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you can see it on your screen right there. the officials under pete buttigieg and presi president biden. >> i was told to evacuate my home and they told me they would do an air quality test. never got a call back, three times, they were coming to do the test. >> i don't think nor folk is living up to what happened. 2 minutes after evacuation lifted, the first train went through. so it was a slap in the face. all they are worried about is getting the train. >> todd: brooke singman has the lead on this disaster, brooke. >> that is right palestinian officials searching for answers from the biden administration after this toxic train derailment. ohio governor mike the wind with emergency help on the ground from the cdc after president biden rejected the request for disaster assistance.

dewine sent the cdc to the expert size, expert metals including doctors and professionals to evaluate members of the family who had questions or are experiencing system. it comes as more residents complain of symptoms and reactions from the top stomach toxic chemicals through the air and ohio center j.d. vance showing the video from the community. >> hey, guys dead worms and dead fish all throughout the water, something i just discover is if you agree that mike scraped the creek bed it is like criminal bill nye filmic chemicals coming out of the ground. >> ashley: chemicals coming up from the ground miles from people's home. and the residence plea for help, white house officials putting all the blame on the railway company, listen. >> we are going to get to the bottom of this and try to figure out the answer to what occurred

with holding them accountable. >> we are absolutely going to hold nor folk southern accountable and i can promise you that. >> in the investigation active and ongoing and have to answer. speak with the residency of the problem is out of the railways hands and calling the biden administration to step up and send aid to their town. emergency teams are working overtime in an effort to stop chemicals from washing into waterways as rain is expected to fall today. in the meantime transportation secretary pete buttigieg with new calls to resign after he messages about the tragedy that they are facing. >> this horrible situation has gotten particularly attention. there are roughly 1,000 cases a year as a train derailing. >> but now the problem is spreading. lawmakers and surrounding cities like pittsburgh, youngstown, newcastle sounding alarm on

their own water supply worried the toxins are spreading far wider than they know. pennsylvania governor josh is conducting its own independent water sampling and fears the officials are not aware of just how many people have been affected, ashley, todd. >> todd: it is frightening, brooke, the east palestine resident organizing the town hall earlier this week. so much to get to with you, sir. let's begin with pete buttigieg pete buttigieg sound bite that you just heard. when you hear buttigieg can't believe the amount of attention this incident is getting, yet you heard residents from your town's sake, we are being ignored. we are trying to get information. we are trying to get resources. we tried to get resources what to do and no one is contacting us back, what do you make of that? >> todd, want to set the record straight. i actually grew up east palestine but i live in cleveland area now. i had to come up here to do the job, big surprise.

hearing the responsibility is not necessarily outside of the realm of possibility. they feel abandoned and disrespected. at the town hall meeting put on by the city this week, there is no representatives and there wasn't anybody from the federal government representing what needed to happen. there is a problem and a huge problem, people are having issues across the board. and they are afraid that they will not be heard. we look at the way things went down and within days, nor folk southern put rails over the accident scene and was back to business. they didn't remediate the thousands and thousands of gallons of toxic material there. talking about the government issues, there was no epa standards put out, regarding how to deal with toxicity in someone's house or how to clean it.

you know where it came from? pennsylvania and somebody from pennsylvania on a facebook group that individuals have been able to utilize. >> todd: it makes no sense. it is terrific what's happening. i want to focus on the fema part of this if you felt abandoned before, what is the reaction when the biden administration's fema department basically says, "this doesn't qualify." >> you know i invite them to come down and take a swim in the creek, have a glass of water. this is beyond words. you are talking about a course session in a poor town in a depressed area in general. this is a one-two punch in putting people down. and i have clients reach out to me and this is the saddest thing to say but they are actually going to do evaluations on doctor's blood work so they get a baseline that they have physically. so when they get sick before

