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Information about issues that did play a role in grays health. joe johns is in baltimore, the staging area for the national guard and state police and he is following that side of the story for us. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yeah we are on the parking lot where the ravens play and a little back drop the police and military power brought out by the freddy gray case and the new jersey task force one, and the national guard behind us law enforcement and military people out...

>> reporter: family friends tell cnn she lost a son to violence just 18 months before freddies death. >> it hurt my heart to know that she lost one son due to street violence and another due to police brutality. >> reporter: but her own deposition in the 2009 lead paint lawsuit revealed much more. >> his mother spoke about never getting past middle school. she said she has never been able to read and she was not able to help her children with their homework past a certain level. >> reporter: she...

Maryland has strict lead paint lous. a lot of the landlords, people that owned those houses abandoned them. then it takes a lot of money, my friend to demolish those houses, but were going to himco back. because there are other parts of the city unfortunately that you dont see on that train ride. ive done that train ride many times. we gtd to be about the business of trying to get the resources to do those things. somebody said it earlier on your shows while the recession everybody believes the ...

Blocks and blocks of boarded houses when there should be window panes, jobs in removing lead paint, jobs removing wood and putting up window panes. if you just have a plan, a commitment to reconstruction, youll put people back to work and people really want to work but some police living in pennsylvania -- i think residents is important. police and firemen must be seen as neighbors, not as occupiers. >> lets talk a little bit about the incident that ignited all of this freddie grays death. do yo...

>> landlords and property 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. >> d...

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 signatures from the documents to known signatures of the tenan...

Completely wrapped in scaffolding because there are more than 1300 cracks in that cast iron dome, and the cracks make it icy for water to leak in, which equals rust. the cracks will be repaired with a technique called lock and stitch, and then some lead paint needs to be removed and replacees. most of the work will be done at night and on the weekend and inside the rotunda, a doughnut-shaped safety net will obscure some of the interior. i went to the top to get a closer look. imup here all the...

These jihadist turns out to be like a blob of mercury which we used to play with when we were kids but now its poisonous and will kill you. you hit it with a hammer and no question it turns into -- >> or cause a terrible mutation, the mutation is you and me that occurred through the years. >> didnt do us any good. you get the point. you know, you cant -- you cant destroy it by smashg it. it turns into 15 little blobs and thats whats happened. >> for the record i still play with mercury, ed rende...

Who have been damaged by lead, and they can tell, brain damage, other kinds of damage, it is usually something like lead paint in their house. dust with lead in their house. those are the big kinds of things that they worry about. now, she said, i cant tell you that lead in baby food is harmless, but i can tell you that the big exposures are from things other than food. >> is there anything that parents can do? theyre buying baby food, they want to make sure it is safe. what is the best thing? >...

Yes. >> ah, yes. there we go. well, federal agents seized a shipment full of dangerous counterfeit toys. investigators say the products that arrived on a new jersey dock were loaded with lead paint and banned chemicals. many were not wired properly. others had small parts, posing choking hazards. all were destined for store shelves and eventually into the hands of children. >> it bothers me when little children have access to lead thats way beyond the limits and also when children get small pa...