Report reporter tremain lee. Miss michigan is here with me. Well hear from those in the bar tonight about what they think of the president. Our Special Coverage continues tomorrow night when we bring your our town hall with flint native Michael Moore. You do not want to miss that. But we begin tonight with a stark illustration of just whats at stake with the potentially catastrophic hurricane now bearing down on the east coast. Prompting mandatory Evacuation Orders from more than a million people. The president of the United States today sat in the oval office and bragged about his performance in dealing with the biggest disaster he has overseen as president , the hurricane that devastated puerto rico. I think puerto rico was incredibly successful. Puerto rico was actually our toughest one of all because its an island. So you just you cant truck
things onto it. Everythings by boat. We moved a hospital into puerto rico, a tremendous Military Hospital in the form of a ship. You know that
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he needs assistance with bottled water as well as the faucet filter. our program is servicing about 170 households each and every month. these folks who cannot get out of their homes are really the forgotten people of flint. tremain lee joins me now. it s shocking of see a line of cars lined up in an american city in 2018 to get clean water. because we haven t seen flint in the news there s a sense that maybe things are back to normal. there s nothing normal about what i saw that day, cars streaming out of the parking lot down the highway, parents saying i won t give it to my children, i can t cook with it, can t brush our teeth with it. the disabled, before the city and state had given thousands of families free water, now they have to rely on the charity of churches. nothing normal about this. they cut off the funding to give it to folks with
o he needs assistance with bottled water as well as the faucet filter. our program is servicing about 170 households each and every month. these folks who cannot get out of their homes are really the forgotten people of flint. tremain lee joins me now. it s shocking of see a line of cars lined up in an american city in 2018 to get clean water. because we haven t seen flint in the news there s a sense that maybe things are back to normal. there s nothing normal about what i saw that day, cars streaming out of the parking lot down the highway, parents saying i won t give it to my children, i can t cook with it, can t brush our teeth with it. the disabled, before the city and state had given thousands of families free water, now they have to rely on the charity of churches. nothing normal about this. they cut off the funding to give it to folks with disabilities and that is because the what the state says is, and i m reading from a detroit
regard to lead. however, there are other concerns that people have about bacteria as we get into summer and more water being used, there s concerns about that. so the advice that the state and the feds are giving the people of flint right now is not to drink water without a faucet filter. 30 second by the way, it still discolored? reporter: typically not, although, i wouldn t say that doesn t happen. there is a lot of stagnation in the flint water system. quite frankly, it s too big for the number of people it serves. so that is not so much of an issue, but there is a lot of underground construction that s going on in the city, removing lead service lines that were damaged in the water crisis and there are concerns about increasing lead being possibly breaking out. ron, my best to you and all the folks there in flint and ann arbor as well, thank you so much. thank you. that wraps up this hour for