Amtrak. Ian jefferies, president and ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim sube, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission. And jennifer hamade, board member, National Transportation safety board. I continue to be a strong support of our rail industry, freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient and also reduces congestion of our highways and spurs economic growth. In mississippi, for example, we have 26 Freight Railroads. 2,400 miles of track, five of the seven class ones, two Long Distance amtrak routes, two stations and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vital to mississippi. I have been a tireless advocate for the restoration of the gulf coast Passenger Service which was suspended in 2005 after hurricane katrina. With funding support from d. O. T. , amtrak and the states, i am please today report that mississippi, louisiana, and alabama are likely once again to have this amtrak route and that will give mississippi
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists commit smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez mr. Speaker a few weeks ago i was on the h. B. O. Show real time with mill maher on friday night and had a chance to talk with ann cowl ter. As you might have guest guessed i dont have my speed dial. It was several days after donald trump was running for president. When it was my turn i told mrs. Colter what they were saying about mexican immigrants would serve as a vote rergestration machine to turn g
Minus. They are scaling back social Media Networks no longer required to use your google plus account to post videos or comment on youtube. Google will do the same with the other services. For the last four years, google has been trying to ramp up google plus to compete with facebook. Users responded with resistance. Even though google plus is scaled back google insists the social website is not going anywhere. Apple giving a smart watch more exposure as the Holiday Season approaches allowing best buy stores to sell it. Best buy is selling on the website and 100 stores in august. When the shopping season rolls aaround, other stores will sell the watch from 350 to 700. Nbc bay area news begins with breaking news. That breaking news is a girls body found in a dumpster and a teenager arrested. The search of the missing 8yearold girl in santa cruz. Good evening, everyone. If you are just now joining us weve been on early because of giants baseball here on nbc bay area. Whats happening . Sa
Hall. You will need to bring extra bottles of water to try to stay cool today. Right now its in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Were already starting out with mild temperatures and this is where were headed today, in the north bay reaching 97 degrees, 84 degrees in San Francisco and also in the east bay into the upper 80s. Right now once again you can see jy9u asq than yesterday at thi time and we could be hitting those triple digits in the trivalley. I will have more on that and what to expect the rest of the week, its coming up in the microclimate forecast. A great morning right now, for example, at the san mateo bridge. Lets take this full to screen, folks, there you see, my trodness, it vanished well, anim look at the map. Its sticking around and no problems on 92 there. You see the green all around the bay. We will give you a heads up, there is again a game at t and t park, again with the brewers, hopefully again we have a mice win at the end. A smooth drive into the city via a Golden
The santa cruz apartment complex where that body was found. Steph, she has more on this developing story including the arrest of a teenage suspect who lives in the same complex. Reporter thats right. Absolutely tragic heart breaking story at the tannery arts center. You can see some Police Officers are just looking with flashlights around the buildings here. They are still here focused in the area where police found the body of who this he believe is eightyearold maddy middleton. The state department of justice is also here processing the scene. A 15yearold boy who lives here arrested on suspicion of her murder. Weve blurred his face because of his age. This is before 8 00 last night at the apartment complex where middleton was last seen riding her shooter. She had been out playing with friends and witnesses put the 15yearold in the area and time of maddys disappearance. Someone in the complex who saw the individual. As far as what had he actually saw him do, i dont know, but we do hav