pennsylvania held a press conference about it. shapiro announced that authorities decided to set the chemicals on fire. that was a good thing. no one should be unduly alarmed. the burning of the chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote, as planned. officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn, quote, perfect. mike dewinn, the governor of ohio agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroad s jer engineers, and se officials overseeing them, had everything under control. two days later, evacuation orders were listed. in the subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud was it a wise decision to light vinyl chloride on fire over a populated area. if it was safe, how do we know that? is anyone in charge actually monitoring with any accuracy the level of did deadly chemicals ie air, ground and water in and around east palestine? apparently nobody is. that s highly upsetting when you think about it. talk about a failure at all levels. the first duty of
you coming on with that perspective. thank you. okay. thanks. tucker: you remember when illegal aliens took over the el paso airport. now the so-called homeless have moved into chicago international airport. o hare. vagrants living in the terminal, sleeping by the baggage claims in one of the biggest and most famous airports in the world. as one custodian at o hare put it, it s out of control, none of us feel safe. randy lopez is an alderman in chicago, a rare voice in the city, calling for sanity, and joins us tonight from o hare airport. thank you so much for coming on. what do you see there? good evening, tucker. as we walk through the airport, the fourth largest airport in the united states, we ve seen this beautiful gateway to chicago been overrun by the homeless where every night 200 to 300 homeless individuals come off public transportation and set up encampments here, baggage
that s why we swept the house races. that s why i have a republican attorney general and a republican lieutenant governor and we re going to go to workpublicaneneral a and e get this turned around come our legislative session in january . om so i don t know if you can see a return monitor where you are, but i want tw o puift a videotho on the screenin of charging stations in california that appear to have been completely taken over by tent cities of vagrants living in front of them. antsthere s this weird syndrome, i m sure you see it amonggovernr your fellow governors where the basics fall apart. you can have air conditioning in august and there s some guy s smoking meth on your front steps. but we re goin g to save the climate. what is that weird impulse? well, i think it is i think itnk is a complete disassociation with what real people are worried about. e what virginians and americans are worried about is inflationru and schools and a solid education and oh, by the way,n, parents
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