disaster. the epa says it has not detected any contaminants in the town s drinking water and says tests have shown the air is safe to breathe. but, you know, many residents in east palestine and other nearby towns, they re concerned about the potential long-term health effects. this town is going to need long-termest thing term testing. there s a lot of people who don t want to stay and really can t blame them. a major concern for me would definitely be the water. i think they should have dredged the creeks that are going out because, you know, it s spreading into other communities. arthel: garrett tenney is live in east palestine, ohio, with the very latest. garrett? reporter: yeah, arthel, that is such a tough question that a lot of folks are naysing now. facing no. with so much uncertainty about what the future of this town looks like, do we stay or do we go? to answer that question, it s going to take some answers, and some of those answers are going to take time.
of iran are not backing down their efforts to gain rights and dignity that they ve long deserved. coming up, i will speak to two activists about the ongoing defiance still being seen to this day by millions of iranian women. later on this hour, failing to comply. why so many hospitals around the country are not following a new federal law forcing companies to be transparent about charges that patients are receiving. we begin this hour with the shocking release of sensitive footage from january 6th to fox news host, tucker carlson. top democrats are speaking out about just how dangerous it is. here is congresswoman, madeleine dean, earlier on msnbc. it is revealing of where the capitol police are in different staging. what was going on. it would give access to bad actors to try to do it again. it is extraordinarily irresponsible how irresponsible of the speaker of the house to live up some campaign promise to the fall right, and tucker carlson, to release the tapes. she is
new, today, the u.s. is warning china they re sending lethal weapons to china would, quote, alienate the nation. national security adviser, jake sullivan, says the u.s. or remain vigilant. and mclaughlin joins us now with more on this from the capital city of kyiv. talk to us, if you will, erin, about how this news is breaking over there? the response you re hearing on the ground, along with possible plans that china has in the pipeline? hey there. well, three u.s. intelligence officials telling and bbc news that china is considering providing russia with lethal aid. specifically artillery, and ammunition. adding that no decision has been made as yet. there is no indication that president of china has in fact given lethal aid to russia. it is an allegation of china s denying. both ukrainian and u.s.
sanctions eventually are not going to be enough, we ve got to go further, and the biden administration has to demonstrate to china we will stand by taiwan and our friends and partners in the region as well as around the globe. arthel: but when you say we ve got to go further, what does that mean? well, at a minimum, arthel, i think that means starting to move forces into position forward there in the region, in the indo-pacific, making clear to the chinese that it won t take us forever to get there, we will be there, we ll be present and ready to respond to any chinese aggression in the region. and as we continue to up our aid to the ukrainians, we should provide them with the fighter jets and the long-range missiles they need to win this war with russia notwithstanding any chinese support. arthel: well, secretary blinken says china would, quote, cross that line with legal aid to russia. let s listen to that. we see china considering this. we ve not seen them cross that line. so i
his, quote, work among the poor and kiss advantaged disadvantaged and his pro-life activism. they say they were struck by his kindness and his goodness. the archbishop of new york, well known cardinal timothy dolan, mentioned o connell today during sun mass as he addressed the sunday mass as he addressed the ongoing violence in this country. i heard early this morning my brother bishop, the auxiliary bishop of los angeles, david o connell, hot down on shot down on streets of los angeles he was renouned for his work with gangs. want me to keep going? i didn t think so. reporter: again, no word on any suspects or a motive in this disturbing case, but we now know that this is being handled by authority as a murder investigation. eric? eric: yeah. and, you know, the bishop got his reputation after the 199 92 riots following the acquittal of the police officers with rodney king. he worked in south-central los