norfolk southern will help the community to recover, but many remain skeptical about the safety of the air and water. mona kosar abdi reports tonight from eastern ohio. reporter: tonight, growing skepticism in east palestine, despite the norfolk southern railway ceo pledging to earn the ohio village s fragile trust. i m here to support the community. reporter: alan shaw visiting the disaster site for the second time since the february 3rd toxic derailment, also meeting with local leaders, saying in a statement overnight, i shared how deeply sorry i am this happened to their home. we are going to do the right things to help east palestine recover and thrive again. i will never be comfortable in my home. reporter: shelby walker lives within feet of the train tracks. she says in the last two weeks she, her daughter and grandchildren have been dealing with eye infections, sore throats and headaches. and they ve only been drinking and cooking with bottled water. my kids wl the
lawyers talking to people about how to go forward? we haven t seen that but we saw the salvation army handing out water. really the big story now is a wide range of emotions, trace. some people are scared, some nervous. i spoke to a woman at mcdonalds saying she still has an itchy throat, watery eyes, headache. but the basketball coach wants the town to press on. if the epa says the water and air are clean he wants to move out and continue mission. lucas tomlinson live on the ground. neither president biden nor secretary of state buttigieg have announced any plans to visit the disaster site. an op-ed says democrats don t care about the little guy. rather than taking control of the situation biden and buttigieg have been flipping the flyover rubes a massive bird.
amount of chemtion, cancer-causing chemtion that we re released and deal with. thee need a little guidance here. i think this deserves a pink slip for his job. where else is there a derailment right now where they are dealing with what we are dealing with? what else is going on other than these balloons floating through the sky that he is working on or concerned with. steve: yeah. although there was a derailment, same railroad company in detroit yesterday. lisa, i know that you live you know this painfully well. they said okay, one mile around the disaster site we re going to monitor everything, you know, we re going to keep an eye on things and we are going to take care of the people. you live 1.0 # miles from the explosion site. you don t trust anybody. you re hiring people to do your own testing, right? correct. we have well water.
by. there is a lot of uncertainty - by. there is a lot of uncertainty as - by. there is a lot of uncertainty as well| by. there is a lot of- uncertainty as well that by. there is a lot of uncertainty as well that people are feeling about which roads are feeling about which roads are possible and who is co ordinating the rescue effort and figuring out who was going where and it is difficult, especially in the early stages. now they seem to have done some assessment in the night and are preparing to dispatch crews out into the area. the way it was explained to me by someone who just got back from inside the hardest hit locations is that the entire city is basically a disaster site right now, that there are just entire roads where all the buildings are collapsed so co ordinating efforts especially international effort is very difficult and i think that is a little frustrating for rescuers who want to get in there and start to help immediately but have to deal with logistical problems jus
there without disturbing the overall structural stability of this disaster site. also keep in mind there are still feeling tremors and likely will for the coming hours and days given an earthquake of this magnitude, 7.8 is tied for the strongest earthquake on record in turkey. they ve been keeping detailed records about last hundred years. so this part of turkey especially lies at the intersection of a few fault lines and so they re used to some level of seismic activity, but nothing, nothing like this, rosemary. just horrifying, scott joining us live from london, we ll continue to join us throughout the next few hours. so cnn supervising meteorologist brandon miller joins me in studio, and you know, we were just discussing with scott the fact that you told me about a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, people were asleep at 4:00, 4:15 in the