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you watching as here in the united states it states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. i head on cnn newsroom -- scared, frustrated, and terrified for their safety -- ahead of u.s. environmental protection agency is promising accountability for the toxic derailment in palestine, ohio. but many residents are skeptical. signs of life -- believe it or not, people are still being rescued from the quake zone in turkey. we are live in istanbul with the latest. and defense and diplomacy -- the war in ukraine tops the agenda as well leaders, including the u.s. vice president, gather in munich almost one year since russia invaded. >> live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we kim brunhuber. >> we are getting a better sense of what happened in the moments leading up to the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, that's build toxic chemicals all over the community two weeks ago. have a look here. take a look at the top of your

screen. apparent over -- before -- pass through another town. investigators are looking into the matter. he's from the senate from today's these control and prevention and the department of human health and services are being deployed to evaluate the disaster. the head of the environmental protection agency spoke with our jason carroll about the government response. listen to this. >> we will be here for as long as it takes to see this process through. i want to assure the people -- >> i just want to say, when you say, as long as it takes, i think the question is long term. is someone going to be here a year from now? two years from now? to test the water, to test the soil? >> i'm very clear when i say as long as it takes. we will go through this process with the citizens of east palestine for as long as it takes. the federal government will be here for as long as it takes. >> the chair of the national transportation safety board says the agency is working

vigorously to understand what caused the train to derail. in the meantime, the ntsb chair is urging people to stop speculating empress spreading misinformation about the crash. residents are increasingly angry over the -- cnn's brian todd reports. >> anxiety and frustration continue to mount in east palestine, ohio. >> people were getting sick. we should not have been let back into town until all of this was done. >> officials are pumping oxygen into local waterways, hoping that will break down chemicals. they've removed contaminated soil from the area near a train derailment that unleashed day torrent of toxic chemicals. but about two weeks since that accident and the spy and despite assurance from the governor that the town's water is safe to drink -- >> do you feel competent in that? >> honestly, no, i don't. >> some residents report

symptoms like dizziness, headaches, rashes. they are also complaining about a lack of transparency. resident jamie khoza tells cnn that the only reason she knows her house is not safe to live in because she demanded that the soil and water be tested and norfolk southern railroad since a toxicologist. >> it's only because i ran my mouth and i got this testing done. >> today, epa administration michael regan was on the ground there, assuring residents that they will get all the resources they need for the cleanup and -- >> we are absolutely going to hold norfolk southern accountable, and i can promise you that. >> but the railroad is being accused by some residents of ducking accountability, after railroad officials belt on attending a town hall meeting last night, citing, who, the growing physical threat to our employees. a meeting where residents and vented more of their anger. >> if they screwed up our town, they will fix it. if they don't, i will be the first one calling all you back to do this all over again. >> why are people getting sick?

if there's nothing in the air or water? >> -- >> we expect a heck of a lot more than what we're getting right now. >> investigators say they have not found a significant choices traces of the dangerous chemical to escape from the train, vinyl chloride, in the local waterways, but health monitors warn -- >> vinyl chloride causes cancer. if the soil is used in gardens, children play in it, it could be very dangerous, and the chemical will leach into groundwater. >> compounding all the anxiety and uncertainty the community is dealing with our worries about practical living arrangements. east palestine resident told cnn that some residents feel they're forced to go back to town because they simply don't have the money to move elsewhere. brian todd, cnn. >> one this i want to bring in jennifer says a senior scientist with the natural

resources defense council. she joins us from rockville, maryland. thank you so much for being with us. we heard there are complaints about a lack of transparency. they still seem to be a lot we still don't know in terms of white and how much we spilled. >> there's been a wheel slowly give information. it's created a mistrust between the community and authorities. but not only that. also, there's health care workers and hospitals, versus what is like firefighters and others, they need accurate and timely and complete information, as well as communities that are impacted by this. and they deserve that. >> so, what are the biggest concerns right now in terms of the health of residents and responders? >> for sure, people are going to be worried about acute effects. and community members, cleanup workers, first responders -- we've already heard that people are having lung and throat,

