Flint justice is long awaited and elusive after thousands of the citys residents were poisoned with lead tainted tap water some dying in others with long long illnesses but government officials accused of knowing about the danger but say nothing have paid little for their mistake key to the criminal case is the decision of government workers to begin piping water from the flint river into peoples homes it was cheaper than the old water source but due to insufficient Water Treatment at least led into the Drinking Water prosecutors argue that certain officials should have known better if this is a plan if you and he. Was but weve got. A hall says his one year old nephew died from the poisoned water that his mother unknowingly put into the babys bottle and it was. Other children showed it. Well of mental delays linked to lead poisoning on friday a new team of prosecutors called a Community Meeting to explain why they dismissed charges against 8 government officials citing the shoddy inves
In arizona. House Speaker Mike Johnson calling on the president of Columbia University to resign amid ongoing protests against the war in gaza. Those protests growing coasttocoast even as police clash with demonstrators. It was ten years ago today that officials in flint michigan changed the citys watersource, sending off a Massive Health and contamination crisis. How they are doing a decade later. And millennials are setting their sights on the country club life. While theyre still barely middleaged. And the cicada hatching is prompting 911 calls. Its thursday, april 25th. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im frances rivera, we begin with a new legal battle linked to donald trump. The former president is unindicted coconspirator one in a criminal case involving arizona elections. 11 socalled fake electors who supported mr. Trump have been indicted by a grand jury,. One month after the 2020 election, they signed a certificate claiming to be arizona electors. But President Bid
Alone, for sure, we got 80,000 signatures saying we dont experiment on our children and pregnant women in america. This is america. [ applause ] as a result, not only was the study canceled, and by the way, those who got their 750,000 got to keep it. Not only was the study canceled, by senator boxer led the fight on the hill short time after and actually won legislation that went through the house and the senate to stop experiment on children in this country. And im thinking like, yeah, right . Why would we ever do that . Why do we need law that says the Pesticide Industry cannot sit next to and join with the Environmental Protection agency and poison our children . Why do we need a law . But we do. So where are we today . Today, we are in flint, michigan. Where 100,000 people, 100,000 estimated, i think its much more than that. 100,000 people were poisoned by their own government. 100,000 people drank lead contaminated water. 100,000 people, by our own government. Gm, by the way, when
Multisignatumultiagency unit. Larry craig, center from idaho nope for his wide stance, didnt like the information they were putting out, and he reached out and had unit abolished. We were able to sue and get their positions restored. But throughout all of the head of the center asked the question that haunted us, which was, who knew math coulding dangerous . So we employ a number of tools to help scientists suing under statutes where best available science is required, use of scientific integrity policies and even tools like the data quality act and industry sponsored law that allows us to file administrative challenges to Government Agency policies. Recently we were able to use this act to get, again, guided by agency toxicologist, the epa to drop safety assurance for artificial turf made with crumb rubber. We were able to persuade the white house to order overdue multiagency Risk Assessment on using solid waste as a play surface. [ applause ] thank you. And a number of our employees,
We proved 56 of our children, over half of our children were born with birth defects. Over half our children had three ears, extra fingers, extra toes and mentally retarded. We thought thats enough evidence, the United States government, the place that were so proud of, we pay taxes, we go to church, my husbands a union man, i teach sunday school. This has got to work. And it didnt. What they said the reason we had birth defects of that rate is we were a random clustering of genetically defected people. My point of telling you this part of the story is that when i realized that it isnt about science, it isnt about facts, although all those things are critical for making your case and making sure youre right, its about political fight. That was the moment that it dawned on me that we are not going to fight this just proving theres Climate Change because we proved it. It was proven years ago. Decades ago. Were only going to win this if we get involved politically. And for that reason, i