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That drive across the golden gate. It is. That is where chp issued a fog advisory. We are commuting out of marin into San Francisco, you are going to deal with limited visibility, extra careful across the span of the golden gate. You see in the live shot things are foggy. Be careful. Just north of there we are dealing with road work. Thats the usual stuff. You have slow and go conditions there. Take a look at traffic into Altamont Pass there is crash with the left lane blocked, chp arriving on scene and we have a back up ensuing because of that. Plus with the morning commuters out of tracy it is already busy, 36 minutes 205 towards 680. I am anne makovec. We are keeping an eye on this crash that happened in San Francisco involving a patrol car. Season sfpd officer hitting a fire hydrant after what appears to have been a hig ....
The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent the chair can declare a recess at any time. Without objection so ordered. I want to remind members of key regulations on rules and then members must also continue to use the video function and then to experience connectivity issues or other technical problems. And then let us know as soon as possible so you can receive assistance. And you can call the committees for a technical assistance. Members may also not participate remotely any other proceeding occurring simultaneously. It is the responsibility of each member and mute your microphone prior to speaking. If i hear any inadvertent background noise lastly please mute your microphone. All standard rules apply. We will have a good faith effort to address the connectivity issues and participate fully members will have five minutes to ask questions to insert a document into the record, please have the staff email it. This hearing is also live streamed for the public to view an ....
Here on cspan3, well take you live now to a hearing on amtraks response to the coronavirus pandemic. This hearing is already in process. While possibly only saving amtrak 213 million. Overall, the damage could top 3 billion if amtraks planned nine months of Degraded Service stretches another quarter to a full year. Ill finish. Thank you. The amtrak community was hit especially hard because several airlines say theyll drop service when the c. A. R. E. S. Act expires. Thats 67 cities facing air cutbacks. Nearly half, 31 of them, would all flew the same, sacramento, tampa, these routes touch nearly every corner of our country. On the empire builder on eight states from illinois to washington, those towns face a nearly 400 million blow. The north south city of new orleans between louisiana now produce nearly 134 million in economic benefits. It could wipe out as much as 88 million of that. Simply put, this drastically reduced utilit ....
Nations rail Service Needs 4 billion to stay afloat for fiscal year 2021. He made the comments in testimony before the house transportation subcommittee on railroads. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing. I want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco webx for the re ....