Joie chen. It is almost unimaginable, whats happened in flint, michigan. A man made disaster the mayor says ha that has led to families giving their children poisoned water. This has been going on for a year and a half, despite pleas from families, how is this even possible . America tonights Lori Jane Gliha, investigates what happened in flint an flint and why the citys children were left to suffer. They are not people that are disposable. We are not. It is a crime to be serviced with water thats classified by the epa as toxic waste. At rhonda kalsos house in flint, Merrill Lynch i have a filter up under here. Reporter this is one of the certified ones that filters out the lead . Filters out the lead. The 52yearold stroke survivor says she still wont drink it. I have to rely on family members and friends to take me places. And help me to go and get bottled water. This is water that came out the tap, look at this green at the bottom. It was only a few months ago whether she says she co
30,000 knowns theres reportedly to be 5200 of those. We are overlaying that information and the information i was going door to door talking to individuals to those who would be willing to be part of a sample. Putting threeperson teams in those homes with a plumber, someone who can actually address how do you take a sample so you do not preflush, its, its a widemouth bottle see pick it up on a routine basis so we can pick it up and tested. We are working with the epa task force to see what type of interval make sense. Will now recognize the gentleman from florida. Thank you mr. Chairman. Its good to follow the young lady from the district because i was here in 95 when we took over the district, put in the control board, at that time if you think flint is bad, the district had hundreds of bodies of indigenous that were stacked like court, they couldnt bury, the kids were getting from a vendor only chicken and rice that were in the districts care. There 60000 people employed by the distr
Then in 1994, out of high school and a young woman of 20, cathy started to see a boy named albert. A boy shed played with as a child, and was now interested in romantically. Were they boyfriend and girlfriend . She said that they were, you know, seeing each other, but it wasnt anything serious or formal that i knew of. Thats how she explained it to me, you know, he was a nice guy. Reporter cathys plate was full that february of 1994. She was an honors student at cal state fullerton, holding down two jobs one at the local drugstore and another as a college. And now she was also seeing a new guy. Just a few days before february 14th, cathy told sister tina what she wanted for valentines day. She said, tina, i would just like it if somebody gave me a dozen red roses for valentines day. And i said, yeah, thats all you want . She said i would just like a dozen red roses. Reporter she had never received a dozen roses from anyone, but that year she was hopeful. It was saturday, february 12th
I do. I have two letters here, one written from in fact written to you in september and it was asking you to please get involved. Are you aware of that letter . Yes, sir. You did not respond to that letter. Did you authorize her to do so . Yes. I did. Her response fluffed off the entire thing and, by the way, mr. Chairman, id like woet of these letters to be submitted for the record. Without objection, so ordered. And all of this is taking place in september. Did you, at the same time, praise deltoro . I did not know miguel at that point in time. So you were not aware of the report or in september . I was aware of the report. I did not know del toral in particular. But you were aware of what he brought forth. In my email to susan hedman if you read it, its to her and her team and he was a vital member of that team. So are you aware of any retaliation against del toral . No, i am not, sir. So and yet we have testimony, or we have records that would reflect that he certainly was retaliat
Figure out a way to stop donald trump. They prefer to deny him the nomination through voters and in the primary process but after a near sweep on tuesday, trump is closer than ever. And a viable conservative alternative to run as a thirdparty candidate but trump continues to call the shots in the race. He backed out of mondays debates saying no one told him about it which prompted john kasich also to take a pass. Fox news canceling the whole thing altogether. As you can imagine, ted cruz isnt very happy about this. His excuse is silliness and it reflects his assumption that he thinks the voters cant figure out that hes not telling him the truth. Apac would have allowed him to speak at anytime. Its a multiday conference. He chose to speak right in the middle of the debate because hes scared of the debate. He looks down on the voters. He thinks they are gullible and will believe anything that he is saying. Kelly odonnell and Hallie Jackson are joining me. Is this meeting, kelly, too litt