Why Flint still doesn’t have clean water after 4 years | AJ+ 

I love all the work that AJ Plus does always great reporting.

I enjoy watching you beautiful.

Omg Ty 4 reporting on such an important subject

Dena you should have walked in with a cup filled with this new "safe to drink" water and asked him to drink it. "ok if it's safe to drink then I want you to drink this cup of water". If he refuses or takes a sip rather than drinking the whole thing then he is tying his own noose.

I want you to know that your work is really appreciated. I don't live in flint. But this story shouldn't disappear.

I mean to be fair, nothing in the world is 100% safe. The problem is that the "safe" water of Flint is only available in some areas.

Good point...you would think they could lie better than that!

I caught that too

I think people should just leave flint it's a war zone.

You bring up a good point. Id like to see an independent study on this.

@@jessicasmith7704 how so? With what money? Will you pay for them to leave and start a new life somewhere else? Will you pay for their healthcare?

Jessica smith and when they leave the city decides to flush millions of dollars into the community so they can turn around to sell it to the rich. Thats called gentrification.

Toob247 Toob247 no thats called environmental racism youre foolish if you dont know that.

Wesley Clouden ik the city said its low *ER* Probably like 1% less

Probably less than 1% but more than 0%. It's probably 0.0025%.

Your "fam" is in prison... this is RU-vid.

He is paid

This guy should be 🔒 up. If you caused the problem, then you pay the price for it. And I think, imo anyway, he was part of the water crisis problem.

Well if they “☠️” the entire city then it would not be a problem anymore so clearly your comment is false

Ahhhhhh. Sweet sweet white privilege.

Benedict Waiharo how is it white privilege??

move countries

The officials were charged with manslaughter.

Is he bulletproof?

Apparently, yes.

I wish nothing more but for him to be in prison for what he has done. Trying to run a city like a company and not accounting for the lives there. It makes me so angry I can cry.

running government like a business is doomed from the start

TokenBlackman7 So while those who fault Governor Snyder are not entirely wrong, what is deeply dishonest is the story put forward by such people as the filmmaker Michael Moore, who enjoys pretending to be from gritty, blue-collar Flint (he actually hails from an affluent suburb nearby), that this is, somehow, the result of the Republican approach to government or conservative governing ideas. That is absurd. Flint is a mess made by Democrats, made worse by the Democrats in Detroit, and ignored by the Democrats in the White House. The worst that can be said of the Republican on the scene is that he failed to save the local Democrats from the worst effects of their own excesses.

amr mousa perfect solution draft the entire population of flynt into army maybe then they will get bottle water.

More like the DemoKKKrats embezzled the money to run the city!

The military is a terrorist group.

@@Waafa Most of the militaries in all the world are probably evil unfortunately.

Yes, they won't be so tough in front of God.

Osiris Malkovich the states take care of their own states not the whole country

That's a pretty stupid reason to allow American citizens to be poisoned.

Cause a stupidly large number of Americans think taxes are evil. It is also often framed as a state by state issue rather then a national issue so often times the Fed trusts the state to handle infrastructure. This has only gotten worse as the country has become more polarized and the Federal government has become more dysfunctional. Internationally Washington does a lot, but internally it's best to look to the state government for help then the fed.

Osiris Malkovich being cheap

They don't care. If they did they would've at least had a healthcare system. Ever since Australias politics became predominantly right winged, we had threats made against the system. This is relegated to the people of flint. What say you to a system (non existing) that affects the whole country?

theunknown one fact

theunknown one I could never drink Flint water again even if they say it's safe it all started with a lie from the governor down

It all depends on who ya know and who ya blow

+obsidianstatue ikr f - 35s are super expensive, and the govt has to keep making them because of tensions, politics, etc. , but nobody is giving any thought to giving money to flint.

The F-35 is a good design that was executed badly.

@@minimanofiron2501 500Bil+ last I heard unless I'm misinformed.

