To manage the ability to launch and land flights, the airports major carriers have been trying to steer passengers on other hubs and have been paring down domestic flights to sfo, but passengers are still feeling the pinch. Dozens of flights have been cancelled and even more are delayed. I saw that my flight got cancelled and i had nothing to do. I live in oregon and the closest airport to me is eugene, oregon. It was cancel. I had to travel two hours north of where i live and then that flight was delayed and i just landed and now im hoping my next flight will make it to chicago. Reporter now, united, Alaska Airlines and air canada have been waving flight change fees so passengers can rebook to avoid sfo and theyve been stocking gates and planes with extra snacks to help ease tensions as delays stack up. According to sfo they picked this stretch of 20 days because it comes at the end of the busy Summer Travel season and before the busy Holiday Travel season. But still it is going to me
And welcome to this hearing on detecting the nation, Transportation Systems. We reflect on a summer day in american history, 18 years ago that terrorists turned a address the agencys progress towards implementing modernization the committee will exercise oversight to existing security programs. Notably the passenger screening teams in february administrator pekoske briefed the committee on disturbing testing results from the ig and promised to revamp k9 training. Tsa is committed to making the federal federal air Marshals Program more intelligent space. Improving todays Frontline Security programs is important but tsa must adapt to changing threats and technologies. Emerging Technology Including biometrics, perhaps we will hear about that today. Understand tsa has a biometrics roadmap but we certainly need to do this in light of concerns involving privacy, Data Protection and civil liberties. I look forward to a robust discussion today on the vital role the tsa plays. Madam Ranking Mem
Five minutes to make an opening statement. Today the committee is holding our second hearing on the use of racial facial Recognition Technology. We will be examining the use of this technology by Law Enforcement agencies across the federal government. We had a broad survey of full range of issues, raised by technology. We heard from a number of experts about the benefits and the dangers of this technology across government and the entire private sector. Stark conclusion after our last hearing was that this technology is evolving extremely rapidly, without any really safeguards, whether were talking about commercial use or government use, the real concerns about the risks that this Technology Poses to our civil rights and liberties and our rights to privacy. The other conclusion from our last hearing was that these concerns are indeed bipartisan. As we saw at our last hearing, among conservatives and liberals, republic republicans and democrats thats a widerange agreement we should be c
Stick with abc7 news for continuing coverage of the jury deliberations. You can find more on the ghost ship case on our news app. Its 4 30. Lets get a quick check of weather and traffic. Lets take a look at what is going on with the winds. The wind bars, every one isat ig more sunshine because the breezes are faster today and will overturn the atmosphere and mix it out but it will keep pumping the air off the cooler ocean, so expect cooler temperatures once again. As we hit the low to mid70s for the bay, mid70s to inland. Mike, we are checking out a couple accidents around the bay area, and one is eastbound on the carquinez bridge, and you can see theres a little slowing and westbound traffic looking good as you make your way in towards the bay area and san francisco. The other crash is in san mateo and its eastbound 92 at hillsdale where a car hit the Center Divide but we are seeing slowing in the westbound direction right now. Do r this iuelay bridge. And then publicly President Trum
At 7 00. The sun sets at 7 57, and a lot of high clouds so ought to be colorful. Enjoy it. In the south bay, 17 theres debris in the lanes. This is a live shot, northbound 280 here and northbound 17 coming out of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We will take you back to the bay bridge toll plaza. There was an earlier problem around the cash paying lanes, and there was a small which has been cleared. Its still light right now. We will show you drive times. 680 southbound, walnut creek, 13 minutes. No problems, santa rosa to San Francisco, an easy 48 minutes. Highway 17 also happening now, a new thing not to forget when you head for the airport, your bottle. Reporter reuse your water bottle. Thats the message here at sfo starting today. People can no longer buy plastic Water Bottles at this airport anymore. The Water Bottles are no longer being sold at sfo. Sfo wants to be the first airport in the world with zero waste going to the landfill. This is where they are starting. Travelers give it a