Hey, new report on one of the biggest health catastrophes of our time.

The lead starts right now.

The origins of COVID revealed an updated U.S. intelligence report, the virus leaked from

a lab in Wuhan, China, but how confident is the department in its own findings and in

East Palestine, Ohio, a new technique to track potentially contaminated water from that

toxic train wreck and growing concern in other cities, taking in truckloads of contaminated

soil.

Plus, brand new images today after a string of tornadoes uprooted lives in Oklahoma, CNN

is on the scene.

Welcome to the lead object tap where we start in our health lead on the new groundbreaking

assertion from the U.S. Energy Department that the COVID-19 pandemic likely began from

a lab leak in Wuhan.

China, this all comes after the Energy Department updated its 2021 report with this claim, saying

it made the new conclusion based on new evidence coming to light.

Two sources telling CNN, the department is issuing the report with, quote, low confidence.

That's a term that doesn't mean that they don't believe their own conclusion.

It means that the evidence as of now is only circumstantial.

This new assertion reveals that the U.S. intelligence community is more divided than ever on how

the pandemic began for other agencies in the U.S. government, say the outbreak likely

began after the virus naturally jumped from animals to humans.

On the other hand, the FBI agrees with the Energy Department's conclusion that it was

a lab leak, and the FBI's confidence level and their conclusions is moderate.

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