We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Host we are back with marcus. What does your organization do . Guest we are a professional organization who represents the anderships of state Territorial Public Health departments across the state. United states. Guest in every state the public of department has a commissioner Health Official and they are main constituents. ,hey have Leadership Teams running things on a daytoday basis. What would be your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Guest states have been very involved in this pandemic. They have been the frontline and so the organization of been working for has been working closely with them while researching issues for them and also one communicating also on communicating with others. What are your thoughts on recent headlines about the spike in covid cases . The wall street journal described it as everywhere. Guest it is very concerning. Its something we knew that the likelihood could happen. Knows we are seeing levels of infection we have not seen before
Normalize relations between isra and the arab nations. Also middle east policy goals for t Biden Administration challenges posed by irannd the israelipalestinian conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome David Rubenstein come present of the Economic Club of washington, d. C. Welcome everyone, to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th 35th season but its really not completely virtual because for the First Time Since covid has hit we are actually having live guests here today and its because its a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in at participating and a unique programor us because we have been doing everything virtual for almost nine months now i guess it is but our guests are here to talk out something very special, the Abraham Accords which assigned at the white house on september 15 with hea of each of these countries as well as President Trump eating there as the official host. Let me introduce our guess and i will make some announcemen aft
Well watch that very closely. Were all over the country right now as these counts go on and on. In the case of georgia, talk of a recount. Hillary vaughn is in wilmington, delaware, where the former Vice President is due to saw something to say something, and jeff flock in milwaukee, wisconsin. Of course, the state has already been called further former Vice President , but for the former Vice President , but the trump folks are saying not so fast. To Hillary Vaughn first, two states closely statute newsed right now scrutinized right now. Reporter sources telling fox news the president does not plan to concede at the moment, but he is planning on calling for a i recount in tight races like in georgia and also planning on battling it out in the courts in states like nevada where the Campaign Just filed a lawsuit late last night in clark county and wants a hearing in front of a judge by 5 p. M. Today. In georgia just over 1500 votes separating the two candidates, making the case clear fo