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
The cash lane, otherwise good into downtown San Francisco. Carquinez bridge along the eastshore freeway to the maze westbound will take you a quick 19 minutes. Your peninsula commute very nice and easy over the san mateo bridge, 880 to 10115 minutes. A suspect is behind bars accused in a deadly hitandrun in san leandro. Its being investigated as a homicide yesterday on Williams Street near 880. Kpix 5s Christin Ayers reports on how police got a break in the case. Reporter the suspect, Kadeem Edwards wearing fatigue pants his hands cuffed, he is walked into a waiting patrol car. Police say edwards was driving a pickup truck used in a deadly hitandrun in san leandro. We have now located the vehicle responsible for todays homicide. Reporter it happened here at True World Foods Distribution Center in san leandro. Authorities say an employee at the center interrupted edwards as he was stealing recyclable wood pallets from the parking lot. Tried to stop a crime today and paid the price. Repo
Yes, i know while we are getting warmer, its not going to be overbearing. Its not going to be oppressive. Were 59 in crystal river, 68 in sarasota. Were going to bring it back up to 85 for a High Temperature today under mostly sunny skies. Enjoy it. Vanessa thank you. We have a few crashes were following here but just two notable ones which were going to mention right now. We have sky fox thats been keeping an eye on lutz lake fern harbor road where we have unfortunately reports of a deadly crash where a vehicle hit a home in a neighborhood just off this area and that did kill the driver. Right now what were looking at is the tow truck and a couple of officials, the authorities that are on scene. The vehicle, its kind of hard to tell, but its right there on the bed of the tow truck and its very, very mangled. This has the road shut down as you can see. No one is getting by in the area and so drivers will want to arounds for you, van dyke. We also have state road 54 which is going to be
Road today. Rain and drizzle continue to track through the kwwl viewing area this morning. Temperatures have been Holding Steady in the mid 30s to continue this morning until the temperatures will manage a few more degrees today but it will be fairly gloomy. We stay pretty gray through thanksgiving day, too. And we could see minutes. Easterly winds at 5 to 15 mph. Rain will continue this morning until the winds turn to the northwest and temperatures will manage a few m our top story this morning packing the bags and packing some patience today. Such a busy day on the road and at the airport. A live look at 218 in waterloo behind us now. Most thanksgiving travelers choose to drive instead of fly. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. You can tell not too many cars out on the road right now. But im sure that will change by tonight. According to triplea. There will be about one million more people traveling this thanksgiving season compared to last year. Thats the most weve seen