responsible for the accident. joining us now, george solis, in east palestine, ohio, and julie grant, managing editor and reporter for the allegheny front also and has spent a lot of time in that area. we are awaiting the governor of ohio to speak any minute. when he does, we will bring you that live. george, i want to start with you. what do we expect to hear from the governor this morning? reporter: good morning, jose. we are expecting to hear what plans may be in place, should the rain start to move in here into town. that s a big concern as we know some of the runoff could contaminate the water ways further. the governor said there are response teams here in place to prevent that from happening. there is also talks of building dams to keep any water ways from being further contaminated. there is also going to be a question or two about any chance of more federal aid or if federal disaster declaration will be declared here to get more aid. they will be on the ground he
meeting i had mentioned and they were asking people to go to their doctors and just, you know, have things documented so that they could get help later. so this news that they re bringing in help from the cdc, from hhs, i think that s something new that people will have somewhere to go and that someone will be keeping track of the in, the health complaints that citizens are bringing to the company and the government and are having to deal with. yeah. so, julie and grant george solis, i appreciate you being with us this morning. thank you for your time. turning now to more breaking news, we re following this morning, last hour the five ex-police officers charged with murdering tyre nichols appeared in a memphis courtroom. tyre s mother is speaking right now. i m about transparency. that s the first thing. i was retired. but it is good to see the country and the state still
responsible for the accident. joining us now, george solis, in east palestine, ohio, and julie grant, managing editor and reporter for the allegheny front also and has spent a lot of time in that area. we are awaiting the governor of ohio to speak any minute. when he does, we will bring you that live. george, i want to start with you. what do we expect to hear from the governor this morning? reporter: good morning, jose. we are expecting to hear what plans may be in place, should the rain start to move in here into town. that s a big concern as we know some of the runoff could contaminate the water ways further. the governor said there are response teams here in place to prevent that from happening. there is also talks of building dams to keep any water ways from being further contaminated. there is also going to be a question or two about any chance of more federal aid or if federal disaster declaration will be declared here to get
laura chris to talk about this. now i asked dr. vanderhoff to join us and asked dr. vanderhoff now to talk a little bit about what is coming up in the future and may also reflect on what we have seen when he s been at east palestine. doctor? thank you very much, governor. that was the news conference with a lot of information by the governor of ohio, mark dewine. i want to go back to nbc s george solis and julie grant, excuse me, allegheny front. before the governor spoke, we were talking about what residents in east palestine have been going through for two weeks. julie, this press conference takes place two weeks after this incident occurred. and how are folks there feeling.