think of that as smoke. breathing it in anyone is particularly vulnerable when it comes to these volatile organic compounds, which again may be high up in that plume of smoke. may travel may come down over the next you know, several days , you know people who are at risk of that again. anybody could be at risk, but people who have underlying conditions specifically cardiac and respiratory, they re going to probably be the most at risk. obviously people in that area need to pay attention to the public health officials. dr sanjay gupta. thank you so much for helping explain this all cape. this is where you are from watching this right now. a lot of people at risk. i mean, this is just just west of indianapolis, right near the ohio border and just devastating to see what this means for the community. we re going to john s gonna stay very close on this. is it still unfolding this morning? we re also tracking this major story. still today, the family of the gunman who shot and killed five p
reporter: u.s. investigators prove chinese children s officer xu yanjun focused on american aviation companies. one main target, a g.e. engineer specializing in jet engine design. first process is what they do all the time come invite them over to china to give a speech. reporter: xu s espionage caught the attention. speaking chinese, asked to carry the laptop on. xu travel to belgium, where the fbi was waiting. late last year, he was sentenced to 20 years the u.s. prison for spying. is the first time ever where we sentenced a known intelligence officer, running a cell, collecting aviation technology to benefit the civilian and military apparatus of the communist party of china. reporter: still, without fda approval, the c919 is not likely to land at a u.s. airport any time soon. kris van cleave, cbs news, new york. norah: to make them a large industrial fire is burning in richmond, indiana, near the ohio
you can see, kentucky all the way on the left. why is it on the left? mitch mcconnell is the republican leader, has been for a long time. you may remember, for example, joe biden going down to the kentucky-ohio border with mitch mcconnell to break a bottle of champagne, whatever they did over the new $1 billion bridge that is being paid for by washington. ft. knox is in kentucky. there s stuff all over kentucky that mitch mcconnell haas has delivered to kentucky. it s an unusual situation. for most of the other states that do better, mississippi, the poorest state in the country, that light blue are programs like medicaid. the dark blue includes programs like food stamps. because they are poor pay less i shouldn t say it quite that way because they pay less and have lower income residents, they get back more in federal benefits toward those programs. steve, you ve laid out the numbers here. if this hypothetical were to
again. get some r&r, because you re going to come back here and sure. pulitzer prizewinner, the winner of the polk award just last week and author of the remarkable book it s what i do. residents of east palestine ohio have been demanding more from officials since train cars with toxic chemicals derailed near the town weeks ago. the transport secretary pete buttigieg joins us right after this break. cretary pete buttigieg joins us right after this break
if you re outside for more than 15, 20 minutes you start feeling the congestion, heaviness in your chest. and i smelled it, that chemical odor that s in the water. of course my heart sank, i freak out, start to shake. i m not sure whether to believe anyone or not. and they re concerned for their kids, concerned to drink the water, concerned for their babies. i don t want to live in that fear of wondering are we going to get sick or not. the damage is already done. we re going to see the repercussions of it for the next 10, 20, 30 years. residents of east palestine, ohio are still confused asked fearful two weeks after a train derailment dumped toxic chemicals into their town up ending their lives. today the epa administrator visited the town for a second time in a week, drinking the water in an attempt to