but virginia representative barbara comstock was just now workers. and about unfair working conditions. that he had testified about. a house oversight panel has a lot of questions. about everything that's been going on with metro, the ongoing safety issues of course, and maintenance problems being discussed, mark segraves is there and he's been tweeting about it and will have more later today. >>> be ready for metro this weekend. crews will be working on four of the six lines. here's what you need to know. starting tonight, trains are going to be running every 24 minutes on orange, silver and blue lines. safetrack work will continue on the orange and silver lines and on the red lines you'll wait 30 minutes between shady grove and dupont circle on saturday. trump's thank you tour. >> president-elect trump in cincinnati sounding a lot like candidate trump, basking in the glow of his electoral win. >> we have the house, we have the senate and we have the president. >> going off-script, trump even surprised his staff, spontaneously revealing a major cabi

representative barbara comstock says that she supports metro's criminal investigation into the matter regarding the derailment, saying she looks forward to questioning officials at the subcommittee meeting. all we develop will be there along with the head of the ntsb. we will also be inside and it starts at 9:00 this morning. sam sweeney, back to you. autria the ntsb has wrapped up its first phase of the investigation into last month at least go bus crash. six students died and 20 others were hurt. the driver is charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, as well as charges of reckless endangerment, reckless start truck -- reckless driving, a six charge likely on the way. he declined an interview on jummy: happening now, firefighters to working to put up a hot spots remaining from the wildfires in tennessee. the death toll stands at 11. crews discovered the remains of even more people will searching the rubble right near the great smoky mountains. right now some people are still missing, including one mother and her two young children. as a vacuum it at residents begin to return t

i hereby appoint the honorable barbara comstock to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. an c. cummins, skyline church, san diego, california. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty father, creator of heaven and earth, and governor of all nations, we give praise to your name as we stand on this 159th anniversary of the opening of this beautiful chamber that has witnessed this nation's rich history. may god bless the house of representatives with another century and a half of doing the people's bidding in maintaining family, faith, life and freedom. we pray that the wisdom of king solomon be given its leadership for guidance to lead us in the paths of righteousness. and may they possess the ingenuity of the king to craft and create new means to prosperity for us all. lastly, give them the fear of the lord for without it no man shall possess your wisdom. we pray for peaceful transition of power, for racial reconciliation, for ci

he tweet it out recently and i think he was tweeting it today's hearing on barbara comstock is our -- do you believe that mr. jackson? >> mrs. comstock we have a difference of opinion on how this binding arbitration should be handled. >> let me tell you last year we worked together on metro. they got the money restored. i work to do that. i've been working with my colleagues in the region on the transportation committee. when you have that type of mentality, we have been working with mr. wiedefeld and it would be helpful mr. meadows just pointed out on her recent firing of people mr. connolly pointed out, here's the headline matcher union sues to get fired worker back on the job after the deadly incident. this was another incident where falsified reports happen. you are still pursuing keeping that employee who falsified records come you want to keep unemployed? >> mrs. comstock you have to understand that we have what is known as binding arbitration and the arbitrator decided this employee should keep his position. i believe even in his findings there were some evidence of statements

i think he is been tweeting today's hearing, making some swipes against chairman mica on the barbara comstockis her enemy. do you believe that, mr. jackson? >> ms. comstock, i believe we just have a difference of opinion on how the transit system and are binding arbitration should be handled. >> let me tell you we were. no, last year we worked together on metro. we cut the money restored, some on my own to try to take out. i work to do that. i've been working with my colleagues in the region who serve on the transportation committee. when you have that type of mentality, we've been working with mr. wiedefeld. their staff has been very cooperative and it would be helpful, mr. meadows just pointed out, reasons to fire people and i think mr. collet pointed out, here's a headline, metro union sued to get fired worker act on the job after the deadly smoke incident. this was another incident where falsified reports happened. so you are still pursuing keeping that employee who falsified records, you want to keep them employed? >> so, ms. comstock, what you have to understand is that we have with the

i think he's been tweeth today's hearing and making some swipes against chairman mica on the barbara comstock is our enemy. do you believe that? mr. jackson: mrs. comstock, i believe we have a difference of opinion on how this transit system and our binding arbitration should be handled. mrs. comstock: let me tell you. we have worked -- last year we worked together on metro. we got the money restored that we tried to -- some on my own side tried to take out. i worked to do that. i have been working with my colleagues in the region to serve on the transportation committee. when you have that type of mentality, we've been working with mr. wiedefeld, their staff has been very cooperative. and it would be helpful, mr. meadows just pointed out a reason to fire people and i think mr. connolly pointed out too, here's a headline, metro union sues to get fired worker back on the job after the deadly smoke incident. this was another incident where falsified reports happened. so, you're still pursuing keeping that employee who falsified records, you're keeping -- want to keep him employed. mr. jackson: