Coming up, a house hearing on all t auto safety and a recent recall of cars. And then a hearing on domestic terrorism. The house senate and subcommittee held a hearing on whether auto recall regulations should be overhauled. This is two and a half hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today on examining ways to improve vehicle and roadway safety. I will recognize myself for five minutes for the purpose of an Opening Statement. Certainly lives depend on the safety of cars, safety of trucks and on the roads themselves of the united states. And on the whole, the data is good around the decrease in fatalities against mines driven, b miles driven will you the hearings have underlined the severity of problems that do exist and there is no reason for going slow when it comes to safety and deception cannot and will not be tolerated. It is incumbent upon us, the national Highway Safety committee and others to be in complianc compliance.
Sympathetic to what senator rand said. In this speech, which was part of his filibuster, he also cites my book and the argument is our liberty should be presumed to be valid and government should only restrict it if they have a good reason and if they have reason, they should be able to show proof and facts, which they were unable to do with the bake shops. This is the fourth in a series of 12. What weve done if you want to learn more about these cases, if youre learning like we are and youre not a law, we have a book available for you that were selling at cost. It is written by tony morrow, 12 cases we selected for the series. If you go to cspan. Org landmark cases, you can find out how to order it and we have people ready to ship it out as soon as possible so you can follow our series. Let me say thank to you our guests for helping us understand lochner versus new york. It was a pleasure. Our landmark series cases continue next monday. Our landmark case is scheneck versus united stat
For five minutes. Ms. Mithal, let me ask you to clarify. You mentioned there would be one of your start with security business initiatives in austin, texas. Is thats correct . Thats correct. Whats the date you gave for that . November 5th. I wanted to repeat that because although my Congressional District is a little north of austin it obviously will Effect People in my state. Dr. Rosekind, thank you for being here. Thank you for always being very generous with your time and very forthcoming whenever they are questions. Thank you for opening up the doors of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration to come and visit with you and see the good work that you and the men and women employed there the good work that youre doing. I have a copy of the Inspector Generals report. This was issued in june of this year. Can you take just a moment and go through which recommendations have been implemented . Certainly. Just as context, ill be clear that one of the things we did was actually
Suspects. We have more from Pete Williams. Pete . Lester, authorities tell us they believe these are the three gunmen who carried out the shooting. That is the working assumption. When police encountered this suv just a short time ago, the suv fired at the policemen. One person rolled out of the car and is now believed to be at large in the area. Police are searching for him. A second person in the car was killed. And now they believe and this is why you are seeing the very guarded approach to the vehicle a third gunman still alive in the car holding a weapon. And police have also been concerned about the possibility of explosives. It does appear that one body is lying on the street there between the suv and one of the Armored Vehicles. Although, we cant confirm that, that does appear to be the person that was killed. We have some pictures that show a closer view of the suv to see how much gunfire was directed at the vehicle. These were still pictures taken from the helicopter, the knb
Its going to look beautiful. Rain does rununo the forecast by the end of the week. Ill have those details coming up. Good morning, south florida. A. Were accidentfree in both counties at this point at 5 0 in the morning. We have construction crews out, especially on i75. Ongoing construction,n, southbound lanes affected at sheridan street. About twoo three lanes of traffic blocked. Obviously some delays for our southbound drivers today. All right. Lets going to i95, some other construction concerns here. If you a a traveling on the i southbound at griffin road, reports of two lanes blocked there. A develop story, this one out of southwest miamidade. Two men recovering in the hospital after a violent carjacking about 9 00 last night. Police say the victims drove to the location in a rental car to meet three men at an abandoned home in the area. One of the victims was shot, the other was police say both victims are expected to survive. We do know they did flee in the victims vehicle whic