And Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Happy friday, everybody. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im carson daly along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Matt is on assignment. Welcome to today, or as carson calls it, escape from the orange room. Good to have you here. Im a loyalist. I sat with my friends in the orange room. We tried to add orange accents so you feel at home. I appreciate that. Our top story, the frightening accident at the North Carolina state fair. Chris is in raleigh this morning with the story. Chris, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Authorities here on this investigation are saying they have few details stressing that its too early to say why, a vortex, a brandnew ride here at the North Carolina state fair, just as people were getting off the ride, suddenly jolted back to a start. It sounded like a bunch of stuff hitting medal. Reporter scary moments for riders on the vortex in North Carolina. Police sa
There will be needed improvements and, of course, the extension to downtown but also high speed rail is anticipated to have is a station at milling before a and were looking at additional grade separation as necessary that we the complete the l t k study that looked at 5 potential areas not decided where they will be but the passing tracks will enable the 4 high speed rail trains. We need to taking a look at system improvements not only for the high speed rail up to 110 but those will require additional funding. Throughout the process weve been cropping with key folks no San Francisco. Our Engineering Group has been working with the taurj to review designs and provide approvals as well as looking at the d t y. Weve been collaborating the tjpa study and most recently were continuing to work on a blend system concept of systems not only with tjpa but high speed rail at the table. Oakland were working with the city of San Francisco were going to be working with them on the i 280 study and
It might mean for the economy. And donald trump and joe biden each make a last bid for votes in swing states that could be key to winning the white house. The search for survivors continues in the turkish city worst hit by the earthquake which killed more than 60 people. The england world cup winner and Manchester United legend, sir Bobby Charlton, has been diagnosed with dementia. Good evening. The a week lockdown in england, which will start on thursday and is scheduled to end on december the 2nd could last longer. The cabinet minister, michael gove, said ministers will be guided by the facts. He said the government wanted to get the coronavirus reproduction rate, below the critical level of 1. The strict measures are set to come into effect on thursday. Theyll see pubs, restaurants, gyms, nonessential shops and places of worship, close. However, schools, colleges and universities can stay open. Travel and overnight stays in the uk and abroad will be restricted, and meeting others in
Vote vote the presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 73, the nays are 27, threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn have voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Cloture having been invoked, the motion to commit falls under the previous order. All postcloture time is yielded back and the pending amendments are withdrawn. The clerk will read the title of the bill pour the third time. The clerk h. J. Res. 124 making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015 and for other purposes. The presiding officer the question is on the passage of the joint resolution. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. There is. The yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer the vote is 7322. The joint resolution is passed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations, which the clerk will report. The clerk nominations, department of state, Mark William Lippert o
Revenue service at fourth and kinky didnt know it would be continued that fourth and king would stay as a functioning decision. I mentioned were continuing a concept of operation study thats really a study thats gone and its piggy backing on the rail yard study. What we need to do is fourth where we can accommodate all of the operational needs another caltrain were looking to see how much capacity the transbay can have for revenue and nonrevenue we may still need additional will storage as well as at t park. Were commissioner moran all those things but the focus is on providing service to transbay in the longrange term i dont know what the variation would be it would be annoys to say hear caltrain say once everything is ready to go platforms are in were dedicated to transbay and im not sure im hearing that. The other thing is with your blended system as i said earlier in the presentation i think you may be 13 to 15 years off when the high speed rail is coming in pr from what i casually