FOOTBALL, WEATHER AND MUCH MORE ALL COMING UP IN MINUTES, SO STAY WITH US. >>A DEAL BETWEEN JAPANESE COMPANY NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION AND U.S. STEEL COULD BE IN JEOPARDY. >>ON WEDNESDAY, U.S. STEEL RELEASED A STATEMENT WARNING THAT WITHOUT THE NIPPON STEEL TRANSACTION, U.S. STEEL WILL LARGELY PIVOT AWAY FROM ITS BLAST FURNACE FACILITIES. THIS COULD PUT JOBS AT RISK AND IMPACT COMMUNITIES THERE ARE REPORTS THE DEAL COULD BE BLOCKED BY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS ALSO SAID HE WOULD BLOCK THE MERGER IF HE WERE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. U.S. STEEL HAS TWO FACILITIES IN FAIRFIELD, AND THAT'S WHERE WE FIND ABC 33 40S MEGAN SCARANO. MEGAN, DO WE KNOW YET HOW THIS WILL IMPACT THESE PLANTS >>NO. BRENDA WE DON'T. WHILE THERE ARE REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO SHUT DOWN THIS DEAL, THERE'S NO FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE JUST YET. BUT WE DO KNOW THE IMPACT THAT U.S. STEEL HAS HAD ON AND AROUND IN THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD. LIKE YOU MENTIONED. AND U.S. STEEL'S STATEMENT THEY MENTIONED PIVOTING AWAY FROM ITS BLAST FURNACE FACILITIES. BUT ACCORDING TO THEIR WEBSITE, FAIRFIELD WORKS HAS AN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE AND A 50 INCH HOT DIP GALVANIZING LINE THE FAIRFIELD TUBULAR OPERATIONS SOURCES STEEL ROUNDS FROM FAIRFIELD WORKS ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE TO CREATE CUSTOM SEAMLESS STEEL CASINGS. WILLIE JOHNSON, A RESIDENT HERE IN FAIRFIELD EXPLAINS WHILE HE HAS SEEN THE PRESENCE OF U.S. STEEL DECLINE, IT'S STILL A STAPLE IN HIS CITY, AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT EMPLOYS PEOPLE IN AND AROUND FAIRFIELD >>THE KIDS, YOU KNOW GREW UP IN BESSEMER AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVED IN BESSEMER WORKED AT FAIRFIELD. YOU KNOW, IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST, ONE OF THE BIGGEST EMPLOYERS, I BELIEVE DURING THAT TIME TO AND HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE THE PLANT COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN NOT THAT CLOSE. YOU KNOW, IT WOULD REALLY BRING A LOT OF DEVASTATION TO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD >>NOW, I DID REACH OUT TO U.S. STEEL TODAY FOLLOWING THEIR COMMENTS IN THE WSJ. I WAS TOLD NO ONE WAS AVAILABLE FOR AN INTERVIEW, BUT THEY DO STAND BY THEIR STATEMENT SAYING THAT THEY FEEL THERE IS NO NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES WITH THIS DEAL