EVERYTHING IS FINE.
20 OF THE CARS WERE CARRYING
HAZARDOUS TOMORROWS THAT
COULD CAUSE CANCER AND OTHER
ILLNESSES, SOME CAUGHT FIRE,
THEY COULD NOT STOP THE
MASSIVE PLUME OF THE
DANGEROUS BLACK SMOKE THAT
MADE THE AIR DANGEROUS TO
BREATHE AND REPORTEDLY
KILLED DOZENS OF ANIMALS AND
IT SEEPED INTO THE
SURROUNDING LAKES AND
RIVERS, TODAY ON FOX,
GOVERNOR DeWINE SAID THAT
WATER IS SAFE.
>> WE WERE HANDED THE
RESULTS OF THE TESTING OF
THE VILLAGE’S WATER SUPPLY,
THERE ARE ENOUGH SEVERAL
WELLS, WE HAVE THE RESULTS
BACK FROM ALL OF THE WELLS.
THEY INDICATE.
TESTING IS NEGATIVE.
CLEAR.
THAT WATER CERTAINLY CAN BE
CONSUMED BY RESIDENTS.
KENNEDY: NOT THE FISH.
GOVERNOR CLAIMS THAT AIR IS
JUST FINE.
>> WE BROUGHT THE
SCIENTISTS, WE BROUGHT THE
PEOPLE IN WHO TEST THE AIR.
THROUGHOUT THIS.
THE AIR HAS BEEN GOOD.
CONTINUED TO MONITOR THAT
AIR.
AND WE WAIT UNTIL THAT AIR
WAS CLEAR BEFORE WE
ANNOUNCED THAT PEOPLE COULD
GO BACK.
VOLUNTARILY WHATEVER THEY
WANT TO DO, THEY COULD GO
BACK INTO THEIR OWN HOMES.
KENNEDY: UNFORTUNATELY HIS
CONSTITUENTS DON’T BELIEVE
HIM.
>> I DO NOT FEEL ANYWHERE IN
THIS TOWN IS SAFE.
>> WE’RE NOT SAFE.
TELL US THE TRUTH.
>> I WILL NOT LIVE IN THIS
TOWN.
I WILL BE MOVING.
KENNEDY: ALL RIGHT, WHAT IS
THE TRUTH?
IS IT SAFE OR NOT TO EAT,
DRINK OR BEING AND LIVE
THERE JOINING ME NOW,
CONSUMER ADVOCATE, AUTHOR OF
THE BROKOVICH NEWS REPORT
LETTER.
ERIN BROCK BROKOVICH.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW.
>> HELLO, THANK YOU.
KENNEDY: IF PEOPLE’S EYES
AND EARS AND NOSES TELL
THEM, THEIR ENVIRONMENT IS
NOT SAFE, AND SOMETHING IS
STILL VERY WRONG, YET THE
GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE
TELLING THEM, THE AIR AND
WATER RESULTS ARE CLEAR AND
SAFE FOR THEM IT RETURN.
WHO SHOULD THEY BELIEVE?
>> THEY NEED TO BELIEVE
THEIR OWN INSTINCTS, WHAT IT
IS THEY ARE SMELLING, SEEING
AND FEELING AND
EXPERIENCING.
WHAT IT IS, WITH THEM BURY
THEIR DEAD ANIMALS AND
CONCERNS FOR THEIR CHILDREN
WHO IS COUGHS AND RASHES AND
VOMITY AND NEWSIA AND
DIZZINESS AND HEADACHES,
BEFORE I CAME ON, DeWINE
SAID IT WAS JUST YESTERDAY
THEY WERE TOLD TO NOT DRINK
THE WATER, NOW TODAY, THEY
ARE TOLD, YOU CAN DRINK THE
WATER.
THIS IS JUST TURNING TO ONE
NIGHTMARE.
IF YOU ASK ME.
TESTING CAN TAKE TIME, YOU
DON’T FLIP FROM THE AIR IS
BAD, THE AIR IS SAFE, WE’LL
EVACUATE OH, BY THE WAY
WE’LL BRING YOU BACK, BUT
THE WATER BULLET POLLUTED,
NOW IT IS NOT.
NONE IS MAKING SENSE.
YOU WONDER WHY THE COMMUNITY
IS ANGER, FRUST RATEED
FRUSTRATED AND FEARFUL,
THERE IS A GUESSING GAME,
WHICH IS A TRAGEDY TO DO, WE
KNOW THAT VINYL CHLORIDE, A
TRAIN DERAILED AND HUGE OFF
GASSING, THEY HAVE DONE A
CONTROL BURN, WE KNOW IT
CONFIRMED THAT BUTILL AS --
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT
CHEMICAL, IT IS BEN BENZENE,
IT HAS BEEN DETECTED OFF SITE IN THE CREEKS HEADED
SITE IN THE CREEKS HEADED
FOR THE OHIO RIVER.
AT-THIS-POINT I DON’T KNOW
THAT ANYONE IS TRUSTING
THEIR INFORMATION.
>> THIS IS AFTER COVID.
THERE IS STILL A GREAT DEAL
OF DISTRUST FOR THE
GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE FEEL THEY
WERE MISLEAD ABOUT SO MANY
OF THE ELEMENTS WITH COVID.
HERE YOU HAVE TOXIC
CHEMICALS THAT YOU LAID OUT.
ARE SOME OF THESE MORE
DANGEROUS AS TIME GOES ON,
WHAT COULD THEY BE LOOKING AT?
>> THE BEP SCREEN BENZENE
COMPONENT COULD BE, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK ARE YOU EVEN
LIKE TO ASK ARE YOU EVEN
TESTING FOR THAT, IT AN ADD
ADDITIVE.
IF THE COMMUNITY SOME OF
THEIR SYMPTOMS ARE TELLTALE
SIGNS OF A BENZENE EXPOSURE,
YOU NEED TO DO IMMEDIATE
BLOOD TESTING, IN ABSENT OF
SO MUCH INFORMATION I DON’T
KNOW HOW ANY AGENCY COULD
DEEM IT CLEAR AND SAFE FOR
THESE PEOPLE.
KENNEDY: WHOSE FAULT IS
THIS?
>> WELL WE COULD START WITH
NORFOLK.
AND WHY.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THIS
TRAIN DERAILED.
WE’LL HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT
INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES AND
PROBLEMS IN THE FRONT.
HOW DID IT DERAIL?
WHY DID IT DERAIL?
WHEN IS GOVERNOR SAYING HE
DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS CARRYING
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, I DON’T
BELIEVE THAT.
SO, IT HAPPENED BECAUSE THE
TRAIN DERAILED.
I THINK IT DERAILED BECAUSE
WE HAVE A LOT OF SAFETY
ISSUES AND A LOT OF
INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES.
AND WE’LL HAVE TO HAVE THAT
CONVERSATION.
KENNEDY: ALL RIGHT, WE’LL
HAVE ERIN BROKOVICH PART TWO
BACK IN THE HAB AFTER THIS
HABIT.
I HAVE A FEELING, YOU WILL