a city of nearly 100,000 in northwest detroit. a plan to save money backfired.ynolds. >> the people of flint lined up for free filters to make their water safer to drink. dorothy baits is one of them. >> mire tub is brown. >> last year they disconnected the water supply and began growing water from the flint river. it saved the city about $15 million, but the river water even after treatment was risky. that's because the chemicals used were so corrosive, they peeled lead off pipes and sent it straight to faucets in a foul-smelling brew. researchers found elevated lead levels in children two to three times what it was before the switch to the river water. they declared a public health emergency. >> it is one of the most damning things you can do to a child. >> is there any safe level of lead in somebody's blood in. >> there is no safe level of lead. >> that kept leanne up at night. the mother of twins, she noticed mental and physical development delays. public workers were not much help. >> we were told it's a few iq points. it's not the end of the world. >> she

. >> pelley: it's not safe to drink the water in flint, michigan, a city of nearly 100,000 northwest of detroit. a plan to save money backfired, and here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: the people of flint lined up for free filters to make their water safer to drink. >> can i get three of them? >> reporter: dorothy bates was one of them? >> it's not good enough to drink at all, not even to take a bath in because my tub, you should see it, it's brown. >> reporter: last year, flint disconnected its water supply through detroit and began drawing water from the flint river instead. the move saved the city about $15 million in annual fees but treatment of course risky because the very chemicals used to decontaminate the water were so corrosive they peeled lead off centuries old pipes and sent it straight to faucets in a foul-smelling, discolored brew. last month, researchers found elevated lead levels in children, in some cases two to three fiems what it was before the switch to the river water. the county last week declared a public health emergency. >> it is one of the most damning things that you c

. >>> it's not safe to drink the water in flint, michigan, a city of nearly 100,000 northwest of detroit, a plan to save money backfired. >> for the people of flint lined up for free filters to make their water safer to drink. >> it's not good enough to take a bath in. my tub is brown. supply and began drawing from the river made it. it safered the city, but the river water was risky. that's because the chemicals were so corrosive, they peeled lead in a foul-smelling dis-colored brew. they found elevated lead levels. the county declared a public health emergency. >> it is one of the most damning things you can do to a child. >> the dr. is a pediatrician at the hurley medical center. >> is there any safe level of lead in your blood? >> no. >> the mother of 4-year-old twins, she noticed mental and state public workers were not much help. >> we were told by the state nurse. it's just a few iq points. it's not the end of the world. just like that. >> other cities may face the same fate. >> we are a community trying to rebound and we have one problem after another with the kaurt sources. >> w

louisiana, mississippi and alabama and a little bit of shower activity from chicago and detroit and pacific northwest, an onslaught of storminess. flood watches posted and wind advisories up, as well. heavier rains, windy condition, could see more in the way of power outages as that cold front pushes through the day tomorrow and east of there is where the chilly stuff is so not only across the northeast but a halloween chill across the inner mountain west. temps below freezing across the northern plains, as well. so there will be areas where you're certainly going to have to dress in layers. happy halloween, america. >> all right. well, we're seeing temperatures finally starting to warm up. relative term. we're in the 20's and now into the 20's and mostly 30's, closer to 40. and we'll get through the 40's and 50's as we get through the day. next up, the weather system to our west that rolls through with clouds and showers hold off until tomorrow and just some scattered showers tomorrow at that. here are temperatures for today. not bad at all. halloween, the trick-or-treating forecast is >> we have sw

louisiana, mississippi and alabama and a little bit of shower activity from chicago and detroit and pacific northwest, an onslaught of storminess. flood watches posted and wind advisories up, as well. heavier rains, windy condition, could see more in the way of power outages as that cold front pushes through the day tomorrow and east of there is where the chilly stuff is so not only across the northeast but a halloween chill across the inner mountain west. temps below freezing across the northern plains, as well. so there will be areas where you're certainly going to have to dress in layers. happ morning, washinon. starting out with another cool morning. much coor than yesterday. 54 at noonon, 64 a high. more cloud cover this afternoon but still not a bad day. 58 at 6:00. 50 at 10:00. it gets chilly, but not too o b. a slim chance for shower tomorrow, 30%. a better chance >> we have swung the cameras around to reveal where we are, sleepy hollow cemetery. >> have you seen them? >> who? >> the headless horseman. he haunts these hollows. word is he lost his head in a great battle many years ago. >> oh,

louisiana, mississippi and alabama and a little bit of shower activity from chicago and detroit and pacific northwest, an onslaught of storminess. flood watches posted and wind advisories up, as well. heavier rains, windy condition, could see more in the way of power outages as that cold front pushes through the day tomorrow and east of there is where the chilly stuff is so not only across the northeast but a halloween chill across the inner mountain west. temps below freezing across the northern plains, as well. so there will be areas where you're certainly going to have to dress in layers. happy hall danielle: good morning. i'm meteorologist danielle vollmar. temperatures start inning the 20's and 30's. grab a coat if you're headed out the door. a lot of sunshine today, temperatures will warm into the low to mid 50's. it is a dry forecast for all the trick or treaters out there as high pressure dominates our weather. we are watching a couple of showers out to the west. we could have one or two tomorrow morning. it's a mostly cloudy day. temperatures warming up to 60 on sunday. mid 60's by tuesday a

detroit. it's a west/northwest. mild temperatures for the lower 70's south of the metro area. this morning we saw deck of clouds and more today. upper air disturbance that is going to pass us by. we will call it pardly cloudy for the region this evening. the temperatures in the overnight hours in the upper 40's to the lower 50's by tomorrow. looks like the best place. warmer temperature west of town. upper 60's to 70's. most areas are enjoying tons of sunshine. the story for the next seven days, a big change about comes for the weekend. a strong cold front pushing through. coming up in 25 minutes or so, josh knight will be here to tell you where the fall colors where, the best places to go and more about the possibility of the first frost of the season. alison: coming up here at 4:00 -- >> they are collecting buckets and blankets and the things they can find on the airplane. alison: the passenger without a ticket. see how a flight crew sprung into action at 3,000 feet. >> a northwest search is concerned they could use street parking to a bicycle alison: bicyclists no stranger

