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hello, again, everyone. this is cnn newsroom sunday. i m frederica whitfield. we begin with the fallout from that toxic train derailment in ohio. residents of east palestine frustrated, angry and demanding answers after being exposed to highly dangerous levels of vinyl chloride. the epa halting millions of gallons of contaminated waste shipments to michigan and texas as the agency reviews disposal plans. federal teams are on the ground and they re checking in on east palestine residents, door to door, passing out fliers with information on getting health assessments and clean waters. for many in the town, that simply is not good enough. residents are worried about their own health and their homes. and many are questioning how this even happened after an initial ntsb report said the derailment was 100% preventable. cnn s priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. how is the administration responding to these concerns and what is next? well, they re saying that t ....
[laughs] [applause] greg: stupid. before we get to the nitty-gritty president joe biden has a special message for us, it s a day late cut him some slack. happy valentines make no mistake. i mean it. [laughs] come on man it s a true story. [applause] greg: yes. all right. well said. i, like that i just ate a bag of expired medications, but at least his heart is in the right place. wow, how lucky for him that every day is valentine s day and it certainly is for his wife dr. jill. talk about an oral examination. maybe she forgot her tongue depressor. then again, she is a doctor, but what is it with jill biden and other people spouses? they don t just keep it in the family to keep it in the second family. oh stop it. save your clapping from when it matters. back to the matter at hand, the latest joe biden scandal and it s not about hunter or his junk, it is about joe s brother jimbo and i hope to god it is nothing to do with his junk, i ve seen enough of t ....
u.s. unprecedentedly severe challenges to the country. he s a little frustrated because he realize we are getting to the bottom of the coronavirus. vice president kamala harris cracking herself up and insulting republicans in the process. why are conservatives bad, mommy? i thought we were supposed to conserve. joe biden can fall seven times on the way up the stairs and nobody will talk about replacing him. steve: good morning sarasota, florida. 8:01 wake-up call, absolutely, 68 degrees. and you are going for a daytime high of 86. and of course, for people who watch a lot of television, sarasota is just a little north of siesta key, which is a very popular place with a lot of people. it is quite salacious. brian: a lot of people will be going on spring break starting this week. and used to cover spring break. steve: she pretty much shut it down. speak to the panhandle, there were two bars that you could go out on the beach. the destin and panama city b ....
said about six truckloads of soil were headed to michigan. officials in michigan said they never received a warning about those shipments. a representative saying our priority is to keep the people we represent safe. with me now is congresswoman dingle. how did you find out about these reported shipments to your state and what can you do? it began in the grapevine late afternoon yesterday that we have two different sites in my district. one is an injection well, which is accepting liquids. the other is a contamination site in belleville township. i quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. we learned that the governor of ohio had posted it on his website that they were headed for here. i called everybody. i called the epa, the norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that no one had been given a heads-up that it was coming here. there are issues related to the injection well, specifi ....
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. across the globe, major landmarks are lighting up in the colors of ukraine as the war there enters its second year. it s a stunning milestone for a battle many thought would end with a quick defeat by russia s powerful military. as vladimir putin s tanks rolled across the border last february. there was little hope that kyiv would be able to stand up to moscow for very long, but ukraine has shocked the world and perhaps russia most of all with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price for the country and its people. the u.n. estimates have come up and they say more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began, a number that is likely much higher. some 8 million ukrainians have fled the country, many not knowing if they ll ever return. yet despite the cruel challenges his country has faced, president volodymyr zelenskyy is optimistic about the future. ....