Including joel sabat, ron batory from the federal railroad administration. Ray martinez, administrator of the Safety Administration and heidi king from the national Highway Safety traffic system. The fix of the american act, better known as the fast act is responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System including fmcsa, nhtsa and fra. Todays hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the fast act. And to identify issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for a surface transportation reauthorization. The fast act established the infraGrant Program. This and others such as build grants formerly tiger grants are critical to improving our nations transportation infrastructure. I hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on improving the infrastructure and how intra, and bill grants are being utilized. As they reauthorize the fast act, i plan to work with cantwell and other members on both s
Season and waves new technology reduce heatrelated deaths. Child who died after being left in a hot car. This is about 40 minutes. Ms. Schakowsky the chair now recognizes herself for five minutes or for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you for being with us today during todays hearing is about promoting auto safety and raising awareness about the threats families face on our nations roads and off the roads as well as we enter summer driving season. Threats ise vehicular heatstroke, when a child is left in a car. I would like to introduce two families who have endured those strategies and turned the pain into advocating to make sure no child ever dies in an overheating car. Harrison, froml personal, virginia, they are the parents of a child who died at 8, 2008months on july after being unknowingly left in a hot car. Hawley of charlotte, north , her child was four weeks old when he was unknowingly left in their family car. Fortunately, his parents realized quickly their mista
Scam again. Instead, they texted back askan forth and the landlord got him a code to the lock box. But he dont know it was me. Reporter were driving to meet up with the actual Property Management company that is renting that property that victor checked out. Did you know this . I didnt know that but im not surprised. Reporter he says these scammers are sophisticated. I had my tech person trace ip addresses back to nigeria or north africa or turkey and its just not much we can do. Reporter he water marks every photo and uses a Remote Access system where anyone who wants to see a property needs to sign up and even take a selfie so do the scammers do this . It will verify youre registered and give you a code to open the box and get the key. Reporter do you have that persons information in your system . Of course we do. Reporter can we check it out . I cant give it to you but if we are contacted by the police, obviously we would cooperate with that. Reporter we texted the alleged landlord
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
To be suffering from both dementia and alzheimers, allegedly sexually assaulted, and the complaint filed is now raising serious questions about one of the largest nursing home operators in the state. These are bruises on cheryl doe, a 79 year old former patient at Windsor Health care center of oakland. She and her son, robert , allege the injuries are a result of a Sexual Assault that was swept under the rug. Robert says he admitted her here with hopes to keep her safe as she battles alzheimers and dementia. But he says the real battle happened inside the facility. The first time was a rape assault, and i didnt find out until two days later after it initially happened. This is the voice of cheryls son robert, who was kept anonymous to protect his familys privacy. Robert says his mom was raped by another resident living in the facility in august last year. He says a certified nursing assistant told him not management. She said your moms been getting raped in this facility and they know