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
So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy to confront a shouldnt let it be an arms race is on the offense very dramatic probably the only mostly im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Max keiser this is the kaiser reports lets get right into it. Right i want to remind everybody in the audience the meaning of the word smug and this is important to know because we are going to talk about the smug Industrial Complex how we are showing an excessive pride in oneself or ones achievements yes it sounds like cable news similar selfsatisfied complacent selfcongratulatory superior puffed up you might understand that were talking about the smug Industrial Complex known as the american Cable News Networks the think tank networks that are so star in all of those people in new york city and d. C. Are just so much better than every body else all the deplorable is and this country. Has the smug class to pr
And we lead the program with another record day for new cases of covert 1000 in the United States. The nation reported more than 153000 new cases. Thursday, as the u. S. Has now eclipsed more than 10500000. 00 total cases. Since the pandemic hit its shores, california on thursday joined texas as the only states to have surpassed 1000000. 00 cases of the coronavirus at this point. So lets go ahead and we go time and check in on the trends and spread of the virus globally with our chief correspondent cya tab. And where are we friday . Brian . , youre exactly right. It hasnt just been the u. S. , but the world as a whole has suffered the worst day of the pandemic. So far, almost 12000 people died and more than 666000, new cases were reported just in the last 24 hours. And then the u. S. , like you mentioned, once again bro, another record for new cases, more than 160000 new cases. And for the 10th, straight day in a row, more than 100000, new cases have been alex every single day and new
No state right now as seen cases decline. And heres a list. The few Illinois River had more than 75000 cases just last week, and 32 states from alaska, and idaho in the west to connecticut and New Hampshire in the east. I did more cases this week than any other time of the pandemic now in nebraska, vermont, utah and kansas, at least 10 states with a single day case records on thursday. But the situation is even worse in the great lakes region. Wisconsin, pennsylvania, indiana, minnesota. They all exceeded their previous single day records on thursday by more than 1000 cases. While in ohio, there hospitalizations have soared to record levels. Now taken a look at which are also on the rise with more than 1000. On average, every single day and hospitalizations are also set a record on thursday to over 67000. So were up to 39 percent in hospitalizations, double of where we were just 5 weeks ago. And then there is even bad, more bad news because the new model just been released by the unive
Youre exactly right. It hasnt just been the u. S. , but the world as a whole has suffered the worst day of the pandemic. So far, almost 12000 people died and more than 666000, new cases were reported just in the last 24 hours. And then the u. S. , like you mentioned, once again broke another record for new cases, more than 160000 new cases. And for the 10th, straight day in a row, more than 100000, new cases have been announced every single day, and new cases are trending upward in every single state. In fact, no state right now is seen cases decline. And heres a list. The few Illinois River had more than 75000 cases just last week, and 32 states from alaska, and idaho in the west to connecticut and New Hampshire in the east. I did more cases this week than any other time of the pandemic now in nebraska, vermont, utah and kansas for among at least 10 states with a single day case records on thursday. But the situation is even worse in the great lakes region. Wisconsin, pennsylvania, in