Or the hearing will come to order. Certainly pleased to have the Witnesses Today and members of the committee. We are going to try to minimize the time we spend talking so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those. Certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with things that involved passengers has recently as i believe even yesterday one of the most widelt reported incidents was in chicago with united flight 4011 and lots of lesson to be learned and im sure we will hear some of those from the airport and airline and industry and looking at what happened along with the chair and senator nelson. We sent a letter and it said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent some of the responses we got in finding out what we are going to do so that does not happen in f the future. This needs to occur between now and september 30 and part of the hearing is30 t
Or the hearing will come to order. Certainly pleased to have the Witnesses Today and members of the committee. We are going to try to minimize the time we spend talking so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those. Certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with things that involved passengers has recently as i believe even yesterday one of the most widelt reported incidents was in chicago with united flight 4011 and lots of lesson to be learned and im sure we will hear some of those from the airport and airline and industry and looking at what happened along with the chair and senator nelson. We sent a letter and it said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent some of the responses we got in finding out what we are going to do so that does not happen in f the future. This needs to occur between now and september 30 and part of the hearing is30 t
Order. We are certainly pleased to have our Witnesses Today and to the members of the committee. We are going to all try to minimize the time we spend talk so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with instances that involves passengers even as recently as yesterday but one of the most rightly and purported instances was with chicago flight 9411 and lots of lessons to be learned and im sure we are going to hear what some of those Lessons Learned both with the airport and airline and the industry are today and looking at what happened to Sarah Cantwell and i along with mr. Nelson, senator nelson really sent an immediate letter in that letter said the last thing of paying Airline Customer should expect this to be physically taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent, the responses we got and really to out what went wrong and what are we going to do to be sure that doe
One of the most widely reported incidents of course was at chicago with united flight 3411 and lots of lessons to be learned and im sure were going to hear what some of those Lessons Learned both with the airport and the airline and the industry are today. In looking at what happened, Sarah Cantwell along with senator nelson sent an meddler and that letter said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be physically taken off an airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent, the responses we got, and really to find out what went wrong and what are we going to do to be sure that doesnt happen in the future. This is a year where faa reauthorization needs to occur between now and december 30th and part of this hearing is to determine what needs to be taken care of without the congress and what needs to be taken care of in the law itself. Im going to turn to senator cantwell for her opening comments. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i st
News 4 at 11 00 sta good evening. Im doreen gentzler. And im jim vance. The School Delays and cancellations are starting to come in already. Prince William County schools are closed tomorrow. The university of maryland will open late at 10 00 a. M. You can see the rest of the closings and delays at the bottom of the screen. Roads are started to become snow packed. This is what like on i66 in merrifield virginia right now. Even some lane the beltway are disappearing. Weve seen coverage of this winter storm tonight including how its affecting travel. But first we start with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. Whats coming . This is what we were talking about earlier at 5 00 and6 00. Well only see another one to two inches. Thats what weve seen since about 6 00. But because of the cold temperatures were really starting to see problems on the roadway. Loudoun county Prince Georges County theyve been hit all evening with the snow. Some locations picking up two and three inches up near Freder