@@markrogers7923 I believe that $500 billion is the amount spent on the F35 program as a whole but each individual jet costs somewhere between $100mil-$120 mil

@@carguy638 yeah I mean that's how they have received so far from government last I heard....realize it's a huge issue but that's a ton of money! Not including anything private.....hopefully they come up with a solution cause it should have never happened!

Yes greed is THE WALL STREET WAY!!!

@@ronaldfitchett9523 Nestle has been stealing water from poor villages, we found this out recently.

Pauly has a point.

Yeah but this is the whole city sooo

If Grand Blanc had this problem instead of Flint, the Republicans would have fixed it with a snap of their fingers!

@@auntmelisa8689 In the US, that's the point. I've noticed from travelling around the world that in Europe & Asia, cities are where man's greatness is celebrated. In the US, it's a dumping ground. Where I live (the Rust Belt), all the money goes to the suburbs, while welfare cases, drug treatment, halfway homes, mental health housing & parole programs are sent to the inner-city, usually with cut funding & high crime. Why are the cities treated so badly but the suburbs treated so well? I'll give you a hint; look at the skin tone of the residents. As a white guy, I've seen blue collar trade-practicing blacks get denied suburban housing, but white people with two jobs in fast food & retail given the OK. Redlining is alive & well in the northern US. I live in a city which has PFOS poisoning in its drinking water & the county, state & federal government have done nothing, yet the suburbs next door are on their third filtration plant in twenty years. So it's like I originally stated, if the suburbs had this happen, the problem would have been solved long ago. I think we all know why no one will fix this.

Pauly it’s currently being fixed right now as we speak. You act like it takes a day to fix lmfaooo

Can I get some little space in your heart too? I am 1 of the 4 children of my mother. XD

Me2 I cryed alil when the baby fell asleep on her

Classy Juanito Capitalism is corruption of the rich

compare corruption in the US to corruption in China, Central America, Africa etc...tell me what you find out buddy. I'll save you the time..the US is one of the least corrupt nations in the world.

*of course*. Learn to spell common words, or lose your chance to convince people of average or higher intelligence.

😂😂😂😂😂 this is so much fun!

The ability to spell is meaningless in a world with spell check. The ability to spell correctly is a job already taken over by machines. So if that's your only skill good luck getting a job. Weirdo

because wilson, you need to remove ALL the lead from the water. You post articles but you probably didn't read them.

except I did read the articles you posted and a majority are "less than or EQUAL TO" meaning they still aren't safe to drink unless it is BELOW the limit set. Of course this means replacing all the pipework but until then the corrosion will continue.

He said it was "safer" it needs to be safe not safer

Its def called soda, just sayin.

maybe it's because he has heard the same question countless times ..

That's America baby

They are specifically targeting black areas

J Briggs 😂 Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Zambia etc.. are all white run right

J Briggs Not the point. The US should be better than this.

J Briggs so the presence of white people makes a country great?

That's not a result of gentrification. Quite the opposite, the population once was 200,000 and fell to half of that and is still declining. And that's part of the problem especially when the population "thins out" rather than "shrinks" because that means the entire infrastructure has to be kept up at full scale. Less people have to pay more for it to keep running, deterring new people to move in and enforces the feedback loop down. Its a collapse. Some cities have trouble to manage their growth but most do a really bad job at managing downsizing.

Well PG&E is still killing people in California so hopefully sueing them again.

Mark Brown You heard the careerist: the water is safer, now they have to pay for it. My bill is annually, $600-$700 total. That's average. There's a whole lot of greased hands getting in on it.

Amanda, are you saying this woman hasn't paid her bill for ten years. I had read that people who purchase homes in Detroit have to assume the prior owner's water bill. Would that bill plus her own bills amount to an 8,000 water bill. This still is not made clear.

