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That sinkhole happen? was there somebody that overlooked the safety of that spillway and then there's the question about the emergency spillway not having a concrete apron all the downhill side. why didn't that take place in the years past. >> congressman, obviously you've got 150,000 of your constituents who are not at home tonight, people not knowing how long this is going to go on. it's a scary situation. it's a human health and safety situation and quickly i imagine for many families already becoming a serious economic situation when we look at this as an infrastructure problem, it boggles...

Instant jobs and that's the mistake they made back in those days i think. these things aren't so shovel ready. it does take time. i think the real reason the president wants to do this is because we have a crumbling infrastructure problem and you need a good modern infrastructure for economic growth to occur. not just the jobs building the infrastructure, but you need to have a good highway system. you need to have a good bridge system, a good pipeline system, a good canal and waterway system for economic growth to occur. for a modern economy to succeed. and so he sees this and we agree with h...

And special interest carve outs meaning more money so we can be more competitive. the one provision i was telling the tool and dye maker raises revenue to help us lower the tax rates. the other mentioned things do cost money. we have to pay for those things. that's what our spring budget is going to do. there's a big infrastructure problem in this country whether it's canals, roads or bridges or rail or airports. that's a real problem. and we're going to have to come up with ways to pay for that. so nothing's free. and so we have to in our budget come up with other spending offsets to pay fo...

State of emergency. nbc's stephanie gosk joins me on the join from lansing. and nbc's john yang is in flint with more. stephanie, let me start with you. you just were at that news conference. what more did they have to say? >> reporter: well, jose, the real purpose of the news conference was to present a kind of united front in this problem. you had the mayor of flint, the new mayor of flint, karen weaver, and the governor of michigan, rick snyder who would like nothing more than for this to be about looking forward and solving this problem. unfortunately, there are still too many questions be...

Interagency group, a comprehensive approach to this clearly very dangerous crisis as the city of flint has been confronting now for months or year. and the mayor saying that the people of flint will no doubt be excited to hear the news. that's what's been going on. we're, of course, going to keep watching this for you because the reality is that as the payer said, there are children that have been exposed. they have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead. as a matter of fact, this is toxic. what are the long-term repercussions on these people that have been drinking this water, not knowing t...