median income is lass than $45,000. east palestine is overwhelmingly white and politically conservative. more than 70% of the voters in the surrounding counties supported donald trump in the last election. that shouldn t be relevant but you re about to hear, it very much is. 11 days ago, 150 car train derailed in east palestine and it spewed poisonous chemicals onto the ground and in the surface waters. after the crash, the ohio state epa found evidence of yabbial acura late in the water and streams and creeks that feed it. this was more of a concern for east palestine given the ohio river supplies drinking water to about a tenth of the u.s. population. this train derailment was a environmental disaster. not an environmental disaster like climate change is, but an actual environmental disaster, one that s hurting actual people. then it got worse. several days after the derailment, officials decided it was a good idea to set fire to the spilled chemicals. the result of that
the video coming out of the town are horrific, fish, chicken s turning up dead or becoming extremely ill. the people wonder if they are next. burning plastics and chemicals in the air, issues with our dog vomiting, acting lethargic. the fish is dying so how my supposed to be safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it. i cannot date in town before i have a giant migraine. i don t feel anywhere in this town is. basically they nuked the town with chemicals to get a railroad open. you watch people investigating, they have giant hazmat suits on. but somehow, it is safe for people to go back to these homes. jesse: dana put in biden epa on the spot after insisted there is nothing wrong with the city s water. would you return to these homes now? would you feel comfortable bathing your children and the waterboard drinking the water? based on those homes tested if those test results have come back and said the air quality is okay and the word water is oka, i wou
acting lethargic. it s scary stuff here, tucker. tucker: it s horrifying and a nightmare. again, if that happened in washington dc, no one would be living there right now. is there any federal presence, are you getting any sense that anybody that whom you send your tax dollars to every year cares about what happens to you? at this moment unfortunately not. tucker: no. there s no epa officials and hazmat suits, no one from the department of transportations walking around trying to find out how this happened and prevent it from happening again. nobody is knocking on our door. tucker: how many of your neighbors are still there? our neighbor across the street and next door neighbor came back on this past saturday as well. we returned back home and that was days after when they said it was safe to return and we still didn t feel comfortable and soon as we got into the ohio line, we
acting lethargic. it s scary stuff here, tucker. tucker: it s horrifying and a nightmare. again, if that happened in washington dc, no one would be living there right now. is there any federal presence, are you getting any sense that anybody that whom you send your tax dollars to every year cares about what happens to you? at this moment unfortunately not. tucker: no. there s no epa officials and hazmat suits, no one from the department of transportations walking around trying to find out how this happened and prevent it from happening again. nobody is knocking on our door. tucker: how many of your neighbors are still there? our neighbor across the street and next door neighbor came back on this past saturday as well. we returned back home and that was days after when they said it was safe to return and we still didn t feel comfortable and soon as we got into the ohio line, we
the video coming out of the town are horrific, fish, chicken s turning up dead or becoming extremely ill. the people wonder if they are next. burning plastics and chemicals in the air, issues with our dog vomiting, acting lethargic. the fish is dying so how my supposed to be safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it. i cannot date in town before i have a giant migraine. i don t feel anywhere in this town is. basically they nuked the town with chemicals to get a railroad open. you watch people investigating, they have giant hazmat suits on. but somehow, it is safe for people to go back to these homes. jesse: dana put in biden epa on the spot after insisted there is nothing wrong with the city s water. would you return to these homes now? would you feel comfortable bathing your children and the