i am alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. a cnn exclusive. mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff or donald trump, has been subpoenaed by the special counsel. meadows was in the room for most of the key events on january 6th and the days before. so, more on that in a moment. plus, what is going on with that ohio toxic train derailment? the railroad officials behind that toxic train derailment just backed out of a town hall meeting tonight because of what they say are threats to their employees. but people in the town of east palestine are demanding answers and they say they are getting sick. my kids, are they safe? is the future of this community safe? and another close call on the runway. we are just learning of a jet and a cargo plane almost colliding last month in honolulu. why are these near disasters happening? are we getting less safe in the sky? and on a lighter note, a professional baseball player who walked away from a multi millio
it could take two minutes before the backup car knows to slow down. and so, it becomes the slinky from heck that slammed into the cars that have already stopped. of course we have eight miles trapped in the 21st century. it s called electronic controlled pneumatic brakes. they basically stop every car at once. immediately. much more efficient. and in 2014, the obama administration wanted to make that mandatory. after a bunch of derailments just like this in new jersey. and the industry and norfolk southern fought even though they had put some on their trains and were screaming about the benefits. they said if we put that on our trains, they should be exempt from all other inspections because they re so safe. but they thought it was too expensive to invest in that. do you know if these folks have gotten a response from norfolk southern yet? have they replied? i ve not heard anything on that. i read that they have set up a 1 million dollar fund for the
headlines like that talking about how this is a national tragedy. benjamin: pointing the finger at everybody but the administration, everyone else s fault. i your views on another story. seth rogan, comedian, supposed to be a funny guy tweeted this. he shrugged off in la car merger and said i have lived here 20 years, you are nuts. it is love we here, don t leave anything valuable in it. it is called living in a big city. we have to come to terms with crime, nothing we can do about it, can t put more police on the streets. it is a way of life now. speaking of the richest one%, seth rogan, before i came on in the range of $80 million. he can afford to have his car stolen. i have a feeling he has a backup car or can afford uber x. is seth rogan still relevant?
numbers but can you give me an overview? are we paying for these things twice? yeah, it cost a lot. air force one costs about $180,000 an hour to separate. president obama took the big plane, the 747, to palm beach and land and went straight from chicago. he had given a speech on violence and youth violence and all that stuff in chicago. went there to womb beach and cook a motorcade to a ritzy golf resort where he will be taking lessons. when the president flies a lot of people have to go. he took his deputy and staff security advisor to brief him on national security issues. there is other white house staff. there s obviously secret service. when the president landed at the palm beach airport and went to the floridian, he had to do that in a motorcade. he went in his limousine because he can t take a cab or ordinary car so they fly that car down to florida with a backup car as