Nh hold a hearing on the nation partial roads. This is an hour and 20 minute portion. You can watch the entire hearing on cspan. Org. I want to welcome our witnesses in particular. To todays hearing as we are looking at the need to reauthorize not the cities our cities and counties are looking to us. A the focus has been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. The urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says f
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Building a better bay area. Moving forward. Finding solutions. This is abc7 news. Kristen hi there. Im kristen sze. You are watching getting answers on abc7. Every day, we talk with experts about issues important to the bay area and we get answers for you in real time. Today, maui vets save pets. They estimate some 3000 animals are still missing. We hear from a bay area Animal Shelter helping in the effort by giving some of the animals an aloha welcome and your chance to adopt a pet. Hurricane hillary, a powerful category four hurricane barreling towards california, but thankfully losing some steam. We will talk with the National Hurricane Center Scientists about what it means. More questions are being raised today over robo taxis and their readiness to hit the streets of San Francisco. This after the latest incident involving one of the autonomous vehicles. We showed you some video of last night. A driverless cruise car and a fire truck collided at the intersection of turk and polk. C