toxic waste in colorado and you the tax payer footed the bill. retirement restoration llc paid $381 million in government contracts since 2007. this morning a week after the spill the epa insists the water in colorado is safe to drink. originally tested for high levels of lead, arsenic and heavy metal. a california reservoir turned into a giant ball pit. this is actually 96 million plastic balls being poured over the surface of the 185 acre reservoir to conserve water amid extreme drought conditions. the pauls help reduce vap brakes and are expected to preserve 300 million gallons of water per year.
now i have as and bs. in washington, d.c. police released four people with dar.winter when police arrested him for the murders of sava valve vap poll louse, his wife, amy, their 10-year-old sop and the housekeeper. wint is in jail today, charged with those murder bus police believe he did not act alone and they are still searching for suspects combing through the evidence found at the krim scene. here is now is cnn s alexandra field. reporter: it is potentially the smoking gun, a pizza box found at the scene, inside crust that investigators say connects darren wint to a heinous crime. this is a pretty good find for an investigator. exactly. yeah. reporter: dr. david zang runs a dna identification lab at mount sinai hospital in new york city.
another weather band on the way? a couple days until tuesday, completely saturated. to give you an idea this is in between austin and san antonio, yesterday afternoon, the san marcos riff her a level of eight feet. it is expected tonight to crest near 38. oh my gosh. can you imagine that? that s how much rainfall. look at the moment, what toward read i will read it off, dallas average four, at eight inches. austin two inches is average for the moment you are at ten. corpus christi, 13. little rock six. oklahoma city of a vap three inches you are over 18. not only a rainfall record for the moment of may but all-time monthly rainfall record. there is more. to you are area of concern really from southern texas to northern missouri. i think the severe weather with the exception of some isolated flooding the tornado threats from louisiana toward missouri. more on that in a minute. just the last 24 hours niece numbers alone are enough to cause massive flash flooding and evacuations. lo
welcome back to the lead. i m jake tapper. a voicemail uncovered now adds to this tragic mystery of four people killed in a washington, d.c. mansion. savvas is a vap liss left a suspicion message about his socialite wife the night before their murder. police say someone killed the couple and a housekeeper and 10-year-old son and then set their home on fire. also inside the house, as i mentioned, the bodies of their 10-year-old son and the housekeeper. the murderers, and arson, rocked the posh neighborhood dotted with embassies and multimillion dollar homes. the crime scene is literally steps from the vice president s residence at the naval observatory. bill and hillary clinton also bought a home around the corner. cnn s joe johns joins me live in the neighborhood. joe, a lot of questions about the voicemail along with some
quote, intentionally trying to injure himself. that prisoner could not see gray because they were separated by a partition. but jane miller investigative reporter for our baltimore affiliate, reported even before gray s death that there was no evidence to back up that claim. she says an autopsy also showed a spinal cord injury for gray and that there would have been additional injuries if he had banged his own head. in addition, she says the police commissioner recently stated the prisoner s ride in the police vap was calm and quiet and sources tell miller that gray was unresponsive when the second prisoner was picked up. interesting that part of the police report was released. i have a lot of questions about it too. again, this goes back to what is not knowing what went on inside that vapn, not knowing exactly what happened, when he received the injury that he received. not to be simple minded but it goes back to the fact that there weren t cameras on the police officers.