since then i have the chemical burns and reaction rash on my face. i could smell the chemicals and like, it s obvious something is not right. before two days ago you could not stand here without getting a headache. it s travelling to inside the ground, it s a very rural area where this happened, these people have farms and livestock and it s going into the waterways. sandra: begin america reports with that train derailment up ending people s lives in a small ohio town where there are lingering safety questions at this hour. almost two weeks after the disaster. hello, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. hi. john: happy wednesday to you, john roberts in washington. people in east palestine, ohio hoping to get some answers during a town hall meeting, after a train went off the tracks 12 days ago carrying hazardous chemicals. a toxic fire spent plumes of toxic smoke for days. sandra: some residents are worried about water and air quality. people getting sick, f
brand-new at 2:00. hi, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. right into a jam packed hour with this fox news alert. faa has been charged with modernizing notam for ten years. why has it taken ten years? we have been on a journey of modernization. let me ask again, why has it taken ten years and why is it still not done. it does take a while. these systems the complexity. everyone shut down the first time since 9/11. john: acting head of the faa getting grilled on capitol hill over the air travel debacle, the first nationwide ground stop since the september 11th attacks. sandra: faa says it is now taking steps to avoid a repeat of that massive system failure but already several incidents of near collisions have travelers rethinking their next trips. john: even some lawmakers questioning the agency s priorities, listen here. do you believe that that is your mission at the faa to mitigate climate change and increase equity, is that your job at the faa?
getting sick and dying in the area. the epa told fox this just hours ago. we have been in over 460 homes testing the air quality. we re going to test 28 more homes today. the data shows that there s no elevated levels. martha: so east palestine resident chelsea simpson said her lips with polka-dotted and had red patches on her skin. governor dewine will respond and give answers in his home state. first, let s go to garrett tenney live in east palestine today with the latest. hi, garrett. hi, martha. every day we re hearing more stories like those while officials say based on all the data that they collected so far, the danger has passed. the air is safe to breathe and the soil is safe and the small amount of chemical that is being detected in the drinking water shouldn t be a concern for folks. that disconnect between what the officials are saying and what folks are seeing and experiencing first hand is why most of the folks we ve talked to here don t have a lot of conf
new revelations come from mike el morell. he says when blinken orchestrated the letter saying the laptop story had all the classic earmarks of russian misinformation. the new york post took a beating on that. democrats accusing the paper of being a puppet for putin. after the election the media admitted the story was true after all. dana: it s coming back to haunt this white house. i.r.s. whistleblower says the administration is mishandling the criminal investigation into hunter biden s taxes and according to his lawyer, he is ready to go on the record before congress. my client is a career law enforcement officer who is respected within the i.r.s. and teaches other agents how to properly do investigations. he knows when to spot when investigative steps aren t done in the traditional way to get at the truth. and he has spotted and observed things that are done differently in this particular matter which i can t identify. and he wants to talk about them and he believes
great to have you, paul. second show of the week so i get a bonus today. let s get to it. we begin with this, new details emerging about the biden campaign s last minute effort to cover up the new york post hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. and the origins of the infamous in new sworn testimony morel said secretary of state antony blinken played a key role that led to the now debunked letter. blinken was working as senior biden campaign adviser at the time and house republicans are asking blinken to testify in their investigation of the coverup and many argue that the now debunked statement helped save president biden in the 2020 election final days. he uses it to defend his son during that year s final debate. there s 50 former national intelligence folks saying he s accused me of a russian plan and has all the former five heads of cia, both parties say what he s say asking a bunch of garbage. nobody believes it except his and his good friend rudy giulian