checking for? they only give lists of what they have found. they re not telling you what they are checking for. and i m concerned because we have some toxins, and it could be either from the burning of chloride s, the vinyl chloride, hopefully by now, the hydrogen chloride that were created by burning off vinyl chloride argon. and these are the things i m concerned of. you mention epa, and there is another special ohio production agency, emergency response unit, told the washington post that the residents can continue to drink the water. they say it s safe. it s not affected by the incident. i have no reason not to believe the epa and experts. but i also covered the 9/11 first response, and what they went through over the last 20 years, when they were told it s safe to go to that site, and some of the cancers and horrible effects of that decision. a lot of the stuff as long term, right? a lot of the stuff we don t know the fallout for a long time to come? yes, i believe i mention t
because this involves vinyl chloride. then it caught on fire. this is where the report something really bad because no one is mentioning when the byproduct of vinyl chloride burning is of the many by products of vinyl chloride one of those is hydrogen chloride. it s really unstable and latches on to water. just like water vapor in the atmosphere and that turns it to hydrochloric acid. right now government officials, officials from the railroad both the governor of pennsylvania and ohio are calling burning off the million pounds of this stuff a success but not mentioning that it means that we have hundreds of thousands of pounds of acid in the air, potentially. jesse: we didn t hear any of that from ohio officials. they just told everybody on wednesday that everything was fine. the governor and other officials said the air and water are safe. but then how come they are arresting journalists. stand outside.
with the new republic who has reported on the situation there in east palestine, and dr. blackstock, an msnbc medical contributor. dr. blackstock, i would like to start with you. tell us about the discovery of these new chemicals. should residents of east palestine and the surrounding areas be concerned at this moment? thank you so much for having me on today. so, you know, i you this it s important for people to realize that the immediate threat was that these chemicals would come bust and cause a fire, but now, we are concerned about the more long-term threat. we know that several of these chemicals are car sin jens. there is one that when it come busts can produce hydrogen chloride and another gas that is quite toxic. and it can end up causing rare types of liver cancer, blood cancers, and lung cancers. so, i think that, you know, those residents are quite right in that we are concerned about
additional hazardous material has been or continue to be released into the air surface soils and water. it is revealed in a general notice of potential liability letter sent from the epa to norfolk southern airline. the presence of several other toxins. you see them here. all are irritants. hazardous material expert is very concerned about the cancer-causing one. these are bad chemicals. vinyl chloride itself separates out into gas and hydrogen chloride. we re still not talking about if there were any toxins proper produced. he was surprised a bulk of residents initially evacuated have been allowed back into their homes. eps says no levels of concerns have been detected in the homes
level. listen, they have decided to do a controlled burn of this vinyl chloride. 20 cars labelled hazardous materials, a lot of dangerous chemicals, a lot of them industrial solvents. five had vinyl chloride, used for pvc piping and other hard plastics. it s a very, very dangerous substance and it s extremely flammable and it can explode. and with the explode could cause shrapnel to go for miles and miles and be in the air. they decided to leak it out, and do a controlled burn. when you put the vinyl chloride into the porous soil you will have leakage into the ground system. and when you burn, it s dangerous. and the epa is saying they are now monitoring for hydrogen