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 testifying remotely. We appreciat
In pennsylvania. We start off with jeff flock, with the latest what is happening in milwaukee, wisconsin. Jeff, you were the first to say given some troubles they were having in the milwaukee area, but if they resolve them, they could quickly get this settled. They appear to be moving rapidly in that direction. Reporter yeah. The trouble was essentially just a tsunami of mailin ballots, 169,000 counted in this Building Back behind me. With all due respect to the president , he certainly deserves respect and to this tweet, it is not that theyre finding votes. They simply had a lot to count. And last night, as you know, neil, we showed it live on the air, we had pictures what was going on here, the counting of the mailin ballots. It was about the most transparent counting that i have ever seen. News reporters and other observers allowed to roam around outside the bounds where counts was taking play. To sob i have it, what everyone was doing, when the count came in, took from a trump lead
Mccabe grilled on capitol hill yesterday over the russia hoax, defending the investigation. But admitting he would not have signed off on the fisa warrant to wiretap carter page again, the very latest coming up. Markets this morning are rallying. A triple digit move this morning with the dow industrials up 190 points, nasdaq up 120 of, s p 500 higher by 25. This after a mixed day on wall street yesterday where Technology Stocks took a hit and cyclical stocks found new life. We will get into it with the dow industrials up 262 yesterday, the nasdaq down 159 at the close and the s p 500 yesterday down about 5 points. Jobs in america, employers are seeing a growth in job openings that rival prepandemic levels. Where are the jobs . We investigate. Plus, insure your bird, Financial Coverage for the centerpiece of the big thanksgiving day meal making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check european markets this morning. We look at a gain there was well. Th
So many problems as theyre well within the eye wall of a full and growing need the strongest typhoon to hit the country and perhaps the world this year and earlier today there was an advisory that word top government officials spoke where they talked about preemptive measures that about 19000000 people are actually going to be affected by this typhoon and that here in manila the impact can only be felt late into sunday police in hong kong arrested 7 prodemocracy politicians on charges related to a Legislative Council meeting more than 5 months ago the group is accused of contempt and obstructing a session to see crews in turkey are working to save people trapped under the rubble and is near a powerful earthquake on friday hit the western turkish province and the greek island of some all struggling a small tsunami at least 51 people have been killed and hundreds more injured. Turkish president recip diverged arrived in his mirror on saturday night visited one side of collapsed buildings
The dest, kcci, moines register, kwwl, and ktiv and senator joni ernst challenger theresa greenfield. In true 2020 spirit, this debate will not be like others you have seen. Steve, myself, and our three moderators are here in person. Our candidates join us remotely. Senator ernst is in washington after several days of confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett. Miss greenfield is live from altoona. Moderators. T our we have the chief politics reporter for the des moines register. And ron steele is the evening news anchor at kwwl. Is anator joni ernst native of red oak, iowa, and served in the military for more than 23 years. Is the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Democrat theresa greenfield hopes to unseat senator ernst. She was raised on a small farm in minnesota and moved to iowa to attend college. She has a background in urban planning. In 2018, she briefly ran for congress in iowas third district. She lives and oman with her husband. Now for the ru