ohio it is not eligible for federal disaster assistance in the after math of a toxic train crash in east palestine. good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana has the day off. back by popular demand sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. fema shooting down the governor s request. the agency said the toxic bill in east palestine does not qualify as a traditional natural disaster. bill: the administration is sending funds to help with medical costs. the head of the epa was there for the first time. on the scene yesterday ohio senator j.d. vance. it is like chemicals coming out of the ground. let me show this to people. watch this. you can see the chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. the fact that we have not cleaned up the train crash, the fact these chemicals are still seeping in the ground is an insult to the people who live in east palestine. sandra: health officials insist the water is safe to drink. but people who live there are concerned. i haven t s
alaska. they don t know for sure it was downed by a fighter but fits with the president s early read. president biden: the current assessment is that three objects were balloons tied to proverb ott companies, recreation or research institutions. radar enhancements are helping norad spot more objects in the skies and new rules are being put in place to give the commander-in-chief options when to shoot one down. president biden: i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they are completed and they will remain classified so we don t give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. going forward these parameters will guide what actions we take while responding to unmanned and unidentified aerial objects. president biden doesn t want a new cold war with china over this and expects to talk soon to
whether the taliban would let a u.s. presence remain in afghanistan during that date. our focus is getting it done by the end of the month. what we do at the building at the pentagon is options. our job is to provide the president, commander-in-chief options. as you heard the secretary say, if he gets to appoint, he and chairman milley they believe they get to a point where they need to provide that advice and counsel to the president about an extension he will do that. we just aren t there right now. you heard the secretary say himself if he had more time on the clock he would use more time on the clock. we are focused on getting it done by the end of the month. major general taylor. you mentioned 42,000 have been evacuated since july. 42,000 just on military airlift or including the commercial and chartered planes? that total number is u.s. military plus u.s. civilian state department. some was state department
0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and that s what the president was referring to. i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little more specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers were the taliban first. i would like to go back to the deadline. the french foreign minister said today that it s quote, necessary to continue the afghanistan evacuation beyond august 31. can t rule out who the hostile actor was in the incident last night. central command s statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. this just happened. i don t know when we ll have