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Drink the water. >> it's easy for folks to say we don't think that's a problem, but we can't prove that right now. >> we're seeing an unfolding disaster that's in slow motion here. >> reporter: and richard denison says the cdc is basing their conclusions on a 1990 study on lab rats that doesn't prove the water is safe. >> federal and state officials have largely been flying blind, trying to make decisions on the fly with very little information to go by. i don't think they should have lifted the do not use order. i think we are still seeing even just today reports of water in schools that is t...

Flushing by our crews as well as through regular use of people flushing toilets. , thanks of that nature. bill: one last question, laura, do you know if the spill is still happening? >> it is my understanding that the it has been contained. the department of environmental protection is on site working with that company. i know earlier in previously you said there was huge chemical leak. that is not actually the case t wasn't huge. we have to take precautions for any level of contaminant in a drinking water source. bill: you would say huge, affecting hundred thousand people. >> absolutely. we h...

Get overtopped and run instead down the hillside all the way downstream and see what happens to california or you keep thundering water down that broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, it's kept on spreading and spreading, look. they say presumably it will split down to the bed rook. but what are you going to do? they have to keep running water down that thing. they don't have a choice so they're running the destroyed spillway. they're running it to complete failure. hope for the best, the best option. pray for dry days. this happened...

It was a big deal. they started a cleanup operation. a lot of this was on native land in canada, in addition to the official cleanup led by the government a lot of local people came out to see the sight for themselves and to try to help with with the cleanup. this one guy -- i came across this in the contemporaneous news coverage. he's a member of the key nation. -- cree nation. he was out there at the site of the spill collecting dead animal life alongside the polluted river and you can see him making his feelings known there on his tee shirt which says "when i die, i'm haunting you first." s...

Is the drinking water source for a lot of people downstream. and the river was running really high at the time of the spill, there'd been a lot of rain in the area at that time. they did put boom into the river to try to contain some of the oil but it was basically completely -- you can see how effective the boom is being there, right? basically completely ineffective. the oil spilled all the way downstream. more than 200 miles down the north saskatchewan river. a whole bunch of canadian towns were not only polluted, a whole bunch of wildlife not only died but a lot of people, tens of thousand...