Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
Weather headlines, chilly start. Mostly clear skies. Tracking that patchy fog rolling in this morning. Well see plenty of sunshine and mild, seasonal temps as we go through the afternoon in store for us. Check out the high, all in the 60s. Mid60s, concord, san jose, oakland and San Francisco. Gianna . Not bad on the roadways this morning. If you are heading out early, you are good to go. For the most part, we are seeing some easy conditions right now on this portion. We have a few brake lights but not as many as you see. We do have a trouble spot on the ramp from the eastbound side of highway 4, southbound hill crest avenue, lane, ramp, are one lane is blocked. Its not a big issue this morning. 29 minutes, thats it for your drive times. Im Katie Nielsen at the live news desk. We are starting to take a live look at the Hong Kong Poly tech university. This is the site of violent protests last week. Piles of trash, remnants of homemade weapons and bedding were strewn across the campus. In
Marked the anniversary of the largest train disaster in the countrys history in greece. In athens, demonstrators held rallies in three squares and headed to the Railway Company Office Passenger transportation. All metro lines did not work, and buses and trolleybuses left their routes with hourslong breaks. Taxi drivers also took part in the strike. Marches and rallies were also held in thessaloniki and near the city of larisa. A group of radicals confronted. Special forces, who used tear gas and stun grenades against them. The activists, in turn, pelted the Security Forces with molotov cocktails and paint packets. Chat almost made it onto the list of hot spots on the planet. African government the country announced a curfew in the capital after the coup attempt. The transitional president ordered the arrest of the attackers at the National Security agency headquarters. The assault was preceded by a clash between Government Troops and forces loyal to the leader of the opposition party.
This is still possible. Like a step they made, or rather made a statement yesterday. Today they took the statement away. Yes, this is all wrong, because where to export, and their products, even the ones that exist, but some two ships happened, and someone was loaded, somehow it came out somewhere, these two ships are going. Yes from the danube from the danube ports. Well, you see, all this is presented by the ukrainian media as another victory, but the reality is completely different. But look, what is the reality like, and i m telling you, ukraine is economic after the war. Madam, and one of the representatives of the surname pizza. Yes, there were such jews, they lived near kiev for about 100 years, ago they left for the United States of america, got rich, got promoted, everything was fine. And now mr. Biden is appointing representatives of this family as representatives for the restoration of ukraine after the resolution of the war. That is, everything seems to be fine in america.
, the asu transshipment point in the port of rainy was destroyed by geraniums, what does tatyana petrushkova report from kleshcheevka . Administratively, his konstantinovka was launched into the armed forces. The New York Times published the results of its own investigation. What other news they are waiting for zelensky in the usa how the Un General Assembly began the United States promises that abrams tanks will soon appear in ukraine yes, its not prepared, old leopards german taurus are in question the head of the ministry of defense pestorius fell ill and did not come to resolve the sharp escalation in karabakh baku announced the start of antiterrorism measures that is happening now in the conflict area and how yerevan is reacting , protests have begun in the center of the armenian capital, i want to confirm our continued support for beijing on the issues of taiwan, xinjiang for you, this and hong kong discussed in moscow by the secretary of the Russian Security council with the hea