Here. Good morning to discuss the status of the National Rail network to have 140,000 miles of rail seven class one railroads and thousands of companies to ship products ands Raw Materials also and Intercity Passenger Rail Service operating on 22000 miles of that same network todays first panel president and ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation and the Economic Developers association testifying we will be. The Vice President corporation on behalf of the American Council mr. Randee gordon and the chairman to testify remotely and he didnt jeffries president and ceo association of american railroads and dennis pierce president of the teamsters rail conference. During this covid pandemic. In 1970 the real Passenger Service act was adopted to relieve our railroads on the common carrier to carry passengers. The statue created amtrak and provided real runs can be used by amtrak to offer intercity passenger real service, returns and compensation that are just
Vehicles are targeted in lagos has Rights Groups say the number of demonstrators killed by police on tuesday was higher than previously reported. Protesters keep up the pressure on colombias president to resign as thousands marched through the capital bogota. And in some of the clearest language yet the head of the Roman Catholic church says same sex relationships should be protected by law. We begin in the United States where top intelligence Officials Say russia and iran have both detained some Voter Registration information the directors of National Intelligence and the f. B. I. Say theyll be consequences for any Foreign Countries that interfere in the vote lets go straight to mike hanna in washington d. C. Mike so what are we to make of these claims by the f. B. I. In this press conference now significant is the timing of all of this mike. But it was certainly a very dramatic News Conference hosted by the director of National Intelligence along with the director of the f. B. I. Int
This hearing will come to 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 including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
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A top military official tests positive for corona virus several others are now in quarantine. Shackled and imprisoned against their will dave reports thats revealed the shocking reality for thousands of people with Mental Health conditions and confirmation that are lakes in a valley walls poisoned by knopf a child and in his 1st interview since falling ill he once again points the finger at the kremlin. We begin the news hour in kurdistan a nation on edge after the resignation of the Prime Minister and widespread protests it follows sundays disputed parliamentary poll the countrys Election Commission has an old the early results from the vote and demonstrations of storm state buildings in the. Capital bishkek they were accusing the government of rigging the election in its favor protesters freed former president account by f. And other senior officials from jail but president sued by e. M. I. Because of has insisted he is still in control of the country stratford has more now from bish