the department of transport — flexible. the department of transport said _ flexible. ible. the department of| transport said unions should step back from strike action so the damaging dispute could end. another national 48— hour strike by members of the rmt is due to begin tomorrow. in their dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. meetings are expected between the rail minister, employers and both aslef and rmt leaders on monday to try to work out a way forward for. without a breakthrough, there could be more strikes to come. katy austin, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news — still to come: the king of rock and roll down under — the australian festival dedicated to elvis presley. the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. "good grief" — after half a century of delighting fans around the world, charlie brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. the singer, paul simon, starts his tour of south africa tomorrow _ in spite of

and frankly, i'm glad to see that the department of transportation is investigating eric's. it also filed a complaint with the department of transportation secretary pete buttigieg. once passengers like him to know the department has their back, we will follow up on every single one of those thousands of complaints to make sure people get taken care of this week. the department of transportation launched an investigation into whether southwest made unrealistic flight schedules, which could be a violation of federal law. we're going to be looking at everything from how flights are scheduled to help passengers are taken care of so that we can do to make sure that those airlines do right by passengers and if needed. he says his department will use tools like penalties and fines to hold southwest accountable. to point, of course, just make sure your life to the right thing to begin with. but we can simply back in. i trust that that's going to happen on its own. that's why we're here. and travelers like ericsson will be watching closely to make sure they follow through. we need to

unfortunately leadership at the department of transportation is more concerned with woke politics and changing the name of the system rather than appropriate upgrades for aviation safety. . . my legislation, which creates a task force at the f.a.a., with important input from experts and industry professionals to address both efficiency and resiliency of the system. and that passed out of the house both in the 116th congress and in the 117th congress in a bipartisan fashion only to die in the senate. i encourage my colleagues in both the house and the senate to pass my legislation before another failure of the system occurs. our pilots, crewmembers, and passengers are counting on us. and mr. chair, we do have a change in the 118th congress. the transportation and safety committee is being led by two of my friends. chairman sam graves is ready, able, and willing to change how the committee works and actually put legislation that is good for the american people and good for our transportation. and i had full faith in my good friend, ranking member, mr. larsen, to do the same. we worked t

he is the undersecretary of transportation for policy at the u.s. department of transportation. commissioner diane gutierrez-scaccetti, who is -- has done several cfr panels on infrastructure over the years. she is a commissioner for the new jersey department of transportation. also, stephen flynn who was the professor of political science at northeastern university, was the founding director of the global resilience institute. he's also a former cfr senior fellow for national security studies and has also worked with us on infrastructure investment. a note, this is a very transportation heavy panel today. the 1.2 trillion -- the infrastructure investment and jobs act is -- it includes drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, broadband, energy, resilience, climate and cyber. and it's notable for the other policy innovations i'm hoping we can ask the undersecretary to speak to as well. this is a down payment. we're catching up on underinvestment and infrastructure. the down payment is historic, but it is still that. with that, i would like to ask carlos to set the stage. one

let me begin by asking, do you think the department of transportation investigation into december's debacle is warranted? >> number one, we want to cooperate and collaborate with our oversight committees, the department of transportation and their goals -- if you think the dot is to make sure our consumers and customers are taken care of, we share those goals. >> this investigation will look at the possibility of the airline unrealistically scheduling flights it knew it were impossible to fulfill how do you respond to that >> if you look at our flight schedule, we were fully staffed to fly our december flight schedule if you look before the event and since, we have been operating really, really well. with the month of january, as an example, we are number one in terms of on-time performance here in the industry. >> right, but you have to understand, and i think you will agree, most people are going to measure you on what happened on your worst days, those last few days of december >> you know, i've got to start with, we really messed up. i almost cannot apologize enough to our customers and

now a question for the mutual head of the transport department. tell us about finding internal reserves. head of the transport department he is in the hall. how is he already on the podium? arrived quickly. using weak points and a counter plan, as well as an empty one, they again took on additional obligations and ordered to live long. how is he? chronic lagging. as soon as he appears not slowly to the podium, where the head of the transport rest. i'm here. our comrades save chronically lagged behind. now he chronically overtakes and long before the end met the new year drivers larionov and kutko, using one engine for two onboard cars. undertook to serve the maximum number of one fitting right in the garage. from one gas station, the drivers of larionov and khotkovo leave early in the morning for the line and return to the garage late. during the day , where he spends the night, without going home for the second month, wiping the dump truck with rags from his clothes. thank you please. well, comrades? it’s a pity that we didn’t manage to listen to

