hello, again, everyone. this is cnn newsroom sunday. i m frederica whitfield. we begin with the fallout from that toxic train derailment in ohio. residents of east palestine frustrated, angry and demanding answers after being exposed to highly dangerous levels of vinyl chloride. the epa halting millions of gallons of contaminated waste shipments to michigan and texas as the agency reviews disposal plans. federal teams are on the ground and they re checking in on east palestine residents, door to door, passing out fliers with information on getting health assessments and clean waters. for many in the town, that simply is not good enough. residents are worried about their own health and their homes. and many are questioning how this even happened after an initial ntsb report said the derailment was 100% preventable. cnn s priscilla alvarez is at the white house for us. how is the administration responding to these concerns and what is next? well, they re saying that they ar
on the ground in ukraine, the ukrainians are up against a tough fight now that obviously has been the center of having fighting in the donbas region for quite some time now. but the situation appearing to deteriorate more and more rapidly with some speculating that it s now just a matter of time before ukrainian forces will be forced to give that up as the russians continue to really push and push hard against those front lines. there is an insanely high rate of attrition, fred, for those russian forces. they are dying in droves. but the ukrainians are also experiencing higher causality rates than at any other time. and so this has now become a real concern how to save the lives of as many ukrainians as possible without seeding ground to the russian. in fact, tonight you have a
that election in what has become a rather reliably democratic state. if that happens, it s going to be a lot hard tore bring democrats, centrists and liberals together behind a big spending bill regardless of the merits of the components of that bill, because if their nominee loses in virginia, you re going to have centrists looking over their shoulder in a bigger way headed into 2022 kwlrks and all bets are going to be off. the best thing they could do is to try and get this wrapped up before tuesday, and i think that s why the president brought stronger leadership to bear here. and i think that whether he was being patient or whether he thought it was politically more effective to let congress, let democrats in congress work their will, i think that he has stopped seeding ground here. i think he has a better chance of accomplishing something if he starts to define the reduced parameters. then it s up to democrats if they get it done, to sell it as a win. if all they do is complain ab