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Supplies. i hopped in one, a 16-foot bass fishing boat with two military veterans and travelled about 50 miles up the cape fear river. i was struck not just by how vast this flooding was but also the stench of that water. you mentioned the environmental concerns of the contaminants that could be getting into this water, as it comes to that one power plant just off the cape fear river in this wilmington area, duke energy assures me that the ash basins are secure and water testing has come back wi...

They didnt start distributing it until may, and then some residents complained of a foul ow odor and taste, unsure whether it came that way or got that way from sitting in the sun for months in the heat down there. then that prompted more water testing, and its just been sort of a perfect storm of logistical nightmares. and this is such a glaring example of how emergency management is so much about logistics. and i couldnt help think back to all the folks i saw a month after the storm drinking r...

She says the stomach pains started about two weeks ago and shes trying to ignore them. do you think it has something to do with the water? she doesnt know for sure, but she thinks it might have something to do with the water shes drinking. its impossible to know for sure if the stomach pains are related, but when we went back to the water wells today, a different scene. puerto rican officials had stationed guards at the we will sites to prevent more people from accessing the potentially con tm n...

Accessing these potential contaminated water wells. >> what do owe foe about the epa testing time line? >> reporter: we were told by epa officials that the water sample taken from those wells in question, that the biological test on those, those results could come back as early as tuesday, tomorrow. the more serious and troublesome aspects of that water testing for those chemicals compound which could include cancer causing industrial toxins, those results probably wont be back until earlier nex...

For the summer olympics in tokyo. organizers say water testing showed e. coli levels 20 times higher than the limits. organizers have promised to improve the water quality. the newses continues with shepard smith after this. >> shepard: actually, a little breaking news here. we mentioned the president was meeting with first responders in las vegas. were waiting for him to walk in the room. hes done so. notice were using an internet connection here, the white house pool is, because of where it is...

For instance in key west, and try to locate where these water breaks are. we know the main transmission line is okay. theres a lot of distribution. as you know, going off u.s. 1 there are potential breaks in all those tendrils. thats a big challenge. this morning theyre going to begin water testing in keylargo and the aqueduct authority will continue down the keys testing. about 40 different crews to help with utilities, with restoration of power. we expect it will be a week to ten days before p...

The u.s. military has deployed 6,000 active duty troops with an additional 1,100 ready to deploy. harvey dumped an estimate 27 trillion gallons of rain on texas and louisiana over a six-day period. for some context here, if the storm hit florida, this is how much of the state it would have swallowed up, nearly the entire state minus the panhandle there. 27 trillion gallons, that would power niagara falls for more than a year. >> massive. from beaumont to houston and beyond, there is growing co...

The epa is doing some air testing for us. and water testing as well. >> reporter: what is the danger as his product moves into the water supply? >> we dont expect it to move out of our perimeter. it will burn. all of it will burn. we had no reports of any positive tests for -- >> reporter: what kind of things are you watching for? >> hydrocarbons. organic compounds. total organic compounds. >> reporter: for the first responders who have experienced that stuff, what were they experiencing if the ...

Youre not taking that. youre not taking that. mom, im taking the subaru. dont be late. even when were not there to keep them safe, our subaru outback will be. (vo) love. its what makes a subaru, a subaru. welcome back, im katie tur. look at this eye opening video out of florida, a home getting swallowed whole by a sink hole. two homes were destroyed. the sink hole was more than 200 feet wide and 50 feet deep. water testing is under way to ensure that drinking water in the area is still safe. >...

About to get back to its pre-spill color because the toxic water is moving through next mexico now. when pushed, the epa could not explain why of all the agencies it was not able to prevent this disaster. they say there will be an independent investigation. the epa said it set up collection pools to deal with the situation. the 3 million gallons still moving. julie: what happen with these disaster declarations in new mexico and colorado. >> reporter: it frees up $500 million to begin the cleanup...