Airline Passenger Experience the subcommittee heard from representatives from the Government Accountability office, Consumer Reports, paralyzed veterans of america, the airline Passenger Experience association and Spirit Airlines. The subcommittee will come to order. I would ask unanimous consent ththe chair bethe chair be autho declare recess during todays hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask nms can send members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions without objection, so ordered. Good morning and i want to thank the witnesses for joining the subcommittee today for the discussion on the air travel experience. According to the u. S. The bureau of transportation statistics in 2018 u. S. Airlines. 925 million passengers to destinations in the u. S. And abroad, the highest total is 2003. The federal aviation or the faa current forecast predicts it will increase roughly 2 per year over the next 20 years and the number
Ththe chair bethe chair be autho declare recess during todays hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask nms can send members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions without objection, so ordered. Good morning and i want to thank the witnesses for joining the subcommittee today for the discussion on the air travel experience. According to the u. S. The bureau of transportation statistics in 2018 u. S. Airlines. 925 million passengers to destinations in the u. S. And abroad, the highest total is 2003. The federal aviation or the faa current forecast predicts it will increase roughly 2 per year over the next 20 years and the number of passenger is expected to grow from 24 million to 56 million by 2050. So while increased passenger demand for its new Economic Opportunities and enhances the nations aviation network, longstanding challenges can enter. Over the last few years coming u. S. Airlines invested i interen their produ
B. A. R. T. Service this morning. A severed foot on the tracks. The foot is likely from a woman who was stuck under a train back in december. The woman survived but lost her lower right leg when she was hit. A couple of breaking news stories now. Chopper5 is over a sink hole in fremont. This is a live look at the intersection of christie and albray street not far from the pacific common shopping center. Were told its pretty bad. Police say the b. A. R. T. Station will be closed to fix the sewer line that closed the area. You can see there was significant damage in that part of the building is blocked offer, so far we have no word of any injuries. The library at San Jose State University is closed tonight after a deadly accident. A person died this afternoon after falling six stories from inside the a atrium of the Martin Luther king library. The library is is expected to open tomorrow. Quite a story out of contra costa county. A woman was released from jail this morning did not stay ou
Averages. Even when a benign day where the dow climbed 87 point, s p advanced and the nasdaq jumped 0. 72 , you know in the old days before the market turned against the high momentum growth stocks, today would have been a major day, led by the momentum stocks like amazon, netflix, yelp. All the other stocks that used to be so loved. I guess i should say overloved. But a collective revulsion toward momentum brought on by the endless Insider Selling sell sell sell sell and ipo glut, coupled with the sudden and unexpected decline in Interest Rates that freaked out traditional yield seekers has turned it into the minor cord. Meaning that today was an oddity. Because expensive stocks rally and the orchestra of all stocks doesnt play together very much anymore. We have to resume that it will be distinstively short lived when you look at the preponderance of the earnings reports. The house of pain. Sell sell sell. So lets take advantage of our second backtoback up day to talk about what can
Deadly storms. Good evening. Breaking news tonight in a violent weather system moving across the south. We learned in just the past hour seven people were killed in alabama this evening. This is new video of just one of the tornados it hit tupelo mississippi five hours ago. Mississippi and alabama are the hardest hit today. The same Severe Weather system left 16 people dead yesterday. Much of the south is bracing for the warnings to take shelter. This is one meteorologist in tupelo while on the air told everyone to get to safety immediately. Everybody, basement now. Basemen. He then walked off the set. In addition to tornadost, hail and Straight Line winds are going through the region. Were in our Weather Center tracking the news. Lets jump into the radar and well look at the life threatening storms moving through. You can see a very Straight Line moving from areas of mississippi through alabama and into tennessee. Some of the heavier cells producing anywhere from 11 and a half inches