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And reach out to the neighborhoods we serve UPMC Help System 1 8 8 3 8 3. And by the members of WQED. Next is the paint in your home dangerous. Michael Bartley shows us how to protect your family from the health hazards of lead paint. It's all too common in the older homes around here. Dave and Dave returned from two of their intrastate adventure. That's right the days are exploring central Pennsylvania and it's a weeklong phenomenon you don't want to miss. Kenny Blake he's there to perform live tonight so please stay with us and look at things differently on cue starts right now. I

guess we won't be playing with. Man Hello I first more. Karalee SJ welcome to On cue. Tonight we continue our week long David they have drilled along. That's right the Daves have arrived at the Pennsylvania lumber museum. Those wacky wait for her start coming up a little later. And jazz performer Kenny Blake joins us live tonight. But first Stacy Smith is going to get us started with tonight's cover story Stacy. Carol thank you we begin tonight with an all out battle to protect local children. An estimated 25 percent of preschoolers in our area are at risk of lead exposure and that is a much higher risk than in any other part of the country and the consequences for children ages 1 to 3 can be severe. Q

correspondent Michael Bartley reports on why Pittsburgh has such a big problem and what is being done about it. Michael Stacey I think the best way to understand why it's such a big problem here in the Pittsburgh region is to go out literally to any city neighborhood and beyond and talk to local families who have been through the fair who've had to rush their kids to children's hospital and have had their homes cleaned and scraped of lead. It's an eerie sight almost surreal. Workers in white suits and masks scraping dusting and cleaning. The people who best understand how important this work is are people like Betty Davis of Pittsburgh's north side who clutches her 3 year old grandson Gerald. And across town in Highland Park people like Amy Sabella holds her twin boys Joshua and Caleb. OK I had to stand by but I just cried. Amy's husband

Paul was chipping away paint on the exterior of their home when the two boys were only five months old when the boys run a routine doctor visit. Amy told the doctor about the renovation so he gave the boys a finger prick test for lead exposure. He called Blackstone said that for the protest that will go to children's fought all the tests showed the boys had dangerously high levels of lead in their blood. They were breathing in the lead dust from the renovation. The Sabella has had to leave their home immediately until the old lead based paint was contained and cleared away the boys are now almost two years old and luckily shown no signs of lingering effects. I think that knowing that it's not like a child for you to get help because the play thing that it just happened and it bringing in workers from clear Corps a federally funded program to eradicate lead from homes continue wiping

cleaning and testing for lead and the Sabella home they believe Mr. Sabella after scraping the paint from the front of his house perhaps came inside and had contact with the boys before changing his clothes. Not to mention the boys breathed in lead dust or a singer of lead safe Pittsburgh's says it could have turned out a lot worse for little Joshua and Caleb. The child is exposed to light and high and persistent levels. Children can develop physical elements that will make it difficult for them to be children. They will develop where they can develop behavioral problems that will make it difficult for them to sit in a classroom and learn. They can develop problems that will actually change their behavior and make them less social make them less engaging and that's childlike and at a really high risk high persistent levels. Children can even go into coma convulsions and although it's not frequently been seen that and we still don't even know the long term we don't and the

studies keep going and because there were so many older homes in the Pittsburgh area it's estimated more than 90 percent of our homes contain lead based paint. Those are homes built before 1978 that Davis home on the north side was built 100 years ago. Workers are feverish they stripping the house of lead after this little boy little Gerald Watkins had high levels of lead in his system. His grandmother Betty Davis says it happened while she was babysitting Gerald while she was remodeling her living room. Very concerned because at the time he wasn't quite three years old and he's steady developing. And he's the only chow that sat in the family. And definitely it was not going to happen to him. I thought mentally it would just slow his learning ability down. He wouldn't be able to grasp things as fast as other children. But you're not seeing any

indications of that. No Gerald was treated and put on a special diet clear core workers urged parents to never ever have their children around while scraping or clearing old paint which could contain less have an isolated work area where your family is not allowed. While you're working and then when you come out of that work area I don't just walk and pick up your children you know take off your clothes that got the dust and the debris and then you can re-enter your home and be with your family but don't work side by side with your children right there. And in the mean time grandmother Bette Davis of the north side can't help but worry about little Gerald and Amy Sabella of Highland Park. Can't help but worry about little Joshua and Caleb. They worry whether the kids lead poisoning will have lingering effects and lead to medical problems down the road.

