Late-night host discusses president’s surprise Ukraine visit and fallout from the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
The Obama-era rule likely would not have prevented the derailment in East Palestine because, due to lobbying by Norfolk Southern and other railroad companies, a train is only considered hazardous if it’s going faster than 30mph with at least 70 tank cars loaded with highly flammable liquids. “Seventy tanker cars full of vinyl chloride – a clear hazard. Sixty-nine is totally fine,” Colbert deadpanned.
“I’m going to guess that one tanker car full of vinyl chloride is pretty dangerous,” he added. “You shouldn’t put any hazardous chemicals on a train unless the brakes are working real good.” Colbert also mocked the Norfolk Southern CEO, Alan Shaw, who said the plume of black smoke from the “controlled burn” of vinyl chloride “told us that there was success”.
“Yes, we all know the famous saying: where there’s smoke, there’s success,” he joked. “I’d say the interview went off the rails, but for Norfolk Southern, that’s on brand,” he added.on New York City sidewalks. “So the next time your toddler throws a tantrum and hurls themselves on the ground, just leave them there and get a new kid,” Colbert quipped.
“However dirty you think New York sidewalks are, they’re worse,” he continued, as the researchers found 31,000 fecal bacteria per sample of pooled rainwater on city sidewalks. “To which the bacteria said: ‘Yeah it’s a little cramped, but that’s the price you pay to live in the greatest sidewalk in the world!’”
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