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Particular, we will look at their management practices, their policies. we'll also look at safety culture. that's an important part of this, to make sure there is a robust, comprehensive, strong safety culture in the railroad. that will be part of what we look at. >> i hear from americans all the time who think, you know what, the fix is always in, these companies make billions of dollars, these rail lines make billions of dollars and then they lobby congress so they have to do very, very little in terms of safety and then what happened in east palestine is just the natural result. what's your...

Miguel, good morning. considering what they are working with, all these, you know, toxins, it's not surprising that folks are getting sick. sadly, it shouldn't happen but not surprising. what are officials saying about this? >> reporter: yeah, i want to show you before we get to that just this ongoing effort to clean up the creeks in east palestine. this is one of the runs that is contaminated and they have been treating this for weeks with these booms, absorbent booms and then aerating the water and keeping all of that toxic material on the bottom, to the top so it could be absorbed by booms....

Out, which were still the low paid jobs held by most african americans including children. still, the fair labor act did establish a standard rule for labor practices, practices that are being skirted to this day. according to daa from the u.s. labor department's wage and hour division, child labor violations have been on the rise since 2015. modern day republicans led by the twice impeached former president have led the charge on deregulation and just like east palestine, ohio, in east palestine, ohio, donald trump and his various agencies proposed rolling back regulations that protected work...

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And they look for stock buybacks and dividends. something is wrong with corporate america and something is wrong with congress and the administrations listening too much to corporate lobbyists and that's got to change. that's the fight i make. >> let's talk about that because regulations for rail companies are coming under renewed scrutiny. companies are working under looser restrictions for toxic chemicals. they're using civil war-era breaking technology and transportation secretary pete buttigieg said his department was constrained by law with legal regulation and democrats held it, does con...