ashley halsey reports on national and local transportation.h he has had a fairly extensive number of interesting experiences, collectively they have not transported him into a particularly interesting person. [laughter] he was for instance the first person to learn who the real sam was, for son of sam killer david berkowitz. he once drank moonshine with orville mccoy of the infamous hatfield and mccoy's deadly feud. he came within a hair of death after being hit by a speeding studebaker. that was a while ago, obviously. he was on a biplane that crashed landed on the runway of reagan national airport. he has met several presidents and has not been able to offer any of them an original thought. [laughter] so ashley, take over. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. i should tell you our website people asked me to provide them with a humorous profile, so i sent them all that information confident that they would not use a bit of it, then they used it all. [laughter] i have not been able to ever deliver to a president an original thought. i know that