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Say it with milk-bone. new developments this morning in the environmental crisis unfolding in north carolina where residents are still waiting for the third largest coal spill in history to be cleaned up. on february 2nd, a pipe collapsed at a plant owned by duke energy, the nations largest electricity provider, leaking at least 35 million tons of contaminated water into north carolinas dan river and coating 70 miles along the river with toxic sludge. youre looking at video and stills posted b...

>> and i want to get to these e-mails now. to be clear, these are e-mails that were exchanged between state regulators and duke attorney attorneys. prior to this spill, they were reaching a settlement about how duke should clean up its pollution. some say they are questionable. when you look at some of the e-mails, they seem pretty benign. i want to read one of them, though. we have a full screen of it which says "we think it makes sense for the consent order to set out deadlines by which the tw...

It? we can accommodate it, but well nee a new crew, a new airplane. theyre not nimble, and its difficult to make decisions and to make appearances on the fly. they need time to plan. >> i want to be fair because i understand having been a govern governor, they have to submit plans, show their tables are sound and financially prudent. why dont they just tell the american public what the president is doing to them is absolutely a disruption to the marketplace and they cant move that fast because t...

In time whether any of the states will change their direction on this or whether theyll stay where they are, but the extension does run the risk of perpetuating more than one risk pool, which can adversely affect selection, so the more sick people might be in it or might have different premiums and premium increases. uncertainty is not good in the insurance business. >> do your foal -- fellow commissioners, hearing about another extension for small business or insurance planes that dont meet the...

Coming on tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. >> remember the ceo of exxonmobil who opposed a water tower that could be used in his own backyard but seemed fine with it elsewhere? >> a million wells, you can find where most of them are. go out and talk to people. if there was a problem, state regulators would have already been all over this. >> the response from one of the former top executives at the mobile part of exxonmobil next. spokesperson: we decided to settle this.

Them voted against the medicaid expansion last year and you started objecting to this bill. i hope you can find common ground. the whole nation is watching helping you figure it out. i really do appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. >> remember the ceo of exxonmobil who opposed a water tower that could be used in his own backyard but seemed fine with it elsewhere? >> a million wells, you can find where most of them are. go out and talk to people. if there wa...

It was clear to us early on, those were air problems. those were all air related. i think that sort of helped steer us in that direction. >> your report today has landed with a big splash. texas state regulators pushed back immediately and hard today. they say overall fracking has no significant effect on air quality and they know that. how do you -- how do you respond to that given your own reporting on texas regulators? >> well, they dont know that. that was kind of one of the points. one of t...

>> in terms of thinking about what might possibly make the situation better and what might be a way out of it, if thats your view at how state regulators have dealt with it, is there a role for federal regulators? is in a role for epa or somebody with jurisdiction to make a difference here? >> there is a role for the epa. but i think one thing a lot of people dont know is that when youre talking about the federal clean air act, enforcement of that act is delegated to the states. and so in this c...

Air. rotten egg odors, people who were nausea, nosebleeds, severe asthma attacks. it was clear to us early on, those were air problems. those were all air related. i think that sort of helped steer us in that direction. >> your report today has landed with a big splash. texas state regulators pushed back immediately and hard today. they say overall fracking has no significant effect on air quality and they know that. how do you -- how do you respond to that given your own reporting on texas regu...

To say they know theres not a problem, i think thats disingenuous. >> in terms of thinking about what might possibly make the situation better and what might be a way out of it, if thats your view at how state regulators have dealt with it, is there a role for federal regulators? is in a role for epa or somebody with jurisdiction to make a difference here? >> there is a role for the epa. but i think one thing a lot of people dont know is that when youre talking about the federal clean air act, e...