[gavel] the committee will come to order. Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Im very pleased to be joined by senator jack reed, the subcommittees Ranking Member, senator caputo is here right from the start, and im sure we will be joined by others. The faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accid
Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federa the faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accidents are thoroughly investigated, their causes identified, and their solutions implemented. Unfortunately, at this point, we do not yet have the conclusive results of the two crash investigations and cannot say definitively why these terri
Look at the great clear over washington. Purple color there. Sunrise still three littleut maway. Four things you need to know. A lovely morning. Humidity nice and lo for today. Really low rain chances for today. Much like yesterday. Yesterdays rain chancesarely 20 . Its in that same range today. That being said, rain did materialize yesterday afternoon around the washington area. And it may do that again later today. Right now in the mid50s. 50 ed in the shenandoah valley. 58 manassas and 59 gaithersburgi this morg. Your commute unaffected by rain through at least the first half to threequarters of the day. Only about 20 later chance today. High temperatures in the mid80s. Car washing forecast . Go for it. Rain ly way to guarante is if you wash your car. Thats it, melissa. That is true. Absolutely. Right 4 now firstraffic southbound 95 before powder mill road chopper 4 came upon this. Overturned vehicle tthe side of the roadway. It looks like the occupants did get out but hit that guar
The Flight Instructor is dead after a helicopter went down at the hayward airport. This is where kpix 5s reporter joins us live with the very latest. Reporter the remains of that helicopter are still sitting on the taxiway tonight. They will stay in place with guards tonight, waiting for ntsb investigators to arrive. Reporter this was the scene after just after 2 30 pm, from chapter 5 at the hayward executive airport. On taxiway 20 8l. A helicopter on its way, rotor blades been. The helicopter hit the ground upside down. The for cedar was carrying a instructor and a student. They were flying in an area that is used specifically for training. They were hovering at the time. This is one of the basic things that you learn. Reporter and air Traffic Controller witness they crash. There was no distress call at all. It happened very fast. Reporter an emergency greg crews arrived at the crash, the human toll was already evident. I have one victim who is out. Seems to be immediate. The second v
Puerto ricans exploded in cheers and celebrations. N today whe governor announced he will resign. He made the announcement on facebook around midnight. Protesters have been camped outside the Governors Mansion for almost two weeks, over a scandalinvolving offensive chat messages and corruption allegations. Gabez gutierre has more now from the island. It was an incredible scene. Thousands of protesters in old san juan. Demanding the governor resign. Rumors were swirling that the governor could resign at any minute, and then just before midnight came the announcement that he would be a deliveri pretaped message on social media. People gathered around to listen to that messag ould resign effective august 2nd. It was an incredible reversal. A stunning turn of events. A afterbout two weeks of unrest here in puerto rico. The governor had been under fire, and pressure had intensified for him toig res after priv gte chatroup messages were leaked. They included derogatory and homophobic comment