Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to wear a mask. I really appreciate that cooperation of for members appears remotely. House rules require that we see you, so police have your cameras turned on at all times during the course of the hearing. If they can let us you can use the chat function to send a request. And if that doesnt work, you can unmute and seek recognition. These arent ideal circumstances, but we are in the midst of a pa
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Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is friday, october 13, it is 7 00 a. M. On the button on the east coast. Florida Governor Ron Desantis is announcing evacuation flights to bring jewish floridians stranded in israel home, he said he made the decision because he said floridians are not he receiving timely information and assistance from the u. S. Embassy in israel and are not receiving followup after enrolling in the u. S. Department of states smart traveler enrollment program. He says he hopes to charter jets from israel to europe where residents can fly safely back to florida. Congressman cory mills joined me a while ago on his efforts, he has already evacuated 77 americans from israel. Heres cory mills just a few moments ago. The last few days i got 32 people out the first day through a ground evacuation, i was looking at the Northern Area and yesterday i got out over 45 americans from jerusalem an
Plan goal. And the trends are related only to this current audit period. So actually for all of these, ill just note that any metric that ends in a. 1 is a Key Performance indicator. These are ones that people can play with online. So in terms of the goal related plan, crimes are down, which is a positive trend. And im not going to go through all of these. You can find them in the report, which ill remind you guys later. So in the second goal, overall Customer Satisfaction is up, and for reference, a 2. 5 is a neutral score. So this is actually 3. 2. Its pretty good. Gaps and bunching refers to multiple buses all coming at once, and then having a gap between service. Really influences peoples daytoday feeling with muni, and its a big deal. So during this term, gaps improved, but bunching got worse. So the city charter calls for sfmta to be on time system wide at least 85 of the time, and although the ontime performance did improve over the cycle, we are still short of that 85 target. O