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Students home for the day today after complaints of headaches. the chemical spill left 300,000 without access to clean water. government authorities have been arguing that the water is safe for drinking despite real fear in the community. the national guard is retesting the water at that school. charleston mayor danny jones joins me from charleston, west virginia. mr. mayor, good to see you. you say youre drinking out of the tap at your house but senator rockefeller, senator from west virginia, ...

There is more new material on yesterdays shocking revelation of the george washington lane closures. we are going to be joined by the ft. lee mayor to get his reaction. we have more on the story that dawn zimmer charged that members linked her sandy aid to her approval of a development project represented by one of the governors closest political confident. the project in question is owned by the rockefeller group that would like to build a large commercial real estate project in the north end o...

Hoboken, major dawn zimmer and this development project. you have mike duquesne working on behalf of this project and they wont answer the basic question, is this a project you guys want? >> thats kind of in the reporting on this. the advances that we have made have come when simple questions cant be answers. where did the money go? why do you sfoert this project? it should be obvious. you shouldnt have to have a panicky answer to this. it makes people like us more suspicious. here is the poll. ...

Thats what dawn zimmer charged on our show, that the christie administration wanted the rockefeller project approved and was using sandy funding to get its way. its an allegation that the christie administration has vehemently denied. this brings us to the new e-mails. from april 24g9, th, 2013. this is after the redevelopment study but before they have decided what to do with it. it is addressed to steven marks, the assistant city business manager. the invitation to go to trenton at the request...

Want to be stopped. your thoughts. >> thats right. and the mayor was something of a political neophyte before she came into office. and its almost as if she didnt understand what was happening. and now she says what is happening was that she was being pressured from all directions for this development. she didnt realize that the chairman of the bridge agency, david samson, was involved and had a relationship with the developer. and that the developer was tied through the lobbyist through christi...

Talk about the rockefeller project to the christie people in meeting, zimmer gets a call saying kim guadagno would be visiting hoboken in a few days. and that meeting in a shoprite parking lot is when zimmer says guadagno, the lieutenant governor, lays down the gauntlet. here is zimmers recollection of what happened during that visit from the lieutenant governor. >> the fact is that the lieutenant governor came to hoboken. she pulled me aside in the parking lot, and she said i know its not right...

Governor, guadagno, to mayor zimmer that if she didnt play ball on the rockefeller project on the waterfront there she wouldnt get any more federal money from the state, i mean more state money. would that be if that were determined to be a fact, youre saying that wouldnt be criminal? >> right. i would defend that the same way i defended on your show when they promised joe sestak a job to get him out of the race against arlen specter. its political maneuvering. not every political maneuver, not ...

Christies top port authority appointee and adviser and whose name pops up many times in the ft. lee traffic scandal e-mails. in less than one week after zimmer wrote asking for money and the city voted against the rockefeller development deal, zimmer met with lieutenant governor kim gaundano at an event. >> zimmer has told us that gaundano pulled her aside during that visit and delivered a message to her. if you want that sandy money, you need to get that rockefeller project moving, because its ...

>> i spoke to the mayor this morning and told her that hoboken is in the front of my mind. and whenever theres any assistance needed here, we would be here to help. >> hobokens mayor, dawn zimmer, said she applied for over $100 million in grants, but received just over $300,000 from the state. zimmer was frustrated. on may 8th last year, she wrote to the governor, saying, please, governor, we need your help. i have tried to assure hoboken residents that hoboken would be treated fairly, because y...

So basically, its big enough to drive a truck through. this chemical and many other ones we dont know a lot about in terms of human health risks. >> theres a proposal from senators manchin, rockefeller, and boxer to introduce some kind of reform legislation in the wake of this spill. those are some of the main items, establish a state inspection programs for chemical facilities, sets minimum inspection requirements and standards for facilities, directs states to identify at-risk facilities. my q...