Here to talk about the new documentary. Remind viewers when and why fresh water was contaminated. And 2014 the plant one the city of flint decided to have a new Water Pipeline coming from lake huron surrounding counties and cities. In the interim before the pipeline is fully constructe constructed, state officials in charge of the finances at the time decided to switch the city onto the river and turn off the t treatment water to the plant that was barely operational over the last 50 years. So what needed to happen for that to be successful and whatn didnt happen to make withat switch to the flint river quick. There were a lot of upgrades that needed to happen at the plant, tens of millions of dollars worth o that i guess was not operational in this way and half a century. There is a lot of things that needed to be done and equipment that needed to be replaced and staff adequately trained and what we found is before they made the switch , there is not enough. They didnt have the adequa
December 2008. Brent had its best day since collecting data. You are still looking at wti at 61. 81 and present at 65. 85 in asia, the knnikkei up about 3 points this morning, some early trading in europe, fairly muted there. Ftse slightly higher in france, the cac slightly down, so is the dax. Check out treasury yields, the soyear is now yielding 1. 833 the 30 year a little lower but well above what weve seen in recent months. Lets talk about the corporate story of the morning wework now delaying its ipo. Surprise but says it will still go public by the end of the year the company has been prepared for its investor road show which was supposed to take place today. But made the decision last night to stand down. This reportedly over concerns that there is not enough stock mark et investors. Work reporting they will not go public until at least october at the earliest adam neumann wants to get through the jewish holidays before he considers the next steps. Because that is what is keepin
Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced