158 billion. Following open remarks, lawmakers offer amendments focusing on high speed rail authority, face mask requirements for mass transportation, and Disaster Relief funding. Our third order of Business Today is consideration of the transportation housing and urban Development Appropriation bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize mr. Price to present the bill. Thank you. Thank you, madam chairman. I guess we can assume everyones now ready for the main event. Im proud to present the fiscal 2021 transportation housing and urban Development Related agencies appropriations bills. Before i mention a few of the bills highlights i want to once again thank our Ranking Member and former chairman of this subcommittee for his unfailing good humor and cooperation and collaboration. Hes a pleasure to work with. I also want to thank full Committee Chairwoman nita lowey for her steady leadership, kay granger for her leader and the committee. Finally i want to recognize our accident staff
Cases with about 15000 deaths china of course still leading the way with 81000 cases followed by italy topping over 59000 and the u. S. Now coming in number 3 with 39000 cases now taking a closer look at this nation with reported deaths topping 450 cases so in an effort to fight the rising numbers of these cases across the nation the u. S. National guard has been activated in the 3 hardest hit States New York california and Washington State now almost half of those u. S. Cases about 20000 of them are just in new york state alone now several states have been issued stay at home orders for its residents with some even ordering nonessential businesses to shutter its doors this means stay at home and avoid going out as much as possible unless its essential now current restrictions include the 3 biggest cities in the country knew your. York los angeles and chicago overall the policy affects millions of people here in the Nations Capital republicans and democrats are clashing in the senate a
Sonoran desert outside tucson, chuck price is chief product officer at too simple, a privately held global autonomous trucking outfit valued at more than a billion dollars, with operations in the u. S. And china. At this depot, 12 million worth of gleaming selfdriving semis are on the move. Right now weve got safety operators in the cab. How far way are we from runs without drivers . We believe well be able to do our first driver out demonstration runs on public highways in 2021. Reporter thats the when. As for the how our primary sensor system is our array of cameras that you see along the top of the vehicle. Reporter i heard about suping up vehicles. Its a little bit different, yeah. Reporter the competition is fierce, so much so that the technology is akin to a state secret, but points us to a network of sensors, cameras and Radar Networks strapped to the outside of the rig, all of it hard wired to an internal ai supercomputer that drives the truck. Its selfcontain so a bad wifi sig
Progressive vote there and they will pick up delegates there. And texas is a nailbiter and this could go late into the morning in terms of the vote there. A twoperson race at the top. Maine, and biden it is too close to call there, and we dont have a result there. And sanders is scoring a trio of victories, first in utah a commanding lead over Mike Bloomberg right now, and in vermont, sanders, and sorry, colorado, sanders is the projected winner as well as vermont, his home state. And looking at the night that joe biden has had and it is a big one, winning in North Carolina, virginia, minnesota, tennessee, oklahoma and arkansas and so he is sweeping the south and posting huge margins there which is going to make him rack up the delegates and it is all about the delegates tonight and not about the states that you win, but how many delegates that you go home with, and biden is leading in that regard. As we reset here at 8 00 p. M. Pacific time and california polls are just closing, but t
Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart, and we begin this busy hour with the intensifying 2024 race for the white house. This morning former President Donald Trump faces criticism after making a new warning when discussing placing tariffs on cars from china. Were got to put a 100 tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and youre not going to be able to sell those cars. If i get elected. Now, if i dont get recollected, its going to be a blood bath for the whole thats going to be the least of it, its going to be a blood bath for the country. That will be the least of it, but theyre not going to sell those cars. Trumps critics say he was inciting violence, but this morning trump posted he used the term blood bath in reference to imports allowed by President Biden, which he said are killing the auto industry. Meanwhile, the campaign for trumps democratic opponent, President Biden said february was its strongest fundraising month since