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Have other states join to the extent that the strategy of the adversaries is to do the defense blizzard strategy and just try to blow you out and file so many papers and bomb you with so much discovery that you get overwhelmed. its good to be able to share the work but i think that its important to proceed, you know, california has set i think a reasonably good example on lead paint it wouldnt surprise me if over time other states joined in and we were able to share the load a little bit better....

My wife of will say you just said on tv never in life. in california, we dont have the same concern about lead. >> i imagine you have buildings built before 1978. >> yeah. >> theyre full of lead paint. >> janet and other moms in the area are activists and often use social media to spread the word "in" order to prevent other children from being poisoned. >> theres a moment where women want to come forward and have their voices heard. im going to take care of my baby and make sure she gets everyth...

How often do you wash your stroller? >> not one time ever in life. >> so now you put your kid in there and they chew on the buckle. >> i feel like i should back up. my wife would hate me to say on tv that weve never washed our -- we have washed our stroller a few times. i dont know if ive ever washed it, but i realize my wife -- my wife said, you just said on tv never in life. but we also in california dont have that same concern about lead. >> i imagine you have buildings built before 1978. >> ...

Move in and take over this neighborhood. yet theyre still moving into houses that have lead paint in them. it can affect everybody but it affects people of color who dont have a high income first of all. >> who are being led to feel like they are not of value and thats the bottom line. theyre not being treated as though they are of value. you found these toxic places like garbage dumps, factories and incinerators in these communities is common knowledge that they are pollutants. are people talki...

Defendant insidious thing about lead paint is that its sweet and so kids will eat it. if you dont know your house had it and kids are eating and you dont know, you decide well, my kid is not learning at the rate other kids are, and if you decide to get your kid tested for lead poisoning you can find out sometimes your kid could have ingested so much lead its hard to catch up. theyll be development alally delayed. its based on income. the thing thats important is that it affects all of philadelph...

Neighborhood and whats not. >> just by your zip code. breaking it all the way down. >> you can tell how healthy a person is, and their life expectancy based on their zip code. >> thats dr. robert bull ard, the heart part of this episode is two of the most boring words you can say are environmental justice. we had to figure out a way to talk about how important this is. this is all manmade disasters, as we talk about in the show. its easy to fix this stuff. its easy to fix flint and fix lead pois...

To do it. >> you spent time with families whose children are suffering from lead poisoning because of the toxic neighborhoods they live in. often they didnt know it until their kids were already sick. what are their lives like? >> youre talking about, especially in philly, theres buildings still painted with lead paint, theres schools, peoples houses and people dont know it and theres sort defendant insidious thing about lead paint is that its sweet and so kids will eat it. if you dont know your...

To help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. glucerna. paul: time now for our hits and misses of the week. allysia. >> this is a miss to the new york city housing authority which spent $1,973 to replace light bulbs, incandescent light bulbs l.e.d. lights in apartments. they paid union plumbers to do this. this is essentially the green deal in medicin miniature. meantime, residents do not have heating, they have lead paint that is peeling, they have black

At country inn & suites by radisson, were on the way to wherever youre going. paul: time now for our hits and misses of the week. allysia. >> this is a miss to the new york city housing authority which spent $1,973 to replace light bulbs, incandescent light bulbs l.e.d. lights in apartments. they paid union plumbers to do this. this is essentially the green deal in medicin miniature. meantime, residents do not have heating, they have lead paint that is peeling, they have black

Military families say their private base housing, again, private based housing done by contractors, is full of lead and mold and rats and roaches. thats according to a survey from the nonprofit military family advisory network. i want to show you photos. these are from a family in maryland that participated in that survey. they say a rainstorm caused the flooding and that exposed led paint and the lead paint made them sick. we reached out to the housing company, corvias. a spokesman said providi...