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
States as rival joe biden is holding 2 polls indicate biden has a lead nationwide but the race appears to be tight in some crucial swing states a record 19000000. 00 voters have already cast their ballots the Afghan Government announced a national day of mourning after an attack in Kabul University at least 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured during the gun battle multiple attackers entered the campus and on monday and Security Forces killed 3 of them. U. K. Prime minister bonus johnstons defended his decision to impose a National Lockdown in england critics including some from his own party say the measures go too far. I believe it was right to try every possible option to get this virus under control at a local level with strong local action and strong local leadership and i reject any suggestion that we are somehow slow in taking measures in our european friends and partners in fact were moving to National Measures when the rate both of deaths and infections for instanc
Now we are watching as joe biden is closing in on Donald Trumps lead we expect by the next time that the votes are announced that dont trouble potentially have lost that state and digitally have lost the election at that point because there are very few paths for donald trump without also winning the u. S. State of georgia and this is why were seeing the u. S. President fighting so hard. The u. S. Has seen another record jump in ukraine a virus infections 2 days after the president ial vote more than 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record set the day before and thats according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins university an average of 850 people dying from the virus every day up from 700 a month ago. The entire population of liverpool in the United Kingdom will be offered a test for covert 19 its part of a trial for mass testing aimed at helping hospitals and lifting restrictions about 2000 military personnel have been deployed to help 8 prodemocracy politicians in
A Religious School in pakistan and well tell you why a new abortion law in poland has triggered mass protests across the country. Thank you very much for joining us with exactly a week to go before the u. S. Elections says been a surge in early voting partly due to when despite the coronavirus pandemic more than 63000000 americans had voted by monday night thats 4000000 more than all early votes 4 years ago National Polls are giving democratic contender joe biden a solid lead although its a lot tighter in some battleground states but the coronavirus pandemic continues to overshadow the campaign infections are surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases have been confirmed in the past week alone with. More than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began stock markets in the u. S. Saw their biggest one day drop in a month on monday as concern grows that failure to contain the outbreak will hurt the economic recovery and rescue package remain
But im not going to make decisions that i think are wrong for america. New question, mr. President. Do you believe that diplomacy and sanctions can resolve the nuclear problems with north korea and iran, taking them in any order you would like. North korea, first i do. Let me say i certainly hope so. Before i was sworn in, the policy of this government was to have bri lateral negotiations with north korea, and we signed an agreement with north korea that my administration found out that was not being honored by the north koreans. So i decided that a better way to approach the issue was to get other nations involved, just besides us. And across texas, crawford and i agreed a free north Korean Peninsula was in his interest and our interest and the worlds interest. So we began a new dialogue in north korea, one that included not only the United States but now china and china has a lot of influence over north korea. In some ways more than we do. As well we included south korean, japan and