breathing irritations, skin issues. those are all real concerns, not only for potential air contamination but water as well. people should be cautious, not just about drinking their water, but also about washing and cooking with it. anything that will heat up the water, such as a hot shower, we will volatilize those chemicals. once volatilize, those chemicals will be breathed in and then, from the lungs into the blood supply, and -- people need to be concerned about that water in any of its uses. >> some people are hoping that these may be diluted, either in the air or in the water. but how dangerous are these chemicals even at low levels? >> well, obviously lower levels are not going to be as dangerous as a higher exposure. that's for sure. nonetheless, these chemicals are dangerous, at whatever exposure level they have,

whatever they are. because they are hazardous chemicals. they're just simply not safe chemicals. they're hazardous chemicals. so, they're -- dangerous carcinogen, for example, is always a carcinogen, even at low levels. -- vulnerable populations. so, for example, pregnant women and children, elders, people with other diseases, people -- exposures that they might have from other sources in the community. all of those key -- will pose a risk and the addition of this disastrous exposure adds to those burdens. >> we heard in the piece the expert raising the threat to the groundwater. how persistent is this threat? how long could it last? and how long could it take to clean all this up? >> that's a great point. i thought it was really well articulated. the problem is that these chemicals are going to move and

in one sense authorities are treating that as part of the solution by saying, there's going to be a dilution. but it also means that they will get into the water tables, into groundwater and surface water, and also peoples wells. that can happen these, weeks or months out, depending on how fast or what direction and what distance these chemicals are moving -- so, there needs to be ongoing monitoring. people need to have continued information about the exposures and the health effects also. we need to have ongoing monitoring and health effects as well. and all of that information needs to be shared in a transparent and timely manner with communities, first responders, government officials, department of health, department of environment and health care workers. >> we heard the ntsb is investigating to find out what happened here exactly. what should be done, do you think, to prevent this type of thing from happening again, given that we don't know

exactly what caused it? but there are other things that could still be done in terms of containment and so on that might help prevent this. >> yes. it is great that they are doing an investigation. an investigation needs to be independent. it needs to be independent of the company and it needs to be direct reporting out to communities, workers, unions, government officials and others. there needs to be lines of communication and response plans set up. right now, there is not. also, i think, the rail company needs to be held accountable. they need to be part of the discussion. but they should not be leading or holding the investigation. and they have a history. they have a long history of train car accidents, explosions, contaminations, and there is

that chlorine gas one, that the same gas companies responsible for. they sent over 500 people to the hospital and kill people as well as a worker on the train. so, it really does need to be some accountability on this company. >> it's a really important issue. we will stay on top of the story. appreciate your insights on this -- jennifer sass with the natural defense resources council. >> -- president joe biden is getting a clean bill of health from his physician. the commander-in-chief had our -- walter reed medical center. he had a small lesion removed from his chest for a biopsy and a neurological exam found no evidence of a stroke, multiple sclerosis or parkinson's disease. the white house did not say whether biden took any cognitive tests. dr. kevin o'connor says, quote, president biden remains a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency. president biden is finally

speaking publicly about the unidentified objects shot out of the sky by the military. he says nothing suggests these objects are related to china's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance objects for any other country. but we should note the u.s. has not been able to recover any of the debris from these three objects because of remote locations and severe weather. cnn's phil mattingly reports from the white house. >> for nearly a week, president biden has said nothing about what was an unprecedented three days -- three u.s. fighters shooting down three separate, and objects. it raised a lot of concerns, it raised a lot of alarm. and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on president biden to explain exactly what is, happening what is it his administration is doing about these objects that seem to have no explanation, no clear origin, no real sense of what they were supposed to be. that changed on thursday. president biden speaking for the first time on the issue detailing how those three identity and five objects were very different from the chinese

