'I felt I killed my children': lead poisons California community – and fills kids' teeth

A battery recycling plant blanketed Latino communities with chemicals - and thousands of properties remain toxic

For years, Terry Gonzalez-Cano encouraged her children to get outside and play in the dirt. I grew up doing everything outside, and I encouraged my kids to do the same thing. We played in the backyard, we gardened," she said. I thought I was being a good mother by forcing them to spend time outside."

Gonzalez-Cano, 48, didn't know that, for decades, the Exide lead battery recycling plant in the neighboring Los Angeles-area city of Vernon had blanketed blue-collar Latino communities with layer after layer of lead and cancer-causing arsenic.