About 7 1 2 months since you last played a Football Game and after the most unusual of offseasons, when you had nothing on the field at all, all done remotely, no otas, the way youre used to doing it, no minicamps, no preseason, is your Football Team ready for september 13th . Our team is to me, theyre more than ready to play, i mean, being, you know, its the execution and everything well see about, but everyone has the same deal, you know . Everyone has limited time and stuff and when you get out there, im sure there will be stuff that, man, this should be automatic but its not kind of automatic until they mess up. And then they realize, all right, i y can get rid of a lot of that in the preseason, whether its the guys doing it or watching someone else mess it up, so, thats stuff like its a little bit shorter on, but in terms of ready to play, i mean, being away and not being able to go to work, i mean, it started with me, i could tell the players feel the same way to where its nice f
Transportation and infrastructure. Transportation industry representatives testify about their role about shipping personal protective equipment and other essential goods during the pandemic. Today we will hear from these speakers. Thank you all for being here. One of our participants is testifying remotely. Welcome to each and every one of you. We have conducted a series of hearings on covid19. We are hearing those discussions. We are continuing that by hearing about the Transportation Industry. Theave underscored importance of our Transportation Network and moving goods and people safely and efficiently as well as ensuring supply chain fluidity in response to the unexpected events. Manye grateful for the frontline workers who have shown resilience and resourcefulness to help deliver Critical Care supplies to those in need. The transportation sector has countless numbers of these unsung heroes. Introduced a Critical Infrastructure employee protection act. For arcde support frontline C
Good afternoon. The committee will come to order. The today the committee convenes for a hearing on the state of transportation and Critical Infrastructure examining the impact of the covid19 pandemic. I welcome our panel of witnesses and thank them for participating. Today we will hear from mr. John bazella, president and ceo, alliance for automotive innovation. Mr. Randy gill yot, chairman of the board, American Trucking associations. Mr. Ian jeffries, president and ceo association of american railroads. Mr. Alex oler, interim president and ceo interstate Natural Gas Association of america. And mr. Larry willis, president Transportation Trades Department aflcio. Thank you all for being here. I understand, mr. Gilliot is testifying remotely. Welcome to each and every one of you. The committee has conducted several oversight hearings on quid pro quo 19 including a comprehensive look at the aviation industry. We are considering the impact of the covid19 virus on surface transportation a
Bay bridge. People also been smelling the smoke. You can see this video here. This is sort of a good look at what weve been seeing out here throughout the its also drawn a lot of spectators, people that stopping jumping out of their cars on the a overpasses here seeing whats burning again. This is that the snitzel steel area and this is that port of oakland firefighters have several crews that have been out on scene here, of course, with all this smoke up in the air, theres some warnings tonight e from the bay area, air quality district and letting people know to expect smoke, especially as the wind has been sort of blowing in this western direction. But its also going to start moving more south. So people alameda island, southern oakland, san leandro, hayward, fremont those areas, theyre probably going to be selling smelling the smoke at at some point tonight if they havent already been. So, of course, its a advise that you close your we talked with a couple of people who actually cam
We have a single and in response and weve also made a request for the city of alameda fire, both to come across the estuary. More from me, the waterfront. What is burning right now . It its look at the debris pile of some the cause right now is on notice and i have not spoken to crews actually on you know, actually actively fight the fire. But we do get a fire to once every couple years. It does put off a tremendous amount of smoke. Again, takes a long time to extinguish. Yeah, that smoke would seem to be a concern talk about that. What residents in that area need to know about that kind of smoke thats drifting over, obviously, that that kind of smoke would be hazardous. Yeah, i think lead in the area burning is is rather isolated. But anybody with say about a quarter mile draft you know, take that are precautions that closing your windows fire could still be getting off some smoke again, probably. You know, 7. 38. Oclock in small amounts as we continue to water on take it apart and pu