assisted with the screening of more than 480 homes under the voluntary screening program offered to residents. and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified. we understand the residents are concerned as they should be and they have questions, that s all understandable. and you know, we are going to get to the bottom of this. try and figure out an answer to what occurred. sandra: and answers people are not getting at this hour, which makes for a very interesting white house briefing that is set to take place this hour as health concerns grow in east palestine, ohio, despite the administration s best efforts to assure the public everything is just fine. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. it may be friday but a lot of news. america reports, today marks two weeks since the norfolk
was, you know, very catastrophic failure. i said, well, if they don t put water back on it, it s going to heat up and it s going it s going to damage other containers. then i was told, no, they re going to detonate all these cars so it doesn t happen. i can tell you, mr. carlson, i ve been looking at rail incidents over and over because in youngstown, ohio, there s three rail lines that run through our town. as a chief and instructor i train my guys to anticipate stuff. i would go case study after case study after case study coming up with different scenarios just to keep it going. i ve never once, in 39 years, ever heard of them blowing up train cars, dumping all the chemicals into the trench, and lighting them on fire. you know, i was dumbfounded. you know, when you lit this stuff on fire, you re creating hydrogen chloride, created a pupil of combustion of
the blast zone, for the shrapnel on the train if it was to explode. so how far they got off topic of this one mile. one mile was never about the smoke inhalation that we were all breathing. that was for shrapnel only. harris: i want you to watch something with me. we had one of our experts here, medical experts at fox news talk, dr. marc siegel on the show yesterday and he said something about these chemical risks that is really disturbing. watch and listen to this, brandon. it speaks to the issue. you didn t get far enough away and you knew it. hydrogen chloride, a toxic gas, people are getting headaches and can cause respiratory problems. another gas that was in world war i used as a poison. the other one no one is talking about is bout all acolyte
we are absolutely going to hold norfolk southern accountable, and i can promise you that. from the very beginning, epa personnel have been on site supporting local and state partners as they ve led emergency response efforts. we ve had boots on the ground leading robust air-quality testing including the advanced technological aspect plane and a mobile analytical laboratory in and around east palestine. since the fire went out, epa air monitoring has notty abouttected any not detected any levels of health concern adistributed to the train derailment. epa has assisted with the screening of more than 480 homes under the voluntary screening program offered to residents. and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified. and we re continuing to make those screenings available to any resident that wants to have their indoor air tested. we re also continuing to conduct
water testing out here and keep finding no evidence of any contaminants in the water. as of yesterday, the epa issued an update saying they have screened more than 459 homes and found no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride, the chemicals raising the most concerns. they re not the only people in town, i should say. moments ago i spoke with senator j.d. vance who is also here. i asked if he plans on meeting with the epa administrator while he s in town and he says at this point it doesn t seem like he wants to do that. i also asked him what is he telling the people of this town, specifically those who are concerned about coming back to their homes? take a listen to what he told me. i would not point my finger at somebody and say, look, this is safe, you need to come back. it s up to us to give people the confidence to come back to their homes. it s a frightening situation. my guidance was continue to drink the bottled water. we don t know. people say that the air is clean