This is the nations safety watchdog making sure they are the top priority in the u. S. Department ofor transportation. Through its impartial investigations into transportation accidents, the board makes recommendations that have transformed Transportation Safety. Ha ntsbs recommendations prompted action to require railroads use positive train control to use seatrc belts to have well rested crews. The needs to continue to improve safety is ongoing. Run away near misses are far too frequent and must do better. Eastet palestine derailment, and the inspections that have been lacks. They make sure we are looking out for longer trains and improvements. Thats just flustering given last saturdays derailment where three trains collided. We seeen a crisis in the nations roadwaysn in 2021. The latest data we have fatalities are the highest since 2005 in my home state. Fatalities increased 40 since the pandemic. While, thats enough to think about, we are urgently in need of an ntsb and use the exp
A problem. Book tv is in charlottesville, virginia, home of the virginia festival of the books. Up next, we take you to the festivals headquarters to speak with bess macy about her book, truevine. George and willie muse were two africanamerican brothers born around the turn of the central with al binism. They were kidnapped and whisked away to the circus side show because of their differences and this is a story about the mother, harriet muse, who risked her life, i would say, to get them back and also then to get justice for her family. If you talked to anyone who was africanamerican in roanoke over the age of 60 they would have remembered hearing this story. They nt would have known if it was true per se, but they would have been grown up, especially if theyre going to a circus or a carnival. The mother would have said Stay Together or you might get kidnapped like george and willie. They were born around 1900 in a share cropper farm in a crossroads called truevine and most americans