Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Has vowed to keep up his legal challenges though saying that he will never give up fighting for the nation. Act as his supporters continue that protest outside Voting Centers elsewhere vote very different scene celebrations are broken out in anticipation of a final result. Well joe biden is edging closer to that crucial number 270 Electoral College votes needed to make him the next president of the United States 3 days after americans voted the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and georgia so where do we stand right now there are just a handful of states that are still being counted and biden is leading in most of them based on projections from the Associated Press he has secured 264 Electoral College votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both children pennsylvania to reach 270 but it is extremely close in georgia right now most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which tends to lean to the democrats and
A very good morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us this monday morning. Im laura garcia. We went on an extra 30 minutes early this morning at 4 00 a. M. Just because of this red flag warning. Im kris sanchez in for marcus washington. We are seeing some vegetation fires pop up overnight. Kari hall is watching those winds. And the high fire danger will continue throughout this morning as weve seen the high wind gusts especially in our upper elevations and the wind advisory will expire at 11 00 but the rest of the day will be breezy as we see the winds gusting for even our valleys up to 50 miles an hour. This red flag warning will continue for today. Up until tomorrow morning so were still looking at breezy winds and some very dry air. Well continue to monitor that and talk about whats ahead in our forecast coming up. Mike, how is it looking driving to work this morning . Kari, your system and my system are map share data as we look at the maps for traffic data, the speed looks fin
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