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Coming in about our water and the water is absolutely safe to drink. when you were in one of those 1400, 1500 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 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 abo...

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...

Safe water. so bottled water is needed. ljts but really distribution of bottled water is just a band-aid to this problem. how long can we go on, you know, letting people take cases of water. they cant be doing this for years or, you know, even just short term, it seems pretty hard to comprehend. >> bottled waters a temporary fix. its certainly not something over the long-term that anyone wants. what we want is safe water from every person so that all kids and all parents and everybody feel confi...

Giant serial construction job. the city is replacing thousands of lead pipes. the construction itself raises fears that old lead scale will get dislodged and sent down the pipes and into houses. the city started construction work -u up again today after a break for winter weather. they expect to be through this at least 2019. how difficult this has been for the people who live there. also standing out in flint is the way the governor has sometimes needed to be dragged into dealing with it, wheth...

In that durango. in was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipes. there was no gun. what was in that durango -- >> sunny, let me leave you with this. were expecting a verdict here in this case probably today. its been a fairly quick trial. if this is an acquittal, how big a decision will this be for the community? the it doesnt have the wassage zimmerman did. benefits somewhat from being the snekd a line of these cases in some places but what do you think happens if dunn walks? >> it ...