More than 100,000 customers were without safe tap water on Thursday after a chemical used to clean coal leaked into the Elk River in Charleston, W.Va., officials said. West Virginia American Water warned residents in nine Charleston-area counties not to use the water. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency, urging people not to drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes in the water. The spill happened at a storage facility about a mile north of a water treatment plant on the Elk River...Executives at Freedom Industries, the company that owns the storage tank, did not respond to emails seeking comment.