dangerous toxins have been removed and a lot of people saying we don t want them. the president says he has no plans to go to east palestine. but should these developments force him to change his mind? we re going to ask ohio s lieutenant governor, john houston. he s here. i m neil cavuto. the lieutenant governor will be coming to join us right now and we to have these various officials from the epa, fema and others that will address where this cleanup process stands. we should say it was temporarily stored for more than a temporary amount of time. mike tobin is there with the latest. mike? neil, the work is getting underway at the cleanup site here once again. it was halted over the weekend because they had a communication breakdown and ended up with no place to ship the contaminated soil and water. they found a couple of locations here in ohio, a couple of hazmat locations to move the contaminated soil and water so they can do that safely. one thing that people here in ea
responsible for the accident. joining us now, george solis, in east palestine, ohio, and julie grant, managing editor and reporter for the allegheny front also and has spent a lot of time in that area. we are awaiting the governor of ohio to speak any minute. when he does, we will bring you that live. george, i want to start with you. what do we expect to hear from the governor this morning? reporter: good morning, jose. we are expecting to hear what plans may be in place, should the rain start to move in here into town. that s a big concern as we know some of the runoff could contaminate the water ways further. the governor said there are response teams here in place to prevent that from happening. there is also talks of building dams to keep any water ways from being further contaminated. there is also going to be a question or two about any chance of more federal aid or if federal disaster declaration will be declared here to get more aid. they will be on the ground he
having your water tested. the ohio epa and usepa will engage with you. there s a number of resources available where you can call, where you can have it tested, where you can have it done by independent testing entities. that s what norfolk southern has the obligation to do. to pay for that. so people can have those re-assurances. if there s a concern, then have an independent testing done of it. and that s the only thing that we can do. keep testing it. repeat that. continue to have the air monitors, continue to have the water monitors. repeatedly test the water in the municipal system. have people with wells to have allow them to have it independently tested and the cost of that should not be borne should be it s norfolk southern s responsibility, not the taxpayers of the community, not the residents. they should pay for all of that
dangerous toxins have been removed and a lot of people saying we don t want them. the president says he has no plans to go to east palestine. but should these developments force him to change his mind? we re going to ask ohio s lieutenant governor, john houston. he s here. i m neil cavuto. the lieutenant governor will be coming to join us right now and we to have these various officials from the epa, fema and others that will address where this cleanup process stands. we should say it was temporarily stored for more than a temporary amount of time. mike tobin is there with the latest. mike? neil, the work is getting underway at the cleanup site here once again. it was halted over the weekend because they had a communication breakdown and ended up with no place to ship the contaminated soil and water. they found a couple of locations here in ohio, a couple of hazmat locations to move the contaminated soil and water so they can do that safely. one thing that people here in
and move the soil and water that had been contaminated out of the area. then they put a pause on it when they got complaints from elected officials, whether that is members of congress or governors and given the green light again to continue to move that out. so look, these are sites that have been approved by the u.s. epa for this type of removal. there s been a prom mission that this area would be remediated, the soil and water that were contaminated would be moved out and the u.s epa has to do this. neil: i ve talked to a number of people in and around the community of east palestine. many outside of east palestine, sometimes miles outside of it. when they have come to the company, norfolk southern to look to help or support, the