My questions on the safety bill i introduced with the Ranking Member and congresswoman capps. The companion legislation pass td senate with bipartisan support as part of the senates highway bill, and is supported by the rental car industry. Many of them are here today. Consumer organizations and General Motors and honda and others. It would ensure that rental Car Companies fix recalled vehicles in their fleets before renting or selling them. So let me ask you, mr. Administrator, thank you for coming today, come to opponents of the legislation said rental Car Companies should be allowed to rent or sell unrepaired, defective, recalled cars, unless the manufacturer has specifically issued a, do not drive warning. Is there any federal standard for when a do not drive warning must be issued . Thank you for pointing that out because that do not drive issiis issued by the manufacturer, not nhtsa. Theyre determining whether or not the criteria would be to allow that to occur on a rental or use
Automotive space . What form of guidance are you currently giving . Have you laid that out, and what do you intend to do . Because we all know you cant be technology specific, if you will. Youre going to have to umbrella this. Speak for just a moment before we run out of time. Speak to that. I can just very quickly tell you, some of those are already clearly outlined. Things like the electronic data recorders that exist. There are privacy concerns there. They, for example, dont collect anything about the drivers. Those already have fairly clear its more communications issue. I think what were now talking about is a lot of new areas that we are just understanding. Because our cars are computers. Youve highlighted something important. Its going to require increased collaboration between our agenesis for us to be able to apply our expertise, so we make sure we protect people. When there are malicious attempts to go after the data, we have ways to keep people protected. I appreciate that.
Next. Now abc7 news at 1 1 00 on you side. Three people hit and killed on a road in just 24 hours. The victims ranging in age from teens to a 95yearold woman. These accidents happened during new hours of darkness during the fall season. Theyre bringing up questions about crosswalk safety and driving dangers. Richard reid is live. Hes got the story for us tonight. Richard . Were in klum by pike where an 18yearold woman was killed. You talk about the darkness. Darkness falls early this time of year. Police call it a danger season, difficult and dangerous for pedestrians and drivers. Emergency flare marks the area of the most recent fatality in our area. Its very sad. First it happened right here. Foya wasrold michelle walking here around 6 30 when she was struck. She died later at the hot. Hospital. I guess she was trying to crash the street and sadly she died. Three fatalities in just 24 hours in. Bethesda marge was killed around 7 00 wednesday night. Sylvia araso was killed at 6 25 wed
Tom steyer, pumping money into progressive candidates and steve stivers, chair of the National Congressional committee are both here live with me this hour. Do not miss it. Lets start with Paul Manaforts no good very bad day or year, that could get worse with the special counsel now accusing him of trying to tamper with potential witnesses. Prosecutors say he used enkriptded message apps to try to reach certain witnesses with one person telling the fbi mania for the was trying to, quote, subborn perjury. That means to bribe or lure. At least two witnesses have handed Text Messages over to officials. All of this while he was on house arrest. Prosecutors dont like that and now want a judge to take another look. It means the 69rold might end up behind bars until his trial later this year. We dont fwho who tknow who the witnesses are. Manafort is not faces charges on anything connected to the campaign or the president. Hes accused of illegally lobbying on behalf of the ukrainian government
that hospital at the time. fox news confirming jeb bush making campaign cuts across the board. ed henry live just outside d.c. for us. carl, what s going on with bush s budget cuts? a reorganization of his campaign. he wants to take about a million dollars of his expenses and eliminate them per month. at the end of september the former florida governor had about $10 million in his campaign accounts. when you look forward to iowa, which is the iowa caucuses are 100 days from now, that s the first of what amounts to 27 states voting in about six weeks from that point. $10 million in whatever he can raise until then has been burned through fast. he s going to cut 20% of his travel expenses and 40% of his payroll. that means a lot of people will be moved around the country trying to save money and really digging in for what bush is acknowledging with this is paa s farther fall he expected and much steeper climb. donald trump and the super pac supporting him. what s happened