how you can describe the situation from the cleaning of the corporate chronicle in the uk department of transport order of the minister, boris johnson was removed from the photo everywhere. the fact is that the current prime minister does not like politics. sunak, head of the transport department is an experienced bureaucrat and knows the desire to do with the bosses. pleasant. it is impossible to overdo it, yes, manipulations with photoshop look stupid. but suna now knows how much the minister of transport loves him and dislikes johnson in the new year with new amounts in fat bills in lithuania in the first week of january, electricity prices rose by 65%, primarily due to price fluctuations on the norwegian stock exchange. lithuania imports about 70% of electricity, such an imitation marred the lithuanians, joy, because winter fears were not fully justified due to mild weather and lower prices for heating gas. in lithuania, the trembling is not so catastrophic so far. as expected, on the other hand, and you can’t call trifling tariffs, heating costs from 70 euros per month. in new houses up to 1

s department of transportation. the oakland project is listed as not recommended a significant setback in the overall funding, according to nola aga, professor of sport management at the university of san francisco. the city of oakland had expected to find around $600 million in order to fund the off site infrastructure that's necessary for howard terminal. in the current economy, it's difficult to find that funding oakland's newly sworn in mayor xiang tao was silent on the matter. tuesday the city's department of transportation director fred kelly, did issue a statement, though saying while we are disappointed to have not been selected in the first round, we believe we put forward a strong application and are well positioned to secure other funding sources, a city spokesperson says oakland has already secured $375 million, which will allow the project designed face to move forward without delay. the city also says the federal mega project grant had never been the sole intended source. and the city has other applicat

are delighted to welcome undersecretary carlos monje, he is the undersecretary of transportation for policy at the is department of transportation. commissioning diane gutierrez-scaccetti who is, who has done many, several cfr panels on infrastructure over the years. she is the commissioner for new jersey department of transportation and then also stephen flynn s who's a professr of of political science at northeastern university who is the founding director of the global resilience institute. he is also a former cfr senior fellow for national security studies and is also worked with us on infrastructure investment. just a note, this is a very transportation have a panel today, but obviously the 1.2 trillion, the infrastructure investment and jobs act or bipartisan infrastructure law, it includes drinking water and wastewater, infrastructure and broadband and energy anduc resilience, climate and cyber. and it's notable for of the other policy innovations that them hoping we can ask the undersecretary to speak to asse well. this is a down payment. we are catching up on underinvestment and infrastructure, and a d

he has been busy this past year as secretary of the department of transportation. he oversees the department that sees the largest share of infrastructure dollars. he joins us to share remarks about a growing problem that we all must confront. please welcome home department of transportation secretary pete buttigieg. [applause] sec. buttigieg: what a treat. thank you so much for the warm welcome. thank you mayor lawrence for your leadership and introduction. it always feels good to be among america's mayors. we have a lot to talk about so thank you for having me. i will begin by recognizing that the job of mayor has only become more demanding and more vital since i wore the title not that long ago. i want to salute the leadership of america's mayors. as mayor myself, i always looked forward to the winter meeting as one of the things in the year that i was always ready for because it brought the chance to compare experiences with peers but also the opportunity to connect with the administration and to make sure we understood how to use federal tools in order to help

we harness the incredible resources, skills, intelligence of people within the department of transportation, the department of energy, and to some extent the white house. there are brilliant folks in the white house working on policy and we work with all of them every day. it is growing the decarbonization -- the decarbonization blueprint for transportation was just announced last week at the d.c. convention center. that also expands to hud and epa. we work with epa on their school bus program. we work with fta on their transit program. our first focus is $5 billion for the national electric vehicle network that we are building, charging network. that is a highway based network some americans feel like they do not have to have range anxiety when they use an electric vehicle. then there is another $2.5 billion that will be discretionary grants for cities, indian reservations, towns, and states that want to build fillon charging infrastructure or infrastructure within cities. host: what is the goal of the charging stations? what will the u.s. look like with this money? guest: there is sort of

so that is something that the department of transportation has focused in on, pete buttigieg, he wanted of consumer advocacy. and this is the biggest meltdown because airlines have struggled as they come back from the pandemic. 16,700 cancellations. listen now to southwest ceo bob jordan. he was just on cnbc, and he takes the hit here but he also said in a statement earlier today that southwest did have the proper schedule in place and it did have the proper staffing in place but it was really weather that triggered this big meltdown over december. >> we really messed up that week. and you've got my sincere apologies and my full commitment. it is on me. you have my commitment to do what it takes to fix our issues. our customers are sticking with us. we really inconvenienced them but if you look at march and beyond, the bookings are strong, the leisure bookings are strong and so there are a lot of evidence that our loyal customers are sticking with us. >> reporter: off course he's trying to spin this since southwest airlines said it was going to lose between $$725,000,825,000,000 because

of dollars. the transportation department announced an investigation. with that in mind, i spoke with the ceo of southwest. it was a december debacle for southwest airlines. the cancellation of nearly 17,000 flights causing millions of missed vacations and celebrations. the airline today announcing an $800 million price tag for the ten days of canceled flights. at the same time, southwest finds itself in the government's crosshairs with an investigation into whether the number of flights scheduled was realistic. let me begin by asking, do you think the department of transportation investigation into december's debacle is warranted? >> number one, we want to cooperate and collaborate with our oversight committees, the department of transportation and their goals -- if you think the dot is to make sure our customers are taken care of, we share those goals. >> this will look at the possibility the airline deceived passengers, unrealistically scheduling flights it knew it was impossible to fulfill. how do you respond to that? >> if you looks at our flight sc

it had been closed since the weekend, and the department of transportation tells us it kept traffic away because of lighting and concerns over landslides. so, why were the train still running? >> the safety of the community is a top priority. >> reporter: he is with the san joaquin regional rail commission which operates the trains. but he says the owner of the actual track union pacific is the one responsible for determining whether routes are safe to travel. and it gave the go-ahead to trains tuesday. the day of the first mudslide. even after that mess, union pacific engineers inspected the area and, again, dean did say, but less than 24 hours later in roughly the same area, passengers on another train were also stranded and had to be rescued when a mudslide rushed down. causing an abrupt stop that injured at least three passengers. california's department of transportation thought it was dangerous enough to close niles canyon road the train tracks are even more at risk since they are closer to the hillside. >> i wouldn't necessarily say that the tracks are somewhat more dangerous. cal

our team on the ground >>> my one-on-one conversation with the ceo of southwest airlines as the transportation department launches an investigation into the airline's meltdown over the holidays i ask him, did southwest deceive passengers >>> the asteroid the size of a delivery truck having a very close encounter with earth tonight. >>> grin and bear it the selfie snapper and one wild photo shoot. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening and thank you for joining us tonight, the city of memphis, tennessee, nervously awaits tomorrow's expected release of video that officials say will underscore why they have moved to charge five former memphis police officers with murder. they are accused of being part of a violent confrontation earlier this month that led to 29-year-old tyre nichols being severely injured it happened after a traffic stop he died from his injuries a few days later the shelby county d.a. saying the actions of all of them resulted in tyre nichols' death. the five black defendants face multiple charges including second-degree murder officials say they expect videos of

department of transportation. the oakland project is listed as not recommended a significant setback in the overall funding, according to nola aga, professor of sport management at the university of san francisco. the city of oakland had expected to find around $600 million in order to fund the off site infrastructure that's necessary for howard terminal. in the current economy, it's difficult to find that funding oakland's newly sworn in mayor xiang tao was silent on the matter. tuesday the city's department of transportation director fred kelly, did issue a statement, though saying while we are disappointed to have not been selected in the first round, we believe we put forward a strong application and are well positioned to secure other funding sources, a city spokesperson says oakland has already secured $375 million, which will allow the project designed face to move forward without delay. the city also says the federal mega project grant had never been the sole intended source. and the city has other applicat

