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Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 06:55:45

Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 06:55:45
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Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 03:56:00

newark s water infrastructure. city officials brushed aside warnings and allowed the system to deteriorate while state and federal regulators did not intervene forcefully enough to help prevent the crisis. till with us, nick and dr. john torres. nick, so take us through this because the political response from the city of newark initially when there were indications began emerging was essentially there s no crisis here. and you also uncovered technically speaking what apparently happened to trigger this crisis in the first place. yeah, if you were to go back to 2015, it appears that that s when the city started tinkering with its water a little bit to deal with a problem with carcinogens, and to do that they started making their water slightly more acidic. now, what that did was for 20 years newark has been combatting lead. it has these ancient old pipes and using sodium silicate to prevent the lead from reaching the water. when they made the water to deal with one problem they

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Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 06:56:00

our guest nick shared a by line on the story. it reads, quote, an investigation by the new york times based on dozens of interviews and hundreds of pages of public records reveals blunders at all levels of government in safeguarding newark s water infrastructure. city officials brushed aside warnings and allowed the system to deteriorate while state and federal regulators did not intervene often forcefully enough to help prevent the crisis. still with us, nick and dr. john torres. nick, so take us through this because the political response from the city of newark initially when there were indications began emerging was essentially there s no crisis here. and you also uncovered technically speaking what apparently happened to trigger this crisis in the first place. yeah, if you were to go back to 2015, it appears that that s when the city started tinkering with its water a little bit to deal with a problem with carcinogens, and to do that they started making their water slightly mo

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Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 08:43:00

yeah, i understand they can t do it overnight, but, come on, 30 months. it was going to be ten years? 20 years? now they re speeding it up. okay, well can she. that s still a long time. that is a long time. back with us is john torres, medical correspondent for nbc news. nick, let s pick up on that reaction. i think when you hear just 30 months in isolation, two and a half years, i think everybody says that s a really long time to fix this. you have the mayor there saying this is a great triumph. why is that a fair framing of this? if you go back to march when they first broke ground on replacing the lead service lines, it was a $75 million bonding plan that was going to take ten years and cost residents up to $1,000 per household. that s a lot of money in a city like newark where the average median income is $34,000. fast forward to today, they were

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Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 03:55:30

Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams 20190827 03:55:30
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