spy balloon that had been shot down prior, and likely not some new phenomenon but something that had been happening over time and we just picked up by u.s. radars that have been expanding in their aperture since that chinese balloon -- and also that there are significant number of steps that u.s. officials are now taking to try and address these objects going forward, including this, as the president said. >> make no mistake, if any objects presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. i will be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they are completed and they will remain classified so we don't give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. >> the classified parameters in terms of when u.s. fighters would be called to shoot down objects -- they are also a series of steps that national security adviser jake sullivan is leading a team on to better understand how to grapple with these issues going forward. public, private, stateowned -- this is clearly something that officials are in the midst of trying to get their heads around at this moment. they are also trying to have a

better understanding of what the relationship is with china going forward. this is the most do you important your political relationship, no question about that. the critical bilateralization ship or president biden -- he says he's going to speak with president xi jinping soon. when exactly that, is advisor say they don't have a date yet. communications have certainly been stunted, and there certainly been a lot of back and forth. but biden has attempted to walk a pretty careful line on this, making clear that the u.s. will act if it feels like it's not over until he is impeded, but trying not to send a tense relationship already into an even worse spot, and making clear that the most important thing for u.s. officials at this point is maintaining lines of communication. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. >> police say two handguns fanned on the michigan state university shooter were purchased legally but weren't registered. that chinese consulate in chicago confirms two of the five wounded students are from china. their families are being offered assistance to come to the u.s.. meanwhile, cnn's --

marquez -- first opened fire, killing two students. >> it was so horrible. because when you see someone who is totally -- you don't see their face, you don't see their hands. you don't see -- it was like seeing a robot. it was like seeing something not human. standing there and all i could see was this silvery kind of steel, shiny weapon. i don't think it was a pistol. i think it was something larger than that. and then i could hear than the shots and then it's just as loud as the ones in the hallway. and it was just a nightmare. i think everybody under adrenaline did whatever they could. i don't know how long he stood there. probably --

i mean, he shadow leaf if teen shots. one after the other, one after the other, one -- >> bang, bang, bang, bang -- >> he stepped out. and at that moment, because i don't recall what i did between him starting chewed and what i'm going to tell you just now -- i just -- my intuition told me, he's walking down the hall, and -- enter through the door. i'm closest to. so, i threw myself at that door. and i squatted. and i held the door, like this, so that my weight would keep it from -- and i was putting my foot on the wall and -- like this, so that he could not open it. all the time, aware that he could just shoot the door handle and open it. but the only thing i thought i could do with that. at least all attempts to stop it. >> -- anderson and -- killed in that classroom. brian fraser was shot and killed a few minutes later at the student union.

shreveport, louisiana police officer was arrested thursday and made his first court appearance. he's facing charges of negligent homicide in the shooting death of 43 year old -- a unarmed black man -- he was killed two weeks after police went to his apartment complex on the -- show's -- running an after a briefcase, officer alexander tyler fatally fatally shoots him. is a police investigator says the video -- up in the split second after the shot was fired -- next court date is april 3rd. five former memphis tennessee police officers are set to be arraigned in the coming hours for their involvement in the death of tyre nichols last month. they are each facing seven charges, including second degree murder and aggravated assaults. nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was repeatedly punched and kicked during a traffic stop on january 7th. he died three days later. tremendous damage, appeals for aid, and so much death -- and yet, glimmers of hope are

