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
Terms of economy and in terms of political stability now being on the list of state sponsors of terror has greatly hindered sudans economy and its ability to attract Foreign Investors and to even deal or invest in Foreign Trade outside of a country thats resulted in severe hard currency shortages and we can see that just by taking a walk around the streets of khartoum you can see people lining up for bread due to shortages of wheat you can see people lining up for fuel due to shortage of petrol and thats because the country has been suffering from this hard currency shortage that makes it very difficult to import basic necessities. Of freedom around 900. 00 prisoners from jail in the democratic republic of congo the jailbreak happened in the eastern city of beni the mayor is blaming a local group. Thailands Prime Minister is recalling parliament for a special session next week as protesters continue calls for him to quit thousands have rallied for several days in the capital bangkok th
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Out 3 weeks ago and smith is in the armenian capital. This information about the nature has come from the armenian side it is the armenians that have been pushing for a ceasefire in the last few days is the armenians that have been losing territory to these areas is areas have taken now we understand territory that is essentially in the buffer zone between the golan oconnor about. This is territory that armenia has controlled since the 994 ceasefire armenia considers it a buffer zone a security zone but it is as airy territory for the last 26 years at least both sides armenia and azerbaijan have supposed have been negotiating the future of this territory as well as nagornokarabakh now its the armenians its the armenians who say that this is a security and a buffer zone is the azeris say that after 26 years nothing has been done theres been no solution theres been no resolution as to what to do with this territory and so with the support they have been moving militarily and they have su
To increased economy. There is a one month to in germany, not good for our market, same thing in france and a Record Number of new cases in america over the last seven days. Thats not good either and a time clearly running out for stimulus package before the election. We will ask larry kudlow about that. Dow industrial 900point drop yesterday, dead flat at the opening of this morning, pretty much the same story for the s p, modest rebound for the nasdaq. This is the big day for big tech, apple, amazon, google and facebook will tell us how they are doing financially. Report on this about 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. Extreme importance because these are the most important and powerful countries in the world. Their stocks have had a terrific run, but they have come off their highs and we will ask if the blue is coming off the big tech. Campaign headline, joe biden leaves his house again. Today hes off to tampa, florida and so is the president. The latest poll shows a dead heat, 48,