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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- You don't find many churches making theatrical films. You especially don't find many churches making films starring Kirk Cameron about a firefighter in a crumbling marriage addicted to online porn.

Kirk Cameron stars in "Fireproof," a film he was attracted to for its many themes, he said.

But that's the case for Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. In fact, the film, "Fireproof," was the church's third movie.

It was also an unexpected hit. In September it debuted at No. 4 at the box office, eventually bringing in $33.5 million and spawning two books: a novelization, also called "Fireproof," which is in The New York Times' best-seller list's Top 20; and a companion journal to the movie, "The Love Dare," which has sold more than 2 million copies.

Last week "Fireproof" debuted on DVD and climbed to No. 3 on Billboard's DVD chart, beating out "The Hulk" and "Saw V," among others.

"You don't often see movies made by churches do big numbers," said Billboard's Anthony Colombo. "Having [distributor] Sony behind it helps. Having Kirk Cameron helps, but for it to come out and do 136,000 pieces [DVDs] in its first week is pretty impressive."

"It should not be working," said Alex Kendrick, one of the pastors behind the film. "All I can say is we prayed for months and asked for it to honor God."

Kendrick said that Sherwood's pastors gathered for prayer two years ago and asked God to give them an idea for their next movie. They were just coming off making "Facing the Giants," a movie shot entirely in Albany on a $100,000 budget. It starred no professional actors -- just members of their church -- but made $10.2 million at the box office and sold 250,000 copies on DVD, launching the church into the national spotlight.

The church leaders lit upon the idea of troubled relationships. "Families and marriages are crumbing and we want to do something about it," said Kendrick, recalling the idea's genesis. "God give us the idea. We had no clue what would happen with it."

"Fireproof" began with a $500,000 budget and a fresh crop of church member/actors, but the film got a left-field boost when Cameron, best known as the 1980s heartthrob from the TV series "Growing Pains," read the script and asked to get involved.

"All throughout the movie ... there are issues of communications, money, sex, addiction, porn, extramarital affairs, feeling respected at work but not at home, feeling respected by friends but not at home," Cameron told CNN. The themes resonated with the actor and devout Christian, a husband of 17 years, and father of six, he said. That and the "cool action scenes," he added.

The makers of "Fireproof" tapped into the church market, arranging screenings for the National Baptist Pastors' convention before release and using word-of-mouth among church leaders.

However, says Cameron, the film was pitched to general audiences, not necessarily Christians.

"'Fireproof' was never marketed as a Christian movie. This is a movie about marriage," Cameron said. "The fact is, though, the gospel is presented, is done well, and it's a central part of the storyline."

Although many critics panned "Fireproof" -- "as sincere, uncynical and subtlety-free as a Sunday school lecture," said Variety -- audiences embraced it. "There's a huge market out there that's underserved. That market is there and a lot of people don't want to go there but there is a huge untapped market," Cameron said.

Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst for Hollywood.com, said he was shocked when the movie debuted in the top five its opening weekend.

"With 'Fireproof,' they really cracked the code with the major success with the film and have this appeal across the board," he said. "They didn't follow traditional marketing methods but they didn't need them for this film. ... Maybe that's why it worked out so well."

He added, "You're talking about a very successful property. ... The powers that be that put this together are really on to something."

Churches are using "Love Dare" and its companion curriculum as a teaching tool, says publisher B&H Publishing's Andrea Dennis, who calls "Fireproof" "a marriage movement." For Valentine's Day more than 9,000 churches are scheduled to show the film, many displaying the admonition "Fireproof Your Marriage" on their signs. B&H believes "Love Dare" could hang around on the best-seller list -- where it's already been for 19 weeks -- along the lines of Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life."

And the filmmakers have kept their success close to home. Alex Kendrick said the church used the profits from the movie to buy 82 acres of land and build a recreation center for the town, equipped with eight tennis courts, eight basketball courts and an equestrian area. A baseball diamond is on the way.

He's confident "Fireproof" will remain a successful brand. "When something grows the only reason it happens is people say it worked and you should try it," Kendrick said. "When it works and there's a legitimate impact, people want to be a part of it."

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(CNN) -- With a chance of winning an Oscar on Sunday, the director of "The Final Inch" says she hopes her documentary will shed light on the often over-looked issue of polio eradication.

The more doses of the vaccination a child receives, the better protected the child is from contracting polio.

