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A chelation that they can use to let lead out of their body. its reserved for children with very high levels. for most of them the main point is just remove the exposure as soon as you can. >> the big question, i think, and the backdrop for all of this is how it ever reached this crisis point in newark in the first place, especially in light of everything we saw in flint, michigan, a few years ago. nick, you were part of a team at "the new york times" that really took a dive into this question o...

Water protested outside of the prudential center, the site of tonights mtv music awards. earlier our own ron allen spoke to one resident about todays developments. >> they said today that theyre going to replace the pipes, the bad pipes over the next 30 months. >> okay -- 30 months? thats a long time. yeah, i understand they cant do it overnight, but, come on, 30 months. >> it was going to be ten years? >> ten years? >> now theyre speeding it up. >> okay, well -- >> thats still a long time. >> t...

Those are houses that need to be tested. different sources are saying there could be hundreds of cities out there that have similar problems, maybe even worse problems. we just dont know about them yet. >> nick, very quickly, the mayor, given what youve told us, given what youve reported, whats his standing in newark right now? >> hes an incredibly popular mayor. up until this moment there hasnt really been much of a controversy, much of a scandal. he took over from cory booker who was pretty po...

If you were in 1 of those 14,000 or 15,000 households getting elevated lead levels of the water from the lead leaching to the pipes, that was not true. the mayor was trying to say the water source from the reservoir was not contaminated. that was true. but when it comes to what the residents were hearing and what was coming out of their faucets, there was a significant amount where the water was not safe to drink. >> you know, dr. torres, when you read nicks story and you think about how big thi...

Our guest nick shared a by line on the story. it reads, quote, an investigation by "the new york times" based on dozens of interviews and hundreds of pages of public records reveals blunders at all levels of government in safeguarding newarks water infrastructure. city officials brushed aside warnings and allowed the system to deteriorate while state and federal regulators did not intervene often forcefully enough to help prevent the crisis. still with us, nick and dr. john torres. nick, so take...