Good evening. After months of waiting, the Utilities Commission will vote on whether or not to lift the restrictions on both cruise and waymo vehicles. There is public, so happy right now. We were at todays hearing and we have the details from leanne. It is still going on. With a bit of perspective here, on december 9, cruise first conducted its first driverless ride on the street of San Francisco. That company, owned by general motors, and another owned by google have been testing their vehicles, generating a lot of controversy. If this goes their way they could start generating money, after spending millions. You guys are not stupid. Dont be stupid. There was no lack of energy at todays hearing to determine the fate of selfdriving companies. It was up to four members of the California Public Utilities Commission to vote on whether to expand their accessibility. People heard hours and hours of Public Comment from both sides of the aisle. It is not ready for prime time. I trust them mu
this after the u.s. justice department informed the former president he s a target, a target of the probe. also tonight, washington, d.c. monuments are shrouded in haze as wildfire smoke from canada drifts to the nation s capital. we re tracking this air quality emergency as it moves into the mid atlantic and threatens the health of tens of millions of americans. and the flood disaster in ukraine grows even more dangerous as the region is rocked by shelling and the kyiv government accuses russia of shooting at rescue workers. i ll acquit white house official john kirby about that devastating dam collapse and the broader state of the war right now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with donald trump apparently in imminent legal peril. once again, the u.s. justice department moving toward a final decision on indicting trump in the classified documents probe after alerting the for
On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 50 years and until recently has operated in the same manner and relied on the same outdated tools since its creation and i just applaud the progress that youre making as flooding in the United States is a significant and costly problem for coastal and inland residents. Unfortunately, theres only one provider for nearly all Flood Insurance and the governmentbacked program which sells in a 93 to 95 of all rest tension Flood Insurance in the country. Thats not just a bad idea from the perspective of
special counsel s investigation. standing by for the next big announcement in the race for the republican presidential nomination. the former new jersey governor chris christie kicking off his campaign this hour. we ll have live coverage. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news on the special counsel s investigation of former president donald trump. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us right now. paula, tell us about this new york times report and why potentially it is so significant. reporter: incredibly significant in the special counsel investigation. the new york times reporting trump s former white house chief of staff mark meadows testified before the grand jury, that special counsel jack smith has been using in both of his investigations, both into january 6th and also into the
America about the waverley Train Derailment and and im sorry about a Train Derailment in waverly, tennessee dr. Ali is a cardiology and former president of the vanderbilt history of medicine society. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt Universitys college arts and science with a bachelors degree in molecular biology and and then she attended Vanderbilt School of medicine and she still lives near waverly, tennessee. So in turn the floor over to her, dr. Ellie, thank you. My reading is from the introduction to the book but the end after the taylor is of metal and machine have had their turn. We always eventually find that what it down to is the people involved the people who lived the people died, the people who endured with uncommon bravery, who cleaned the mess and who were to deal with the aftermath and all that entailed. This book, a true story told to me directly from the mouths of these very people, the ones who were there and lived it firsthand, who emerged from the wrec