. >> the department of transportation is looking into what caused southwest airlines travel meltdown last month. >>> this is what we begin with. memphis on edge this morning, the city is bracing for the release of police body cam video of officers beating tyre nichols after a traffic stop that turned deadly. we're waiting to see if officers involved will face charges. i have a warning for you, we're going to show you a photo of tyre nichols in his hospital bet before he died. his family has seen the body cam footage they say it's horrific. they demanding murder charges. they say officers beat tyre like a human pinata for several minutes. sara sidner joins us this morning. they're bracing for the video in memphis. the chief condemning what happened to tyre. this is an awful sorry all around. >> reporter: it is. because we have not seen the video and the public has not seen the video, there is great concern here about what the response is going to be. but we do know that this was a vicious attack really on the part of these five officers. and there are a lot of questions. we heard from

biden administration. >> they're being hurt by the incompetence we're seeing over at the department of transportation and california. republican congressman david vela says this kind of issue doesn't happen in europe. so what are they doing, right? what are we doing wrong? democrats like california congresswoman judy chu and new mexico congresswoman, that as a ledger, fernandez says wednesday's trouble shows the system and security need improvements. i believe that the money that we put in well go a long way to improving the situation. so it doesn't happen again. we have not been investing adequately in our federal agencies and south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace agrees change is needed. just on the heels of the southwest airlines tobacco. now we have this. we need to have a serious discussion about airline technology, both democrats and republicans agree this is a key part of american infrastructure. >> that means a closer look reporting in washington. i'm basil, john. lunar new year festivities are returning to san francisco this year. and as the city gets ready to celebrate chinese

with that, i'm going to turn it over to the california department of transportation. >> thank you. morning. i'm the director for the california department of transportation. at caltrans, safety is our top priority for the traveling public. we're asking the public right now that if you don't need to be on our roadways, we're asking you to stay home, avoid nonessential trips, at least until the peak of the storm subsides. caltrans has activated our 12 emergency operations centers throughout the state. we are monitoring the storm as we speak right now. we have over 4,000 crews that have been deployed and are working 12-hour shifts around the clock to address any flooding, mudslides, rockslides, anything that may impact t the traveling publilic. we're placing our equipment and many of our r resources in crcritical locations so that we can be very quick and nimimble react and recover very quickly. we're also monitoring various bridges throughout the state for the water levelss andnd the flo. if you do have to travel, i will say before you travel, caltrans has several options for you to

the department of transportation is continuing to get those complaints, including from people who say southwest is now not following through on its pledge to give people refunds. southwest argues it's going to do that, that it's processing tens of thousands of complaints every day. federal authorities meantime, say the people affected should file complaints with the airline. if that doesn't work, then tell the department of transportation. >> next in sports, the forty-niners back on the practice field today beginning their preps for the wild-card game against the seahawks game against the seahawks sports. coming up. dancing is everything. soccer is the best. but her moderate to severe eczema could make it hard for her. my skin was so itchy. and my outfit was uncomfortable. now, my skin's not as itchy. now we're staying ahead of her eczema. there's a power inside all of us, to live our passion. and dupixent works on the inside, to help heal your skin from within. it helps block a key source of inflammation inside the body that can cause eczema. so they can have clearer skin and less it

he has been busy this past year as secretary of the department of transportation. the department that sees the largest share of infrastructure dollars. he joins us to share remarks about a growing problem that we all must confront. please welcome home department of transportation secretary pete buttigieg. [applause] sec. buttigieg: what a treat. thank you so much for the warm welcome. thank you mayor lawrence for your leadership and introduction. it always feels good to be among america's mayors. we have a lot to talk about so thank you for having me. i will begin by recognizing that the job of mayor has only become more demanding and more vital since i wore the title not that long ago. i want to salute the leadership of america's mayors. as mayor myself, i always looked forward to the winter meeting as one of the things in the year that i was always ready for because it brought the chance to compare experiences with peers but also the opportunity to connect with the administration and to make sure we understood how to use federal tools in order to help serve our re

he said that he has directed a full investigation by the department of transportation. as you mentioned so far, the white house saying there is no evidence of a cyber attack. but what we do know is that there is certainly going to be a full investigation of this because this is critical infrastructure. what we know is that there is going to be further statements coming out of the federal aviation administration because there are certainly is going to be careful follow through this is affected and is going to have an enormous economic impact given the fact that so many travellers have been, i had their days effected by this and some 41 vows, or rather 4000 travelers have been affected by this. we know that there been flights cancelled there been flight in and out of the united states. and certainly we know that the president has directed the department of transportation to investigate. that's our white house correspondent. kimberly hall could. kimberly thank you very much. we're going to speak to john henry, who's johnny and so from el paso in texas. john, i would imagine

when we asked about the department of transportation's investigation, they sent over a statement sayingn part, quote, our systems and process became stressed working to recover from multiple days of flight cancellations across 50 airports in the wake of an unprecedented storm. southwest is expecting another loss in q1 of this year because of lingering problems from december. that being said they say bookings in march look better and they're continuing with the planned flying capacity expansion for this year. as i mentioned they carry the most u.s. domestic flyers. if they can maintain some of that loyalty they look for strong 2023, obviously the department of transportation investigation though adding a lot to their overall market and overall concerns with southwest. neil. neil: probably to put it modestly. i'm glad madison you can do the report here, not at an airport. for a while we had you all over the country in airports, at least right here near us. that's good. luke lloyd, strategic wealth partners what he makes of this. madison was reporting, luke. businesses are on fire. they're

we are ready to answer all questions on the hotline and the department of transport of the capital axioshopt out fitkulin, sergey evdokimov news. a trip to moscow was a new year's gift for 35 schoolchildren from belarus, all of them are winners of a creative competition organized by our embassy in minsk a program for children was prepared, rich in this walk along red square, excursions and a festive performance in the kremlin, the most vivid impressions in the reportage of anna balana their first wish came true on the train, arriving at the belorussky railway station from the window of the car they saw snow in minsk now plus 10. and here is the real winter fairy tale. children you were waiting for the trip. wow we have been preparing for a long time , participated in the competition and are very glad that we won a trip to moscow to schoolchildren from minsk presented by the embassy of the russian federation in belarus, these are elementary school students classes who won drawing and essay competitions on the theme of traveling to the capital of russia, there was a boy, his name was vanya, h

s department of transportation. and project is listed as not recommended a significant setback in the overall funding, according to nola aga, professor of sport management at the university of san francisco. the city of oakland had expected to find around $600 million in order to fund the off site infrastructure that's necessary for howard terminal. in the current economy, it's difficult to find that funding oakland's newly sworn in mayor xiang tao was silent on the matter. tuesday the city's department of transportation director fred kelly, did issue a statement, though saying while we are disappointed to have not been selected in the first round, we believe we put forward a strong application and are well positioned to secure other funding sources, a city spokesperson says oakland has already secured $375 million, which will allow the project designed face to move forward without delay. the city also says the federal mega project grant had never been the sole intended source. and the city has other applications pen

s department of transportation. the oakland project is listed as not recommended a significant setback in the overall funding, according to nola aga, professor of sport management at the university of san francisco. the city of oakland had expected to find around $600 million in order to fund the off site infrastructure that's necessary for howard terminal. in the current economy, it's difficult to find that funding oakland's newly sworn in mayor xiang tao was silent on the matter. tuesday the city's department of transportation director fred kelly, did issue a statement, though saying while we are disappointed to have not been selected in the first round, we believe we put forward a strong application and are well positioned to secure other funding sources, a city spokesperson says oakland has already secured $375 million, which will allow the project designed face to move forward without delay. the city also says the federal mega project grant had never been the sole intended source. and the city has other applicat

the department of transportation is looking into what went wrong. the white house says there is no evidence of a cyber attack. this month is national blood donor month. cbs news bay area is partnering with blood services providers to encourage people to roll up their sleeves as the need for donations reaches a critical level. reed cowan spoke with a woman who would not have survived a crisis without a blood donor somewhere out there. >> this is our home away from home. >> reporter: denise is in her happy place. a place where she lights up inking about how good life is and how frazzled. fragile. hitting the road with her husband jim , she tells me she was diagnosed in her 20s with post partum cardiomyopathy. a weakening and enlargement of the heart muscle red a few years ago, she was told she only had a year to live without a heart trend land. >> about a week after that news, i had a massive cardiac arrest. >> she took this photo from a much different ride, the back of an ambulance. >> they told me i was moving into the hospital to stanford university