going back in their houses they can point out. >> todd: think about that they are anticipating the effects ten, 15 years down the road and getting the baseline blood work. that is sad state of affairs to where we are. let's go through the specifics here and i want to get your thoughts because you are living it right now. has there been efforts to clean people's homes? >> people do their own on an individualized level. people can't afford to have outside contractors, and pay for it. i know i've had people tell me they are receiving quotes of $10,000, $20,000 for toxic clean. when you go in and residue everywhere, how can you feel safe, right? you walk in and get hit with the fumes when you come in. some people i have talked to and others have had minor headaches. just overcoming in a short period of time and they have to retreat. >> todd: let me follow-up to that from our people being forced back into their homes prematurely because quite

frankly, grant they can afford 10,000, $30,000 to clean up. >> absolutely, are you kidding me, this is where it stems from the town hall meeting put on by the city, this is where it's coming from. people are being stepped on and this is the problem. the state we need to come in and help in the federal government to come in and help you would if i don't tell you straight up i was in cleveland and it was barely being covered and real-time friends called me and said, "what do we do?" i don't know but we will figure this out to take care of you. it is gut wrenching they've been ignored in general. >> todd: do you have any sense how long these people will be out of pocket for the expenses incurred so far? >> you know, the reality is this, some people are looking at this chernobyl. the land where it is sad, there is value, there is a land value with toxicity of the land, water potentially. i want to say the psychological

damage, again, this is a town to hear a train go down now is definitely interesting. i can tell you that i don't think norfolk southern was following safety protocols nor regulation but i'm sure that won't come out in the wash. >> todd: let's get tune norfolk southern and i look at this as adding insult to injury. what is the reaction from the folks at norfolk southern obviously causing this incident and refusing to send a rep to town hall by accusing the people of east palestine of being premature violent mob. to me that was insult to injury but what do the people say to that? >> what i can tell you is been around literally prior to the revolution. east palestine but our town, we are not one for violence and things like that, but we are ones that take care of people

and represent others. the reality is norfolk southern is a $4.5 billion company. checking the box, getting the freight going and not caring about these people and then putting them back in their house. where are they question what they should be the doing the toxicity cleaning. where is the federal government, right question what they should have a playbook put down to help the residencies. >> todd: understood. what is the reaction when residents hear so-called experts say the air is clean, the water is clean, the land is clean. there are people living through the nightmare that leaders and every single level just don't know what the heck they are doing? >> i think that is part of it but they feel this is not big business and you are talking about a company that's been around nearly 100 years organizing and made a lot of

money. nothing but politicians and political friends forever. maybe that is the result of what we are looking at, god come i hope not but it's about people not being taken care of. these people are just ignored and abandon the force to put back in that situation where they have to put their babies with these toxic fumes around. >> todd: when you look at these images we see on the screen right now and you hear somebody like mayor pete who's done horrific job up to this point before the disaster saying come i can't believe this is getting all this attention. literally people will have health effects for years to come. this is an area desperate for assistance and you have to wonder if this happened in new york, d.c., san francisco, the response would be completely different. and yet, people in your area are begging for help. thank you for your help on this. let's get attention as much as possible to this horrific incident and let's get it solved, ashley. >> ashley: all right, todd,

listen to this from another norfolk southern train derailed yesterday and urging drivers and residents to avoid the area but hazard is eroded not overturned. no one was hurt and found no evidence that toxic chemicals were exposed in the derailment. massive fire breaking out with greenhouse manufacturing plant and kissimmee, florida, torching 5 acres of plastic planters. authorities say they are monitoring the air quality because the large amount of smoke coming from the burning plastic. officials are investigating the cause of the inferno and likely due to a propane tank explosion. luckily no injuries have been reported. >> todd: america 2023 nevada police release body cam footage releasing the moment they say several officers started to feel

