deq and dhs, department of health and human services. ep teameologists validated dr.a tiesha's finds, and at this point, i immediately ordered a ten point plan that conclude immediate search of water filters and blood testing in schools, and about 12,000 filters were distributed. 700 water tests, and 2,000 blood tests were conducted within the first three months. 7th and october 8th, i announced that we would reconnect to the detroit water system to minimize any further damage, and later that morning the task force to recommendidations to address the crisis. eighth, the task force issued its initial actionable recommendations and identified critical problems in mid december. specifically, it pointed to a primary failure of leadership at the deq, and a culture that led to this crisis. the task force was right. and i immediately took action, applying new leadership at the department. ninth, i declared an emergency in flint on january 5th, so we could access additional resources and support. including the michigan state police and the michi

the deq is flint was in compliance. they said there was one concern with one house that was corrected and there was nothing widespread to address. the department of health and human services also told us the elevated blood lead levels were to be expected because they followed a normal seasonal trend. laterconclusions were shown to be incorrect when the department of health and human services conducted a deeper analysis of the relevant data. and may, professor mark edwards from virginia tech and andwere monette -- -- another doctor sounded an alarm about the lead in flint water. tragically, based on what deq and the department of health and human services had seen on the ground, they failed to reach the same confusion -- conclusion. i want to thank the professor, the doctor, and the concerned citizens of flint for bringing this issue to light. we actively investigating why these agencies got it so wrong. we have the doctor here tonight, and i would like to recognize her. if you could rise, please. [applause] i always cal

the letters coming out from dhs s saying you're at risk if you drink the water and at the same time deq saying you're fine. >> we would like to see this agency do its job, follow science, recognize common and get coal ash cleaned up. >> they have not determined if any of it is coming from the coal ash ponds. >>> places across the country will no longer accept driver's license licenses, illinois, minnesota, missouri, new mexico and washington d.c. did not apply. >> banning hover boards in residence halls. they are being asked to be removed for safety reasons. u nc and north carolina central have already launched similar bans. >>> an update from a-story we first brought you monday at 6:00. >> yeah, remember this car off of lake erie in buffalo, new they say it was the toughest frozen car case they have ever had. it took a lot of salt to melt it. thankfully we weren't cold enough to freeze. as we take a look outside. the sunset a little after 5:20 but you can still kind of see the glow of the sun as we look off to the distance. temperatures only made it into the 40s today have now dropped

there are people from dnr, some people from deq that are all included on this email chain.ot sure of the exact level of where they fall in the hierarchy. but it was sent to several people. they were -- back in january 2015, so it's important to note that's almost a full ten months prior to the sneijder administration admitting there was a problem and starting to take action. >> the governor said he didn't know that bottled water was being delivered to office workers in flint. do you believe him. >> the governor has consistently tried to blame state workers and works that worked for him for this crisis. so it doesn't surprise me that now that this revelation has come forward that he says he had no idea. the reality is season knew. someone from the deq knew enough to bring in bottled water for employees while they were saying the water was safe to drink. >> is this just incompetence or perhaps something more sinister. >> there's no way to know. michigan is one of the only states that allows the governor and legislator to be extemp from the freedom of information laws, so unti

an independent task force conducted a review of the he water crisis and found the deq's "one of aggressive dismissal, empts to discredit these efforts." the head of the epa's regional office in chicago which covers michigan has resigned after governor rick snyder officiallythe residents of flint. >> i say tonight as i have before, i am sorry and i will fix it. >> reporter: the apology coming just hours after attorneys filed a against the governor and state and city officials. dr. hannah says apologies don't mean that much to a mother wondering what will happen to >> she's traumatized about the cons consequences of lead. but they're also traumatized about what they've been through the last two years. an entire betrayal ofagencies. >> reporter: or to a city that will have to live with the consequences. >> you expect when you turn on your water, you expect it to be drinkable. and you've been told for almost two years that it's safe.ignificant trauma in the community. we are definitely trying to instill hope. i'm alex peres, flint, michigan. >>>could antidepressants be the next big thing in th

28, 2015, i was first briefed on potential scope and magnitude of the crisis and a phone call with deqnd the department of health and human services. on october first 2015, dhhs at a genealogists validated the findings. at this point i immediately ordered them to develop and implement a ten point plan that includes immediate distribution of water filters, immediate water -- expanded water and blood testing for anyone who might be exposed. about 12 of isn't were distributed, 700 water tests, 2,000 blood tests were conducted within the first week in months. 7, on october 8th i announce the flint water system would be reconnected to the detroit water system to minimize further damage. later that month by an ounce the independent flint water task force to review actions that occurred so far to make recommendations to address the crisis. eight, the task force issued its initial actionable recommendations and identified critical problems in december specifically pointing to a primary failure of leadership at the deq and a culture that led to this crisis. the task force was right, i immediate

