For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
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A Tropical Storm slams into southern florida the state already water logged from 2 weeks of heavy rain now residents could soon be in even deeper trouble. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States into all of you around the world welcome we start tonight with the most Promising Development yet in efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic today the u. S. Drugmaker pfizer and its german partner by on tech announced that they are experimental vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in preventing. Clinical trials have not shown any bad side effects either of these hopes are being tempered by. The vaccine if all goes well will not be available until sometime early. Next year. The hope for an effective vaccine against the corona virus could be growing German Company biotech says test results are more promising than expected. As our results are showing that after the interim evaluation the vaccine is able to prevent infections with over 90 percent probability. So. This is how the socal
Off its good to have you with us there is positive news tonight in the fight against the pandemic and anti Coronavirus Vaccine developed jointly by the u. S. Farmers who tickle giant pfizer in germanys buying on tech is 90 percent effective in preventing covert 19 infections thats what the drug maker said today and this is the most successful trial so far of any vaccine and the Companies Say that they have found no serious safety concerns they hope to supply 50000000 doses this year and up to 1300000000 doses in 2021 and they plan to seek authorization this month for emergency use of the back seat in the United States several other possible vaccines are also being tested around the world. Well here in Germany Health officials or welcoming the news of a potential vaccine but theres debate over who should be vaccinated 1st. Germany is in Lockdown People and businesses a facing tough restrictions at the moment strict controls are the only measure to keep the pandemic at bank one way there