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johnson resigned as an m p last week, a protest as $11.00 smashed bank windows and set fires in the capital bay root. the angry about capital controls which have diminished a live savings level and has been facing a crippling economic crisis. so 2019 major cycle is expected to make landfall in india and pakistan and becoming ours is called bits of joy, which means disaster and been golly, people in low lying parts of western india's cruise that i'd state to remove to safety, winds of a 180 kilometers an hour to conduct and wednesday, and the expected to increase. fishing was being suspended along the coast where waves could reach up to 3 meters. under the pakistan does, a relief comes to being set up in schools and colleges authorities, a warning of possible flooding and cut off to the city of 20000000 people. those are the headlines coming up next and all the 0. it's fault lines. stay with us.
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how do states control information controlling the narrative dominating the media? how does the narrative improve public opinion and norma? spite, it might not be the most important story about china of today. but that's what the big piece attention to. how is this going to listen? we framing the story, the listening post, i fixed the media. we don't cover the news, we cover the way the news is covered friday night, february 3rd. um my husband and i were in our living room. just normal friday night watching tv, watching netflix and everything's at almost 9 o'clock. our house rumbled in. sure i knew instantly that the train drilled on february 3rd,
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2023. a freight train carrying hazardous materials, the rails and the small town at east pels. dean, ohio, after wheel bearing over heated and caught on fire. the gates of hell were open because you're just standing there in this wall of fire. i mean it's going up. i don't know, 2 stories, 3 stories up and it just fires all the way around. the skies lit up. it's just nothing you ever seen before. the romans has prompted questions about real safety in the us. the disaster could have been prevent it for years. well, both workers have warrant that changes in the industry for compromising safety. it was a disaster waiting to happen, and it happened both lines investigated us real industry, where their companies have prioritized profits, oversight, the,
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the kind of freaks me out in the bloody miller and their families have lived across from the railroad tracks. and these palace, these, for nearly 3 decades, were about a 3rd mile down for the 2 from here. and then how close is your home to? our home is roughly 200 feet from the rail line. and that's where we were the night of the derailment. and i knew instantly the sounds i knew that the train derailed and it was, it was terrifying the sounds cause i could hear the impact in the cars one after another at some and it shook and it rattled the windows, but it also had like a, an echo like a reverberation to it. this is the 90 degree on this. that was 944
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. so that's only like 4045 minutes after the image. that was right does that night that was 15 or 20 minutes after it happened. and it was just me on the colors were just so vivid in neon pink and orange and you can see the flames. i've been to trained romance, but nothing of this magnitude. i don't know. i mean, stephen safely is an emergency responder who went east palestine to try to put up the fire and you've been in other fires and you've been and other developments before. but this one, can you compare it to those august? this would be everything else would be like, uh, on a, on a scale to about 3 this, this is the 10. i mean, as far everywhere this is put it, she took that night,
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the trains owned and run by the railroad company. norfolk southern was a 149 cars, long, 38 cars, the route and 11 of them were caring, hazardous materials. you can smell something and you knew it was a chemical that was involved. you can smell like an acetone. it was like a sweet acetone, and it tickled the back of your throat and you knew that there was some chemical involve the concerns that you were there breathing? the odd? yeah, i mean, i mean i didn't find out what the chemical wasn't until the next day. there was like 7 different chemicals involved in that relevant fire. and they were all flat levels and toxic, you know, but the worst one was the vinyl fluoride vinyl to right, is using the production to plastics. it's also a known course indigent, that can cause liver damage. and we've programmed exposure cancer. 2 days after the development tanker caring vinyl, fluoride had become unstable and was at risk of exploding on sunday night.
