East Palestine Train Disaster - How It Looks Now 

I knew it was bad when the officials did a PR stunt where they drank the tap water to prove it was safe and the EPA guy took a fake sip. He knew.

Years ago the US government changed the laws requiring every train to have a caboose and personnel to monitor train safety, this is what happens when you deregulate.

Y I don’t think I would live there. Clean water at the least and a way to make a living is important

I don't buy the "official report."

Thus site is about 2 hours east of my home. Was pretty scary at the time it happened and 15 months later, it's still a concern. You did a very respectable story here. Thanks, Chris

I wouldn’t want to live there. In 20 years what weird cancers will we see in the people that stayed? Very scary.

People upset about the settlement forgot that BP was charged about 2 billion for their massive oil spill in the ocean, and still exist as a company today.

I live less than a mile from train tracks and I think about this every day 😢

I always wonder where all the hazardous wastes are trucked off to? from toxic sites to another site now made toxic.

I believe I have only done this maybe 4 times from a video on YTube. *Loud Hand Clapping* Well done, dude. Leave it to you, to get into that vehicle and cruise to a scene to checkout the aftermath of something of that magnitude - so quickly. I trust your instinct simply to go down there. Well done, Chris!

This is the best version of what happened that I've heard so far. You did a great job, Chris. I know I wouldn't trust the government to be truthful. I definitely would want to be out of there.

One thing being glazed over is the fact that after Ohio and the Feds lit this toxic nightmare on fire all those particles came back down in rain and snow over most of New York State, New England and our neighbors to the north in Canada. What goes up comes back down and they turned a local/regional toxic site into a multi state and international one.

This is the result of deregulation. There is a reason regulations are put in place and when those protections are removed, to satisfy the greed of the rich, the poor pay with their health and their lives.

Your not just making videos but you can know add investigating reporter to your resume. Great job. 👍

Doesn’t Norfolk Southern use hot box detectors to alert crews of bad wheel bearings?

You can thank the shareholders of Norfolk Southern and Precision Scheduled Railroading 100% for this mess.

Things like this should show people that the Federal agencies said to "protect " us CDC, FBI, EPA, NIH ETC. Is actually to protect the CORPORATIONS. To run cover for them, to set standards/guidelines they can afford to do, but it puts mom and pop businesses out of business. They protect their cronies NOT WE THE PEOPLE.

Thanks for the update, I feel so sorry for the residents, relocating is costly, prayers for them ❤

Thank you for doing a update on this. News crews move on and often leave you in the dark as to what is happening currently.

Yours is the most in-depth reporting that I've seen of this. This is a tragedy that could/should have been prevented. Thank you, Chris.

Specifically, in this disaster, every decision-making executive at Norfolk Southern should have received some sort of jail time for gross negligence due to their willful refusal to operate safely & cut corners for the sake of profit & deepening the pockets of their shareholders. This company should not be allowed to continue to operate at all. Corporations & capitalism, lobbying & politicians, and grotesque wealth imbalances are destroying our nation & our people. When is enough going to be enough?

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” ― Ronald Reagan

Sadly it’s another incident where our government has let the American people down. They should’ve stepped up and gotten majority involved with the cleanup but they would rather send our money and support across the pond instead of helping the people of our country. Just my opinion.

Didn't know you were a professional comedian. "Would you trust the government?", that's the funniest thing I've heard in years.

It's almost reminiscent of Love Canal, New York.

Awesome update. I don't trust the government at all. I think we will know more a couple years down the road. Thanks so much.

It's almost like they don't care about you, for some reason?

Great job man👍. Hope everyone remembers this in November. This was a prime example of how NOT to handle this situation. Oh, and not even a mention of this on the one year anniversary.

It's in the soil of the river, the water might be cleaned up, but it goes into the soil, so it doesn't actually help, and I don't believe the EPA! 🤷🏼‍♀️ I most definitely would not want to live there, not just because I don't like that part of the U.S., because it's just too humid for me, but because I don't believe a thing that the EPA says!

I wouldn't believe anything any of these alphabet agencies say. Just to see how things looked, I logged onto Snapchat's map to see what people there were posting and someone posted a video of men in hazmat suits near the tracks. This was about the same time EPA said that everything was safe. If it were safe, why then the need for hazmat suits?

