so from increased testing, try to get them in treatment, we have to be able to afford to do that. so this legislation would make that more possible. >> other thoughts? >> yeah. >> we've been told of cases where some jurisdictions where people are not tested to see if they're hiv positive while they're ip mates in prison until they're released because the institution doesn't want to bear the high cost of paying for the drugs. >> i mean, responding to that would be -- i mean, it really is laughable if it wasn't so tragic, is it? imagine that. not diagnosing somebody because you can't afford to pay for the treatment. yeah. >> thank you. i think the point that the -- the impor

untreated. should should should follow this rule. on the other hand it's definitely a good lesson for the for the whole government for the federal government for the regional government and even forming disability that new media and electronic ways of communication is a wonderful example how we can positively not negatively but positively use the technology to communicate with our citizens for example the whole open government initiative that was headed by mr mcveigh when he was now the president of russia was about this this issue so how we could use this technology how would could use this. new media and these new challenges to. to change the way we communicate with the citizens why what the elec trying to mock . democracy to believe in it i mean and if yes then in russia in its present state or something like that i do believe in democracy but democracy sometimes it's so much focused on totally electronic elections i think that democracy is. why the concept and we don't have just to think about it. could be somehow done with i don

is "way too early," the show that's polling well in battleground states among likely voters with untreatable sleep disorders. i'm glad you're up with us this morning, watching on msnbc or listening on sirius xm radio. shoot me an email or tweet me @williegeist 1. or text your response to 622639. we'll read your best responses later. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this thursday, may 31st. a lot to tell you about, including seattle in a state of shock after a deadly shooting spree there yesterday. we'll have the latest. >>> plus -- >> these damn bills that come up all the damn time, come out here at the last second and i got try to figure out how to vote for my people. >> and an illinois state legislator absolutely melts down on the floor of the house. we'll tell you what got him worked up. first, the news live at 5:30 a.m. >>> the options how to deal with the bloodshed in syria coming into focus. so far, little if any consensus on what needs to happen to stop the violence there. president bashar al assad is showing no signs of ending his brutal crackdown against opposition

people it is consistent with american values to say that industry should not be allowed to dump untreated sewage into waters where we drink or swim or waters that we need for agriculture it's consistent with those values to say automobiles should meet some standards and those standards should keep everything from dangerous lead pollution to carbon pollution out of our air and that power plants should have some limit placed on their emissions of mercury and neurotoxin that affects children's brain development. it's consistent with those values to say that the food we put on our plate shouldn't be coated with harmful chemicals that threaten our health or the health of our children. as president obama has said, we will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury pollution or making sure that our food is safe and our water is clean. right now there are two ways to go. two visions dominating the conversation. one says that we can rely on science. our laws. innovation. i'm an engineer. i like innovation. to protect human health and the environment and grow a green, sustainable economy.

there is also an existing condition that's a mental health concern or a substance use disorder, untreated, those behaviors affect the successful treatment of the diabetes or what have you because of compliance to medications, lifestyle changes, whatever. so, i would add that. the other thing i would want to add is that in the screening brief intervention referral to treatment area, grants that samhsa gave to the states for demonstration of sbirt, in wisconsin, we elected to do that in primary healthcare settings. and, just a couple of barriers that i want to mention, in terms of really implementing that into primary healthcare settings, one is that primary care physicians simply do not have the time themselves, we found. they see patients for a very short period of time. they deal with an average of seven problems during that short period of time, and to take the time to really talk with somebody and screen them about substance use is very, very difficult. so, it would require, i think, probably the type of shift in the training that we spoke about earlier. dr. clark, i want to move on to

the sanitary sewer system, so if you dump something in the storm drain, it goes right to the ocean untreated. alamillo: we haven't had a major rainstorm in the last year or so yet there's a lot of water in this creek here. i would say 20% of it is natural and the other 80% is runoff. shapiro: the purpose of the smurrf is to treat dry weather runoff, which is coming from storm drains. dry-weather runoff occurs when people waste water through washing their cars in the street, hosing down sidewalks and parking lots, their irrigation systems overspray. narrator: in a city of 12 million people, those seemingly small bits of wasted water accumulate to enormous amounts. shapiro: so all that ends up in our streets, ends up in catch basins, storm drains, into our storm drain system, and for some of the city, parts of the city, it ends up here at smurrf. 350,000 gallons come here on a daily basis, producing recycled water, and that can be reused for landscape irrigation and indoor toilet flushing. the pumps can only handle so much water, which is generally when it's not rain, the dry-weather runoff, s

