the us department of transportation said today's action stems from extreme delays in refunds worth moreillion from lufthansa, klm and south african airways. all of this related to covid—19 flight changes and cancellations. now, on top of the refunds, the three airlines have already paid back, they now face a hefty fine. us transportation secretary pete buttigieg said this was about holding airlines accountable, adding that passengers, well, they shouldn't have to fight with the airline to get their money back. lufthansa and dutch flag carrier klm were both fined over $1 million each. south african airways was ordered to pay $300,000. germany's lufthansa said in a statement it had made all the required refunds and blamed the historically unprecedented level of refunds during the covid—19 pandemic for the delay. the department of transportation, meanwhile, has launched a new dashboard in an attempt to put public pressure on airlines to address customer concerns. all of this has caused groh from the biden administration to cut back on so—called junk fees. let's stay with the airline sector

the us department of transportation said today's action stems from extreme delays in refunds worth more from lufthansa, klm and south african airways. all of this related to covid—19 flight changes and cancellations. now, on top of the refunds, the three airlines have already paid back, they now face a hefty fine. us transportation secretary pete buttigieg said this was about holding airlines accountable, adding that passengers, well, they shouldn't have to fight with the airline to get their money back. lufthansa and dutch flag carrier klm were both fined over $1 million each. south african airways was ordered to pay $300,000. germany's lufthansa said in a statement it had made all the required refunds and blamed the historically unprecedented level of refunds during the covid—19 pandemic for the delay. the department of transportation, meanwhile, has launched a new dashboard in an attempt to put public pressure on airlines to address customer concerns. all of this has caused groh from the biden administration to cut back on so—called junk fees. let's stay with the airline sector — bec

the us department of transportation said today's action stems from extreme delays in refunds worth more from lufthansa, klm and south african airways. all of this related to covid—19 flight changes and cancellations. now, on top of the refunds the three airlines have already paid back, they now face a hefty fine. us transportation secretary pete buttigieg said this was about holding airlines accountable, adding that passengers, well, they shouldn't have to fight with the airline to get their money back. lufthansa and dutch flag carrier klm were both fined over $1 million each. south african airways was ordered to pay $300,000. germany's lufthansa said in a statement it had made all the required refunds and blamed the historically unprecedented level of refunds during the covid—19 pandemic for the delay. the department of transportation, meanwhile, has launched a new dashboard in an attempt to put public pressure on airlines to address customer concerns. all of this has caused the biden administration to cut back on so—called junk fees. let's stay with the airline sector — because indust

according to the us department of transportation, in 2023 there were 23 incidents where collisions werefedex cargo plane was given permission to land as a southwest airlines jet carrying 128 passengers and crew was cleared for take off. investigators say the fedex plane aborted its landing when its first officer spotted the southwest plane on the runway. the fedex aircraft then pulled back into the air, as the southwest jet continued its run for take—off. investigators at the ntsb said inadequate training and a lack of a lack of safety technology were factors in the incident. in may, the us federal aviation administration said they would install the surface detection systems at austin and other airports by the end of 2025. joining me live is oriana pawlyk, an aviation reporter with politico. always good to have you with us. taking a look at the numbers, we have federal regulators are grappling with this increasing number of close calls on runways across the united states. do we know why that is? {iii united states. do we know why that is? .., , united states. do we know why that is? _,

yes, the us department of transportation said today's action stems from extreme delays in refunds worthm, and south african airways. all of this related to covid—19 flight changes and cancellations. now, on top of the refunds the three airlines have already paid back, they now face a hefty fine. us transportation secretary pete buttigieg said this was about holding airlines accountable, adding that passengers — well, they shouldn't have to fight with the airline to get their money back. lufthansa and dutch flag carrier klm were both fined over $1 million each. south african airways was ordered to pay $300,000. germany's lufthansa said in a statement it had made all the required refunds, and blamed the historically unprecedented level of refunds during the covid—19 pandemic for the delay. the department of transportation, meanwhile, has launched a new dashboard in an attempt to put public pressure on airlines to address customer concerns. all of this has caused growth from the biden administration to cut back on so—called junk fees. let's get some of the day's other news now. us court pa

