Medication. One every nine minutes. A new warning for parents. Found alive, after five weeks missing at sea. You wont believe where they found one amazing puppy. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. What we witnessed this washington today was nothing short of a public shaming of two highpowered officials as they were held accountable for the systematic failure that virtually poisoned the water for thousands in flint, michigan. Michigans governor and the head of the epa were called on to resign, as they appeared before Congressional Committee today to answer for the crisis. It made for some uncomfortable moments. In fact, rarely has the hot seat been hotter. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk shows us. Reporter with the children of flint still unable to drink the water do you solemnly swear the hill today. If you want to do the courageous thing, then you two should resign. People who put dollars
You wont believe where they found one amazing puppy. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. What we witnessed this washington today was nothing short of a public shaming of two highpowered officials as they were held accountable for the systematic failure that virtually poisoned the water for thousands in flint, michigan. Michigans governor and the head of the epa were called on to resign, as they appeared before Congressional Committee today to answer for the crisis. It made for some uncomfortable moments. In fact, rarely has the hot seat been hotter. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk shows us. Reporter with the children of flint still unable to drink the water do you solemnly swear reporter blame on the hill today. If you want to do the courageous thing, then you two should resign. People who put fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government. And you need to resign, too, governor
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. What we witnessed in washington today was nothing short of a public shaming of two highpowered officials as they were held accountable for the systematic failure that virtually poisoned the water for thousands in flint, michigan. Michigans governor and the head of the epa were called on to resign, as they appeared before Congressional Committee today to answer for the crisis. It made for some uncomfortable moments. In fact, rarely has the hot seat been hotter. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk shows us. Reporter with the children of flint still unable to drink the water do you solemnly swear reporter blame on the hill today. If you want to do the courageous thing, then you two should resign. People who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government. And you need to resign, too, reporter the republican governor from michigan and the head of the epa were h
Subject of a closeddoor meeting today in washington, called by anxious conservative leaders. The purpose, building a strategy to block his path to the nomination. Nbcs Hallie Jackson takes us inside the effort to derail trump. Reporter today two blocks from the white house, a secret huddle on how to stop donald trump from moving in. A frustrated group led by eric erickson, emerging with a call for a unity ticket for the gop and looking ahead to a contested convention. The stopTrump Movement regrouping to reassess how to slow him down. Two road blocks slowing them down. First, trump could still lock up the nomination before the convention. Ads against him not doing much, as he more than doubled his delegate lead this week, even after outside groups spent 13 million. Now were having conversations with donors, gauging the interest in moving ahead. Reporter antitrump activists delegates to be the convention. Real people with lives and schedules and vacations and cell phones and twitter acc
Lives. 100,000 of them. Reporter every resident of flint, including more than 8,000 children, was exposed to Dangerous Levels of lead for over a year. While officials insisted the water was safe. Ts was a failure of government at all levels. We all failed the families of flint. Reporter the democrat fm pennsylvania hit back hard. You are not in a medically induced coma for a year. And ive had about enough of your false contrition and phony aapologies. Reporter epa head said her agency relieie on michigan water officials. I wish we had yelled from the tree tops. But there was no way my agency created this problem. Reporter more than 150 residents from flint bused in overnight for the hearing. We cant brush our eth. We cant use the faucet like we do here in washington. Reporter but they Hope Congress will hear their voices. When i look at the look at hope. Reporter for some, faith in the government still lingers, even after they wor so badly let down. An american tragedy. Now to the majo