The flatwater crisis, this pandemic, has both a health and Economic Impact. In the case of flint, dealing with the water crisis issues and the associated health issues,ut the Economic Impact layered on top of that is this coronavirus issue. As you know, i am sure because there has been a lot of reporting on this, coronavirus seems to have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Flint is a majority minority community. , in michigan, 14 of the population is africanamerican. 41 of the deaths are occurring in the African American community. It is a crisis on top of a crisis. That is why so much of the intervention we have been focusing on in washington and in our state is important for places like flint, saginaw, to have a path forward. Host lets focus for a moment on the water situation. What is the status of that today . Rep. Kildee the Water Quality is improving for sure. The lead service lines. The federal government stepped in and provided significant money to replace the l
Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced
Operational under 50 years. What happened, what needed to happen for that to be successful and what did not happen in the wake of making that switch to the flint river . Hi a lot of upgrades that needed to happen at the plant. Tens of millions of dollars. The plant had not been operational in this way in nearly half a century. A lot of upgrades to systems that needed to be done. There was staff that needed to be adequately trained. Before they actually made the switch, there was not enough. They did not have the adequate training necessary. They could not fathom that they were going to make them turn on the plant in such a short time. One of the workers at the plant, or his his sister, what was he saying at the time before the switch by the government officials . We spoke with matt mcfarland. He had worked at the plant for about 20 years before this happened. Loved his job. Very passionate about it. In the lead up to the switch, matt was responsible for doing a lot. Some of what he was
In arizona. House Speaker Mike Johnson calling on the president of Columbia University to resign amid ongoing protests against the war in gaza. Those protests growing coasttocoast even as police clash with demonstrators. It was ten years ago today that officials in flint michigan changed the citys watersource, sending off a Massive Health and contamination crisis. How they are doing a decade later. And millennials are setting their sights on the country club life. While theyre still barely middleaged. And the cicada hatching is prompting 911 calls. Its thursday, april 25th. Early today starts right now. Good morning, im frances rivera, we begin with a new legal battle linked to donald trump. The former president is unindicted coconspirator one in a criminal case involving arizona elections. 11 socalled fake electors who supported mr. Trump have been indicted by a grand jury,. One month after the 2020 election, they signed a certificate claiming to be arizona electors. But President Bid
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