"I felt like I was looking at something that no one in the world talks about," Irene Taylor Brodsky, who also helped produce the film, said in a recent interview.

Filming the short documentary was an "eye-opening experience," she said, particularly for one of her co-producers who had to wear a bulletproof vest during filming in Afghanistan.

"The Final Inch" is a testament of the health workers around the world laboring to make polio the second globally eliminated disease behind small pox, Brodsky said.

The 37-minute film, which is scheduled to air on HBO on April 1, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the best documentary short subject category. The awards ceremony is Sunday night.

The film focuses on "the final stages of a 20 year initiative" to eradicate polio around the world, Brodsky said.

Polio is a highly infectious disease which lingers in the poor water systems of India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.

The more doses of the vaccination a child receives, the better protected the child is from contracting polio.

"The Final Inch" focuses on the polio vaccine efforts in India and Pakistan.

Brodsky said she hoped to include Afghanistan, but that became impossible because of the threat of violence and social barriers. Producer Tom Grant had to wear a bulletproof vest while filming in the war-torn country.

He was unable to capture compelling footage because of familial protocol that forbids a man from entering a home full of women while no husband is present. Thus, Grant was often denied access, Brodsky said.

In many countries, people are hesitant to vaccinate their children against polio because of a distrust of the government. Some civilians believe the vaccination to be "something more sinister like a sterilizing drug" produced to curtail their population, Brodsky explained.

She said she often ran into "the skepticism that some communities have against our government in cooperation with their own government."

"It never occurred to me that U.S. foreign policies could affect young children living in the most densely populated areas," she said.

Although it has been 50 years since the United States developed a vaccination for polio, millions of children abroad remain unprotected.

"Ordinary American people have forgotten polio," Brodsky said. And, although the number of polio cases have been reduced by 99 percent, the highly infectious disease is still very real.

"It really limits the opportunities a child might have as an adult," said Oliver Rosenbauer, a spokesman for the World Health Organization's Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

As part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 20 million volunteers deliver vaccinations to schools, bus stops and rail stations across the world on a daily basis.

Only four countries had recorded cases of polio in 2008, down from 125 countries 10 years ago, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

This year, there have been 26 recorded cases of polio around the world, compared with 46 people who were infected with polio last year.

"But we're only in mid-February. That doesn't say much," Rosenbauer said.

He said that he is most concerned that a child suffering from polio will have a difficult time integrating into society, building friendships and finding a job.

"So it's much more than just the fact that this child will be physically disabled for the rest of his or her life," he added. "It is the opportunity that is lost from the life they might have led."

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Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Authorities believe assassins targeted a pregnant woman and two other people connected with a U.S. consulate who were killed in drive-by shootings over the weekend, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Monday.

The killings were carried out by a local gang, known as Los Aztecas, that is allied with the Juarez Cartel, Reyes told CNN. No arrests had been made by Monday afternoon.

"We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted," Reyes told CNN, saying a police officer saw gunfire from a car directed at the Americans' car. "We know they were chasing them. We know they wanted to kill them."

Two of the victims were a four-months-pregnant employee of the consulate in Juarez and her U.S. citizen husband who was a jailer in nearby El Paso, Texas, U.S. and Mexican officials said. The couple's 10-month-old child, who was in the vehicle, was not injured, Reyes and other officials said.

The child has been turned over to U.S. consular officials, Reyes said. The couple lived in El Paso, the State Department said.

The third victim, found dead in a separate vehicle, was identified as the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate. His wife was not traveling with him, but two of their children in the car were wounded, officials said.

All the victims had left a birthday party at the consulate Saturday before they were attacked, Reyes and State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Monday. The slain couple, Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Ann Enriquez, 35, were on their way home to El Paso, Crowley said.

Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, according to Jesse Tovar, a spokesman for the department.

Reyes said the attackers may have been confused because both groups of victims were traveling in similar-looking vehicles.

Redelfs and his wife were in a white late-model Toyota RAV4 SUV. The third victim, Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, was driving a late-model white Honda Pilot, the mayor said.

Salcido, 37, was a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. consulate, Reyes said.

His two children, ages 4 and 7, were wounded and transported to a hospital, the attorney general's office said. Salcido's wife was traveling in another vehicle, which was not attacked, Reyes said.

In Washington, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed their anger.

"The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez," National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement Sunday. "He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions. In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice."

