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A Water Crisis In Newark, A Lead Problem Echoing Flint

Rahjiah McBride, of Chester, Pa., right, helps her relatives, Newark residents Elnora and Bowdell Goodwin, center and second right, as Goodwin's son pitches in carrying bottled water from the Boylan Street Recreation Center, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (Kathy Willens/AP)

With Meghna Chakrabarti

Newark, New Jersey, residents are lining up for bottled water after lead was found in tap water. We look at crumbling infrastructure and public health.

Guests

Yvette Jordan, teacher at Central High School and resident of Newark’s South Ward. She started a group called NEW Caucus in 2012 with other educators to teach students about social justice.

, senior attorney and managing litigator at the Natural Resources Defense Council (). Lead counsel representing community groups in Flint, Michigan, in a lawsuit about lead contaminated drinking water. Lead counsel in a lawsuit brought against the city of

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