it was created in flint, michigan. town --p as a view of buick town. they will cut 14,800 jobs. in flint. you have seen this. what advice do you have to those communities and to the national government about how to handle this kind of problem? mayor weaver: that is something we were talking about, the importance of doing other things. job training. we have not spent much in job training and getting our community ready for these kind of things. it has been important to work with workforce development. what kind of jobs are coming in? when i look at the resources we have with the colleges and universities and hospitals, and they say what jobs are coming in, how do we train people and get them ready because they want to do that. that is what we have to look at. how do we have our community ready? we have been negligent in that. we have failed in looking at that and looking past general motors. we put all of our eggs in one basket in that was wrong. it has taken us years to start saying what do we do differently and how do we do it differently? not just differently, but better? we ca

the short story is that the city of flint, michigan, it had been getting its water from the great lakes through detroit for more than 50 years. in april of 2014 it switched its water source. the new swatter source was not treated properly, and that resulted in a number of water problems including the corrosion of the infrastructure, the pipes that the water passed through that were typically made of lead. this led to the entire city being exposed to lead through its water source, there was also a two-year outbreak of legionnaire's disease, which killed people. a type of pneumonia, it went on despite the fact the community was registering their countries with the water from the very beginning. they were dismissed and belittled for more than a year and a half before there was any response. >> why did april 2014 happen, why the switch? >> well the city at that time did not have the control of its local government. the city was broken up that the state appointed an emergency manager to have the authority over decision-making. that included this water switch. it was pitched as a way for the

this problem isn't just contained to the city of newark in fact flint michigan was truly the canary in the coal mine on the national lead cray says that everyone needs to be concerned about joining us now is our to america's actually banks who has been following this story as it stretches apparently from sea to shining sea. you know we know flown we know new york new jersey now we're seeing. what other cities were commuters fortunately aside from new york in flint like you mentioned baltimore city for at least a decade now the public schools there have been provided with bottled water for the students and staff this comes after authorities tested the water fountains and filled the high levels of lead but this is been going on for at least a decade and nothing has been done the as of yet but that's not the only place and in maryland that's being a fact is there's howard county a very rich county and maryland that's being hit with this as well of a situation isn't any better now between what was at september thirteenth and sixteenth the public schools there they were tested there were th

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i'm a flint, michigan, kid. general motors was founded in my hometown. we know what happens when companies move their jobs overseas. we used to have 80,000 auto jobs in my town. now less than 10,000. these plant closures have a devastating impact on the lives of thousands of people. we need an economy that works for everyone and we need a president that's willing to work with democrats and republicans to craft an industrial policy that puts america to work, that stands up for the american worker. no more hallowed promises, mr. president. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one inute. >> mr. speaker, november is pancreatic cancer awareness month and i'm pleased to recognize an organization in bucks county, pennsylvania, that works to raise awareness and seeks to

all of a sudden, you have $4 gas in flint michigan, people say why are gasses so high?and on the morality about this killing against saudi arabia, i don't think that would play well in flint, michigan. >> no, i think you're right. here's the point. we have leverage right now. we have the ability. the american people realize that. the saudis are relying on us. it's an opportunity for the president to condemn it outright, not to hesitate and say look, these arms deals, we're trillions of dollars in debt. i think it's something that can resonate and the gop voters will care about. there's a way to do it with tact. that's the problem. i'm the first to say there's style and actual taking action and doing things that we can disagree with. sometimes in this type of situation, if he worked on his style of being blunt and saying what happened should not have happened. i think he would be in a different -- >> leland: he used a lot of tough adjectives. he sanctioned a number of the people involved. kristin, to you, the american public notoriously not care about these issues, espec

i'm from flint, michigan. we've been able to adapt over the years. we can do that.rker can build anything. just give them a chance. >> quickly, congressman kildee, did you reach out to the president about any of this before the announcement? >> no, because we -- actually, i was a little irritated by that, too. we heard about the announcement on cnn. so we did not get a call from general motors, we did not get any heads up from the white house. believe me, we clearly are reaching out to the white house to talk about this. >> did you reach out at all -- that's unfortunate you heard about it from us but have you reached out at all since or even mary barra? any conversations? because separately we heard from larry kudlow and he said he had a conversation with mary yesterday and he said workers may be able to transfer to other plants and he mentioned michigan. >> here's the problem. when you reduce the overall workforce and workers have to travel to another state to keep their job, other workers are still being displaced. so i think this is often the way it's explained a

