From the canadian tar sands to the u. S. Coast. The pim line had a pipeline had a boost when a report was released about its environmental impact. America tonights sara hoy found the debate is not about future risks, but the damage already done. I lost my sister in 2003. She was 17. My mother was 50. We lost her in 2009. My grandmother we lost in 2010. Cause of the death cancer. Is there a history of cancer in your family . No. These three losses were a shock to the family. We have a history of high blood pressure, but not like that, no. Troy was brorn and raised in born and raised in texas. The sleepy city is surrounded by a large concentration of Oil Refineries in america. In the city by the sea pipelines defined the sky line, complete with smoke and suf fur tinged our sulphur tinged air. Here oil is converted into gasoline and other items. Residents say living here is making them sick. This person grew up across from refinery plants. When you think about that, your sisters and mother and grandmother. In your heart of hearts, do you think its connected . I think so. I feel like a lot of people in port arthur, including family members i loved, its something to do with the refine rice in the area. A lot of people walk around sick, or dont know they are sick. They dont know, because we exposed to the chemicals. According to the Texas Department of health, the cancer rate is higher than in the rest of the state. Almost 8 higher for men and 6 for women. Theres no way to know for sure if the family members decide as a result of pollution. He didnt need to see evidence. His mothers death hit him hardest. The image, her mouth was open, her eyes wide open. They were giving her charges to her chest. It was a surreal feeling. The cancer took over. To loose my mother, sister and grandmother messed me up. We are exposed to emissions which are cancercausing chemicals. This activist returned to his home town of port arthur a decade ago to help the community, which is steeped in toxic fumes. I remember we used to smell the sulphur, the rotten edge odours. I grew up thinking it was the norm. Kellie is an advocate for the communicate yip. We have a disprop organisation alt amount of people. Too many people are dying. We have a number of kids with respiratory problems. Bronchitis asthma. All five of shantels children sure respiratory problems. The kids have bronchitis and allergies. The doctors say its because we are chose to the refinery, two maybe three blocks. When they release stuff we are more exposed to it. They have to take medications. How do you feel about living here . I was born and raised here. Im sorry for my kids. They have to take medication because of the refinery, maybe in the end i will move. Are you used to the smells and sounds of the refinery . Honestly, yes. If they release something, ill go in the house and close the door. Last year this facilities doubled its production of oil to 600 barrels, making it the largest efinery in the United States. When kelly returned to ports arthur he started his organization. He lobbied the Environmental Protection agency and got their attention. Port arthur was on r on the watch list for ub safe levels of benzene, a carcinogen. The epa responded to concerns and selected the community as a community in need of help. Theres a problem. We are one of 10 communities selected as an epa Showcase Community project in 2010. The epa invested 100,000 in a partnership with the community. We are disproportionate abombarded by the toxic waste. And insirnerrate facilities. We were being disproportionately dumped on and attacked by the toxic pills. Kelly joined forces with an environment enny deemiologist to study the expects on resist dents. There was a higher level of asthma, its difficult to prove its related to the environment. She said there is reason for concern. It is possible that every in the complex can be in compliance with the emissions. If you live in the midst of that it may not be safe. Oil was discovered in texas nur port arthur near port arthur. The petrochemical industry is what built texas, which is why its the powerhouse economically that it is. It is rooted in this industry in this reege on. Region by 1923, port arthur was bus lipping. The people that made their money no longer live there. What is different is the old money here at the time in the 20s, proctor street was movie theatres and department bores and exepsive hotels. Now, because of Technology Many of the people that worked in the high positions in the Petroleum Industry bone have to live here to do their jobs. Down down port arthur is a coast of itself. Unemployment is 16 . Twice the national average. The signses of economic depression are everywhere. Residents say the town is worth saving. Port arthur is not a bad place to grow up and live. I love port arthur. I want people to know that this is the community it is a small town that you can raise your family in. At the same time the oil Refinery Companies are basically surrounded. We contact two of the largest refineries. Neither would agree to an oncamera industry but we got a statement saying in part the statement went on to say the epas interveption spurred by vct intervention spurred by activists like kelly made a difference. Data indicated air quality meets their standards. Several million was invested, including building a Health Center for area residents. Im hopeful through the coordination, the new communication linked between us, im hopeful that can be used to where we can agree to a plan to help better protect this community. Port arthur has a long way to go. Kelly says strong measures needs to be taken. He is staying put. I say to a person telling me to move, when do we stop moving and stop and turn and fight. The industries are cping up over the country, over the world. We say do your job, do it responsibility. When we return, theres much more to it. A haitian teacher and why his school inspired an uncommon act of the generosity by an america tonight viewer. A surprising and happy ending in a series on haiti and the recovery from the 2010 earthquake. Commercial copt correspondent Soledad Obrien reports on a teacher who lost his school. The original story. Aid agencies say 300,000 in partauprince