This is Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howell.

It's Thursday, February 16th, and this is your morning wire, after an update.

During an address Thursday, President Biden told Americans that there was no evidence

three unidentified objects shot down this past weekend had nefarious intentions.

The President also specified that currently nothing suggests that they were related to

China's Spibaloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from another country.

The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely

balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather,

or conducting other scientific research. When I came into office, I instructed our intelligence

community to take a broad look at the phenomenon of unidentified aerial objects.

We know that a range of entities including countries, companies, and research organizations

operate objects at altitudes for purposes that are not nefarious, including legitimate scientific

research. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine says FEMA continues to tell him that his state is not eligible

for assistance at this time, despite the disaster caused by the train derailment in East Palasty.

Residents of the town were outraged last night after representatives of

Norfolk Southern bailed on a town hall that the company said would serve as a question

answer session Wednesday night. Here's one resident from the town. We just want answers and

they're not giving them and they can sit there all day and say that yes we're giving you as

it comes out and this is a different scenario. It is a different scenario but we're back in town now.

You lifted the evacuation order. We're drinking the water which our own governor said he wouldn't drink.

He wants to drink bottled water. It's a frustrating experience.

Norfolk Southern also took criticism Thursday from Ohio Senator JD Vance. The

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