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These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institu...

Today and january 3rd. That is one in every three americans. Tonight,a a busy, busy night to fly out. Now, you know, it is a pretty good day overall for all three airports. Here we caught up with volunteers who overrer their time and compassionate the travelers aid desk. Reporter over their time and compassionate the travelers aid desk. We love helping people. They are so grateful. That is the nice thing about this job. We occasionally get hard problems but most of our job is happiness. Reporter...

Connecticut, where the first of the victims from the tragedy here were laid to rest today. This grieving town begins the process of saying goodbye, investigators continue their search for how and why it all happened here. Ill have more coming up. Devastation of Superstorm Sandy, but wait until you hear about all the pork loaded into this 60 billion sandy relief bill. Hardly any of it gets to sandy and the actual survivors. Well get to all that. The kudlow report begins right now. First up, 14 da...

Certain way. So they of course passed the bill overnight around 1 00 or so in the morning. Sent it back over here to the house of representatives where we expect them to start voting just about an hour or so from now. And we expect that the results will be similar. We just saw the House Speaker paul ryan walk past here. He has been in what i would describe as a jubilant mood. This is a major accomplishment for him. But of course a source of concern for a lot of americans who are wondering how th...

BALTIMORE – Amtrak has achieved a major milestone for the Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program with the selection of a Kiewit/J.F. Shea Joint Venture to build the brand new, state-of-the-art passenger rail tunnel that will serve electrified Amtrak and MARC commuter trains.

As SIA has previously reported, in addition to prohibiting federal grant and loan funds from being used to purchase covered equipment, Section 889 directed agencies to prioritize...