you are watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary world. you re you re watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. nikki haley begins her run for competency tests for politicians over 75 years old. could she be target ing presidet biden or form er president donad trump. and later, survivors still being found under the rubble, more than a week after a powerful earthquake left parts of turkey and syria devastated. good to have you with us. the head of the u.s. environmental protection agency is expected to visit east palestine, ohio, in the coming hours, where a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in the coming month. two weeks since the disaster, residents wait for answers from officials and the rail company on whether their community is safe. cnn jason carol reports. everybody that came here expected a whole lot more than what we re getting right now. reporter: frustration, anger and unanswered questions in east pales palestine, ohio. the railroad did us
emergency vehicles, officers, and that s as far as i can go. there is my baby and i can t do nothing about it. she was a hardworking, young wife and mom. sweetest gurley can ever asked to meet. just minutes from home when she saw the headlights. somebody was telling her. my sister is in my driveway. and her heads bloody. so you bear your little girl and then it s a murder investigation? yes. there were two people brandi feared, one town. she thought she was being followed. one thousands of miles away. josh was still in alaska. then, there was the new man in her life. anybody close to brandi needed to take a hard serious look at. no fingerprints, no dna, and no arrests for years. you are grieving. how do you pull all of that together. day-by-day. the handsome urge of someone s dark past. you have robberies going on, a homicide. and one brave woman willing to talk. he called me, the same that happened to brandi will happen to me. the q
fury on the gunman. i will personally choke you. she didn t hurt anybody. you will come to our city and decide you don t like black people. you don t know a damn thing about black people. we are human. reporter: the survivor of ruth whitfield, says she feels sorry for the shooter. we know the hatred and motivation behind your crime, and you failed. the gunman apologized to the victims relatives. i don t want anyone inspired by me and what i did. reporter: his words couldn t resonate like those of the daughter of on dre mcneal, saying her father had gone to the topps store to buy a birthday cake for her little brother. i m pissed and mad and i hate you. i thought i would be able to look you in the face and tell
everyone thought that the election was not free and fair in 2020. the result being that joe biden was elected president, and so we have some of that right now that we are going to listen to and then we hear their thoughts on january 6th and the insurrection at the capitol. doug mastriano was at the insurrection, and he was photographed breaching one of the restricted areas. is that okay? which area? because i saw video where capitol officers were taking away barriers and unlocking doors for people. so. they opened the gates and let them in. it shouldn t be disqualifying for an elected official if they participated in january 6th. he didn t strike anybody, he didn t hurt anybody. the only one that died was the protester there, not unarmed female veteran. that s the only one who died. a police officer did die. he had a heart attack. it was a stroke. that s not on site.