Tonight some people in West Virginia can turn on their taps again. Officials say the water supply is now safe. Five days after a msz if chemical leak that left the water undrinkable, even untouchable for 300,000 people. Jonathan has more. John, the state of emergency was lifted early this afternoon, the governor telling some 300,000 residents that the water is now safe. They are allowing the people to turn on their taps in phases. So some 15,000 have been told they can turn on the tap. The First Priority has been to hospitals like the one behind me. They have been using big tankers over the last few days, and things are now slowly getting back to normal. Reporter russ fuller is relieved. We bagged our faucets, that was the easiest way to keep us from messing with them. Reporter hey, i can do laundry now, i can you know, wash dishes. Reporter a Chemical Spill prompted a state of emergency. West virginias governor shows extensive testing shows levels of the chemical are now below 1 part
Lead and you know the list, like a quarter of the periodic table. Reporter the push to get one company to cleanup its act after contaminating 70 miles of a river. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, russias military making an aggression move in effort to take over crimea. The troops seized three Ukrainian Navy vessel in sevastopol and quickly changed the flag over the flag to russia colors and president obama is warning russia not to go further ni in, ukraine and they have close ties to russian president putin and he signs an agreement for closer ties with the eu and we have Team Coverage this morning and phil is in kiev but lets begin with Jennifer Glasse in sevastopol where the navy ships were seizeed and you have been following the take over of the vessel and what do we know at this point . Reporter well, you know, we noticed a lot of activity with ukraine navy yesterday, activity with the ships and blocked in the port for nearly three weeks but that is
48th fighter wing. This happened in a lowflying training exercise, and not clear what may have caused this crash. We are working to learn more about this accident. We will bring you any updates as we get them from the live desk. Im wendy rieger. Back to you. More than 1 million americans lost their Unemployment Benefits when congress let the emergency extension expire at the end of the year. Tonight, president obama is urging congress to extend the benefits n. A narrow vote, the senate voted to move ahead with the extension, but the republican republicans and the democrats are far apart on how to make it happen. And Steve Handelsman has the report. Reporter the procedural vote means that the extended Unemployment Benefits may pass the senate in a few days, but president obama said it better. We are not a people who say, you are on your own. We believe we are all in it together the, and we know there but by the grace of god go i. Reporter there was catherine hackett, mother of two servi
A downside. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. Im Morgan Radford. Keeping his ogss open. The United States employs three warships closer to iraq. In as president obama considers a military force of action. The u. S. S george w. Bush will move from the arabian sea to the gulf. The president insists he will not put american books in iraq. This as fighters from Islamic State of iraq and levant have taken control of towns in a mart of days. The battle threatens to tear them along sectarian lines, and they are volunteering to take up arms against the sunni group. Iraqi and american leaders are comtemplating their next move for a country on the verge of falling apart. There have been fears clashes that have taken part. Sunni rebels have moved from moss you will up to that town, fighting with turk men shia. There are heavy clashes going on right now. We are hearing that there are casualties. And 35 injured. The town of tal afa is turkman shia. A lot of them
After 3 years in hiding, momo kadhafis son is back in tripoli behind bars. He fled to need share and as been extradited, awaiting trial, accused of fueling up buddy crackdown. Fueling a bloody crackdown. Brazilsng up, carnival parade winners will find out more about the colorful costumes and the glitz and glamour. And the latest sports news, with the france and netherlands gaining. Lets go to our top story. The Crimean Parliament has voted in favor of holding a referendum on whether crimea should remain part of ukraine or join russia instead. The autonomous region is planning to vote on the 16th of march. One person is in front of the Crimean Parliament, where dozens of prorussian protesters have gathered. It is a slight technical problem. Orry about that we will come back to that letter in the bulletin. Lets go to the controversial phone recording that is emerged on the internet, and it is not good news for the ukrainian authorities bitte snipers accused of killing thousands of protes