honey mcmurray joins us once again from oliver sheet road, which is just south of the next room. colorado, honey, the colorado opened the road there. i think about 6 hours ago. can you just give us a sense of how many people have been streaming through the air because there is still a long, long line of people making their way north a man. it's on people that started to cross the northern gauze, or even before the designated hour at $630.00 within the 1st the group of people across spring to the northern part on ga the city on. since that is hard and now we are close to 15 right now people did not stop, come in and move in on the received word on constant the flow of human life, the floods of human for into the area. and it just shows you the extent of how many people were forcibly display as a, from the northern part of this trip. and how in fact, these really monetary intended to ethnically cleansed the northern part on gauze of cities. hundreds of 1000 of people for the past 5 hours or so. been moving on this road going back to to our san deer. and owen shock that this is the number of

honey mcmurray joins us from oliver. she'd road that is just south of and it's room car to honey. uh its i think it's been about 4 hours now since the that's comfortable with was open where you are people still streaming north the absolutely on. we can see the number increasing by the hour. now there are people who work in parts of out in the last the part of the southern part of the 7 days. trends area. 5 been displaced for the past, been heard about the crossing, then let's not forget that being largely disconnected from the internet, then no electricity in some parts of it got stripped. peebles, some people just doing the past the hour or so about the, the opening of the crossing, the slip last night, knowing that it's not going to happen and did not get the update until the past hour. so that's why the a lot of people keep coming in and we're still seeing the excitement seeing the happen in the, in the, the joy of people going back to their homes in the northern parts and gauze and cities. so it's unimportant on his step for them and essential one to rebuild their charter life

again, if commissioner mcmurray were here he would, i think, be able to talk about the impact that it has had on revenue in georgia specifically. certainly as the -- as electric vehicles grow as a percentage of the fleet in the future, we're going to need to find a way to have them pay into the system for -- from a user fee standpoint. right now, the highway trust fund is supported primarily by the gas tax a proxy for use on our nation's -- on our nation's transportation system. and because electric vehicles do not obviously consume gas, they're not paying in. so i think there are a lot of states across the country that have enacted some type of fee in order to proks use -- to approximate mate use of electric vehicles. i think it's something congress should take a look at as they look at re-authorization for the next year, how electric vehicles could pay into the federal highway trust fund. >> thank you. mr. tyman thank you for including your testimony, it could cost up to $200,000 for local governments to develop a grant application. that is a significant issue in my district. most m

commissioner mcmurray, who was regrets that he is not able to be here because of the winter storm that hit the southern part of the united states, i would save that the state dots across the country are preparing for the growth of autonomous vehicles and connected vehicles within the transportation system as a whole. we're seeing more and more of that in certain urban areas with waymo expanding operations in certain areas, and other companies as well. but just as importantly is the inclusion of technology as a whole in what we do from a transportation networks, not just autonomous vehicles or connected vehicles, but how we are incorporating technology into how we operate our nation's transportation system. because rather than first looking at expanding capacity within our nation tire infrastructure, state dot's i looking at how to better operate the existing system using technology, and we're seeing more technology being incorporated into what state dot's and localities are doing with their transportation network. because it is a good use of the money and it certainly is cheaper than,