reporter: what they have to say is look, we re trying our hardest to clean this up. we re cooperating. but it s interesting, because the governor of west virginia told me hey, they haven t been so cooperative. first of all, they re supposed to report the spill to a spill line. there s a phone number dedicated to reporting spills of which they didn t do. and then when the state stepped in, he said they weren t very cooperative and the state had to prod them. that was the word he used, they had to prod the company to work with them. so there s different accounts here. the company says they ve been cooperative but the governor says they sure haven t been cooperative. that s unbelievable. they didn t even call this help line. obviously bears more looking into. elizabeth, thanks. more happening tonight. susan hendricks has a 360 bulletin. the data breach at target was apparently worse than first reported by the retailer. target now says up to 70 million customers had their names, ad
Spill the company is supposed to call a telephone number, a spill line. they never called that spill line. then the state went to them and said, come on, guys, let s cooperate here. the governor said they were not cooperative. they had to be convinced to work with the state and try to make this situation better. so you have an uncooperative company and hundreds of thousands of west virginians without with ter. you can t take a bath, wash a dish, and the health problems on top of that. what sort of health problems, elizabe elizabeth, could this chemical cause? right. we ve been told that about five people have been admitted to the hospital with relatively minor problems, nausea, vomiting, so so far we haven t seen a lot of people getting sick thank goodness. now this chemical, don, if you if you swallow it, it s hazardous. if you touch it, it can be an irritant to the skin or eyes. people are not being exposed to
Say is look, we re trying our hardest to clean this up. we re cooperating. but it s interesting, because the governor of west virginia told me hey, they haven t been so cooperative. first of all, they re supposed to report the spill to a spill line. there s a phone number dedicated to reporting spills of which they didn t do. and then when the state stepped in, he said they weren t very cooperative and the state had to prod them. that was the word he used, they had to prod the company to work with them. so there s different accounts here. the company says they ve been cooperative but the governor says they sure haven t been cooperative. that s unbelievable. they didn t even call this help line. obviously bears more looking into. elizabeth, thanks. more happening tonight. susan hendricks has a 360 bulletin. the data breach at target was apparently worse than first reported by the retailer. target now says up to 70 million customers had their names, addresses, phone numbers or e-ma
How much of this chemical is in the water. and they say the amount is decreasing and that s a good thing. so they say that once it gets below a certain level that the centers for disease control says that they can open back up the lines and allow people to use the water. so there may be a little tiny bit of this chemical left in the water, but they said that actually that experts tell them that s safe. but it s not going to happen really soon. it s going to be days before folks here have water again, anderson. the company that s responsible for this, what do they have to say? reporter: what they have to say is look, we re trying our hardest to clean this up. we re cooperating. but it s interesting, because the governor of west virginia told me hey, they haven t been so cooperative. first of all, they re supposed to report the spill to a spill line. there s a phone number dedicated to reporting spills of which they didn t do. and then when the state stepped in, he said they weren t