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the train that derailed yesterday near springfield, ohio. the derailment of another norfolk southern freight train prompted a temporary shelter in place for nearby residents, and cnn's polo sandoval joins me now. polo, we're getting some new wrinkles of information about what was on that train yesterday. very interesting. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, jim. in the last couple of hours, we heard from an initial at norfolk southern, who is the owner and operator of the train that derailed in springfield, ohio, yesterday afternoon, confirming that the train was transporting ha...

as a downgraded tropical cyclone. the historically destructive storm made landfall for the second time yesterday. this time in south carolina. more than 180,000 residents lost power almost immediately. that number, reported to have grown to nearly half 1 million as the storm has carved its way through the carolinas. of course, nowhere has been more devastated than florida, where ian's wrath after touching down was deadly, as 77 people confirmed dead. homes literally washed away. entire communities, recovering from being nearly submerged. the president, planning to visit the state to ...

Again, an important point we heard from officials in springfield, ohio, is even those four tanker train cars that ended up being derailed did not have any sort of leakage. so that's certainly important, and no spillage. but of course the question of why did this happen, especially a month after the situation in palestine, ohio, that is still something that authorities will have to answer in an effort to prevent this from happening again. we now know there were hazardous materials being transported on that train. we know it could have been much worse than what we saw play out yesterday. >> it s...

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Vice President Kamala Harris visited Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate a defining moment in the fight for equal voting rights