Gri grilling on capitol hill. He will testify before the Committee Just days ahead of the big travel city. The agency is still dealing with long lines at the airports. On tuesday he admitted there were failings at multiple levels. I think it is the case that we have had an institutional failure and not a failure of any one individual. Among the changes the agency announced this week was the creation of a centralized command team at tsa headquarters. More people are signing up for tsa precheck. The agency has received twice the applications since april doubling from 8,000 to 16,000. The application can be completed online but you still need to go through a tsa Service Center for fingerprinting. All five Service Centers in the backups. And the applications can take a month to be approved. Four things to know about todays weather. Chuck, where do you want to start . I want to start with how amazing it was to be outside yesterday and yes, indeed, warm and dry again for today. Made it back
cutting the trees, you know, more on a regular basis, we wouldn t have this problem. as of now, looks like the global etr is thursday evening. pepco announced that full restoration may not get power until thursday evening. an announcement the utility has been deliberately slow in making after being burned by unmet promises in past outage disasters. when we have to go look at the poles, look at the wires, analyze the damage, that takes time. we want our customers to know that. as a result, the etr, restoration time took longer than previous times. we are hoping it s much more accurate. if you want to know where you are on the list, the utility did begin, adding estimates to its map online. but the estimates are clearly conservative. customers here in district heights are giving good reviews. i feel good about it. i wish they were here, you know, maybe a few days earlier. this was our first major test. we haven t got the grade yet, because the test is not complete