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everyone's, um, cell phones went off at the same time with an emergency alert, telling us to evacuate immediately because catastrophic failure of the tank or a vinyl fluoride that was absolutely horrifying. hearing that sound the next day norfolk southern did what's called a controlled for leaks venting and burning up a portion of the train to avoid an even larger explosion. it looked like a bomb, went off right down the street from my home. the black smoke that filled the air was sinister. it was terrifying to watch that and know that that was going over our homes and over town and watching it. because as it unfolded and the smoke was
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moving and spreading out, it was blanket in our communities. 2 days after the controlled release, officials told residents they could safely return the money and her family waited a few weeks until they went home because they weren't sure if it was safe due to the spread of chemicals. what was it like coming home again? probably the 1st 3 or 4 days that i was home, i was definitely afraid to touch anything in my own home. everything that you have in your home that you've acquired over the last 30 years of your life and know what you're afraid to touch it. i was afraid to clean a picture of my son that was hanging on the wall a baby picture. i was afraid to take it off the wall and tried to clean it. i am not, i feel i'm not 6 there. i just want to leave at one point that big,
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my husband was just, we've just put everything into a u haul unless just leave to reach it. because everything that we have isn't invested in the house. you know it's memories, it's money. and it's your time. and it's your member is, was your family and raising your family? when the train drilled spilled chemicals contaminated the sorrel in the area. but it took weeks for norfolk southern to begin removing. as soon as the evacuation order was lifted, those trains rolled through our town. water contamination from the grill mc killed thousands of aquatic animals and after the control for some resident, say, the experienced health issues leading to concerns about the long term impact. and how far the toxins had spread into the air water in soil.
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3 weeks after the development of local community group held a meeting to try and answer questions. my husband works here in town, which is almost on top of ground 0 and the shop didn't have the shop clean. they had him back to work on the night, or what kind of danger is he in because of the soil out there cuz they were actually cutting the train cars up in his shot parking. i wish i could answer that question. i really can't. there has to be testing done, otherwise nobody will understand really what the risks are, but when you burn the chlorinated chemical like final chloride, you generate di, ox, dioxin, this category, there's like 75 of these dioxin. one of them is the most toxic chemical ever tested in the united states when that black cloud and when they were burning all that
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stuff there was lots of dioxin in that how much nobody knows because they've not test for so i, i went down to the creek myself after watching the news and they smell perfectly fine when i went down. and so i restart the water, the water and i, i called my wife and i said literally suffocated me for a minute. um, and this is a psycho suffice. it was literally the air was so i couldn't go to your family physician to get a baseline physical. now, if you, oh, well, get a baseline now, what is or is not in your water because this is a long term dioxide will hang around for a long, long time. probably what about a 100 years, something like that? yeah, we'll stand this law for a 100 years with the impact of the development expected to last for years. the communities anger has turned to the robot company, norfolk southern world war with corporate green,
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with the politicians that have this money lined in their pocket. we're here for one issue and that's to make our town space and to make sure none of this happens again in our town or any other town. but now we need to place the man on the railroad and meet a ton of village residents of filed class action lawsuit against norfolk southern and the justice department, along with environmental protection agency, are suing due to the toxic chemical release. the federal officials are also investigating the cause of the development. this was 100 percent preventable. this is a community that has been devastated. they deserve to know what happened, how to prevent it from happening again. their investigation is expected to take at least a year to complete that the n t s b, which investigates transportation accidents to career steps and announced that they
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would also be launching an inquiry into norfolk southern safety culture at the heart of that is appropriate, cooperating strategy that is taken over the railroad industry over the past decade known as precision. scheduled railroad or p s, are the major freight railroads which run across the country through both small towns and large cities. and like, begin to employ ps or with the stated goal of increasing efficiency in lowering costs. to do that, we'll companies close real yards and cut tens of thousands of jobs. their profit sort director ties. well, if they can run the workers harder, you know, they need fewer workers that increases profitability, which increases the operating ratio, which makes wall street happy, which increases the bonuses of the seo get. the, with those changes became concerned about safety. i mean, the 1st time i heard of, of precision scheduled running, i thought that it's anything, but i mean, you know,