>> that would be under us department of transportation. they can make waiver requests for truck weight. i'm not sure on the trucker hours. i will be happy to get back to you for service hours. >> please look into that. is locals are saying that would be helpful in order to complete, you wouldn't want to run out by two hours or something, what the delay would be. also, is there an issue of the tunnel being available to all types of trucking? could you have a waiver on maybe hazardous materials having a certain time of day they could access it, for example? just looking for ways for flexibility. are those possible thoughts, you think? >> time has expired. >> thank you. and he answered that? >> quickly. >> happy to follow up with your office on those questions. >> thank you, madame chair. >> thank you. the gentleman yields back. >> thank you, madame chair, and thank you to convening this committee today. witnesses, thank you for your testimony and for working diligently to respond to the tragedy to the francis scott key bridge in march. i joi

they were urged by loudspeaker to use other lines and ground transport, as reported by department of, the reason was a check of the infrastructure system on the central section of the green line. the movement entered the schedule after about an hour and a half. in the vicinity of the village of ivoylovo in the russian region, there is a massive cutting down of trees, but as residents found out, this is only the beginning of all the troubles. along the perimeter. heavy equipment is already starting to line up, businessmen are more interested in the fact that there are sand deposits underground, which means that in the future a huge quarry will appear here, how legal this work is, dmitry went to the site to find out blinnikov, look what they’ve turned into, it’s terrible, chaos, just a few days ago there was a forest here, and now there are only bare clearings, with stumps sticking out of the ground, and there are hundreds, even thousands of such trees here. this is the outskirts of the village of ivoylovo, a whole team of workers was cutting down the trees here, here they are, just lo

of course, with that, moving on to some better news, so us department of transportation, gave us a grant, the fta gave us a grant for $4.6 million at the end of may for all stations accessibility program. that grant is going to go towards building platforms, wheelchair accessible ramps on five muni rail stops on the j church and then three ones on ocean avenue. so a total of eight. so and then kind of we're proud of this. we learned this week that we're the only awardee for this type of grant in the whole fta region nine and california. so we feel really good about that. and then just as a way of background. so our previous efforts started in 1992, where we prepared something called key station identification and accessibility implementation plan, but basically identifying 23 surface rail stops where we needed to make improvements to have it be accessible. we did complete those. and so this is on top of what we've already done. obviously, facilitating connection and making accessibility stops closer to each other, between these eight and the other ones that we have and closing some gaps.

for example with the reunification ride caseworkers in the department of children and family servicesill contact us explaining they have no way of transporting children or staff to bring them and will ask us if we will instead. we have to say no we've been unable to find a single private insuranceva company that will allow us to have father foster youth participate with two rare important permits at the correctional center what is called the moms and babies at program where new or pregnant mothers can live with their babies the others a housing unit called the reunification wing children are able to spend full days with their mother's children in the foster care system are not like to participate in either program despite the fact foster youth are more likely to not live with relatives and not be able to visit without support. ensuring visits when foster youthng and their incarcerated parent supports individual cours decisions that in person visitation for the child and their parent is appropriate and beneficial for the child. the majority are in charge is completely unrelated to thei

the department of transportation, transportation, excuse me, joins us now, mary, i want to read youart of this metal obtained by bloomberg because i think it's pretty significant, says a less experienced first officer inadvertently pushed forward on the control column, the pilot the pilot then cut the speed causing the airplane to descend soon after a warning system sounded, alarms signaling the jet was getting too close to the surface and the captain ordered the first officer to increase thrust. the plane then climbed aggressively at 85 500 feet per minute. what is your reaction to hearing a little bit of what happened there well, my first reaction is thank heavens for the ground proximity warning system, which is the warning system went off telling them they were descending too fast, they were too close to the land. >> and they weren't on there and other equipment saying they weren't on their glides slopes anymore? more so the warning equipment did appear to go off, not noticing that you leaned on the control column and this rapid dead descent, this is greater than your standard.