a brigade of doctors in the moscow department of transport is on duty nearby, asking muscovites and guestspital to choose routes taking into account changes in traffic. in this way, it will be possible to avoid traffic jams and save time alexander sandzhiev pavel glazunov alexey aksyonov and ekaterina vesti. on the koltsevaya line of the metro , the infrastructure renovation work started on monday is being completed already on sunday brown the branch will return to normal mode. after reconfiguring the control system, trains will run more often in cars, and the train schedule will be stable. fully russian traffic control technology, we expect that the number of trains will be increased from 34 to 36, and, accordingly, the intervals of movement will be reduced. and this will allow us to give us an additional 2,500 new passenger seats in the moscow metro on the koltsevaya metro line. all the monasteries near moscow are ready for christmas. visit the monastery can be a wonderful way to relax the soul, report by alexander perfileva. this christmas tree is decorated in the most unusual way with

according to the moscow department of transport, more than 130,000 trips are made daily by car sharinga car sharing user violating the rules traffic, it's 31 years old. this is most often a man with a driving experience of more than 3 years, which is important to note that the only thing that a carsharing car probably does not have is fines for unpaid parking simply because it is paid by default, but in general these are the same offenses of small speeding from 20 to 40 km / h of movement. for each violation, car sharing drivers receive two fines, one from the traffic police and the other from the rental company. each company has its own requirements for users and often the amount for breach of contract is quite serious. for example, if the driver was drunk, he was stopped by a car sharing inspector who will issue an invoice for 50,000 rubles. if the user has become the culprit of an accident, then with his company card sleeps 30,000 penalties are also provided for less serious offenses. damage to documents on the car 10,000 rubles. garbage. in the cabin of 3.000, smoking while driving

soon, very soon came crushing disappointment like a home buyer, mayor pete learned department of transportation on the verge of collapse. department had a serious diversity shortage. deadly serious. imagine being adrift in open boat in the sea and down to your final tin of equity. you are about to run out of equity. that is where pete buttigieg found himself in january 2021. unfortunately for a nation, mayor pete did not ignore and took swift action. buttigieg located the problem, racist roads. there is racism physically built into our highways mayor pete announced. in his voice iron resolve of a man with bigotry and asphalt. a man that can feel the wheels under his lek tri vehicle. by november of that year, buttigieg ordered every freeway in the bronx for racism. underpass trucked gus carrying black and puerto rican kids to a beach in new york, obviously reflects racism. obviously. makes sense. probably identified we should point out, mayor pete didn't tear down and rebuild these racist overpasses in the bronx, construction is not his thing. enough to call him racist and move on. core to the n

of karatayka. veterinarkhangelsk investigation department on transport from the western interregional investigationent of transport of the investigative committee of the russian federation on the fact of the crash of an aircraft, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under the third part of article 263 of the criminal code of the russian federation violation of traffic safety rules for the operation of air transport, which negligently resulted in the death of two or more persons according to one of the versions of the cause and the accident became icing in the circumstances. investigators are looking into it now. the alleged culprit of an accident in which a six-month-old child was injured can go to a pre- trial detention center just at that moment, the nagatinsky court of moscow elects the defendant to the world of suppression at the first meeting. he asked to be given time to receive and present to the court positive feature. let me remind you that 31-year-old nurdi from the starkhans arranged a mass accident on sevastopol avenue of the capital while driving, according to the pr

wildlife under crossing is part of the state department of transportation program, helping reconnectanimals with habitats, which they become isolated due to high traffic volume, but i don't know if i came face to face with a cougar like this, i might puma pants. oh did not. wow that top five all time. isn't that right next to another dangerous animal or pun maybe caught on camera this time in the water swimmers down under they're perth in western australia were apparently blissfully unaware of just how close they came to a potential shark attack. drone video shows this tiger shark coming in what looks like barely 15 ft from shore. okay luckily or hopefully that shark was it ashad haagm theersonher that says after spotting the shark, he ran down to the beach to warn those swimmers. yeah, you got to aead he no i i humans in the water. can we also talk about how beautiful this water is right now? although i'm not going in other puma pants situation very much, so, yeah. oh, my goodness. this is the most wild that's wild. ever okay next to the fireworks pillar in england with two tusks. t

we have been working very closely with them, the ohio department of transportation. part of the good news i think of this story is that we are going to have an additional -- like the city's going to have additional because of this, an additional 10 acres that they can develop. they can use for the people of the city. we are working with the city of cincinnati eight to make sure that because of the way we are constructing this the onramp's, offramp, we are going to tie the community together and closer together to downtown cincinnati. that is certainly going to make a difference as well. let's build this bridge. let's get it going. we know the economic impact this bridge has for the country. let me say also a new bridge is going to have a huge impact for kentucky. it's going to have a huge impact for the state of ohio. the timing is right. this is a time in our history we are reassuring we are seeing things come back. one of the lessons we've learned as we need to make more things in the united states of america. ohio is doing that. kentucky is doing that. this bridge