northwest. >>> if you're flying, airport delays likeliest in washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york, boston, detroit, chicago. >>> no state criminal charges will be filed against a soututh fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old during a drug sting. >> zachary hammond was o on a first date sitting in his car when officer mark tiller approached with his gun drawn. hammond was shot as he tried to drive away. prosecutors say the shooting was juified because the officer had reason to fear for his life. it all started when the woman in hammond's car allegedly bought mamarijuana om an undercover officer. >>> there are concerns this morning about the safety of cryotherapy after the death of a spa employee. the treatmentnvolves exposure to subzero temperatures for a minute or two. it's supposed d to relie pain and help patients lose weight and make them look younger but the young woman was found frozen to death in one of the spa's cryotherapy chambers. investigators in las vegas say she should not have used the equipment by herself. >>> a disturbing crime caught on camera in philadelphia. realizing he had been

northwest. you can see how cold it is off in buffalo at 40. only 44 in detroit.o very cold for most of the northeast of the country. you'll notice that all the cool air sitting over us yesterday is going to continue to head to the south. we will see this cold blast moving in and sticking around monday, heading into monday night. by tuesday we'll start to see mild air returning to our area. 24-hour temperature change shoes we're down more than 11 degrees in philadelphia from this time yesterday. 10 degrees cooler in pottstown, 10 degrees in allentown as well. for tonight we have a frost advisory from midnight until 9:00 a.m. sunday. temperatures for all the area highlighted in light blue expect to get down between 30 and 33 degrees. philadelphia will be a little bit warmer than that temperature range. it's going to be the most cold closer to lehigh valley into the poconos. we have a freeze warning. also for suburbs in south jersey, so southern burlington county included in that same thing gloucester and camden colder than philadelphia. tomorrow temperatures down i

northwest. a couple of fronts coming our way. one here in detroit in chicago. the other across lake superior to international falls and up to winnipeg. this is the second surge. the second front is the surge of colder air. that will cool things down tomorrow afternoon. today is gorgeous. here comes the first front. a shower or two ahead of that to the north tomorrow morning. the second front kind of comes in tomorrow evening and that could give us a shower, maybe a spritz. what will come in behind it is colder air for the weekend. nice sunshine. breezy and cool. 65 at normal. normal 64. 40s in the suburb. clouds and sun tomorrow. passing shower. temperature 67. warmer ahead of the front but it will get colder behind it. you see saturday it's brisk and chilly, 58. down to 37 for the low. these are five borough city numbers. you can knock about five, ten off that for the suburbs. freezing. a hard freeze coming up for >> frost? we are talking about frost. >>> good afternoon, i'm liz cho in the newsroom. thousands of dollars of flowers stolen from gardens in our ar

mississippi and alabama and a little bit of shower activity from chicago to detroit and very, very stormy across the pacific northwest, an onslaught of storminess, as a matter of fact. we had one roll through yesterday, another one tonight. flood watches posted and wind advisories up, as well. heavier rains, windy conditions, could see more in the way of power outages as that cold front pushes through i think during the day tomorrow. and east of there is where the chilly stuff is, so not only across the northeast but a halloween chill across the inner mountain west. temps below freezing in many spots across the northern plains, as well. so there will be areas where you're certainly going to have to dress in layers. happy halloween, america. here is your local for >> we have swung the cameras around to reveal where we are, the sleepy hollow cemetery. >> have you seen him, have you seen him? >> seen who? >> the headless horseman. he haunts these hollows. the word is he lost his head in a great battle many years ago. >> ooh. >> i haven't seen any headless horsmen. >> wasn't that him? >> what? >> ichabod, who's your frie

that's supposed to go to the pacific northwest for export to asia is going to sit in the elevators or on the ground. the new audibtomobiles rolling the assembly line in detroit will just be sitting in the parking lot outside the factory, because freight railroads won't be able to move them. >> reporter: the effects to the economy could be severe. the american chemistry council recently estimated that a single month of rail service disruptions could result in a more than 2.5% reduction in gdp in the first quarter of 2016, pulling $30 billion out of the economy. unemployment, it says, would rise as 700,000 jobs were lost. and household income would fall by more than $17 billion. the question now, will congress pass legislation in time? the senate approved a highway bill over the summer that includes a ptc deadline extension, but the house has not acted on it. the house transportation and infrastructure committee, however, did introduce legislation of its own last week, but that, too, needs to make its way through congress and on to the president's desk. for service to continue without disruption, all of this needs to happen before the month's end. for "nightly

northwest. >>> if you're flying, airport delays likeliest in washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york, boston, detroit, chicago. >>> no state criminal charges will be filed against a south calina police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old during a drug sting. >> zachary hammond was on a first date sitting in his car when officer mark tiller approached with his gun drawn. hammond was shot as he tried to drive away. prosecutors say the shooting was justified because the officer had reason to fear for his life. it all started when the woman in hammond's car allegedly bought marijuana from an undercover officer. >>> there are concerns this morning about the safety of cryotherapy after the death of a spa employee. the treatment involves exposure to subzero temperatures for a minute or two. it's supposed to relieve pain and help patients lose weight and make them look younger but the young woman was found frozen to death in one of the spa's cryotherapy chambers. investigators in las vegas say she should not have used the equipment by herself. >>> a disturbing crime caught on camera in philadelph