Messy and tough chute k annie yu is braving it out for you. First lets check in with erin como for a look the trouble spots right now. Erin. Thank you so much, allison, steve, big problems on the road as we look at live 66 extremely backed up eastbound side maples mill road. As you make your way 234 Prince William parkway up to the beltway you are dealing with about a 45 minute delay and delays continue inside the beltway earlier crash by 110 cleared on 66 and but from faiv fairfax traffic at well. Westbound side slower than usual help volume lighter and thats because of rain and wet conditions on the road as we forward our camera. Sluggish ride on 395 northbound as well as you try to get from the beltway to the 14 street bridge. Were seeing some big delays. There lets go take a look at maps. Because in addition to that outer loop is a mess in college park this morning. And earlier crash by old georgetown road had all lanes blocked and moved over to continue. Let me get out of the way.
Straighter Peter Neffenger testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on alleged misconduct at the agency this is about two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the meeting on government and oversight reform will come together. Without objection, we will reconvene at any time. The public comes in regular contact with Transportation Security Administration, we have a fairly new administration who has had a chance to visit with, but it is important as the Oversight Committee that we continue to take a look at what is happening or not happening. What is not happening at the tsa. Today we will have a second hearing examining the misconduct and Management Practices that we have heard about, seeing about, and investigated at the Transportation Security Administration. This time of year traveling public picks up kids and families and people are traveling, sometimes at record levels. People get frustrated, they go to airports, there are long lines, there ar
You, senator. Youre now recognized sen to senator from tennessee. Can you tell me how many tsa employees make a hundred thousand or more a year . I will have to get that for you. Can you make a rough guess . I can make a rough guess. I dont really know, sir. Let me ask this, do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i have restrict it had number of bonus that is we do. I will get you the exact number but it was a significant smaller number and based upon performance, not based upon special act awards. Can you tell me, have you personally fired any employee tsa employees for misconduct or rudeness or incompetence since youve been in the office . There have been a number of people who have been fired from the agency at all levels. I came in and one of my first tasks was to determined what my agency looked like. I hold my leaders and demanded and i am confident of my team and im confident of team to help lead that team. Today i have been satis
Eer. H. And if anybody pops up in any category, it allows you to take a harder look at them which we do. We go back to the Intelligence Community and to the fbi and we do a scrib on those individuals. We have the methods, there is higher level of sensibility here, allowing these folks to actually work inside of secure areas . Yes, sir. That was exactly the question i had about that. Ive been working closely with director comey and the National Counterterrorism center to mr. Roth, you did a great job on the screening tests the a the big airports and you know, we had, we have very high failure rate the last time of that test. And i know, im not sure of enough time has gone by to allow admiral neffenger to sort of adopt a new protocol among the screeners. Has that happened yet . Have you done any new tests to take a measurement how were doing . Sure, what weve done is two things. One is a natural followup we would do any audit. For example, with regard to the Penetration Testing we have r
We do immediate feet back and do that consistently. Workforce readiness and performance and workforce accountability. We changed that. Its no longer based upon how long the lines are. Thats a separate issue. We deal with that at the management level. For the frontline workforce, i want you to know they will focus on the mission and support them with the best possible training and train them on the equipment and how it operates and gave them hands on understanding of what the limitations were. There is a fuller interest that i will provide. The gentlemen from tennessee for five minutes. Can you me how many tsa employees make 100,000 or more a year . I will have to get that number. Can you make a rough guess . I dont really know. I will have to get it for the record. Do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i restricted the number of bonuses we do. It was a significantly smaller number based on performance and not special act awards. Have yo