Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Thursday, February 23rd. I'm Nailibutu. Here's

what we're covering today. AI chatbots and the risk of misinformation. Plus, a coast-to-coast

winter storm. But first, how the Ohio train disaster could change the rail industry.

That's today's one big thing.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to visit East Palestine, Ohio today.

A train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed there earlier this month,

releasing toxins into the air and water. I got to tell you, ever since I came into this job,

I have seen the power that multi-billion dollar railroad companies wield and they fight

safety regulations, tooth and nail that's got to change. That's Buttigieg speaking on Good Morning

America this week, calling on the rail industry to make changes in order to prevent these types of

disasters in the future. The Washington Post Transportation Reporter Ian Duncan has the details on

these reforms. Hi, Ian. Welcome to Axios today. Hi, thanks for having me. Ian, first, do we know more

about what led to this accident happening to begin with at this point? We don't know a ton,

the NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation and they're pretty

methodical. They've put out some information suggesting a wheel bearing on this train overheated,

they have some video evidence that suggests that. Today, they're going to release their preliminary

report, which should have some new facts about the derailment and possibly the initial response as

well. That won't definitively say, here's why this happened, but it should give us some good

clues about what went wrong. Specific policies in the industry have been blamed for this accident.

What do we need to know about that? There's a general sense that the industry has shifted to this

model known as precision scheduled railroading, which is sort of an efficiency drive so the industry

used to rely really heavily on big trains that would carry all one type of stuff. And now what you

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