i m kristin fisher. i m jim sciutto, and top of the hour, alex murdaugh right there on trial for murdering his wife and youngest son is expected to take the stand and testify in his own defense. we will take you to the courtroom when it happens. plus any moment, the ntsb is egs expected to release a preliminary report on what led to that toxic train derailment today. and this morning pete buttigieg was there and this after citizens were demanding answers at a town hall overnight. i m 65 and a diabetic, and now, did you shorten my life now? i want to retire and enjoy it. how do we enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house, and our value went, vroom. jim, i am terribly sorry. what i will do is to get this right. we will get the cleanup right, and we will reimburse the citizens and we will invest in the long term health of this community. a chance there for the folks to confront the ceo of norfolk southern. and when we get a look at that report from th
and the thing that does that is primarily the wheels and the brakes. i think that we are all familiar with the fact that the industry opposed the electronic brakes proposed for this type of train, and the board is going to look into this, and i have full confidence in their ability to investigate it, but what i don t have is the confidence of the federal government to regulate and congress to regulate the railroads. jim, one more question for you in addition to being a former ntsb chairman, you are a vietnam veteran and you are aware of agent orange, and you know about the burn pits, and from that perspective, what do you think of the residents of east palestine getting their hands on this report and what they are seeing, and what they are thinking, and are they right
it appears that the company moves towns and moves headquarters and changes and sells stock for their benefit and the federal government does not pay attention until something like this happens. and now for norfolk southern to tell the people in east palestine that they will be taken care of, but what about the other cities that there are these trains with hazardous materials. jim, have you had a chance to look at the report that is released, because i am curious what jumps out at you? no. of course, while i was at the ntsb i oversaw these reports. this is what i call the jack webb version. it is the factual report. that is essentially what is
i m kristin fisher. i m jim sciutto, and top of the hour, alex murdaugh right there on trial for murdering his wife and youngest son is expected to take the stand and testify in his own defense. we will take you to the courtroom when it happens. plus any moment, the ntsb is egs expected to release a preliminary report on what led to that toxic train derailment today. and this morning pete buttigieg was there and this after citizens were demanding answers at a town hall overnight. i m 65 and a diabetic, and now, did you shorten my life now? i want to retire and enjoy it. how do we enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house, and our value went, vroom.
who says that we don t need a ntsb report to say that other class i railroads are trying to slink out of regulations to make it easier for them to transport chemicals through communities. this is what the transportation secretary told me tuesday. we don t have to wait a year for a finalized ntsb report to know that there are things that would be stronger if the railroad industry would not have fought them. i know that the communities are frustrated and i am frustrated and it is time to work with congress and call on the industry to change course. talk about the time line here, because february 3rd is when it happen and today, february 23rd, the preliminary report and facts and straight and to the point, and now begins the ntsb analysis of looking at the facts and trying to figure out what went wrong here, but it could be months if not more than a year until we find out the probable cause here.