Clinton said the "safety and security of our personnel and their families in Mexico and at posts around the world is always our highest priority."

"I have spoken with our ambassador in Mexico, and we are working with the government of Mexico to do everything necessary to protect our people and to ensure that the perpetrators of these horrendous acts are brought to justice," she said.

In response to the shootings, the U.S. State Department authorized the temporary relocation of employees' families working in border-area consulates.

"These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family are, sadly, part of a growing tragedy besetting many communities in Mexico," Clinton said in a statement Sunday night. "They underscore the imperative of our continued commitment to work closely with the Government of [Mexican] President [Felipe] Calderon to cripple the influence of trafficking organizations at work in Mexico."

The families of employees at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros are allowed to leave for 30 days "in response to an increase in violence along the Mexican side of its border with the U.S.," State Department spokesman Fred Lash told CNN.

The authorization can be renewed after 30 days, depending on a review, Lash said, adding that this was not a mandatory evacuation.

The announcement was part of a warning to U.S. citizens regarding travel to Mexico.

The warning urges U.S. citizens to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, because of "recent violent attacks." U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of these three states.

Attacks include the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.

"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the warning says. "During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area."

Reyes, who received a death threat last week, said the shootings highlight a problem shared by both countries along their 2,000-mile border.

"It is not just a Mexican problem -- it's is a U.S.-Mexico problem," Reyes said. "I'm very glad that the U.S. has taken that position."

He said that he supported the State Department's authorization to consular families and that "it is important they feel safe."

Mexico said Sunday that it was committed to protecting all people, citizens and visitors alike, diplomats or not.

"The Mexican government deeply laments the killings of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez," Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement. "The Mexican authorities are working with determination to clear up the facts surrounding the crime scene and put those responsible before the law."

Juarez is one of the front lines in Mexico's war against the drug cartels that operate in its territory. More than 2,600 people were killed in Juarez in 2009.

The city has become a focal point of Calderon's anti-drug efforts after the January 31 killings of 15 people there, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime. The incident sparked outrage across Mexico.

But the violence is not restricted to Juarez.

In the western state of Guerrero, at least 25 people were killed Saturday, state officials said.

The bodies of 14 people, including nine civilians and five police officers, were found in various parts of the resort city of Acapulco, the official Notimex news agency reported, citing Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas.

In the small city of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, 10 civilians and one soldier were killed in two shootouts that started when federal officials tried to execute search warrants at two locations, Salinas said.

Police in the state were on a heightened security alert, he said.

The government has not released official figures, but national media say 7,600 Mexicans lost their lives in the war on drugs in 2009. Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.

Unofficial tallies this year say more than 16,000 people have been killed since Calderon declared war on the cartels after assuming office in December 2006.

CNN's Arthur Brice, Mariano Castillo and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- The father of a Florida girl who has been missing for nearly six months was charged Thursday with burglary with assault, police told CNN.

Ronald Cummings was arrested on felony charges of burglary with assault, officials said.

Ronald Cummings is being held on $12,500 bond for the felony charges, the Florida Putnam County Sheriff's Office said.

There were no other details on his arrest available.

Cummings' daughter, Haleigh Cummings, went missing from his home in Satsuma, Florida, on February 9.

Cummings has made several public pleas for information about his daughter's disappearance, even begging whoever might be holding her to just return her home.

Police have said they think Haleigh was abducted but have provided few details.

In March, Cummings married his then-girlfriend Misty Croslin, who was the last person known to have seen the 5-year-old child alive, saying it was what Haleigh would have wanted.

Croslin, 17, said she tucked Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother into bed about 8 p.m. the night Haleigh disappeared. Croslin said she went to sleep herself at about 10 p.m. but awoke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a back door propped open by bricks.

Ronald Cummings called police and reported his daughter missing when he returned from work at dawn.

CNN's Maria White and John Couwels contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- A head-banging parrot who became a YouTube sensation has demonstrated that an ability to appreciate music and keep a rhythm is not unique to humans, scientists say.

Alex, an African grey parrot, was one of 14 birds which displayed an ability to keep time with a tune.

Snowball the cockatoo, who appears to bop his head, tap his claws and squawk enthusiastically to the Back Street Boys' "Everybody" is one of several birds apparently capable of dancing to a beat, according to two studies published in the latest edition of the journal Current Biology.

