Last night Joel Grover, reporter for KNBC, Channel 4 in Los Angeles, aired an investigative report into kids' lead exposure in LAUSD school fountains and the pipes connected to them. He found that schools aren't flushing the taps on the fountains as they're supposed to do under an 18 year old directive - and some plant managers at the schools are faking logs that the district started to require last fall. Grover's team tested 30 schools and found lead in 9 of them. All schools where they didn't flush the pipes had lead in the water. The district claims that some of the paperwork regarding these logs is missing and it can't find test results it did at its then accredited in-house lab that showed that hundreds of fountains were tainted. Larry talks with Joel Grover and David Holmquist, Chief Operating Officer for the LAUSD about this investigation.
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