the train that derailed yesterday near springfield, ohio. the derailment of another norfolk southern freight train prompted a temporary shelter in place for nearby residents, and cnn s polo sandoval joins me now. polo, we re getting some new wrinkles of information about what was on that train yesterday. very interesting. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, jim. in the last couple of hours, we heard from an initial at norfolk southern, who is the owner and operator of the train that derailed in springfield, ohio, yesterday afternoon, confirming that the train was transporting hazardous material. however, that it was not on train cars that derailed. roughly 20 of the 212 train cars that were going south from northern ohio down to birmingham ended up leaving the tracks. officials there saying this accident happened in an area that does not have any protected water source. and most importantly, according to the state s epa director, that there was no release of any sort of c
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ago spotted something suspicious. authorities now tell us it appears to be a pipeb bomb very similar to other packages picked up earlier this week. this office was shutdown for a while, they brought in a bomb squad and removed the device. the apartment buildings nearby, people were told to shelter in place. there s a school nearby right across the street nakt, they evacuated the children. there was a health facility, they evacuated the patients. this is very busy area of new york. and that package as they found, it was addressed to james clapper for him to be received at cnn, which only six blocks from where i m standing right now. and you and i were just over at the cnn offices earlier this week. so they are crediting this postal worker. they said they had 666,000 postal workers across the country and asking them to be alert, and that s exactly what they were doing this morning. we don t know whether there
during the lulls, reporters turn to light-hearted banter or as our own reynolds wolf demonstrated, an impromptu dance. remember, even though the forecast can be fearful and in this case down right bizarre. you shovel, back over shovel. reporter: can you say meltdown? not everyone is preparing for the worst. are you glad that school is out today? yeah! yeah! reporter: just look at these kids enjoying the winter wonder land and giving us all something to consider. seems sometimes the snow can just be fun. randi kaye, cnn, new york. wow. that was quite a snowman. we have more from port-au-prince around the world at the top of the hour. stay tuned. friday is fish day. well, maybe it should be tuna helper day. mmmm. fish delish, yes? i ll take it. sold! tuna helper. one tasty meal. you re taking the medicine doctors recommend most
hours later, skiing up to the cnn offices. and tom, how many inches first of all, i m amazed that you skied into snow, i hope our bosses are seeing that. how many inches of snow are we talking about? well, here is a measure, anderson. out at dulles airport here, this winter, they have had 72 inches of snow. that is as tall as i am. and one of the big problems coming up right now is evident right here. i m standing in snow about a foot and a half down, but i m standing on top of probably three feet of snow underneath that. they are simply running out of places to put all of this and we have more snow coming this way in the forecast, anderson. for the capital, it will be a long time digging out. amazing. tom, thanks very much. i hope you get a good night s sleep after all that skiing. more from haiti ahead.