Finalized Ntsb News Today

im kristin fisher. >> im jim sciutto, and top of the hour, alex murdaugh right there on trial for murdering his wife and youngest son is expected to take the stand and testify in his own defense. we will take you to the courtroom when it happens. plus any moment, the ntsb is egs expected to release a preliminary report on what led to that toxic train derailment today. and this morning pete buttigieg was there and this after citizens were demanding answers at a town hall overnight. >>...

It appears that the company moves towns and moves headquarters and changes and sells stock for their benefit and the federal government does not pay attention until something like this happens. and now for norfolk southern to tell the people in east palestine that they will be taken care of, but what about the other cities that there are these trains with hazardous materials. >> jim, have you had a chance to look at the report that is released, because i am curious what jumps out at you? >> no. ...

Im kristin fisher. >> im jim sciutto, and top of the hour, alex murdaugh right there on trial for murdering his wife and youngest son is expected to take the stand and testify in his own defense. we will take you to the courtroom when it happens. plus any moment, the ntsb is egs expected to release a preliminary report on what led to that toxic train derailment today. and this morning pete buttigieg was there and this after citizens were demanding answers at a town hall overnight. >> im 65 and...

Who says that we dont need a ntsb report to say that other class i railroads are trying to slink out of regulations to make it easier for them to transport chemicals through communities. this is what the transportation secretary told me tuesday. >> we dont have to wait a year for a finalized ntsb report to know that there are things that would be stronger if the railroad industry would not have fought them. i know that the communities are frustrated and i am frustrated and it is time to work wit...

>> jim, i am terribly sorry. what i will do is to get this right. we will get the cleanup right, and we will reimburse the citizens and we will invest in the long term health of this community. >> a chance there for the folks to confront the ceo of norfolk southern. >> and when we get a look at that report from the ntsb, we will get it to you. and now, the secretary of transportation pete buttigieg is going to be there to look at the scene, and is he is going to be meeting with the residents tod...

Talking about the profits of for folk s -- norfolk southern pulls in, it is at this point around $40 billion and so it is just paling in comparison to how much they are taking in with 4.45 billion in 2021 to 4.8 billion in 2022. >> and we just got this report in from the ntsb and what have we learned so far, pete? >> well, it is four pages long on this derailment on february 3rd, and what is interesting here is that the ntsb is digging into the temperature of the wheel bearings on board this ver...

Hour, but over the course of several miles, the temperature in one of these wheel bearings which has been the center of the investigation went up, up, up, and ultimately leading to the audible alarm inside of one of the locomotives that the ntsb says came to a stop, and that the wheel bearings were above a temperature of about 250 degrees above the ambiant temperature, and very, very hot temperatures here, and we know that fire of the train and the leak of vinyl chloride was so critical in this ...

That is what the ntsb will find, and really assess some blame to figure out what the mechanical failure was and who is to blame for that. there are big questions here and were things properly inspected? was the train properly operated? we know that the weather was clear and nighttime, but the ntsb is not going to leave any stone unturned as they look at this. jim and kristin. >> thank you, pete. and we are joined by the former chairman of the ntsb, jim hall, and we know it is preliminary and jim...