What it’s like to live in Curtis Bay, Baltimore’s pollution epicenter

“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,” Charles Hahn, 37, told doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in June. A scan revealed cancerous nodules in his lungs, said his wife, Heather Hahn. Tumors had returned to his liver too. The next time he went to the hospital for heavy nose bleeding, the cancer had metastasized to his brain.