the soil. neil: all right. this we are sure. a lot of questions, but are we getting all the right answers? despite all of those positive comments, residents of east palestine still have a very unsettling feeling. everyone with authority keeps telling them that everything is okay. residents say they re not buying it. we ll talk to one that is getting sick of it. we ll get you covered with garrett tenney with how folks are dealing with and aishah hasnie on capitol hill where there s calls for heads to roll because of this. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with garrett tenney in east palestine with the very latest. garrett? yeah, neil. what we re hearing today from a number of folks is that this visit by the epa administrator yesterday and nearly two weeks after this derailment is just another indication of how the administration is too little too late to this crisis. and there is still, as you mentioned, a lot of distrust over what officials are saying about how sa
the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he and the first lady will travel tomorrow to puerto rico, which is still reeling from hurricane fiona, and tour damage in florida on wednesday. our hearts, to state the obvious, it
trucks may not help, but somebody has to help somewhere for like basically us living our lively hoods for a lot of the town. neil: and maybe for quite a while. i hope i m wrong. have you heard anything from norfolk southern, any mailings, tweets, texts, calls, anything? i have not. i ve gone over to the resource center over in new waterford. every time i ve gone, it s been several hours of waiting to get through the lines. we decided to go when it calms down. we ve had no interaction. nobody official telling us any actual answers. most likely they ve been told not to talk to us, i d imagine. neil: we talked to a couple of lawyers reaching out to residents. maybe they reached out to you to
the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he
couple other patrons the whole tim time. were you told at some point there was an active shooter? another passenger. nobody official. never saw or heard anything official, just chaos and responded to it. while we were back there i literally hop and social media and started to see what i could find. what people were able to see from the outside, but it was pretty much information blackout. we didn t know anything. what s the airline saying? are you hearing from anybody at your airline about what happened? no. we were fortunate. one of the other patrons at the restaurant was a delta employee and shared the intent was for flights to resume if possible. other than our departure time updated via the app, we haven t heard anything. i can t imagine what that was like. going through what everybody went through at that time. taking pictures of the folks on