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This is a great triumph. why is that a fair framing of this? >> if you go back to march when they first broke ground on replacing the lead service lines, it was a $75 million bonding plan that was going to take ten years and cost residents up to $1,000 per household. that's a lot of money in a city like newark where the average median income is $34,000. fast forward to today, once the crisis has really accelerated, they were able to announce a new $120 million plan that was going to extradite it to less than three years. 18,000 pipes is a lot of pipes, so even the ability to do that in 30 mont...

>> back with us is john torres, medical correspondent for nbc news. nick, let's pick up on that reaction. i think when you hear just 30 months in isolation, two and a half years, i think everybody says that's a really long time to fix this. you have the mayor there saying this is a great triumph. why is that a fair framing of this? >> if you go back to march when they first broke ground on replacing the lead service lines, it was a $75 million bonding plan that was going to take ten years and cost residents up to $1,000 per household. that's a lot of money in a city like newark where the avera...

Yeah, i understand they can't do it overnight, but, come on, 30 months. >> it was going to be ten years? >> 20 years? >> now they're speeding it up. >> okay, well can she. >> that's still a long time. >> that is a long time. >> back with us is john torres, medical correspondent for nbc news. nick, let's pick up on that reaction. i think when you hear just 30 months in isolation, two and a half years, i think everybody says that's a really long time to fix this. you have the mayor there saying this is a great triumph. why is that a fair framing of this? >> if you go back to march when they firs...