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Residents of Flint and Benton Harbor, Michigan, have all dealt with contaminated water supply over the years, and they are still having issues with lead and the repercussions of failing infrastructure. Recently, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has laid out information for residents of Flint and Brenton Harbor on the improvements made and next steps.
Also developing, in the city of kunduz a humanitarian crisis growing more dire by the hour. it comes after a suspected u.s. air strike blew apart a doctors without border yesterday. the humanitarian group is pulling out. the pentagon acknowledges a strike happened there and is not ruling out the possibility of collateral damage. jon yang is following the latest. conflicting reports about why this happened and who's to blame. what do we know? >> defense secretary ash carter told reporters traveling with him that the situation in his words is complicated and confused. and that's an understatemen...
The obama administration says the number of americans signing ul for health insurance is surging. the insurance is set to take effect wednesday when hundreds of thousands of americans will begin to use the program's new medical coverage for the first time. nbc's jon yang is in honolulu, hawaii, where the president is spending the holidays. we're switching it up this hour. different topic for you. tell us about these new numbers the administration is touting today. >> reporter: the numbers came out on a blog on the hhs website. it says by the december 24th deadline to sign up in order to get co...
0 federal judge's ruling that the nsa's collection of americans' telephone records is legal. the legal adviser to nsa leaker edward snowden appeared on "meet the press." >> this district judge is not just disagreeing with another judge. he's also disagreeing with the president's own hand-picked advisory panel. that panel, which included a former top-level cia official, a former counterterrorism adviser, concluded that they had seen no evidence that the bulk telephone metadata program had been uni e uniquely successful, had stopped any kind of attack. there is a dispute about whether this is, y...
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