>> can you still smell the licorice or is it decreasing? >> you can still smell the licorice. >> not as strong as it away is? >> no, sir at strong as it was sir. >> west virginia governor earl ray tomblin. >> we can see light at the end of the tunnel. i ask all west virginians to be patient while we work to restore service to the areas. >> some have managed to keep a positive attitude. >> how you holding up sir? >> wonderful, these guys are the best around. they've taken real good care of us. the high school kids have carried my water including my truck. i can't praise them enough. >> so in a way this is bringing the community together. >> definitely, definitely. reporter: here where the leak occurred, the water is testing in the safe range. and jeff, later tonight or tomorrow the water company is going to call some of its customers to take the preliminary step of flushing their pipes. >> glor: chip reid, thank you. alex rodriguez's suspension is the entire 2014 season. anthony bosch sat down with scott pelley for a two part report airing o

i would rather drink a whole vat of toxic licorice sluj. >> jon: you must agree someone should be held accountable for what happened here. obviously. first of all we need a congressional investigation into this massive intelligence failure and fire the c.i.a. and n.s.a. agents who failed to connect the dots. >> jon: jason, it was not terrorism! >> i forgot you said that, yeah. why the (bleep) am i here? [laughter] (shouting above the chaos) if you're having trouble hearing me... ... you might need to come closer... ... half a world closer! [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. now, the only thing -- this is true. the only thing anyone in new york, noj noj, the en-- new jersey, the entire tristate region is talking about fallout of scandal with chris christie. >> the new mayor of big apple is dealing with a scannedel of his own. >> jon: what, wait? bill deblasio's scandal? he handled a major snowstorm. did he all right. he is pushing for sweeping reform. he has been doing a fine job. what sort of scandal could he be involved in. >> mayor deblazeo may not necessarily -- deblasio ma

, you can smell the smell of black licorice right now, we smelled it when we ran the water. no one was supposed to use the water. no one thought to finger print what's coming out of the water, we'll be able to find out exactly what's accumulated. >> how common is it for spills like this to occur? >> spills occur every day with every damage. but 300,000 people are without water as a result. a disturbing thing is how many other communities that have clear colorless odorless chemicals should not be drinking their water. >> while scott smith and rob goodwin are waiting for their own tests, the consistency levels have beentrending downwards. but day six without running water the people of chemical valley have lingering questions about thing industry that gave them their name. christophe putzel, being charleston west virginia. >>> 2009, another explosion killed 29 coal miners at west virginia's upper big branch mine, also that year a new york times investigation found pollution violations, in hundreds of workplaces throughout the state. are today's troubles in west virginia echos

almost ridiculous as the name of the police officer who actually coned off the lanes, captain licorice. (laughter) >> stephen: i believe we have a photo of the captain. (laughter) and folks, there is absolutely no connection between him and chris christie, they have never even been seen in the same room together. but nation, even captain licorice may not be able to save the governor from new revelations of damning e-mails. for more on the e-mails we turn to the colbert report's senior cnn anchor jake tapper, jake. >> there is one sent a few weeks before the lane closeure from bridgette anne kelly, a deputy chief of staff for governor christie to david wildstein the political appointee at the port authority in charge of the bridges, bridget anne kelly says time for some traffic problems in fort lee. and david wildstein responds, got it. the mayor of fort lee reached out to wildstein saying help, please, it is maddening, unquote. wildstein forwarded the plea to someone whose name has been redacted in these e-mails, in fact. is it wrong that i am smiling, the person asked. no, wildstein r

if you cook it, you can reduce that licorice flavor, but i love that licorice flavor. i slice it up, with maybe some olive oil, or a little onion, and you will have yourself a beautiful salad. >>> coming up at 5:00, the roof sharing site helps tourists find a place to say. but some bay area renters say it's squeezing them out of their apartments. >>> finally, we get a flash mob at the airport. >> 66 flight attendants took part in the dance off last thursday. the organizer wanted to give people a pleasant experience during the spring travel rush. about 3.6 billion trips are made during that holiday period. >> they don't look like they're into it. just going through the motions? it doesn't look really exuberant does it? it doesn't look flash like. >> but they're in sync. so that's good, kind of. >> how is the weather? >> the weather outside is great. >> we can do that. >> nicely done. >> goodbye. >> katie: i have to go. >> ridge: where? >> katie: i-i don't know. away from brooke. >> ridge: hey. you're in no condition to drive. come with me. >> katie: [ sighs ] >> pam: al

