and lucas got a chance to ask him a question, i understand? that s right, one of our colleagues asked him that question. and that meeting just wrapping up just moments ago in this building right behind me, jacqui. he spoke to fox very briefly though. to support the community? like i said, very briefly. fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio s governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio s governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who lives just three miles south of here, tells us she lost animals on the farm, chicke
toxic chemicals. welcome to fox news live, i m jacqui heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkens. lucas tomlinson on the ground in east palestine, lucas, what do you have for us? griff, state and local and even federal officials like epa say the water is clean. many residents simply don t believe them. in the last few minutes a truck pulled up to distribute bottled water from salvation army and private owners. yesterday i spoke to a resident by the creek, this is what he said about the water. it s tainted and it would never be the same. i would never let me kids walk in this. ever? ever again. lucas: now representative bill johnson who represents east palestine in congress, he responded to that sound. the epa, both the federal and the state have made the valid case that the water is clean. this community has a city water system that is routinely tested anyway. it does not get its water source from that creek. lucas: the epa has deployed teams like this to clean the nearby s
away the body of the one victim who was killed in this ramming attack that took place earlier this evening here, and you re absolutely right. it s right on the promenade here in television, and there s some social media video out there of that car that you see there as well. that s now laying there overturned just racing down that promenade at some point, getting off course and then flipping over several times before just coming down on its roof, the latest that we have from the authorities here is that there are seven people who were injured in this four of them being tourists. three as you mentioned come from the united kingdom, and one is from italy. some of them are moderately injured and some of them lightly injured. some actually tried to flee to a hotel in the area to seek help. but as you can see, this is a wide cordon here now in the center of till aviv. there s a lot of ambulances. obviously a lot of police cars here as investigators are obviously still working the
watch this. we made it just in time. it was right on top of us. this is devastating. i have so many family members, friends, memories that has been destroyed. this is a whole community that has lost everything. so, it is just very sad here. it s going to take a long time for people to heal to get back on their feeds. alexandria hoff from washington with the latest. this is horrible for these people. you can hear her break in their voice and the center of the community blown away essentially. ashley, todd, the white house said things like temporary housing loans for uninsured property will become available for the residents of mississippi county pummeled by the storm. homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas took a tour of small delta community which residency it is nothing but a hollowed show. flower shop, beauty shop, barber, law offices down the street all gone. an auto parts store, a local restaurant that has been there for i don t know how many years, since i w
i ve seen more devastation than i ve seen in my lifetime. i m on the ground in the middle of it, it looked like a war zone. i never felt so good about the cooperation of the federal, state and local government. ashley: alexandria hoff live from washington with the latest, good morning. alexandria: good morning. the people of mississippi are not the type to wait on help, people came from across the state to lend trucks, equipment and medical expertise. where assistance will be is temporary housing and loans for unsured properties. alejandro mayorkas took a tour of the small delta community where residents say every marker of existence is gone. flower shop, beauty shop, barber, law offices just down the street are all gone. there was an auto parts store, local restaurant that has been there for i don t know how many years, since i was a child. service stations, tire shop, just gone. alexandria: 26 lost their lives in mississippi and alabama, one death was reported.