dave boucher is the capital bureau chief with the "daily mail" and joins us again live on the telephone. what else are you learning, dave? >> we have heard reports, obviously stores have been selling out of water. a local club withdrew 4200 cases of water within an hour and a half. and the state attorney general said they heard reports of price gouging happening in stores. west virginia law says you are only allow prices of commodities up 10% in states of emergencies. there has been price gouging above that. he's asking for people to call in. >> sounds like this happened this afternoon. what do we know about how it leaked. >> the first report of something wrong came up as early as 10 o'clock. >> the first indication was a smell of liquorish. there was a report of liquorish smell or odour, officials investigated. in midafternoon, they announced local community officials. there has been a leak of the product, and so what we know so far is that about 2,000-5,000 gallons of the chemical leaked out of an internal barrier of a large holding tank. an unknown amount of that 2,000 to 5,000 gallo