Waching daily Apr 4 2018

hi I'm Carl azuz for CNN 10 this April 4th 2018 we're starting with a look back

at an event from April 4th 1968 an adventure to change the nation

50 years ago today dr. Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated in Memphis

Tennessee he was a Baptist minister and an activist he was a writer and a gifted

speaker he delivered his most famous speech during the march on Washington in

1963 he was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1963 he received a Nobel

Peace Prize in 1964 today dr. King's remembered as being one of the most

renowned civil rights leaders in history one of his main goals was to use what he

called nonviolent direct action peaceful protests like marches and sit-ins to

promote equal treatment for african-americans in the u.s. dr. King

was no stranger to controversy he was arrested and jailed in solitary

confinement for leading a march in Birmingham Alabama he spoke out publicly

against US involvement in the Vietnam War which angered many people in the

late 1960s some of his activism on behalf of America's poor failed to get

the results that he and his supporters hoped for not long before his

assassination dr. King said in a sermon quote living every day under the threat

of death I feel discouraged every now and then and feel my works in vain but

then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again a half-century later it's clear

dr. King's work was not in vain

this is unbelievable you look up there it says Mason temple this is where

Martin Luther King is fifty years ago gave his incredible speech that night

April 3rd 1968 King checked in here the rain motel it's just around 5:45 and

he steps on style the balcony of room 306 he speaks the other guests that are

in the courtyard there are approximately 601 and fatal shot rings out I'm 13

lives mortally wounded on the balcony he's taken from the balcony to st.

Joseph's Hospital he's pronounced dead at 7:05 tonight of dr. Martin Luther

King I ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck dr. king

who lived by non-violence it's like a returning to something

I mean this is where Martin Luther King breathed his last breath

the owner of the Lorraine Motel decided not to recheck this room out he dr.

King's honor memory that's exactly how was left

it was left this way right there when it all happened king's partner and dear

friend Reverend Ralph Abernathy his wife Juanita on this pilgrimage fifty years

later the night that Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated

you were with his widow yeah tell me about that Kokoro dancer when I meet you

at your house and I stayed there that night with her is it true that did you

sleep with her in her bed to comfort her yes right the night that her husband was

night that he died I slept on his side of the bed and my little children that

there with her children tell me how you're feeling I was watching you

it's very much the company recovers Nadia that he had he changed my life he

inspired me to stand up to speak up and to never give up and when he died I

think something died in all of us

ten-second trivia most of the world's freshwater is used for what agriculture

industry sewage or bathing according to the United Nations the majority of the

world's fresh water is used for agriculture and irrigation but even a

relatively wealthy nation like the US which uses a relatively high amount of

water getting clean drinking water at home is not a guarantee many of the

pipes that bring Americans water were laid underground almost 100 years ago

they've deteriorated since then some leak some don't have enough water

pressure to seal out soil dirt or chemicals and some local governments

don't have the money to replace their pipes improving American infrastructure

like its water systems is a priority of the federal government but critics say

that problems will cost more to fix than the government provides and in places

like Martin County Kentucky those problems are literally seeping into

homes the hills of Appalachia are part of America's legacy the people here in

Martin County Kentucky proudly self-sufficient but it's hard to take

care of yourself when you don't have the most basic of necessities

it's left hope workman with no other choice

twice a week hoping her daughter drive up this dirt path on the side of a

mountain 20 years ago she placed this three and a half foot long pipe into

this hillside to tap a spring just to collect clean drinking water because

obviously no one drinks the water do you drink it

oh no there's no way that I drink it Gary ball is the editor-in-chief of the

local weekly paper the mountain citizen water has been a front-page story for

most of his career what's going on here I mean because citizens the people who

live here and deal with this every day where do they put this on their list of

concerns in 2018 in a very place where LBJ declared war on poverty fifty-four

years ago water is our number one issue that's hard to imagine you declare a war

on poverty fifty-four years later you come back there and you can't even

reliably get clean water what what progress have we really made it boy

third world country here as far as water we've let our water system just elapid

eight to the point of collapse you went how long without water at that

time it was ten days to manage that hope has turned her pool into a makeshift

reservoir collecting rainwater for even the most basic needs in order to wash

her clothes in order to get water to bathe n this is what you have to do yes

I did this in 17 degree weather and we had to take a chainsaw

to drill through the ice get to the water so you use the chainsaw to get

through the ice and then siphoned the water we're mouths out of this house

that's what it's come to that's what it's come to in fact the

American Society of Civil Engineers gives the United States drinking water

infrastructure a grade of a D so how does the water get so contaminated here

in Martin County it's worth looking at how we get our water here it comes from

the tug Fork River where it is then pumped into the Krum reservoir

and from there it makes its way to this water treatment center after getting

treated about two million gallons per day a fairly clean water then leaves

this treatment facility through a cascade of pipes traveling all over the

county problem is those pipes are also old and cracked more than 50 percent of

the water leaks out before it gets to the people who need it even worse is

what's getting into those pipes and into the water

very different kind of problem concerning water was faced by a family

in Sarasota Florida recently there was an uninvited visitor to their backyard

swimming pool and it measured 11 feet long they called police to address the

alligator issue and a trapper was brought in to escort the animal out it

resisted its arrest a bit but no one was hurt this appears to be an enclosed pool

so we're not sure exactly how it got in but we bet the family were reptilian all

their friends about it and their pictures prove their story's no croc if

that sort of thing is common they may want to move snout there's a big

difference between a gated community and a gate or community and those animals

are crocodilly anything but too cool for pool I'm Carl azuz for CNN ten