i want to show you some live images from selma, alabama where president biden is moment arms from crossing the edmund pettis bridge, the landmark bridge in the struggle for rights in the united states. today is the anniversary of bloody sunday where police officers beat marchers, including the late john lewis, who was a member of congress and was a hero of this country. we re going to keep an eye on that and bring you images as it happens. this is a very important moment for president biden. it shows so much in terms of love for the civil rights movement in this country when a president does this. we saw president obama doing this a few years back and we ll see president biden doing it in just a few moments. in the meantime, it appears a
theme of restoring the soul of america to the sacrifices made there in selma, alabama and this theme that he goes back to over and over again and that is protecting american democracy. he was really linking the sacrifices on bloody sunday in selma to maintaining and strengthening american democracy. reporter: yeah, he really was, jim. that argument of trying to restore the soul of america was central to his presidential campaign and he tried to talk about how that moment on blood eye sunday 58 years ago was also another moment where there was a battle for the soul of america. he said that now what must be done was to remember these moments, events that played out [ no audio ] . we just lost arlette saenz
again, an important point we heard from officials in springfield, ohio, is even those four tanker train cars that ended up being derailed did not have any sort of leakage. so that s certainly important, and no spillage. but of course the question of why did this happen, especially a month after the situation in palestine, ohio, that is still something that authorities will have to answer in an effort to prevent this from happening again. we now know there were hazardous materials being transported on that train. we know it could have been much worse than what we saw play out yesterday. it sounds like it was a very close call for that community in springfield, ohio. thank you very much. minutes ago in selma, alabama, president biden linked arms and led a crowd across the edmund pettus bridge. it s the iconic landmark of bloody sunday. peaceful demonstrators had just begun their march for equal voting rights on that day. white deputies and state
there. let me just show you some of the pictures there has we get ready to head to a break and that is the president, i found it striking just a few homes ago he was there with reverend jesse jackson, who we don t see out in public very often, martin luther king iii. you just see all the stars of the american civil rights movement there on the scene in selma. i believe you re back with me, arlette. we re going to try one more time. you know what, we lost her again. this happens a lot, folks, during these kind of things. there you see the president shaking hands, talking to folks in selma after the conclusion of his remarks. we ll take a quick break, reset and come back and the former secretary of defense, leon panetta, is expected to join us
disaster declaration immediately. we also are paying for temporary housing, supporting local businesses, small businesses, as well as doing for other towns devastated as you have been. today we provided $8 million in recovery and we re just getting started in the rebuilding effort and we ll be here as long as it takes. the first major bill we passed without a single vote from the other team was the american rescue plan when i was sworn in. that has provided $60 million to selma and dallas county directly. one of the things having been a county official for two years, i learned a long time ago i didn t like anything that went through the state legislature. i m not joking. good people but they all want a piece of it. if it was supposed to come to my county, it better damn welcome to my county directly. this is going directly to your county, directly to your city to