. >> why did fema deny governor sneijder's request? >> reporter: they say because it is not a natural disaster. that what those declarations usually entail. but the governor can appeal that. the president has given them this declaration of emergency, doles out about $5 million to the city. >> someone just told me it is a $95 million difference in money between the declarations there. okay. andy roesgen thank you. >>> at the bottom of the hour, i will speak with a state representative about what can be done to help the people of flint. >>> iron and the iaea today pledged to comply with the nuclear deal. the meeting comes two days after the deal was implemented, and sanctions were lifted by the u.s., e.u., and the u.n. five americans were also freed in a prisoner swap. lisa stark with the latest. >> reporter: jason's wife said it all, free after 544 days in an iranian prison. the "washington post" journalist, his wife, mother, and brother together at the u.s. military medical facility in germany. doctors are evaluating his health, and th

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and there's buzz about "new town," by kim sneijder, the film takes on the debate on gun violence, focusinglies that lost children in the sandy hook school massacre. and the legendary german filmmaker is back with "lo and behold." the film industry is waiting to see whether this year's sundance will surpass 2015 when the festival's grand prize winner, a coming of age draw many called "me and early and the dying girl" failed to capture big audiences. you can be sure that many of the filmmakers walking on these snowy sidewalks are hoping their labor of love will be the next "little miss sunshine," or "blare witch project." >>> commercial drones are about to get a lot closer to the action. the faa has given the okay to follow skiers to record their runs. just last month the international ski federation banned camera drones after one nearly missed hitting a skier. >>> the philadelphia police department is sending a warning to residents with this video. ♪ you need to call us from your cell phone ♪ ♪ late night when you see that cone ♪ ♪ call us from your cell phone >> it urges people not to figh

and there's buzz about "new town" by kim sneijder.on the wrenching debate over gun violence, focusing on grieving families that lost children in the sandy hook school master. and the legendary german filmmaker is back with "lo and behold" an off-beat look at the digitized interacted world humanity has made and which is remaking humanity. they are waiting to see if this year will surpass 2014 when the drama failed to win big audiences. >> that shows there is a big difference between the bubble of the sundance film festival and what main stream audiences will be interested in. you can be sure many of these filmmakers are hoping their labor of love will be the next "blare witch project." rob reynolds, al jazeera, park city, utah. >>> and you will find much more on many of our stories on our website, that's what it looks like. and the address is aljazeera.com. ♪ >>> forecasters are warning some 70 million people to prepare for what could be an historic snowfall. >> i guess they are wanting to get a little publicity, but that's a dying pap

to make matters worse governor sneijder has announced that there is also a problem maybe linked to theith legionnaires' disease. ten people have flied in flint, 87 have been effected. the governor asked president obama to declare a state of emergency that would free up federal funds so the federal government could contribute. the water system could cost something like a billion dollars to $1.5 billion to replace it. the city is now getting its water from detroit as it used to do before it switched to the water system, but the damage to the pipes has apparently been done. >>> 12 academics have been arrested in turkey for denouncing military operations against kurdish rebels. they are just 12 out of more than 1200 scroll -- scholars who signed the declaration. >>> in egypt at least five activists have been arrested. these detentions are the latest in a crackdown on activists in the country. the muslim brotherhood which is the group of mubarak's successor, has been labeled a terrorist organization by the egyptian government. >>> in yemen houthi fighters have released a minister and four o

former wayne county assistant prosecutor, todd flood, who has contributed cash to rick sneijder's campaignsserve as special county, retired detroit fbi chief will also help determine what if any laws were broken. the attorney general calls the team a firewall as his office also defends the state and lawsuits brought by flint residents. >> this is an investigation, i can assure you we're going to open up every door. >> the facts will lead us to the truth. we go in this with no predispositions. >> reporter: in 2014, in, the financially strapped city, began pulling water from the flint river. chemicals added to clean the polluted river water were corrosive, and caused the pipes to leach lead. >> it has been very hard. we worry constantly about the kids' health. >> reporter: i know the government has been under five who do you hold accountable? >> i think it starts with the city first. they are the ones that switched over. and that the pipes were bad. >> pipes that would cost the cash-strapped city more than $1 million to replace. the michigan national guard has spent weeks handing out bottled

. >>> to the united states where the governor of michigan, rick sneijder is asking the u.s.o issue an emergency and major disaster declaration after a drinking water crisis in the city of flint. people have been lining up for bottled water being handed out by the u.s. national guard. high levels of lead were found in the city drinking water. john, this was a cost-cutting measure that lead to the problems in the first place. >> reporter: that's right. they wanted to save money so they went from taking the water from detroit's water system to taking it from flint's own flint river. well that river had been used as kind of an industrial sue ere for many years, when the auto industry was here. it has a low tax base so in an effort to save money that made this switch. in that water was very corrosive, ate away at the pipes, and lead in the pipes leached into the water. lead causes brain damage. >> you also can't get rid of lead from your body, that's one of the major problems, right? so there are two sides to this. the practical side of what do they do about it? and what are they

-- back in january 2015, so it's important to note that's almost a full ten months prior to the sneijderistration admitting there was a problem and starting to take action. >> the governor said he didn't know that bottled water was being delivered to office workers in flint. do you believe him. >> the governor has consistently tried to blame state workers and works that worked for him for this crisis. so it doesn't surprise me that now that this revelation has come forward that he says he had no idea. the reality is season knew. someone from the deq knew enough to bring in bottled water for employees while they were saying the water was safe to drink. >> is this just incompetence or perhaps something more sinister. >> there's no way to know. michigan is one of the only states that allows the governor and legislator to be extemp from the freedom of information laws, so until the governor removes that from all of his staff, from a broader time line than what he has already released, we may never know. and that's the only way we'll find the truth. and we have been calling the governor to ch