Minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from florida is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Brown thank you mr. Speaker. Here we go again passing another extension and failing in our duties to provide a world class Transportation System. Transportation program is much too critical to our economy to be delayed any longer. Unfortunately, the Republican Leadership in washington continues its long running failure to fund Surface Transportation Infrastructure programs. Just last week House Republicans passed a bill cutting taxes by 269 billion for the richest 1 of americans with no offset but failed to pass a real transportation authorization bill that put america to work. We know for every billion dollars we invest in transportation it generates 44,000 permanent jobs. In closing second anthony foxx said all of us have a role to play in shaping our secretary anthony foxx said all of us have a role to play in in shaping our nations infrastructure. As we saw last week during the tragic Tr
Year. The last longterm bill we passed with safetealu in 2005. That was 10 years ago and that bill was underfunded because of the resistance of raising the gasoline tax or identifying new revenue sources. For over a decade we have failed to address the funding challenges necessary to break the cycle of underinvestment and put this country back on a competitive path with the rest of the world. Today we spend about 1. 7 of g. D. P. On infrastructure while china spends 9 , europe 4. 5 to 5 . We used to spend 4. 5 to 5 also. There is a 800 million backlog. Public transit has an 6 billion backlog of critical maintenance and repair needs which increased by 2. 5 billion each year as bus and Rail Infrastructure ages. While infrastructure crumbles around us, we dont fill the gap in the Highway Trust Fund just to do a longterm bill at current levels. But this week they will put on the floor a tax extenders that will cost 182 billion over 10 years completely unpaid for. Im concerned that we will
Minutes. Welcome to mornings on 2, sunday, may 17th, im claudine wong. . Good morning. Im mike mibach. You never know what youre going to see here. And we saw a little of the clouds above the sky. Another school start for those participating in the race today. Yes, youll see jackets to start the morning. Maybe once the race gets going well see jackets shed. In the time being, cool and cloudy conditions. That onshore breeze sticking around for sunday. Heres a live look at the sun trying to shine bright. Not going to happen. Weve got those clouds widespread once again, well inland and we are looking at another below the average day for your temperatures. Giving you a look at the cloud cover. Low clouds, mid and high level clouds also in the forecast today. Right now 55 concord. 51 napa. 55 at sfo. Low 50s in novato. So temperatures fairly uniform and similar to how we woke up yesterday, maybe a tad warmer in areas. I dont think youre going to notice much if youre getting out early, for b
Israels commercial capitol. Five such batteries called iron dome are being deployed and three more are being rushed into production. In an expansion of the air war against hamas, they struck the movements of the Prime Minister overnight. Attacks were also aimed at other parts of the political structure including a building where the cabinet meets. Gaza is one of the most densely Populated Areas in the world and any escalation to non military targets carries the risk of increased civilian casualties. More tan 40 palestinians have been killed at least half civilians including women and children. This girl who was pulled from the rubble appears to be alive. Hamas releasedhis video they claim was their rockets being launched. Department buildings were hit by four of them that evaded the iron dome batteries deployed. Hamas is getting a Political Boost from visits like this one today by the foreign minister. He called on the International Community to help stop what he called this blatant ag
82 Miles Per Hour, that is how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was traveling before i derailed sunday outside new york city. The train was heading into a dangerous curve and should have been going 30 Miles Per Hour. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, its good to have you with us, im thomas. Crews used heavy equipment to clear the crash scene and turned the derailed cars upright and put them back on the tracks. Al jazeera erica has the latest on the investigation and good morning. Investigators say over the next few days the rail cars and train will be moves to a secure location for a more detailed examination. At this point they have not determined if the train wreck which killed four people and injured 60 others was the result of facility brakes or human error but each day it uncovers information as the victims families demand answers. The metro north train derailed after taking this turn at a speed nearly three times the allowed limit. The train was trave