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After last night s amtrak crash. that process is even harder because crews do not know exactly how many people they may be looking for. the drain car tipped over shortly the train cars tipped over shortly after train 188 left the nearby 30th street station in philadelphia and possibly before all passenger tickets had been collected. let s go to cnn s kate bolduan live near the crash site in philadelphia. any updates on any of the efforts to identify those who went to the hospital and those who still may be trapped inside a train car, god forbid? reporter: god forbid is right, jake. this has become a huge task obviously number one priority for all of the officials on the ground here. that s to try to figure out who and how many are unaccounted for and missing. the latest we have heard from the mayor is that they re not handing out a number. they don t want to get into the numbers of how many people they think are still unaccounted for. but it is a tedious task, it is a huge task. ....
Wasteful spending. subsy dieding passenger tickets. this is a lose situation that can be solved if congress gets back in town and does its job. wow! you thought the back and forth and the fighting was over after the debt ceiling extension. it s not. they have been sent home without pay, because this faa extension, authorization has not been passed. a bill that passed the house. in the senate. the democrats have problem with the bill in the senate. the house has gone home and the senate is calling the house back to action as is the president. senator reid was asked if the temporaryextex was on the ....
Wasteful spending. subsy dieding passenger tickets. this is a lose situation that can be solved if congress gets back in town and does its job. wow! you thought the back and forth and the fighting was over after the debt ceiling extension. it s not. they have been sent home without pay, because this faa extension, authorization has not been passed. a bill that passed the house. in the senate. the democrats have problem with the bill in the senate. the house has gone home and the senate is calling the house back to action as is the president. senator reid was asked if the temporary extex was on the ....
A big loss compared to the small savings of killing the eas airport subsidy, shep? shepard: what s the thinking on the part of those holding this up? is it about how many people use these smaller airports? there are not a lot of people who use those small airports. according to the committee the eas subsidy $1,000 per ticket at some of these airports. even higher at others. this is the 21st extension again i think american people are tired of wasteful. they are subsidizing passenger tickets up to $3,700. later this afternoon senate majority leader harry reid was amine to be accepting the republican house plan but his aides have seemed to tamp that down a bit since he said that as we speak, shep, still no deal as congress heads to august recess. ....
With 4,000 federal workers furloughed at construction projects halted at dozens of airports across the country. house democrats blamed the tea party. it is an ideological warfare going on here. reporter: some say democrats are protecting the subsidy on the backs of the load workers. this is the 24th extension. again, the american people are tired of wasteful spending and here they subsidizing passenger tickets up to $3 $3,700. reporter: today, transportation secretary ray lahood urged the party to reach agreement. we re asking congress to delay the vacation, not to go on vacation until they pass a bill to allow 70,000 construction workers and 4,000 faa employees to go back to work. reporter: late today, new skirmishes over the faa bill erupted on the senate floor. if we don t extend the faa authorization, we don t collect the revenues on the passenger tax. reporter: democrats contend the uncollected airline ticket taxes amount to ....