the growing frustration for residents. and a first look at china s spy balloon. take a look at this picture, as we learn that some of the surveillance aircraf is now at the fbi lab at quantico. announcer: this is the from the nation s capital. norah: good evening and thank you for joining us on a busy night here in the nation s capital. president biden set to address the nation tonight and what will likely be the largest television audience of the year for him. he is going to be touting his accomplishments, and we have just learned that he will directly address republicans, urging them to work with them. the other major news tonight, the quick thinking flight attendants preventing a midair disaster after a fire started right after take off. what caused the fire? we will have more on that in just a minute. but we do want to begin overseas as time is running out for victims buried in turkey and syria after that massive earthquake with a death toll at nearly 8,000. offic
david is with us. the highlight of the president s announcement, three objects shot down since friday not tied to any enemy nations but private companies, bringing up the possibility that the administration may have over reacted after the chinese spy balloon in february. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. white house officials and all the way to the president insist there will be changes in the works. whatever you want to call them, he said he ll share with congress the policy parameters when they re done but that ll remain classified so we don t give a quote, road map to our enemies to evade our defenses going forward. i expect to be speaking with president xi and i hope we ll get to the bottom of them. i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. you can see right here this exchange when a reporter asked him about chinese business
noem and the person that should be the governor of new york , i lee zeldin. tonight.e is the okay. but tonight we begin with the washington swamp where biden s balloon saga, it is now on weekr noree an bd is getting nuttier by the day. now, today s tod developmentayse far more questions than you can ever imagine. now, earlier, your president, joey, the president of final the united states , finally said something about the other three objects besides a chinese spy balloon that he decidederic to shoot down over northr america airspace last week with four hundred thousand400,00 dollar missiles that you paid for. but don t expect any clarity from joe biden. now, here is the trulyning frightening part. joe has absolutely no idea. we told us today, none at all whatsoever. what. these objects were, e they came from, what they were doing. t he he has no idea what he ordered. our military to shoot down. i am not making this up. this is what he said earlier today. take a look. we
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