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You have to understand that the railroads own the tracks that the trains run on. people are familiar with the federal, state and local governments responsibility for highways and roads and the faa is responsible for the airspace, but going back over 100 years ago, the railroads carved very favorable positions for themselves, and they own their own lines. there are thousands of lines that carry these hazardous materials across the country. the federal government essentially along with congress ha...

Not petty partisan politics. >> one of the things i find striking and sort of appropriate to talk about as we see the transportation secretary on the ground, a guy from the midwest in the midwest/, you know, heading to the east coast, however you qualify ohio in your book, is this is exactly what the crux of bidens economic focus has been. it has been on rebuilding the infrastructure of many communities. >> yeah. >> like this. >> yeah. >> and so i wonder what you think the biden administration n...

That is seeping into our ground that you chose not to dig up. >> we have dug up 4600 of cubic yards of soil and collected 1.7 million gallons of water. we will continue with an environmental remediation. and in early march, we will start by tearing and digging up the soil underneath the tracks. >> what they are talking about, 1yi78 and kristin, they decided to bury the soil and then put the tracks on top of it and then get the trains running again, and they want to know what is the decision made...

0 talked about that he found later in my office. and it was tight -- it was handwritten, ready to be tightened up by, you know -- because of the charges against paw, i kept everything close in the civil case, it was danny in his office that was doing it, and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put that financial information into the final...

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>> we want to help navigate them. >> reporter: but much more to be done. >> were doing as fast as we physically can, of course time is of the essence. >> reporter: while trains are running through the town again, the soil under the open tracks still contaminated. >> we know the soil is contaminated. they know it is contaminated. they know it is contaminated with, we have done the testing. there is a long term remediation plan that includes getting that soil out from under the tracks. >> reporter...

Discoloration in it. thats the sort of stuff theyre trying to capture. two streams in the middle of town that they are treating right now. but this is a very widespread area. the concern that people have is not only was there the crash or the derailment and all of those cars sort of went off the tracks and some of them spilled but there was that controlled, quote, unquote, controlled burn of a toxic chemical that sent a massive plume up not only over the town but the farmland around it, all the ...

Middle of the day, thats staggering. hadas gold, thank you so much. the epa is ordering norfolk southern rail to cover all cleanup costs for the train derailment that spilled those toxic chemicals in east palestine, ohio. heres what the chief of the epa told cnn this morning. >> they have to design a very specific work plan thats approved by epa. so were going to make sure that every single step is included. no stone is left unturned. because the fact of the matter is, they caused this trauma ...

First. i applaud president biden for going to my home state today. to put america first, we need to rediscover what america is. if we can redefine and rediscover what america is, we put america first. what im pursuing is america first 2.0 agenda, seeing the problem and addressing it. the fact that washington, d.c. and new york view ohio the way they do, the people of ohio know that and there is reason they dont trust the people in charge, they havent been given a reason to trust them. >> brian: ...