The Bay Page #2

- Yes, it is.

Anchor:
You don't hear about

shark attacks in the bay, normally.

Anchor #2:
Well, I think

bull sharks can be aggressive.

- A couple of attacks last year, maybe?

- Here and there.

- Anchor #2:
Yeah.

- It is brackish throughout the Chesapeake Bay

and bull sharks

have been known

Anchor #2:
I gotta tell ya.

It makes me a little nervous.

We have a boat and go out

in the bay all the time.

Sam:
They got the results

on the water analysis.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

What do you have?

Uh, mercury levels

way above standards,

polycyclic acids, OPs,

PCBs that haven't

been legal in 20 years.

- (camera clicking)

- Sam:
Endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals,

Viagra, estrogen, DDT,

- trace amounts of GRDF.

- Jacqueline:
Phew.

I mean, pretty much

you name it,

- it's in there.

- (police radio chattering)

I mean, looky here.

Naw.

(heavy accent) This whole stream

of toxin is following the current.

The what's

following the what?

- You have a very thick accent sometimes.

- Sam.

This whole stream of toxin

is following the current.

- Yes.

- Look. It's going next to this little town.

Claridge.

Claridge.

(clears throat)

Donna's voice:
There were

people who were concerned

With some of the townsfolk,

it did cause arguments.

Your chicken plants are putting

chicken sh*t in my bay...

- (crowd protesting)

... and they're killing.

The important thing,

Jerry...

Jerry? The important

thing to understand

is that the EPA continues

to test the bay.

- And it is really...

- (clapping)

It's really their responsibility.

It's their responsibility.

Man's voice:

Each one of these sheds has

approximately 32,000

chickens in it each.

Those chickens eat about

10,000 pounds worth of food.

They do this all

very mathematically.

You know, I don't care what

people say about the bay.

I know it looks

a little different,

but all our kids

have grown up

in the water

in the bay.

So I don't know what all

the doom and gloom

is all about.

Man's voice:
There's 45

million pounds of chicken sh*t

dumped into the bay

each year.

I mean, look at that.

That is entirely

chicken sh*t.

And over here.

Look how close we are

to the water.

It's right there.

Chicken sh*t.

Water.

Woman:
We gotta have

improvement in the economy.

We got to develop.

I say we develop

the hell out of the bay.

And then we can pay

to clean it up.

(cheering, clapping)

You know,

a lot of people...

a lot of people...

gave me a hard time

when we put up

the desalination plant.

With that desalination plant,

we increased the capacity

for poultry farming

in the area.

Donna's voice:

The desalination plant

filtered water

from the bay

so that people

could drink it

and use it

for the chicken industry.

And everyone just assumed

it would take anything

harmful out of the water.

Your lawns benefit

from that.

We have pools

that are in operation.

And last but not least,

I don't know about you,

but I think this is

the best darn water

I've ever tasted.

(cheering, clapping)

Donna's voice:
People were worried

about the economy and the water,

but mostly that

wasn't their focus.

They were just doing

the American thing.

You know, trying

to make a living,

dealing with their children,

enjoying their lives.

And everything seemed

really pretty good.

(bell ringing)

Someone do something.

Do something!

(girl screaming)

What's going on?

Girl:
Mommy!

(kids screaming)

- What's going on?

- What happened?

Oh, my God.

Has anyone seen

my husband?

What's happening to me?

Please help me.

I need my husband

and my kids.

I need to go

to the hospital.

Someone needs to get me

to the hospital.

Almost done.

We should have a report

of who the winner

is shortly.

I need to go

to the hospital.

Someone needs to get me

to the hospital.

Woman:
I've never seen

anything like that.

(clapping)

Ooh, are you getting that?

Are you getting that?

He just vomited.

Are you getting that?

(spectators groaning)

Donna:
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God.

It's okay... miss, cut

the cameras, please.

It's all right, Tiffany.

You're almost done, sweetheart.

Danny, where are you?

This is a lens cap?

- Am I in frame?

- Donna:
Mm.

Donna's voice:

This is Dr. Jack Abrams.

He was the head physician

in the emergency waiting room

at Atlantic Hospital.

He would actually end up

treating over 350 patients

over the course

of that day.

And he would die

later that night.

Abrams:
Could you take

off your shirt, please?

Just... can you... turn around

a little bit more?

I'm just gonna point

this out to the camera.

Operator:

CDC. Is this an emergency?

- Abrams:
Yes, it is.

- Are you a health professional?

- A doctor.

- Okay. Hold, please.

- CDC:
Emergency operations.

- Abrams:
Yeah, hi.

This is Dr. Jack Abrams

over at the Atlantic Hospital

- How can we help you today?

- We're in the middle of some kind of bacterial outbreak.

This is Dr. Williams

in Communicable Disease.

Uh, you believe you may

have a bacterial case?

Abrams:

Uh, not one. 30.

What?

I got 30 people

in the waiting room

- at my hospital right now.

- What are the symptoms?

The entire group has broken out

in blisters, boils, lesions...

- Where?

- Face, legs, neck, chest.

I got a woman whose entire

backside is covered in boils.

- All right. When did this begin?

- This morning.

Today.

What do

you think it is?

I have no idea

what it is.

I'm gonna walk you through a

list of associated symptoms.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm gonna ask you

a couple more questions.

You been around any

livestock? Agriculture?

- No.

- Farm animals?

You spend a lot of time

in the sun?

No, not really.

More than usual?

Less than usual? Same?

Not really.

You know, it hurts

What concerns me is we've had

a lot of people in today

who've had similar

symptoms to that.

Frankly, that's why

we're doing this.

If you wouldn't mind just

looking right into the lens

and saying your name?

- My name is Lamya Jezek.

- Abrams:
Great.

What am I supposed to say?

I'm gonna ask you

a couple questions.

Man:
I didn't know it was a big deal.

I'm just asking to go

through a drive-through.

Man #2:
You're insane.

You do this every day.

- Okay, Grandma. Okay.

- It's like clockwork.

I'm sorry. Grab the food, you're out.

That's why it's

a drive-through.

It's not a big deal.

Just go through.

Can you do it?

Donna's voice:

This is Officer Paul.

He's the one on the left.

He was actually the best man

at Officer Jimson's wedding.

- (siren blares)

- What is that?

- What is that?

- They reported the first death

in Claridge

at 12:
42 PM.

Is he shot?

Jimson:

Check his pulse.

Oh, gosh.

I don't wanna do that.

(door closes)

He's dead.

I don't see any

bullet holes, though.

All right. Central, this is SM 10-12.

We got a young white male

laid out on

the corner of, uh,

Center and Hyde.

He's dead.

Go ahead and dispatch

EMS as soon as you can.

- (dispatch chattering)

- Is there anyone around?

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