In a study lead by Adena Schachner of Harvard University, researchers examined more than 1,000 YouTube videos of dancing animals and found 14 types of parrot species and one elephant genuinely capable of keeping time.

The video of Snowball has been viewed more than two million times since it was posted in 2007. Another video of Snowball shows him dancing to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." Watch Snowball the dancing parrot Â»

Schachner analyzed the videos frame-by-frame, comparing the animals' movements with the speed of the music and the alignment of individual beats. The group also studied another bird, Alex, an African grey parrot, which had exhibited similar abilities to Snowball, nodding its head appreciatively to a series of drum tracks.

"Our analyses showed that these birds' movements were more lined up with the musical beat than we'd expect by chance," says Schachner. "We found strong evidence that they were synchronizing with the beat, something that has not been seen before in other species."

Aniruddh Patel of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, who led another study of Snowball's performance, said that the bird had demonstrated an ability to adjust the tempo of his dancing to stay synchronized to the beat.

Scientists had previously thought that "moving to a musical beat might be a uniquely human ability because animals are not commonly seen moving rhythmically in the wild," Patel said.

Schachner said there was no evidence to suggest that animals such as apes, dogs or cats could recognize music, despite their extensive experience of humans.

That leads researchers to believe that an ability to process musical sounds may be linked to an ability to mimic sounds -- something that each of the parrots studied by researchers was able to do excellently, she said.

Other "vocal-learning species" include dolphins, elephants, seals and walruses.

"A natural question about these results is whether they generalize to other parrots, or more broadly, to other vocal-learning species," Schachner said.

Researchers believe a possible link between vocal mimicry and an ability to hear music may explain the development of music in human societies.

"The question of why music is found in every known human culture is a longstanding puzzle. Many argue that it is an adaptive behaviour that helped our species to evolve. But equally plausible is the possibility that it emerged as a by-product of other abilities -- such as vocal learning," music psychologist Lauren Stewart of Goldsmiths, University of London told CNN.

"Parrots and humans both have the ability to imitate sounds that they hear, unlike our closer simian relatives. Once a species has the neural machinery in place for coupling the perception and production of vocal sounds, it may be only a small step to use the same circuits for synchronizing movements to a beat."

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PARKLAND, Florida (CNN) -- Yorelle Haroush fled a million-dollar South Florida home this week, chased out, she said, by drywall made in China that's emitting vapors that smell like rotten eggs.

Amy Massachi hugs her pregnant niece, Yorelle Haroush, as she prepares to move this week.

"It's making me sick. Physically, mentally and emotionally, making me sick," said the 18-year-old, who is pregnant with her first child.

Haroush lives with her aunt Amy Massachi and her four siblings and cousins in the house. They believe a year's worth of upper respiratory infections, antibiotics, bloody noses and sickness have been caused by the walls.

Their doctor said they need to get out of the $1.2 million estate in Parkland, Florida, northwest of Fort Lauderdale.

"I said, 'you can't stay there anymore, because you're sick every minute,'" the family's longtime physician, Dr. Ross Nochimson, told CNN. "They're sick on a weekly basis. Earaches, sore throat. I give them something, and they're sick again."

Massachi and her family are among homeowners in more than a dozen states who allege Chinese drywall has emitted corrosive gases they believe have given them health problems.

Homeowners also allege the gases corrode metal components including copper wiring, causing air conditioners and other household systems to fail.  Read about homeowners' allegations Â»

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says most of the complaints have come from Florida, where the concerns emerged last year. But consumers also have filed complaints in Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, California, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.

The Florida Department of Health says complaints it received -- more than 330 as of Tuesday -- generally involve homes built between 2004 and 2007.

A study done for the Florida health department by private laboratory Unified Engineering Inc. found that samples of certain Chinese drywall gave off a sulfurous odor from "volatile sulfur compounds" when exposed to extreme heat and moisture. It also found that vapors "in the residential atmosphere created a corrosive environment in the presence of moisture."

The health effects of those vapors are still the subject of several scientific studies.

Odors and corrosion are clearly evident in the Massachi house.

The pungent, rotten-egg-like smell permeates the two-story home. Throughout the house, electrical outlets are open to reveal black corrosion on the copper wiring. The air conditioning unit's air handler, inside the house, is blackened.

