median income is lass than $45,000. east palestine is overwhelmingly white and politically conservative. more than 70% of the voters in the surrounding counties supported donald trump in the last election. that shouldn t be relevant but you re about to hear, it very much is. 11 days ago, 150 car train derailed in east palestine and it spewed poisonous chemicals onto the ground and in the surface waters. after the crash, the ohio state epa found evidence of yabbial acura late in the water and streams and creeks that feed it. this was more of a concern for east palestine given the ohio river supplies drinking water to about a tenth of the u.s. population. this train derailment was a environmental disaster. not an environmental disaster like climate change is, but an actual environmental disaster, one that s hurting actual people. then it got worse. several days after the derailment, officials decided it was a good idea to set fire to the spilled chemicals. the result of that
the video coming out of the town are horrific, fish, chicken s turning up dead or becoming extremely ill. the people wonder if they are next. burning plastics and chemicals in the air, issues with our dog vomiting, acting lethargic. the fish is dying so how my supposed to be safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it. i cannot date in town before i have a giant migraine. i don t feel anywhere in this town is. basically they nuked the town with chemicals to get a railroad open. you watch people investigating, they have giant hazmat suits on. but somehow, it is safe for people to go back to these homes. jesse: dana put in biden epa on the spot after insisted there is nothing wrong with the city s water. would you return to these homes now? would you feel comfortable bathing your children and the waterboard drinking the water? based on those homes tested if those test results have come back and said the air quality is okay and the word water is oka, i wou
unlike everybody else in new york, washington and la, he s kind of pretending it didn t happen and telling his little jokes. we re interested in why it happened and its effects and we re grateful to be joined right now binet than hizodic and a resident of east palestine and lives two miles from where it happened and joining us with his wife kelly. thank you g.o.a.t. for joining both for joining us. are you concerned about being there right now? yes, we are. very. tucker: very. i bet you are. are you seeing effects, seems from our perspective hundreds of miles away, there s dangerous chemicals in your town, are you seeing the effects of that? we re seeing them locally and inside of our bodies, what we re experiencing. local fish in our creeks have died, oily sheens and coloration in our water, constant smell of burning plastics and chemicals in the air. issues with our dog vomiting,
unlike everybody else in new york, washington and la, he s kind of pretending it didn t happen and telling his little jokes. we re interested in why it happened and its effects and we re grateful to be joined right now binet than hizodic and a resident of east palestine and lives two miles from where it happened and joining us with his wife kelly. thank you g.o.a.t. for joining both for joining us. are you concerned about being there right now? yes, we are. very. tucker: very. i bet you are. are you seeing effects, seems from our perspective hundreds of miles away, there s dangerous chemicals in your town, are you seeing the effects of that? we re seeing them locally and inside of our bodies, what we re experiencing. local fish in our creeks have died, oily sheens and coloration in our water, constant smell of burning plastics and chemicals in the air. issues with our dog vomiting,
the video coming out of the town are horrific, fish, chicken s turning up dead or becoming extremely ill. the people wonder if they are next. burning plastics and chemicals in the air, issues with our dog vomiting, acting lethargic. the fish is dying so how my supposed to be safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it. i cannot date in town before i have a giant migraine. i don t feel anywhere in this town is. basically they nuked the town with chemicals to get a railroad open. you watch people investigating, they have giant hazmat suits on. but somehow, it is safe for people to go back to these homes. jesse: dana put in biden epa on the spot after insisted there is nothing wrong with the city s water. would you return to these homes now? would you feel comfortable bathing your children and the