. >> reporter: the leak was discovered thursday after someone reported smelling a licorice-like odor.where the do not use order has been lifted in certain areas. >> reporter: the progress means residents like fisher, who are no longer under the ban, can start flushing the water out of their homes, but concerns about the safety of the water remain. >> i'm not going to drink it, for a while. >> i will be concerned probably for the rest of the time that i live here. i was very concerned when i found out that one mile from our water intake was this huge deteriorating chemical vat. >> reporter: the chemical, 4 mchm has a licorice odor. cnn has obtained this document from west virginia's department of environmental protection showing at least one other instance back in 2010 in which a person living near the chemical plant complained about, quote, an odor that smells like licorice. the complaint does not say that a leak was detected or that there was any danger to residents, but at least one other person who lives near the plant tells cnn he has smelled licorice in the air and in the water i

customers noticed because it smelled strongly of black licorice. the chemical safety data sheet says warning, harmful if swallowed, causes skin and eye irritation. but west virginians were exposed to the chemical at very diluted levels, levels that have been going down. >> we don't know that the water's not safe, but i can't say it is safe. >> reporter: health officials say some 4 to 6 people were admitted to the hospital with problems related to the contamination, minor problems such as nausea and vomiting. friday the west virginia department of environmental protection issued a cease order to freedom industries telling them to stop all operations. the company issued a statement saying, our team has been working around the clock since the discovery to contain the leak to prevent further contaminati contamination. in the meantime, supplies of bottled water are running low and hundreds of thousands of west virginians just want to be able to use their taps again. >> it could be days. we're working to keep it very short. i don't think we're talking we

if you lean close, you can smell licorice. >> i can. >> reporter: licorice. the telltale scent of the chemical that has contaminated the water supply for 300,000 people. today 38,000 are able to use the tap water for bathing and drinking. but with that smell, eloise isn't taking chances. >> i don't want to drink that. i'm not about to drink it. i don't even want to wash my dishes in it. >> reporter: and tonight, other communities are in the path of that chemical flow. it began leaking out of the bottom of a freedom industries storage tank thursday morning and flowed into the elk river contaminating the water supply for charleston, west virginia. then it continued rushing downstream to the ohio river, travelling more than 250 miles to cincinnati. today, cincinnati closed their two river intake valves to protect the city's water supply. they say they have enough water in reservoirs to last until the toxin flows by and the river water is safe again. the chemical plant responsible for the leak has not been inspected since 1991. still, west virginia state official

>> my shirt says i love the smell of licorice in the morning. what the chemicals are smelling like in the pipes. a t-shirt company is making these as the fundraiser. >> where are the proceeds going? >> there is a nonprofit called the water project, which puts wells into places where there are water issues, and so they decided they would sort of try to have a little humor and do a good thing at the same time. >> well, elizabeth, i jumped with the question and i didn't even ask how are you doing? >> i am doing all right. we flushed the pipes last night. the water was, as you can see, i saved a bottle of water for you. it is a little dirty. i have to say that in your lead-in you mentioned they have put out the release of pregnant women not drinking the water and i am convinced we are not going to use it for some time to come. >> i have to ask you, when did you get the word to flush the pipes, yesterday at some point? >> oh, i was aggravated enough with the water company, they called me at 1:28 in the morning and woke me up to tell me i could flush

