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Pete Buttigieg: “There were no fatalities, it was just an incredibly serious…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 1:03:07

… getting bad information and confusing information that left them even more terrorized than they were by the chemical spill that had happened because of the derailment. And so even though There were no fatalities, it was just an incredibly serious incident. that if I had understood the information issues sooner and gotten there, then I think I could have helped that community better deal with that. (1:03:07–1:03:12)

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