[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
First alert neighborhood forecast with meteorologist krystal klei and the most accurate forecast in town. Krystal. Good morning, guys. Were looking at a pretty cold start out there. Temperatures for some f us in the 20s. Were at 28 in allentown, 26 mt. Holly and 28 in vineland. Wilmington, youre right at freezing 32 degrees. And philadelphia now has fallen to 34 degrees, so just above freezing but even the lightest breeze is making it feel like we are below freezing. So layer up as you head out the door. Thats your best chance as you get out there. Now, for those runners youre going to look up at the sky, its still dark right now but may notice increasing clouds. Dont worry, i think the rains going to mostly fall after the Half Marathon is done today. But we are getting cloudier conditions ahead of that rain as it moves towards us and its moving quickly about 40 Miles Per Hour chugging along to the east. Its heading our direction and will be here by late morning, north and west neighbo
Marathon runners. Take a look at temperatures right now in philadelphia, 42 degrees, low 40s, wind not terribly breezy quite yet and the rain is not here yet. So a dry run. 32 degrees in reading right now. Were at 41 in wilmington and dovers at 39. Check out rehoboth beach, the marina near atlantic city, these numbers near 50 degrees to start. With the warm air flow coming in from the southwest today, some of these numbers are going to approach 60 as we get into the afternoon hours. Thats because we have warm front moving our way. This is the front side of the storm system thats moving our direction. And that rain is going to make it to us by late morning and then those early afternoon hours. And then its going to be on off moving throughout the afternoon, the evening, even early tomorrow. Remember i mentioned that warm front . Check this out, low to mid 50s this afternoon in philly, starts to cool a little bit, then theres the warm front. We start warming overnight. Not your typical p
Down. Just seemed like theres always something happening around this area. Reporter lauer roo reid never expected to see something horrible like this. Passenger train cars toppled from the tracks. Down on top of traffic that was flowing below. When we got to the scene, it was obvious that there were some fatalities and there were a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Reporter those people taken away in ambulances or standing wrapped in blankets along the road. About 40 miles from the seattle amtrak station where they boarded the very first run of a faster new route. Multiple cars and trucks were struck by train cars that left the train tracks and went down on to the road. Its terrible thing. Very upsetting even though when you seat pictures its pretty horrific at this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. Fatals are contained to the train. Reporter emergency crews saying there was no one angle to make out here. Just what commuters on the train and