>> roewer: well, we had a kingston spill. that's kingston, tennessee, where, last december, a giant retention pool of coal ash buckled under the weight of five decades of waste. >> 9-1-1 operator: now, all the power lines and everything have been knocked out. >> stahl: a billion gallons of muck shot into the emory river like a black tsunami... >> 9-1-1 operator: one person in the house, he's alive. >> stahl: ...engulfing homes, uprooting trees... >> 9-1-1 operator: everything's gone. >> stahl: ... and throwing fish out of the water. >> no, don't eat the fish, please. >> stahl: residents woke up to an apocalyptic moonscape of ash- bergs everywhere. >> this stuff is just sitting there, steaming. >> stahl: the spill was 100 times larger than the "exxon valdez," and it was all coal ash. >> roewer: you'd never heard of coal ash before kingston. >> stahl: never. >> roewer: never >> stahl: never. >> roewer: wasn't a problem. >> stahl: well, it was a problem, we just didn't know. the problem is, where do you put all that stuff? here,