if the chem shalls are not in the water, we need answers. >> why is it smiling like licorice. >> exactlywe will keep pressing. >> robert ray live in charleston, keeping them honest. thank you for joining us for months, we have been covering the u.s. government surveillance program before the snowden links, before public scrutiny, the nsa was funneling all of the information into one high-tech building. from the data center in utah >> reporter: if you've ever wondered where the national security agent see stores all of that data it collects, you are looking at it. this is the utah data center in bluffdale, a 92,000 square meter complex completed last september at a cost of 1 and a ha$1 and a billion dollars. writer james banford has studied the nsa for decades? >> it's designed to hold a tremendous amount of nsa's intercepted information, phone calls, e-mail, meta data, everything it collects. it needs a place to store it. the nsa declined a request for an interview. but may bluffdale, most people don't have any qualms about their neighbor, the spy agency. >> it's an important mission. th

it smells like black licorice.ere hasn't been any length that that nausea is because they consumed the water. sometimes, when people smell something that smells bad, they just kind of feel sick. from what we are hearing from hospitals, there have been no illnesses linked to this water contamination. >> what about the public health response. look, it's water. if you are told you can't drink the water out of your tap, you have 200,000 people that need to be attended to in an emergency manner. what are they doing to get water to those people? >> they are doing quite a bit. fema, as well as state agencies and other agencies are shipping water in literally by the truck full. there are places that people can go and they know there are certain locations where they can go and fill up containers with walter. there are places where you can go to get bottled water. certainly, it is not going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination. they are trying to get water into this area literally by the truckload. >> i know this isn

this is a chemical that has a certain odor of licorice and that's why it was detected. they are wondering are there other chemicals in the water that we don't know about? a lot of chemicals are odorless and tasteless. they feel this is the first time they are hearing about something that could have been around for a while so there is concern. >> is there a clear understanding how this got into the water in the first place? >> yes, basically there was a leak and because this is a chemical that isn't in designed to be in contact with humans there was no real concern about monitoring a backup plan if it got into -- if it got into the water supply. usually with chemicals like this or any other chemicals there is a backup plan that has to be in place and it's closely monitored. this wasn't monitored because frankly no one was concerned because not a whole lot was known about being in contact with humans. the scary part for a lot of people is this could have been a lot worse. >> and we are still watching everything unfold. christophe putzel, thank you so much. the distress th

still smell that sweet licorice smell tottenham water? >> yes. >> wow. >> i still smell it, and i actually was asking other friends on--i sent e-mails and asked on facebook is it it because i have an older water tank? do i need to replace my tank to get rid of this? what is going to make it go away? >> right, are you having to buy your own bottled water? is it still being supplied in some way, shape or form for you? >> well, there are fewer and fewer working for the library one of the things we like to do is keep people in the loop, and so i've been posting water distribution places. in the beginning there were big bunches of water distribution. there were only three or four places distributing water. which leaves some people, if you don't drive, how are you going to get the water? >> yeah. >> if it's not close by. elizabeth, since we spoke last time, the company responsible freedom industries, made this announcement. it was a surprising announcement that yet another toxic chemical. pph may have gotten into the elk river. is this in any w

>> it smells blik black licorice mixed with something really kind of putrid.n you get near the plant, it smells really overwhelming. i actually felt a little nauseous when i was standing there. what we know about this chemical, brook, is it's used to clean coal, needless to say, it does not belong in the water system. i have here with me jeff mack entire, who is the president of the water system, thank you for being with us. and this chemical on its label it says it's an irritant. if you're exposed to it at full force. when this chemical is diluted in the water, as it has been in this case, what do we know about what it can do to people? >> i don't know all of the different health effects it could have. it depends on the concentration. i've been given information that -- because we have to protect the health and safety of our workers who contact this water fixing leaks. we talked to a toxicologist. he indicated we should have no concern with contact in the dilutions in the drinking water. >> but still, how about concerns with drinking it? what are the health c

