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Regularly fires rockets from gaza. and security harris, will be tight with all of the world leaders for the funeral down there. >> conner powell from jerusalem tonight. we'll turn to the miserable conditions in west virginia visualing. people could not use tap water to bath, drink or cook or wash their clothes because of a foaming agent used to clean coal seeped in the main river that supplies drinking water to all of those people. one- fifth of the population of west virginia is affected tonight. and doug, yesterday as you were arriving, we were on the air together and you were starting to ...

Of the spill. here's what he had to say. >> i've prepared a short statement and then would like to start by sincerely apologizing to the people in the affected counties of west virginia. our friend and our neighbors, this incident is extremely unfortunate, unanticipated and we are very, very sorry. >> those apologies may not go very far. even just yesterday there were something like 800 calls made to poison control centers. there were six lawsuits filed yesterday, one of them by a man who was scheduled to have a kidney transplant. the transplant was canceled. he had to go back on dialysis. the...

Former deputy press secretary president reagan has died. he had alzheimer's and died in his sleep. speaks became reagan's spokesperson in 1991 after james brady was shot in the assassination attempt on president reagan. he spent six years as press secretary. larry speaks was 74 years old. shutting down most of the water in charlesston. foaming agent from chemical camp seeped into the river. 300,000 people in nine counties are not allowed to use tap water for cooking, bathing and doing laundry. bottled water running low. west virginia's governor trying to calm that chaos. >> if you are low on b...

Determining just how much of it is in the water. people throughout the area have complained of the powerful odor, saying it smells like licorice. the u.s. attorney in west virginia said the feds are investigating what caused this to happen. doug mckelway is in charleston. first impressions? >> first impressions, i'm trying to detect that odor you just mentioned, and maybe a faint hint of it but i don't notice it. the chemical is a foaming agent that is used in the processing of coal before the coal is shipped off for burping. -- for burning, it liked at a tank in freedom industries, coal proce...

Coal, first noticed a leak blocks down stream from the water company in downtown charleston, west virginia. an unknown quantity, probably thousands of gallons of a foaming agent used in the processing of coal, was now leaking from a tank and overrunning a containment area into the elk river from which hundreds of thousands of west virginians get their drinking water. the governor declared a state of emergency, warning west virginians in a nine-county area in and around charleston not to use their tap water. >> until we receive an all-clear, we are focusing efforts on hoping the most vulnerable...