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This is what paris should look like a year today when the 2024 olympics get under way. for the first time, the opening ceremony is not going to take place in a stadium. our sports news correspondent alex capstick has more. a games fit for the future in the heart of historic paris, with a promise to be the most sustainable olympics and paralympics ever. three—time olympic champion tony estanguet is the man making it happen. we want to demonstrate that paris and france can deliver the games in a...

Immigration. there are disagreements about whether or not most of the problems are at the southern border but that aside, the cost of this wall is just not correct. they are suggesting that $5.7 billion gets you a wall but it is not even close. >> it will get you about 234 miles of wall and there is about 1637 miles of border that is not secured by individual people walking out. most government projects, big construction projects, have very large cost over runs between 50 and 350%. >> and that i...

Very few jobs. certainly not the bang for the puck we imagined. >>guest: actually, there is a difference --. >>neil: and we are out of the bucks. you rolling the dic. thinking deeper goes better. >>guest: this is a new game plan. >>neil: no, more of the same. >>guest: well, what we have tried before was the equivalent of the works project administration. big dollar. big construction projects. works progress administration had a requirement that 85 percent of the money spent had to go for wages. ...

I got this infrared thermometer. when i take the ground temperature stepping out of your car it feels like its 119 degrees. now this heat is especially dangerous for the low income, the elderly and there are a lot of folks here in the st. louis area that simply dont have air conditioners or they dont turn them on. so today i went out with a great organization in st. louis called cool down st. louis. they are one of a few that actually they get donations of air conditioners. they find people in n...

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