Good morning. I want to welcome the secretary back today. This is her first times since being confirmed. I want to thank you for appearing before us today to discuss the reauthorization. We are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill hopefully during this work. How and we appreciate the administrations engagement. Already this year the committee has held hearings on a range of topics underpinning the effort including safety, drone policy, aircraft certification, consumer concerns and infrastructure financing. One of the key issues we have not yet focused on but has been discussed over the last two years and occurs in other parts of the world is whether the United States should separate the air traffic fund from the faa and create a nongovernmental notforprofit corporation to do the job. T the faa runs a safe operation that outside auditors have teamed up a performance on delivering safety and efficiency upgrades prompting a debate as to the best path forward to realize the
Good morning. I want to welcome the secretary back today. This is her first times since being confirmed. I want to thank you for appearing before us today to discuss the reauthorization. We are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill hopefully during this work. How and we appreciate the administrations engagement. Already this year the committee has held hearings on a range of topics underpinning the effort including safety, drone policy, aircraft certification, consumer concerns and infrastructure financing. One of the key issues we have not yet focused on but has been discussed over the last two years and occurs in other parts of the world is whether the United States should separate the air traffic fund from the faa and create a nongovernmental notforprofit corporation to do the job. T the faa runs a safe operation that outside auditors have teamed up a performance on delivering safety and efficiency upgrades prompting a debate as to the best path forward to realize the
On wednesday, following the chaodents speech, elaine testified before the senate commerce, science and Transportation Committee on the future of the federal Aviation Administration and the president s proposal to privatize the air Traffic Control system. This is just over two hours. Good morning. I want good morning. I want welcome elaine chao back today. We are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill ropefully during the work period and we appreciate the administrations end in gagement. A range of topics. One of the key governance issues we have not focused on this year which has been discussed over the last two years and commonly occurs in other parts of the world whether the United States should separate the provider function from the faa create a nongovernmental not for profit to do the job. Outside auditors have ding the governments performance. This week the president used to join the proponents of significant reform. The president has challenged congress. And it is
Her childrens bedroom window directly faces his home. 63year old David Bruce Lang was arrested inside his santa clara home thursday morning after detectives served a search warrant. The chief Financial Officer at bill Wilson Center is accused of possessing child pornography. The center helps more than 5 thousand troubled kids and teens in the county through programs including counseling. The news came as a shock to langs next door neighbor who shared only good memories of him off camera. Kind of a big surprise because ever since we were living here we had a perfect relationship. But now the accusation against lang has concerned his neighbor of three years who has three children. Saying their bedroom window faces his home. Its kind of hard to believe he is a kind person i can say that i felt his personality. But across the way another neighbor who also has two children of her own said her First Impression of lang set a tone of silence for the next five years. She says when her family mo
Just before 11pm on thursday, the driver of this dump truck was travelling southbound on 101 with his trailer in the up position. When he reached the embarcadero road overpass the trailer slammed into the structure. The driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. When the trailer was pulled away from the overpass, crews found a 25 foot crack in the concrete. Through out the day on friday, caltrans engineers and crews examined the damage and found that it was even worse than they first suspected. They now believe that a 4550 section of the overpass is damaged and a steel support girder is also damaged. As a temporary fix, crews wrapped a tarp around the damaged concrete to keep chunks from falling onto the roadway below. All lanes of 101 were reopened just before 6pm but one west bound lane above the overpass will remain closed indefinitely. Caltrans also said on friday that it will take extensive work to repair the damaged girder and concrete. At this point its unclear when t