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it's not it's, they're laying off orders. it's not going to be safe. norfolk southern cut. it's workforce by more than a 3rd over the past decade. meaning fewer people to do the work. another key part of p s r is running much longer trains to carry more freight federal regulators believe train link has played a role in realms like this one in springfield, ohio just a month after east policy. but when i started working on the railroad, hit the drains or mile my own record, or long. now there are 2 to 3 miles long and its bad for train handling free reason. a lot of excess stress throughout the train is got wilcox was an engineer at norfolk southern for nearly 2 decades. infrequently drove trains through east palestine between salem and he's palestine. you have a lot of hills and curvature and hills and curvature put more stress on that
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varying and cause of heat up faster. it was a wheel bearing that initially caught fire on the east pelting train, which was recorded on security footage before the train the world. now investigators are examining the more defect detectors on the track could have caught the problem earlier. and how norfolk southern respects their traits before they depart during your time and norfolk southern to the culture particularly around safety change. oh, absolutely. yeah. and it's not just norfolk southern, it's always a class one railroads. it's hyper efficiency, do everything you can to reduce the amount of time that that uh a rail car sits in the yard. so as soon as it comes into the yard, the clock starts running and you want the car out of the yard. as soon as possible,
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definitely within 24 hours. it doesn't leave time for inspections. it doesn't leave time for repairs. anything like that. it's just get it out of my yard. in the railroad industry. inspectors are known as carmen. we spent months reaching out to carmen to understand help us or has impacted their work the most were too afraid to speak with us fearing retaliation, safety's out the door, everything's out the door moving freight as fast as possible. we spoke with carmen from 5 separate norfolk southern wheel yards. the asked to remain anonymous. so we've re voice their interviews. everything was profits about anything else. it was get the job done and get the job done. and it was really bigger trains, less time, less people, and hurried down the track for our customers. they told us that they now have less time to inspect the trains. you can watch and start going downhill. about 2017. they drastically cut our time to do our job. we started experiencing management but
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stop watches watching us do our job. and then they would threaten us to get the time down and then ultimately down to one minute per car. are we talking 30 seconds on each side? that's correct. that's about, that's exactly what they expect this 30 seconds on each side. are you able to safely inspect a car in a minute or less? absolutely not. there's no way, there's way too many components in a real far for me to inspect in a minute or less volt lines between the court document from 2021. in which of norfolk southern official confirmed the one minute inspection. you have 34 minutes, a car to inspect, and now you're down to 30 seconds aside. you cannot make those drastic changes and it's not affect your operation. reducing your workforce, putting the spear in people that their jobs hang in the balance that will trickles down as something as simple as people having the time or taking time to look at those bearing to look at the parts and the real car that need to be inspected to
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make sure that car can get from point a to point b safely. norfolk southern workers also told us they faced pressure to not bad order or tad cars with defects. we want to report a defect that slowed down their hurry up and get it done. process that meant that something had to be done about it. and they just want to afraid not at all costs. the bad order in a car was today and was considered to seeing you on the phone lines also spoke with several former norfolk southern workers. rob mullins was a carman for more than a decade before leaving last year. it's production, money, speed. i don't care if it's fixed, right? they just want it our, they worry about the oil time. you know the time that the car is bad order to the time it's repaired and put back in a train. they had a threshold that they didn't like to get above. and if you got above that, then it was everybody's working,
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double shifts until you got them. now. i have heard of some places that wouldn't let you mad warner anymore. if you got to a certain number, then they just told you no more mad orders. what else do you think and if so, how that, that culture change contributed to what happened that you spell some homeless? that's exactly what it was because it's, it's all keep the train moving. time is money. the money is everything. you don't only have as a responsibility is other people that work or your responsibility to the pub? these cars are rolling within feet of house and committed norfolk southern declined our request for an interview. but in a statement said that the one minute inspection time is a guideline and not strictly enforced. as to working with the federal government to encourage workers to confidentially report safety concerns. but this isn't just
