Planes. Vic lee has details from oakland international, in the story youll see only on abc 7 news. There are new signs now posted on doors in the terminals, leading to secured areas of the airport, signs that were not here when abc 7 news shot our story in early july. The signs say there are new restrictions on what airport workers can carry into the secured areas. They are now limited to two small items, like a purse or computer bag. Reporter airport officials also say they have increased random screenings of workers who go into the restricted areas and into planes. And background checks are more thorough. All of this as a result of the breeches here, three of them in the past four months. Keith mayfield seen here leaving court and two other baggage handlers were arrested in may and charged with smuggling drugs. Abc 7 news discovered two other cases from federal Court Documents involving Oakland Airport workers. In april, Southwest Airlines baggage handler Christopher Cross was arrest
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Elevatos to the right there will be three busses this evening. One at 6 45 one at 7 00 and one at 7 15. They each will carry about 50 of you. As you might be able to tell there are more than 150 people in this room. We are not encouraging you to sit on each others laps. What we are asking you to do is please dont wait until that last bus. Theyll be downstairs again and if you prefer to go elsewhere this evening please make sure you get back to the hotel so we can be ready to start in the morning. Thank you for coming today. Thank you for arranging your travel schedules to be here this afternoon and to begin the celebration and we invite you to the reception next door. Thank you. [ applause ] and taking it live now to capitol hill. The hearing from the amtrak Train Derailment from last month in philadelphia that killed ten people and injured 200 others and the National Transportation safety board, it was not equipped with an automatic speed control system that could have prevented that
I look forward to working with my friends in the senate to get that reform bill enacted into law. In closing i look forward for hearing from our witnesses regarding these important issues and i would like to recognize Ranking Member defazio for an opening statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thanks for holding this hearing today. I certainly agree with you about the extraordinary importance on the performance of the population of the east coast on the United States on the use of this corridor on a daily basis. In terms of the number of people that use it and the contribution to the economy and what happens when that corridor goes down and i also agree that this committee does have a longterm commitment to amtrak and other infrastructure needs of the United States. Unfortunately, that is not shared by your republican colleagues on the transportation, housing, urban development subcommittee. In fact, on the day of the accident, they cut a 251 million, is it . Or 290 million from the Ca