al jazeera's diane estherbrook has more from flint. >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic candidates for president of the united states. >> it was their seventh debate. the venue, flint, michigan. the focus, the toxic. water crisis. the candidates waste nod time in sounding off. >> i believe the governor of this state should understand that his dereliction of duty was irresponsible. he should resign. >> if is raining lead in flint. and the state is derelict in not coming forward with the money that is required. >> and both were challenged on the failings of the federal environmental protection agency. >> people should be fired. how far it went, i don't know. but as far as it goes they should be relieved because they failed this city. >> president sanders would fire anybody who knew about what was happening and did not act appropriately. >> the candidates were grilled from every direction. some questions were pointed. >> your first visit to flint as presidential candidate was just over a week ago. that was five months after the people here were told to stop drinking the water. what to

diane estherbrook, al jazeera, flint, michigan. >> the latest delegate count gives clinton the bigger lead. if you easy in the superdelegates clinton has half the delegates needed to lock in the nomination. marco rubio is hoping for momentum. he got more than 50% of the vote manying that he gets all 23 delegates. but he still lags far behind donald trump and ted cruz in the delegate count. trump and cruz split the other delegates. tomorrow four states will have their say on the republican nomination. lincoln mitchell explains this now. it seemed for a while that donald trump was almost a forgone conclusion because of the momentum he had, the energy, but when you look at the numbers ted cruz is not that far behind. >> primaries are about. delegate counting. donald trump has won about 44% the delegates. remaining on that pace leads to a brokered convention. now there are some things that will change. beginning on march 15th a lot more winner will take all or winner take almost all or if you win a congressional district you get all the delegates. if you're wannin winning you can pile up

diane estherbrook, chicago. >> and stay with us for continuing coverage of tuesday's primaries. we'll bring you complete results beginning 7:00 p.m. eastern. >>> the justice department wants to put an end of jailing those with unpaid fines. the report found that residents were locked up if they didn't pay fees. the civil rights say that it happens in local courts across the country. >>> flooding in louisiana has now been formerly declared a major disaster and has left three people dead and thousands of homes damaged. a louisiana international guard said that it's the worst non-hurricane flooding the state has ever seen. on sunday president obama signed a disaster declaration to bring federal aid to victims. nicole mitchell has more on the wet weather and what we can expect going forward. >> the good news to the flooding, the moisture lifts off. but there is so much moisture already that it will take especially the rivers a few days to get back to normal if not longer. in the meantime most of this mice tour ha moisture has moved to the great lakes in the northeast. there is wides

diane estherbrook, chicago. >> up next clean coal, environmental groups say it is a myth.but one company is trying to prove that it is possible and protecting a national wonder. the new push to protect part of oregon's great outdoors. >> among the worst emitters of greenhouse gasses, especially carbon dioxide but one company in canada is out to prove that it is time to prove clean coal. >> at first glance a typical power station, smokestacks spewing while burning coal makes the generators spin. what is different here at the boundary dam project is the building on the left. the world's first carbon capture plant using chemicals and an array of filters inside these pipes, they remove 90% of the carbon dioxide from the coal smoke the equivalent of taking 250,000 cars off the road. >> trying to reduce your fossil fuel footprint. that's what we're trying to do. coal has proven to be a low emission product. that means we'll burn coal for tens if not hundreds of years. >> power companies are trying to figure out how to use coal and emit less carbon. >> this is really great to see

al jazeera dine an estherbrook is live in flint this morning. diane, even those these two candidates seemed to agree on a lot, there were also some clashes. reporter: that's right, stefanie. bernie sanders amped up his game last night. he attacked hillary clinton on everything from trade to welcome reform. he even got her to side with him on who should be held accountable in the flint water crisis. >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic candidates for president of the united states. >> it was their 7th debate. the venue, flint michigan, michigan the subject: the water crisis. >> i believe the governor of this state should under his d derelecti derelection should lead him to resign. >> the state is derelect in not coming forward. >> both were chanllenged with te failings of the environmental protection agency. >> they should be released because they failed this city. >> president sanders would fire anybody who knew about what was happening and did not act appropriately. >> the candidates were grilled from every direction. some questions were pointed.