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
Here. Good morning to discuss the status of the National Rail network to have 140,000 miles of rail seven class one railroads and thousands of companies to ship products ands Raw Materials also and Intercity Passenger Rail Service operating on 22000 miles of that same network todays first panel president and ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation and the Economic Developers association testifying we will be. The Vice President corporation on behalf of the American Council mr. Randee gordon and the chairman to testify remotely and he didnt jeffries president and ceo association of american railroads and dennis pierce president of the teamsters rail conference. During this covid pandemic. In 1970 the real Passenger Service act was adopted to relieve our railroads on the common carrier to carry passengers. The statue created amtrak and provided real runs can be used by amtrak to offer intercity passenger real service, returns and compensation that are just
This hearing will come to 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 testify
A successor to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is early as next week. And off the rails hundreds of thousands of people are left stranded in south africas Railway System grinds to a halt. The u. S. Has broken with all other permanent members of the Un Security Council and declared the reimposition of sanctions on iran americas major allies britain france and germany say sanctions relief will continue the dispute is over whether iran the Iran Nuclear Deal that washington pulled out of 2 years ago the other signatories say the u. S. No longer has the legal power to force through any changes how they plan to get it to james space reports. Its aroud its even pitted the u. S. Against some of its closest allies and its now over 5 years since the Iran Nuclear Deal was signed in vienna joining the negotiations the us team under the leadership of the then secretary of state john kerry devised a mechanism called snap back if iran breached its commitments all International Sanctions cou
Cause infections to rise. We start in india which has become the worlds 2nd worst affected country by the corona virus pandemic in the past 24 hours Indias Health ministry has reported more the 90000 new cases and over a 1000 deaths the countrys been reporting the Worlds Largest daily number of infections for almost a month now but the government continues plans to reopen including resuming Metro Rail Services in the capital new delhi where elizabeth branom is live from one of those stations elizabeth so how does the government justify the reopening the numbers rising as much as they are. Good morning down by one would it is the economy despite india recoding more cases than any other country and yet it is easing up that it isnt our stretch and some are set to continue and thats also despite the fact that you will see a lot to consider that switch to span t. Bodies and independent politics but it will say that the real number of cases are actually many times the confirmed number where