pennsylvania held a press conference about it. shapiro announced that authorities decided to set the chemicals on fire. that was a good thing. no one should be unduly alarmed. the burning of the chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote, as planned. officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn, quote, perfect. mike dewinn, the governor of ohio agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroad s jer engineers, and se officials overseeing them, had everything under control. two days later, evacuation orders were listed. in the subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud was it a wise decision to light vinyl chloride on fire over a populated area. if it was safe, how do we know that? is anyone in charge actually monitoring with any accuracy the level of did deadly chemicals ie air, ground and water in and around east palestine? apparently nobody is. that s highly upsetting when you think about it. talk about a failure at all levels. the first duty of
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my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania? as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia against ukraine, in the front line of the efforts of the international community to counter the effects of this war. and the effort of romania was very strong in support of ukraine on very many dimensions, and this is very much appreciated by ukraine. this is very much appreciated by our partners. i had the pleasure these days to talk with my counterpart, james cleverly, we have signed today a very important document, a joint declaration on updating our strategic partnership between romania and the united kingdom. yesterday,
hello i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us. today we begin with the deadly storms ripping across parts of the midwest. the destructive system spawned at least 11 reports of tornadoes. now, take a look at this. this is video of missouri, where at least four people are now confirmed dead and several others may be hurt. missouri s governor, mike parson, has activated the national guard to assist with the storm recovery and is expected to go on a tour of that area soon, and this is the scene in neighboring illinois. you can see straight into that building after storms ripped off the roof and the danger is not over. yet more than 60 million people remain under the threat of severe storms. meteorologist jennifer gray is tracking that from the cnn weather center for us, but let s begin with cnn s adrian broadus, who is on the ground and kelowna, illinois. adrian i know that you have been speaking to some of these individuals who have lived through the storm and a
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