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The lines to collect keep growing. 300,000 people have been forced to get by on bottled water since thursday. that's when a chemical leak was fond to have tainted the water supply. schools are shut down, water samples are being tested around the clock for signs of improvement. >> i believe we're at a point where we can say we see light at the end of the tunnel. >> reporter: but there's still no specific timeline for lifting the water ban. it will happen in phases. >> people are anxious. they don't have certainty of what's going on. >> reporter: officials believe more than 7,500 gallons of a ch...

Without clean tap water for a fourth day now. and it means no bathing, cooking, no cleaning and now many of these people could be forced to leave their home, their businesses after health experts say it could be days still until the tap water is safe to use. brian is following the story live in our new york city newsroom with the latest. >> right now officials are aggressively testing water samples from nine counties in west virginia measuring level of a toxic chemical which spill into the river and contaminating the water supply. four laboratories have been working overnight measuring some 10...

To the painted water, and fema is sending 75 trucks filled with about 5,000 gallons of water each. they will be distributed across the affected areas. joining us now from washington. aaron, what's the latest? we do understand now that there have been five patients admitted to the hospital. and also saying they've been sickened by this water. >> reporter: well, fred, we've learned now that the president of west virginia american water says that this problem may go on for days. west virginia american water just released a statement to us about what things are looking like right now. they say the...

And they'll review following a 2009, 16-car derailment and the conductor has been with conrail since 2008 and worked the accident route previously, but was his first week back on it. the n.t.s.b. say they winter to get their investigators to wait for the coast guard have crews to pump out the hazardous materials which should be beginning right now. >> and there's vinyl chloride containers and we still need to get those contains and potential for releases in the future even after we take care of the one that breached originally. so we're taking all precautions to ensure that everybody remains s...

>> reporter: they will be reviewing repairs made to the bridge back in 2009 after a 16-car derailment. conductor had worked it previously but this was his first week back on it. punctured tanker was carrying 24,000 pounds of that toxic chemical. it caused the evacuations of 500 people. today more than a hundred are still out of their homes. 86 people have been treated for symptoms associated with the gas. workers and businesses outside the evacuation zones are even reporting having health problems feeling short of breath, dizzy. >> my eyes have been burning and today and tonight, all three of ...