Michigan To Investigate Flint Water Crisis.
PAUL: It's 55 minutes past the hour. New from Flint Michigan's attorney general, he's taking steps to see if any laws were violated leading up to this current water crisis we've been talking about. The city's drinking water has been contaminated with toxic lead after what was considered to be a cost saving measure. Now Governor Rick Snyder has declared a state of emergency. He's called in the National Guard, who are delivering clean water to the residents. CNN's Sara Ganim walks us through this.</s>SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the National Guard arrives with clean bottled water, more agencies are now looking to see if anyone is criminally responsible for the water crisis in Flint. Almost immediately after the city switched its water source two years ago, brown water came out of the tap and children developed rashes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is ridiculous. It's killing us slowly.</s>GANIM: The water is tainted with lead because it wasn't treated properly. Now allegations that state government officials were not only slow to react, but that they may have hidden the truth.</s>DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA, HURLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: I think that is the biggest trauma that our community feels right now. They were told for 18 months to relax. That we are meeting all minimum -- you know, we're meeting all guidelines. They've been lied to for 18 months.</s>GANIM: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a Flint pediatrician took it upon herself to look at the blood lead levels in children in Flint. She found levels had doubled, even tripled in some cases. Even though the state insisted the water was safe. (on camera): Why do you think their information was flawed?</s>HANNA-ATTISHA: Their information wasn't flawed. They had the data. They had even looked at it back in July and they had seen these abnormal spikes.</s>GANIM (voice-over): A leaked draft memo shows that as far back as June, the EPA new of reports that Flint water had high levels of lead and that the city's testing was skewing results by free flushing before samples were taken, but no action was taken for months. The EPA says it was urging the state to fix the problem. What's more, Marc Edwards, the researcher who shed light on these documents says the state not only tested the wrong home, but also altered a report eliminating results from two Flint homes that would have shown toxic levels of lead.</s>DR. MARC EDWARDS, PROFESSOR, VIRGINIA TECH: In essence, the state took an F grade for Flint water's report on lead and made it into an A grade.</s>GANIM: The state says the alterations were legitimate, but e-mails show state officials determine to prove the water was safe. One official writing, "I would like to make a strong statement with the demonstration of proof that lead blood levels seen are not out of the ordinary."</s>RHONDA KELSO, PLAINTIFF IN CLASS ACTION SUIT: Let down by this city and this county and the state, let down by the government that's supposed to keep us safe.</s>GANIM: Christi, the problems continue to pile up. This week the governor announced they're now looking into a possible link between a spike in legionnaire's disease in Flint, which is a water-borne bacterial disease and the water switched. During the two years in which the water with was coming from the Flint River, which is highly corrosive, cases of legionnaire's went from the teens into the 40s in both years. Ten people died and they're looking to see if they can make a definitive link -- Christi.</s>PAUL: My goodness, all right, Sara Ganim, appreciate that update, thank you so much.</s>PAUL: Good morning to you. I hope Saturday has been good to you so far as we edge towards the 8:00 hour. I'm Christi Paul.</s>BLACKWELL: I'm Victor Blackwell. A lot to get to, starting with the breaking news. We'll start in California where the FBI now believes the San Bernardino terrorists, Syed Rezwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, planned to detonate a bomb at the Inland Regional Center.</s>PAUL: The same day they shot and killed 14 people in December. Now the two were killed in a dramatic shootout with police last month.