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
Thank you to the press and the immediate why for getting the word out and most importantly, we want to make sure that voting is easy. If you have any questions or concerns, what is interesting this past weekend, i heard from a lot of folks that said i didnt get my ballot yet, what is going on . What is happening. So people seem to be very excited about voting. We also want to make sure that folks are able to get their ballots and theyre able to get their questions answered and we make it as simple as possible and we also keep everybody safe. When were showing up to our polling places, or our Dropoff Center or this particular center here across the street from city hall, were all using the wash center to wash our hands and were wearing our masks and complying with our Health Orders because thats how were going to be able to continue to not only get through this but adapt to the needs to make sure that we are able to not only vote but vote safely. Thats what this is all about and so than
Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si
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Into the fare or Something Like that . And unfortunately, this is not a questionandanswer session, and i know this is being studied, so nothing has been determined yet. Okay. Well, i would like to advocate for taxis to, like, maybe, like, exempt from the congestion pricing so we can get our passengers where we need to go to from the financial, and thank you very much. Have a good afternoon. Thank you very much. Next caller, please. Operator you have one question remaining. Hi, its Hayden Miller calling in. I just wanted to support the motion in regards to surface l. R. V. Operation. I think that would be great to free up buses, as well as opening up the [inaudible] Creek Division on the weekends. Im seeing some of those buses out, which is great. Just getting the l. R. V. s out, it would be great and safer for passengers, and we can have more buses. Overall, its a great idea. Thank you. Thank you. Moderator, are there any additional callers . Operator you have zero questions remaining.