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transportation secretary pete buttigieg will visit that ohio train derailment site one day after donald trump. the lead starts right now. big names descend on a small town, east palestine, ohio, the scene of that toxic train wreck. norfolk southern vows to help but critics know how much the company is giving victims versus company investors for stock buybacks. plus after the speeches and fanfare, ukraine left with the realities of war. do you have any idea how many bodies you have taken back to their hometowns at this stage? cnn s clarissa ward is on the front lines for us with the somber work of returning bodies of fallen ukrainian soldiers to their families as russia s brutal invasion nears one year. and a coast to coast winter storm. ice and snow and conditions not seen in some spots in 30 years. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start in east palestine, ohio, where the fallout from that toxic train wreck starts to get messier by the hour and i ....
Starts off our coverage from east palestine where the grueling cleanup is long from finished. reporter: a massive effort under way to cleeb up creeks and water pulling in and around east palestine, ohio. it is decimating our businesses. reporter: it s dirty, difficult, and slow going work. for those living here building trust that the water and air is safe is slow going as the cleanup itself. it took i think norfolk southern three days, four days for us to get a partial list, vinyl chloride, butyl accolade, and combustible liquids. what the hell are combustible liquids? it could be anything. reporter: the makings of this disaster appears to have started somewhere between ohio and east palestine. surveillance video of the train shows no signs of sparks coming ....