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Me will get started. Were missing a speaker hopefully he will arrive when it is his turn. Thanks for all of you coming today. Infrastructure in is a priority for the new and ministration. President trump has called for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan. We dont know what that means 1 trillion of federal Government Spending or the plan put together by hisis pfizers that call for the tax credit for newman vestment of infrastructure prescribe not a fan of either approach so i hope theyre open to dif...

Time its turn at the podium. Im chris edwards. Editor of cato. Thanks for all you folks coming today. Infrastructure is certainly a priority issue for the new administration. President trump has repeatedly called for a trillion dollars infrastructure plan. We dont know exactly what that means. Does he mean a trillion dollars in new federal Government Spending or does he mean the plan put together by his advisors wilbur ross that called for a tax credit for new investment in infrastructure . Im n...

This was sent into our news station by viewers. you can see the flames. they reported seeing 50 to 75 feet in the air. fire spread fast. they evacuated the complex, worked to get everyone out safe. unfortunately, as i mentioned, the father of a fouryearold little girl told thus morning she died in the basement of the complex. he said his family was sleeping when the fire broke out. he and his wife able to get one of the kids out. when they tried to break through the windows, the intense fire, al...

Experimenting with Battery Powered buses that could change transportation here. Kurdish Peshmerga Forces from iraq have now joined the battle against isil in the syrian town of kobane. Theyre helping the hundreds of Syrian Kurdish and other opposition fighters who are already there. The iraq kurdish Peshmerga Forces crossed the border on friday. We have more from the turkeysyria border. We are a few kilometers away from kobane where the sound of sporadic fighting and shelling has persisted throu...

Feel burdened with expensive effort of implementing changes that wont yield direct benefits for many years to come. This situation has led policymakers to question whether the current atc structure is best suited for the task at hand the longstanding difficulties of modernization on one reason to consider reform to the systems reliance on annual transportation appropriations and the vagaries of the political process make longterm planning for system capitalization management of the footprint dif...

That is the accounting that the faa has in the current budget. As much as we wish it would the budget picture will not change we will see more and more spending restraint with the impact of sequestration and layoffs with onagain and offagain stock in star funding from continuing resolutions. That is what the faa is confronted with nobody could or would bill the major new Technology Projects with those types of challenges. Here is the headline from last week and though it causes heart ache but co...

Out the markets today borrowing capital at almost no cost anybody would do this. You get tremendous savings by being able to make your investment now. You would probably build it in three years it would be outdone. I am listening to you and im hearing highways. We are all thinking about highways right now. They dont have a bill and a highway funding runs out in 10 minutes we still dont have a bill on highway funding. Should we do this for our highway system . Shall we go through a notforprofit o...

Hillary clinton continues hir visit today in cedar fall. Shes taking part in a roundtable discussion on Small Businesses and lending. And live coverage this morning on capitol hill the Senate Transportation committee holding a hearing on reauthorizing faa programs, focusing on modernizing the air Traffic Control system. The administrator of the faa is michael werta. Well be hearing from him as national air Traffic Controller associations president and others. The chair arrived. South Dakota Repu...

That as we have this longer term discussion of investment and structure that we do drn that everyone understands that the program, Aviation System and the Grant Program and aviation structure in the United States has always been about achieving twin objectives. First is to have an efficient system that serves the largest number of passengers and second is too provide a level of access to communities throughout the country. And in previous reauthorizations that has always been matter of great deb...

Of that somehow. It came across the bottom. It says yellen will do all she is capable of. I saw that, too. I read into that deeper. Apparently that was her swearing in speech. She swore as she said it . I will do anything i can do during her swearing in . The first one i saw that i said, what . And then i said, okay, okay. During her swearing in, okay. Like i promise to up hold the law type of thing. This ukraine thing, not getting settled. The crimea unanimous vote to join parliament. This is t...