they also went on to answer another question we had as to why the licorice smell continues to be in the air and also people's homes. they say water still may have an odor. the odors can be detected at a level far below what the centers for disease control detects as harmful. 100,000 times lower than the adverse affect level that we are currently seeing now. so a lot of questions still in the story as it continues to develop and we're certain that legislators and porters will be talking about it all -- reporters will be talking about it because there was a leak on the elk winter and 300,000 people were not able to drink or bathe in water for about eight days. >> our robert ray in charleston west virginia. a big sports story, a lot of people tuned into the sunday nfl games because we finally know who's going to be playing in the super bowl. >> mostly good football. football teams marking matchups on the few of, the nfc championship game san francisco and seattle. russell wilson came in aas the top seed but colin kaepernick ran for 130 yards in this one but it was his third quarter 26 jarr

really ask too many people and they will tell you it does smell like licorice.aya lot of people say they are waiting for long term testing. despite all the results they have been getting from state officials. these results that al jazeera america has been providing. that was spilled into the river as well. >> we still don't know a whole lot about that, we did not test for that chemical personals just find out about that, they just notified authorities that that chemical was even a part of the mixture. the test that we commissioned -- they say they are now going back here with the health department. but they don't believe that it is really a major problem, or detectable because it was such a small amount. about 7% of the total mixture compared to the crude the mch they believe was more like 80% of the mixture. jonathan, thank you. well, the price of housing in southern california has hit a point that it is forcing thousands of people to do something very extreme. they are moving to mexico, and commuting to the u.s. jennifer london joining us live with that story,

houses smell strongly of licorice. people are still showing up at emergency rooms cooking to the department of health. >> my throat burns, i felt congested in my chest, and i have a splitting headache. >> the daughter of a coal miner and a community advocate for the people concerned about chemical safety. >> right now one of the things that we're doing is working the state and federal legislators to come up with laws to protect us. but the problem is they haven't protected us for a number of years. i'm not exactly sure what the best real form of change is going to be here. >> al jazeeral jazeera america n asking for an interview. this is what they sent to us: >> state political leaders say it's their desire to find a balance between clean water and jobs. but overwhelmed west virginians say they've heard that rhetoric before. >> how long do you think this is going to go on until we get answers? >> years, years. that's the way it always happens. >> reporter: meanwhile, freedom industries the company blamed for the chemic

there are still questions, though, but how and why a licorice smelling chemical leaked into the charleston river. >>> southwest is under investigation after a plane landed at the wrong airport in missouri. but for those onboard, that wasn't the scary part. >> reporter: 124 passengers aboard this southwest airlines jet made an unexpected stop on their way from chicago to the branson airport in missouri on sunday. >> we landed at the wrong airport. >> reporter: southwest airlines touched down miles away from where it was supposed to land. >> we were the only plane out there, it's hard to think they thought we should have landed there. >> we kind of were pushed forward, and almost hit our heads on the seat in front of us. we were very lucky indeed. >> reporter: eventually buses came to pick everyone up, and take them to the correct airport. >> when we got off, it was a surreal scene, with all of the flashing lights. >> reporter: southwest airlines said the landing was uneventful, and all passengers and crew are safe. >> no one really knows exactly what happened, if it was a mistake. >> report

to citizens so they'll have something to drink. >> we heard that there's almost a smell of black licorice either in the air or of the water. have you meled it, you have tasted it. >> i smelled it yesterday when a gentleman from the office across the street came over to my office to get me. he knew me and he took me across the street and i smelled it when i got outside. hi been inside for that afternoon. and then he, i went up to his water fountain and then i tasted it. and i took a big drink of it an i knew that there was something very wrong. and it was not much longer after that that the west virginia water company and the governor and all those folks held a press conference. it wasn't the governor's press conference. he was just happened to have been there but it was the american water company and they have nothing but bad news for these citizens. and with no end in sight. >> so have you heard of any of the possible health side effects? are there clinics or hospitals reporting any adverse affects to people having drank this water? >> no, we have not heard anything like that. and which

the smell in some parts of the city are is like a licorice or a cough drop. the government here is sending out messages to the media, saying they're doing testing on the plant and the elk river and that the water is safe. yet if that is the case, what is the odor, why are some homes still having the odor, and some people reporting discoloration of the water. when we were driving to the restaurant this morning there were two major tanker trucks out there that are flushing the system in the hospital ten days after the chemical spill. let me talk quickly to an advocate mia, in west virginia. what is your advocacy group what are you about? >> the group is people concerned about chemical safety. we are concerned because our community is the only place in the world that the chemical mic was called, that was stored in five times the amount of what caused that disaster until just a few years ago. so we are -- i he am from the community i was born and raised here and i have ties with the chemical industry and we have just been fighting for stronger chemical safety law