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this is one of two men rescued in turkey's had to pay province more than 260 hours after the quake. a 12-year-old boy was also saved about an hour later. for many in the quake zone, the toughest part of the tragedy is not knowing the fate of loved ones. cnn's jomana karadsheh spoke to several survivors in turkey still trying to locate the relatives. >> -- no more, they say -- this once bustling historic city now in ruins. it is here where hope meets despair and every corneraiul, io comprehend. she's waited days for news of her husband but the weight never prepares you for this. nothing could have prepared the people of antakya -- misery so palpable here in the air. >> you lose track of time, so i don't know which day is, but at this point, i don't think there is anyone left alive. >> aileen and her family have been searching for her aunt,

and their bodies have come out of the building, but not hers. >> you go through all stages of grief. you are angry, you are desperate. you are sad. you accept. then you get mad again. at this point, we have come to accept that she has passed away. but we just want to put her in her final resting place because of how it's been going. leaving her here is unimaginable. >> around the corner, the rare good news these days, after more than 220 hours under the rubble, a woman and two children were rescued alive. >> several bodies have also been recovered from the building. there are other still trapped inside, they don't know if they are alive or dead. >> they prayed they find them alive. mohammed byron just buried her daughter and has been, her his 12 and 14 year old grandchildren are still. inside >> god, i beg you, he says, just like they got that woman and two children alive, we're hoping for the same. it's been the most agonizing of

waits for his and other families here. may the lord not put anyone through this, this woman says. muhammad has not eaten in 11 days. he says all he can do is hope, pray and wait. we were not able to get these big machines for a few, days he says. they had to go to other buildings here first. maybe if they had, they would have come out alive. another call for quiet during our interview, one of many in the past few days. rescuers hear something. cheers break out. they believe they have located too people alive. a tense wait now into the evening, the crushing sound of silence. it's hardest for those who wonder if they mourn or wait. it is here hope fades as fast as a gross. jomana karadsheh, cnn, antakya, turkey. >> cnn's nada bashir is

tracking recovery efforts live from istanbul. and now the beshear, the survivors and the millions affected by this will be -- on a mask scale. >> yeah, absolutely, kim. and as we saw there in jomana karadsheh's report the humanitarian situation on the ground is usually difficult. and, of course, while there are still so many people waiting for news of their loved ones, there are also thousands now grappling with a new reality, their homes completely destroyed and everything they knew in southeast turkey has gone. we have already seen families being evacuated to other cities, including here in istanbul, and they are desperately in need of help. we have seen a groundswell of support here in a stumble, a huge amount of donations coming in, a coordination effort to get that aid to southeast turkey. we see mobile clinics being set up on theories that are shipped then to southeast turkey. but of course there is a real focus on the funding that is going into that support and

that humanitarian assistance. just yesterday, at the u.n. secretary general, antonio guitars called for a flash appeal of one billion dollars. he's calling for that support -- this comes after flash feel from syria. 400 million u.s. dollars. so, a huge amount of funding is needed to support those when it comes to the humanitarian assistance. and it was clear in -- he acknowledged that turkey is home to one of the world's largest populations of refugees. he said, now is the time for the world to stand behind turkey. and this is going to take years of recovery, of course. not only in terms of the infrastructure but, as you can, imagine the emotional trauma that these people have gone through. we have been meeting with families evacuated to a stand bowl and they are struggling. the emotional trauma they have been through, some say they are still afraid that an earthquake could hit a stumble. and of course, there is a huge challenge ahead for president erdogan when it comes to that infrastructural challenge as well.

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ukraine is due to receive a lot more advanced weapons and ammunition in the coming weeks and months. ukraine's president tells the bbc his country will continue fighting until all of its territory is recovered. listen to this. >> translator: amid territorial compromises, he told me, are only going to weaken our country. so, it's not about compromise. we make millions of compromises every day. but the question is, with putin? no. because we don't trust putin. >> ukraine announced on thursday that 100 ukrainian p.o.w.s and one civilian have been repatriated in a prisoner swap with russia. among them are said to be more than 60 ukrainian soldiers who have defended the azovstal steel factory in mariupol. the ongoing war in ukraine will be front and center with the munich security conference convenes in the coming hours. cnn's clare sebastian joins us from london. so, clare sebastian, take us

