0 move is all that really matters. that's going to wrap things up. stay connected with me at cnn.com. keep the conversation going on twitter as well. time to get you back to the cnn newsroom with kyra phillips. here in the newsroom, i'm kyra phillips. we have a lot going on today. congress is sure getting paid. a new report finds that congress has the most millionaires ever. a teen shot and killed by police, his family still demanding closure and authorities still investigating why lethal force was even used. your car may be spying on you. your car and soon it it may help the government draft your tax bill. we begin tonight with more questions than answers for residents in west virginia as officials say it could be days before it will be safe to use the tap water. it's a state of emergency for some 300,000 people in nine counties right now. 7500 gallons of a toxic chemical leaked out of a tank. no bathing, brushing your teeth, cooking, the simple things you need water for. 16 tractor trailers from the department of homeland security have delivered fresh drinking water. are officials giving any kind of timeline for the cleanup? >> there's no end date yet, but jeff mcentire, the president of west virginia american water, did hold a press conference a few hours ago and he explained why it's going to take a little while. take a listen. >> i would expect we are talking days. our teams are out. we have employees that have worked this system that are extremely knowledgeable of the system out collecting samples and looking at flushing activities at this time. but we are talking days. >> as they continue to test, they have to produce safe results repeatedly before they will decide that the water is safe to use. so that's why we're talking days. now the good news is that we have seen the chemical levels decline some, but still, it is not yet safe to use. >> freedom industries, the company that's responsible for this leak, it has been issued a cease operations order from the state department of environmental protection. do we know if criminal charges could be brought against this company? >> that is very possible. booth goodwin said last nigh that he's launching an investigation and just for negligence there may be criminal charges brought. on top of that, erin brockovich, who is a famous public advocate, she was on cnn last night and says she's sending her team into west virginia as well to investigate on her turf. she's famous for some of the class action lawsuits. >> erin, we were talking about this earlier, this is -- these folks need water for something to do as simple as brushing their teeth. what are these 300,000 folks doing without the simple necessary of water every day? >> kyra, fema is sending in gallons and gallons of water for those kinds of uses in addition to trucks full of bottles of water to drink. but this is not just a health concern. it's also an economic concern because so many businesses in the area have had to close too. so the whole area of charleston and the surrounding areas are impacted not just for economic concerns, but also for health concerns and just for their daily lives. so it really is a problem there right now. >> we'll keep following it. erin, thanks a lot. alex rodriguez got some bad news. his suspension was shortened, but not by much. still a full season. a punishment for his involvement in the drug scandal and it could be enough to finish his career in baseball. jason carol has the latest. >> this decision is very disappointing for alex rodriguez, but it was not entirely unexpected. alex releasing a statement saying the number of games sadly comes as no surprise as the deck has been stacked against me since day one. i have been clear i did not use performance enhancing substances to violate the basic agreement or the joint. drug agreement in any matter and in order to prove it i will take this fight to federal court. i will continue to work hard to get back on the field and help the yankees achieve the ultimate goal of winning another championship. i was told he would have accepted a 50 or 65-game suspension. there would not have been an admission of guilt, but they would have moved on, to so to speak, but that did not happen. major league baseball, of course, wanted the entire 211-game suspension to stand. that did not happen. they released a statement saying while we believe the original suspension was appropriate, we respect the decision renderred by the panel and will focus on our continuing efforts on eliminating performance enhancing substances from our game. as you can imagine, a number of sports fans are weighing in. about the 162-game suspension. here's what they had to say. >> i'm from boston and i thought the penalty was too strong. i'm good with the 162. >> how do you hand out the ban to one person and not give anything to the other people doing the same thing? if you talk about just arod, i think it's too harsh. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think if they gave him anything, it it it should be 50 games at the max. >> whole career should be out. not enough. >> i think he deserves it. i don't think there should be doping in. baseball. >> during the entire arbitration process, alex rodriguez was allowed to play ball. that may not be. the case this time. representative from major league baseball said this decision is final so he will not be able to play baseball even while he takes his fight to next level. do not expect him to show up for spring training. that may not be the case. he's going to ask his attorney to ask a federal judge for an injunction to allow him to keep playing while he keeps fighting. jason carroll, cnn, new york. credit card users, there's a the lot of you. two major retailers this weekend are trying to figure out how many customers unwittingly gave their personal information to hackers over the holidays. first, target. now niemann marcus. it's a major security breach that they learned about before christmas. they say they have been working to shore up security and not exactly sure how many customers need to be worried. jennifer merrily is following this for us. what kind of information might be compromised? 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