this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. that s the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though it s colorless and you almost wouldn t know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that you ve got a train coming into town that s carrying it. now, there are different interpretations of the laws and requirements around that. be that as it may, norfolk southern has promised to provide whatever help the town needs. better that and million dollars has been distributed thus far and we don t know the details of that, but more money was coming. a lot of lawyers, some of whom i have been talking to, who are pondering class action suits saying that s a drop in the bucket with the obligation that norfolk souther
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
Ones telling the residents here that it is, and i m satisfied with the science that they re going about it the right way. jacqui: there s also been some concern though that the mechanisms with which they re doing this testing and saying that the, you know, the air is safe and water is safe, might not be sensitive enough to detect small levels of these toxins. well, you know, i m not an engineer, i m certainly not a chemist, jacqui. i can only tell you what the xets experts are saying. the us-epa is responsible for the enforcement of the clean air act and clean water act. they re the ones that have to make this determination, but you know, we are getting a fema is coming today, as you noted in the segment earlier, fema originally said no because ohio did not qualify. and so, the governor, when the governor was told no, i led a delegation letter that said,
Thank you very much. thank you very much. griff: from the other side of the aisle we re joined by congressman from california, and on the committees. congressman garamendi. i want to pick up where congressman johnson left off. here we are fema arriving two weeks later. are you satisfied with the federal government s response so far? well, let s talk about fema. there s a process, a legal process, that process begins with the local government and then the state government and then fema. the state government has to request or has to actually set up a disaster declaration and then request fema to arrive. as i understand it, the governor did that in the last day or two, and now fema is there. there s a legal process that s underway. so i m not at all concerned that fema wasn t there early because the governor hadn t asked fema to be there. now with regard to the other