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Information about issues that did play a role in gray's 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 and trying to keep the peace. what do we know about the history of freddy gray? among the things w...

>> reporter: family friends tell cnn she lost a son to violence just 18 months before freddie's 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 also testified at the time that she was getting treatment for a daily heroin habit, a long list of...

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 we're going to himco back. because there are other parts of the city unfortunately that you don't see on that train ride. i've 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 recession is over. the fact still remains there are a lot of folks left behind. >> congressman el...

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, you'll 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. >> let's talk a little bit about the incident that ignited all of this freddie gray's death. do you have any information on it? are the police -- are they slow walking this report or what do you ...

>> 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 weren't so sure. >> the tenants advised us that they had not signed those documents. we're actually looking at them to see if they were forged. >> document experts compared signatures from the documents to known signatures of the tenants. the sig...