Thanks Chris, this wa a really interesting, investigative video. You and Lamont at Large are keeping not just fellow Americans informed, but the rest of the world. Those poor people in East Palestine, will they ever get the compensation and justice they so urgently need?! 💰🙏 Keep up the good work Chris. You and Lamont should do more videos/ work together. 👍🏻🇬🇧👊🏻

The other question is when will they be compensated. Many residents of Flint still have not been paid. Lawyers from Florida, and North Carolina have it in a trust for years now.

The town the railroad destroyed

The big bad corporate world does not really care about people. If something like this happens, they throw a bunch of money at the problem, then it's back to business as usual.

I seen ppl say " its moving water" but where is it moving? I'm not an activist. But the Democratic way is not the way.

The poor folks of Palestine have had their town destroyed. The extensive and lengthly cleanup is mind blowing. The value of the homes has likely been destroyed too. No, I wouldn't have stayed. The long term effects of these chemicals is not known but we do know is that they are dangerous and risky. So much so, there are people still conducting tests and finding contamination.

CHRIS ,,THIS IS AWFUL!!! YES GIVE US THE VIDEO ,,BUT GET OUT FOR YOUR HEALTH ,,AND DONT DRINK WATER OR BOTTLE WATER OR FOOD .. WE DONT WANT TO LOOSE YOU .. THAT AREA THE HOUSES I WOULD LEAVE AND MOVE ALONG.. PEACE..

Seems to me that whoever invests in these cleanup operations should be investigated because I’ve heard of other events occurring just so they can have a cleanup

Just think: a few hundred thousand dollars in routine maintenance could have prevented half a billion in remediation.

What's really sad is the governmental agencies that should have taken care of this quickly didn't. It will never be the same.

I wouldn't trust them, or I'd at least be wary. Government doesn't have a great track record with honesty

NY’s Love Canal all over again. These residents should be compensated enough to move and start over. Fund Americans first!

This is probably the worst ecological disaster in modern America. Amazing to think they didn't just automatically evacuate everybody to prevent all the health issues to come!

This is absolutely rediculous, they can sent millions overseas while this is happening in our backyard 🤦‍♂️

Ugh...only 1 channel is playing in my headphones...hard to listen to.

I work for a RR and can tell you that it’s from lack of maintenance. They lower the time allowed per car for inspections and maintenance

I wouldn't live there, i doubt it's as safe as they claim.

To put it simply, nobody was honest about Flint Michigan, why would they be honest about this town that wasnt on any news radar until February 2023?

If you didn't publish this, some of us wouldn't know. Sucks.

No accident! China can buy the property cheap now?

My son-in-law is a hazardous materials trucker and has spent hours and hours hauling hazardous waste from this wreck.

I live in Western New York and this train goes by my house on a daily basis, im a block away from the track and it's scary and we think about it all the time if the train will derail. We have had trains derail in the past, but thank God it's only been coal trains and Small derailments.

My prayers 🙏 go out to the good people of Ohio

I'm in England and I remember seeing this on the news here. What a huge disaster! I feel sorry for the residents as that looks like it was a nice place to live prior to the accident. I'm not sure I would ever feel comfortable living there, you just don't know because government can't be trusted

16 states and part of Canada are affected by this.

Could have been prevented. There was a safety mechanism that Norfolk refused to buy because of cost cutting .

I watched a recent video in which a resident says the EPA people came to town to assure everybody the tap water was safe to drink. The EPA people were all carrying bottles of water they had brought with them. Nice message.

gaw damn i forgot about this completely

The main takeaway I took from East Palestine was that Vinyl chloride is used in the manufacturing of PVC pipes and everyone was asking why are we continuing to manufacture toxic chemicals. I would throw the reverse question if we stopped using PVC pipes that would stop the production of vinyl chloride but then how would you plumb certain buildings with pipes other than steel and copper that would need more frequent maintenance.

What do you think you're doing?!? Telling the truth?

Almost 50 years later People who were not alive in 1977 have bought Homes Near & around the Love canal area, Not really knowing what was on the "other side of the street", many of these people now have strange health problems, even though the site was supposed to have been cleaned up and safe per the EPA. Sad part is the waste that they dug up was burried 6 miles away, and in 2015 that waste had to be dug up again and removed because of Health Probems in the Town of WheatField, wonder where they buried that now? That area of Ohio will never be safe again, I WOULD NOT LIVE THERE, EPA has been proved wrong before

I was thinking about this the other day and thought how hadn't heard anything about it lately. I feel terrible for this people, imagine having to leave because you don't want your family to get sick or even worse that maybe you can't afford to leave and and having no choice to stay and possibly killing your family....frig

amerika is lost forever

Great video. My heart breaks for these people and what they’ve been through. Thank you for bringing this back to the public’s consciousness.