the symptoms of suspected fentanyl exposure. the douglas county sheriff said two officers collapsed after failing a drug bust in october after container of talcum powder like substance. the first officer went down only regaining consciousness after narcan treatment, watch. >> stay with me, right? all right, man. >> hit him with three narcan. >> todd: for less than 2 minutes later another officer collapsed to the ground and appears unresponsive. >> i got it, i got it, i got it. >> todd: in total five douglas county deputies were hospitalized as precaution and release the next morning coming next monday of the suspect was sentenced to 32 years in prison for selling that deadly drug. >> ashley: now to the crime scene at the border, top democrats to the texas border one day after kevin mccarthy's tour of the crisis. >> todd: in washington, laura. >> good morning todd, ashley the

border is busy with illegal crossings and politicians. house minority leader in laredo, texas, with senator henry cuellar later today. that tour a day after kevin mccarthy visited with four freshman republican pier at the border policies were blasted while the administration says it is on congress to fix the immigration system. >> this is a fundamental problem. and the problem is created by this administration. we've only been in the majority for two months. the freshman member that i brought here, they have done more in four weeks of looking at the border than the president has done in 40 years. >> border patrol is hard at work, look at this or chief ortiz found four coast houses in three days with 175 found in the fiscal year alone. according to border protection last month, there were 156,000

encounters but the white house thinks that celebrating because almost 100,000 less than the record breaking month before. speak with the white house says your trip is a political stunt and that they are border plan is working. what is your response? >> you know what if they would actually come here they would realize their plan is not working. this is why we will move our hearings to the border so those who say this is a photo of hopkin actually start opening up their ears and listen to what is going on. speak with the g.o.p. led house and judiciary committee will hold an on-site hearing in human next thursday. the democrats will not attend that hearing but will plan their own next month, todd, ashley. >> ashley: laura blanchard, thank you. have you seen this video yet? a woman goes for a workout and has to fight out an attacker who chases her through the jam. and fox news, we will share that with you after this.

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♪ ♪ >> todd: president biden finally addressing the nation on unidentified objects the u.s. military has been shooting down all over north america. he says the last don't appear to be connected to a foreign spy campaign but he didn't offer information to what they actually are. >> ashley: alexandria hoff live with all of these details, good morning, alexandria. >> good morning. speaking to the nation president biden said shooting down the spy craft over atlantic city sent a clear message to china violating our sovereignty is unacceptable. analysis is underway on our part

to help with the spy flight was able to collect as it moved across the continental u.s. february 4th. three other objects shot down since then, the president says they seem unrelated to. >> we don't know exactly what these objects were, but nothing right now suggests they are related to china spy balloon program or that they were surveillance videos from any other country. the intelligence community current assessment is these three objects were balloons tied to private companies, research institution studying whether or conducting other scientific research. >> welcome a theory posed by aviation research is one of the unknown objects could have been a small party style eco-balloon that belong to illinois hobby club missing in action last week and the founder of a company that makes those hall people and said this, "i tried contacting the military and fbi and just got the runaround to try to enlighten them. what these things are and not going to look to intelligent to be shooting them down.

when asked about this public affairs nor red told fox news, "the fbi has spoke with the hobby club and national security council to have more identifying of the objects. speaking to the entire deal, hoover sr. fellow victor davis hanson. >> i think biden has confused the american people. he is fighting allies and encouraging for chinese. they there is vulnerability and think that perception as vulnerability. we know the chinese have been with these sophisticated balloons for years and letting those own in ukraine with balloons and radar. so it wasn't like we weren't prepared for it. that is a question how vulnerable we really are. >> president biden sang yesterday, there has been no increase in the number of objects in our sky. just that radar capabilities have increased, ashley, todd. >> todd: alexandria hoff, thank you at no point in the

story has michael's arts and crafts will be a key player in everything we are doing. biden's statement, he said nothing. he could have said nothing we can a half ago. so that is p 1 but part 2, the fact that we don't know is beyond concerning. how can we the greatest country in the world still not know what the heck we shot down? what is going on in this white house? what is going on the top brass of our military they can't figure this out? you heard biden say, we have increased our radar. but i thought we would be in a constant state of alert 24/7, 365. land, sea, sky. if not, where is that $800 billion annually to our defense department going? what is he doing? >> ashley: what was it $400,000, $500,000 used to shoot this -- what they call it, party style balloon belonging to a hobby club.

