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The percentage of flint children now needing special education services has jumped 56%, according to state data. and the public school system is overwhelmed. >> lack of special education teachers, lack of counselors, lack of school psychologists, lack of trained certified behavior interventionists. >> i'm not a scientist. i just know my kid isn't getting it at these flint schools. >> you shouldn't have to fight for a school system to do what they should. >> her 6-year-old son max has autism. maxine says the lead poisoning making his behavioral issues worse. she says she fought months to get th...

Deaths. since then, reporters and scientists have grappled with this fatal aspect of the flint water crisis and whether it accounted for all thatched. in january 2011, bridge magazine in michigan used state data to compare the last time flint had good water to the two years it drangs from the river. were there additionally deaths in the years with the bad water? yes, many. bridge magazine found dozens of additional pneumonia deaths during the bad-water years. now a team of reporters who spent months going through death records by hand looking for records of anyone who died of pneumonia while f...

Circuits and ended up in the bodies of moms and dads and little kids who live in flint. there was also another problem with the water in flint. the same conditions that sent lead gushing into the town's drinking sunglasses sippy cups and baby bottles, those same conditions were also perfect for growing the bacteria behind a deadly form of pneumonia. it's a water-born disease known as legionnaires'. in january 2016, governor rick snyder revealed that flint had experienced a spike in cases of legionnaires' while fingerprint flint was drinking that corrosive river water. the state settled on 12 a...

How is that message going to play for democrats? >> this is to me one of the most underreported issues. when we survey the whole mainstream media, it will be one of the most important election issues. when you have the left saying let's abolish ice on the heels of us seeing this tragic murder, it is not about abolish ice, it's about protect americans. that message resonates and throughout the elections and will in the mid-terms. it's a big problem. sandra. you look, 1/5 of those in custody in federal prisons are illegal immigrants. you look at some of the state data, texas alone between 2011 a...

Issue of integrity with the 2016 presidential elections and namely that the russians tried to subvert our democracy and yet when the president meets with the russian head of state, putin says oh, it's an honor to meet you. >> we don't have a significant legal problem with voter fraud. i did public corruption cases with the department of justice and you just don't get those kinds of calls. it's ironic, though, that we certainly open ourselves up to that if all of this data is collected in one place. this is state by state data. it's very personal, sensitive information. if we collect it we just...