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I'm joined now by one of the residents who is taking action to address the situation in flint with the help of volunteers and donations, is distributing bottles of water to her community. good morning. >> good morning, melissa. >> i know that your organization is distributing bottled water for free to the community. because your community here does not have access to clean water. tell me more about what this effort is. >> well, it is called bottles for the babies. basically it was just a grassroots effort. heard about the situation of course and that was going on in my city and just was called...

Lead from those pipes leakched n the system. residents complained immediately with the color and taste of their water but detroit didn't switch back to the old water system for 1 1/2 years. this year it was discovered the city's infants and children with above-average lead levels had nearly doubled. this was devastating news for the people of flint because the neurological damage and behavioral effects of lead poisoning are believed to be irreversible. this tuesday governor rick snyder declared a deck cla mags of emergency and the same day the u.s. attorney's office is investigating the case f...

Financial ben -- i mean these are medical bills and educational crises and health crises for their lives. we know about the impact of lead. can you meal me one more thing to try to end on some kind of happy note, tell me what your organization will do going forward to try to hope mitigate some of this? >> absolutely. again, just as when we started, it is to get clean water to those who need it most. of course, that's all of the city of flint. our organization is just reaching out to people who can't get to us. we're looking to partner with the local physicians and nurses, the visiting nurses h...