Mark Brown No, I am saying that their average cost for water is 3x what mine is at about $150 p/mo in a region with a median household income of 28k (31k for a family). That is insane considering I live in a desert and they are in Michigan, the land of a thousand lakes. That's just on-time payments. These people are paying about 10% of their annual income for poisoned water. Imagine how bad the fees are if they fall behind, as discussed in this video. Would you willingly divert 10% of your household income to pay for poisoned water?

Thanks for this information. No I would not.

Hmmm you don't think something like this don't happen in EU, you might want to ask the Roma people.

It will happen after half the state dies they just don't give a damn.

Unfortunately, the new Attorney General dropped all the charges against the officials responsible for the crisis.

@This is my username It wasn't an honest mistake! This shit was done on purpose, to save money! The people responsible should be in prison...

John Doe it's cause there are 1000s of polluted water municipalities.

What Flint need is to get into some else other than automobile industry.

That's CNN for ya!

I agree, it gives chills. Let's pray for theses kids to have a better future 🙏 and all the kids around the world who are strugling because of corrupt governements, they didn't do anything.

Quit trying to make this about your ideology, commie. Flint's situation is bad regardless of your economic ideals.

It's hilarious when someone points out some of the failings of Capitalism they're instantly called a Communist. The situation in Flint wouldn't happen in any other western nation in the world. Until people in the U.S can self examine their political situation without becoming defensive and resorting to name calling things aren't going to change. It's questionable whether the U.S government has the power to make the changes necessary as a lot of the control of basic services; health, education, infrastructure has been sold to corporations who's number 1 incentive is profit.

@@pete2219 Because this shit has nothing to do with Capitalism you idiot. Flint is poor, so they changed the water supply, but the pipe system they used is rusty and made from lead. It's as simple as that.

Because the Democrats they voted in steal the money and dont care

@@stormysocks The Democrats had their fair share of problems, but the Flint water crises in particular is directly the fault of Republican governor Snyder's emergency financial management of Flint. Stop lying.

This means a complete and total exodus of people from the whole entire God forsaken Michigan. It's going to be a ghost state someday, and highways and trains filled with lawful good people on and inside autos, trucks and buses and freight cars of every sort. A new migration from Michigan may be underway.

Or better yet, turn the whole entire God forsaken Michigan into a federal prison and put the illegal immigrants and gang lords there.

Daniel Duckington Free market? That statement was ridicules and purely made to attack Capitalism to further your political agenda. We do not even have a free market in the United States that should be evident to anyone who has taken a economics class. The real issue has more to do with the useless democratic government in Flint.

Colton Is not my name The Free Market ideologues are the ones that brought this to communities like Flint. Remember the mantra of small government? Don't try to play down the influence of inept government (austerity) and business accumen in these events, the whole Flint crisis was kicked off in the name of budgets and business deals.

Amanda Harig After a further infestation the ”led poisoning” was traced to an ”outbreak of the bacteria-based Legionnaires’ disease in Flint that caused the deaths of 12 people.” After measuring the blood lead levels of several children, there was an average of only ”0.11 micrograms per deciliter.” These levels are not statistically significant considering they are within the standard fluctuation ranges. As with most issues, people are merely trying to politicize the event an there assertions are unfounded. I am not stating that they do not have an issue they certainly need some renovations. If it is an issue, you are concerned about why don't you take action rather than blaming others.

Matthew Bedford what are they going to do ...fight the water…shoot it ??

They don't even care about pedophiles, why would they care about this

IcecreamLeGenD policy depends on which state your in not the whole country

IcecreamLeGenD America is the most in debt country on the planet. They are far from rich. China owns over a third of all the continental US.

Justin Blackmon Reach out to "Beat the Press." Seriously. There are communities that have taken over their water companies due to ineptitude. God damn.

+Amanda Harig GODs last name not dam

+Amanda Harig DONT TAKE GODs name in vain he will not hold you guiltless!

Hadassah Immanuel If there is a personal God to be so damned infuriated at such a petty slight, he's not worth my worship. A God truly to be feared would reach his almighty hand down to the earth and purify the *god-damned* corruption that leads to the poisoning of billions.

