president, not george w. bush, his father. i m christine romans, this is early start. just hours from now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg heads to the site of that train derailment in east palestine, ohio. buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. i m 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went jim, thank you for those comments. i hear you. i m terribly sorry that this has happened to this community. what i can do and what i will do is make it right. we ll get the cleanup right. we re going to reimburse the citizens, we ll invest in the long term health of this community. miguel marquez has more from east palestine. reporter: a massive effort under way to clean up creeks and water flowing in an
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and have their profits recover. this time we re seeing all kinds of interesting things. for example we re seeing walmart which is not a company that caters to the wealthy saying that they had a great year, a freight fourth quarter compared to other retailers. and that influx of customers who earned more than $100,000 a year, typically not a group that flocks to walmart. companies like aldi. and they are abandoning places like whole foods or kroger to trade down. buying store brands and things like that. companies that are benefiting that you might not expect to in a downturn and companies suffering that you also might not expect to suffer as badly. i guess the rich-cession theme probably has a lot of housing market information. a lot of financial pressures i think for folks in the housing market, we said $2.3 trillion in value wiped out. yeah, think about the balance