Video: Former WCBI Reporter Comments on Water Crisis in Flint, Mich.

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FLINT, Mich. (WCBI) – The water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the toll it’s taken on the city have captured nation’s attention.

Residents there have protested, demanding answers from city and state agencies.

The water apparently became contaminated in 2014 when the financially strapped city switched from Detroit water to the Flint river.

Last week, Michigan’s governor apologize for the crisis and released his emails about the situation.

It’s a story former WCBI reporter Caresse Jackman has been covering.

We talked to Caresse today about the crisis. She says it began soon after she moved to Flint last year.

“We noticed that the water was coming out brown. The water was coming out smelly in some people’s homes. They complained about it. They went to their city council meetings. We’ve been seeing so much attention from people in the national scheme of things; people calling from Virginia to Mississippi to New York just calling to see what they can do to help. And that’s meant so much to people here.”

The city of Memphis and FedEx today sent 500 cases to Flint at no charge.