live in deplorable conditions. Families crammed into shelters made out of tarps and scraps of wood. This is camp 54. Its in a middle class suburb. Theres 5,000 People Living on the streets here. The camp is run by a teacher. With hep from his mother he managed to build a school for 700 children. His school survived the earthquake, but not the aftermath. We were forced to leave to turp the schoolyard into a parking lot. A u. N. Agency rend the property from mckenzie rented the property from mckenzies landlord. It is now a parking lot. Now mckenzie tapes students . Teaches students in a makeshift classroom, virtually across the road from his old school. How does it feel . Translation i try to avoid coming by here because it hurts deeply. I know what you are saying. Feels tierible. Make me pain in my heart. Its hurtful. Yes. Mckenzie said he needed 9,000 u. S. , to build a new school, the 9,000 of billions pledged to nongovernmental organization. Here is the follow up. A viewer from kansas conducted us but did not want to leave his name. He is what he wrote is there a way i want help the school with new construction. Im ready to pay the full amount. The donor is from kansas. He had savings of 21,000, and september 10,000 of it to mckenzie for the school. The sochi Winter Olympics is under way and the issue of gay rights. Russian legislation passed for anyone that promotes nontraditional sexual relations in front of minors. America tonight gets an indepth look through the eyes of two russian champions. Im 30 years old and live in moscow for 30 years. Im president of russian l. G. B. T. This is an openly gay figure skater. In 2010 i one a medal and became a gay activist. 87 of russian population is hating of gay people. Its not their fault. Government forms the negative attitudes. They will continue the level of homophobia in russia. I am a speed skating champion in 2006. A gold medal winner worries that activists are rushing things. Translation other societies went through the same staples, they didnt receive equality in a day. Russia is clumsy, it has always been like a bear. I am a day teacher at the high school. After coming out the administration of school didnt fire me. To fire a teach is a difficult. But, of course, they were not happy that im gay activist. If i lose my job, i have a feeling i will never find another one. No one wants a teacher who is gay activist. They have three teachers in russia fired due to sexual orientation. It takes time for the people to get used to this because there were no homosexuals, no people who require special care. None existed in the soviet union. A person with autism or cerebral person can now come out to the spreet. People are used to the fact that, yes, they are near us, they are part, they go to the same schools, this needs to be done quietly. As a schoolboy i was not out. I was terrified because school mates felt i was gay. Translation we have to be careful about the topic and not impose it on society. We have to prepare society for such things. A child needs to decide for himself. Maybe he can be corrected. If the child has a propensity towards homosexuality they can reverse that. Not long ago we had negative case, we had a venue for a football turn. They called us and said they couldnt give us the sport venue because we were a gay community. We had a call from the government, the moscow sport branch. We would never give them the venue. We need to calm down and take the issue slowly. To be gay athlete is safe when you are not out. If you are out, problems can begin. This is the first requirement we have to provide to our participants, other no one come to the l. G. B. T. Sport competition. Translation and you know they can be aggressive. Every day i get letters wishing me i have gay children. How do you think a person is supposed to feel about the community. Now it is a moment to draw attention to the problem, when all International Community is watching us. We have to remember the experience of china when all human right offenders go to jail. My thing is to speak out in front of world mass media and tell only good stories. That im gay or lesbian, im healthy, im successful. I have a job or profession. I have a man or woman who love me. Im the same as you are, guys. Its often said that a society can be judged not by how it treats the best, but the unfortunate. Consider this the Los Angeles County gaol system. Its one of the worst, a place where dismrip has been forced discipline has been forced, excessively, with an iron hand. As part of the series crime and punishment, we go through one of the biggest gaols. This has gaol house video that some may find disturbing. Im laying face down, hands behind my back and i have four or five officers around me. I hear a noise. Thats what happens when this man went to visit his brother at a notorious gaol. The central gaol in downtown los angeles. He got a phone call from his brother, who was arrested and held at the gaol. Juan, a veteran of desert storm, had trouble adjusting to civilian life since leaving the army. He had a few minor scrapes with the law. Your brother calls you from gaol and tells you that his teeth are butted. What else. Yes, sir, and his ribs are broken. His ribs are broken. Yes, sir. Did he give an understanding how he sustained the inyouries . Los angeles sheriffs. That they hurt him. Yes did you believe him . Yes he went to the gaol. After getting the run around he approached a deputy, and so began his own ordeal at the hands of los angeles. I heard stop resisting, i yelled out, im in hand cuffs. This is an xray of his arm. How is it now . I can only lift it that far. The gaol system run by the los angeles is the largest in the country. Critics say its one of the worse. A place where beatings and broken bones have been the preferred method of disciplining inmates. Baker stepped down in late joint enterprise, he cop doned the practice condoned the practice. Charges against 18 officers were given. After leo was injured. He was questioned by a supervisor in charge of the visitors area. The sergeant pressed, suggesting that leo was responsible for the attack. You were told to leave. I was not told to leave. If i would, i would have left. I was backing