Videos appear to show shimmering chemical contamination on creeks near the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and chemical leak. Experts tell USA TODAY the rainbow-colored material ...

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Water is pumped into a creek for aeration in East Palestine, Ohio, on Tuesday, more than a week after a train derailment released toxic chemicals. Angelo Merendino/Getty Images hide caption ...

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, took a video of Leslie Run Creek in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, saying that there are "dead worms and dead fish all throughout this water" two weeks after a train ...

The video appears to have been taken roughly 15 miles downstream from East Palestine, and just north of where Little Beaver Creek feeds into the Ohio River in Midland, Pennsylvania.

On Friday, East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway and other officials each drank a plastic cup of tap water, according to a video posted on Twitter by Ohio Lt. Gov. John Husted.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday reacted to a video from Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, showing polluted water in a creek near East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment spilled toxic chemicals.

Video shows an oily, rainbow-colored sheen appear atop a creek after being disturbed. State officials have said public drinking water is safe, but private wells may have been affected.

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that municipal water in East Palestine “showed no evidence of contamination" from the train derailment and chemical spill, he relied on data from a Norfolk ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine along with other state officials gave an update Tuesday on the train derailment in East Palestine. A week after a controlled burn of chemicals on the train derailed near East ...

Water is pumped into a creek for aeration in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train derailment released toxic chemicals. Angelo Merendino / Getty Images ...

Two healthy hellbender salamanders were found in North Fork Little Beaver Creek, something Ohio state officials called a "positive discovery" after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine.