been, with personnel from from the epa, from my department and others on the ground from the very first hours of this situation unfolding. cnn s miguel marquez is live in east palestine where regan is set to speak later today. miguel, what are residents hoping to hear this morning and what are they hoping for that may be different this time around? reporter: yeah, i think they are hoping to hear that there is a roadmap to when the major part of the cleanup will be done and when they can start to resume their normal lives. they are still moving thousands of cubic yards of waste from the solid waste from that site to four different locations, three in ohio, one now in indiana, and then there is a lot of liquid waste as well. there are also the rivers or the streams that run through east palestine itself that are still showing signs of contamination that they have been on since day one trying to clean those up and trying to purify those streams
approval. reporter: the solid waste from the train derailment will be incinerated in an approved in east liverpool, ohio, about 20 miles south of east palestine. we have a 2-year-old daughter. of course, that s a concern. but, again, you know, i think this is a state of the art facility that can handle the waste. reporter: the waste going to two facilities, east liverpool and victory, after the norfolk plan to ship to michigan was rejected by the epa, state politicians and residents. we don t want this type of disposal in our community. we think there s a better way to dispose of this. reporter: ohio s governor says the texas facility will dispose of 500,000 gallons of liquid waste. and michigan will dispose of 15 truckloads of contaminated soil. five ltruckloads were returns t
tried to ship it to facilities in texas and michigan, both the states, the political set in those two states objected to this. they didn t have any knowledge it was coming into their states so epa saw this plan of norfolk southern s on friday, stopped those shipments to both texas and michigan and now have identified two approved sites in ohio to deal with both the liquid waste and the solid waste from this de railment. there is hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquid waste that need to be dealt with and tons of solid waste that needs to be dealt with as well. this is going to be a long term effort though. they re digging wells around the most contaminated part, testing the air, the water. both the municipal and private wells. so far no signs of contamination outside the immediate area but the wells they are digging around the contaminated site will tell officials probably over the next months if not years to come whether that ground water is seeping and
rachel: good morning! [laughter] pete: i only drink bleach when it helps me with covid the. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] will: you re supposed to bathe in bleach, not pete: oh, bathe. [laughter] rachel: now we know about natural immunity. that too. will: all right. a few more cheery headlines, here we go. the epa now ordering norfolk southern to stop cleaning up toxic waste in east palestine the, ohio. originally the rail company was responsible for the clean-up effort, now the epa is reviewing where the waste will be taken. what happened is several states complained after they found out they were getting the toxic waste. specifically michigan and texas. the agency says, has yet to say when the cleanup will continue. meanwhile, there are still 102,000 gallons of liquid waste, over 4,000 cubic yards of solid waste on site. if. the double murder trial of alex murdaugh is set to resume
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