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Health concerns are lingering in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed on February 3. Residents were temporarily evacuated from the area two days later to allow for a controlled burn of the chemicals, which 

sent a large plume of black smoke into the sky

Health officials have been monitoring the air and water in town, while some residents have reported nausea, headaches, red eyes and rashes.

A local doctor tells us what the medical community there is seeing.

Nicholas Proia is a pulmonologist in the area and a clinical professor of internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, not far from East Palestine.

The chemicals the Norfolk Southern train was transporting have the potential to cause a range of health issues.

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 Proia said pulmonary doctors in the area were bracing for a rise in patients after the derailment and controlled burn, but that he hadn't experienced it.

Proia said the main thing to monitor now and into the future was water.

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is furious with Norfolk Southern, 

 that it had "given the middle finger to the good people of Pennsylvania and Ohio" in the way it had handled its response. He said authorities on his side of the border would also monitor water.

 it had taken control of the cleanup, requiring Norfolk Southern to foot the bill — not just for its own plan, but for any work done by the agency.

Lauren Hodges

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Officials are monitoring the air and water in East Palestine, Ohio, since a train carrying chemicals derailed there. A local doctor tells us what he is seeing.

A doctor near East Palestine, Ohio, details the main thing he's watching for now

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