Started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation
Started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation
No. And we looked at that thank you. Now i have another question. This question is directed to ms. Bristol and mr. Rinaldi. Its related to staffing. But its more about 9 equipment and the ongoing efforts by the faa to modernize the control towers. Last week there was an article in the a. P. It ran across the country and including in my district in las vegas. And the article was entitled union new airport towers must be remodeled before opening. In the article, mr. Rinaldi, you specifically identified the new control tower in las vegas saying it requires an overhaul before it can be operational. I reached out to our local controllers, our safety engineers and the faa because im concerned this overdue project is going to have to be delayed even further due to a failure by the faa. And im also worried that people around the country are going to read there might be a problem flying into las vegas and might not want to come there and we certainly cant have that. So what i learned is our con
Before crashing in the shallow river below. A live look at taipei. At least 23 confirmed dead. America rack miraculously 13 found alive. Heading to the scene of that hoar risk crash on one of the nations busiest commuter railways. Officials say an suv drove on to the tracks. Crossing gates came out and the driver got out to look for damage. Got back in tried to drive off and was struck when the train hit her. Our goal is to find out not only what happened but really find out why it happened so that we can issue safety recommendations to try and keep this from happening again. Lets go to nbcs kate snow in valhalla new york. Kate the deadliest accident this railroad has ever seen . Reporter it is. This is the metro north railway, jose. It runs out of new york city to many different suburbs. This was a crowded train. More than 600 people on the train last night tum 7coming home out of Grand Central station on their way home as you say, the train struck and suv. All we know at this spointp