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Citizens safety. >> yeah, so weve heard some those health concerns this evening, concerns, theres an individual who had to go to the emergency room because he was bleeding so much, his nose was bleeding so much. a worried mom whose son is having nosebleeds, were hearing about rashes, were hearing about all sorts of gastrointestinal issues. have you gotten any sort of satisfying answer as to what is going wrong? >> no, we have not. the health clinic, im hoping that can ease some concerns. i am he...

Concerns, those need to be addressed very soon. >> earlier we heard from one of our cameras and east palestine, we heard a train going through your town during this very special. are you comfortable with trains continuing to go through? and what changes, if any, do you think need to happen for east palestine to be safe in the future from anything like this ever happening again? >> you know, thats a federal government question. yes, its a little unnerving hearing the trains go through after just ...

To speak to 0megles owner, leif brooks, about changes he could make to the site to protect children. hes never responded. i can tell you that the analysts upstairs, they see content related to 0megle about 20 times a week on average. we see it being discussed a lot as a platform for offenders to use. one way offenders like to entice these children is kind of by playing a game — could be one point for waving at the camera or smiling, and then it gets more and more kind of severe. there will alw...

Accomplished was furloughing in cutting many employees in the maintenance and in the operations department. it deferred maintenance on a lot of equipment, it caught employees so bed, that the remaining employees were forced into overtime another shifts. that is accomplished nothing but fatigue. the only thing that he is our model accomplished was increased revenue to these railroads. at a giant cost. >> yeah, we have i wanna put up this graphic, norfolk southern by the numbers, in 2022, 4.8 bill...

Now. i dont hear about what is happening internally. can i have a plan? tell me what youre doing? she was very clear about the fact that her sister and her brother-in-law were right there. they couldve died. she said the way this couldve affected my family, you guys dont even taking that into consideration. we matter. where humans. and thats the big issue here, the humanity of it all. were forgetting that part. >> lets listen to another one of the residents speaking directly to the ceo. >> did y...

As well. certainly it would improve safety. but for this investigation and for this derailment ecp brakes would not have prevented the derailment. the wheel bearing failed on car number 23. so even with ecp brakes the derailment would have occurred, the fire would have ensued, and the five vinyl chloride tank cars would still have to be vented and burned. what it could have done was maybe reduced damage where a couple of cars could have remained on the tracks. but were going to do some modeling ...

Not exclusive to ohio, weve learned i dont to say that theyre common, but theres a lot more per year than i ever knew about. and trains are rattling through all of our neighborhoods every day. >> about 1000 derailment a year, alison. if you can believe that. 15% of them, 150, are due to bad tracks. out of alignment or they cant take the weight of the cars going over. on a warming planet, when that infrastructure swells in hot places, that could get worse. of course, when this happens when you ha...

>> laurie chris, really appreciate that. they need to be prepared that its going to be weeks or months of experiencing this. thank you very much for all the information. >> thank you. >> turns out, there are a lot more dealer elements every month in the u.s. than we knew. next, were gonna look at the state of railroad safety in the u.s.. >> weve dug up 4600 cubic yards of soil. and collected 1.7 million gallons of water. we will continue with an environmental mediation, and in early march, we wi...

Going to be, and what you have to look for is urgent recommendations that follow on this, and this is where the board will have found that the investigators will have found as a result of the initial investigation that there are matters that need to be tended to right away. >> fascinating point, because i was not aware that the railway companies own their own track and have oversight. one thing that pete muntean spotted in the report is that the bearings at one point in the peak 253 degrees fahr...

And probably broke off and the train came off the tracks. >> jacqui: i think a lot more questions on these track sensors, and the wayside detector and whether norfolk southern in fact has, we know they have a policy according to reports that allows the crews to ignore audible signs of problems there, dont know for what reason, and dont know if that was a piece of this here. we are obviously going to have to hear from the ntsb, they refused to answer that question, are they to claim. we have to f...