we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with west virginia s water disaster. more residents are now being told their tap water is safe to drink again after chemicals spilled into a major water supply. but how safe is it really? cnn put it to the test, and we re revealing the results for the first time right now. our own jean ka scasarez is in virginia. what are you finding out. reporter: we just learned about 50% of the people in this area now can use their tap water. but that leaves 50% that are still in the red zone. they can t use their tap water. everybody is testing their water. they re even testing the water in the fire hydrants around here. well, we put it to the test. how safe is really safe? while officials continue to test
the wind was 38 miles per hour right over the fire zone. red flag warnings around the fire right now. not necessarily in the fire zone but close. winds 35, 40 miles per hour. things are calming down. the fires go down and so does the wind at night. the winds calm down and the fires settle a little bit. this is when you get a chance to get a handle on some of it. let me take you down to this fire. i think a lot of you think about colorado or california wildfires. this isn t in the mountains. the front range here. colorado springs, all the way up, even into denver along i-25, take you to the black forest. this is an area that is forested, well east of the front range, well east of where you think the trees really oh, and even east of i-25. this area, we ll spin it around, you can see pikes peak. this is the red zone that we know has burned. not every home in the red zone
right over the fire zone. red flag warnings around the fire right now. not necessarily in the fire zone but close. winds 35, 40 miles per hour. things are calming down. the fires go down and so does the wind at night. the winds calm down and the fires settle a little bit. this is when you get a chance to get a handle on some of it. let me take you down to this fire. i think a lot of you think about colorado or california wile fires and they are in the mountains. this isn t in the mountains. the front range here. colorado springs, all the way up, even into denver along i-25, take you to the black forest. this is an area that is forested, well east of the front range, well east of where you think the trees really are and even east of i-25. this area, we ll spin it around, you can see pikes peak. this is the red zone that we know has burned. not every home in the red zone is lost.
right over the fire zone. red flag warnings around the fire right now. not necessarily in the fire zone but close. winds 35, 40 miles per hour. things are calming down. the fires go down and so does the wind at night. the winds calm down and the fires settle a little bit. this is when you get a chance to get a handle on some of it. let me take you down to this fire. i think a lot of you think about colorado or california wildfires. this isn t in the mountains. the front range here. colorado springs, all the way up, even into denver along i-25, take you to the black forest. this is an area that is forested, well east of the front range, well east of where you think the trees really oh, and even east of i-25. this area, we ll spin it around, you can see pikes peak. this is the red zone that we know has burned. not every home in the red zone is lost. there are homes that were saved.
affect us the next few days? the weather channel studios are right here in atlanta, georgia. this is what i got to drive through on my way here. look at all this tremendous lightning. unfortunately house fires, including in my own neighborhood. power outages as well. even a severe warning in atlanta where president obama is visiting morehouse college. we re also seeing showers and storms throughout the carolina now. nothing severe at this time. showers and thunderstorms beginning to break out across the western portions of illinois. not so much yet across the western areas of missouri. this is where we expect things to really light up later on this evening. the tornado threat is going to increase as we go through tonight, talking about places like joplin, tulsa, oklahoma city as well, all the way through the twin cities and tomorrow this whole area shifts a little more to the east to include chicago and st. louis and it will still be a tornado threat. a lot of these areas in the red