. >> if it had gone untreated -- there was a potential from a dying from this. >> his wife figure outhere the al came from --metl came bristles from the brush used to clean his grill. there were six similar cases in 18 months. three wires lost in the throat and three in the summer. michael says he is getting a lot of ribbing but he is not giving up eating grilled steaks. he has relinquished his brush for a cleaning stone. >> that would be hard to swallow. i am guilty about that. i had no idea about that. >> do not do when it is hot. 5:43. a returning soldier gets the surprise of a lifetime. what brought them closer together. >> this is traffic on 625 at the b-w parkway. i see a couple of cars. more on the weather >> good morning. we're starting out pretty quiet. maybe a few areas of fog if you plan to be doing any traveling. we see a few clouds in the sky. the raider is completely clear across the state. that could change -- the radar r across they clear cos state. most of your day should be dry. a call from stars to pushing across the plains -- a cold front starts to push in across t

an emotional problem that's untreated. there's always a reason in this country. >> there's always a reason in this country. he has no solutions for poverty in america. he wants to blame the victims. he's only looking out for himself. you don't have to go too far to find out and find workers in the workplace that are getting screwed. the next time you get on an airplane as i got on one this morning, i thought about the flight attendants. they're not working hard enough. they had their retirement taken away. what about the pilots? heck, their pay has been cut 50%. i had a pilot call in today and said they cut my pay 50%. are they not working hard enough? they are not drunks. they graduated from college. they done everything right in society. what we need to focus on is that there is some taken taking place in america. i'm joined by howard dean, former governor of vermont and former chairman of the dnc. he is a consultant and a contributor to cnbc. good to have you with us. >> thanks for a long intro. >> you have a lot of job

>> well, you know, it was a combination of trauma and loss and untreated depression. and in the military so often, our men and women are asked to live very stressful lives with little sleep. they're separated from their support system, they get exposed to a lot of trauma in their lives. and going to seek help is often not seen as a strong thing to do, but maybe something that is weak or something that you should avoid. but in my husband's case, when he started to really suffer, he was afraid to ask for help for fear of how that would change the way people viewed him. >> that's right. there's that stigma that we hear so much about. i want to play some tape of vice president biden. he was at an event yesterday in washington. you were there. he made some pretty powerful comments. let's watch. >> that black hole you feel in your chest like you're being sucked back into it, looking at your kids or most of you have kids here, umm, and it was the first time in my career, in my life i realized someone could go out and i probably shouldn't say this with the press here, but it'

to say, let's make sure there is the funding so that no one winds up homeless as a result of an untreatedl illness. >> there are a lot of mentally ill people who have to fend for themselves? >> yes. our best estimate is that 1 out of 3 homeless people is there not due to their otherwise impoverished conditions but primarily due to an untreated severe mental illness. they've not been able to get the treatment they need. >> when you soo he this video and you look at what has taken place here, how should the police have handled this situation? do they have training when they could recognize that somebody is mentally ill that they're dealing with? >> first of all, the best thing is to have a special unit that is not just a police officer or a team of police officers but is teamed with social workers and ideally even a former homeless person, someone who the person on the street can relate to who is trained specifically in how to deescalate a situation like this. there clearly needs to be universal training of all law enforcement personnel and supposedly the police had that, but the question i

supporters say that untreated illness obviously a big problem., this will ensure that more people who are actually sick get diagnosed and get the help they need. opponents on the other side argue this will inflate the number of people categorized as addicts and cause hundreds of millions of dollars of what could be unnecessary treatment. the people who are proponents of this will get treated early. other people saying on the other side, this will create false epidemics and the medicalization of everyday behavior. but it will be interesting to see. they've got a year from now, 162 experts are actually rewriting the manual. a year from now it will come out. we'll have to see what the final product is. in the meantime, a lot of people are talking about it. >> definitely. it's quite the talker. i worry about the stigma behind it. a lot of kids drink a lot in college. it is kind of good to be able to identify if there's a problem. at what point do you identify a problem? >> that's right. where do you draw the line? that's the big question that people

