Skies opened fire on texas. A Violent Storm assaulted the dalathforth worth area with huge hail stones leaving vehicles looked like theyd been attacked by machine guns. Vinita nair is here with the story and the pictures. Reporter hail, ranging in size from an egg to a tennis ball, destroyed just about everything it fell on this morning here in the dallasfort worth area. In arlington, texas, the Violent Storm paralyzed the morning commute. In dallas, backyards were covered in a sheet of white. More than two dozen medstar ambulances were put out of services. Some of their windshields were punctured by baseballsized hail, others completely shattered. This greenhouse roof blown over by the storm, the fort worth zoo said the hail killed a number of exotic birds, including five flamingos. The bad weather may not be over yet. There is a 40 chance of showers and thunderstorms in dallas tonight and a 50 chance through friday. Scott. Pelley from broazen water we turn now to tainted water. The e
Michigan. A poor, mostly black city of 100,000. Mdeb contaminated Drinking Water has poisoned children and many others with dangerously high levels of lead. State regulatore City Employee have been charged with lying about what they knew. Dean reynolds tells us the investigation is not nearly over. Will you please tell us your name. Reporter with the charging of a low level official, flints water crisis has now turned from careless to criminal. Bill schuette is michigans attorney general. They failed in their responsibilities to protect the health and safety of families of flint. They failed michigan families. Indeed, they failed us all. Reporter Stephen Busch and prysby of the at the present Time Department of Environmental Quality and chael prysby glasgow of a flint water supervisor, are charged with misconduct and tampering with evidence, allegedly claiming flints water was safe when they busch and prysby allegedly failed the use the right amount of corrosion controls to keep pipes
Making . Pulitzer prizewinning journalist and greenwald joins us for the hour to discuss brazil, brussels, and how the attack there is impacting the u. S. President ial race. We cannot throughout everything we know about what works and what doesnt and start torturing people. What donald trump, ted cruz, and others are suggesting is not only wrong, it is dangerous. Safe. L not keep us today, Glenn Greenwald for the hour on Hillary Clinton, donald trurump, brazazil, bruss, and the fbi apple fight over encryption. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In arizona, voters are calling on Maricopa County recorder Helen Purcell to resign, following widespread accusations of Voter Suppression during tuesdays primary election. At multiple polling sites, voters waited in massive lines that topped more thahan five hours. Some sites also ran out of ballots. The voting fiasco comes after Maricopa County, which contains
Berta caceres in honduras, another indigenous environmentalist has been murdered. We will speak with caceresdaughter as well as Lilian Esperanza lopez with copinh. Then as the u. S. Congress holds more hearings on lead poisoning of the water supply of flint, michigan, Governor Rick Snyder teifies fothe firstime. Toask y repeatedly co to flin you adm youid not ow up fomorehan seve after asked y. m no famiar. I uld have to check my schedu. Tt is what he said, you did not put october until 2015, is that right . I dont know if that is right or not. Amy well get reaction from two flint residents. Nayyirah shariff, coordinator with Flint Democracy Defense League and melissa maze, of water you fighting for, a flint, michiganbased research and Advocacy Organization founded around the citys water crisis. She and her three children suffer from longterm exposure to heavy metals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. I
American schools were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. Today, they began testing kids in newark, new jersey, after lead was found in the water at 30 schools. Anna werner is there. Reporter Tanquir Walker brought his daughters into school today for a lead testing. I think school is the first place that they should be safe in. Thats just goes to show theyre not on tom of thip game. Reporter he joined dozens of other parents concerned about elevated lead levels found in 30 newark schools this year. And the district has now revealed 12 of the water samples taken between 2012 and 2015 have also been above the federal limit of 15 parts per billion. Doctors say no level of lead is safe for children. Valerie wilson is a newark district administrator. She blames old fixtures. We have 67 schools. They average 82 years old. The Building Infrastructure needs to be replaced. That is significant. District has been addressing lead problems in schools water since 2004, including adding water fi