norfolk suffolk rail derailed. vinyl chloride, a highly flammable carcinogen. concerns of a possible explosion the governor ordered an evacuation and crews conducted a controlled burn on five of those cars filled with hazardous chemicals and intentionally leaked them into the air to prevent them from blowing up. bill: the people who live are getting sick. also concerned fish and other animals being found dead. despite all this the environmental protection agency says it hasn t detected contamination at levels of concern. the people who live there just are not buying it. local fish in our creeks have died. oily scenes and colorations in the water. chemicals in the air. it is half of my family lives in east palestine. you have all these toxins, all the chemicals basically that is going to cause cancer. we ve all been exposed. it is not a one mile thing. test the water is it safe? the fish are dying. how should i feel safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it?
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in is a business for the cartels at the end of the day. through the yuma sector a $20 million a week business. what the cartels do is tie up border patrol resources. commodity neutral. wherever they can make money. they are bringing poison to our communities. john border officials sounding the alarm on the cartel crisis. cartels making billions of dollars smuggling migrants and drugs. it is coming at the cost of american lives. victor avila is a retired ice, homeland security investigation special agent and his partner was killed by the cartels in 2011. he joins us now. victor, good to catch up with you again. thanks for being with us. you have personal experience with this. your partner was traveling with you on the road back from monterey mexico to mexico city
and ambushed by the cartels and he was killed. he died in your arms. how widespread now is cartel operations and influence not just on the border but deep into the united states? first i want to say thanks for having me back, john. today is the 12th year anniversary of the shooting and the day we lost my partner in the line of duty in mexico. and it is a somber day for me. my thoughts are with his family today. i remember him on this special day. yes, this is personal. i understand the threats of the cartels. and like these sheriffs and these law enforcement officials telling bill, the money is flowing on the border. cartel is sending that money i was in a county there they are recruiting 17-year-olds and recruit groups to take illegal aliens to stash houses and u.s. citizens from across the country