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
Coronavirus Advisory Board and called on all americans to wear masks. From wilmington, delaware, this is about 15 minutes. So that we can reopen our businesses safely and lives,ably, resume our put this pandemic behind us. We just received positive news in this fight with an announcement that there has been progress made toward a successful vaccine. Soon, the expectation is the fda rigorousa process of reviews. In process must be grounded science and transparent so the American People can have every confidence any approved vaccine is safe and effective. At the same time, it is clear that this vaccine, even if approved, will not be widely available for many months to come. The challenge before us right now is still in mens and growing. Although we are not in office, i am laying out what we expect to do and hope can be done, some of it, between now and the time we are sworn in. The purpose of this is to let you know what we are going to do once sworn in. There is a need for bold action t
Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Please begin your five second countdown. Chair pappas five, four, three, two, one. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We have a number of members participating remotely today. And before we proceed, i would like to go over some items for our members participating remotely. First, if youre experiencing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our Technical Support so those issues can be resolved immediately. Members participating remotely must continue to use the video function for the duration of their participation in the hearing, unless they experience connectivity issues or other technical problems that render the member fully unable to participate on camera. It is committee and subcommittee policy that members participating remotely will remain muted when not recognized, just like turning on your microphone on and off during an inperso
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Now at streing on cbsn bay area, looking life from her exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we are looking east on this friday morning. It is december 6, good morning. Im michelle griego. And im kenny choi. 4 31 an epic it is dry and Clear Conditions but thats all about to change as we check in and say good morning to mary lee. So, thats right, it is a dry start for sure but just watch as we head through later today. Especially by tonight. A strong cold front will bring the rain and also pick up the wind spirit lets first show you a live look from the roof camera and you can see our temps are in the upper 40s to low to mid 50s at this hour. So lets show you the visibility because we are dealing with some dense frog in the trivalley and east bay. Livermore, conker, you are at a quarter mile so dense, thick fog for you. And lets now show you as we take you through the day, it will take a while for this rain to get here. This is fut
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