you

should be proud if you live in California.

You know why you should be proud because in New York times it's taken a look at you.

We're forgetting.

National attention California congratulations.

When they're not busy talking about how you don't even have electricity in your state.

They've got this is an American slum in the heart of California.

We spent three months documenting the conditions of one homeless camp and as we all know there

are plenty.

Oh yeah.

One homeless camp in the wealthiest state in America.

Then we traveled to a slum in Mexico City for comparison.

You know we haven't even gotten to that part.

So this is where this guy is.

Yeah I'm intrigued.

This is where this guy was hanging out.

Him and his crew with a little drone footage and walking through the camp with a camera.

It's a it's a big homeless encampment right across from the home depot in Oakland.

Before this assignment I spent two decades as a foreign correspondent reporting on dangerous

living conditions around the world.

But it's been jarring to do this reporting in California.

Residents at the High Street Camp in Oakland are plagued by rats and filth.

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