nate foy with the latest on this crash, hello, nate. it doesn t appear that this is a repeat of last month s toxic disaster in east palestine. state and local officials do not believe it was carrying toxic chemicals and any evidence of any spillage. take a look. one person caught it on camera. you see reminiscence of derail meant here, 5:00 p.m. last night. state epa says there s no risk to public water systems as a result of this wreck. the cleanup is underway right now. we will have more in a second. state leadership in ohio stays something needs to be done about this as a pattern is emerging. what we have seen to risk to communities is unacceptable. luckily it seems we may have missed a bullet. the train is empty and hazardous materials is a threat to the community. regarding the cleanup, mike, and what was in the trains, norfolk southern tells fox news no hazardous materials involved or reported. we are coordinating with officials on site and expect to have wreckage
objection to the statement, your honor. were you living a wealthy lifestyle? i just don t know what you mean by wealthy. is this a hard question, mr. murdaugh? well, it s hard for me to know exactly what you want. and it depends. i was spending money that wasn t mine that i shouldn t have. i think that, you know, we lived a lifestyle i don t have an issue if you want to call it wealthy. all right. would you concede with me that not all of this money was going to pills at this point in time? all this stolen money. no, i doubt that it was. okay. and it was being used to support your wealthy lifestyle. well, i haven t looked at all these documents to know exactly what was being spent where. but here s what i do know. i know that i was making a bunch of money and i should have had i should have had more money than i did. and i know that i was spending a bunch of money on pills. and i know that i don t remember in 2011 i just can t remember those land dea
chairman jim jordan has gavelled in an entire subcommittee on this issue. he s touted allegations from dozens of whistleblowers who he said came to him with stories of the discrimination and bias they face, the problem is that was pretty much all we knew about them until now. before we break down what is in this new report, i want to bring you back to an exchange between jim major dan and congressman dan goldman between the first and so far only weaponization of the federal government hearing last month on the quote unquote evidence that republicans claim to have had. take a listen. you talk about dozens of whistleblowers, when are we going to get that information? when they testify. i ll work with the ranking member on that issue. you don t have any transcriptions of their interviews? we have the first one and the dozens who have come and talked to our office. they talked to your office privately. republican staff, right. and they re not transcribed, no notes,
and croatia begins the new year with a new currency, switching from the kuna to the euro. if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us, welcome to bbc news. pope francis has addressed the thousands of people who gathered at st peter s square in the vatican, a day after the death of benedict xvi. the pope described his predecessor as a faithful servant of the gospel and the church. our religion editor aleem maqbool is at the vatican. we heard from pope francis a couple of times today, first at a mass for peace that was held in st peter s basilica behind me. he talked about entrusting our beloved pope emeritus benedict xvi to the holy mother, to accompany him from this world to god. and then later, pope francis appeared at a balcony here at the vatican for what is his regular sunday lunchtime homily, where he started this week by asking people to join together, as you rightly say, to pray for the man he called a faithful servant to the gospel and to the church. extraordinar