Here. Good morning to discuss the status of the National Rail network to have 140,000 miles of rail seven class one railroads and thousands of companies to ship products ands Raw Materials also and Intercity Passenger Rail Service operating on 22000 miles of that same network todays first panel president and ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation and the Economic Developers association testifying we will be. The Vice President corporation on behalf of the American Council mr. Randee gordon and the chairman to testify remotely and he didnt jeffries president and ceo association of american railroads and dennis pierce president of the teamsters rail conference. During this covid pandemic. In 1970 the real Passenger Service act was adopted to relieve our railroads on the common carrier to carry passengers. The statue created amtrak and provided real runs can be used by amtrak to offer intercity passenger real service, returns and compensation that are just
A new, widely Controversial National security law for hong which has been protested by folks in hong kong. Investors concerned these actions could destabilize the global economy. I want to bring in markets reporter taylor riggs, who has been following all of this. Break down what happened for us. Taylor it looked like we were green and in the clear until the last hour of trading, and then you sort of mentioned other headlines that made markets very nervous. Trump said he would have a press Conference Friday to talk about china. Then theres a lot of concern about the National Security law china signed that in effect would remove a lot of the economy from hong kong. In the last hour of trading, everything fell apart, but the key theme remains. Some of the Big Companies are still some of the big out performers. The s p, which is a marketcapweighted index, outperforming relative to the nasdaq, which also includes some of the smaller companies. And of course, the russell 2000, which is the
U. K. Was slow down slow in testing slow in tracing and slow in supply of protective equipment. Going back home to thousands of Migrant Workers in india who lost their jobs to the lock down take trains back to their villages and israel announces a new plan for thousands of new settlement homes in the occupied west bank well have a live update. And im somehow must not have all the sporting committing crimes day for a german football at the bull waits for green light from the government to resume this month. Its just after 13 hours g. M. T. We begin this news hour with the growing tension between the u. S. And china over the corona Virus Outbreak beijing says the tariffs should not be used as a weapon the President Donald Trump threatened to impose the china is also criticized the u. S. Secretary of state who said that the pathogen originated in a wool hand lab michael peo it says that my compare has no evidence but in the city that was the initial epicenter of the outbreak more restrict
Equipment. The polarized parliament in spain turns for a 4th extension to the lockdown are being challenged. Returning home thousands of Migrant Workers and india who lost their jobs just a lockdown take trains back to their villages. The u. S. Is taking another swipe at china has tensions escalate of the coronavirus pandemic in the past hour u. S. Secretary of state mark pompei are blamed china for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he again accused beijing of covering up the outbreak of cars at 19 adding there was no true win win for the communist regime china saw then that it had an emerging Public Health crisis on its hands the new. China could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide china could have spread the world descend into Global Economic malaise that choice but instead instead china covered up the outbreak in han its National Health commission ordered virus samples destroyed on january 3rd china disappeared brav
Equipment. The polarized parliament in spain plans for a 4th extension to the lockdown a big challenge. And more restrictions eased in south korea with no new local inspections for a 3rd straight day. How much now have all the sporting including. The german bund league ever sees the green light to resume later this month having been suspended since march. The u. S. Has taken and now this wife and child as tensions escalate over the coronavirus pandemic just the past hour u. S. Secretary of state mark pompei are blamed china for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he again accused beijing of covering up the outbreak of covert 19 and ing there was no true woodwind with the communist regime china saw then that it had an emerging Public Health crisis on its hands the new china could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide china could have spread the world descent into Global Economic malaise their choice but instead. Instead chi