politics and the misinformation surrounding this derailment. we will also unpack the warning the u.s. is sending to china. they are taking a big risk if they provide lead little assistance to russia in its war on ukraine. i am simone sanders thompson, and i have something to say. we are following new developments in that investigation of that ohio train derailment. federal and local officials are expecting a live news conference any minute now and it will be happening in east palestine. we will be monitoring that and we will bring any news during this hour. now, residents, they are rightfully hoping to get more answers about the safety of their homes. the environmental protective agency says they have conducted nearly 600 home screenings for reentry. but serious questions about the safety of the water is starting to bubble up. we do not know what testing had taken place for residents of east palestine. we are told their water was okay to drink. bbc news has been trying to fin
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make the rail system safer? do you think well, that s great question, because already the ntsb, the investigators for transportation accidents in the u.s., of course, has already said in the big derailment in new palestine ohio with the hazmat cars and the big fire, that the railroad did not violate any regulations and laws. they had two people working the train, they were only required to have one, and the cars and and the makeup of the train was not long enough to kick into effect some higher regulations, so if we can still have, you know, huge disaster such as that, and no regulations or rules had been broken, that says that the ruleses and regulations have to be strengthened. we have to have more inspections of the track, we have to really look at what are the requirements for a high hazmat train, tran with trains way lots of the cars of has mats in them and we have to look at the
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transportation accidents. that is what the ntsb started doing right after the derailment. now, i m happy to be joined by the chair of the national transportation safety board, jennifer homendy. now chair, thank you for being here today. before we get into the derailment investigation, what do you make of the house oversight committee letter to secretary buttigieg for confusion about the role of the ntsb? well, it certainly was interesting. we are not part of the department of transportation, we are an independent agency, charged by congress with investigating major disasters. i do think it might be a great opportunity to have them over to the ntsb and walk through our labs and learn all about us and learn about our mission. congressman is watching this and i hope he takes you up on that off the. let s talk about the report. the initial findings point to,
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