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
You now. Blake burman is at the white house. Jackie deangelis is in the newsroom. Hillary vaughn is in washington. We kick it off with blake. Reporter we continue to keep our eye on the event going on at the white house, with President Trump sitting down with the governors of oklahoma and nebraska. It has been going on half an hour. The focus is on the recovery and rebound Going Forward and the pp Small Business program that helped out so many Small Business owners like you see the one on your screen. You cant help but notice, rather, that the president is meeting with the governor of oklahoma just about 48 hours before he also set to head to oklahoma to hold his First Campaign rally since the covid19 outbreak. There are many questions as to whether now is the appropriate time to do such a thing. Here is President Trump talking about that event sitting next to oklahomas governor. And were going to be in oklahoma and its a crowd like i guess nobodys seen before. We have tremendous, trem
She has a check on the morning commute. How is it going . Its going much better, mike, after we had major issues on the roads in the south bay this morning. Things are looking good. All green here excluding our little area that matches my jacket, the Altamont Pass, commuters coming out of tracy. This is the dprigolden gate bri. I can see some droplets on our camera. Overall a smooth and clear wide. Same thing here in San Francisco. Were looking at our king street camera there. Nice and clear for you all. Just nice clear ride across our bridges. Everything is green. Thanks. The San Jose City council is backing the mayors proposal to turn pg e into a customerowned utility. The Council Voted to support the resolution mayor liccardo recently introduced. It follows pg es Public Safety power shutoff that left thousands in the dark in the bay area and beyond. It appears san jose elected leaders are not the only ones fed up with the utility. 90 of you want to get rid of pg e. This is according
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Just a few minutes ago pg e narrowed the scope as they continue to monitor wind conditions for wednesday. Tonight about 35,000 bay area customers stand to lose power in the next day or so in sonoma, napa, and san mateo counties, but theres potential the fire danger could be higher this weekend, so what does it all mean . We have Team Coverage for you tonight starting with kpix 5s andrea nakano. Reporter yes, right now pg e is calling this a potential Public Safety power shut off. As of tonight the Utility Company says it will decide in the morning whether or not communities will go dark once again. Pg e says it has narrowed the scope of the potential power outage, but its still estimated to impact almost 200,000 customers from central to northern california. For the last 2 days pg e has reached out to customers by phone, email, or text to warn them. The California Governor Gavin Newsom admits the utility has improved in that area, but not in much else. If they start shutting off power,