Bob Ferguson

Authorities say they don't expect to find any more survivors from Tuesday's rupture of a 900,000-gallon chemical tank at the Nippon Dynawave packaging company in Longview.

Governor Bob Ferguson says the impacts to the community and families are profound.

Officials say air quality and drinking water in Longview are not affected by the chemicals, though some did spill into the Columbia River.

The Federal Chemical Safety and Hazards Investigation Board announced it has opened an investigation into the rupture.

For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.

Washington state has a right to ensure the health and wellness of people detained within our borders, period, full stop.

When Washingtonians hear the benefits that flow to working families, to businesses, large and small, to kids in schools with those free meals, for child care services for thousands of Washington families, it's going to make a huge, huge difference.

While Washington, D.C.

is taking us backwards, the good news is here in Washington state, we're moving forward, everybody.

This is truly a historic step forward on rebalancing our tax code.

It's the right thing to do for Washington's working families.

It's the right time to do it.

And it's the right policy.

Turn the pyramid upside down.

It can't be serious.

That would put butter and fat at the top of the... Flip the damn food pyramid!

This natural disaster that we are facing as a state and that we continue to go through is truly historic in nature.

Our prayers have been answered that this time no loss of life has occurred.

The situation is truly historic.

Rivers like the Skagit River and Cedar Rivers literally facing historic, experiencing historic levels of flooding.