at the same time deq is saying you're fine. we have got to figure out a way to get around that. >> we would like to see this agency do its job, follow science, recognize common sense, stop playing politics, and get the coal ash cleaned up. >> the state has not yet determined if any contamination is actually coming from the coal ash ponds. raleigh city leaders are shelling out 31,000-dollars in taxpayer money to go to a retreat in charlotte. >> take a look, they were boarding the train here at amtrak this afternoon. focusing on building relationships and how charlotte handles its transportation system. this is the first time in several years that the retreat is taking place out of town. we asked the mayor about the cost to taxpayers. >> looking at the price tag, $31,000, some would say it's too much. >> you have to understand it's an investment. i own my own business. well i did own my own business and ran it and certainly in business, this is something you do a lot. and it really does make a difference in the engagement. >> cit

tragically, based on what deq and the department of health and human services had seen on the ground, the initially ailed to reach the same conclusion. i want to thank the professor, the doctor, and the concerned people of flint for bringing the issue to light. we are actively in -- investigating why the agency's got it so wrong. i believe we have the doctor with us tonight. i would like to recognize her. if you could rise him a please -- rise, please. [applause] dr. hana, i apologize. september 20 8, 2015 -- 28, 2015, i was -- i had a phone call. epidemiologist validated the findings, confirming the lead problem in flint's water supply. at this point, i immediately ordered them to develop and implement a 10 point land that includes the immediate dissolution of water filters, immediate testing of water in schools, expanded water and blood testing for anyone exposed. about 12,000 filters were the stupid. 700 water test. and 2000 blood tests were conducted in the first two months. on october 8 i announced the flint water system would be reconnected with the detroit water system to minim

they would not look at 3 their own data and realize maybe there was trouble, but relied on what deq was saying. so they were at fault. 10%but amid new details that show michigan's department of technology, management and budget sent bottled water to state employees all the way back in january 20-15, the blame placed on the state could go up.(roy) "how could an entire population drink lead tainted water when the people who are paid to protect them are getting clean. this is unfair, this is just not right.(maggie carlin, flint water study) "just driving it into the ground, just how horrible this is."the crowd stood to applaud several times during the presentation, especially when researchers talked about how despite continued to say tech's information was wrong.but nobody received as much applause as flint mom , leeann walters who called virginia tech's dr. marc edwards when her kids got sick.walters is being called a hero by many for bringing the crisis to the forefront, but she says she's not the hero..(leeanne walters, flint resident) "i just want to say thank you to the students at vi

siddhartha roy/flint water study researcher "the deq for months, aggressive attack on us." the researchers say that continued until almost october, when governor snyder finally acknowledged that lead is a problem. but by then, the damage had been done. governor rick snyder apologized to the people of flint yesterday, and also pledged to find a solution to the problem. tracking snow....we are tracking not just one but two systems that could bring us a chance of snow. the first system moves in tonight from the west. it will be a quick shot of snow as this system moves through. some areas could see anywhere from a dusting to half inch of snow accumulations. otherwise, expect mostly cloudy skies with overnight lows in the 20s. we )re tracking a much larger system for friday and saturday that could bring us snow but also ultimately, how much snow we see will all depend on the precise track of this storm. so let )s talk about it. we )re keeping an eye on an area of low pressure that move into the area from the southwest. as this system moves into some very cold air already in pla

. >> despite issuing boil water advisors and violation of the safe water act, the deq says the water was safe to drink. i questioned the head of the department of public works. >> on the one hand it's okay to consume or bathe in, people are confused and scared. >> that's the reason to bring in experts, to separate fact from fiction. carefully looking at that notice, there are people who have concerns, certain aspects of it. but the notice that went out said, this is not an emergency. >> in a report released later that summer, virginia technical researchers said that water from the flint river was more corrosive, causing lead pipes to leech lead into tap water. still no action by city or state officials and tempers continue to boil. >> i've created a term. i call it the flint watergate 2015. >> in september we talked to lee ann walters, she said her four-year-old son's health was deteriorating. she blamed the water. >> we flowed whenever he would come in contact with the water, baths, or in our pool that we'd had for years, his skin would break out in this scaly really red irritated r

water product was dissolving their manufacturing ability, but at the same time we had members of the deqy get about $500 million a year to protect us. they failed us and at the cost of children and the trajectory of their lives being changed forever. you cannot imagine a parent giving a child a glass of water and that water makes that child less smarter than he was before. and the governor has to own this. he has to say more than he is sorry. no one wants to drink the water whether you give them a filter or not. people are used bottled water to do everything, cooking, bathing, and that's not a -- a resolve to this issue. they broke it, they need to buy it. and they need to fix it. >> sheldon represents most of the city of flint, and joins us tonight. thank for your time. >>> let's look at these live pictures right now. my goodness, from the bay area. i believe this is the bay bridge, right? we're talking about the west-bound lanes of the bay bridge. as you can see shut down. so that would be the west-bound lanes heading into san francisco. the activists as you can see here, have chained

