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>> organic peroxides are -- yeah, as the sheriff said, they are chemical materials used to initiate other chemical production for the purpose of making plastics. toxicity is a -- >> so you can't say it? you're not going to say that they're nontoxic, correct? are you going to say they're nontoxic or not? yes or no? it's a pretty important -- >> i mean, the smoke is noxious. its toxicity is a relative thin thing. >> so if you breathe it in, what will it do to you? >> if you breathe in the smoke it's going to irritate your lungs. it's an irritant. it's going to cause irritation in your lungs. >> ...

Secretary of osha under president obama. jordan, thank you for joining us on the phone. appreciate t sheriff ed gonzalez is on the phone, who you saw speaking at that news conference a couple of minutes ago. he is joining us here. thank you for being with us. i need to talk to you a little bit about the toxicity of the smoke or whatever is happening in this area of texas. you or one of your colleagues said that it is like breathing in a campfire. we did not hear that from the president of arkema. >> he has been in meetings with them based on his discussions, his research, he basically has told...

>> can you clarify that? i might have misheard you. it's not nontoxic or explain what is happening. >> it's nontoxic irritants. basically smoke from the fire itself, it's nothing toxic. that's the information we've been receiving. our fire marshal has been in conversation with the company the last few days. >> the plant, arkema folk, did not go as far as you are at this point. does that concern you with the health concerns from this smoke? >> at this point, it does not. we're here. we talked to them as well. maybe it's choice of words or how they frame it and how we're framing it. we're consta...

Today for the first time they moved to engage them directly. the smoldering ruins of a pro-russian checkpoint. angry masked men who don't like cameras. the men at the checkpoint are feeling particularly tense. this was the scene of a confrontation between the ukrainian military and pro-russian forces which control the town. we're on the northern outskirts now. this represents perhaps the most assertive action taken yet by the ukrainian military against the forces which control this town. this amateur video shows what happened. ukrainian armored personnel carries appear on the horizon. the men ...

Is that correct? >> i heard the sheriff say that and the chief say that. i don't want to necessarily compare the intensity of the smoke of this -- >> in spanish, the sheriff said there's no more dangerous than a barbecue. >> i heard the comment but i don't want to make any comparisons on the smoke coming from our fire gl so we can't be sure it's just a campfire smoke? >> what i can tell you is that from the toxicity of the smoke will certainly cause an irritation to your eyes, irritation to your lungs if you breathe it. just like any smoke. we encourage people to avoid getting exposed to that....