. >> if he had gone untreated, he would have developed peritonitis.from this. >> he's recovered just fine. he says he's ditched the grill brush for a cleaning stone. scary stuff. >> who had any idea that could happen? >> you wouldn't think it would come off and stay there and get into the meat -- >> not feeling it -- >> when you swallow. >> lesson learned. >>> a portland man's creative marriage proposal not only got him the girl, he's gaining internet fame. >> isaac lamb's video is going viral on youtube. take a look. ♪ ♪ baby i think i wanna marry you ♪ >> lamb got 60 of his friends and family to help pop the question to his girlfriend, amy. this took six months to put together. >> my most favorite part is when everyone separated, though. and then it was isaac. that was the most amazing feeling. >> i have always felt like this was meant to be. it feels like this thing was this perfect nugget of happiness. i'm very lucky. i'm very, very lucky. >> yeah. >> come on. >> the proposal even got the approval of the artnist that song, bruno mars. he tweeted c

. >> if it had gone untreated he would have developed peritonitis. was a potential dying from this. >> he has recovered just fine. he says he's going to keep enjoying his steak on barbecue. he just ditched the grill brush for a cleaning stone, he said. >>> our time right now is 11:41. coming up on "news4 midday," how to spice up your burgers for memorial day for your cookout. a d.c. chef joins us live in the studio to show us how to do it. plus >>> we are going to go back out to arlington national cemetery where president barack obama is speaking. let's listen in. >> guided bay deep and abiding love for their families, for each other, and for this country. we can remember jay albem who met his wife on an aircraft carrier and told his mother before shipping out if anything happens to me, just know i'm doing what i love. we can remember ryan bopre, former track star, running the leadoff leg, always the first one into action, who quit his job as an accountant and joined the marines because he wanted to doing something more meaningful with his life. we c

to 70 million americans are affected by digestive diseases which can sometimes be serious if left untreatedand contributor to "women's health" magazine. >> good morning, savannah. >> we have a lot to get here. tummyaches are kind of a general estimate up but they can signify something more serious. >> they definitely can. >> okay so as sid reflux is a very common cause of stomach ailments. what is it exactly. >> also known as heartburn. this is when the acid in the stomach goes -- leaks backward into the esophagus and causes a burning in the chest that you can feel, particularly when you lie down, right after a meal, or if you bend over. and it can be triggered by some of our favorite foods like -- >> so tell us. >> chocolate, caffeine. alcohol. spicy foods. even peppermints. so obviously diet changes may be one way to address it. how else do you treat it? >> initially if it's mild you can do over-the-counter antacids like tums or pepcid. but if you're noticing it's happening more frequently, this may be a sign that you have gerd or gastroesophageal reflux disease. your doctor can give you

plague untreated can be 60 to 90% fatal. that is huge. today we are terrified at a sars epidemic with something like between 4% or as high as 5% or 6% mortality. any other questions? >> by today's standard and whatever standard was used in 1900, was the plague actually an epidemic or not? >> that is a good question. a lot of people look at the 1900 plague. in total, about 300 people, almost 300 people in san francisco, would eventually contract the plague, and almost 200 of them died in the first decade of the 20th century. by the standards of the european outbreak that is small. but an epidemic semitic generally one exceeds the normal baseline. but since this was the first in the united states and there was no normal baseline of plague cases it was definitely an epidemic. and when i checked out the rather modest size of this epidemic with the c.d.c., they said it certainly was an epidemic and if we were to have 40 cases, or even as few as a dozen cases of bubonic plague in a major american city today, it would be an emergency of major pr

in fact, if he were seriously mentally ill, for example, such as an untreated schizophrenic, hearing voices, he probably would not have been successful in getting anyone to follow him anywhere. >> this, though, is a particularly dangerous kind of condition. >> oh, yes. >> because of his ability to play it as if he is crazy but really isn't. >> you can't blame someone for nine mayhem murders unless you want to say i have laid, plotted and designed to destroy you and i'm working to save my air, my water, my trees and my wildlife and i'm trying to do away with society. i tried to stop nixon and i stopped him dead in his tracks. i tried to stop the vietnam war and i did it. >> what do you think of that? >> rather omnipotent, isn't he? but it's also not uncharacteristic of people that are successful in getting other people to go with them. >> and all the things i did, i did without breaking the law, because your law of 1776, you got jet airplanes going 6,000 miles an hour and you're reading books that was written on the back of horses. why don't you tell the public what's really going on.