For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. 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
A betrayal. We dont know what we will do and where we will live. We just came here because we have no other option. We dont have a home. Yeah. I left everything behind in shoes. She a 2 bedroom apartment with everything in us. I didnt even manage to take any clothing with me. My neighbors dog, some of my clothes. One of everything, and this is wash, i came here in with a population of just over 50000 people is the biggest city in here think they could soon be dealing with up to 25000 refugees from nearby regions which are no longer under armenian control. Had several hotels so that people can live there for now. While we Start Building more houses, that people who have come from the regions all want to live in stock on the cards. And we have to explain to them the step in the current isnt big enough to provide for everyone. We have to live in villages in other areas. Even for those who didnt leave. Traces of the recent war around every corner. People in have gotten used to living in th
As rep. Tom cole, republican from oklahoma. We have asked you this question before. Always had a large reading list. What is on your current reading list. Tom i have just finished the splendid in the bio b is a wonderful recollection of his family during the war during 1940. Its really been day of the german and some of the countries in france. And then basically, what it was like to standalone against nothing germany. Until the june of 41, then the russians were in the war and then obviously, by december of 41, the United States were in the war. Its a wonderful read about a god that i consider literally the greatest person of the century. In the supreme ordeal of his long career. Also been reading. I just picked up the great historian by the name of jean edward smith. Great biographer. I read his biographies, tran10 eisenhower. And eisenhower was by far the best biography ever written about him and there have been good ones. It he died in 2000 in 19. So right now, i just got into what
After the beheading of a teacher dear paris and shown his class caricature of the prophet mohammed. And in other news r. T. Asks social platform twitter to clarify why one of its reports on the us election was labelled potentially misleading. Good afternoon thanks for joining us this is r. T. We begin in france which is once again trying to come to terms with the tragedy terror struck on thursday morning in the city of nice when a nice man rampage through a Church Killing 3 leaving several others injured the attack came just 2 weeks after the brutal beheading of a teacher in paris after hed shown his class characters of the prophet mohammed president. Has described the latest attack as an islamist terror incident. Live. It was relief but in this new tragedy today you see victims of islamofascism repeatedly denounced. As you know who descended. Upon for the siren of the firemen the Police Arrived quickly since really with bikers and everything that followed then they set up a Security S
Had a cool morning in the north bay down in the 40s but those are all gone now are looking at 64 in berkeley petaluma at 59 conquered at 63. Robin all right. Thank you john were checking in on the san mateo bridge or. I should say were searching for the 70 oh bridge its merits find the fog i just want to show you this so youll know howd incidents is for 92 and the dumbarton bridge as well a dense fog advisory in place so we can see why karl karl, the fog being very aggressive in morning right be careful driving through this to be the headlights only to wipers and space yourself out dont tell gate 13 minutes here to make it off to the peninsula. Its not like that at the bay bridge toll plaza beautiful lots of sunshine, a minor wait, so this is great here 10 minutes into San Francisco still tracking this one little trouble spot and this heading out of a point in to concord west for and willow pass an accident that still active not major, but you see how its backing up your commute. Lots