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departments of transportation all across the country.p with all of these guardrails? >> yes. >> reporter: paving his own unique path. liz crawford, cbs news, chester county, pennsylvania. >>> that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. in washington, i'm ed o'keefe. happy father's day, dad. good night. >>> from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >>> scientists exploring the off-limits areas of alcatraz like sleeping in the prison cells. how their work can help us better understand climate change? >> a growing wildfire down south, what we are learning about the blaze and the fire dangers in the bay area. >>> how san francisco is honoring a grandmother who died after being attacked in a park. >>> marginalized by medicine. the struggle for transgender men and women to find proper healthcare and the local doctors that are stepping up. >>> i am brian hackney. >> and i am andrea nakano. five years ago, horrific attack and then a grandmother was brutally be in and later died, will be honored. >> reporter: a granddaughter lette

what the iija is allowing us to do in partnership with new jersey department of transportation, go outwn critical areas of failure so we can remove them. meanwhile, big projects have huge improvements as well because they will put new systems of power and signals in their locations and things like portal bridge today, which sometimes opens and gets stuck, those kind of delays, that can throw a commute period into total chaos, they will be gone or dramatically reduced. it will take some time, we apologize to those impacted by this it is the last thing we want to do is to have unreliable service, we are working hard but we are digging out of a deep hole and it will take a lot of money and time. thankfully, congress' support has helped. >> thank you. i yield back. >> mr. kean is recognized. >> mr. gardner, mr. coscia , good to see you. business line in the u.s., vital for americans, constituents, extraordinarily important to livelihoods and economic and safety in the region. however, struggled with aging infrastructure, leading to delays we just now recently discussed, $40 billion repair

what the iija is allowing us to do in partnership with new jersey department of transportation, go out and address those known critical areas of failure so we can remove them. meanwhile, big projects have huge improvements as well because they will put new systems of power and signals in their locations and things like portal bridge today, which sometimes opens and gets stuck, those kind of delays, that can throw a commute period into total chaos, they will be gone or dramatically reduced. it will take some time, we apologize to those impacted by this it is the last thing we want to do is to have unreliable service, we are working hard but we are digging out of a deep hole and it will take a lot of money and time. thankfully, congress' support has helped. >> thank you. i yield back. >> mr. kean is recognized. >> mr. gardner, mr. coscia , good to see you. business line in the u.s., vital for americans, constituents, extraordinarily important to livelihoods and economic and safety in the region. however, struggled with aging infrastructure, leading to delays we just now recently discusse

we are transported to london, from where assange has already departed, with alexander khabarov in directs here, this, of course, is the humiliation of asandzh himself, the humiliation of the whole world within the framework of the fact that... the americans have achieved their goal again, only the americans decide how british propaganda presents this news? well, let's start with the fact that, probably, for julian asandge himself, this is certainly a salvation, because his situation was quite difficult, in the united states he faced a total of up to 175 years in prison if, in the end, the united states managed to achieve issuing it. from the uk, and the fact that they could do this cannot be ruled out, despite the fact that a british court some time ago allowed assange to continue to fight against extradition using english legal system. but what did this mean for asanja? this meant further years of imprisonment in belmarsh maximum security prison, so the choice had to be between bad and very bad, so this is, in fact, the choice that happened. by the way, the details of this deal. is stil

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can continue to be tested for marijuana use if this proposal goes forth and how your department plans to address transportation safety and by the doj's one. >> was thank you yes. any impaired driving it alkyl, marijuana or any other source of impairment is of course a major safety concern. our understanding of the rescheduling of marijuana from schedule one to schedule three is that it would not alter d.o.t.'s marijuana testing requirements with respect to the regulated community. for private individuals who are performing safety sensitive functions subject to drug testing, marijuana as identified by name, not by reference to one of those classic. even if it moves in this classification we do not believe that would have direct impact on that authority. likewise i should mention for federal employees including at ut employee who have security clearance for safety sensitive position, we do not understand that to be changed into drug testing requirements relevant to that. to be change based on reclassification decision but we are continuing to evaluate an indirect impact it might have. >

partner and department of transportation has invested, spent a lo helping to bring the parties togethere, they have been doing infrastructure components, positive train control insulation by norfolk southern in uia and additional work needed in mobile so we have a station truck. those are the two predicate projects before service. both partners are strong working with us, we need to get the elements done with mobile and be able to move forward. >> 18 seconds, proposed new orleans to baton rouge line, operate through area, some doubt, not proud of. referred to as cancer alley because the amounts of hemical and industrial activity in that area. in terms of pollution reduction, can you speak to how counities in the area will benefit from the mass reduction of car trips near their homes due to passenger rail linesexcited about the baton rouge service. that corridor is in the here. we are working with host railroad, cp kc, we think there will be real appetite for this y for folks to have alternative to driving and as you sa carbon emissions associated with them in that corridor. >> any idea

