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
Sunnyvale, upper 80s near 90. 84 in the city and 72 and pacifica. Napa, 88. Proffered, crawford, 89 degrees. A little fog. There are some 40s to the north. Did not take long to start warming up. The city is still a 63, even though the buoy temp is 54. Note breeze whatsoever. Mid50s and the upper hills. Is warm but even the coast, bay, and lynn temps will be well above average today. The high kicking in for 2 1 2, three days. Just like that, it will start to cool down on sunday. A big change on monday. More that coming up in the next couple of days. May be our first rain of the season for some on monday. 70s, 80s, 90s today. 7 01 am. A little hiccup or two early. Now, it is better. It is better than it was. We had a couple of things, as we mentioned. We have not had a lot of serious crashes. Yesterday and today, weve been okay when it comes to super serious things. List begin with the east bay commute. Some people leaving the east bay. You can see a little bit of a backup at the east ba
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
Sweeping and systematic, we now have a way to digest the conclusion that there was a lot of it out there. When people hear that, they need to hear that was not only droll activity which is folks pretending never us riding around in cyberspace but more importantly because the effect was clearer. The hackers who stole contacts. And then link it back into our system through front groups ultimately we can make and created the effect not on their own. Had our press been more careful, the media agenda would not have been reset the way it was by that act content. So no there was a lot, they downplayed the extent, a lot more than we initially knew. We knew it was across platforms and we know that its still there. As a platform shut down one place, it pops up in another. Its a little bit like likable. We have to keep working about this. Not just from the russians but other actors who might want to intervene in our elections. We heard from facebook that only about a hundred thousand dollars was
Good evening my fellow americans. I have asked for this Television Time to report to you on our most difficult and urgent problem. The war in vietnam. Since i took office four months ago, nothing has taken so much of my time and energy as a search for a way to bring lasting peace to vietnam. I know in some ways i shouldve ended the war immediately after inauguration by ordering our forces home. This wouldve been in easy thing to do, a popular thing to do. But i wouldve betrayed my solemn responsibility as president United States if i had done so. I want to end this war. And the American People want to end this war pick the people of South Vietnam want to end this war. That we want to end it permanently so that the younger brothers of our soldiers will not have to fight in a future vietnam someplace else in the world the fact that there is no easy way to end the war does not mean that we have no choice but to let the war dragged on with no end in sight. For four years american boys have