Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Right now if youve been levels of the atmosphere. Until the wind picks up, were outside, you no doubt know the still seeing sites like this. Haze has been sticking around. Warmer today if you look at the walnut, unhealthy air, 91 satellite view. We did manage a little thinning degrees. Of some of the upper level smoke similar toward the trivalley. Across the region. Maybe just a mile or two of you see here on the map, still visibility through the smoke. The fires off to the south and east. San jose, similar view, 83 the upper air flow still pulling some of that off to the north degrees. And west. For tomorrow, unfortunately, the view in san jose shows the looks like a repeat benefits. The numbers you see here in the story. 83 degrees, warmer than forecast from about 190 to 199, yesterday, more sunlight reaching the ground as the smoke just about the same range we saw has thinned a little bit higher up. For today. At ground level, everybodys so what were seeing now in san unhealthy once
Newsom. Last i cooked its august of 2020. My understanding is that in january, the end of january 2021, that decision will need to be made. The governor added hes focused on flattening the curve, keeping people safe and healthy. Criticism comes with the job. Not only is the Vice President ial candidate, but harris has been under the microscope for decades, dating back to her time as San Franciscos d. A. Melissa colorado has more on her scrutiny on record of crime. Reporter there was no audible applause or audience in delaware. The cheers were coming from living i keep thinking it started in the bay area. That first race when she was at 6 per 6 . Reporter she helped catapult harris political career as her Campaign Manager back in 2003, when harris ran to unseat her former boss as San Franciscos district attorney. She was the most progressive prosecutor. You know, she did recidivism programs before anybody was talking about that. She is a centrist moderate democrat, shes not a progressiv
Efforts to conciliate. Known as washington and lee university. What were gonna do today ladies and gentlemen as what we are going to do robert italy and the post war years. My coworker when we were upstairs before asked me if this was going to be a beatific asian did i get that were right . I guess it never hit me but i guess it might in a way. I am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do among others besides give you a timeline about what robert haley did in the post years, which i think is obviously one of the most overlooked portion of his life. Civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture im going to try to get across tea. Park services is big on themes. The amount, i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. What i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten that how far apa