Hearing lasts an hour and 45 minutes. Were a couple minutes but will get started. The subcommittee on safety aviation will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today addressing close calls to improve aviation safety. This may be the most important hearing we have all year and i want to thank chair cat well, Ranking Member cruz and moran in their help to making this hearing happen. The near misses weve been seeing recently are not normal and are a warning our Aviation System is under stress. And today we will have an opportunity to hear from several Key Stakeholders about why were experiencing so many near misses and what we need to do to increase our safety margins. Well hear from National Transportation safety chairwoman jennifer hamady, chief operational officer tim worrell and rich santa, Airline Pilots association, captain jason ambrossy and former administrator randy back out. While disagreements tend to garner more coverage than compromise, its worth noting i
The outpouring for the daughter of soup star Whitney Houston this morning. And good morning, america. Such sad news about Bobbi Kristina. She was so young. Still so many questions. You see here there with her mom, whitne she died three yores ago. Still so many questions about what caused her death. Were going the begin with the flooding in parts of the east coast this morning. Alerts across the east coast. Nearly a foot of rain falling in the tampa area over the past three days. Ginger a lot more on the way. You want to see what over a foot looks like . It looks like this. You had from 6 to 12 inches of rain. We still are under flood watch from ft. Myers up to tampa as we go through the next couple of days. How much more rain could we get . Two to four inches if youre there at the coast. All the way to orlando, you could get up inches. Flooding concerns along of the east coast. We have to turn to the headline of Severe Weather. Three reported tornadoes. Today from kansas enhanced up in
Overnight. The outpouring for the daughter of soup star Whitney Houston this morning. And good morning, america. Such sad news about Bobbi Kristina. She was so young. Still so many questions. You see here there with her mom, Whitney Houston. She died three yores ago. Still so many questions about what caused her death. Were going the begin with the flooding in parts of the east coast this morning. Alerts across the east coast. Nearly a foot of rain falling in the tampa area over the past three days. Ginger a lot more on the way. You want to see what over a foot looks like . It looks like this. You had from 6 to 12 inches of rain. We still are under flood watch from ft. Myers up to tampa as we go through the next couple of days. How much more rain could we get . Two to four inches if youre there at the coast. All the way to orlando, you could get up to two inches. Flooding concerns along parts of the east coast. We have to turn to the headline of Severe Weather. Three reported tornadoes
The subcommittee will come to order. Our minds are elsewhere because of what happened at the baseball practice field menn of one to once again mention those two Brave Police Officers ever injured with a member and former member of the staff so we do not forget them and we wish there full recovery. Still with that be welcome secretary chao with fiscal year 2018 budget secretary chao comes to this position with frankly one of the most to impressive records of Public Service having served as chair as the Maritime Commission the department of transportation director of the peace corps not to mention in leadership positions in the private sector and not for profit you have large and complex organizations were fortunate to have somebody of your expertise and experience and knowledge facing deity as we face some challenges but nobody is more prepared than we have agreed to come back to Public Service has to always have. I work look forward to working with you to maintain the safety of our Tra
The subcommittee will come to order. Our minds are elsewhere because of what happened at the baseball practice field menn of one to once again mention those two Brave Police Officers ever injured with a member and former member of the staff so we do not forget them and we wish there full recovery. Still with that be welcome secretary chao with fiscal year 2018 budget secretary chao comes to this position with frankly one of the most to impressive records of Public Service having served as chair as the Maritime Commission the department of transportation director of the peace corps not to mention in leadership positions in the private sector and not for profit you have large and complex organizations were fortunate to have somebody of your expertise and experience and knowledge facing deity as we face some challenges but nobody is more prepared than we have agreed to come back to Public Service has to always have. I work look forward to working with you to maintain the safety of our Tra