acid rain. the community says it s like someone dropped a toxic nuke on them. basically nuked a town with chemsz. so get a railroad open. i was kind of surprised that when they quickly told the people they can go back home. there s a lot of what-ifs and we are going to be looking at this thing five, 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering gee, cancer clusters could pop up, well water could go bad. jesse: the state government s top doc came out today and said those cancer clusters no big deal. you have been exposed to these things your whole life. if you get cancernot because east palestine looks like chernobyl. most of the chemicals that we are worried about and that we re talking about fall into a category known as volatile organic chems. vulnerable organic compounds or vocs it s important for us to recognize are actually a part of our everyday life. so, if you go this afternoon on your way home to pump gas in your car, you re being exposed to volatile organic c
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
wife on a romantic hot air balloon ride tonight and probably best i don t. any suggestion on what i should do now? i would go with the spicey chicken sandwich. we have lemarca from the control room, what the hell, dude, he just outed himself. lamarca had the hiccups. i m watters and this is my world. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. east paalestino, ohio s not a huge place. it s about 5,000 people and east palestine was the place that produced dishes and cups and pitchers for america s hotels and enormous ceramics works there employed much of the town and it s all gone and the town is much poorer for it and the