through what we are expecting. [interpreter] >> yeah, kim, conspicuously not invited to this year's munich security conference are russian government officials, most notably of course, the prime minister, sergey lavrov, who has been a regular fixture at the conference for a number of years. this is according to the conference as chairman, because they simply don't want to give him a platform for what they call is propaganda, a very deliberate move from them -- but we are, by contrast, going to see with the organizers are calling a record sized congressional delegation coming from the u.s.. we saw vice president kamala harris touchdown in munich on thursday and -- made a very clear that this is an opportunity to reaffirm not only the transatlantic alliance that is coalesced around ukraine over the last year, but in particular, the u.s. leadership of that alliance. we know that the u.s. is by far the biggest donor when it comes to military aid in absolute terms and has really been critical, for example, germany would only agreed to sending its leopard tanks when the u.s. also agreed to send its tanks. so, we are going to see an

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trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. much of that report could recommend criminal charges is still under wraps. but as sara murray reports, the jury jurors believe that some of the witnesses have been less than honest. >> some witnesses may have lied to a special grand jury in georgia, the panel says, recommending the district attorney consider indictments. >> this is basically the grand jury saying, go get them, madam district attorney. >> the special grand jury, which spent months digging into efforts by former president donald trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in the peach state, concluding, perjury may have been committed by one of our witnesses testifying before it. the grandeur recommends that the district attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes, where the evidence is compelling. this after the special grand jury heard from 75 witnesses, including high-profile names like georgia governor brian kemp, former -- rudy giuliani -- >> -- >> -- standing by his testimony.

>> are you confident in your testimony? >> yes. >> the grandma also heard from technical experts, poll workers, and -- widespread fraud took place in the -- election that could result in overturning that election, adding that they heard from witnesses still claiming that such fraud took place. because georgia special grand juries don't issue indictments, their final report is a vehicle to recommend whether anyone should face criminal charges. the judge overseeing the grand jury ordered sections of the report released thursday but held back the panels conclusions on criminal charges. after fulton district county -- fani willis argued against the reports release. >> we think, for future defendants to be treated fairly, it is not appropriate at this time to have this report released. >> -- saying less once he would -- regular grand jury. >> decisions are imminent. >> -- phone georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger in january 2021, pressing him to

find the votes for trump to win georgia. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> since the call, the investigation expanded to include -- false election fraud claims for state lawmakers in efforts by unauthorized individuals to access voting machines in one georgia county. trump's team is arguing because he was not named any of the sections in the report released that he must have done nothing wrong, this must be a total exoneration. obviously, we don't know that yet. the judge made the call not to allow any names to be named in this early release of the sections of the report and ultimately it is going to be up to fulton county district attorney fani willis to decide if he's going to go before a regular grand jury and seek indictments, either for former president donald trump or for any of his allies. sarah murray, cnn, washington. >> and for more analysis on this, i want to bring in attorney and legal affairs commentator reva martin. she's speaking with us from los

angeles. good to see you. thanks so much for being here with us. first, i want to start with the conclusion that there was no widespread voter fraud here in georgia. not a surprise -- we knew that already. but how important is that conclusion in the context of this case. >> i think it's very significant that the special grand jury reached that conclusion. because that is exactly what the courts -- the many courts where lawsuits were filed by trump's former lawyer rudy giuliani and sidney powell -- that was the same conclusion reached by those courts. and i think that's a damning conclusion for donald trump and others, because that gives credence to any potential indictment that we may see coming from this district attorney. there is no doubt that there was no widespread voter fraud. so, the claim that donald trump and his team continued to make with respects to voter fraud is unequivocal-y false. and now it has been said yet again by this grand jury.

