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Coming in about our water and the water is absolutely safe to drink. when you were in one of those 1400, 1500 households getting elevated lead levels of the water from the lead leaching to the pipes, that was not true. the mayor was trying to say the water source from the reservoir was not contaminated. that was true. but what was coming out of their faucets, there was a significant amount where the water was not safe to drink. >> you know, dr. torres, when you read nick's story and you think about how big this country is and how common political dysfunction is, and you have all these inter mi...

If you were in 1 of those 14,000 or 15,000 households getting elevated lead levels of the water from the lead leaching to the pipes, that was not true. the mayor was trying to say the water source from the reservoir was not contaminated. that was true. but when it comes to what the residents were hearing and what was coming out of their faucets, there was a significant amount where the water was not safe to drink. >> you know, dr. torres, when you read nick's story and you think about how big this country is and how common political dysfunction is, and you have all these intermingling of agenc...

Safe water. so bottled water is needed. ljts but really distribution of bottled water is just a band-aid to this problem. how long can we go on, you know, letting people take cases of water. they can't be doing this for years or, you know, even just short term, it seems pretty hard to comprehend. >> bottled water's a temporary fix. it's certainly not something over the long-term that anyone wants. what we want is safe water from every person so that all kids and all parents and everybody feel confident. but in the meantime we need safe water. so that's the short-term fix. maybe we can figure o...

Giant serial construction job. the city is replacing thousands of lead pipes. the construction itself raises fears that old lead scale will get dislodged and sent down the pipes and into houses. the city started construction work -u up again today after a break for winter weather. they expect to be through this at least 2019. how difficult this has been for the people who live there. also standing out in flint is the way the governor has sometimes needed to be dragged into dealing with it, whether it was admitting it was a crisis at all or acknowledging the extent of it or deciding how much he...

In that durango. in was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipes. there was no gun. what was in that durango -- >> sunny, let me leave you with this. we're expecting a verdict here in this case probably today. it's been a fairly quick trial. if this is an acquittal, how big a decision will this be for the community? the it doesn't have the wassage zimmerman did. benefits somewhat from being the snekd a line of these cases in some places but what do you think happens if dunn walks? >> it is going to be significant. i can tell you that while i've been in the courtroom, there have been...