mr. mccormick, if any? mr. mccormick: so last year when the second executive order was put out in march, we pulled a european membership and 38% of business travel professionals said their companies would be less willing to send business travelers to the u.s. 45% said they had eab less willing to plan future meetings and events in the u.s. mrs. watson coleman: can you translate into money? mr. mccormick: yeah. the impact there, we were estimating last year the impact could have $1.3 billion impact on travel expenditures and related expenditures here in the u.s. and the problem is that when u're talking about particularly group travel it is planned one to two years out. we won't see the impact until now and next year. the rhetoric is difficult, right, because just factually it has an impact on the perception of doing business. in a global economy, again, companies have options. they don't have to come here for that type of travel. they can go anywhere else. so that does create a problem for us as an industry. mrs

mr. mccormick leads gbta's growth and globalization initiatives. previously, he served as managing partner of hudson crossing llc, a travel industry advisory business. mccormick has also served as president of biztravel.com and vice president of global supply relations for rosenbluth international. you are recognized for five minutes for an opening statement. >> thank you, chairman katko, ranking member watson coleman and members of the subcommittee. we appreciate the opportunity to testify today. i'm michael mccormick, executive director and chief operating officer of the global business travel association, a role i've been in since 2009. gbta is the world's premier business travel and trades association headquartered here in alexandria with operations on six continents. we have over 9,500 managers and manage over $345 billion worth of global business travel and meeting expenditures annually. gbta has 38 chapters and affiliates across this country and operations around the world. i want to thank chairman katko for the time he recently spent in our

mr. mccormick about ten minutes before we got the call, and we had talked a little bit about how he wanted us to stay safe and how we wanted him to stay safe, and then, of course, 10, 15 minutes later we get the call, and it was him and his photographer. >> very sad, indeed. our thoughts are with the families of those journalists who died. alberto, by the way, still poses a flooding threat across several states. we're going to have the accuweather forecast in just a few moments. >>> an american is finally back home in utah this morning after two years in a venezuelan prison. hundreds of supporters greeted joshua holt and his wife at the airport last night. he said his faith and prayers helped him survive the ordeal which started as a wedding. abc's stephanie ramos has more on the emotional homecoming. stephanie, what a bizarre story. >> reporter: absolutely, diane. what a weekend for the holt family. joshua holt and his wife went straight from venezuela to the white house, and then today they're trying to get back to a normal life in utah. joshua holt and his wife are back home in utah aft

mr. mccormick 10 minutes before the call. we talked you about how he wanted us to stay safe. >> alberto now moving through alabama appears to be headed to tennessee and kentucky. . >> we're waking up to much quieter area around the bay area but starting out fairly warm for us with low 60s as you step out the door. the out the door temperature in livermore, 61 degrees and it's 57 now in oakland and as we get a live look outside. a clear sunrise will be under way as we look outside in san jose and go to santa clara, 62 degrees at 7:00. 82 degrees at noon. and we continue to go up from there as we head in the upper 80s and few spots in the low 90s for today but it will be cooling off and we'll have more on that and our temperature trend in palo alto coming you. mike has a traffic alert in the tri-valley. >> a light traffic flow around most of the bay and that's what we expect nor the morning commute. we have this problem at the dublin interchange. that's the problem, bad place, bad time. west 580 at 680, two right lanes are bloc

mr. mccormick ten minutes before the call. we talked about how he wanted us to stay safe. >> alberto is now moving through alabama and appears to be headed next into tennessee and kentucky. >> we see where the storm is right now this morning at 6:10. we can see how widespread the rain is spreading across the south. so if you have family in the area, make sure you call and check on them and they'll see very heavy rain while we continue on with dry and hot temperatures. we see a clear sunrise this morning, looking live over san jose as we go to willow glen. our temperatures in the upper 60s already by 10:00 and we'll be in the mid-80s later today. well above our normal high of 75 degrees. but we'll have a big dip in our temperatures by tomorrow. and i'll have more on that in just a few minutes. mike checking on slowing for highway 101. >> they had to search for the slowing, it was a lighter drive and as we lean towards the summer, schools are still in session for the elementary school system. we're looking at northbound 101 slow