>> all right, so, to those potential indictments, i guess. more than 70 people testified. it's hard to know who might be charged with perjury specifically. but what do you make of those comments? >> very, very shocking comments, kim brunhuber. because not only does this district attorney now have to deal with the voter fraud issues, which is what was the subject matter of this grand jury, but now potential investigations into perjury charges. as you said, we don't know how many individuals have been implicated with respect to basically lying to this grand jury. but this rangers pretty clear that they believe that witnesses did come before them, witnesses told lies. and they believe that crimes were committed. and this crime should be investigated and potential indictments should be issued. with respect to those individuals that told those lies. >> a lot of this we did not get to see. but as anything in what you did get to see, whether it is the substance or the wording -- does any of that give any indication that donald trump himself might be indicted?

>> it's hard to know. as you say, we did not see any names. that part of the grand jury's report was not released. but we did hear fani willis in court several weeks ago use the term defendants and say that it was inappropriate to release the entire report because it might prejudice defendants. and she said, indictments were imminent. so, we have heard this language. we have seen actions by this district attorney also suggest that there will be indictments. and, of course, don't trump, we know, is the subject matter of this investigation, or at least as one of the people who are the subject matter of the investigation. so, i would not be surprised if he is not one of the people. again, go back to that phone call where he is talking to those georgia election officials and he is pressuring them to find those 11,870 votes. it would be hard to imagine that others are indicted and not donald trump. >> now, we don't have charges yet. but even charges, obviously, don't mean someone will be

convicted. so, this is such a complicated case. how hard do you think it will be to make that case? >> one of the things we know has to be established in this case, as an any criminal case, is the issue of mens rhea -- did they know that they were engaged in engaging in election fraud. in this case, knowing that they had lost the election. there was no voter fraud. i think there's sufficient evidence that has been established in this case that donald trump knew at the time that he was pressuring these georgia election officials that there was no voter fraud, that he had lost the election, that joe biden was the legitimate president of the united states. i don't think there is going to be any issue about his mens rea, about what he knew at the time that he was engaged in the conduct. that may be the subject of an indictment. so, it's always difficult cases, always difficult to prosecute someone as high-profile as

donald trump -- we have not seen a former president of the united states indicted for criminal charges and have to go before a jury. but this may be a first, which is why what is happening in georgia, also what's happening at the department of justice and what's happening in new york, all our unprecedented actions against former president. >> yeah. it's good to have so many repercussions. we will be following this along with you. we will have you on to discuss it as the developments warrant. areva martin, thank you so much for being here with us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> u.s. senator john fetterman is being treated for clinical depression -- the pennsylvania democrat check themself into a washington area hospital thursday. vitamin chief of staff says the attending physician of the u.s. congress recommended in patient care after an evaluation. veteran says he has experience depression on and off for years but it recently became worse. he suffered a stroke in may of last year but was elected to the senate in november.

the family of bruce willis says he is suffering from frontal temporal dementia or ftd -- his family announced a statement -- the mayo clinic says ftd -- associate with personality, behavior, and language. currently, there is no cure and no treatment that slows the progression of the disease. last spring, willis's family said he would take a break from -- aphasia that affected his -- more winter sunrise overseas into ftd. -- more than 20 million people are under winter weather alerts from chicago through much of michigan and across new england. and those alerts, along the northern end of the storm that brought dozens of reports of tornadoes, wind and hail to the south, three tornadoes were reported in mississippi, where least one omaha home was flipped over into others were damaged. they have been more than 60 storm reports in the past two days in the southeastern u.s.. in dozens of wind and hail

reports across the region. nothing brings people together quite like donuts. have a look at this. the polar celebration, thursday encourages everyone to treat themselves to one last which pastry before the start of lent. once a medieval indulgence, this tradition has bloomed into a day dedicated to donuts, or -- as locals refer to it. eating one is even believed to be bring good fortune. now someone with a sweet to should expect to wait for this delicacy because lines are wrapping around street corners as you can see there -- baker say the long wait is due to the careful shaping and frying of each individual stone by hand. now i'm hungry. i'm kim brunhuber. i would back in just a moment with more cnn newsroom. please do stay with us.

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