secretary pete buttigieg visited east palestine today calling for more regulations today online on trains like the one that derailed. miguel marquez has more details. this was 100% preventable. 100% preventable, says the national transportation safety board. today, releasing its initial read on what caused the toxic derailment crippling the small town of east palestine, ohio. during this deceleration, the wheel bearing failed. car number 23 derailed. the ntsb saying it wasn t overheated wheel bearing on a single rail car that eventually set off a sensor alongside the train tracks, alerting the conductor to stop the train. we have no evidence that the crew did anything wrong. in all 30 acres derailed, including several transporting chemicals. surveillance video shows sparks and a bright light coming from underneath the train car in salem ohio, about 20 miles from
palestine, ohio. it is decimating our business. it is dirty and difficult and slow-going work. for those living here, building trust that the water and air is safe, as slow-going as the clean-up itself. it took norfolk southern, three or four days for us to get a partial list, vinyl chloride, abrutal aco late and combustible liquids. it could be anything. the makers appears to have started between alliance ohio and the derailment in east palestine. surveillance video of the train shows no signs of sparks coming from its wheels. there is a detector that would indicate a hot box detector. it is unclear if it detected any o overheat. but in salem ohio, just 13 miles