"This is disgusting. It's so corroded. I can't even believe it," Amy Massachi said in a raspy voice. "I can't breathe. Every morning, I wake up with sinus allergies, my voice is hoarse.  Watch Massachi explain what's happening in her house Â»

"My mother, when I call her up on the phone, she says, 'Amy, what's wrong with your voice?' and I say, 'allergies.'  "'What are you allergic to?' I don't know. Well, now I know. I'm allergic to my house. My house is making us sick."

The doctor recommends they vacate their 18-month-old home.

"Before they bought this house, they weren't calling every week with allergies and sore throats and ear aches and coughing," Nochimson said. "I don't know what more I can do for them."

Haroush, who after giving birth faces heart surgery for an unrelated condition, is moving in with her grandmother.

"I'm graduating this year, and I'm having a baby, and I don't need to be thinking about anything else going wrong, and any more stress that is on me," she told CNN.

Chinese drywall was imported into the U.S. during a different economic era, at the height of a housing boom. Prices were sky high, and the country was hit by two active hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005, increasing the demand for home repairs.

Suppliers were forced to look elsewhere for their drywall supply. Drywall, made from gypsum, is regularly imported from Mexico and Canada, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, but during this time frame, the U.S. looked to China to make up for the shortage.

The Gypsum Association told CNN that enough drywall was imported from China to build 30,000 complete homes.

Most of the Chinese drywall, they say, ended up in southwest Florida during the housing boom, where it was used in new housing developments.

Some was also used in remodeling projects all over the country, so the number of homes affected is difficult to calculate.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission hopes to have more answers in the coming months. They continue to test the Chinese drywall, including controlled tests in chambers and real-world air sampling tests in homes, to determine how the drywall interacts with other elements in an average house.

"We don't deny there's a problem," spokesman Joe Martyak said. But there has been no positive link to adverse health effects.

"We don't know what it is that's causing the sore throats or bleeding noses. We have to find out what's causing the problem," he said.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are doing studies on the health effects, but those examinations are some time away from completion.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is having ongoing conversations with Chinese officials, who will be sending a representative to the United States to study the problem.

"They appreciate the seriousness of the issue here and trying to be cooperative," Martyak said.

A handful of Chinese companies have been sued by homeowners and home builders.

In the meantime, homeowners like Massachi face financial hardship.

"Now, because they have to move out for health reasons, they're taking on a whole second (rent) payment," said Massachi's attorney, Michael Ryan.

Ryan said he's had no luck trying to convince Massachi's home lenders to suspend mortgage payments until the house can be made livable again.

He told CNN his clients are "having to make choices about their credit, and whether they are going to lose their home. But they're always going to pick their health first."

Massachi agrees. A good look at her blackened air conditioning coil was all she needed. She's looking to rent a new place.

"That's what I'm breathing in....I'm a little freaked out now, honestly," she said, her raspy voice cracking with tears.

"It can't be good, if that's what that looks like and it's pumping throughout my entire house," she said.

Eighteen months ago, Massachi says, she moved into her dream house, surrounded by family and friends. Now the dream is a nightmare.

"It's worth nothing," she said of the home. "It's exclusive. It's pricey, and now it's worth nothing."

text: PARKLAND

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text: Yorelle

text: Haroush

text: fled

text: a

text: million

text: dollar

text: South

text: Florida

text: home

text: this

text: week

text: chased

text: out

text: she

text: said

text: by

text: drywall

text: made

text: in

text: China

text: that

text: 's

text: emitting

text: vapors

text: that

text: smell

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text: rotten

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text: Amy

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text: Massachi

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text: who

text: allege

text: Chinese

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text: corrosive

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text: they

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text: given

text: them

text: health

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text: Homeowners

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text: including

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text: household

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text: about

text: homeowners

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text: Â

text: The

text: U.S.

text: Consumer

text: Product

text: Safety

text: Commission

text: says

text: most

text: of

text: the

text: complaints

text: have

text: come

text: from

text: Florida

text: where

text: the

text: concerns

text: emerged

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text: year

text: But

text: consumers

text: also

text: have

text: filed

text: complaints

text: in

text: Louisiana

text: Virginia

text: Wisconsin

text: Ohio

text: Alabama

text: Mississippi

text: California

text: Washington

text: Wyoming

text: Arizona

text: Tennessee

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text: D.C.

