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I'm curious. there's a widely publicized and most folks have seen the video over the weekend. joe biden in new hampshire talking as if he was in vermont. what do you hear from the biden campaign about that and about the concerns that it raises about whether he's up to this? >> yeah. i was there for that. it was, frankly, a baffling moment. reporters looking at each other wondering how he could make that kind of mistake. this is the kind of thing where the biden campaign will respond to say we make too much of an issue out of this, there are other candidates making mistakes on the campaign, but...

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...

Current bottled water distribution is that they have been testing for two weeks and will be testing for two more. they haven't updated us on what these tests are proving. we asked the mayor and he's going to wait until there's a scientific sample. right now they're working on getting the corrosion inhibitor in the water set. that takes up to six months. once that's set, in a worst case scenario, hopefully they won't need to use bottled water anymore. we won't know when they can stop distributing until the tests are done. >> we know instinctively you don't want lead in your water. but specifica...

It has these ancient old pipes and they were using this chemical called sodium silicate to prevent the lead from leeching into the water. when they made the water acidic to deal with one problem they rendered the sodium silicate ineffective. now what we found in our report is they never did a test before doing that. the state was unaware they were doing this. city officials couldn't produce any tests that showed when they were looking to change the acidity, they wondered what other impact it might have on their water, so that's what started the snowballing effect from our report that brought u...