Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180721:17:39:00
Coal ash ponds like this. it may look like a beautiful lake but it is basically an unlined pit in the ground with millions of tons of ash. mercury, cardmeum, arsenic, contaminants associated with cancer, right in her backyard. in 2009, she began experiencing headaches. >> they told me i had a brain tumor. they said it was the size of a drink box. >> reporter: she was dieing an notioned with stage 3 astrocytonoma, brain cancer. what do you think caused this? >> i'm 100% sure i know what caused it, duke energy. >> reporter: of course that is impossible to know for certain. her doctors can't say....