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of transportation throughout the country. the inflation reduction act, congress created the low carbon transportation materials grant program to incentivize the use of construction materials on highway projects. through this grant program, states can obtain funding to support cleaner construction materials that will reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. the federal highway administration used all of the tools and resources provided by us and the infrastructure law to address the challenges of highway congestion and the results of the supply chain bottom x. it can add up to a higher cost of doing business and result in significant environmental cost as well. lastly, making roads safer for all americans is an ongoing challenge for the highway administration. think lee, since the enactment we have started to see a number of roadway fatalities begin to decline after increasing for years. some good news here, we have not had good news for a while in this front. we have started to see the number of highway fatalities decrea

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svetlana bondarchuk, deputy head of the federal tax service of russia, is in touch with us right now.hello, larisa. svetlana, we are discussing how the tax system is changing, what changes are expected in legislation, how the vector for the development of social justice will be implemented specifically in tax policy, but also in tax practice. let's first talk about what the russian federation already has for large families. this year, let me remind you, declared the year of the family in russia. the budget spends quite a significant amount of money on supporting families, this is about 35-36 billion rubles a year, money that returns to families. if we look at individual taxes, we can briefly look at them, for example, the property tax for individuals. we provide a deduction from the property tax base for the cadastral value of 5 km of area per person. as for our citizens with children, one parent in a family in many federal subjects is exempt from transport tax on one vehicle, the only thing in the regions there is a restriction, cars... with a power of up to 250 horsepower, such as i

department of transportation working with the state. they can make waiver requests for truck weight, i'm not sure in the trucker hours, i would be happy to get back to you the service hours. >> please look into that, if locals say that would be helpful in order to complete, de you would not want to run out by two hours or something what the additional delay would be. also, is there issue of the tunnel being availed to all types of trucks or restricted to certain types of tracking that could be helpful? could you have a waiver may be b hazardous materials, having a certain time of day they could access it? for example, maybe they could not otherwise, looking for ways of flexibility , with those be possible thoughts, you think? >> the gentleman's time is expired. >> can he answer that? >> yes. quickly. >> i would be happy to follow with your office on this questions. >> thank you, madam chair. >> the gentleman yields back, i recognize that gentlewoman for questions. >> thank you, chairwoman and german graves and larsen for this full commi

or delivery of us the humanitarian, the systems which takes the scope and stacy gilbert is a former state department employee who resigned over that report. she was a senior civil ministry advised the bureau of population refugees and migration of the state department. she suspects the report was falsified, so israel could continue receiving us weapons. we were tasked by the white house in early february to write a report, assessing countries to things, countries compliance with international humanitarian law, also known as the law of war, or the geneva conventions, and their willingness to facilitate humanitarian assistance. israel was not the only country, but as you can imagine, it was the country that generated the most debate within, within the subject matter experts who are drafting the report. so at some point to myself and a few other subject matter experts were removed from the report, it was moved up to a level and i read the report when it was released on may 10th. and it was the 1st time actually that i'm aware of that we admitted that israel is using us weapons in viola

we need action on legislation and action on rules at the department of transportation.government is behind where a lot of states are. they have taken action in recent years. >> it is incumbent upon us to listen to these entreaties and to act after studying the facts and consulting with all stakeholders. we have been involved in such consultation in preparing for acti for some period of time if the uk is prepared to go ahead, it seems that we ought to be. especially that we are meeting in innovating a lot of these techlogies. is that consistent with your assessment? >> we have the best companies in the world here. we need a framework that can support those companies going forward. >> to move on to another important topic that many of you touched on in your opening remarks, i will get to many of you. 41,000 people died on our roads last year. a massive number. i was trying to contextualize this number. i believe that it goes underreported. compared to other disasters that afflict families and communities. the cdc reports that every year, the number of u.s. murderers is ha

or delivery of us. so monetary assistance, stacy, gil, this is a former state department employee who resigned because of that report. she was a senior civil ministry advisor at the 0 off of population refugees in migration that the us state department, she suspects report was falsified. sir. israel could continue receiving us weapons . we were tasked by the white house in early february to write a report, assessing countries to things, countries compliance with international humanitarian law, also known as the law of war, or the geneva conventions, and their willingness to facilitate humanitarian assistance. israel was not the only country, but as you can imagine, it was the country that generated the most debate within, within the subject matter expert who are dropped in the report. but at some point myself and a few other subject matter experts were removed from the report. it was moved up to a level and i read the report when it was released on may 10th. and so it was the 1st time actually that i'm