many smell a licorice odor after a chemical leaked into the elk river near charleston.is what joe manchin said earlier today. >> we have 80,000 different types of chemicals that are being used and consumed in this country every day, only 200 have been thoroughly examined on the impact on human life. >> businesses had to shut down for days because of the water crisis. jeff joins us joins us there his charleston storefront. >> we were shut down for about six days, and our location in bell was shut down in seven. >> and i understand you are still not trusting the water, and using bottled water to make all of your dough? >> no. i think most restaurants in town are doing the same. nobody personally i know are consuming the water. just using it to wash your hands and take showers with. it still has that smell to it. >> what goes through your mind as far as the customers that you have there, and wanting to treat them right? >> um, i mean, i wouldn't drink it myself or eat it myself, so i wouldn't expect anybody else to. so it's kind of that type of deal right there, so we aren

they told us that this chemical smell is like black licorice.n we went there, ooh, boy, are they right. there is this overwhelming smell of black licorice and i don't mean that in a yummy way. it is really pretty overpowering and you feel a little nauseous smelling and breathing it in. freedom industries has not returned our phone cause. not only that, they are not even returning the phone calls of the utility of the water company who you just heard from. they said look, we're trying to reach them and they're not talking to us. what we do know about this chemical, brianna, it can be harmful if you're exposed to it in its undiluted form. if you took a whiff of the chemical, it could hurt you. what we don't know, what happens when you're exposed to it in its diluted form. it went into the water system. we don't know what it can do to you in its diluted for the. brianna. >> so if we don't know that, do we know if anyone has gotten sick from the contamination? >> reporter: brianna, we called around to area hospitals and they all told us, they have n

>> reporter: pregnant women have been ordered to drink only bottled water, houses still smell of licorice even after the flushing recommended by the water company. people are still showing up at the emergency rooms. >> my throat burns. i felt congested and in my chest, and i have splitting headaches. >> reporter: the daughter of a coal miner and community advocate for a group people concerned for safety. >> we're working with state and federal legislators to come up with laws to protect us. but the problem is they haven't protected us for a number of years, so i'm not exactly sure what the best real form of change is going to be here. >> reporter: now al jazeera america has been efforting a statement or interview with west virginia water company. here's what they sent us: >> state political leaders have been saying it's their desire to find a balance between clean water and jobs. but overwhelmed west virginians say they've heard that rhetoric before. >> how long do you think this will go on before we get answers? >> years. years. that's the way it always happens. >> meanwhile, freedom ind

licorice that point unked the waters. >> it's called pph it's' ahead at this something that they mixs and the according for the folks from freedom who revealed this yesterday they thought they had stopped mixing that material and just recently discovered that it was in the tank with the mcahm. whenever the leak occurred. >> already faced with worries about what did or didn't reach their water, west virginians like felicia chase wonder whether they are getting the full story now. she heard the latest news on facebook. >> how scary was that that nobody knew what was in the tank and how to respond to the emergency once the stuff came out of tank that should have never came out of the tank in the first place? >> and indeed, even now, officials admit that there is plenty of uncertainty. >> there is a little bit we know, we know what it's not, we know it's not a carcinogen, we know it's not highly toxic or a hazardous material. >> the latest water sample show more areas have been given the all clear but it doesn't remove the doubt. >> when i saw there is this new chemical one of male i am s

people said it smelled like licorice or candy or cough syrup, and officials got to the water and tested it and found it had leaked at the river, and had gotten into the water treatment facility and made it into the finished line. and that was the concern. so the question and big certain now from officials is how much of this chemical got into the water, and also what the risk is involved. >> we need to know exactly the quantities that we're dealing with. we're still trying to work with -- through the msds sheet and the company that manufacturers the product with their tex kolgs, physicians, industrial hygienists to try to understand the risk assessment of this product. what kind of quantities can be present in drinking water and not pose harm to our customers. we don't know that the water is not safe, but i can't say it is safe. >> reporter: again, the technical term, by the way for this chemical, it is a chemical that is used in coal preparation. so there is really no word for a time line as to when this will all be rectified. we do know officials are using various methods at this poin

back in charleston where some tap water still smells like licorice and is discolored authorities urged customers to keep flushing their faucets. >> if there is additional coloration, we ask they flush wait for an hour and do that step again. >> reporter: now, officials here think the chemical plume will be gone tomorrow, certainly friday at the latest. brian? >> anne thompson, in kentucky, thank you. across the river from cincinnati, thank you. >>> and the battle over abortion was back before the supreme court today specifically this time, abortion protests and an effort to limit them around the entrances to clinics. the question before the justices today, does it violate free speech? we get our report from our justice correspondent, pete williams. >> reporter: this grandmother shows up twice a week in boston hoping to persuade women not to get abortions. >> they're abandoned, they're alone, i'm just saying wait, don't rush in, can't reverse this. >> reporter: but under state law protesters can't cross a line that keeps them 35 feet from the door. they say it violates free speech and m

it is an oily substance that some say smells like licorice, it leaked from a 48,000 gallon tank from the storage facility. on the elk river. about a mile down river is the west virginia american water company which supplies nine counties and some 300,000 people whose health may now be at risk. >> if you get it on your skin, you'll get a skin rash. if you breathe it or drink it, but especially breathe it, it will irritate your nose, throat, upper respiratory tract. >> reporter: the frustrated head of the water company says news of the leak came from the state, not freedom industries. >> they did not report this to us, and i have no idea if they reported it to anybody else. >> reporter: freedom industry says the first priorities were safety containment and cleanup. meanwhile, governor worked to head off any potential panic. >> it is important to emphasize that water and supplies are available and there is not a persistent shortage of bottled water. >> reporter: as folks here wait for word their water is safe again, surrounding counties are opening fire hydrants to help out their neighb

chemical got into the water line and many people started reporting a strange odor, a smell similar to licorice or sweet candy. realized this was the preparation used in the being preaption of coal, how much got into the water and how serious is the risk? >> do not use tap water for drinking cleaning washing or bathing. at this time i do not know how long the order will last. >> smelling it and including some chemicals that will oxidize the water. we've also learned that the state of west virginia has ordered the company, freedom industries to remove chemicals from their property. meantime there is a federal investigation going on officials really wanting to know how this chemical leak happened and when authorities were noifd here in the state. >> the people in west virginia are no strange to environmental disasters, chuck was a coal minorrer and he became an activist. we asked him for his take on this disaster. >> i'm upset about it because i live with these every day and it impacts people's lives. i've seen people die of brain tumors and kidney cancer from the coal waste, where i live is a to

got into the water leip and people started reporting that they smelled a sweet smell that was like licorice and officials determined it was that chemical that you mentioned that is used to clean coal, mchm. they tell us it can caused vomiting, eye irritation, diarrhea. until they can get it flushed out of the system, dpap, the word is do not drink it. really, do not use it at all. morgan? >> jonathan, as we mentioned earlier, a federal investigation has been launched. is it clear yet who exactly is responsible? i know you mentioned freedom industries. but what more do we know? >> reporter: the president of freedom industries gave a brief news conference and he did apologize to everyone. he wasn't able to answer questions as to how or why this leak happened. he wasn't also -- >> we lost jonathan martin, live from charleston, west virginia. >>> today is the 50th anniversary of the surgeon general's first ever report of smoking and health risks. >> shed new light on the dangers of snowing in 1964 and since, changed american culture forever. the number of adults who smoke has been cut in half.