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text: of

text: Health

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text: it

text: received

text: more

text: than

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text: generally

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text: the

text: Florida

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text: department

text: by

text: private

text: laboratory

text: Unified

text: Engineering

text: Inc.

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text: samples

text: of

text: certain

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: gave

text: off

text: a

text: sulfurous

text: odor

text: from

text: volatile

text: sulfur

text: compounds

text: when

text: exposed

text: to

text: extreme

text: heat

text: and

text: moisture

text: It

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text: the

text: residential

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text: moisture

text: The

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text: vapors

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text: Odors

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text: story

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text: Throughout

text: the

text: house

text: electrical

text: outlets

text: are

text: open

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text: reveal

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text: the

text: copper

text: wiring

text: The

text: air

text: conditioning

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text: house

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text: blackened

text: This

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text: ca

text: n't

text: even

text: believe

text: it

text: Amy

text: Massachi

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text: in

text: a

text: raspy

text: voice

text: I

text: ca

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text: breathe

text: Every

text: morning

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text: sinus

text: allergies

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text: house

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text: My

text: mother

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text: phone

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text: n't

text: know

text: Well

text: now

text: I

text: know

text: I

text: 'm

text: allergic

text: to

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text: house

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text: house

text: is

text: making

text: us

text: sick

text: The

text: doctor

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text: they

text: vacate

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text: old

text: home

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text: they

text: bought

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text: house

text: they

text: were

text: n't

text: calling

text: every

text: week

text: with

text: allergies

text: and

text: sore

text: throats

text: and

text: ear

text: aches

text: and

text: coughing

text: Nochimson

text: said

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: what

text: more

text: I

text: can

text: do

text: for

text: them

text: Haroush

text: who

text: after

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text: birth

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text: unrelated

text: condition

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text: moving

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text: with

text: her

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text: 'm

text: graduating

text: this

text: year

text: and

text: I

text: 'm

text: having

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text: baby

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text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: need

text: to

text: be

text: thinking

text: about

text: anything

text: else

text: going

text: wrong

text: and

text: any

text: more

text: stress

text: that

text: is

text: on

text: me

text: she

text: told

text: CNN

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: was

text: imported

text: into

text: the

text: U.S.

text: during

text: a

text: different

text: economic

text: era

text: at

text: the

text: height

text: of

text: a

text: housing

text: boom

text: Prices

text: were

text: sky

text: high

text: and

text: the

text: country

text: was

text: hit

text: by

text: two

text: active

text: hurricane

text: seasons

text: in

text: and

text: increasing

text: the

text: demand

text: for

text: home

text: repairs

text: Suppliers

text: were

text: forced

text: to

text: look

text: elsewhere

text: for

text: their

text: drywall

text: supply

text: Drywall

text: made

text: from

text: gypsum

text: is

text: regularly

text: imported

text: from

text: Mexico

text: and

text: Canada

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Department

text: of

text: Commerce

text: but

text: during

text: this

text: time

text: frame

text: the

text: U.S.

