To actually establish a Safety Culture so that these types of accidents do not occur. Reporter today at metro headquarters the acting chair of the nlt sb chris hart sat in on a safety meeting and spoke about the changes metros making. Were always very pleased to see parties take immediate action when they see problems during the course of the investigation. The parties are up close and personal with the issues and when they see a problem, it needs to be addressed and they need to address them. Reporter metro add theys ear not being directed to take these actions but are doing so on their own. Coming up in my next report at 6 00 still so many questions about what happened that day at Lenphant Plaza. News4 as learned about major facetoface communication problems between d. C. Firefighters and metro transit police. Youll want to hear that. Reporting live at metro headquarters adam tuss news4. And continuing our Team Coverage right now, news4s derrick ward is live outside the king street m
Nissan Station Wagon with a virginia license plate number of snj 9177. Anyone who has information about the whereabouts of this little girl and these two individuals, you are asked to call 911. Reporting live in fairfax, megan mcgrath, news 4. Back to you all in the studio. Megan mcgrath. Megan, thank you. Lets turn to tom kierein and get a first look at the forecast. A chill still in the area on this friday morning. You might need an umbrella too. A disturbance passing south and east of the metro area. Those patches of green in southern maryland, Northern Neck, Eastern Shore. Those are sprinkles passing south and east of the metro area and moving off to the north and east. Areas in the light blue are in the 40s. That includes much of virginia, southern maryland, and lower Eastern Shore farther north from charles county, prince georges, and anne arundel north into Montgomery County and the district. Generally, upper 30s to around 40 degrees. Loudoun virginia from west to the Shenandoah
Technology which basically speeds up the natural composting process to a 21 and a batch cycle, so after about 48 hours, it begins producing methane gas and all of the bye gases. And after 21 days, all you have left is an agricultural quality compost, and all of that gas that is collected is transformed into either electricity or cng fuel, so it is a completely closed loop cycle that we have, and we just celebrated the grand opening of our project in san jose, which is 1. 6 megawatts of electricity, about 34,000 tons per year of compost, if i remember correctly, and it is processing 90,000 tons per year of organic waste, so that is just one of our projects, and that is what we do. I want to point out that that is the largest facility of its kind in the world. Yes, it is the largest in the world. The energy that it produces is eligible for inclusion in the renewables portfolio. That is a goal set out by the government of california. Utilities have to use one third of their energy by rene
In 1917, there was no cloture rule at all. The senate functioned entirely by unanimous consent. So how did the senate overcome the determined opposition of 11 isolationist senators who refused to give consent to president wilson to arm ships . Senator walsh made clear that the senate would exercise its Constitutional Authority to reform its practices by a majority vote. I think the majority leader deserves more respect. The senate is not in order and the senate will be in order. The senator from alabama is correct. The senator from kentucky is recognized. Senator walsh made clear the senate would exercise its Constitutional Authority to reform its practices by a simple majority vote. A past senate could not take away the right of the future senate by tying the hands of the new senate. He said a majority may adopt the rules in the first place. It is preposterous to assume they can deny the right to change them. What he said made good sense. [captioning performed by national captioning i
In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation is not just rhetorical. Our fear of getting preachy may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. He went on to say individual churches are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex offenders reclaim their lives and rebuilding the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. And he concluded, the question is, how do we build on these partnerships between religious and secular people of goodwill . It wil