to what your d is doing to ensure the transportation workers and safety tested for marijuana use iforth and how department plans to address transportation safety and by the >> was thank you yes. any impaired driving it alkyl, marijuana or any o impairment is of course a major safety concern. undstanding of the rescheduling of marijuana from schedule one to schedule three ha w not alter d.o.t.'s marijuana testing requirements with respect to the regulated community. for private individuals who are performing safety sensitive functions subject to drug reference to onea as identified of those classic. even if it moves in this classification we d n have diren that authority federal employees including at ut employee who have security clearance for safety sensitive position, we do not understan that to be changed into drug testing requirements relevant to that. to be change based on reclassification decision but we are continuing to evaluate an yield backessman napolitano.e. >> thank you, secretary buttigieg. as you know -- olympics representing the nighttime our nation -- the world's gr

finally, can you speak a little about the ways in which north carolina's department of transportation works both with amtrak and local communities to ensure that train service will benefit our communities back home? >> it's really important for us to listen to the communities and to understand the service outcomes that they need. we're starting to explore a frequency between charlotte and raleigh and so our first step will be to go to the communities along our main corridor, between raleigh and charlotte and understand how do they use our trains. how would they like to use our train. we have folks who commute between cities for their jobs and we have folks who use it to get to health care. we have folks that use it to get the college. our main corridor touches about 22 colleges. so understanding what times of day they travel and how they want to use it will be a first step to assure they meet with the travelling needs. we'll work with the freight partners and north carolina railroad and with amtrak to figure out what kind of infrastructure investments are needed to create that kind of

or delivery of us to monetary and assistance. a lot, stacy gilbert is a former state department employee who resigned over that report. she was a senior civil military adviser or the bureau of population, refugees in migration at the us state department and is joining us live on orange is here from baltimore in maryland. say, see thank you so much for being with us on al jazeera, so you resigned after 20 years in the state department. can you explain to us 1st, what led to your decision and just how difficult to decision it was for you? um, so we were tasked by the white house in early february to write a report assessing countries to things. countries compliance with international humanitarian law, also known as the law of war or the geneva conventions and their willingness to facilitate humanitarian assistance. israel was not the only country, but as you can imagine, it was the country that generated the most debate within, within the subject matter expert who are drafting the report at some point myself and a few other subject

in short what is changed at the department of energy?es have increased so much when he did take another look. it's not the ones that have been approved are not in the nations interest that they were and they are and they will continue to operate. the question of how much more new expansion and what will be the impact in the united states if we export or natural gas and what does" that do it -- we export 100 if we export the that's about half. what is that due to prices at home and that's a question? >> do believe more supply on the market decreases crisis and wouldn't the decrease price be to the benefit of the country? >> for sure it would be. >> one of the questions we are looking at we also have to take a look at what it does for global supply our allies all of that. >> again this is a good conversation for congressional hearings are timely. consider what's happening right now in ukraine isn't in here ie united states to increase exports of liquefied natural gas to cut down on t ability of the russian regime to earn money in the open

is also get technical assistance to the maryland department of transportation. is there anything you can share with us today regarding those conversations as the federal partners to maryland d.o.t.? >> thank you. congas men, i want to recognize the federal highway staff that have been on-site and in close coronation, both in maryland and in headquarters. so, we are meeting with them on the emergency work, on getting the e.r. funding on the procurement on the element of the bridge design that will be out there. so, it is a really strong partnership that exists. >> appreciate the work of yourself and nha, all the other agencies represented today. it is critical that we get the bridge rebuilt as soon as possible. not only for the city of baltimore, state of maryland, but the entire economy of the united states of america. thank you for the work you have already done and the work you will do on this important, important project. thank you. i yield back. >> thank you for the gentlemen yields back. i recognize five minutes a question for mr. n.e.o.. >> thank you co-ch

