2010-10-09 CNN
This town here is sort of going through clean-up, and people are trying to salvage things from their house. The reality is when you talk to them, there's nothing that they can salvage when it has been touched by this red toxic chemical makes. People shall need source on their hands they have been cleaning up for two days. They got source on their hands where they've been getting in contact with the red sludge. Now we're seeing the result of the PH isn't low enough that fishes dying, also that the issue of a heavy metal, carbium , chromium, poisons like arsenic also believed to be toxic. It is down stream that the biggest concern is right now ,that in the Danube River, that the contaminants have now begun to reach the Danube River. What was seen happening here is the mix of chemicals and plaster being poured into some of the smaller river to lower the caustic nature of the chemical pollutants in the water.
Nine years ago with the first shots of the US war on terror were fired here in Afghanistan beginning with the serious air strikes on Taliban positions. The Taliban ruled more than 90% of the territory in this country for fast foward today. There are some 150,000 foreign troops on the ground here, nearly 100,000 US soilders on the ground here. This's been the bloodiest year yet of these 9-year conflict, for not only the US troops with more than 300 American soilders killed over the course this year, and ur, but also for NATO forces as well.
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And all these packages are in the middle of street. A passing car had already hit one of the bags, and 20 dollar bill started flying out. Three red big bags full of money was all over the streets. Everybody else was running out of the street, grabbing all that lose money. It was, the wind was taking it downwards the street. Tim and his wife Vicky dragged the three bundles to the curb, then waited for police and the truck driver to come pick up the money, estimated at just under 2 million dollars, minus of course, that estimated 20,000 that blew away and got snatched up.