people think flint, michigan is an anomaly.sdictions where children have twice the lead blood levels than michigan. i can go through many things that shows we told rate injustice in our nation. democrat, republican, things voted on like the 1994 crime bill that exploded our criminal justice system 800% since 1980 alone. one out of 300 incarcerated women on the earth is here. we jail survivors. 80% of the people in prison are survivors of sexual assault and trauma. every day i get up, i see the unfinished business of democrats and republicans, all oof us. >> trevor: right. what are your dreams and hopes. >> there are so many issues that should unite americans that are incongruent between what we say about ourselves and that are reality. not voting is not an act of rebellion, it's an act of sur surrender. tomorrow, if you're late, you can tell your boss because i was voting for my country. ( laughter ) i was going to be there for america. i'm late because i was standing for america. >> trevor: i love that. use that excuse tomorro

lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there is also. the public at mention of having claimed for many years that the water earth and the city's departme

lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there is also just the public at mention of having claimed for many years that the water and by the city's departm

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lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there is also just the public at mention of having claimed for many years that the water and by the city's departm

levels are some of the highest of any large city nationally, a problem they compare to that have flint, michiganimilar to flint where the government was tling the pehe truth. t. what is happening in flint is not happening here. >> reporter: are you worried that some children may now have been exposed to lead? >> well, i'm worried that our kids are exposed to lead haul of the time. >> reporter: but from this, from the water. >> >> oh, i think the water think is section and everybody has jumped on it because of flint. water has not contributed in any significant way to the elevated lead levels in our children's blood. lead-based paint and dust has done that in the city of newark and i would suspect in many cities across america. >> the city says it's changing the way it treats water at the treatment plant that has a problem. it's also embark on a plan to replace lead water pipes, but that will take some time, possibly here's to get all of that done. that done. still fresh... ♪scos downy unstopables a women's natural lubrication varies throughout her cycle. this can effect how pleasurable sex can b

a problem they compare to that of flint, michigan. >> a case similar to flint where the government wasple the truth. >> i take offense to that because what happened in flint is not what's happening here. >> are you worried that some children may now have been exposed to lead? >> well, i'm worried that our kids are exposed to lead all of the time. and -- >> from this. from the water. >> i think the water think is sexy and everybody's jumped on it because of flint. water's not contributed in any significant way to the elevated lead levels in our children's blood. lead-based paint and dust has done that in the city of newark, and i could suspect in many cities across america. >> reporter: the city says it's changing the way it treats water at the treatment plant that has the problem. it's also embarking on a plan to replace lead water pipes, but that will take some time, possibly years to get all of that done. meanwhile, the nrdc's lawsuit is proceeding and yvette jordan's worker's group has joined in that lawsuit. >> and as we just heard concerns about drinking water are not just in newa

school practiced in detroit for 30 some years, which gave us a lot in common because i grew up in flint michigan, and although he had season tickets to the tigers and i could never afford them. [laughter] at any rate walter started collecting in the 1970s. african american rare books, manuscripts and art. and in his remarkable house in savannah, is a library of rare books name any book in the african american tradition he has a first edition. but his house is chock full of archive boxes. now this stuff should be at the library at yale and we have tried to get him to sell it. [laughter] and walter if you're watching they're still waiting. but, what it consisted of consin essence are ten large scrap books kept by douglass's sons during the last third of their father's life. also a lot of family papers and letters, photographs, and a lot of other tidbits. walter bought over time from one other collector. and when i saw that collection, it was one of those moments a historian rarely has such luck. where i realized i don't want to do this. i don't to do this. i'm going to do this. [laughter] because

i live 15 minutes from flint, michigan. we have a water issue going on in our state.walk the walk with real federal dollars. >> neither one of you brought up investigations of the president. how do your constituents view these presidential wrongdoings by the president? >> protecting democracy is critically important. article i of the constitution the congress is designed to be a coequal branch of government. i think that there's certainly an interest to make sure that our critical pillars of democracy like free and fair elections can occur but that it's not our chief priority. >> you heard congressman schiff admit there's all these investigations and they can't cloud the big picture on substance. how concerned are you that it might? >> we have to watch it. if we can't as elected officials provide for people and help their pocketbook or their kid, we do not deserve their vote. we can protect american values and hold accountability for the executive branch, but if we can't do things on health care and infrastructure we're going to lose people, especially in the midwest.

