And ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim cb, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission, and jennifer homendy, Member National Transportation Safety board. I continue to be a strong supporter of our real industry both freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient. It also reduces congestion on our highways and spurs economic growth. In mississippi, for example, we have 26 Freight Railroads, 2,400 miles of track, five of the seven class ones, two longdistance amtrak routes, 10 stations, and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vital to mississippi. I have been a tireless advocate for the restoration of the gulf coast Passenger Service, which was suspended in 2005 after hurricane katrina. With funding support from dot, amtrak, and the states, i am pleased to report that mississippi, louisiana, and alabama are likely once again to have this amtrak route and that will give mississippi a third amtrak route. Restoration of this
several grounds such as prosecutorial misconduct and selective prosecution and as well as how much time has passed since the alleged crimes. we re looking at statute of limitations and a whole host of motions that are going to be levied here, and this case won t see a jury in my opinion. and turning himself in historic criminal charges, 34 felony counts brought forth by manhattan district attorney bragg, accusing him of hush money payments to stormy daniels and mcdougall. daniels says if the case goes to trial, she wants to testify. i think having them call me in and put me on the stand let legitimizes my story and and oh, she must not be a good witness, she s not credible. as for republicans, it s the credibility of prosecution that s in question. yesterday, house judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote a letter to the d.a. s office for new york county requesting documents and testimony relevant to their investigation into bragg s case. quote, if state or local prosecu
Killing a lion in the same area where cecil the lion was shot. It comes a mid confusion about the state of another animal in that area. We will have the details for in you just a moment. The roads are cooperating. Dry. A cool down on the way. We are laughing about it because we are cooling down to the 80s. Really . I know youre just like whatever, but i remember the days, meisha, when we were just begging for 50 degrees day. Oh, wow. The cool down to 80. Exactly. What . I know. It takes a moment on a monday morning to get that in check. Humidity not too bad. It will be starting to ramp up on us a little bit. Because we are tracking a cold front. That will a lot of times start to get the southerly push of air, moisture source gets pushed in here, you ends up with just little more humidity. Right in you it doesnt feel too bad outside. Do you have really good start. We start things off quickly by getting you on out to whats going on with the pattern we talked about the cool down breaking
Coming up tonight at 6 00 we will hear more from the father what he has to say about galen and how long he considered him a putback. Reporting live, nbc bay area news. Thank you. We continue the coverage on our website just click on the top story box right there on the front panl take to you the raw video of sheriffs News Conference today. Nbcbayarea. Com. Fire and smoke shooting from a bay area refinery. The flaring at valero refinery triggered evacuations and shelter in place orders. The worry potentially toxic smoke and some say they werent warned early enough about the danger. The the smoke still pumping into the air right now, rick. Reporter yeah, it is. And residents, first of all they want know about the issue. Air quality still being tested they want to know about that as well. The latest whats happening at the refineliry the black smoke stopped about an hour ago p. Pufrmg through steam it could go back to black as the refinery tries to get on line this while the area remains o
The senate to a halt as the fight over obamacare state enters the key to week stretch. You can read more at the hill. Com today. The defense secretary james mattis and general Joseph Dunford chair joint chiefs of staff testify now about the president s 2018 budget for for the pentagon. The Senate Armed Services Committee Held at this hearing last week. Good morning. In the thin Arm Service Committee meets this one tracy testimony on the department of defense fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis and chairman dent for, secretary norquist, i thank you for your many years of distinguished service and your leadership of our men and women in uniform. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Sergeant Eric houck, Sergeant William bays, and Corporal Dillon baldridge. M these three soldiers from the armys 101st Airborne Division were killed this weekend in afghanistan. The thoughts and prayers of this committee are with their loved ones. The sac