It is Wednesday, December 15th, I'm getting a lesson.

And I am Josie Defi-Rix and this is What a Day, where we are celebrating Steph Curry's

new record for three pointers by training to shatter it.

Yeah, it is a long path that involves us being drafted into the NBA, but we think it's

a worthy goal.

You know, I've accomplished all my goals so far, so I just need more things to work towards.

Right.

On today's show, Congress raises the debt ceiling again, plus New York State says that Andrew

Cuomo has to hand over the royalties from his memoir.

But first, we turned to a story out of Hawaii that we've reported on before, where tens

of thousands of families have been living without clean water in their homes for weeks.

It all started late last month when residents who live on or near the joint Navy base at Pearl

Harbor Hicom and Oahu noticed a fuel-like smell coming from their taps.

And it turned out that the water was contaminated with petroleum.

Many people got severely ill, some are even hospitalized for skin rashes and chemical

burns and vomiting, all of which are symptoms consistent with petroleum contamination.

Not ever a word you want to hear about your water.

My family and I, we got sick, my cats were vomiting, my son and I were nauseous, we got

headaches, I had bloody stools.

My husband had really bad stomach pains.

Just truly awful.

That was my hall, a native Hawaiian resident in military housing.

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