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Governor decided they would save money by switching flint over to a new drinking water source. and the state okayed them going ahead with the switch without treating that water to make it safe. the rick snyder administration then compounded the problem and the poisoning of flints kids by ignoring the warning signs of rising lead levels first in the citys water and then inevitably in the bloodstream of the children of that city. last week michigan governor rick snyder announced the reds-nations o...

Managers working for the governor decided they would save money by switching flint over to a new drinking water source. and the state okayed them going ahead with the switch without treating that water to make it safe. the rick snyder administration then compounded the problem and the poisoning of flints kids by ignoring the warning signs of rising lead levels first in the citys water and then inevitably in the bloodstream of the children of that city. last week michigan governor rick snyder ann...

This first weekend of 2016 the state of michigan, it was cold. but in lots of places this year the winter didnt start off feeling like winter but now it feels like winter. and in that cold with freezing temperatures and high cold winds in michigan this weekend the day after new years dozens of people bundled up and set out across the city of flint, michigan as volunteers to hand out free bottled water to people who live in that town. weve been covering this story recently, the story of how the r...

Getting into the new system. flints emergency manager decided not to try to work something out with detroit but instead they went with option b. they decided to macgyver it. he signed that order, that june 2013 order to -- for flint to get ready to use it as the primary drinking water source for at least a couple of years. a few months after that, april 2014 with flint now being run by yet another emergency manager, flint unhooked itself from detroits water and started drinking from the mighty, ...

Hire an engineering firm to get the city ready for using the flint river as a primary drinking water source. at the time the state appointed one man government for flint, michigan. the state-appoint emergency manager was trying to carry out a plan that the city counsel had voted for back in the day. which was to try to save money by having flint buy its drinking water from detroit. theyd always bought water from detroit and it was expensive and they decided that flint was broke. they needed to s...

Drink the water. >> its easy for folks to say we dont think thats a problem, but we cant prove that right now. >> were seeing an unfolding disaster thats in slow motion here. >> reporter: and richard denison says the cdc is basing their conclusions on a 1990 study on lab rats that doesnt prove the water is safe. >> federal and state officials have largely been flying blind, trying to make decisions on the fly with very little information to go by. i dont think they should have lifted the do not ...

Flushing by our crews as well as through regular use of people flushing toilets. , thanks of that nature. bill: one last question, laura, do you know if the spill is still happening? >> it is my understanding that the it has been contained. the department of environmental protection is on site working with that company. i know earlier in previously you said there was huge chemical leak. that is not actually the case t wasnt huge. we have to take precautions for any level of contaminant in a drin...

Get overtopped and run instead down the hillside all the way downstream and see what happens to california or you keep thundering water down that broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, its kept on spreading and spreading, look. they say presumably it will split down to the bed rook. but what are you going to do? they have to keep running water down that thing. they dont have a choice so theyre running the destroyed spillway. theyre runn...

It was a big deal. they started a cleanup operation. a lot of this was on native land in canada, in addition to the official cleanup led by the government a lot of local people came out to see the sight for themselves and to try to help with with the cleanup. this one guy -- i came across this in the contemporaneous news coverage. hes a member of the key nation. -- cree nation. he was out there at the site of the spill collecting dead animal life alongside the polluted river and you can see him ...

Is the drinking water source for a lot of people downstream. and the river was running really high at the time of the spill, thered been a lot of rain in the area at that time. they did put boom into the river to try to contain some of the oil but it was basically completely -- you can see how effective the boom is being there, right? basically completely ineffective. the oil spilled all the way downstream. more than 200 miles down the north saskatchewan river. a whole bunch of canadian towns we...