Virgin islands. The Senate Committee rooms of committee runs about 2. 5 hours. Good morning. This hearing has come to order. I would like to say on the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. The circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We certainly want to send her thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, i saw how he was doing. Apparently he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal defibrilator that mayiy have saved his life. There are still blockages to worry about and additional surgery and additional surgery work that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts and prayers. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, but for the last two and a half months. I have been to femas response center. I have talked to the men and women working with you. I think doing an extraordinary job, working
This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There is still blockages to worry about it additional surgery that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts. Thank you. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, for what you are about to answer in terms of our questions, but for the last two and a half months. I have been to femas response center. I have talked to the men and women working with you. Doing an extraordinary job, working 12 hour shifts for weeks, months on end. This has been unprecedented. S
Will be our guest on the bus. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Now, federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator testifies at a Senate Hearing committee on the federal response to the hurricanes that recently hit the u. S. Territories. This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There is still blockages to worry about it additional surgery that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts. Thank you. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, for what you are about to answer in terms of our questions
Park. This is something that bart says is going to be worth it. That screeching might not be as loud in a few months after bart engineers have added sound barriers and replace a 40year old section of track. Thats white no trains will be running between daly city and glenn station glen park. Dont even bother showing up to this other station because it will not be open until monday. And they will give free shuttle rides between the affected stations but you can expect an extra 2040 minutes because of it. People will be loading onto the buses. I usually just take bart during the weekdays. People like her wont have any problem. They will be up running again on monday. The next closure will be august closure will be august 1314. And then it will be every other weekend through mid october. Once we get it done it will be a decades long benefit that we will see. Reporter of you are planning to go to sfo tomorrow, you want to make other arrangements or allow at least one hour of extra travel ti
Bart station was shut down today after a small fire broke out on the tracks. Lee martinez is there with how passengers are dealing with the closure. Reporter they do have one track up and running right now, floor gonna be delays there are gonna be delays. We do have one track up and running. Crews on the westbound lanes are taking a look at third rail. This is where the fire was. And theyll assess how long its gonna take to get that up and running. Earlier the Train Service was shut down for about an hour. Reporter fire crews saw smoke coming from the west end of the station right in the middle of the tracks. The fire was in the instituting material insulating material surrounding the third rail. Anybody whos been in a bart station and has seen the third rail, and they see the fiberglass cover that goes over the rail, thats what was on fire in this particular case. Reporter there is some damage to the east tracks as well. Bart shut down all of the trains out of the walnut creek station