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many say the case is reminiscent of the lead poisoning in flint, michigan, where officials also ignoredesidents' concerns and tried to cover up the water contamination crisis. many have been indicted in that case. in new york, more news is sisters about two saudi found dead in the hudson river last week. 16-year-old tala farea and 22-year-old rotana farea were found on october 24, their waists and ankles duct-taped together though police say no obvious signs of trauma were found. the sisters were saudi nationals who moved to the united states with their mother in 2015 and were living in fairfax, virginia. rotana, the older sister, was a student at george mason university but left in the spring. the sisters were reported missing in august. they reportedly went missing in 2017 as well, and d were temporarily placed in a shelter. the ap reports the sisters' mother informed police that she had received a call from the saudi embassy ordering the famimily to leave e the u.s. bee her daughters had applied for political asylum. they were found dead soon after. and in washington, d.c., the natio

i live 15 minutes from flint, michigan. we have a water issue going on in our state.ate we have real bipartisan opportunity. people have talked the talk and now we need to walk the walk. >> neither one of you brought up investigations of the president. how do they view the potential wrong doings? how much does it come up and how much should congress focus on this? >> protecting democracy is critical. oversight is critically important and in 115th congress the congressional republicans refuse to do so. i think there's an interest to make sure democracy elections can occur but it's not our primary and chief priority. >> you heard congressman schiff admitted there's all these investigations and they can't cloud the big picture on substance. how concerned are you that it might? >> we have to watch it. if we can't provide for people and help their pocketbook or their kids, we do not deserve their vote. we can walk and chew gum. we can protect american values and hold accountability for the executive branch but if we can't do things on health care and infrastructure, we're

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liz: i'm thinking about water problems in africa, where it's too dry, or water problems in flint, michigan, where there was lead in the water. could you solve problems like lead in the water? >> yes. we absolutely, in fact, we do it much more cost-effective than most other companies. if you are trucking water every day, then you are going to bring that water day in, day out. if every home in flint would get one of our units, it would probably have saved the government $100 million. liz: and save children's health. >> it would save the health of the children and each home could have been equipped with this. it's okay to use bad water or unclean water for your bathtubs, shower and flushing toilets but what you put in your water and what you cook with is essential to your health. liz: okay. you have been making this water here at the fox business studios. let's try it. i'm ready to try the water that was squeezed, folks, out of the air. here in the studio. what happens if there's no humidity in the air where these are operating? >> you need to have a basic humidity of about over 30%. however,

wealthiest country in the world here we have an infrastructure, roads, bridges and if you think flint, michigan is the only city in america was serious water problems, you are mistaken. we have a rail system behind many other countries. we have a major crisis in urban and rural america in terms of affordable housing. [applause] gentrification i might add. [applause] everybody agrees, they will debate about the time i remember a few years ago is to try to get a trillion dollars to be appropriated they said no that's too much money. 460 billion was the best we could do. even donald trump realizes we need a trillion dollars. while trump is demonizing in a disgusting way undocumented people in this country it turns out the overwhelming majority of the american people from 80% support providing legal status to the young people in the daca program. the majority of the american people support a path toward citizenship for the undocumented. [applause] well we talked about her broken criminal justice system and more people in america in jail, 2 million more than any other country on earth, what we talke

i live 15 minutes from flint, michigan.er issue going on in our state, so we have -- that's a placee i think we h real bipartisan opportunity. people have talked the talk and now we need to walk the walk th real federal dollars. >> neith one of you brought up investigations of the president. how do your constituents, how do they view these potential wrongdoings by the president? how often did it come up?ch how o you think congress should focus on this? >> protecting democracy is critically importance. article 1 congress is a co-equal branch of government so oversigh is critically important. the congressional republicans do so.ially refused t so i think that there's certainly an interest to make sure that our criticalilrs of democracy like free and fair elections can occur but that it'sot our primary and chief priority. >> you heard congressman schiff, he admitted, yes, there's these investigations and they can't cloud the big picture on ncbstance. how ned are you that it might? >> i mean we have to watch it. if we can't as

lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or remove half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there is also just the public at mention of having claimed for many years that the water earth by the city's depart

lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there's also. just the public at mention of having claimed for many years that the latter earth find the city's de

lead causes brain damage especially in children flint michigan recently stopped delivering bottled water to residents after declaring its let water crisis over some cities including chicago actually required lead service lines between the main drinking water line in the street and homes until congress ban the practice in one nine hundred eighty six there's an irony here the great lakes of north america are the largest source of fresh water in the world water from lake michigan is generally lead free when it leaves water treatment plants here but it becomes contaminated when it runs through lead service lines underground and chicago has more than three hundred thousand of them more than any other city in america chicago's park service has shut off or removed half of its twelve hundred water fountains and it is leaving hundreds of others on around the clock to minimize lead levels but it is not replacing all of its lead service lines i think that cost is one part of it i think there's also the public and mention of having claimed for many years that the water earth and the city's departmen

are the same issues that we have in southern west virginia, the bronx, south side of chicago, flint, michigannd even places like silicon valley, so, you know, i was able to turn more folks away from, you know, the trump side in my race, 37 points. >> let me show an example of how you were talking to your voters in one of your tv ads. let me play a clip for you. >> i'm richard ojeda and people say i'm angry. angry is an understatement. i'm sick and tired of the same paper cutout politicians. i spent decades fighting for this country and now it's time to go to d.c. and defend our homeland. >> this is what you all are fighting for. >> the one thing i think people underestimate about what trump did for the trump base is he gave them somebody. what trump did is made them matter. they had felt ignored, a lot of politicians are skipping over them. a lot of companies are skipping over them. i understand why they feel like trump came and talked to us, wanted to woo us. you're making the argument that's what democrats would just show up, you might be able to make some gains. is that how you would expla

the short story is that the city of flint, michigan, it had been getting its water from the great lakes through detroit for more

go talk to the people that are working in a manufacturing firm in flint, michigan, that is owned by a mexican firm or go -- they will tell you. the problem is that that is there's not an organized as such coalition that will talk about these benefits. it's much easier for a potus to be clear, it's much more easier for them to organize. i think that mexico has a good opportunity right now because the level of attention with respect to mexico i think as reason in the united states, and that gives us a good opportunity to engage in again and a systematic and consistent effort to talk about these things. and to understand and by the way what i'm saying this is not a zero-sum game. their people hurting in america that event displaced up their jobs and we need to take that into account. the same as seven in mexico. i will conclude with another example. talking about trade, texaco is a great buyer of products from all over the midwest, , corn, soybeans, sort of, a lot of products. many of those people did not actually knew that they would sell to someone, a distributor and all other products

this brings us back to flint, michigan. recreational the use of marijuana.uch as $275 million in annual sales once dispensaries are open. also another positive. david: most of it in ann arbor. i'm sure a fair amount already. alix: probably. it is not just michigan. north dakota defeated that ballot, missouri approved medical marijuana, utah looks like it has passed a medical sense. so you have elections and sessions, and that is helping. david: you can go ahead and prosecute people. alix: if that rolls off. there you go. that wraps it up for "bloomberg daybreak: americas." up, the capital management founder and ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: i'm jonathan ferro. from new york city, the countdown to the open starts right now. jonathan: coming up, decision day for the federal reserve. investors looking to close. it and the president making it clear to the democrats -- work with me or against me, not both. the markets of 30 minutes away from the opening bell, the stage is set as follows. we are down by a third of 1%. muted price action and fx, with the euro

here is an example from michigan, flint, michigan. everybody has talked about the water crisis. the state of michigan has sold public water rights of lake michigan to nestle. they are showing advertisements on my city in michigan about how nestle cares so much about giving free water. but that is our water. what i don't understand is why people can't understand that it is in your backyard. it's in my backyard. it is in everyone's backyard. host: ok, thoughts from karen. frank pallone, who we quoted earlier had this tweet, it is clear that no region in the u.s. has been spared from the warming climate. americans are already suffering the cost. this is frank pallone on twitter. here are some more from pages from around the country. san francisco chronicle, tired to forecast on global warming. tribune, extreme harm, findings at odds with president trump, worsening weather and fire will smash the economy and the environment. climate change could triple frequency of large wildfires. they also talk about climate change could triple the frequency of those large fires. when more to show

