where faith safety culture and our investments did not prevent this accident. every day, i ve asked myself, what we have done differently? very much looking forward to the results of the ntsb investigation. we are cooperating fully with the ntsb and the foray to find out the root cause of this accident. and we re gonna take action, we re gonna learn from this. and we re going to invest, we re gonna make norfolk southern a safer railroad. there s always more we can do with, and i m looking forward to hearing those results, and we re gonna sit and have an opportunity to sit down with the regulators, and our elected officials, all the key stakeholders, and design ways to make norfolk southern any industry safer. republican senator of ohio, j.d. vance, raised the issue that your 150 car train only had two employees and a trainee on it. is that true? and how is that responsible?
we re also advancing technology on our locomotives to check the inspect the tracks as our trains run over the tracks. we are looking for the results of the ntsb to it the investigation to find the root cause of this, which is one of the many reasons that were cooperating fully with the ntsb and the foray. we ll learn from this. what we had in place did not work here. we re gonna figure this out. and we re going to make the investments to make norfolk southern safer. i want to bring in jim stewart was a question for you, sir? a lot of this but i have to ask was answered already. but i m speaking on the inspection. the people of east palestine are being treated like dummies, we re not dummies. we re smart people. listen to these people and what they have found out about different things, and everything else. i m angry. i m angry about this.
least 43 minutes and 21 miles before the train derailed. in a cnn analysis found that the train then slowed dramatically around the time that that overheating was first seen. so, why did the train slowed down so far ahead of the derailment? and why, as you re being asked by a resident of east palestine, were steps not taken to warn counties where this train were sparks were flying were headed? i love that through the night, did that train actually break down in illinois a couple times? what led him answer the question. we are fully cooperating with the national transportation safety board, and with the fia on this. until then, i am prohibited from making any statements
how is that putting safety first? jake, this investigation is being run by the ntsb. i m prohibited from talking specifically about anything that caused this derailment. i m very much looking forward to the preliminary results, which should be coming out very soon. i want to bring in some of the east palestine citizens here with me. is a former chemistry teacher, this week, the governor in the epa administrator in visited his house in drink tap water from his kitchen sink. before you ask mr. shaw question, did that reassure you at all? them drinking the water from your sink? absolutely. it did. that s good news. you have a question for mr. shaw? yes, i d like to go back to that safety subject that you mentioned just a moment ago. in ohio, we have great rigorous inspection of highways. rigorous inspection of bridges, rigorous inspections of public
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