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company s failure to contain its toxic fallout. but before we go to the ceo of norfolk southern, let s bring in the mayor of east palestine, trent conaway, who joins me now. mister mayor, thank you so much for joining me here. really appreciate it. we ve heard from the state government. we ve heard from the federal government. we re going to hear from norfolk southern this evening. what more do you need from all three of them that you re not currently getting? right now, i think we re currently getting everything we need, except answers. we need some answers as far as the health concerns. our residents safety is number one. and we need to get to the bottom of these health concerns. we re being told the water is safe. i believe that, our municipal water is safe. we re told our air is safe. i think it s safe. my family is here. they ve been here the whole time. but there s definitely concern from some residents. and i have concerns as well, because paramount is our citi ....
generic checklist disaster, these are the chemicals most common, let s check him off the list, what is way more complicated than that. i heard heart-wrenching pain from actual people, to your point carey, who have been going through something that they never imagined. and then the trauma of not knowing whether your water is actually safe to drink. not knowing whether air is actually safe to breathe. despite what the government, whether at the state level or the federal level, is telling you. because you see all these animals dying. not only that, i heard other symptoms tonight. i heard them describe, they still vomiting, some of the people in town are still vomiting. a lot of them are getting bloody noses. i hadn t heard that symptom. they re going to the hospital cause there s such strong bloody noses. i do know those still happening until tonight. i will just stay, i think it would ve been yet another scandal for the ceo not to have shown up to something tha ....
Come out today, is to date, so far, the only testing we have online is from the ohio epa. four groundwater reports. for whatever reason, the federal epa is not coming forward with the testing, of talking to so many scientists who just look at this full reports that are out, and say, there s testing flaws here. there s elevation here that only could end up in the groundwater or downstream. the epa is not, the federal epa is not doing any water and air testing are the? they are, but they re not putting the results out. they re not being specific about what exactly they re testing for, so the experts say, we don t know if their equipment is calibrated to enough sensitively to pick up the complex compounds that happen when these chemicals are burned together. and it creates stuff that we don t even truly know what it is. so, if you look at the state epa s water reports, they re testing for ddt which is a pesticide that wasn t on the train. so, what the experts say, that just tells me t ....