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palestine are running out of patience with the administration s response or lack thereof to the derailment and the cleanup. what federal response? if it were in washington, d.c. it would be cleaned up taken care of answers done. white house defending what the federal government has done and will do. we are committed to supporteding the people of palestine every step of the way and will be helping them long as needed. some residents are mystified why the transportation sect buttigieg hasn t even visited the area. to me eye his job. this is something he should be here for. this is pretty significant the amount of chemicals cancer causing chemicals that were released. we need guidance i think this deserves a pink slip for his job. buttigieg said he s more focused generally on rail safety which is by his admission nowhere near close to good enough. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases of ....
this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. that s the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though it s colorless and you almost wouldn t know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that you ve got a train coming into town that s carrying it. now, there are different interpretations of the laws and requirements around that. be that as it may, norfolk southern has promised to provide whatever help the town needs. better that and million dollars has been distributed thus far and we don t know the details of that, but more money was coming. a lot of lawyers, some of whom i have been talking to, who are pondering class action suits saying that s a drop in the bucket with the obligation that norfolk s ....
good afternoon. i m kasie hunt in washington. right now the family of tyre nichols is speaking out after all five former memphis police officers appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to his murder. for the first time since nichols death his parents were in the same room with the men who brutally beat their son last month after a traffic stop. we have to start this process of justice right now. and i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven t done that yet. they didn t do that today. they didn t even have the courage to look at me in my face. each ex-officer is facing seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. what is the latest? reporter: yeah. it was their initial appearance for the first time, we got to see them inside the courtroom where they pleaded not guilty and the legal battle getting under way. attorneys indicating this was going to be a vigorous fight. they feel the distr ....
assisted with the screening of more than 480 homes under the voluntary screening program offered to residents. and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified. we understand the residents are concerned as they should be and they have questions, that s all understandable. and you know, we are going to get to the bottom of this. try and figure out an answer to what occurred. sandra: and answers people are not getting at this hour, which makes for a very interesting white house briefing that is set to take place this hour as health concerns grow in east palestine, ohio, despite the administration s best efforts to assure the public everything is just fine. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. it may be friday but a lot of news. america reports, today marks two weeks since the norfolk southern train went off the rails in a small town near ohio s border. testing in the air and water ....
can t give or on what timeline. and if one of our allies and partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have ever right to make we would welcome that. $100 million in the appropriations bill in july to train ukrainian pilots on u.s. aircraft. what s the status no training underway right now, there s no commitment by the united states to provide fighter aircraft. you don t have to have fighter aircraft. no p training right now on fighter pilots. president biden s trip to poland, can we expect any deliverables, like a new military package for ukraine or new framework of support for ukraine and another one you just mentioned at the beginning of this press briefing that there are 10,000 u.s. troops in poland. why is there no meeting with the troops on president biden s schedule? the president routinely visits with the men and women of the military and their families, so does the first lady. you cannot lo ....