away from the officer . Why would you do that . Did have you that tone of voice with the deputies . No, they are telling me. Leo handled the broken arm. Medical tapes, right. It appears to be pain to the left arm according to one of the federal indictments leo didnt like it when visitors disrespected deputies and encouraged those to conduct unreasonable searches and seizures, engage in force and make unlawful arrest. Leo was held for five days. I didnt do anything to the deputy sher ifs or anyone else. They know that. It wasnt just gaol house visitors. The indictments make clear ipp mates were harshly treated as well. We are looking at a young gentleman who was a pretrial detainee and was beaten by three deputies. This is a civil right attorney who represented former inmates. His face is beaten to a pulp. His eyes were black and blue. His angle was broken in four parts. What did he do to promote the behaviour . He didnt do anything. In their depositions deputies contend upon searching his sell, he was unruly, but at the time of the beating he was unarmed, and was being physically restraped. Deputies can be heard joking about his injuries. He was talking. If you are difficult in gaol, youll be disciplined. Thats right. And if you are, you somehow be. Punishment shouldnt be i get to beat you, its not by breaking a bone in the ankle. Taking a flashlight and beating the ankle. Thats not punishment, thats brutality. A jury awarded the man 125,000 in dams. The sheriff baker, and the deputies involved agreed to pay 165,000 in punitive penalties. The Sheriffs Department wouldnt comment. Sherive bakars office decomplined a request declined a request for a building. We were gip a tour of the gaol given a tour of the gale by the man send here to clean things up. Captain daniel dyer overseas operations at the gaol and has been on the job seven months. What was your reaction when you heard guards were physically abusing the inmates and the visitors . Disbelief. He blames a lot of problems on poor moral saying officers regarded working at the gaol as a temporary stop on the way to more glamorous jobs. How critical is it for your Sheriff Deputies and guards to develop relationships. You give them the respect. You get it back. Most of my staff realise that, and the rapport with the deputies and the inmates is remarkable. You look around, theres bars everywhere. This is a gaol. With all the negative energy every day, one has to imagine theres a fight not to fall into the abes, so to speak. I cant speak to an incident. Theres a lot of ongoing litigation. Thats disheart nipping, if thats o disheartening this that i love this department. One of the most serious allegations is that deputies at the gaol had organised themselves into gangs, sporting special tattoos and requiring new members to beat ipp mates, reported inmates. They named themselves the 2,000 boys and 3,000 boys after the floors on which you work. This is the 3,000 floor, and where people allege the wrong doings were seriously inflicted. Is there abuse at the chal or has in the past happened. We had problems. Was it as rampant as the media portrayed it . No. I have outstanding men and women working with tough street criminals. I am sure you have dedicated people. It sounds like spin when you say it might have been overblown. We are talking about 18 individuals. Thats a lot of woks. We have done is lot. I have almost doubled supervision. We basically have gone back to the drawing board. There are those in los angeles who say the Sheriffs Department cant be trusted to clean you its own act. This is one of them. In 2012 a Commission Found a persisent pattern of Unreasonable Force in the county gaols dating back mean years and added notwithstanding rent row forms it is not believed that the problem is fixed. Bakers resigning, problem resolved . No, the problems are structural. They are systematicment you need better oversight. A set of eyes and ears. And an oversight so that this department is not left to police itself. As for leo, a judge awarded him 320,000. That award is being appeal. Leo faces 100,000 in medical costs, and says his studies suffered since the incident. Hes been working towards a masters. In the end leo says what is important is that what happened to him is slowly coming out. So a stay or visit is no longer life threatening. Coming up, her bones are brittle. Her spirit is unbreakable. How a teenager is fighting to do what her body cannot live strong. Eee in the heath care landscape amounts are poured into some disease, but with Rare Diseases research is minimal. Adam may brings us a story of a young girl with an uncommon disease, but unbreakable spirit. On a cold rainy day in baltimore. Hannah brammer and her mother make a trip they have made hundreds of times. Another visit to the doctor for another broken bone. I met hannah in 2006. I neatured here in a report about the rare disease osteogenesis imperfecta. Its more commonly called brittle bones. The first time we met you were, like, six. Anna is now 13 years owl with a vibrant spirit. Happenas condition has not gotten better, suffering 126 bop fractures from things as such as bumping foo a wall or rolling over in bed. On this day shes getting a check on her broken arm. Osteogenesis imperfecta is rare. Its also called oi. Affecting between 25 to 50,000 americans, with various degrees of severity. Hannahs condition is among the serious. Do you think your body is used to the pain . No. Sometimes they hurt. Can you describe what the pain is like when its bad . On a scale of one to 10 it was off the scale. Like 40. This doctor is one of the top paediatric specialists and showed us how the disease ravaged hannahs body. Here in happenas leg the knee is here, this is the middle of the tibia fractures healed here. My whole career i try to straighten crooked bones. Its frustrating that hannah we have not been successful. Its the bone disease that defeats us. Its a challenge and is frustrating. What is it about hannah that you find special. Hannah has a bright spirit. . If any one of awes was in her black of us was in her situation, we would be negative. She is bright, cheery, accepts her fate and moves on. The outside world can be a scary place for hannah, a