median income is lass than $45,000. east palestine is overwhelmingly white and politically conservative. more than 70% of the voters in the surrounding counties supported donald trump in the last election. that shouldn t be relevant but you re about to hear, it very much is. 11 days ago, 150 car train derailed in east palestine and it spewed poisonous chemicals onto the ground and in the surface waters. after the crash, the ohio state epa found evidence of yabbial acura late in the water and streams and creeks that feed it. this was more of a concern for east palestine given the ohio river supplies drinking water to about a tenth of the u.s. population. this train derailment was a environmental disaster. not an environmental disaster like climate change is, but an actual environmental disaster, one that s hurting actual people. then it got worse. several days after the derailment, officials decided it was a good idea to set fire to the spilled chemicals. the result of that
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acting lethargic. it s scary stuff here, tucker. tucker: it s horrifying and a nightmare. again, if that happened in washington dc, no one would be living there right now. is there any federal presence, are you getting any sense that anybody that whom you send your tax dollars to every year cares about what happens to you? at this moment unfortunately not. tucker: no. there s no epa officials and hazmat suits, no one from the department of transportations walking around trying to find out how this happened and prevent it from happening again. nobody is knocking on our door. tucker: how many of your neighbors are still there? our neighbor across the street and next door neighbor came back on this past saturday as well. we returned back home and that was days after when they said it was safe to return and we still didn t feel comfortable and soon as we got into the ohio line, we
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