A danger to our citizens and our communities. Secretary fox announced the rule making for the safe transport of crude oil in july of 2014. Were still waiting for those final rules but the longer we delay, the more that lives are actually in danger. And those standards call for tank cars both retro fitting old cars and building new ones for tank car thickness the length of time how long the shippers have to refurbish or build new cars and the speed and routes which these trains take, all of this is in this rule making. I think its critical for us to get some certitude in terms of what the new rules are going to be. So mr. Brown, and mr. Lonegro, just a question to the two of you. About a year ago, jenese whoa eming train carrying 2. 7 million gallons of crude oil derailed in alabama, derailed and spilled oil all over the wet lands. I want to ask to see what your company is doing to make sure that is not happening again. And last year a scx train auto derailed in virginia and spilled 30,
Coal. Well, in terms of the various commodities that you mentioned often they are in different types of equipment. Cole is handled in coal cars and oil is handled in tank cars and agriculture are certainly in covered hoppers. So its different types of equipment. We certainly endeavor to have the available supply of cars either through our car 1 partners or those that we provide ourselves for our customers to be able to move the amount of commodity that they wish to ship. As that grows we try to keep pace with additional equipment throughout the various market segments. So in terms of the oil business, we know that price is reduced the volume has lessened greatly so in some cases we have some of those cars in a storage status but maybe mr. Lonegro deals with it on a much larger scale than i do. Thanks. David is right they all move in different pieces of equipment. In the crude situation specifically, the grand majority of those are privately owned by the shippers not by any of the railr
For the irony of the deluge during a drought. We have team coverage, ktvus amber lee on tonights effort to get people off the streets. Ken pritchett has the dozens of School Closures around the region. We begin with chief meteorologist, bill martin and his computer model. Reporter the storm is teed up already. Weve got over an inch of rain in parts of the bay already. This is all ahead. The storm is not here, its just a lot of moisture streaming into the north bay. Weve got rain in San Francisco. Right now, showers out been st. Helena. Weve got over a half inch of rain reported in roaner park, heavy at times. As we back it out, look at the computer mod. Here is 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Note how much rain is falling on the north bay. Its been raining on the north bay at this point for about five hours. So north bay is going to have drainage problems. This is 6 00 a. M. Heavy showers starting to move into san mateo. Push it ford. The strong line of showers moves into San Francisco ab
Is to see to it that veterans get world cap worldclass health care and they get it in a timely way. However we do that the important thing is to get it done. We had some bumps i have met with some of our private contractors and i appreciate those meetings and their confidence in the job that they can do. They may not have been cooperating before. See to it that the two are working seamlessly and if they cant, they will never work. You have to understand their contracts are not just subject to their performance for the veterans but their willingness to work cooperatively. There are some who do not like the nonhealth care v. A. Provisions anyway. They will have to get used to it. We will make this thing work and we will not put a square peg in a round hole. Today, the hearing is important to your report from the v. A. And contractors and later from the v is so vsos they risked their lives for each and everyone of us to be here today we can expect no less at the get the best health care.
With islam is an ugly lie. We want to get your reaction to that. We have set aside a fourth line this morning for muslim americans. We would like to hear your viewpoints on this as well. If you cant get through on the phone lines, try social media. The conversation is going on there as well. You can email us. From the hill newspaper, obama plays defense on islam. That message has been drowned out by the debate over whether u. S. Is in a fight with radical islam. From the Financial Times newspaper, obamas muddled stance. As recently as two months ago, obama has launched 2000 military strikes. Now mr. Obama want to supplemented. These operations would go on whether Congress Gave him what he wanted. It is hard to see why such a charade is needed. Republicans complain that mr. Obama is tied one hand behind his back by ruling out american roots on the ground. He would also be tying his successors hands. He already has the scope to wage war on isis under the law that authorized force against