Nations rail Service Needs 4 billion to stay afloat for fiscal year 2021. He made the comments in testimony before the house transportation subcommittee on railroads. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing. I want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco webx for the remainder of the time they are attending this hearing, unless experiencing connectivity issues or other technical problems. If a member is experiencing any connectivity issu
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California for a briefing on the wildfires ravaging the west coast of the u. S. Fires burning millions of acres have been destroyed millions of residents have to live in toxic air. We need a california farmer now dealing with the aftermath of an unprecedented catastrophe. Prevails in a 5 sets for the. Gold coast a win over germany. Was teams 1st ever in a grand slam final. Welcome to the Program Israel has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd National Lockdown to combat a coronavirus this comes after a surge in new cases that the new lockdown begins on friday and will restrict movement for at least 3 weeks. As israels outbreak threatened to race out of control Benjamin Netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision were going to be today we decided on a Strict Lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now weve decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. Door prelims lot of Health Ministry executives and hospital managers
Destroyed the overcrowded morea refugee camp earlier this week the greek army has begun building a replacement facility but most of the migrants say they just want to leave. Iran has executed a young wrestling champion in defiance of a Global Campaign calling for his sentence to be revoked and a veto of car he was convicted of killing a Security Guard during antigovernment demonstrations the 27 year old maintains he was tortured into confessing demonstrators gathered outside a rain embassies worldwide in protest. This is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at v. W. News or visit our website thats w dot com. Org. This week on the world stories. Tough measures against protesters and bella ruse honey with surprising side effects and turkey. But we begin in cameroon where the corona virus is spreading many people there dont realize there are more and more cases of color with 19 that makes it difficult to explain the risks and convince people to get tested histories of camer
Order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that [ inaudible ] the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing i want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes mooths smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco web x for the remainder of the time attending this hearing unless experiencing connectivity issues or other technical problems. If a member is experiencing any connectivity issues or problems, please inform the Committee Staff as soon as possible so you can receive assistance. A chat function is available for members on the web x platform for this purpose and member