Watch Live: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gives update on East Palestine derailment of train carrying chemicals
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Officials and residents are still coping with the aftermath of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month that led to evacuations and concerns over hazardous materials. Gov. Mike DeWine is set to give a third update Tuesday on the Feb. 3 incident in which 38 rail cars, including half of the train's 20 hazardous materials cars, derailed.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that 12 other cars on the Norfolk Southern Railway Company were damaged by a fire.
Officials had evacuated residents near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border so they could release chemicals from some of the derailed cars for a controlled burn following the accident, sending black smoke skyward as crews released vinyl chloride, a gas used to make plastic. Authorities said this week other hazardous materials were also on the train.
