my name is bill schuette and i'm michigan's attorney general. thank you for coming. mayor weaver, i'm so pleased you're here and i admire greatly your leadership here in the city of flint. january 15th of this year, i initiated an independent investigation to determine what laws may have been broken in the flint water crisis. my job as attorney general is to enforce the law and that is what i do. i've said this before and it bares repeating. that so many things went so terribly wrong and tragically wrong in flint. today, today we are announcing we filed criminal charges in the flint water crisis against three individuals. we have filed charges against steven busch, an employee of the michigan department of environmental quality and michael prysby, also an employee of the michigan department of environmental quality. we have charged each individual with three felonies. three separate felonies. first, we have charged mr. busch and mr. prysby with misconduct in office, a felony. mr. busch and mr. prysby misled federal and local authorities, regulatory officials and fail

this is bill schuette making the announcement telling us about these charges. so let's just listen in very briefly. >> everybody all set? all right. well, good afternoon. my name is bill schuette and i have the privilege of serving as michigan's attorney general. thank you for coming. mayor weaver. i'm so pleased you're here and admire greatly your leadership here in the city of flint. on january 15th of this year, i initiated an independent investigation to determine what laws may have been broken in the flint water crisis. my job as attorney general is to enforce the law. and that is what i do. i've said this before and it bares repeating. that so many things went so terribly wrong and tragically wrong in flint. today, today, we are announcing we filed criminal charges in the flint water crisis against three individuals. we have filed charges against steven bush, an employee of the michigan department of environmental quality and michael prizbee, also of the michigan department of environmental quality. we charged each individual with three felonies. three se

bill schuette promised more would be chargeled but would not say if governor rick snyder was a target of the investigation. both pleaded not guilty and were leased on -- released on $60,000 bond. glasgow has not appeared in counter. >>> queen elizabeth turns 90 today. she will light the first of 1,000 beacons that will be lit across the u.k. and worldwide to mark the occasion. more events to mark the celebration are planned in the coming months. look at this new stamps featuring the queen with three future heirs to the throne according prince george. as you can see 2-year-old george needed a little boost to reach the height of his father, grandfather and great-grandmother. >>> big changes are coming to the u.s. currency. an announcement from the treasury department and it plans to replace andrew jackson with one of the most revered figures in u.s. history -- harriet tubman. an escaped slave who fought to help others escape. will become the new face of the dollar bill dollar. she will be the first woman in u.s. paper currency in more than a hundred years and the first african-american

bill schuette is michigan's attorney general. >> they failed in their responsibilities to protect thehealth and safety of families of flint. they failed michigan families. indeed, they failed us all. >> reporter: stephen busch and prysby of the at the present time department of environmental quality and michael prysby glasgow of -- a flint water supervisor, are charged with misconduct and tampering with evidence, allegedly claiming flint's water was safe when they knew it was hazardous. busch and prysby allegedly failed the use the right amount of corrosion controls to keep pipes from leeching lead into flint's water, refusing after they saw lead levels spike, and they're accused of rigging test results by sampling water only after they told residents to run their taps for five minutes or more. glasgow is accused of changing test results to show less lead than was actually found in the water. when it's in the bloodstream, lead can lower i.q.s and cause behavioral problems. as you poured over the evidence against these individuals, did you yourself wonder how they could have done this

a michigan attorney general bill schuette with his team expected to announce the first criminal chargest's supposed to happen at about 1:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll bring to you live as soon as it happens in a half hour. two years ago, that state michigan decided to save some money by switching flint's water supply from lake huron which was pretty clean to the flint river. we learn about the charges levee against these people. it's always amazing when you hear about public officials being charged because you always assume they have a degree of immunity. with crimes, these are criminal charges. potentially prison time and, you know, in the civil complaints because of class actions and so many allegations of particular people, state officials, local officials that they in the civil complaints said help to contribute to the flint water and the people of flint michigan. we'll show you who they are and what they're charged with. mike glassgow the city official was the utilities administrator for the city of flint and two counts. tampering with evidence and willful neglect of duty and the two

on wednesday, michigan attorney general bill schuette announced the charges, saying there are more toome. >> these employees of the department of environmental quality had a duty. they had a duty to protect the health of families and citizens of flint. they failed. they failed to discharge their duties. they failed. they failed in their responsibilities to protect the health and safety of families of flint. they failed michigan families. each andvery pern who brks the law will be held accountable. we will follow the facts without fear or favor, and we will go wherever the truth takes us. in this case, wherever the e-mails take us. these charges are only the beginning. there will be more to come. that i can gearing to you. nermeen: the charges come as michigan's republican governor rick snyder said he has not been questioned by prosecutors in connection with the flint water contamination crisis. at a news conference wednesday, snyder said he doesn't believe he broke any laws. >> we have been fully cooperating with this investigation and we will continue to do so. we will pursue any wro

michigan, attorney general bill schuette is reportedly planning to announce criminal charges for at least two officials involved in the flint water contamination crisis. the water crisis began when flint's unelected emergency manager appointed by governor rick snyder switched the source of the city's drinking water from the detroit system to the corrosive flint river. the water corroded flint's aging pipes, causing poisonous levels of lead to leach into the drinking water. meanwhile, in detroit, two street artists are heading to court to fight felony charges for allegedly painting the words "free the water" and a large black fist on the highland park water tower in 2014. artists antonio cosme and william lucka are facing up to four years in prison on charges of malicious destruction of property. detroit has faced its own water crisis in recent years, as the city has cut off running water for tens of thousands of families. the united nations has condemned the ongoing water shutoffs as a violation of international human rights law. a virginia appeals court has ruled in favor of transgender

. >> michigan's attorney general bill schuette said no one is above the law in this case as he laid oute misdemeanor charges against those three men which could bring all of them between four and five years in prison if convicted. some of the most damaging accusations are against michael prysby, a michigan department of environmental quality official. that's known as the d.e.q. and stephen busch, a former d.e.q. district coordinator. investigators say both allegedly tampered with evidence of lead levels on certain water samples in homes of residents of flint after the lead contamination occurred. prysby and busch are also accused of refusing to treat river water with control corrosion chemicals, which allowed lead to leak from aging pipes and fixtures and contaminate tap water for 18 months. >> they had a duty to protect the health of families and citizens of flint. they failed. they failed to discharge their duties. they failed. they failed in their responsibilities to protect the health and safety of families of flint. >> flint's laboratory and water quality supervisor mike glasgow is