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
Wealthiest man in the world, right . Everyone has no doubt used bandaids or tylenol. Wellknown products produced by Johnson Johnson. Johnson johnson is also a giant and many other areas taking a leading role in preparing a vaccine for covid19. Its ceo is alex gorsky, a west point trained former military man who has done an incredible job over the last eight years making this company the most valuable Health Care Company. Some people say the most commonly spoken words in the english language today are can you hear me because of the zoom phenomenon but i assume in your case, the most commonly asked question is when is the vaccine coming . You must be getting ask this every hour on the hour. When is relaxing coming . Alex its usually about every 15 minutes i get asked that. I could not be more proud of the incredible work that our scientists and engineers have been doing over the past nine months to put us in the position where we are today with a vaccine. To think what would ordinarily t
The nasdaq at 2. 0 we can buy the stock we can buy the recovery stock once we get a vaccine. We have people returning to the cities we buy the apartments. We have a lot of people eating at home will soon eating out again with a vaccine so not by the food packet place and the restaurant thats adventure wisdom. After a huge run over the last week and a half where the market is very over bought and a ton of strategists raising 2021 dramatically i am going to articulate a different field, a caution one it never works out that everyone wins i am going to sigh at tay at th beginning. I dont think all of this will happen you got to know, maybe have some cash if stuff happens, you can use the buy. First, it is terrific that we can see through the valley of the shadow of covid. Jesus, we are seeing at insane number of new infections here to the point where hospitals are overwhelmed. While we gotten much better treating the virus, it is undeniable we are approaching a triage situation. Not good
Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
In the United States today, there are only 38 women serving as ceos of fortune 500 companies. One of those with the best track record is tricia griffith, ceo of progressive insurance, one of the largest Automobile Insurance Companies in the United States. She started as a claim adjuster and worked her way up to become in 2016 the ceo. Since that time, the stock is up more than 175 . My big mistake was, i didnt know her then and i didnt buy stock in the company. If she ever leaves that company and go somewhere else, im going to buy that stock right away. So for those who arent familiar with progressive, and if you watch television you would be familiar, because you have a lot of television ads, right . I am just curious, why is it that Automobile Insurance Companies seem to advertise a lot . I see your competitors advertising. You advertise a lot. Is that because people will be guided in their insurance decision by the advertisement . Tricia it is just a really competitive industry, whi