manhattan courthouse yesterday pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records that is typically a misdemeanor. alvin bragg s strategy for elevating those charges appears to be a stretch legally and the case may not make it to a full trial, even the liberal media are seriously questioning the strength of this case. watch. if i had to characterize it it s disappointment. in terms of a case this being brought against a former president, it s a little underwhelming. there is not more to it. this is even weaker than i feared it would be. and i think it s easily subject being dismissed or a quick acquittal to trump. the fact the in the law, what is the crime that prosecutors are alleging escalated this from a misdemeanor to a felony? if this is the only pebble that gets thrown at donald trump, it s a very small pebble. and i do think it could the backlash against this pebble might cow other people who might otherwise have been courageous enough t
norfolk suffolk rail derailed. vinyl chloride, a highly flammable carcinogen. concerns of a possible explosion the governor ordered an evacuation and crews conducted a controlled burn on five of those cars filled with hazardous chemicals and intentionally leaked them into the air to prevent them from blowing up. bill: the people who live are getting sick. also concerned fish and other animals being found dead. despite all this the environmental protection agency says it hasn t detected contamination at levels of concern. the people who live there just are not buying it. local fish in our creeks have died. oily scenes and colorations in the water. chemicals in the air. it is half of my family lives in east palestine. you have all these toxins, all the chemicals basically that is going to cause cancer. we ve all been exposed. it is not a one mile thing. test the water is it safe? the fish are dying. how should i feel safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it?
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
in the wake of the 2020 election, fox news found itself trapped in a confine entirely of its own making. they could tell the truth to the viewers, as all new networks, even fox, inspired to do and are prepared to do. with election decision debts and models, to call races accurately. or, kurt number two, fox news could came to the life and conspiracies being told by the man had almost completely synced up with so closely aligned with by that point. the disgraced ex-president for taking that path would mean that fox news would shield its millions of viewers from the sophisticated and expensive data-driven results produced by its own, competent election desk. importantly, fox news realizes at the highest level of that company, that it cannot do both. according to brandon reporting in the new york times, fox news decision to promote joe biden on election night, it was a call they were able to make ahead of other networks. it is a call that they got right ahead of other networks.
day known as bloody sunday. on this day in 1965, 600 people began a march from selma to montgomery, demanding an toned discrimination in voter registration. marchers were beaten by white state troopers, including the late congressman john lewis, as they tried to cross the edmund pettus bridge. it helped spark outrage. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us right now. arlette is there in selma for the event today. the president is expected to make his own case for maintaining, restoring lost voter rights. reporter: yeah, fred, he is. the president will make his arguments against the backdrop of what was a brutal, yet very historic moment in the civil rights movement. the president will be here to celebrate the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday, as you recapped, the moment where civil rights and voting rights activists crossed that bridge right behind me and were severely beaten by police officers, many white police officers. the president is traveling to selma. the white house sa