Plus: Barney is back! | Monday, February 13, 2023
| | | | | | | Presented By HCA Healthcare | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Feb 13, 2023 | | Good Monday afternoon. Today's PM — edited by Kate Nocera — is 539 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Patricia Guadalupe for the copy edit. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Residents fret derailment chemicals | | A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 6 after the controlled detonation of derailed train cars. Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP More than a week after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, EPA officials say they haven't detected any dangerous chemicals in the 210 homes they've tested so far for air quality. - But residents are complaining of smells, headaches, nausea, and other ailments after the derailment and a controlled release of toxic fumes sent hazardous gas into the air.
A railcar axle issue initially caused the derailment of a 150-car Norfolk Southern freight train. A few days later, the town was evacuated so the company could release and burn vinyl chloride — a chemical linked to several cancers — from cars that were at risk of exploding. - Residents were allowed to return home two days later.
- Norfolk Southern yesterday released a detailed list of cars involved in the derailment, showing other dangerous chemicals that were potentially breached or on fire.
East Palestine resident Eric Whitining told The Washington Post his eyes burn and the air smells like an "over-chlorinated swimming pool." - Maura Todd had left and returned home to find it smelled like "a mixture of nail polish remover and burning tires" and decided to relocate again.
- "I've watched every news conference and I haven't heard anything that makes me think that this is a data-driven decision," she told The Post about allowing residents to return home.
Famed activist Erin Brockovich tweeted that residents should "trust your instincts" and "document everything you see." |     | | | | | | 2. ☀️ Born in quake wreckage — now healthy | | A baby girl born under the earthquake rubble is treated last week in an incubator at a children's hospital in Afrin, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. Photo: Ghaith Alsayed/AP A baby girl — born under the rubble of her family's home in northern Syria after last week's devastating earthquake — is healthy and may soon leave the hospital, AP reports. - The infant, whose mother died after giving birth, was named Aya — Arabic for "a sign from God" — by hospital workers.
She is being breastfed by the wife of the hospital's director. The death toll in Syria and Turkey is now over 35,000 people. | | | | | | | | A message from HCA Healthcare | | HCA Healthcare helps caregivers advance their careers | | |  | | | | HCA Healthcare invests in caregivers through education, technology, capital investments, infrastructure and more. Last year, 13,009 colleagues participated in HCA Healthcare's tuition assistance program, including 6,451 colleagues working towards a nursing degree. Learn more. | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | Photo: Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images - 🦅 Even when the Eagles lose, rowdy Philly fans climb poles (above).
- President Biden fired Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton after an inspector general's investigation documented abuse of government vehicles and other improprieties. Go deeper.
- ⚾ Ted Lerner, the developer whose family bought the Washington Nationals in 2006, died Sunday at 97 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. Under the Lerners, the Nats went from being one of baseball's worst teams to World Series champs in 2019. The Lerners helped revitalize D.C.'s Navy Yard with the opening of Nationals Park in 2008. (AP)
| | | | | | | | 4. Barney is back | | Photo: Mattel Love him or hate him, iconic '90s dinosaur Barney is coming back. - Mattel announced a Barney relaunch that will include a new animated series, movies, new music, and YouTube content.
The company said it wants to tap into Barney nostalgia for generations who grew up with the dinosaur — many of whom are parents now. - Per Axios Closer's Nathan Bomey, no word yet on whether the infamous "Barney & Friends" earworm, "I Love You," will be back.
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