last updated Sept 2007

Recent WTC related material

CH 7, WABC-tv, had an "exclusive report" that there had been an earlier unreported fire at the Bank building (WTC-5) where two firefighters died earlier this month.
For a QuickTimed copy of the clip (4 mins, 30 megs, 17-Sept-2007),
click: here

NYC's channel 4, WNBC-tv, began a new 7 pm newscast on 10-Sept-2007, the eve of the anniversary.
A major part of the program was devoted to the recurring WTC health effects, focusing, in part, on the disparity in treatment coverage depending on technical details of employment.
Among the snippets, the reporter compared a former NYC-EMS/FDNY worker, Yvonne Sanchez, who's getting a full disability pension comparable to her original salry, and with full medical coverage, versus a similar 911 EMS worker, Marvin Bethea, who was employed by St. Johns hospital, who is scrambling hard.
They also interviewed attorney David Worby for his point of view.
For a QuickTimed copy of the channel 4 clip (7 mins, 75 megs, 10-Sept-2007),
click: here

It seems that people who were present at the WTC site have a much, much, higher asthma rate than the general public.
For a QuickTimed copy of the channel 4 clip (2 mins, 6 megs, Mon 27-Aug-2007), which included
interviews with Health Dep't physician Dr. Lorna Thorpe and with attorney David Worby, click: here

There's a most curious "captive insurance" (that's the legal term) agency that was set up by Congress in the aftermath of the 9/11 events. Just about everyone, except the folk running it, thinks it's supposed to be assisting folk injured in the attacks.
The fund hasn't given out any aid to anyone, and the lawsuits are starting in an effort to open it up.
For a QuickTimed copy of the channel 4 clip (about 20 megs), which included an
interview with attorney Marc Bern, click: here

And.. for an earlier "Shame on You" segment (channel 2, Jan 2007), which includes
interviews with NYC Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney,
as well as WTC workers' lawyer David Worby (50 megs), click: here

NYC's premier senior television news correspondent, Gabe Pressman, managed to snag an interview with former EPA administrator Christie Whitman.
He got into extensive discussions about the claims that she had said the air near "Ground Zero" was safe to breath.
For a QuickTimed copy of the clip (25 minutes, about 100 meg [yes, it's pretty large]), click: here

In a decision back on 17-Oct-2006, Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled _against_ a request by NYC, et al, to dismiss thousands of WTC health related lawsuits.
As usual, the staff of ecnalubma.com QuickTimed some of the video coverage.

For a QuickTimed copy of the channel 5 clip (about 6.5 megs), which included an
interview with EMS worker John Vinciguerra, click: here

Channel 2, WCBS-tv, found that famous EPA memo to NYC from post 9/11 describing the environmental hazards. The reporter showed it around for comments, and interviewed the UFA President, Stephen Cassidy

For a Quicktimed copy (6.5 megs), click here

And, as a followup, their network news magazine "Sixty Minutes" ran an extensive piece on Sunday, 10-Sept-2006, which included interviews with (then) EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman. They also showed numerous people with apparent illnesses from the dust.

The CBS Network has both a transcript and some of the video (but see our next paragraph) at their website. To get to it, click: here

note: The CBS video server is very picky as to which browsers it'll work with. Accordingly, the staff of ecnalubma.com digitized a (low quality) QuickTime mpg4.

To get to our copy (55 megs), click: here

Earlier related stuff:

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine folk just released (Tues 05-Sep-2006) their study of health effects.

It's ugly.

To get to their press release, with clickthrough to the complete medical journal article, click: here

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