this is embarrassing. honestly, my notes i could have written one word: embarrassing! that is exactly what this is. but i said this earlier this is the most biden administration move ever. they let the spy craft go for days, seven or eight days, a week, at least, and that we shoot at anything we see in the sky. it is so reactive. there is nothing proactive about this administration. as much as i like to joke about it, it is very serious. it is a very serious problem, especially the point you brought up. where is the security? the national security in this? this is uncalled for and like you said, with biden, now i know why, they are embarrassed. the fact the company is trying to get a hold of the white house in the military, we got crickets. imagine being one of these fighter pilots, in the military being sent off to do this and you realize what it is.

and you are thinking, they are the best in the world. and you are sending me appear to shoot at literal balloons. >> todd: i've been in one of these plans, not the exact plans that they used to shoot it down, but these pilots can literally do anything they want, including actually use machine guns that are on these plains. just a couple of quick bullets would have done the same thing as $400,000 sidewinder missile. it is there incomprehensible to me. you mentioned the puppy people trying to contact the white house and you heard east palestine to contact officials to get answers. where is our federal government in terms of responding to this question marks be >> ashley: they work for us and they work for the people and not they are for anything. >> todd: i don't want to distract from the real culprit, the federal government but maybe if you have a hobby that includes putting something into the commercial air space hurt

our plane, find a different hobby. that is a sub point to this whole biden fiasco but maybe we find a different hobby. >> ashley: god forbid to fly a kite. the white house doctor who conducted president biden's evaluation used a clean bill of health and saying he is a healthy, vigorous a.d.-year-old male. fox news contributor doctrine janette nesheiwat said he is missing the mental status exemption? what is his score? i would like to know. we must ensure mentally, physically capable when it comes to decisions regarding life and death in the overall health, safety and wellness of our nation. pennsylvania senator checking himself into the hospital for clinical depression. john fetterman's chief of staff while he has had depression and only came weeks after he was

discharged from the same facility feeling light-headed from a democratic treatment. it is unclear when he will be released. >> todd: their neurological condition is worsening after his facia diagnosis and the spring. and also suffering from frontal temporal dimension or fte. the challenges with communication is one symptom of the disease. it is nice to have a clear diagnosis. he would respond by bringing global attention and connectedness to those dealing with this debilitating disease. there is currently no cure for fte the national institute of aging said symptoms including unusual behaviors, emotional proms, trouble communicating and difficulty walking. you know, obviously these arguments, but one of the reasons is because john mcclain was an action hero. him and his family would wish

the best and john fetterman and what he is experiencing as well. the people of chicago done being disrespected by their leaders after the latest proposal to a health's illegal immigrants in an abandoned kmart. what about the holocaust camp? what about crime? the next camp is here to give lori lightfoot an ear full. >> ashley: during a work out you seen this video yet? a woman fighting off an attacker who tried to assault her in the middle of the gym. this morning, she shares her story and you don't want to miss it. >> in my head, whenever it was happening, i was very fearful. in my head, it was just come i've got to fight him he would have got to do something.

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pins her to the ground. she is punching, kicking ripping out his hair before breaking free. she joined tucker carlson the moment she knew she needed to fight for her life. >> in my head when everything was happening, i was really fearful at all. i have got to fight him and do something. he was equal to me. he wasn't anything more than my size. and i had the advantage in my head. my mom told me, don't let anybody approach you or touch you if you don't know them. as soon as he approached me, i knew i had to push him off or do something. >> todd: everything she said his amazing advice and the suspect was arrested 24 hours later facing handful of charges including battery. ashley, over due. >> ashley: chicago leaders halting plans to pack an abandoned kmart building with migrants after outrage from residents. but the locals feel completely

