President Joe Biden has ordered federal officials to do door-to-door checks on families in East Palestine, Ohio, but said he has no immediate plans to visit the village where a train derailed three weeks ago, spilling toxic chemicals.
The White House said Biden has directed teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to visit East Palestine homes starting on Saturday.
The “walk teams” will check in on residents to see how they’re doing and what they need, and to connect them with federal and nonprofit resources as locals still reel from the derailment fallout….}