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i m joined now by one of the residents who is taking action to address the situation in flint with the help of volunteers and donations, is distributing bottles of water to her community. good morning. good morning, melissa. i know that your organization is distributing bottled water for free to the community. because your community here does not have access to clean water. tell me more about what this effort is. well, it is called bottles for the babies. basically it was just a grassroots effort. heard about the situation of course and that was going on in my city and just was called to immediate action personally. i drove myself get out and go fill up my car with water and go take it to the nearest school. that s how it started. this is an amazing and meaningful effort. as someone who lived in a hurricane zone for a long time i know bottled water can get you through a couple of days. if you don t have running water. but we re not talking about a
lead from those pipes leakched n the system. residents complained immediately with the color and taste of their water but detroit didn t switch back to the old water system for 1 1/2 years. this year it was discovered the city s infants and children with above-average lead levels had nearly doubled. this was devastating news for the people of flint because the neurological damage and behavioral effects of lead poisoning are believed to be irreversible. this tuesday governor rick snyder declared a deck cla mags of emergency and the same day the u.s. attorney s office is investigating the case for the residents of flint such actions came much too late and a message they sent loud and clear on friday when protesters gathered in the rain to call for their governor s resignation and arrest for the state s mishandling of the water crisis there. even now at this moment, health experts say the water is too toxic to drink.
couple of days here. this is an ongoing crisis. unfortunately, yes, it is. it is frustrating. the people here are angry and we want him to step down, him and his administration. stick with us, don t go away. jamal, you are from detroit. i am. i there is a lot of disgust about governor snyder on this, not only in flint but also in detroit. you think about what s happened in flint over the last generation,er in s down to 100,000 people left in the city. 40% are underneath the poverty level. it is sort of like detroit without some of the motown sex appeal. some of the same dynamics are happening. i think snyder s going to have to really the state is wrestling with what to do with this governor. this is not a political scandal about e-mails. this is not this is about children, infants in a city being poisoned by its water, by