it s like a bike on a loose kickstand. but if there s any chance she might change her mind, she s running out of time to do so. feedback from her colleagues has been loud. but for weeks and months intensively what she s been hearing from her constituents has been almost unimaginably loud. joining us now is marie smith, co-director of mainers for leadership. she s one of senator collins constituents who has been urging her to vote no on this bill. miss smith, thank you for joining us tonight. we ve been watching the protests and looking forward to speaking to you about them. thank you very much for having me. let me just ask your reaction tonight. as far as we know senator collins has been unswayed by these really relentless efforts to try to get her to vote no. unswayed and last night she doubled down while mainers occupied her bangor office when she announced that she would support the bill. i know that some of these
mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far
disturbance aboard a flight scheduled to go to atlanta this afternoon but instead forced to divert to maine. the story broke this afternoon during studio b. sources tell fox news the man claimed to have explosives in his bag and in his shoes. and now we have learned his identity. sources tell us the suspect is this man, derrick stansbury. we re told he is a former member of the united states air force who served as an intelligence specialist for four years up until the year 2009. police escorted that suspect off the plane after it landed around 3:30 eastern time this afternoon. no word on whether explosives were found. but every indication was that they were not. we re told at this hour the plane remains at the bangor airport. a fox urgent now and word of an explosion in a flour mill plant illinois. it happened at conagra ill n. chester 60 miles south of is the lewis. three workers have suffered minor injuries. it s not yet clear to us what