organizations experienced in dealing with exactly this kind of material. the timeline here, the waste removal was paused over the weekend following complaints from texas and michigan officials who said they didn t know the waste would come to their jurisdictions. why didn t they know what was coming their way? i don t know all the details of the environmental cleanup process. what i know is that there are ways that are set up for states to communicate with each other about this. and there is often a private sector role as contractors who have that extremely rigorous epa certifica certif certify step up to do that challenging work. this is both in responding to disasters like this and in routine operations. it happens a lot, which is why it is regulated so tightly, so carefully and closely. and epa has taken over the process originally led by norfolk southern to make sure that it s going to be handled well. of course, every situation, politics playing a role in this. som
today s morning moment, quite a trip into the news archives to the actual real life story from 1985 that inspired the new box office hit cocaine bear. it was actually covered by our atlanta affiliate wxia back in 1985. this was the news segment at the time. the 200-pound bear fell victim to one of three duffle bags full of cocaine dropped in north georgia and knoxville, tennessee, three months ago when parachutist and drug smul letter andrew thornton plunged to his death. he had 77 pounds of cocaine strapped on him. agents found a second bag a short time later. they ran across the dead bear in fannin county last week while looking for the third bag, what they believe to be the last of the thornton badge. they probably got an initial rush and perhaps became disoriented and somewhat