Watch Flint Water Hearings Before Congress Live Now

WASHINGTON, DC – Hearings into the Flint lead poisoning public health crisis are under way before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

You can watch it live below.

Earley approved action in 2014 that switched the city’s water supply from Lake Huron to more corrosive water from Flint River. Lead leached from pipes, exposing an unknown number of children and adults to lead poisoning, which can cause irreversible brain damage in children.

Expected witnesses Include:

U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township; Joel Beauvais, acting deputy assistant administrator, EPA Office of Water; new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Director Keith Creagh; Virginia Tech University Professor Marc Edwards, whose research helped reveal the problems in Flint; LeeAnne Walters of Flint, whose concerns over problems with the water led to outside intervention.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder also hasn’t been called as a witness.