hastely-arranged statement yesterday about objects the biden administration spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to shoot down. president biden: our intelligence community is assessing all three incidents and reporting to me daily and will continue the urgent efforts to do so and i will communicate that to the congress. we don t yet know exactly what these three objects were. but nothing right now suggests they were related to china s spy balloon program. make no mistake. if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. harris: so they were a threat? i mean if you just pay attention to what he said. well, critics say this is familiar. better late than never. this administration has a tendency, in my judgment, to ignore problems. i mean, certainly ignore solutions. but if you won t talk about the problem it s hard to talk about a solution. harris: the president says he expects to speak with china s preside
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
to use bottled water until your water is confirmed to be safe. that again is just out of an abundance of caution. to date 38 private wells have been sampled. more private wells are scheduled for testing today. these samples unfortunately take a while to get back from the lab. so we don t have any results back yet but we expect them very, very soon to start coming back. again, to schedule testing for your private well, call 330-849-3919. let me talk now about the ohio river. when we met earlier this week, the ohio epa discussed the chemical plume in the ohio river. i m happy to report this morning that sampleing has shown the
however. today more than two dozen additional homes are scheduled for air testing. the teams are still taking appointments for those people in east palestine who want to schedule a screening of their home. that number is 330-849-3919. in summary in the 500 home where the air has been tested, no contamination of concern caused by the rail derailment was present in any of these homes. there are in the community 20 monitors strategically located throughout the community to continue to monitor outdoor air. i think we have a map somewhere, i hope. a map there. this is a map from the u.s. epa that shows all the places where
your private well, call 330-849-3919. let me talk now about the ohio river. when we met earlier this week the ohio epa discussed a chemical plume in the ohio river. i m happy to report this morning that sampling has shown that the plume is now completely dissipated. it was never thought to be a threat. but they could get slight detections. and i want to mention that something i learned during this is that ohio river is monitored normally very extensively. and so they were able to pick up, before they were able to pick up where that plume was, never thought to be very high, never thought to be very dangerous, but they could detect it as it moved down river.