the chemical smells like licorice and can cause eye problems and breathing trouble. >> it's clear it's at the customers' taps. therefore because we don't know a lot about the product and we're still, you know, sampling and looking at concentrations, it's out of an abundance of caution, we're advising our customers again, do not use the water. >> the emergency prompted a rush on bottled water. the governor has called on the federal management agency to assist with supplies. restaurants, schools, and day care centers have been ordered to shut down. the water is being tested every hour, but it's unclear how long the emergency will last. susan mcginnis, cbs news. >>> the latest defense department report on the sexual assault at the nation's military academies is due out today. the report notes alcohol is often a factor and comes following a series of scandals that hit the academies last year. david martin reports. >> reporter: although the number of reported assaults at the military academies went down, they say there's a culture which tolerates offensive behavior. there were several assau

. >> you can still smell the licorice >> yeah. >> reporter: but while state officials insist it's safeteele isn't so sure. >> i have a three-year-old girl and i'm not happy with the idea of putting her in this bathtub with this water. >> reporter: the chemical, m.c.h.m., which is used to wash coal, leaked from this plant owned by freedom industry. the site hasn't been inspected in more than 20 years because west virginia's environmental laws don't require inspections of chemical storage facilities. environmentalist angela rosser is with the west virginia rivers coalition. >> why in the world would a plant like that, a storage facility, be located within two miles of the largest drinking water intake source in the whole state. >> reporter: rosser says lax regulation of the chemical industry in west virginia is due to its vast political power as one of the biggest employers in the state. the valley where charleston sits is known as chemical valley. but in the wake of this water crisis, the democratic governor earl ray tomblin, a supporter of the chemical industry, said he would consider

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. >> licorice, bubble gum and watermelon and now draft beer. fairfield-based jelly belly said its newest flavor sold out four days after its debut. the company is paying homage to its german roots but matching the taste to anna alnal an ale. >>> okay. let's talk about the olympics. the women tour of side-by-side toilets in sochi has prompted everything from building corruption to russian etiquette. our british reporter snapped the photo at the cross-country and biathlon center. not only were there two toilets in one cubicle, only one roll of toilet paper. the sochi organizing committee won't comment, but they have removed the toilets. another journalist has since tweeted a photo of drawers noting that it's now a utility closet. >> we're back in 30 minutes. here's what we're working on for the 6:00 newscast. our coverage of the state of the state continues. governor brown says california is making a comeback but are his projections accurate? we'll have the reality check. >> and more sunny skies, right, jeff? >> we need the rain but hard to argue

spill in the elk river, 10,000 people are now being told that the water is safe despite a strong licorice smell. the chemical company responsible for the leak, freedom industries, had not been inspected since 1991. >>> the southwest pilot who landed a plane at the wrong missouri airport has been grounded along with his co-pilot. the plane took off yesterday from the smaller airport seven miles from its intended destination, and the black boxes have been sent to federal investigators in washington. 124 passengers were on board when the plane touched down on the short runway and came to a screeching halt just shy of a cliff. many experts are baffled. >> this airplane has so much technology, it can put this crew within eight feet of any point on the earth, and so why they weren't using it, why it wasn't employed here and why they took their visual cues and got pulled off to some airport that wasn't theirs is just very hard to understand. >> and the small airport does not have the emergency equipment to respond to a commercial plane crash. fortunately, no one was hurt. >>> well, arrests could

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say they were alerted to the problem when residents of a county report add foul smell similar to licorice in the air. the leak was traced to one of freedom industry's 35,000 gallon storage tankses along the elk river, about a mile from the plant. >> we're doing a water test on an hourly base and the chemical level is declining, but we're just not shore exactly how long it's going to take until it's acceptable to lift the do not drink ban. >> reporter: the warning has rattled those who live in the nine counties where a state of emergency has been declared. >> it's disaster. and it's caused us -- it's caused us more problems than you can ever imagine. not only kl we not wash dishes, can't wash our hands after we go to the bathroom. you can't wash your clothes, and you can't drink the tap water. you can't cook with the tap water. >> reporter: fema has sent several truckloads of water to the area to help, and by the way, the u.s. attorney has announced they are investigating, and that even if this was a negligent act, there could still be a criminal violation. fredricka? >> alina, thank you s