there's big questions here for pete buttigieg, the faa falls under his portfolio at the department of transportation. he's been critical of airlines when they have had their own meltdowns. i want you to listen to him now he says the faa and department of transportation owns this problem and is investigating what exactly started all of this to fail. >> these kinds of disruptions should not happen and my primary interest now that we got through the immediate disruptions of the morning is understanding exactly how this was possible and exactly what steps are needed to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> the good news here, kaitlan, we are over the hump of yesterday. the numbers today pail in comparison. 540 delays so far compared to the 10,000 we saw yesterday. only 66 flights have been canceled in the u.s. according to flight aware. >> grateful flyers today. big questions for the faa, though. pete muntean thank you for the update. >> a glitch. >> if your flight got canceled you'd be really. >> i would be so mad. i know people are ticked. but a glitch. >> those programs are so important. we heard peo

. >>> the department of transportation denied oakland a grant that would've helped the city fund a ballpark. nearly $183 million grant would have gone toward the development of the proposed howard terminal site. we reached out to the city of oakland and they have not received official notice yet. they have been told the application is not moving forward. >>> crypto job cuts, microsoft's new artificial intelligence, here to break it down is ian sure. welcome, thank you for joining us once again. let's start off with the faa. they may require aircraft to have safe equipment by next year. why is this important? >> you may remember that last year and quite a bit we were debating and discussing this argument going on between the airline industry and the fcc, the federal communications commission. all of this came around 5g. as it has in spreading and we have been using it more and more, you may remember at&t, verizon, and t-mobile star and down there 3g networks. there was a concern that they are all timid or's. this tells us how high in the air their airplanes are. it might get disrupt it by 5g

hundreds and thousands of passengers luggage was lost, misplaced or delayed forcing the department of transportation to send the airline a formal warning. mr. mckay made a point you're one of the founding members of the r&b pointer sisters act has died at the age of 74. she grew up singing in her father's church before she had her sisters formed the group. they had three grimace as a group ever remembered for hits such as i am so excited and jump. she staged a very heroic battle with cancer before dying at home in los angeles with her family by her side. >> morocco said it will ban all travelers from china starting on tuesday countries are taking precautions after the rapid drawback of the zero covid policy has led to a huge outbreak. negative tests required for travelers from china starting on tuesday travelers must take the test no more than two days before departure on friday england and france in the us and spain and south korea announcing similar restrictions. >>> taiwan's president has offered to provide assistance to help beijing deal with the covid search that experts say could lead to a mil

we got a statement from the department of transportation. if southwest is providing refunds and reimbursements to those that were impacted by these widespread cancellations. southwest has not said how many were impacted but they did give 25,000 frequent flyer points to 2 million people. stocks recovered after the initial meltdown over the holidays. they were down once again today. they reported earnings loss. december disruptions reduced pre-tax profit by 800 million plus an additional 390 in extra costs mainly from compensations we talked about. the rest of the airlines are all over. we see american doing quite well. they saw stronger holiday season. everyone was impacted by flight issues but they rebound a lot quicker than southwest which had 3 days of cancellations. they canceled over 16,700 flights from december 25th through the end of the month and they delayed over 13,000. the airline maintained they did not engage in unrealistic scheduling, saying, quote, our holiday flight schedule was offered to our customers with the backing of a s

home mayor pete soon learned the the department of transportation was on the verge of collapsnte. e. de it turned out, the department had a very serious diversity shortage, . deadly serious. >> imagine being adrift in an open boat ina the sargasso sea and realizing you're down to your final tin of equity. you're about to run out of equity. that's for people to judge. found himself in january ofin 2020 one . that's not the kind of emergency responsible federal appointee could ignore. unfortunately, 2021. for a natiy repeat, did not ignore and tookr swift action just monthse an afr taking office. but a judge located the core of the problem, which, as we now know, wa s racist roads.is >> there is racism physicallyysc built into some ofally our highways, mayor pete announced. >> and in his voice, you heardsv the iron resolve of a man who has no tolerance for bigotry and assault. aand yet, at the same time, you also heard a deeply sensitive man, a man who can feel the hate beneath the wheels of his electric vehicle, where others might just hear road noise. mayor pete decided to stamp ou

