Oklahoma department of transportation and the president of the dallas area Rapid Transit system. The hearing is about two hours. We will call the subcommittee to order. I like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen the reports in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our system which carries over 400,000 cars a day. With that volume of traffic, its amazing there wasnt any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the implementation of the fast act of state and local partners. Its the first long term surface transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill pr
Its a bill that provides very certainty and funding so our nonfederal artners can make smart long investments. Implemented by the u. S. Department of transportation. We look forward to building a infrastructure with our state and local partners and their oing to welcome today. I am grateful for this subcommittee hearing. I think it indicates that our subcommittee wants to get behind all of the interest that weve heard on infrastructure and see what we can really do. We know that a large infrastructure package idea, the idea of a large infrastructure package, which is on the minds of many in the administration and on our minds is not going to magically appear. We did a lot of and ill say, deservedly so, a lot of selfcongratulation when we passed the First Service transportation bill in 10 years, and i must say im very grateful, mr. Chairman, that it was a good bipartisan effort and i know you share with me the disappointment in order to get any increase whatsoever after 10 years, we had
It system. Well go ahead and call the subcommittee to order. And id like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen reports last weeks fire in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our infrastructure system which carries 400,000 cars a day. But that volume of traffic, its amazing that there wasnt a any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I also want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the fast act. This is the first Long Term Service transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its an Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill provides very much needed certainty and funding so that our federal, nonfederal partners can make smart long term i
Behind me is relatively calm but the weather has been changing by the minute. Overall in the past 24 hours we have witnessed steady violent, torrential downpour spread are forecasters of said that most of the damage of the storm will not come from wins but from the consistent rain and flooding. In our reporting we have seen just that. The National Weather service has issued a fresh Flash Flood Warning and also a tornado warning. Our phones have been going off the hook with all the tornado headings that hit your phone. We have seen 9 inches of rain just outside of houston and the National Weather service is saying anymore between 15 and 25 more inches of rain could fall. As you sit here in see the constant rain and we have a little break right now and youre saying to yourself this rain has to be going somewhere and with more steady days of rain in the forecast it seems like the flooding will just get worse. We talk about dirty water and the risk of disease and animals in the water and t
First an uptotheminute update and heres fox news meteorologist adam klotz. Its been a slow more the last several hours. Hurricane harvey making its landfall and two hours from the time it hit. The eye of the storm, that ring is where youll see the strongest winds. Weve seen consistent winds around 130 miles an hour and gusting higher. They dont come to your house and pull you out so hopefully folks left that area. If not theyre going through a long night. To the north of this and off to the east, this is an area where youre seeing strong winds pumping in the water. The surge will be another issue along the right side of this hurricane. Thats where the surge will be piling up the most. What are we looking at for the storm surge . Areas up to ten feet. I was looking at the website from the National Weather service and were seeing indications up to six to eight feet of storm surge. It can only climb higher in the next several hours as the storm system is stuck where its at. When you see a