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
The latest on this tragic story, kate . Reporter absolutely. It actually happening as we speak. Im going to step out of the way so that you can see all of the Police Officers, the tremendous support from law enforce 789 ced so many members of the San Francisco Fire Department who are here paying respects to jason cortez who died this morning around 11 00. His body was taken to the medical examiners van, which is still here on site and they have a plan to process through the streets to honor him and his service. Lets go ahead and take a look. This is firefighter paramedic jason cortez who died just before 11 00 this morning from his injuries. He was 42 years old. He started with the San Francisco Fire Department in 2007, and was recently assigned to station number three in the tender loin, which sffd says is the busiest station in the country. Around 10 00 this morning cortez was participating in a drill at this tower facility in the Mission District just two miles from San Francisco ge
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