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about norfolk southern during the reporting, we also spoke to carmen from other us bracewell books and they told us their inspection times have also dropped in that they faced pressure to not tag cars with the fix were having the same issues with all the class one routes, another counting, some of the workers we spoke with describe the environment we're raising concerns about safety as met with intimidation in our still with the something the main carmen june and confirmed. and there was a lot of whistle blowing. cases where people were able to get their jobs back, but it's, it's immunization, you know, you lose your job for a year or 2 years waiting for your case to go to arbitration and get back. the rules making example on a one person is scares everybody else. but we're seeing the safety of the countries railroad system lies with the federal railroad administration. f r. a worker said that the agencies enforcement isn't strong enough. they need to do more inspections
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. they need to hire more, they need to be out there. they, they need to be the police of the room. they're not out there. they're not doing their job. the public is at a greater risk without the proper inspection. and maintaining of these equipment is not just the enforcement this week. another issue that workers race with us is companies have trained crews to inspection. instead of carmen it's actually something that federal ranking license allowed only if there are no carmen on duty . curtis told us that this exception has been used to avoid more thorough inspections, like companies found a loophole in the regulation where they can set these cars out in, in a outline track auxilary track outside the r. we're no carmen or employees. so as a mechanical inspector doesn't inspect it, so it speeds up the operation plus they don't find the bad orders. so they know, carmen fine, the bad orders. the f r e is aware of this,
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the easily letter to all the major railroads about it. essentially asking them to stop what needs to change so that the federal agency would safety oversight. doesn't have to ask in industry not to do something like exploit loopholes. they may need need or any to say definitively. you're breaking the rules and you're going to be fine. and the next time you do it, the find is going to be bigger. stop doing this right now. essentially. they almost have to bang like, oh, we think this is bad. would you please stop doing it? that's not right, i mean they, they, they don't have enough. we're statutory authority to meaningfully deal with some of these products. the f or rate decline to request for an interview, but in a statement said that they're committed to quote,
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ensuring the highest levels of safety given f r. a more authority starts with congress after the east posting development. lawmakers are considering legislation that would strengthen safety regulations. we have allowed the rail industry to socialize the risk of their business. what privatizing the rewards? among many things, the new deal directs the emperor ray to come up with a minimum time for inspection to ensure that they be done by carmen since 2020, that we have had more crashes successively year after year for 3 years. our rail system is becoming less safe, not more safe, but the bill space is unclear. i remain concerned that this bill is overly and needlessly prescriptive in certain places. is faced opposition for many republicans, as well as the railroad industry, which is often lobby constrictor rules. this bill is changed a lot from what i introduced just a few short months ago. we've made
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a number of concessions to industry. well the, the freight railroad has an enormous amount of cloud. in the united states congress, former congressman peter to fazio told us it was nearly impossible to pass stricter legislation for the railroads during his 3 decades in congress. i mean, they have been very resistant to anything that would deal with, you know, length of trains or, you know, safety issues and other things over the years. industries power comes from the fact that the freight role is a winch pin of the us economy. the 6 major railroads transport everything from orland chemicals to food and elsewhere supplies and they faced a lot of competition from any industry other than trucking, most businesses or capital to one river. you know the concentration in the industry with only like 6 class ones. i mean, it's pretty extraordinary that they have that much quote,
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but it's been expressed over years. do you think there's a chance the current bill could be watered down by the industry? i fear the it will be watered down by the industry by june. more than 4 months after is palace to the house with just to take up the bill and it's toothpaste. republican opposition, leaving an unclear if will be passed by congress at all. we need to enforce the regulations. we need to have stronger regulations, are unsafe drains, rolling through your backyard not properly inspected. that should scare the hell out of the public. the f r a in congress needs to step in before we have another east pal assigned around. what is it going to take? how much profit is enough? when you're making millions of dollars? how much do you squeeze it? at what point is money more important than preventing something like that from
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happening again? the life plan for us i seen in the future for us to leave this home to our son. so he could have a good start in life. we don't know what the future holds. it's just, i'm sorry. it's going to be safe and office stay here. we get out of dodge, we're still right next to the tracks where no memories are not, no 3 derailments a day when across the country, 3 to 3, a day to 1000 a year. so pre safety and safety's for this from this priority list. how would they change? they have to flip humans 1st rather than their corporation and trans roll through everywhere in this country, they roll through the cities,
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