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?
following a train derailment 12 days ago in ohio. hazardous chemicals contaminating air and water. some people are getting sick and some animals are dying. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom i m dana perino. bill is off today. good morning, john. john: i m john roberts. complex environmental disaster and many questions still unanswered. folks have been allowed to return to their homes. serious safety fears remain despite assurances the air is safe to breathe and concerns are spreading about the potential impact on the water supply as a plume of pollution spilled into the ohio river flows toward the mississippi. i think the residents have every reason to be concerned. we ll continue to dig. that s the importance of these testings, testing the water, testing the air. i know hundreds of tests have been conducted but still residents are reporting things that have to be answered. dana: we re covering this story from all angles. emily lives nearby and felt the effe
from last month s derailment in east palestine. and right now the fbi offering a reward for the return of four americans believed to have been kidnapped at gunpoint in mexico. we ll bring you details on what happened. and jurors who convicted alex murdaugh of killing his wife and son are speaking out. i didn t think he was crying. he turned it on and off, yeah. it wasn t genuine. do you think he hurt himself by taking the stand? did he make it worse? i think he did. we begin in atlanta where nearly three dozen people were detained after a chaotic clash between police and protesters. atlanta police say outside agitators mounted what they call a coordinated attack on the future site of a public safety training center throwing rocks, bricks, molotov cocktails and fireworks at police officers. some equipment including construction vehicles were set on fire, but no police officers were injured. sunday s protest part of a week-long series of demonstrations against the f
today, there are no reports of any toxic chemical spills, but lots of questions about how in the world this happened again. what started out as a wild weather story has quickly turned into a life-threatening disaster. scores of california residents penned in by literal walls of snow more than six feet high. they re trapped and running out of food. we ll have a live report on rescue operations under way right now. today the battle lines for the 2024 republican nomination are being more clearly than we ve seen to date, setting up what may be a long and nasty fight for the republican nomination. we heard it in donald trump s borderline apocalyptic address to a less-than-robust corrode at cpac, while ron desantis amped up his attack on liberals to a packed house at the reagan library. in four years you didn t see our administration leaking like a sive. you didn t see a lot of drama and palace intrigue. what you saw was surgical precision, execution day after day after day a
pete: good morning rachel. great to be here. rachel: it s a beautiful sun morning. will: we ve got our faith and family concert series continuing this week, dante beau down share thes getting warmed up. pete: he s rocking. will: he s been rehearsing. pete: they re going to rock the house. rachel: i have gotten so much great feedback about this concert series. pete: yeah? rachel: i love it. pete: it is great. it is befitting the time of this easter season. rachel: absolutely. all leading up to easter sunday. pete: i m pretty excited, i m looking at the final edits of the second part of our jesus series about holy week, because we did the first one before christmas, it come cans occupant, i believe, on palm sunday. producers, we go film it and then producers spend six months getting every little element and aspect, that s the real heavy lift. will: on fox nation. pete: yeah. rachel: all right. well, we are off with a fox news alert. there was another norfolk southern train dera