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Or are you a wreck while all this is going on? >> i am frantic. >> reporter: veronica went back home. she and james watched the front door. and they kept calling annie, but her phone went straight to voicemail. in the best of worlds, she's out with some young boyfriend you may or may not know, off on a lark of some kind. but it'll come to an end. and you'll get her back and regroup. >> yeah, our worst-case scenario at that point is, okay, she's going to come home pregnant. >> reporter: worst case scenario? not even close. >> what had happened to annie? and who was the mysterious l.j.? when we ...

>> you know, i'm not real sure. i'm at the river bottom, and there's some pools of blood. and i'm guessing it's just an animal, but in the water right by the river there's a shoe. >> reporter: sergeant chad carpenter was one of the first on the scene. this is what the jogger sees, blood here. pooling blood? clotted blood? >> yeah, so basically in this area right here, you had the blood droplets. and then on the cement right here you had mud in this area. on that beam right there. in this area you had a little bit of blood. and then you had pooling down on the ground right there. and then in th...

Again, they're hauling water to keep the water systems operating. >> and those are the options now. what about long term issues that may come down the road for residents there very quickly? >> yeah. we're still trying to learn what the long-term effects of this -- the ph levels are okay right now. >> okay. >> the issue is the metals. the iron, zinc that would settle on the river bottom and continually come up. >> certainly. >> that testing will need to be done long term. >> all right. kelly pehrson from san juan county, utah, thank you so much for helping us understand the situation there. >> ...

Had the river keeper spotted duke energy pumping water out of the bizarrely blue ponds with the toxic coal ash in them and into the canal. the canal that feeds into the river which incidentally supplies drinking water downstream. they spotted duke pumping water out of this pond and also out of the next coal ash pond over. the next pond over. they took these pictures monday. a week ago today. duke energy moving water directly from the coal ash ponds into the canal and into the woods. after they posted those pictures, the story got written up in "the new york times" and "l.a. times." this is nat...

Energy pumping water out of the bizarrely blue ponds with the toxic coal ash in them and into the canal. the canal that feeds into the river which incidentally supplies drinking water downstream. they spotted duke pumping water out of this pond and also out of the next coal ash pond over. the next pond over. they took these pictures monday. a week ago today. duke energy moving water directly from the coal ash ponds into the canal and into the woods. after they posted those pictu pictures, the story got written up in "the new york times" and "l.a. times." this is national news now what's going ...