the video coming out of the town are horrific, fish, chicken s turning up dead or becoming extremely ill. the people wonder if they are next. burning plastics and chemicals in the air, issues with our dog vomiting, acting lethargic. the fish is dying so how my supposed to be safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it. i cannot date in town before i have a giant migraine. i don t feel anywhere in this town is. basically they nuked the town with chemicals to get a railroad open. you watch people investigating, they have giant hazmat suits on. but somehow, it is safe for people to go back to these homes. jesse: dana put in biden epa on the spot after insisted there is nothing wrong with the city s water. would you return to these homes now? would you feel comfortable bathing your children and the
chemicals so we could get a railroad open. what do you make of that, sir? let me just say that we are going to enforce the law and hold norfolk southern accountable. we ve issued a notice of liability that holds them accountable. they have signed it and said they would comply. the goal is as we enter into the cleanup phase under our circle of law, we can hold this company accountable so that they foot the bill and taxpayers don t and so let me be clear. we p understand some of the anxiety of the community, but we are with the community. we re going to hold this company accountable, and we re going to be here until this problem is cleaned up. would you stay in your home there? would you drink the water, sir, if you lived in that area? for the homes that have been tested and, again, we have gone in and done indoor air quality for over 460 homes, if i were
train derailment, and a massive chemical explosion in ohio. we basically fill the town with chemicals, so we can get the railroad open. all in starts right now. good evening from washington, d.c.. i am mehdi hasan. it was the afternoon of saturday, january the 2nd, 2021, when georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, the man in charge of the states election, a republican, took a phone call at his kitchen counter on the other end of the line was the then president of the united states, donald j trump, whose attempts to overturn the election he had just lost were becoming increasingly desperate and erratic. over the course of the hour-long phone call, trump had one demand for raffensperger. finally the votes i need to win by any means necessary. the ballots are corrupt, and you are going to find that they are, which is totally illegal. it is more illegal for you than it is for them because you know
last wednesday an epa official found there was nothing here to see. as you know we ve been conducting air monitoring and sampling in the community since the start of the incident. over the last two hours, we ve continued to monday or and as we reported before all the readings we ve been recording in the community have been at normal concentrations, normal background of what you would find in almost any normal community and that s what led to the fire chief lifting the evacuation today. laura: how s that all turning out? today we learned that there were three additional chemicals discovered in the east palestine train derailment. thousands of fish and animals have suddenly just dropped dead, and a hazardous material specialist described it saying we basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open. we re going to be looking at this thing five, ten, 15, 20 years down the line and think
vinyl chloride, used to make plastics. when it burns at lower temperature, it emits a gas called used to clear trenches and world war i. the vinyl chloride in particular is highly flammable, and crews burn it off and what they call a controlled environment. that intern produced a huge plume of smoke and within serious health and environmental concerns. so, how safe is it for residents of east palestine? how serious is norfolk southern s financial commitment to making residents hold? what are the transportation secretary people, waiting until moments ago to issue his first public statement on it, on twitter. sil caggiano it s a hard hazardous material specialist, and served as a chief with the youngstown, ohio fire department. he joins me now. sil, thanks so much for coming on the show. you told a local news outlet, quote, we basically nuked a town with chemicals, so we could get a railroad open. can you elaborate for our viewers what you mean by that? what i meant by that was spur