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president, not george w. bush, his father. i'm christine romans, this is "early start." just hours from now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg heads to the site of that train derailment in east palestine, ohio. buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. >> i'm 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went -- >> jim, tha...

no one cared that he was gay. >> a legal network for them estimates 14,000 were booted from the military because of don't ask, don't tell. authorities could decide whether a condemned man lives or dies. troy davis was convicted of murder in 1989. if the state does not intervene he will be put to death at 7:00 p.m. eastern. davis' supporters say he is innocent and the officer's family says justice is overdue. both sides spoke before the parole board. >> no time is easy when you have to go before the pardons and parole board but feel like we got to say what we needed to say. they hea...

getting into southern somalia. the un declared a famine in two regions of southern somalia. they say nearly 3 million people are suffering from acute malnutrition. they say that this is hitting that benchmark, that nearly a third of the people could die if they don't receive food aid fast. the worst hit zain are the children. we've seen children here hungry, desperately in need of food aid and we've even seen children dieing here. one father told me they just came here to find help. they didn't get what they wanted, hi buried his child sarah in the ground near us yesterday morning, z...