I would say to anyone in the city of Pittsburgh who has the old house it's worth having someone come in and check in their house to see if there is lead in the house. Although maybe some part has been renovated but some parts haven't. Maybe it's been covered up but not completely covered. And it would be worth if you have special little children that are crawling along had their house is worth it. And if you do any renovation get those kids out of here while you're out of the house. Don't forget there are plenty of experts in our area who can answer your questions about all this and give you advice and help you clear your home of dangerous lead heroes in a very important telephone number I want to give you 4 1 2 4 3 1 4 4 4 9. Now that number is for two agencies a group called lead safe. Pittsburgh will answer any questions you might have. Also answering at that same number an agency called Clear Corps you saw them in the piece they provide help cleaning your

home of lead and so Stacy Luckily the kids in our story seem to be OK though after taking the medication and going on the special diet because they are younger. This is a couple times now you mention the special diet Well it is that I knew people would be wonder about that foods I'm told heavy with iron and calcium Apparently the iron the calcium decrease the lead absorption into the bloodstream and it really helps with cannabis dilution. That's correct yeah right now. Well joining us now is more a singer she is the director of lead safe. That's Brook Moore thanks so much for joining us. One of the questions I have after watching Michael's report here is that there seems to be a lot of concern about the children who may have been exposed what about the father who was scraping that pain and obviously around more death than even the children. And that's a great example. That gentleman is certainly at risk as well and would do well to consult with his physician just to make sure that he hasn't taken let in a high level. But the truth is it's really the children that we focus on because kids particularly those children under the age of six are the developmental point in their lives where the leg can significantly

impact their future physically emotionally behaviorally what kind of problems might an adult face. An adult could could see some of the very same problems as a child as a child but probably more physical they might encounter stomach aches cramps headaches trouble sleeping things like that there's nothing more physical more the only thing that troubled me about putting the piece together that I thought parents would have a problem with as well is that in both cases on the north side the grandmother said the reason she took him in for the lead testing is because she just had a feeling she wondered if it was a problem. The lady in Highland Park said it was only because of a typical doctor's appointment. So for parents out there it seemed to me that these both cases there were no symptoms any warning signs and that's a difficult thing. It's a real challenge. Most of the symptoms that we see are the same symptoms that you see with other problems. Think about what I said headaches trouble eating stomach aches. Anything that could be an allergy particularly with younger kids the best thing that parents and physicians can do is just proactively test the children particularly

from ages 12 to 24 months and certainly any child under the age of six children developing at such a rapid pace that if if a simple blood test is done we can know before there's a major problem and protect those children. Now when did they stop putting lead in the paint. 1978 was when lead was actually banned. And as we said there are so many older homes in this area. Well you have a number. Sure we think that the latest statistics show that there are that more than 90 percent of the homes in Pittsburgh in the Greater Pittsburgh area were built before 1970 and I don't have that by thousands but you can imagine OK well but but not all of them. Many of them have been repainted since then they have been thinking that lessens the risk. It does but here's a greater number. Before 1950 there was no reduction in the lead. And if you just think about your own home how many homes do we have how many people own homes that were built before 1950 where the paint was just covered up layer by layer by layer. It still peels it's still rugs it still creates that dust. And if you don't know about

it you're just going to keep creating a proper was mentioned. I hope you don't mind me being a sub but you're watching the beach and saying that. That a painter at one point in her house said will just mean over and that's a problem isn't it. It's a problem and painting over it may be a viable solution not a permanent solution. But if your walls are in good good shape that's one option. The real problem areas though aren't so much the flakes that come down it's the dust the dust that gets created from a window. There's a lot of people think it's a kids eating paint chips and it's really not on the desk. Yeah one of the stories I did when I first came here in 1983 probably was 84 85 there was a big research project launched here in Pittsburgh about lead poisoning. What is the research is taking place now. Actually one of the most recent research papers that were published there was published a link to lead poisoning to juvenile delinquency. Dr. Herbert Needleman of the University of Pittsburgh is the author of that study and he's shown a direct correlation. We always knew that lead affected behavior we know it affects and lowers IQ. But this shows

