Im interested in keeping them safe not only as a get on and off school buses but in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. It is true that school buses have a relatively safe safety record. It is also true that children are injured every day or every year in bus related crashes. More than, i believe, and most accidents, we owe it to our children, to these students, to examine why these fatalities occur and what can be done to prevent them. There are school buses in my own district. Most take other modes of transportation, including walking, biking or riding in a car, going on public transportation. Children are often at greater risk outside the school bus than inside it. We have figure showing 264 students who died in School Transportation related accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle while walking near the bus. We are going to hear today from what congress can do to stop violations by drivers who illegally Pass School Buses loading or unloading pa
Tsb. Captioning performed byc captioning performed by vitac i do. I think thats a perfect example of one of the incentives that the federal government could use to provide increased Safety Measures for kids on school buses. Right. And back to ms. Poland. In your investigation of the oakland bus fire, you noted that the School Bus Engine designs often failed to mitigate the spread of gases into the passenger compartment. That can exacerbate a situation involving a fire, but can you speak to whether or not these fumes can regularly enter into the passenger compartment even in the absence of a fire . Our investigation, of course, focused on the postcrash fire this that event and when there was that significant fire in the engine compartment how the incomplete fire wall led to the fire being able to spread into the passenger compartment. Can you comment on the entrance of fumes into the bus cavity . The ntsb currently does not have a position on that aspect. Okay. Thank you. I yield back,
Ms. Norton todays hearing on School Bus Safety is a timely hearing with children out of to see what needs to be done to keep them safe. I am interested in keeping them safe not only on school buses and as they get on and off school buses, but i am interested in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. It is true that school buses have a relatively set safety record. It is also true that children or everyed every day crashes. Us related more than i believe in most accidents, we owe it to our children, the students, to examine why these fatalities done tond what can be prevent them. There are some School Districts, school buses in my own district, modes oftake other transportation including biking, car, goingding in a on public transportation. Children are often at greater risk outside a school bus than inside it. We have figures showing 260 four students have died in School Transportationrelated accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle. Hile walking near
Will broadly attack gaza city very soon with an emphasis on ground operations as the announcement made. According to the idf, because it wants to avoid harming civilians. The idf says over the last few days its soldiers have fought Hamas Terrorists in israeli areas around the gaza strip, regaining control of communities. Israel is vowing to annihilate hamas, relentlessly bombing gaza since last saturdays brutal attack by hamas militants. Israel urging civilians in the northern part of the gaza strip to move south immediately. Hamas has brought this upon us and we are now responding to the situation. And yes, we will employ significant military capabilities wherever our troops will be and wherever hamas is. So its an environment that is difficult and dangerous for civilians. We will do our best not to strike civilians. They are not our enemy. Abc news has been following tala hatzalahs story. Were leaving our house right now and we dont know where to go. She says she tried to evacuate, b
Slaughtered. Rallies on different sides for the same call of peace. This morning. Frustration and concern grows in the bay area as the israel and hamas war intensifies. The Israeli Military now preparing for its next stages of war. Good morning. Its sunday, october 15th. Im stephanie sierra and we will get to the latest in the middle east in just a bit. But first, lets check in on that forecast. Good morning, lisa. Hey, stephanie, good morning to you. Waking up to very dense fog out there. Visibility has been reduced to a quarter of a mile or less, starting out with live doppler seven. So you see the cloud cover ahead of us. High pressure is building in and compressing down on the atmosphere. Thats why we have all of that moisture right at the surface. So quarter mile novato half mile in napa, just over two miles in santa rosa, two miles in concord. And you cant see anything at all. Down by Half Moon Bay. So until 10 00, you can see the north bay, the coast around Half Moon Bay, all th