amy: matt dempsey, your response? >> i know chief royal. he is a good man. he is a really smart experts at hazardous material response for the fire marshall's office. probably one of the most experienced at that in the country. my impression of what he is doing there is trying to be as accurate and precise about what he is describing to the public as possible. i think, especially in response crosby, there are a ton of rumors going on. it would be easy your of government officials were more clear on what is going on and not going on. my thought and i heard that, because i was on the way when he said that, my thought when he said that was he is trying to make sure people don't think there is going to be a shockwave blast from this. he is right. there probably won't be a shockwave-type blast like something you'd see in an action movie. be my concern continues to explosion inic clai catching fire, my concern is there are tanks of chemicals that are very large. worst-case scenario report that arkema filed with the epa, it said that if that were to rupture, then w

joining me is matt dempsey. data reporter for the houston chronicles team. you so much for being here this evening. and i guess i'll ask you the obvious question, has arkema handed over their chemical inventory to you? >> they handed over something. it with us not what i asked for. they give me a list of chemicals, just a straight list of the names of the chemicals. i don't have anything about how much of each chemical, i don't have the chemical index code that i can use to research more about the chemicals, i don't know what kind of containers they are in and i don't knee where the chemicals are located on the facility. if you live near the plant >> if you're somebody who real housewives here the arkema plant who is it that you're supposed to trust and believe to tell you that the air near your home is safe to believe when you're allowed to come back? >> that's a good question. the epa like you said has done some air testing and i they is the fire marshal's officer local authorities will have set up some air monitoring after. i think it's good that the epa

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joining us by phone is matt dempsey and he's been writing about the dangers of texas' chemical plants and has been pressing arkema executives for information about exactly what chemicals are in that plant. matt, thanks for joining us. do you know any more tonight about what's in the chemical mixture that's spewing into the air out of that plant than you did last night? >> no, we don't. it's the same situation. in fact the only thing we know for sure is that arkema is refusing to provide the information. they back tracked from a promise they made at a press conference to me. now we're stuck with essentially we know they are organic peroxides. i have some idea from an older chemical inventory. the public should be safe from the fumes and smoke and the fire as long as they're not within a mile and a half of the facility where the evacuation zone is, but there's still a lot of other stuff on that site. and the concern for a lot of people is what happens if something happens to those things s things. >> that's the other thing. you till have more fires to burn. i'm wondering, at some point

matt kazin my team. chairman hatch and his team really stepped up to work with us and all the senators, jay kosla, brett baker, jen kazowsky and the chronic care league, aaron dempsey and big thanks also to senators warner and isakson for lending us -- and i hope i don't mess these pronunciations up too much, mr. president. marvin figero and mr. president i close this portion of my remarks by saying that i think what happened last night while certainly not something everybody is talking about this evening is something that is going to be extraordinarily important in the years ahead and on an issue that i know the president of the senate and i have talked about this whole question of health care and medicare and the like, this was an important step to take and an important step we can build on. and i hope the other body, the house, will take action quickly. mr. president, let me turn now to this question of the puerto rico disaster. it has now been a week since hurricane maria made landfall in puerto rico, and three and a half million american citizens are living amidst a horrifying state of devastation. when i was chairman of the energy and natural resources commit