fox news live, i am eric shawn. president biden said he has no plans to visit east palestine for now. he does say the administration is on top of the situation. transportation pete buttigieg visited the site for the first time thursday after weeks of scrutiny. ohio governor mike dewine says officials from fema say it s safe for the residents to return to their homes but many people have not come back because they have health concerns. we spoke to some residents during our last hour here at fox news live, they say they don t know when there lives will return to normal. how has this changed your daily life and routine? changed everything for our lives. essentially our home doesn t feel like that safe space anymore. my thing is if they don t have answers, i m okay with them saying that, it s just don t dance around it to pretend like you do it, like you don t. eric: monitoring the fema news conference when it begins but let s go to mike tobin live in east palestine with th
interior shows that as you point out the point out the biden administration actually moved forward increasing royalty fees on fossil fuel drilling of the alaskan coach that is despite their own assessment that lower fees would increase energy security for the state. the decision made by former bureau of energy management director amanda lefton and back by assistant secretary laura daniel davis. now, for her part, she said it would attract more bids and be more likely to facilitate expeditious and orderly development of offshore resources adding that the higher rate quote constitutes the most reasonable balancing of environmental and economic factors for the american public. it was switched on capitol hill but democrats senator joe manchin saying he is appalled and that the leaked memo makes it crystal clear that this administration is literally putting their radical climate agenda ahead of the need for people of alaska and the united states. and well, over at the white house,
ito territory and at the same time iran and china are now cozying up to russia. china s top diplomat today mate face-to-face with russia dictator vladimir putin and the wall street journal is reportin xi jinping is planning to visit moscow and meet with putin. fund they are. we are also learning that china may be on the brink of providin lethal aid to russia. to beat back in ukraine because they re not winning that war that they started. just yesterday putin pulled out of the new start training that was actually the last one in th u.s. and that country if contro agreement between the two largest nuclear armed powers an signaled the era of formal arms-control may be over a. raising some questions about whether we could be facing a ne nuclear arms race very national security council spokesperson spelled out what is at stake. with these alarming developments . we are already concerned about the invasion they haven t enforced sanctions against mr. hooton holding him accountable
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