look at the department of transportation.gain, seems like every week we have some major scan card there, with the faa debacle that shut down trains. before that you had the southwest debacle that supposedly there may have been information prior to the failure that it was going to happen, yet the department of transportation did nothing. uh huh a supply chain shortage under the agency. what are the secretaries doing? they're certainly not serving the public. maybe they're looking out for their own futures. it's surely not helping the american people. dagen: and not helping the american people is the tens of billions of dollars the airlines got in bailout money during the covid shutdown. i think a little more than a quarter of it has to be paid out. so in terms of the financial disaster of the covid lockdowns, i pon point to had that. congressman, i've got a couple more things i want to ask you. one, the wor word du jou aboue document disaster is embarrassing, that's the best word they can come up with. i wanted to get your rea

. >>> the department of transportation says that it is forwarding thousands of customer complaints toouthwest canceled more than 16,000 flights the last ten days of the year after a massive winter storm. federal officials say that they're directing the airline tn 60 days including those claiming southwest is not making good on its pledge to issue refunds. the government has vowed to hold southwest accountable. >>> elon musk just set a world record, but it's for something he may not be that proud of, and a new study names the worst city in the u.s. for traffic congestion. shanelle kaul has those stories and more in today's cbs "money watch" report. >> reporter: another choppy day on wall street ended on a positive note with all three major indices in the green. the dow gained 186. nasdaq rose 106, and the s&p 500 also up by 27. >>> federal regulators, meantime, are considering banning gas stoves because of potential health risks. new research now links the use of those stoves with childhood asthma and respiratory issues in adults. in an interview with bloomberg, a u.s. consumer product

driving conditions are dangerous near flagstaff or the department of transportation asked drivers use extreme caution navigating roadways after the region got up to 20 inches. that's not a dusting. that is real snow. >> some of the images of our mountains or feet stacking up. >> so stacked up on either side. winter storm reporting goes all the way through either side tomorrow. still strongly discouraged. it's possible machine controls are still in effect. the feet of snow they have already received. still levels already dropping down to about 3000 feet. some places where there was mostly rain out of this progression of systems. just a little bit of snow. from this particular look. our rainfall added up over mostly the last three weeks, putting us in about double where we are at this point in the rainy season. 205% of normal. livermore also double what is normal for this point of the year. one more round of showers. going to dry out. infirst storm system. not associated with the atmospheric river. pushing through by late wednesday into the afternoon and evening hours. mainly over the d

>> i would refer you to the department of transportation, secretary buttigieg has been on many of your colleagues airwaves speaking about this and what occurred brady has directed after action process to determine exactly the root causes and recommended next steps. faa and dot will continue to be transparent hear about the causes of the issue. and how we will ensure a system outage of this magnitude does not happen again. so what i said earlier which is very true, our number one focus is to make sure the safety of americans who are flying, we want to make sure they are safe for the second part of this is to make sure this does not happen again. so again there's going to be an after action process and will move from there. >> bubbled up yesterday, does the white house think gas stoves are safe? i know the consumer product safety commission said today there one with the communication for the white house? >> as far as a safety piece of it, it is not something for us to answer from here. out refer to the consumer product safety commission. as the chair said today and i quote research indic

department of transportation is expanding its investigation of southwest looking specifically at whether southwest exact set an unrealistic flight schedule. they knew they couldn't handle. >> in a statement, a dot spokesperson suggested that could amount to what quote, under federal law is considered an unfair and deceptive practice. continuing, quote, dot will leverage the full extent of its investigative and enforcement power to ensure consumers are protected. and this process will continue to evolve as the department learns more. there is some good news in the earnings call. southwest said its process. nearly all refunds and lost bag requests and 80% of reimbursements. it also said the crew software that appears to have caused most of the disruptions is being addressed specifically responding to the dot is new run of its investigation. southwest tells newsnation its holiday flight schedule was thoughtfully designed an offer to our customers with the backing of a solid plan to operate it. and with ample staffing. >> we do that for the first. >> well, that was lambert reporting now sout