fox news live, i am eric shawn. president biden said he has no plans to visit east palestine for now. he does say the administration is on top of the situation. transportation pete buttigieg visited the site for the first time thursday after weeks of scrutiny. ohio governor mike dewine says officials from fema say it s safe for the residents to return to their homes but many people have not come back because they have health concerns. we spoke to some residents during our last hour here at fox news live, they say they don t know when there lives will return to normal. how has this changed your daily life and routine? changed everything for our lives. essentially our home doesn t feel like that safe space anymore. my thing is if they don t have answers, i m okay with them saying that, it s just don t dance around it to pretend like you do it, like you don t. eric: monitoring the fema news conference when it begins but let s go to mike tobin live in east palestine with th
a very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we begin this hour with new details about the victims and also the gunman in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university. first, the three people killed who have now been identified and so young, 20-year-old brian fraser, 19-year-old arielle anderson and 20-year-old alexandria verner. the 43-year-old gunman we ve learned apparently did leave behind a note and a criminal history that includes a gun charge, but what is still unknown this morning, the motive, and also how he got the firearm, which was reportedly used in the shooting. you look at pictures of their kids you think of their poor families. also ahead this morning, former south carolina governor nikki haley makes the first stop of her 2024 presidential campaign, we re going to take you live to charleston, south carolina, and just in a key report shows that retail sales surged in january, beating expectations. more signs of a ve
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
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