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For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Unfortunately experiencing another increase in covid cases and hospitalizations. Resulting in more than citywide measures as of november 13 that hopefully will reduce the pandemic infections. D. B. I. Leadership and staff for the ongoing hard work under these complicated circumstances. Even though the Public Health protocols, our new space is open on a limited basis to the public and the department continues to issue permits, conduct and schedule onsite job inspections and respond to complaints and task Code Enforcement steps as warranted. The director and the staff have been communicating regularly with customers and stakeholders on the departments progress and issuing more permits and addressing customers needs. Well hear more on this in the commission meeting. I want to take a minute to congratulate the city newly elected and reelected supervisors based upon the november 3rd election results, including one of our own, we look forward to working closely with her in district 7. Superv
Veterans day special. They keep resetting this evening with us from texas. Where else would we be. Its good to be here and we thank you and on this veterans day we turn our attentions to those that served in combat, leaving many to do the dirty work of the nation. They are featured in my brandnew fox news book real stories from real heroes, im looking at a chapter in each right now and we will get to that later in the program. They have all made the transition back to civilian life. And check out first our modern warriors. In the first Fox News Contributor is joey jones, serving in iraq and afghanistan, explosive Ordinance Disposal technician, he survived an ied attack, after eight years of service, now giving back to his community, volunteering for multiple organizations. And we also have chat fleming, captain chad fleming. He deployed five times after becoming an amputee, he has been awarded the service medal, two bronze star medals of valor and three purple hearts. And morgan luttre
The next 100 days. Tom the transition challenges are simple. He needs a single letter out of gsa and that has not happened yet. We will do with Greg Valliere a on this in a moment. There are still four states with under a 1 count, and that is really what matters around all the hoopla. Francine it certainly does. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Biden is launching his transition effort while President Trump continues legal challenges over the election. The news media declared biden the winner of the president ial election on saturday. The former Vice President won or was leading in states that would give him more than 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Meanwhile, the president has falsely claimed victory whilst saying there was widespread in legal voting. He has not offered any evidence. President elect joe biden will take the first step to one of his Biggest Campaign promises today, to bring the Coronavirus Crisis under control