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Exposed to health risks in the waters. streets remain filled with a toxic stew of chemicals, sewage and debris. officials are warning the water could be the biggest threat to public health at this time. i want to bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, you had a chance to test the water. you were collecting water samples. what did you learn? >> ana, we went out on these waters with folks from a professional testing lab here in houston. we did sampling in three different part of this little area. here's what we found. when they looked at e. coli, the first sample had 8...

Feet. dangerous conditions for this area. you can imagine that the conditions going forward for this particular region is going to be health concerns. we had the epa on the ground as we speak taking water samples. they expect chemicals within this water. e. coli, salmonella. imagine if you had a bruise or a cut on your leg and you had to go fetch some of your belongings out of your house that was flooding. you are going to have an instant infection. i mean, imagine what's lurking behind us. there are so many stories to tell here, but the bottom line is, an extraordinary amount of rainfall has ...

The report from the public utilities commission is that there are 316,000 outages which is less than i reported yesterday. that does not include any update from houston today. they're working as fast as possible to continue to reduce outages. with a decrease of wind and weather in regions like corpus christi, rockport, victoria, et cetera that will enable them to move more swiftly to reduce outages. the texas commission on it fire mental quality -- environmental quality is working on water samples to help them get off of boiling water, which they hope will be coming fairly soon.

Whole new danger for the folks in a florida neighborhood where a sinkhole swallowed two homes. emergency management officials collecting water samples to test for e. coli. this comes as families from four of the homes evacuated were allowed to return over the weekend. five other homes are deemed unsafe. the sinkhole opened up friday morning, growing to 225 feet in diameter. and 50 feet deep. it's a lot of two homes and a boat. thankfully no one was hurt. speak to some important new illegal development to tell you about for o.j. simpson with his parole hearing set for this thursday, july 20th. ...

>> melissa: cleanup and e. coli are underway and essential demand to make where a single swallow two homes. they are collecting water samples, because of septic tank issues, and building debris polluting. five buildings are still unsafe, and the families who live there cannot go back to see it. they may not want to anyway. insurance adjusters are in the process of figuring out what to do with the properties. yikes. oh rare offer from south korea to the north, and it comes less than two weeks after they testfired the first intercontinental meniscal. they want to hold military talks with north k...