BERMAN: The National Guard is headed to Flint, Michigan, to help with the tainted water crisis there that began over a year ago. Thousands of people have been told to not drink the water, not touch the water coming from the taps after tests showed elevated levels of toxic led.</s>BERMAN: The guard is helping with relief efforts there as they go door to door to hand out bottled water and filters. And it is a daunting task when you need water for cooking and bathing and teeth brushing.</s>BERMAN: The things of every day life. CNN's Ryan Young is covering the story for us. Ryan, what is the latest?</s>RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Guys, people are angry about this. When you think about this, you wake up every morning, you use water for something, brush your teeth, wash your face or take a bath, and this is even hard to find, bottled water, because so many people looking for it. And they feel that they have been lied to for more than a year now that the contaminated water the fact that it smells, and it is brown. And this all happened after the state took over Flint, Michigan's, finances. They switched the Detroit water system to the Flint River. That water is so corrosive it corroded it started melting away the lead pipes and that led to all this lead coming into the households. And doctors say it is a fact that it must be stopped.</s>DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA, HURLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: It is a well known potent toxin, and there is evidence of what lead does to a child, and it is a most damning thing, because it drops the I.Q., and affects to behavior and linked to criminality, and there is no such thing as a safe level of lead in a child.</s>YOUNG: And FEMA and the National Guard are bringing more water into the area, and obviously, citizens there are still upset with the government there in Michigan.</s>BERMAN: Understandably. Thank you, Ryan Young. Thank you all for joining us</s>AT THIS HOUR. BOLDUAN: "Legal View" with Ashleigh Banfield starts right now.
National Guard Headed to Flint, Michigan.