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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Chris Magnotta, 9/11 Survivor, on Releasing Information about 9/11 Environmental Hazards
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Chris Magnotta, a 9/11 survivor, testifies about the importance of releasing information to the public regarding the environmental hazards following the 9/11 attacks. He shares his personal experience of being in the World Trade Center during the attack and returning to work in downtown Manhattan afterwards, emphasizing the ongoing exposure to toxic substances.
- Magnotta highlights the lack of documentation about the toxic substances released and calls for action to address this issue.
- He mentions that tens of thousands of people, including himself and his wife, are ill as a result of the exposure.
- Magnotta emphasizes the importance of releasing this information to support petitions for covering autoimmune and other diseases in the World Trade Center Health Program.
Chris Magnotta
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For your time today.
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My name is Chris Magnotta.
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I am a survivor of 911.
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That day I was on the 54th floor when the plane came in.
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I was on World Trade Center 2.
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My wife was on World Trade in World Trade Center 7 on the 30th floor.
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She was 3 months pregnant at the time.
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I'm giving you those facts because they're gonna lead to what I want to talk about.
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And obviously, it's about releasing the information to the public.
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So, just to give you some tidbit, this is all facts.
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I went back into Manhattan, so did my wife.
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We worked in downtown.
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We were there watching that debris get moved outside of the trade center on a daily basis.
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And what's really important is you know that there were street sweepers very early in the morning cleaning the streets.
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Why were they doing that?
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They knew what was going on, and I heard the name Todd Christy Whitman for the first time from one of the speakers just before.
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What does she know?
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She's apologized for saying that it was safe to go downtown, so she knows something.
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Also, I was forced to drive into downtown Manhattan.
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It was the only way to get in.
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And every evening when we went to the car, we had to wipe it clean of dust and debris that was coming from that site.
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It took 8 months for them to remove that, debris from the site.
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So for 8 months, it was actively in the air.
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It's still down there.
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It was one of the greatest releases of toxic substances, onetime event in the history of the US, and we have no documentation.
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If we have no documentation, it's been destroyed.
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Something needs to be done about this.
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There are tens of thousands of people who are ill, including my wife, including me.
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And I also wanna say what's also very important about this in getting the information released is there's a doctor John Howard who's the
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Who has not there are petitions before him.
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Please, let me just finish this.
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That, will cover autoimmune diseases and other diseases.
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And when the facts come out, he'll have more reason to pass those.
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program administrator for World Trade Time has expired.
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Thank you.