FLINT, MI -- Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders may be preparing for Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Detroit, but his national campaign co-chair and actor Danny Glover met with Flint families Monday, getting an update on the city’s water crisis.

Glover, co-star of the “Lethal Weapon” movie series and a Sanders campaign surrogate, was scheduled to visit two homes here with Bernie 2020 National Campaign Co-Chair Nina Turner on Monday, July 29.

The two met Yale Street resident Tanya Atkins and her daughters at her home, listening more than speaking.

“We don’t trust the water still,” Atkins told Turner and Glover. “When (the water crisis) first hit the fan ... there was a rush to help. They got us bottled water (but only) for a while.”

Atkins spent time privately with the Sanders’ representatives Monday, emerging from her home to show restoration work in her front yard that she said has been slow to be completed.

Turner called Flint “the canary in the coal mine” but said problems with the safety of drinking water have also emerged elsewhere.

Sanders himself has been no stranger to Flint, having led a town hall meeting here in 2016 and debating fellow Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton inside The Whiting that same year.

Last year, he kept a campaign promise by returning to Flint, visiting about 30 city residents in a private meeting.

In 2016, Genesee County was one of just 10 counties in Michigan in where Clinton won more votes than Sanders in the presidential primary.

Sanders won the popular vote in the state by a few percentage points.