disrespected by the city. chicago resident jennifer mattix joins us. what is the biggest issue that you have put this question marks because of the issue at hand is how the city has pain at the community, especially didn't give us an equal voice. they didn't give us a seat at the table and didn't allow us to have a community driven process in order to implement some programming around getting the migrants into the community. >> ashley: the city temporarily stop the project to put them in that abandoned kmart but was it because of the outrage from citizens? do you think they will go forward with it once everybody calms down? >> you know absolutely, there are points going forward in the community. i am a resident they are and a business owner there and we never had a seat at the table. the update that we were given

yesterday were just updates. now, the city is working backwards in order to now say they appreciate the community where relate they did not appreciate because they did not invest in the table in the beginning. the process was wrong and we didn't get an opportunity to actually express how we felt and even to be able to allowed to benefit from the work coming into the community. >> ashley: right now we will give you the opportunity to tell them. what is your biggest problem with this and what do you want to see changed and what do you want to see done? >> we want to see the city understands that the community has an identity. we have a plan. we already have a plan and we want them to understand they should put us first, the community first to make sure we are the ones driving the things that need to happen in our community. i'm sure the community over by the kmart are really upset and

concerned because they see there was such an outcry and the pushback came because we didn't even see it coming. we didn't have leadership in place that was able to allow us to know what was going on. so now they are just giving us updates. this is what is happening. this is what we are doing and now moving forward after two years, we will put together a community driven process to move forward. that is not how we are going to accept that. and that is not how they should come at us when we are tax paying citizens. we have been here and we already have this issue. we already have an issue with economic development. we already have a public safety issue. so now resources are being poured into the community around the academy. we need at those before. it is not that we are against migrants. what we are saying we need of these resources way before the

migrants came and allocated to do anything that we ask especially -- [indistinct] appeared with the community, i'm sure they are concerned because the city is to do the same thing to them and the community and we are not going to take it and stand to be continually disrespected and underrepresented in our community. >> ashley: do you think the way people in chicago vote will be the only way to change the situations and have their voices heard? do you think it will take getting lori lightfoot out and getting someone else in there that will listen to your? >> absolutely. we need leadership and we need someone to invite the community to the table. they need to understand our vote matters, our vote counts even though they need to understand that they need to come into the community and say to us, "hey, how can we work with you and not

against you? because we both know we are not being heard in our voices are not taken into consideration. and i do blue believe they don't think our vote counts. >> ashley: i do want to talk about the city's homeless issue. just yesterday, we are looking at all these videos and pictures of this homeless crisis that seems to invade o'hare airport. the mayor's office said, "oh, this just happens in the winter months." but why do you think they are putting so much effort into the migrants instead of the homeless population? just recently the city got $60 million grant to combat homelessness. what did they do with the money? >> so they didn't really have a plan. so now they have to come up with a plan really quickly because the migrants were coming in droves. once i got here, they didn't have anywhere to house them. so they were looking around without including different

communities. so now, they are saying they have some community input as to where they can house migrants and now they are starting off this process backwards by now deciding to approve the community include this communiy in the process. >> ashley: time and time again we hear the american taxpayer say we have been put on a back burner and everybody else the migrants thing put ahead of them. that is not fair to people like you become a business owner, you pay your taxes an american citizen. we need to do better than this, jennifer maddox, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> todd: a family of 19th century businessman whose name a law school of the university of richmond said they want their money back. the donation money back. the school caved to the woke mob. wait until you hear this one. ♪ ♪

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reduce productivity output and efficiency. the policy will slow or reverse post covid recovery. it is time to get back to work. >> todd: and migrants forcing layoffs. maybe they should relay some of the people -- unbelievable. >> ashley: president biden right now and all electric vehicle america making this promise on wednesday. >> this is going to have a major impact on the environment what we are doing specifically reducing carbon in the air as we began to move these 500,000 charging stations around the world, i mean come around the country. it will take millions of barrels of oil off of the road. >> todd: a reporter from axios said life is not all it is cracked up to become a road trip an electric vehicle is entirely doable but not without its challenges. be prepared for the unexpected like glitching charging machines and billing.

