with so much darkness around us, our job is to light our candles and to bring light into this world. norah: weekend storm threat. the weather system that flooded the west heads east. medical breakthrough? the fda approves a cutting-edge gene editing therapy to be used in humans. did anybody use the word cure ? um. we do. [laughter] norah: we are on the road to tell the story of a frugal man making a difference after his death. forever changed because of his choice of how he lived. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west. and thank you for being with us on this friday night. you want to begin tonight with a very serious criminal charges facing the president s son, hunter biden. the indictment coming down last night is breathtaking in its scope, about how the yale trained lawyer allegedly spent years scheming to avoid more than a million dollars in taxes while in the words of prosecutors, living an extravagant lifestyle. the 56-page indictment in
outside a temple in albany in albany. with so much darkness around us, our job is to light our candles and to bring light into this world. i m norah: weekend storm threat. the weekend system that flooded the west had ceased. medical breaktrough? the fda approves a cutting-edge gene editing therapy to be used in humans. did anybody use the word cure? we do. [laughter] norah: we are on the road to tell the story of a frugal man making a difference after his death. forever changed because of his choice of how he lived. norah: good evening and thank you for being with us on this friday night. you want to begin tonight with a very serious criminal charges facing the president s son, hunter biden. the indictment coming down last night, it s breathtaking in its scope, about how the yale trained lawyer allegedly spent years skimming to avoid more than a million dollars in taxes while in the words of prosecutors, living an extravagant lifestyle. the 56 page indictmen
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it is very serious indeed. i know you have been briefed on the investigation. what can you tell us about the fbi s role in trying to determine what may be a new twist in this case and could there actually could we see this becoming a criminal investigation at some point? well we ll look at that. ntsb and the fbi will investigate, maybe the engineer was distracted but we don t want to get distracted from one of the issues here and that s that the northeast corridor and amtrak s operation of all of our united states passenger rail system is a third world operation. it has a soviet style management and a monopoly that diverts money and hasn t taken care of that corridor. i know that there has been a lot of debate this week about funding. turning to those concerns right now, to many it seemed as law
money. they have a point on one level; amtrak gets a ton of money. you ve dumped so much money into it and still haven t gotten the safety equipment you were supposed to get. that speaks to money maybe not being the answer. you keep saying you need more but maybe you just need to do better. well the federal government spends $1.4 billion a year on amtrak. and as i pointed out the northeast corridor, which is the busiest part of our nation s passenger rail system the one that spreads from washington to boston 750,000 people a day ride it. and it has had steady year over year improvements the last five years in a row in its revenue and its operations and its ridership. if we were investing anything like our competitors, we would have a modern national train system. the chinese spend 100 times more than we do on improving their national rail infrastructure. we have folks who call my office every day and complain about congestion on i-95 on the highways and the roads in delaware and our