conclusively that the child just isn't acting like him or herself. Lead could be the problem right now. Let's say Pittsburgh and Michael put their phone your phone number up a little while ago and this is a let's say Pittsburgh and clear CT for 1 2 4 3 1 4 4 4 9 that would be the number to call if you have some questions. Absolutely. Maura thank you so much. Michael it's always an excellent report very good. Still to come. Dave and Dave's road trip to the Grand Canyon. And tonight's live performance from kenny boy. First though here's a look at what's coming up tomorrow on cue. Mix up the vast majority of Pittsburgh white males in the majority when it comes to graduating and recruiting class. Again it's white males but the city is out to change that. Tomorrow on cue a major push to diversify. Will it work is it fair. We'll go right to the source and ask. Also Vermont fighting AIDS in Pittsburgh treatment and survival rates are better than ever. But there's one thing that has researchers more worried than ever and it's road trip part three for Dave and a

bike in the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon tomorrow. Well if you missed part 1 of David Daves road trip yesterday we're here to catch up. They're bound by I want to go for the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon. Well yesterday they got sidetracked by a small town Pennsylvania. So where will David a pullover tonight. Well all we can say is. The woman might be a wild guess. However this is definitely what visitors would day and day.

Approximately 1000 miles away. So it's not a pretty let's go and wake up a treasure here like this one with us. What's up with this display over here. Him bring the car bring the car by the boardwalk down the boardwalk look like it's made out of

their luck. Yeah right. I can just watch any train around here you know with all the tree cutting going on. What the by your like a monkey invades your rights and check out their hides. This is 1945 I'm pretty sure the expiration dates done on us were there for you to care. Take a break right

here. We struck oil. In a final going to the railroad all the best voyage back and forth like this voyage down the line. Work that go. Yeah

they were natural like natural horsemen forgot the rules. That's what. More like it would again travel there. And I thought I never grew up. Well don't miss to worry night when Dave and Dave finally arrive at the Grand Canyon. The boys Corps a local to become their tour guide and then they go biking along the base of the canyon and don't forget to check out this month's issue of Pittsburgh magazine for the complete guide to Dave and Dave's road trip. That's all there in black and white well actually it's in color and God who knew those guys could even write let alone read.

NEXT TUESDAY MY who live music tonight is Kenny Blake right after the community calendar. Every Tuesday and Thursday night brings you live music performances. Tonight the sound of jazz. Here's Kenny Blake performing European underground. Oh.

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OK I see you here. So that's from your latest CD The song right here you play with some of the greats around you are one of the ones where yeah I have not been very fortunate. I guess the last one that I had the opportunity with was we did the Standard Bank of South Africa jazz festival in Cape Town and got to hang out with Hugh Massa Kayla sands that has been around the world and so it was cool you know who you got here with you. These are my

favorite guys back here on the drums. He has a CD called the fee Oracle journey Mr. Brian Edwards leave us play whatever baited Pittsburgh from keyboards on keyboards This is my long time friend and associate the toughest guy in music he's one of the Jack Lambert Music Award check left and this is a cool stab around the way you do it. All right I'm going to get away for a day out of a get to you over there where you performed locally pretty much a lot of different things but consistently Jane Street Tavern on the north side Brian's there and I'd say Thursday nights every Thursday and all right and we'll you know play I thought we were going to do very famous tune from a group called weather report it's called Birdland. All right well we came to blank in a few seconds but first some closing words from Carolyn Stacy. Thanks Chris tomorrow night on diversification plan for Pittsburgh police also aids in Pittsburgh the latest treatment and concert. Now you can catch a

rebroadcast of this program tonight at 11:30. And again tomorrow afternoon at 12:30. Thank you for joining us tonight. Now back to Kenny Blake performing bird land. Broadcast

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