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Crosshairs on this. his own task force laid the blame, much of the blame for this, on the michigan department of environmental quality, said they did not pay enough attention to these reports, to the complaints about the water. the reports that were coming in about the high lead levels in the water, he is saying -- he's trying to focus the attention on moving forward. today he met with karen weaver, mayor of flint, who was elected just this november, the situation with the water played a big role in her campaign. she threw a lifeline. she's standing with him. she says, agrees it is time to loo...

That news from the federal epa in february and they did not say a word about it to the public for the better part of a year. we knew that as of friday. now there's something new. the mcarthur genius award winning drinking water expert from virginia tech who dropped everything when he heard what was going on in flint and drove 15 hours straight to start testing the water in flint, that virginia tech professor now says in addition to ignoring the epa telling them what was wrong, the state of michigan under rick snyder also intentionally withheld even its own data. the snyder administration's own...

The environmental agency. they're dated february 26th, 2015, a little less than a year after flint had switched over its water. the epa writes, quote, the main purpose of my e-mail is to alert you to the high lead levels reported to a citizen yesterday by the flint water department. the epa says, quote, this goes back to what you and i were talking about yesterday that the different chemistry water is leeching out contaminants. so, rick snyder's government got that news from the federal epa in february, and they did not say a word about it to the public for the better part of a year. we knew t...

We knew that as of friday. now there's something new. the mcarthur genius award winning drinking water expert from virginia tech who dropped everything when he heard what was going on in flint and drove 15 hours straight to start testing the water in flint, that virginia tech professor now says in addition to ignoring the epa telling them what was wrong, the state of michigan under rick snyder also intentionally withheld even its own data. the snyder administration's own data which showed the levels of lead in blood tests in flint going up. the professor has now posted new documents that were ...

Kids had been drinking this poisonous water for 17 months, in late september governor rick snyder conceded that maybe possibly lead might be a problem in flint. saying for the first time, "it appears that water lead levels could be higher or have increased since the town switched to river water." there are "probably things that weren't fully understood when the switch was made." you think? you think maybe some things went a long cockeyed here and now the kids who grew up in flint are going to have to deal with it the rest of their lives, with points irreversibly shaved off their iqs and learni...