We ve dug up 4600 cubic yards of soil and collected 1.7 million gallons of water. we will continue with the environmental remediation. and in early march, we will start by tearing up the tracks and digging up the soil underneath the tracks. six weeks, until then we ll just have it keep going down. into our soil. jen, did you get all your questions answered? no, i did specifically ask what changes you ve already made and i think these residents also are very valid and asking why the delay? why can t we do it tomorrow? thank you for that, it s chicken. my apologies. we re going to test and we re going to calibrate all of the
Then this would happen. i think the risk versus reward has been huge. and now we look and see these people who are simply devastated, and we have to put a name to the faces. now, when we see someone like jim, i think you said his name was, he said okay, this really does matter. these are lives. i m sorry, i don t know about you, but if i go on tiktok, i don t want to look at rainbow water. i don t to see animals dying. as you have pointed out, a natural disaster, ignored perhaps prevented, when we have sat here for so long and ignored this. what are we a month in? close to. bill? you are steeped in these issues, what did you hear tonight. the oldest story there is. big polluter and the little folks. the folks who just want their dogs to go pieced safely. the ceo did his self a service by finally showing up, what you see is that what starts as a man made disaster only gets worse when there s no
Champion, political commentator former democratic congressman. and political commentator alyssa farah griffin, the former trump white house communications director. great to have all of you here. wow, what a heart wrenching statement from jimmy stewart is his name. could he have phrased it any better? this is his home. he doesn t feel safe anymore. it s been his home for i think he was staying generations. and now, you heard in the town hall, people don t know whether they can drink their water, they don t know whether they can breathe the air around them. what are they to do? i think you have done, first off, cnn kudos for this town hall. that s the first thing i want to say. i feel as if there is been such an apathy towards what s happening here in ohio. we simply are too caught up, whether it be on our phones, tiktok our own personal lives, this is a natural disaster. that is affected so many people on a natural disaster. men made. that has not it s more natural becaus
Homeowners that want to relocate. why make them wait years and years and years for this? if they want that, and they re gonna do what s right, why not do it tomorrow. you all feel that way? you want to see some results right now? i feel like it s almost been three weeks. i think we need things done today, and we need things done for the next ten years. yes. it can t stop, this is a major disaster. you heard the ceo and you heard the other officials, they re gonna do what s right for as long as it takes. now, we have to watch and wait and see if that comes true. i believe it when i see it. sarah, if i may, i have an issue with the governor as well as director vogel. they sit around and they say, they talk about the water, they didn t say anything was safe. they forced people back into this evacuation zone, that couldn t afford to be there. and due to that, these
Individuals come out with these questionable toxic reactions. yet, the state of ohio has a ton of money, they could ve put up temporary shelters. and house these people, and tested the water, tested the ground before they went back in. that failed to happen. that is fair enough, we re running out of time. i thank you all for sitting here with us and going through this. i know it s emotionally difficult and you are all tired after going to do this for so long. i appreciate your time, we are running out of time, i have to ask that you keep it to a sentence or two. how you feel. you got a chance to confront the governor and his administration, the epa administrator. you heard us talk to the mayor and then you ve got to ask some very tough questions of the ceo of norfolk southern. do you feel any better today? do you feel worse? i think a lot of questions weren t answered. the ceo of norfolk southern, be a leader. make change. do it today, don t wait. potentially, we heard after