Seeing the traffic. Lets start with the bay bridge toll plaza. I can see the traffic is backed up. Even some of these lanes will be slow approaching the toll plaza. There have been no major issues. The other slow traffic spot is the altamont pass. It continues to be slow. If you look at the rest of the east bay, we do not have a lot of slow traffic yet. Traffic is moving well in the east bay including walnut creek, 680, 24 and highway 4, bay point. Its been a long wait but later today, bart roll out the first of its brandnew train cars. Alex savidge is live in walnut creek with more on todays big debut. Not in time for the morning commute, it doesnt sound like. Reporter unfortunately not but maybe if you ride bart on your trip home this afternoon, maybe you will be riding on one of these new cards. This is a milestone day for bart. Its a long time coming. Were a lot of delays trying to get these new train cars up and running. In a few hours, 10 of these new bart cars will begin carryin
Rebels to syria. And given our track record, is that the right move for america . And people all over the planet with one thing in common, theyre not from these parts. Im ali velshi, and this is real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. Like it or not, the United States is involved in another war in the middle east. But this one is a lot more murky. We do know that u. S. Planes and drones and cruise missiles struck syria for the first time overnight, targeting Islamic State of iraq and lavant, isil fighters on the ground there, and they did it with the help of five arab countries, including saudi arabia and jordan that have joined president obamas coalition to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. This follows weeks of targets in neighboring iraq. They struck or damaged them, killing reportedly more than 20 fighters in raca alone, this is the capital in syria. Alon
Looking at ways that the vsos can be help us understand how the veterans are perceiving our care and the timeliness of that care. I think theres a huge opportunity there. I agree. And you know, chairman miller, i think it might be good to have a hearing where we hear from the vsos about their suggestions about how to fix this problem. I yield back. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, miss kirk patrick. We do have one hearing that will be coming up in several weeks. It will be specifically geared towards the vsos. And its at that particular hearing we will invite the secretary to be here to hear their recommendations, as well. Mr. Reese. Empty custer, mr. Orourking . Mr. Waltz. Im sorry. Youre recognized for five minutes. Again, thank you both for being here and listening to the testimony. I appreciate it. Ive sat here almost in this exact same seat for seven and a half years and just like you with the vsos and the va as partners and advocates to get this right for veterans. But im
Moreover, further setbacks are posed by Malaysia's decision to freeze new foreign worker recruitment in March as well as Oman suspending the issuance of visas to Bangladeshi citizens at the end of 2023 due to an oversupply of workers from the South Asian nation.