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Service tomorrow, even though some trains were still canceled tonight. remember, this was going to be the first impacts if a rail worker strike did ultimately happen. amtrak had planned to cancel all of its long distance routes, every corner of the country, as well as state sponsored trends on ten different lines. the issue was twofold. first, that many of the long distance routes take days to complete and would have overlapped with the start of a strike. also, that 97% of amtrak routes rely on ...

City. its not easy to navigate. theres new challenges ahead for those folks. murad sprsz awawdeh, i appreciate your time and your service, and thanks for joining us this afternoon. economic crisis seemingly av averted. rail companies have struck a tentative deal with the union workers steering the nation clear of a strike that could have crippled the fragile supply chain. the biden administration helped broker after 20-straight hours of negotiations. they got to this end point. and vanessa is ...

Workers on strike. president biden tasked marty walsh with making sure the two sides reach a deal. walsh was with the negotiators during this 20-hour marathon. our colleague said that president biden placed a call around 9:00 p.m., urging them and impressing upon them how critical it was for them to reach a deal, in order to not inflict economic pain president biden praised all sides, saying it was a win for all sides, including americans. and reminding that the rail workers are front line worke...

They thought it was governor abbott playing politics with the migrants. >> bill: nice to have you there, washington, d.c. thank you. >> dana: the white house striking a tentative deal to avert a railroad workers strike. the question now is what concessions did the biden administration make to the union bosses and will the deal hold? peter doocy is live at the white house with more. hi, peter. >> very carefully worded statement saying its a win for the rail workers but a victory for the rail comp...

Americans that want to spob sort refugees are now being recruited and trained and funded. thats a brand new important part of this whole refugee sl. >> congresswoman, thank you. always a pleasure. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. this morning an economic crisis averted. early this morning, president biden announced a tentative agreement was reached that would stave off a strike by tens of thousands of rail workers with just hours to spare. after 20 consecutive hours of negotiations, the w...

Strike since 1992. >> this is a win of tens of thousands of rail workers and for their dignity. >> reporter: the agreement was a product of marathon 20-hour talks, led by labor secretary marty walsh. >> we arent getting out. i told them youre not getting out of this room. >> reporter: walsh said a strike would have cost the u.s. economy $2 billion a day. >> we have food and grain and corn waiting to be transported across the country that would have rotted. we have other supplies that are going o...

The flexibility a lot of us would take for granted, whether were talking about flight attendants, truck drivers, these union rail workers, they are focusing on that, and that was one of the key things that needed to be resolved in order to get to this deal that is now good news for workers and good news for railroads in general and of course very good news for the american economy that we didnt face a shutdown. >> absolutely. its interesting. we were talking about this earlier when we talking ab...

Difficult, rail workers say for them to schedule a time just to go to the doctor, and what they were able to do here is get an extra day off per year, and the ability to take unpaid time off for medical appointments without penalty from their employer. whether thats enough or whether workers really want there to be fully paid time off, it is going to be the question. i think as they get around this deal, certainly the white house officials think that it is enough, and it is a good deal for worke...

Last several weeks. this was a looming crisis hanging over the white house for a couple of reasons. first of which being the devastating economic consequences of a strike involving 50,000 rail workers that could cripple the nations supply chain operations but also of course the midterms which are coming in less than two months and the ripple impacts that you could have had from those economic consequences. now the president announcing this tentative agreement in a statement early this morning sa...

In our money lead, today president biden is celebrating a tentative deal to avoid a nationwide rail strike which the president says could have caused significant damage to the u.s. economy. >> this agreement allows us to continue to rebuild a better america with an economy that truly worked for working people and their families. today is a win, i mean it sincerely, a win for america so i want to thank you all for getting this done. >> cnns pete muntean is there. >> reporter: this deal is big, be...