this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. that s the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though it s colorless and you almost wouldn t know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that you ve got a train coming into town that s carrying it. now, there are different interpretations of the laws and requirements around that. be that as it may, norfolk southern has promised to provide whatever help the town needs. better that and million dollars has been distributed thus far and we don t know the details of that, but more money was coming. a lot of lawyers, some of whom i have been talking to, who are pondering class action suits saying that s a drop in the bucket with the obligation that norfolk souther
we ve got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china s spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we re going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we re now detecting more objects in our airspace since we ve dialled up the radar and we learned today that we re actually not going to hear the details. i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to
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had a greater share of the pain relief market than it did prior to the tampering scandal. so, lessons that could be learned here for norfolk southern. dave dodson, graduate stanford school of business professor extraordinare and remembers, as young as he looks, maybe that johnson & johnson lesson. what do you think? i mean, still early, norfolk southern hasn t botched things, it s late in responding to things. what do you think? i m sorry, neil, i think when they were faced with their moment of truth, i give them a failing grade. they really failed. this is not a legal issue, this is a leadership issue and this is what happens when something happens like this and you bring your lawyers together for advice. the first thing they should have done is he should have gotten all of his executives together, told them to take off their ties, tell their families they ll be back in quiet a while, and got a box of pens and pads of paper and gone door-to-door and talked to people. the first thing
unbe knownst to them, many cab lets were poisoned. the irony was after that, something that was not made of the company s own fault, it ended up getting a better share and a bigger share of the pain relief market because the ceo at the time, john burke, was praised for taking the bull by the horn and being right out there out front and tried to solve the crisis. so little early, but i want to bounce this off of john bussey from the wall street journal whether maybe norfolk southern could take lessons from that. early as it is. what do you think, john? i think they could. i think business in general is watching norfolk southern and seeing what they re doing and not doing.