there were lots of folks including governor snyder and the deq that were telling the folks of flint asained about disgusting water that their water was okay to drink. david: from my did the epa is the final word on the subject of whether it's clean or not. if they are giving the word that it's okay when it's not okay and it still bad smelling contaminated water gets the epa that deserves the blame, no? >> i don't believe that's true. i think the state is the bad actor here. david: wait a minute the epa has the final say on whether the water is contaminated or not and just last summer they were saying the water is okay. why shouldn't we blame the epa? >> there is plenty of blame to go around of the residents of fund would tell you they were failed at several levels and i think we can agree to that. what the e-mail that we released yesterday shows is the snyder administration and folks within the administration were providing clean drinking water for employees while telling the residents of flint and town halls and other locations that their water was safe to drink. david: you know what

they said we've tested it, it's fine. >> no, it was actually the deq that did the testing.ople that it was my internal plumbing, and that then it was my service line. and we weren't buying it because the numbers were too high. so i started doing the research on it. >> what changed? the situation, what did it take for there to be acknowledgment? >> well, i mean, the first steppingstone was when i figured out there was no corrosion control in the water. and i took it to the epa, miguel, we were talking about it, and he turned around and said well it has to be there. it's federal law. and i said i'm pretty sure it's not. he asked me how do you know? i said i have 12 months worth of operational reports in front of me that i've been researching. i sent that to him and said oh my god, there's no corrosion control. >> and that winds up being a big factor because as we've learn here, the water not properly treated winds up attacking the layers of the inside of the lid supply lines, lead supply lines not unusual, when the oxide layer inside is corroded, then it leech lead and that's

guest: to that point, the deq did dismiss dr.a, the pediatrician, her findings when they came out in september, essentially, they said that she causing hysteria and they questioned her research skills. she has since then fully been embraced in governor snyder and is in contact almost daily. and thene of the heroes whistleblower, essentially, in this storyline. bird here is a tweet from who says, why wasn't the study completed prior to the switch? environmental impact studies are done for less. would one have shown the issue? a study.ere was this is one of the issues. it is not the water coming into the plant, it is a water coming through the pipelines. -- the foot whatever water is more -- the foot river water is more corrosive than the a deepron water that was and cold source of water, so the river water changes temperatures, luxuries, and there were other problems. there was an e. coli breakout, and they had boiled water advisories in august and september 2014, so after that, they had another byproduct issue issue ant they had

critical problems in mid-december, specifically pointing to a primary failure of leadership at the deq and failure of leadership that led to this crisis. i immediately appointed new leadership at the department. number nine, i declared an emergency so we could access additional resources and mobilize additional support. resources are needed to help families get clean water and and any risk or exposure for every resident of flint. i requested a federal declaration of emergency which was granted. as members of our delegation here tonight, this is a challenge we must work together to solve it i look forward to working with you to bring additional support to the people of flint. more than 37,300 cases of water, more than 53,700 water filters and more than 7300 water testing kits have been distributed. more than 21,300 homes have visited. this is not enough. support fromg the the michigan national guard starting tomorrow to ensure every home we need to visit in flint gets visited as soon as possible. i'm appealing the president's decision not to grant a major disaster declaration and will c

the anti-everything groups trying to turn to the lead content, which is a concern for everyone, but deqf a major change. the pivotal thing there is that those three agencies had been able to find evidence of a change. they only did so way after the fact. so there was a big gap. now, the governor himself looks great in these e-mails. he's very concerned. he's active. he asked an aide to check on the health of a couple children. in flint. he seems to be proactive as soon as he become as wear. but yesterday overall, not a winning day for the governor of michigan. in a televised interview he's seen acknowledging for the first time that at least 100 children in this city have been poisoned by lead. perhaps many more. and in addition to that, he faced president barack obama saying that the situation here is, quote, inexplicable and inexcusable, jose. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up here on msnbc, new allegations against one of the navy s.e.a.l.s who took out osama bin laden. turns out he took a memento from the raid that he wasn't supposed to. i think it landed last tuesday. one second

a certain level of phosphate but it seemed prudent and smart to do working in conjunction with the deq there and that started december 9th. we still want to see people continue to use fitters and bottled water. we don't want people to assume everything is good until we do testing and confirm that public but that process started already. it also will tie into the long-term process of how a switchover to kwa takes place. again, we want to be on the conservative side to make sure that when any transition takes place that the there will be good, safe water for people to drink in flint. tying into that is extensive water testing. we'll be designing a program that will be a benchmark to say he can take earlier tests that can be followed up later to make sure we're making progress in terms of a safe water supply and addressing that more in the future in terms of specific programs, when's participating and how best to make that work. in addition to that, we also want to work on community development in flint. flint has been a challenged community for sometime. this water situation, the crisis