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There are lead paint lawsuit settlements, many are structured settlements, agreements delivered monthly payments across decades to protect vulnerable recipients from immediately spending the money. unfortunately, that has spawned a highly aggressive largely unregulated secondary market in which companies come in to buy the rights to those years and years of payments for a lump sum -- a lump sum far less than the value of those payments, no matter how you slice it. heres a classic example from th...

Suddenly, investigators thought theyd solved the mystery. it looked to be a phenomenon called pica. the word comes from the latin name for magpie, a bird that eats almost anything. >> pica is a condition particularly of children but not always of children. its sort of a craving for food items to eat. lead paint often tastes sweet. so heres a little malnourished girl whos never had enough food. and it became pretty clear she was probably picking up chips of paint and then sucking on them or chewi...

Managers who lease buildings constructed prior to 1977, they are required to provide general lead paint warning notices. >> to prove that they had been informed, tenants must sign these disclosure documents. the landlord provided photocopies of these documents and signed an affidavit saying they were legitimate. investigators werent so sure. >> the tenants advised us that they had not signed those documents. were actually looking at them to see if they were forged. >> document experts compared s...

>> welcome back. its time now for the massey memo. we showed you former gangster left where i rosenthals house. if you are booing an historic home or even just an old home, well, you need to look out for certain thing. in some cases you can get tax credit if you are restoring the property, and, of course, historic homes, well, by their very nature, theyre old, and therefore, they need repairs. do this for me. look for a qualified contractor and get multiple bids. make sure they work on aged or h...

That flag. >> demand some ways, that is the great battle to be won in some ways, the concentration of wealth and power, even through this era of tremendous progress which i think is giving some of the fire to bernie sanders. i want to take a second. just take a look -- theres the white house, you know in rainbow colors. folks celebrating outside of the stonewall. tonight im going to leave here im going to go to the retirement party of my father. he was a jesuit and then he was a community organi...

Excuses. the way they were able to dispatch the national guard which they should have brought peace back to the city we need to dispatch funding and action. right now. >> a couple of oh quick things. house republicans are talking about cutting urban programs deeply while adding textbooks of billions of dollars to the military budget. there is huge ongoing structural debates about what we fund and do we care about children. many people say we care about children but children dont vote. do we care...

Collected, because a lot of that information is kept under wraps, but we know lead paint has caused huge problems in baltimore, and medical problems as well as behavioral problems and things like attention deficit disorder and so on and we know also that freddy gray had a lot of personal problems including a criminal history of as many as 20 arrests, so what is clear here is that whatever happened to freddy gray at least according to his attorneys, didnt have anything to do with an automobile ac...

When i went to college, there were no fwrantgrants. there was no money from the government. there were limited scholarships. i went to church based on the dollar bills, fives and tens that people in the community gave to me because i felt i had the strength and they let me know i could be somebody. whats happening is youre raising generation after generation who have the same hopelessness. >> hopelessness. >> thats right. you say we need to hear them. thats why i went there today to listen. she ...

Rutham ruth ruthann norton is here with me. welcome to both of you. this is the most important conversation i think im having all day long because i wanted to get into the neighborhoods and talk to these young people to understand what the day-to-day life is. i think first with you, in terms of lead paint -- it seems so simple. this little detail. lead paint in these homes that have been there for decades affects these young people years later like freddie gray. >> decisions that we made in 1938...

Special ed classes, and his sisters testified they had to repeat grades. >> so the story is more about environment than anything at least as far as we can find out. there is a lot more to the lead paint story here in baltimore. this city has been dealing with it for years and years, and lead paint, of course was banned around 1978 but many of the older houses where young poor black kids live still have the remanence of that lead paint and it has caused problems for them carol. >> joe johns repor...