They're mixing (treated?) sewage water in with your drinking water? Why haven't you taken up arms against them?

You wouldn't

Flushing your toilet can put the particles of whatever is in the water into the air

It wasn’t just lead, it was legionella.

rurutu M only Michigan stop generalizing things.

It’s only Michigan

Blue Totoro..you gotsa' be kiddin' me..It's just not in YOUR neck of the wood's..if we don't stop relyin' on fossil fuel's..& Nestle don't stop buyin' up ALL the fresh water supply..like Erin Brochovich said..it can be in YOUR neck of da' wood's..

@@blutot7417 your stupid this happens to poor communities all the time every state has a "flint" .

Renée duComyn commie

Masterchef 97 No, I’m a socialist. There is a massive difference.

If only they had the ability to do so. I mean to say, hard to get another mortgage and/or lease when this death-trap has them in over their heads.

You already know how certain Americans feel about certain people coming to their communites

justshady not really as long as you are a citizen you can live in any comments u want and u just need money

They can’t sell their homes for capital the way many of us with clean water can. If they try to move other near by areas with clean water, it drives the housing price up each time a person moves. Those who didn’t move right away, and don’t have enough money to just pack up and start over, cannot afford a new home because the price has gone way, way up.

Amerikkka

gerry o sullivan Europe isn't a country. You can't make generalizations. There are many poor countries in Europe. You are lucky to live somewhere that has nice water and is supplemented via the taxes you pay. America has many issues when it comes to looking after its own. It isn't a model to be emulated.

gerry o sullivan someone doesn’t remember the bubonic plague

@Mark Yates that is for a fact wrong though, there are enough people that don't have a lot of $$ in capitalist countries. We get the scraps of what is left of the money, the rest is taken by the government and the richest of the rich. It just looks like it helps people out of poverty because capitalist countries have more money than countries using some other system and the scraps we get are bigger.

@Mark Yates to who are you responding and what are you talking about?

@Mark Yates read your comment again.

K Salomon pretty sure I did that once or twice

Dena Takruri You cover what truly matter!! ( there is plenty media outlets for the good news)..

Noura Al-S trump has nothing to do with this

Yes it does coz nothing was done about the water for years and when trump came into the picture and said he would change things i know people voted for him coz they believed him. This is just one of the places but its all across poor America coz there are millions of people that are not being heard and they voted for him thinking he will listen....

Why did they expect him to listen. He didnt even listen to contractors of his casinos and condos/resort that he needs to pay them what he owes them. They beg him to pay them what was owed because they going bankrupt due debts caused by his big projects.

hello there..Ppl. have amnesia..They forgot when Trump was on Howard Stern callin' Rosie O'Donnell a fat-pig..droolin' over his daughter..bein' sued by Barbara Corcoran 4 sayin' he built the ny city sky-line when he just threw his name on a couple of her building's..bein' sued 4 not payin' worker's..bein' sued 4 givin' student's a 'fraudulent' education @ trump university and so much more..why you think he has 2 get loan's from third-world dictator's? American companies' won't do business w/ him..he has sunk this country 2 an "all-time low"..ppl. act like they haven't been watchin' his bafoonery 4 the last 40 yrs..they should know better..a lack of education..mis-education..misappropriation of the fact's..MSM & Reality TV has really stupified the american public.

Rafael Pena. Trump can't get congress to agree on funding to build the Wall...do you think he can get funding to build the dilapidated Flint water infrastructure? Hell California is after federal funding to build their mega water infrastructure project too.

Michael Wassef And your commentary is ignorant of the testing criteria already obfuscating this crisis. Allow me to point this out: there are 2000+ counties in the US of A that have already been identified as have similar drinking water profiles/inefficiencies. Of course the EPA/State declared this safe and assured the populace that all was well -- they can't allow a precedent to be set for the rest of the country. G'damn.

+Amanda Harig GODs last name not dam