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
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 including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testifying remotely. We appreciat
This hearing will come to 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 including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
That is a Flash Flood Watch in the entire bay area. If you live near a creek, river or stream, you need to watch that closely and winds could top 30 miles an hour, that will bring us Power Outages and downed trees and a blizzard warning now in the sierra. Were going to get it, its going to get here quite heavy and strong. See you soon. Some people in the south bay arent taking any chances with this upcoming storm. They are hauling in the sandbags and hauling out debris from storm drains. We go live to san jose where many people shifted in high gear today. Marianne. Reporter they certainly did. If you take a look at this pallet, just an hour ago, this paletlet was full and now its already empty. Many people say because of the storm last week, they were caught unaware and now they want to be better prepared. Benjamin ochoa needs sandbags, a lot of them and fast. With the storm thursday expected to dump 4 inches of rain in the south bay, he wants to make sure his house stays dry. We have
Here. Take a look, some people right now are loading them into their vans and vehicles. This has been going on all afternoon. This time they are not taking any chances. This crew spent the day clearing out storm drains removing a truck load of debris that could easily clog city storm drains. The next storm on thursday is expected to dump foinch four inches of rain on the south bay. When the water hits the stations are ready to run, we have cleared all of our 30,000 catch basins. This woman enlisted the help of her children to heave sand bags into her trunk. Shes not taking aany chances. We usually have flooding at our house because it sits lower than the rest. Even before the rain we will get wet in front of our house. With the rain coming it is sure to get worse so i thought lets be safe than sorry. The San Jose International airport is also stocking up on sand bags and getting ready to mop up the wet terminal to prevent possible slips. Its not stoo late to come down and pick up a san