These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for five minutes. Todays hearing examines the current and future state of amtrak. The Infrastructure Investment and job act gave historic funding to railroads with a large portion of that money going to amtrak. Amtrak is a federally chartere
Its going to be better. Its going to be better than that i think. Right. So, yeah arc popular tv host giving up her dream job because of a gender pay gap. Thats a big talker. Shes now talking well talk about it as well. Right now well say good day d. C. We sure are glad youre with us on this wednesday, december 20th. All right. Also this morning, what else well talk about. New proof that this holiday classic will out live us all, well tell all about the milestone mariah song just hit more than 20 years after its release. Can we just listen to her for second. It is one of the greatest Christmas Songs ever. Number one christmas song. Turn on this Radio Station you can hear it probably every ten minutes. Feels like its a in a loop. Every time you hear you can help but bop to it. It make me think of the movie love actually. Which i love. Even austin is dancing. Even austin is dancing. Why are you not getting that . Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. If only we had White Christmas like that. Pick yow yo
Skies are mostly clear now and again its frigid and just getting worse unfortunately karen rogers with the details. You dont like a forecast that starts with that, cold and getting worse. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing us over the past few hours the clouds rolled in. We are in and out of the clouds and more than yesterday. Lets look at the numbers, 19 in bethlehem, 18 degrees right now in pottstown. 19 in warminster and 21 in center city and suburbs in new jersey and 22 in browns mills and 23 degrees in smyrna, delaware. Today is no exception. The windchills feel like the Single Digits now in philadelphia. 9 is what it feels like 10 in allentown and minus 5 in mt. Pocono and 17 in cape may. Through the height of the afternoon it will feel like its in the teens. Lets look at this cold air, monday 40 and below average but still that was balmy compared to the last few days, tuesday 33 and wednesday 27 and yesterday was the coldest day in nearly two years, the high of 22 with
Ill break the forecast down hour by hour to show you what its going to feel like as you head out the door, and during your day. Thats when im back in ten minutes. First Jessica Boyington with first alert traffic. Starting on the schuylkill expressway, watching a disabled vehicle on the eastbound side. Heres the cameras around south street. Somebody has flashers on. It might be a bus, but whatever, doesnt make a difference what it is. Theres a delay moving behind that. Thats the eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway. Backing up off the ramp on to the road, too. This traffic eastbound might have a little difficult time at least getting off. Well watch that for you. And also checking in with mass transit. New Jersey Transit currently suspended on the River Line Service in both directions between hamilton avenue and Trenton Transportation Center because of debris blocking some of the tracks at hamilton avenue. Thank you. Breaking news. Now in northeast philadelphia, dozens of homes a
Minutes. Maple shade this morning. This is look at our camera. Were beginning to see an increase in volume on the roadway, which is what we expect for this time of day, but no major problems to speak of. Lets take a look at the majors in new jersey rights now. 295 the turnpike as well as route 42 all looking good right now. I want to check back in on the schuylkill expressway. Remember i told you an issue going eastbound, multiple vehicles involved in an accident. Things are still moving in the area. Although i am seeing reports of a traffic disruption because of the crash in the eastbound lane. Now to breaking news weve been watching out of washington. The Government Shutdown showdown is now over. Just within the last halfhour the house approved a compromised budget bill. It was approve bide the Senate Earlier this morning. That house action ended the shout down that started at midnight. Members narrowly passed a bipartisan budget. Of course, they voted on the bill long past midnight