1, the chair declares the house when members return, well have live coverage here on cspan. This morning on capitol hill, Michael Whitaker testified for his nomination to head the federal aviation administration. Hes appearing this morning ahead of the commerce, science and transportation committee. Well take you live there now on cspan. Sen. Cantwell each day they help keep americans moving safely. 25,000 u. S. Airline flights carrying 2. 5 million passengers across the country and around the world. Today, you will come before the committee with more than 30 years of diverse experience in aviation, including executive leadership in the private sector and three years serving as f. A. A. Deputy administrator. He led the f. A. A. s modernization of the National Air Space system known shorthand as nextgen, and i hope he will be able to illuminate today the progress that weve made, important milestones that weve achieved and what we need to do to get it finally implemented. Mr. Whitaker wi
As the investigation songoing. Theyre trying to figure out exactly what happened, who may have been involved and what exactly is going on out here. As soon as we talk to police well come back live out here to you. Live in san jose, kpix 5. New at 6 00 a preview of the pitch oaklands mayor will make to the nfl. This wednesday will be her shot to convince owners the raiders should stay in oakland. Phil matier sat down with her. Reporter she says first she has to sell the owners, then she has to sell the voters of oakland. When we sat down with her, we asked how she planned to do it. Im prepared to answer tough questions, and obviously one of them is going to be what will the city do to help keep the team. And at what cost . Weve been clear that we wont directly subsidize stadium construction. Reporter what about free land . We have various options. Longterm lease is obviously a option. Reporter she will help with options like building up the bart station, especially now that the 49ers ha
More shots. Reporter let me tell you within the last 15 minutes, they just reopened Caesar Chavez road. Beyond us, you really cant see now, is the actual scene, the construction seen. I will tell you the suspect lost his life. The police say it could have ended up a lot worse because of the proximity to the hospital. Just after 40 00 this afternoon, Police Responded to calls of shots next to a hospital. There were five or seven cop cars coming down the street in valencia. Reporter once on scene, dozens of officers had their weapons drawn and focused on an elevator. Looking up atop the construction elevator was a suspect in it appeared to be white cover gals, holding a rifle. The rifle was directed at the hospital. Reporter construction workers saw the suspect was inside a freight elevator and had two firearms. At this time, officers do not know why the suspect targeted the officer, but they do know one of the weapons used came from a store in san bruno. The weapon taken, the shotgun us
Bernie and omalley. The poll our Political Insider will break it down. Lets get it quick check of your Weather Forecast get a quick check of your Weather Forecast. This is the Golden Gate Bridge where the sunshine is coming through and so is the wind. Look at the flag on the right side of the screen. Temperatures right now relatively mild in the low 50s. You can see the rain still coming down in the east bay. We will see though showers on and off. Mainly clear now along the coast. Lingering showers this afternoon. The main story will be the gusty winds. We are looking at a wind advisory for later this afternoon. More in about 15 minutes. First, marquez the headlines. Investigators pursue mark has the headlines. Investigators pursue the bombing in paris. There are places set up with candles, notes and flowers. Reporter French Police sweep the streets of paris. Growing vigils and memorials line the streets as the country mourns. We just want to not feel the fear that one has to have. Rep
Feel burdened with expensive effort of implementing changes that wont yield direct benefits for many years to come. This situation has led policymakers to question whether the current atc structure is best suited for the task at hand the longstanding difficulties of modernization on one reason to consider reform to the systems reliance on annual transportation appropriations and the vagaries of the political process make longterm planning for system capitalization management of the footprint difficult and probably more costly and the faa will always face challenges attracting and retaining the talent needed to drive major technological change when i must compete with cuttingedge businesses in the private sector. To address the challenges we must consider if theres a better way to deliver atc services for the traveling public and airspace users and im open to considering all ideas. Faa is a great record of safety regulators something that regulators something though continuous air Traff