another group, at the national level with department of transportation, they have a committee technology and transportation advisory commission, the head that commission is a chief from chandler arizona who was good enough to invite us to the meetings, so commander nicole jones and myself had a opportunity to present. it was well received and a meeting we had today, they actioned the 5 initiatives proposed by the chief for the industry and those will move from that advisory group to the department of transportation. so, it continues to move and we look forward to success all around. our wamo meetings continue next week and zukes has been approved for a measured roll out in the city of san francisco. i expect to see their driverless carriages on the streets with passengers by the end of this year, and that's the end of my report. >> [unable to hear speaker because microphone isn't on. >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on the public comment line. >> [indiscernible] >> chief luttropp, with the bill moving through its stages on autonomous vehicles, do you have a sense of t

as explained that no way of transporting children or staff to bring will ask us if we will instead.e have to say no because we have been u a single private insurance company that will allow have foster youth participate. we also have two written at decatur correctional center. one is called the moms and babies program mothers can live with her babies and the other is ithoing unit where children are able to spend four days with their mothers. children in the foster system are not allowed to participate in either p fact foster youth are more likely to not live with relatives and do able to visit without support. ensuring visitste pairs supports individual court their parent is appropriate and of parents are in jail or prison becau charges completely unrelated to their children, and the children need and deserve a healthy bonding. certainly we do not want foster youth to denied these opportunities. there are many ways for system to club including provedn access abuse hotlines can aligning service plans unveiled programming and increasing access to legal services. funding and incentives

it, science shows it is the safest mode of transportation. article for the city of new york according to the fire department in 2023, lithium ion batteries caused fires, 150 injuries and 18 deaths. that is just in new york, just in 2023. we can't sit here and pretend like by stopping pipelines there are these alternatives that are that much better. that doesn't even include the fact many that my friends from california are talking fires and 150 injuries. 18 deaths. just in new york in 2023. we cannot pretend that by stopping pipelines there are all of these other alternatives that are that much better. they have been proven. slave labor and safety infractions. deaths across the globe. i think we are loading a very thoughtful and careful as pretending as though there are these better options out there. focus on what math and science shows are the safest options. y is that fair? >> that is exactly what we do. >> sounds like it is the first time you have ever said that. i would like to ask you a question. phmsa has not really made substantial ch

can continue to be tested for marijuana use if this proposal goes forth and how your department plans to address transportation safety and by the doj's one. >> was thank you yes. any impaired driving it alkyl, marijuana or any other source of impairment is of course a major safety concern. our understanding of the rescheduling of marijuana from schedule one to schedule three is that it would not alter d.o.t.'s marijuana testing requirements with respect to the regulated community. for private individuals who are performing safety sensitive functions subject to drug testing, marijuana as identified by name, not by reference to one of those classic. even if it moves in this classification we do not believe that would have direct impact on that authority. likewise i should mention for federal employees including at ut employee who have security clearance for safety sensitive position, we do not understand that to be changed into drug testing requirements relevant to that. to be change based on reclassification decision but we are continuing to evaluate an indirect impact it might have. >

for decades the department of energy's position on liquified natural gas hastu been that it is safe cleanand i interest for a it to beand then also a used in the united states and transported and traded around the globe. in short what has a changed at if. >> yeah, the only thing that has changed is that the volumes that have increased so much. we need to takee another look. it's not hat ones that have been approved are not in the nation's interests. they were and they areee and they're going to continue to operate. it's a question of how much more new m expansion and what will be the impact in the united states. so ifal gas what does that do for -- if wewe produce about 100 bcf, a little bit more, if we export the amount that's authorize oohed curntly about 48 what a does that do to prices at home? that's theue question. >> do you believe in basic supply and demand, that more supply on the mar decreases prices? and wouldn't that be to the benefit of the mix? >> oh, would be -- >> so what are we talking about? >> one of the questions that we have to take a looked at what it does for global

of transportation, who were already coming with re-routing partners, because we knew that people were waking up and figuring out that the place that they used to be able to get to work, that that was now gone. that tens of thousands of port workers, who were about to wake up and realize that they did not have a place to go to work. how to make sure that we're supporting the families. so i laid out four directives that first morning. one was that we had to support the families and give them comfort and closure, families of the six mariners we lost. the second was that we had to support those who have been directly impacted by the crisis. and that included the port workers and the first responders and their families. the third was that we had to do everything in our power to reopen the federal channel as quickly as possible. and the fourth is that we have got to fully rebuild the francis scott key bridge. and we stayed focus. we did not let anything distract us. we stayed coordinated with both the biden administration, who have been remarkable, the private sector, who have been tremendo