text: looked

text: to

text: China

text: to

text: make

text: up

text: for

text: the

text: shortage

text: The

text: Gypsum

text: Association

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: enough

text: drywall

text: was

text: imported

text: from

text: China

text: to

text: build

text: complete

text: homes

text: Most

text: of

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: they

text: say

text: ended

text: up

text: in

text: southwest

text: Florida

text: during

text: the

text: housing

text: boom

text: where

text: it

text: was

text: used

text: in

text: new

text: housing

text: developments

text: Some

text: was

text: also

text: used

text: in

text: remodeling

text: projects

text: all

text: over

text: the

text: country

text: so

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: homes

text: affected

text: is

text: difficult

text: to

text: calculate

text: The

text: Consumer

text: Product

text: Safety

text: Commission

text: hopes

text: to

text: have

text: more

text: answers

text: in

text: the

text: coming

text: months

text: They

text: continue

text: to

text: test

text: the

text: Chinese

text: drywall

text: including

text: controlled

text: tests

text: in

text: chambers

text: and

text: real

text: world

text: air

text: sampling

text: tests

text: in

text: homes

text: to

text: determine

text: how

text: the

text: drywall

text: interacts

text: with

text: other

text: elements

text: in

text: an

text: average

text: house

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: deny

text: there

text: 's

text: a

text: problem

text: spokesman

text: Joe

text: Martyak

text: said

text: But

text: there

text: has

text: been

text: no

text: positive

text: link

text: to

text: adverse

text: health

text: effects

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: what

text: it

text: is

text: that

text: 's

text: causing

text: the

text: sore

text: throats

text: or

text: bleeding

text: noses

text: We

text: have

text: to

text: find

text: out

text: what

text: 's

text: causing

text: the

text: problem

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: Environmental

text: Protection

text: Agency

text: and

text: the

text: Centers

text: for

text: Disease

text: Control

text: and

text: Prevention

text: are

text: doing

text: studies

text: on

text: the

text: health

text: effects

text: but

text: those

text: examinations

text: are

text: some

text: time

text: away

text: from

text: completion

text: The

text: Consumer

text: Product

text: Safety

text: Commission

text: is

text: having

text: ongoing

text: conversations

text: with

text: Chinese

text: officials

text: who

text: will

text: be

text: sending

text: a

text: representative

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: to

text: study

text: the

text: problem

text: They

text: appreciate

text: the

text: seriousness

text: of

text: the

text: issue

text: here

text: and

text: trying

text: to

text: be

text: cooperative

text: Martyak

text: said

text: A

text: handful

text: of

text: Chinese

text: companies

text: have

text: been

text: sued

text: by

text: homeowners

text: and

text: home

text: builders

text: In

text: the

text: meantime

text: homeowners

text: like

text: Massachi

text: face

text: financial

text: hardship

text: Now

text: because

text: they

text: have

text: to

text: move

text: out

text: for

text: health

text: reasons

text: they

text: 're

text: taking

text: on

text: a

text: whole

text: second

text: rent

text: payment

text: said

text: Massachi

text: 's

text: attorney

text: Michael

text: Ryan

text: Ryan

text: said

text: he

text: 's

text: had

text: no

text: luck

text: trying

text: to

text: convince

text: Massachi

text: 's

text: home

text: lenders

text: to

text: suspend

text: mortgage

text: payments

text: until

text: the

text: house

text: can

text: be

text: made

text: livable

text: again

text: He

text: told

text: CNN

text: his

text: clients

text: are

text: having

text: to

text: make

text: choices

text: about

text: their

text: credit

text: and

text: whether

text: they

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: lose

text: their

text: home

text: But

text: they

text: 're

text: always

text: going

text: to

text: pick

text: their

text: health

text: first

text: Massachi

text: agrees

text: A

text: good

text: look

text: at

text: her

text: blackened

text: air

text: conditioning

text: coil

text: was

text: all

text: she

text: needed

text: She

text: 's

text: looking

text: to

text: rent

text: a

text: new

text: place

text: That

text: 's

text: what

text: I

text: 'm

text: breathing

text: in

text: I'm

text: a

text: little

text: freaked

text: out

text: now

text: honestly

text: she

text: said

text: her

text: raspy

text: voice

text: cracking

text: with

text: tears

text: It

text: ca

text: n't

text: be

text: good

text: if

text: that

text: 's

text: what

text: that

text: looks

text: like

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: pumping

text: throughout

text: my

text: entire

text: house

text: she

text: said

text: Eighteen

text: months

text: ago

text: Massachi

text: says

text: she

text: moved

text: into

text: her

text: dream

text: house

text: surrounded

text: by

text: family

text: and

text: friends

text: Now

text: the

text: dream

text: is

text: a

text: nightmare

text: It

text: 's

text: worth

text: nothing

text: she

text: said

text: of

text: the

text: home

text: It

text: 's

text: exclusive

text: It

text: 's

text: pricey

text: and

text: now

text: it

text: 's

text: worth

text: nothing

question: what home smells like rotten eggs

answer: million-dollar South Florida

text: million-dollar South Florida

question: What is the home now worth?

answer: $1.2 million

text: $1.2 million

question: what state is the family from

answer: Florida

text: Florida

question: What smell have million-dollar home ?

answer: rotten eggs.

text: rotten eggs.

question: What did the study find?

answer: samples of certain Chinese drywall gave off

text: samples of certain Chinese drywall gave off

question: What compounds are found in drywall ?

answer: "volatile sulfur compounds"

text: "volatile sulfur compounds"

question: What did the physician say about the Florida family?

answer: 'you can't stay there anymore, because you're sick every minute,'"

text: 'you can't stay there anymore, because you're sick every minute,'"

question: what drywall has volatile sulfur compounds

answer: Chinese

text: Chinese