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I’m Katie Couric. Tonight, a CBS News exclusive 독점, 특종. Children living in FEMA trailers that were toxic 유독한. The government knew it and did nothing about it. A continuing CBS News investigation. And proof that the American dream is alive and well. His story in Steve Hartman’s assignment <탐방기자 등의> 할당된 일 America tonight. This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

 

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Hello, everyone. We’re beginning tonight with a CBS News exclusive. The follow-up 후속, 연속 on our report exposing an emerging 최근 생겨난 health crisis for thousands of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. As we reported earlier this week, many people living in trailers provided by FEMA are getting sick.

 

Tonight, we can tell you FEMA has known for a long time that the trailers are toxic, but did little about it. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian who first broke 알리다, 전하다 this story has the follow-up tonight.

 

21 months after Hurricane Katrina virtually blew the Gulf Coast off the map. Some 86,000 families still call these FEMA 연방재난관리청 travel trailers home. As we reported earlier this week, Formaldehyde 포름알데히드, <방부제·소독제> fume <유해·불쾌한> 연기, 김, 증기 seeping 스며 나오다 from these trailers pose a serious health risks to some young children. On Wednesday, the man in charge at FEMA, David Paulison, had this to say on Capitol Hill 미국 연방 의회. “We've been told that the formaldehyde does not present a health hazard 위험요소."

 

Paulison's comments were based on this report publicly released by FEMA two weeks ago. But according to this internal FEMA document obtained by CBS News, FEMA knew of extremely high levels of the cancer-causing chemical more than a year ago, after its own employee safety department ran tests in March of 2006.

 

“Now people live in the trailers have to worry if their children are breathing fumes that could cause cancer or some other disease." After our report, democratic senator Landrieu called for an investigation. A Republican congressman has also called for hearings into what FEMA knew and when.

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