to the 2020 election. coming up, what it tells us and what it could mean for donald trump. and at this hour, a message from residents of east palestine, ohio, to federal, state, and local officials. do your jobs because we are scared and we re worried. just a short time ago, the head of the epa arrived at the site of that toxic train derailment, but he shouldn t expect a warm welcome after residents spent hours last night laying into officials who insist the air and water are safe, despite growing reports of people getting sick. we ve got the latest on that and the notable know shows at the town hall meeting coming up. plus, after multiple days of letting his officials do the talking, president biden is finally expected to address those unprecedented shootdowns of objects in the sky, perhaps as early as today. why has it taken so long, and no matter what he says, will it be too little, too late for his critics? we start with the growing outrage in ohio. concerns escalat
to the 2020 election. coming up, what it tells us and what it could mean for donald trump. and at this hour, a message from residents of east palestine, ohio, to federal, state, and local officials. do your jobs because we are scared and we re worried. just a short time ago, the head of the epa arrived at the site of that toxic train derailment, but he shouldn t expect a warm welcome after residents spent hours last night laying into officials who insist the air and water are safe, despite growing reports of people getting sick. we ve got the latest on that and the notable know shows at the town hall meeting coming up. plus, after multiple days of letting his officials do the talking, president biden is finally expected to address those unprecedented shootdowns of objects in the sky, perhaps as early as today. why has it taken so long, and no matter what he says, will it be too little, too late for his
derailment. i m guessing you re probably not surprised that lawyers are lining up. we don t know what the long-term impact is going to be. we don t know where these will eventually go. what are the potential legal implications and is the only target potentially the railroad? well, the possible violations here could be environmental violations, the clean air act and the clean water act. a comparison might be to think about the bpd water for horizon oil spill, you know but nonetheless, a finding of gross negligence by bp that led to this problem that caused them to resolve it with a very large settlement. you could see same kind of thing happening here, if you could show that the railroad was in some way negligent. sometimes accidents just happen, but sometimes there s a contributing factor or failure to take due care. there could be others who are responsible. there could be landowners who
critics? we start with the growing outrage in ohio. concerns escalating to the point where the governor there is now asking the federal government for help in east palestine. at this hour, the epa administrator and ohio senators are showing up to a community that is furious and full of questions. nearly two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in their town, hundreds of locals desperate to air grievances and get answers to their questions arrived at a town hall to find that railroad representatives were no shows. residents say they still see fish dying, rashes on their kids, smell chemicals in the air and see a contradiction between being told the air and water quality is safe while also being told to drink bottled water. i had concerns with dead fish and the smell of the water. i am not a scientist, but i do have common sense, so when i see something cause death in a living creature, it causes fear.