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Many different compounds are released, cadmium, and many were released in great intensity. >> reporter: these images recorded five years ago by university of georgia scientists show the former bombing range and surrounding waters strewn with unexploded ordinates. many of those bombs continue to corrode, leeching out carcinogens. in 2005, parts of vieques was noted as a site that needed cleaned up. outraging islanders who fear more toxic chemicals will be released. the u.s. government's response to the islanders' lawsuit is to claim sovereign immunity, that residents have no right to sue

A week. >> the people need the truth to understand what is happening to their bodies. >> reporter: john eaves jr. is the attorney in the lawsuit. >> one of the biggest problems we have is that we don't believe that the military has fully come clean with all the chemicals and the agents that have been used on this island, uranium was denied, then they admitted it. >> reporter: after years of controversy and protests, the navy left vieques island in 2003. today, much of the base is demolished and what's left, largely overgrown. >> in my experience in dealing with hazardous sites and toxic substa...

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Pressed about president trump's suggestion that the military pay for the border wall. >> what he meant for is that there are some lands that the department of defense owns right on the border that are areas where we see elicit activity. we're looking for options for the military to build wall on military installations on the border. >> reporter: the "wall street journal" reports u.s. officials are planning to build a wall along part of the bombing range along the arizona-mexico border. the military installation only covers 31 of the nearly 2,000-mile-long border. this as cnn learns new details...

Hours. brian: it happened on saturday. of the president has not done anything yet. he is meeting with his officials to come up with a plan. the word is the pentagon is very risk adverse. they are not coming up with an aggressive enough plan that is going to be significantly better and effective than a year ago where only a day or two amp we hit them with 59 tomahawks they were flying out from one of the main military installations that we had bombed. so, this time they want to hit comprehensively. this time they want the french and the british involved. steve: they do. and it looks like the un...