There’s no way one failed wheel bearing caused this accident. That’s a bunch of BS. I’m so tired of these accident investigators lying like this they know darn right well.

What an unfortunate name to choose...

Great Video Chris. Thanks for all Your hard work putting Your Videos together. Be Safe out there.

Thanks for doing this video.. It needs to stay in the news. A scary situation for the people. I would be afraid for myself & kids to play or hike to wander about in the outdoors. so sad more hasnt been done for the towns people. no fault of theirs..

An unattractive, depressing town to live in before and after the accident.

Did you smell anything chemicals?

If your rich enough to buy them outright, now is a goood time to buy a few house there. They ARE working on the clean up & by the looks of it, it should be done in about 2-3 yrs. When it is, the President will go there to declare victory & the media will cover it for a week to let everyone know its back to normal. I predict the land value should go back up where they were in about 5-10 years time. But now at rock bottom prices. Make a big profit in a few years to a decade from now.

I forgot about this, the media didn't spend much time on this event.

Thanks for reporting on this. I remember when it happened. No, I wouldn’t buy a home there but thanks for the video.

The governor of that state is the one who gave the order to burn all of those chemicals so evidently he would be then held liable for any damages, healthwise or other

The Government said the same thing about Centralia PA but people still moved out of Centralia. I would move to Centralia before I move to east Palestine ohio

I'm surprised you were able to get close enough to film. A year ago they had the military stopping people from getting in to report on it.

There's been a recent report of dogs from the area roaming about with two tails, someone said his dog had three tails but I don't believe him.

I live 45 minutes from here in Warren, Ohio. Still feeling the crazy aftermath of this.

Where is your president!!! Where is Joe Biden when something like this happens!!!! 😠

What’s been up with the audio on your videos recently. Are you using a new mic or something?

I wouldn't have lived there BEFORE this happened.

I been down thru there before. I was down at East Liverpool once too. It was ight.

No doubt that a ton of senators congressmen and other politicians made millions on this. And I'm sat the media was told to back off too

Investing in property there now might be a good investment for your children

you need to agitate the soil because the molecules you are looking for are not necessarily water soluble.

Best reporting than the media

That was a bad incident but it could have been much worse.

I Wright a Message few hours and it is DELETE WHY;;;;;;

Chris, don't even get close to the water, or throw away those shoes you were wearing.

Vance is now trumps vice pres lol

I lived very close to the crash site. Scary

Surprised you haven't come to Fremont to see Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museum.

I live very close to ep this was nuts

I wouldn’t want to live there.

They will never get enough money

They will see the results when people downstream come down with cancer/ birth defects. Same thing has been happening in W. Virginia due to the coal mines for decades. You can't 'see' dioxin. But you can see oil from the explosion/burning. How about fighting back by starting a renewable energy plant, build solar panels, wind turbines, train people to build, install and maintain? Long term, good paying jobs will bring people in.

I live 45 minutes away from this disaster site, sadly when they detonated the train, that black plume of smoke, made its way here into Mercer county Pennsylvania.

It depends on the proximity to the site. If your main concern is drinking water, you could have your own analysis made in a reputable lab and find neighbors who would pick up a share of the cost if you were to do it on a monthly or quarterly basis. Same can be done for the soil around your property once if you're not really close to the site. It only becomes really problematic when you have kids, because kids play everywhere outside and especially so near small creeks and you just cant keep them on a leash and its quite obvious that this creek is a longterm problem even if water quality normalizes, toxins seep into the creek bed and may get stirred up again for a number of reasons - if its a major river, this issue would not persist very long due to high flow of water. But if you prefer to just distrust without knowing, you gotta move elsewhere and hope that place hasn't been polluted previously. Undisclosed toxic contamination from a long time ago is a widespread issue in the US. Heck, people build their houses on top of 150 year old mines because nobody bothered to tell them and then get a surprise sinkhole in their living room - the devil-may-care attitude is a thing on the local government level too.

Do you know the channel Status Coup? They cover this extensively. They are also still covering the poisoned water crisis in Flint, Michigan 10 years on. It is still unresolved.

No I would not live there.