they say it was like the smell of licorice or a sweet candy. officials with the health department tested the water and found it was this chemical mchm. the health department says it can cause vomiting, eye irritation or diarrhea. at this point the health department and water department are trying to flush out of the system and are adding different chemicals to the water to oxidize it. right now there's no time frame as to when the water will be safe for people to drink. at the same time there's a federal investigation going on into this company, freedom industries. the federal government wants to know exactly how this leak happened, and they also want to know when it happened and when the state was notified. >> that was jonathan martin from charleston, west virginia. >>> 50 years ago ashtrays were practically on every table and snowing was even endorsed in cartoons. then the country's most senior doctor told america that smoking kills. we look at what's changed since that stunning revelation. >> reporter: it was 1964 when the u.s. surgeon gener

charleston, west virginia area residents knew something was wrong when their water started smelling like licorice. >> pretty stressful with the kids and can't hardly cook, you know? >> reporter: stephanie keaton and thousands of others flocked to water distribution sites all across the area, since they can't turn on the tap at home. jeff mcintyre is president of west virginia american water. >> don't make baby formula with it, don't brush your teeth with it, don't wash with it, don't shower with it. don't drink it. you can't just boil it. >> reporter: the chemical that spilled into the elk river leaked from a hole in a storage tank owned by freedom industries which produces chemicals for coal and steel production. gary southern is the company's president. >> we don't believe a great deal of material left the facility and at this time we're not in a position to give you a number in terms of how much volume left, we simply don't know yet. >> reporter: health officials say what's in the water isn't lethal but could cause eye and skin irritations. testing is ongoing to determine how much has spilled

students are being told not to drink the water from the fountains because the water still smells like licorice. thousands of gallons of chemicals contaminated that water nearly two weeks ago. cafeteria staff has been told to avoid the use of it in food preparation until friday. >>> and now new worries this morning about the air we breathe. >> researchers have found that dirty air from chinese export factories makes its way to the u.s. they say pollution from china has made the air quality worse particularly on the west coast. black carbon linked to a host of diseases is a particular problem because rain doesn't wash it away. >>> all right. time now for the weather across the nation. we already told you about that polar plunge bringing arctic air and heavy snow to the midwest and northeast. it will also be colder in the south from the tennessee valley into georgia, and it will be dry for much of the west. dense fog in the pacific northwest and northern rockies. fire danger remaining high in the southwest. >>> 80s in southern california. 40s from seattle to billings. single digits for parts of t

>> licorice. >> what does it feel like? >> it feels oily. how are they going to get it out of our pipes? >> a spokesman says the system should be cleaned out within a few days. >>> former israeli brine minister ariel sharon has died. he has been in a coma eight years. he began his career as a soldier fighting in israel's wars. he master minded israel's invasion of lebanon in 1982. he was relentless in his defense of the jewish state, yet he surprised supporters by forcing israeli settlers out of the gaza strip. sharon was 85 years old. in this statementings president obama said we join with the israeli people in honoring his commit to his country. vice president joe biden will lead a dedication in his service. >>> well there is not much snow so far, but sierra businesses are making the most of today's fresh coat. >> and ladies, what is really in your favorite lipstick or eye shadow? a new tool to hep you find out if harmful chemicals are in your cosmetics. the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning f

interesting just to give you a short little timeline between seven and eight am people started noticing a licorice smell in the air so they started calling it into local authorities asking them to check it out ten thirty am is when the president of freedom industries which is the company that leaked this chemical gary southern said that his employees had first noticed this leak it wasn't until eleven am when the d.e.p.t. went down there and started knocking on doors and asking what was going on and then at twelve thirty freedom industries finally called the emergency hotline saying that there was a spill but it wasn't until five pm when residents were finally notified about this spill and do not drink water ban was actually put on so nine hours people were drinking the water using it to wash their hands their dishes their clothes everything under the sun and they had no idea the that this water was potentially toxic now in terms of how the company responded they had promised gary southern had promised in a friday briefing to be transparent however that statement and that consequent press conferenc