host: here is anthony in flint, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning.t is your name mean, and then go to my question? guest: my name is reihan salam, and the first man, reihan, i believe it means basil, but i cannot tell you for sure. it is an air arabic . host: why does that matter, anthony? caller: that is cool. i was just trying to make sense of it. in 1846, we had some kind of order between utah and mexico and all that, and then as our -- statesogress, that toed, we passed the mexico border, which they did through war or whatever. what does that say to anybody, any entity, whether native americans or myth in americans that mexican-americans they cannot come back across the border that we put in place over the hundreds of years that we have been here? what right do we have to tell people that were here before us that they cannot come to the land that they had before we can hear? host: all right, anthony, thank you. guest: this is an asterisk question. ? do we have rights at all the other is a particular historical question about the mexican war and w

the short story is that the city of flint, michigan, it had been getting its water from the great lakes through detroit for more than 50 years. in april of 2014 it switched its water source. the new swatter source was not treated properly, and that resulted in a number of water problems including the corrosion of the infrastructure, the pipes that the water passed through that were typically made of lead. this led to the entire city being exposed to lead through its water source, there was also a two-year outbreak of legionnaire's disease, which killed people. a type of pneumonia, it went on despite the fact the community was registering their countries with the water from the very beginning. they were dismissed and belittled for more than a year and a half before there was any response. >> why did april 2014 happen, why the switch? >> well the city at that time did not have the control of its local government. the city was broken up that the state appointed an emergency manager to have the authority over decision-making. that included this water switch. it was pitched as a way for the

host: let's go to david in flint, michigan. hello. caller: hello. good morning.t first, later earlier this year i was thinking we should try somebody else. now i don't think we should. i think we should stick with nancy pelosi and i hope she tackles prison reform and the health care and i hope the young people -- i am kind of left wing myself. i kind oferal, so help liking the poor. i hope she works on that. goodnk she will be a speaker. i have never heard so many people ask the questions about republicans. like that guy over the senate from kentucky. anything about him leaving and i don't think he knows how to work with other people. host: you said initially you were thinking somebody else should be speaker and changed your mind. why is that? caller: after the election i changed my mind and i thought about it. i am an older guy, i am 65 and sometimes young people are good in some positions, but sometimes they need to sit back and get experience from younger people. host: taking a look at nancy pelosi's bid to become speaker under these -- headline in courting ne

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this is deadly in flint, michigan. democrat lie. -- this isthat he debbie.r: i agree that nancy pelosi should be speaker. she has done a prodigious job with a great fundraiser and she keeps her caucus together which the republicans can't say. i've got to thank all the constituents that did not take back all these little posters like pete sessions, scott taylor. i've got a whole list of the near. thank you, thank you, thank you for not subjecting us to these idiots. but i don't understand. there are four of them that they sent back. collins,nter, chris marsha blackburn. why would they send these clut z back to be representatives? i'd be embarrassed if i lived in those places. you can see what michigan did. michigan flipped almost all the way democratic. that's because nobody up there understands how trump ever took michigan. i'm impressed that you are in michigan but you just rattled off a list of candidates on either side in states not your own. caller: so much of what happens on the national level impacts our lives and i don't think the young people underst

so, that book actually looks out -- it's based off a real life incident that happened in flint, michigan, and an african-american nurse with 25 years of experience in a labor and delivery ward, helped deliver a baby and in the aftermath the baby's father said he didn't want her or anyone who looked like her to touch his kid, pushed up his sleeves to reveal a swastika tattoo, and the hospital they put a postitt note in the baby's file saying no african-american person to touch this baby. a bunch of personnel banned together, sued, got a great payout but i wondered what if that nurse was the only one alone with the baby when something went wrong and the wound up being brought up on charged murder defended by a white public defender who, like me, like many motor vehicle friend would never consider herself to be a racist, and what if i could tell the story in her voice, in the visitor the white supremacist dad and the voice of the white public defender, as they began to unpack their own feelings but race, and to me small great things is for white people. it's meant to say, open your eyes a l