Per hour. Back in ten minutes with more on the metro issue. Thanks. As melissa just mentioned happening right now, metro having some problems as it tries to roll out the newest 7000 rail car at the greenbelt metro station. We want to get to Meagan Fitzgerald with more on what happened before the rail cars get there. Whats the issue . Reporter well, a lot of folks are frustrated because theres an issue with the train that stalled on the tracks. Its monday morning, they were excited to ride on a brandnew 7000 series train. But if you take a look here, youll see thats not happening any time soon. Metro officials tell us that some sort of an issue with this train here. Not able to function properly so passengers had to get off and theyre certainly not happy about it. Now, it was around 5 35 when we noticed that the train was stalled. Passengers waited inside for a few minutes before metro employees told them they had to get off the train. Were told theres some sort of a mechanical issue th
In the fireside room. Today were going to be looking at items from our local History Collection which is called the boggs collection. So the collection is named after may bacon boggs. She moved as a child out to Shasta County in 1871, and she grew up here in old shasta. And she had had a love for history and particularly transportation and early california history. So she, throughout her life she was collecting items, and she did collect books, and she ended up giving some of her a portion of her collection plus a cabinet to the library, and that was the start of the boggs collection. Now the boggs collection has grown, and weve outgrown the cabinet [laughter] and we are now in many cabinets. It consists of probably about 5,000 items. And the collection focuses on early california history, native americans but then particularly the history of Shasta County. So this collection is important because it is a way for us to preserve the past and learn about the past in Shasta County. And wev
Nick mullens, how far back does that history go . Well, it goes back to my second great grandfather in the 1920s who worked in areas of coburn, virginia, for virginia iron coal and coke company. And what is the thoughtful coal miner . Why did you get it started . What do you write about . The thoughtful coal miner is my way of speaking to some of the rhetoric that comes from both the industry and environmentalists, to try to find some Common Ground between the two. Speaking specifically to miners issues and trying to help give a voice and try to keep some of the bias out. At the same time, working to get the truth out there. And what do you do these days . Youre a former coal miner. How long did you serve in the mines . What do you do now . Lets see. I worked in the Mining Industry for about four years. Three years under ground. Decided to do that because there just werent a whole lot of decent jobs in the area that i worked. You know, where my family had been for pretty much ten gener
Capitol hill studio by the Deputy Editor of the provincial energy news from the coal industry is in the United States what are the main types of coal mined in the United States . You to go from black to brown song that is mined in eastern pennsylvania is the not as much now. And then that type that is used for power plants than the type that is more brown and has less ability to produce energy but it is used in north dakota lot so that ranges to their different based and what part of the country. You talk about their ranges of coal talk about the mines. A lot of people assume all coal mines are power plants. But there are a lot of minds and there is the big marketlants for our metallurgical coal you estimate coal and steel and iron. A lot of the exports of overseas are for that metallurgical coal. It is and the power plant regulations but how much countries are developing and how much steel bidi to build there is speculation is our today our guest this morning should note that as we ta
Reporter the first time the president was confronted by reporters today he ignored questions whether he gave information classified information to the russians in a meeting at the Oval Office Last week. But he did have at least something to say today. President trump had this to say about reports he shared classified information with the russians in an Oval Office Meeting last week. We had a very, very successful meeting with the foreign minister of russia. Our fight is against isis as general mac masters said. Reporter National Security adviser mcmasters defended what the president said in the Briefing Room tuesday. We dont say whats classified, whats not classified. What i will tell you again is that what the president shared was wholly appropriate. Reporter the post reported mr. Trump discussed classified information that came from a u. S. Partner that was so sensitive, it had not been shared with u. S. Allies and was even restricted in the u. S. Government. Wanted to make clear to