the president of gas and oil, talk about getting your enemies close. walk us through the ev experience that joe biden and the far left really wants to force upon us? >> sure. there was always a qualifier when the president talks about energy and the qualifier is future demand growth and still outpacing the ev charging stations. we will be 110 billions of barrels a day and by 2025's those of barrels coming up for the road will be used by someone else in the world. so, my own experience is really interesting, guys, let the record show that oil and gas association, electric vehicle. my first expanse we have learned the last six months, it is a challenge. we lived outside of major metropolitan area. we have learned a couple of things. one, there is incredibly inaccurate lack of support of the vehicles.

the second thing that nobody told us when vehicles come in weather has a dramatic impact on the vehicle's range. we live in the mountains in northern utah and went the temperature drops below below 3 degrees basically upwards drops 40%. that means i have to charge twice as much. my wife is very patient, but she's not very happy with me right now. >> ashley: tim, why did she get an electric vehicle? i actually was thinking oil and gas, but is this just to test out how difficult it would be? why did you do this? >> that is a great question and it's not virtual signaling on my part. i want to talk about conversations like this but the other reality, the president doesn't talk about is anywhere in the united states, 500,000 new chargers will come online to power electric vehicles, there is 60%-70% chance that electric

stations will be powered by fossil fuels. you take millions off of the road but relying on natural gas to charge those chargers. like it or not, the president and his administration, policymakers have to rely on oil and gas industry to get them from here to there. that really bothers them and from this chair, i love that. >> todd: the left seems to not understand how electricity is made. that is so much of the problem that we experience. on the top of electricity, i have no idea what it is costing you in utah but i can say in the northeast in a state like connecticut in which i live, electricity beginning january 1 this year skyrocketed. so, we are in a situation that it will cost more to do electric charging, have an ev than a gas card. why isn't the white house considering this at all? >> that is a great question. we keep posing that and everybody keeps posing that to them which is you have to have a

reliable base power load. all intensive purposes all across the united states the base power cost natural gas from nuclear, coal, northeast heating oil perspective. so, they have not, they are way ahead of themselves, so to speak, and making promises. and people like myself with a hard reality that the infrastructure isn't there. without the reliable baseload power, we will be charging an awful lot. you can be thinking about when i have to charge twice as much to go the same outcome of my electricity bill is going up to power my ev. >> ashley: you know, only 1% of people in the u.s. have electric cars. so to me, this seems like a complete waste of money putting 500,000 charging stations. so, you talk about the capacity. i just don't think america is ready for this energy plan that the biden administration is pushing. is this and the waste of money because more people can utilize

gas and oil than electric cars? >> that is a great question. from the u.s. oil and gas association perspective, we work with the consortium working to electrified the highways themselves. so, it is a rapid charge as you drive house mike versus having to stop for 20 minutes. we think there is as much promise and getting us to that point. the problem is we are spending so much money on this side it may not solve the problem and we should research what it would take to electrified the roads. every really interesting fact, to electrified chemical castration, the national grid research 2030, the most typical highway stations with will require as much power as professional sports stadium. that is just for the vehicles. once you get the trucks on the road, the projected power will need a big truck stop will be equal to requirements for a small town. fossil fuels will be with us for a long, long time. we are not there yet. we look forward to be a part of

the solution because we are providing the energy to power those charging stations. >> todd: to appreciate your perspective on this, you never want to come up with anti-electric vehicle entirely. you are not, but we are not ready to rip the band-aid off as quickly as the biden administration wants to do and literally destroyed the country's energy infrastructure in the process. thank you so much, have a great day. transportation secretary pete buttigieg has not paid a visit to the site of the toxic train crash in east palestine, ohio and where this lands on his list of priorities. >> while this horrible situation has gone particularly a high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year where a train is derailing. >> ashley: we have a big show still ahead. joe concha, rachel campos-duffy and congresswoman jennifer coming up on "fox

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