2023-02-14

Morning Report: 2023-02-14

 USA:  OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT.

Legal Insurection:  EPA identifies three additional chemicals - ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene - in addition to vinyl chloride, on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3.  

The residents evacuated but could return after the authorities burned the vinyl chloride in a controlled burn. Authorities tried to convince people the air was safe.

However, residents remained weary because they never released a full list of the chemicals on the train. They demanded more transparency.

USA:  CHINESE SPY BALLOON DID "A LOT OF DAMAGE" - MCCAUL.

The Blaze:  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R - TX 10), speaking on CBS News' 'Face the Nation', stated that the Chinese spy balloon seen over Montana did "a lot of damage" to national security:

"I think it's important to say, in plain view of the American people, you know, in Montana — the triad site, air, land, and, sea nuclear weapons — in Omaha, the spy balloon went over our Strategic Command, which is our most sensitive nuclear site; it was so sensitive that President Bush was taken there after 9/11. And then, finally, Missouri, the B-2 bomber— that's where they are placed. ..."