Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s
Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s
Really get it out of your blood. Is an important topic at the right time thank you so much to be here into our partners have sponsors and to the talented team to put this together our transportation infrastructure expert. The chamber is a founding sponsor which i meant to ask the team we are the founding sponsor of iweek and i am proud to see how this has grown and reached with programmatic activity every year. You know, about infrastructure that will ever learn so ill have to tell you what a problem is for the country as a nationwide challenge with a nationwide conversation over the next five days we will gather to focus on the for structure at 100 defense nationwide chicago, boston chicago, boston, a salt lake , and right here in the Nations Capital. We will send a strong and unified message ladies and gentleman the time is now. We have a once in a Generation Opportunity to make major progress and we must seize that with urgency. We have all read the grim statistics and because of th
The visibility has come up a little bit, but its still thick and dense in parts of the area. As a matter of fact, the National Weather service continues the dense fog advisory until 10 00. Well see if the visibility comes up slightly. Well see foggy conditions through the first part of the afternoon. Were up to 3 miles so theres an improvement in philadelphia. 3 miles in wilmington. Less than a mile north and west. Allentown,. 3. Atlantic city, one mile, millville, 3 miles. If by some miracle the fog does lift anytime soon all these clouds will roll in anyway. As this shield of cloud cover rolls in, that will produce scattered drizzle throughout the afternoon hours. Yesterday it was kind of gray and gloomy, today pretty much follow also suit. Areas of fog and drizzle, 52 degrees is the forecasted high. This becomes your noreaster for tomorrow. Ill have details on the timing, how much rain to executive and how strong the winds will be in just a few minutes. 6abc. Com is your resource as
[applause] good morning, all. Thank you for having me. You have heard about the big guns from wayne and jim. When i would like to speak about s first plan for victory at gettysburg, at least one part of it. And the fighting on july 3 in the morning there went on for seven straight hours, some of the longest sustained fighting at gettysburg and amost in the whole war, but relatively unvisited area of the field. Focus was largely on july 2, decisive leadership on the union right, small unit , namely george s. Greene and how that leadership made a dramatic difference in the outcome there. Works, ilove when it would like to speak about july 3 dawn on, how leadership in the struggle played out for culps hill. Derailedof the potomac lee was not served by subordinates. , judgment made by both sides, some fog of war and man lead to costly maneuvers, yet the courage and determination when you look at these fellows speaks maryams volumes of the type of men who fought at gettysburg. On july 3, th