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
Eastbound lanes remain closed from 73 to center road. A car veered off the road and hit a tree and then caught fire. Fire crews did have to pull a passenger out of the vehicle. The person was transported to a hospital with lifethreatening injuries. As far as the impact of traffic goes, you will see some delays in and around that area. It is shut down until further notice. You can use 101 as an alternate depending on where your commute takes you. I want to look at the bay bridge in my next report. Here is mary. Ackirrt air goratemo of t bay area but for part of the north bay, we are dealing with unhealthy air. There is a spare the air alert in effect once again it it makes it record 17 days in a row and likely, it will be extended beyond that as we are looking at highpressure trapping that smoke at the surface. We are watching that smoke and haze and also our heat wave that is expected for the upcoming Holiday Weekend with excessive heat watch is in effect saturday through labor day. I
We have seen it all this weekend. Wind, rain, lightning and listing heat. The heat is still causing a strain on the power grid. Fortunately the operator said there will not be a need for rolling blackouts tonight. As you can see, there are Power Outages in some areas. The orange dots represent outages of 500 or more pg e customers. The lightning and because of the heats been extended until tomorrow morning. Greg ligands will have the latest on those fires that started around those today. First, bill martin for the current conditions. We do have a chance of a thunderstorm. The red flag warning has been extended into the evening hours for possible Lightning Strikes. This was, i will not say unprecedented, but i havent seen a lightning hit like this. Not the number but the aerial distribution. For km, Lightning Strikes and then look at this. Hundreds of strikes. They ended up covering the entire bay area. Very unusual. This went on for five hours. We do see the storms, we even saw some at
This man bears testimony i think you should here, joining us is Richard Rifkin. How are you doing . Im doing well. Richard, a bit of background. You now live in los angeles and operate the Jewish Activity Center in los angeles, and run an architecture company, but i know its been a painful frightening three weeks. You are dealing cancer. With the cancer, the doctors pretty much knew what we were dealing with, but with coronavirus, theres no solution, theres no cure. And were really just guessing, so coronavirus is much scarier. Watching you to detail the ballots,ib ballots, i could tell there were days you didnt think you were going to make it. How did you catch it . My offices are inside fashion malls, so it could have been just through contact with a lot of people. I also do a lot of traveling for work. I really dont know how i got it. Community spread, right . How long did you think you went before symptoms started showing . I remember very specifically it was a wednesday afternoon,
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