that the chemicals were going to degrade. this is organic peroxide in the containers and they are not been cooled for several days. they knew they would degrade and then probably heat up and catch fire. and they say the best course of action right now is to let the fires burn out. anderson. >> so in your -- you are in bow mant so let's talk about residents are facing. serious problems with drinking water. what is the situation with that right now. >> we thought there might be cause for optimism when we were told they are at about 10% capacity of pumping out water and that they hope to have the water on tonight. but indications are that they may not get their water back tonight. i spoke to a local official who said that what they are being told is that the amount of water that they are pumping into that treatment facility behind me from the natches river through the pumps that are -- the temporary pumps is not matching the actual levels that they are reading in the gauges in there. and they have to figure out why