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Mayor Eric Adams has announced a plan to remove the homeless from the New York subway and bus systems.

Road that is incredibly dangerous and needs to be replaced today. so this is money that will be an immediate cash infusion for that. thats number one. number two is how do we build up our public reputation systems, both subways, bus systems, et cetera. thats key is key for us and an important part of what were doing in kansas city. and the real final part of this is the president sees this as a jobs bill. we continue to need that generation of skills for the next work force. were talking about o...

Do you have a commitment from krysten sinema? do you have a commitment from the conservatives in the party. that they are going to support the bigger bill? are they all going to support it? >> i think that is exactly what they are working through as we move into that phase of things. i am confident that we can hold together with such important priorities on the line and i dont want to under state what it means. you look at the funding for public transit. black commuters are more likely to depend...

They are a bad actor with state sponsored enterprises that are taking down businesses across the globe, we saw in australia with their rail and bus systems being manufactured, almost solely by chinese countries. im proud of the fact that i have cosponsored a bill, the vehicle security act which requires that no american tax dollars be used to purchase chinese made trains and buses for our country. come investigate. >> the senate can take that up anytime they want to. >> your very quick last word...

Responsible. they are a bad actor with state sponsored enterprises that are taking down businesses across the globe, we saw in australia with their rail and bus systems being manufactured, almost solely by chinese countries. im proud of the fact that i have cosponsored a bill, the vehicle security act which requires that no american tax dollars be used to purchase chinese made trains and buses for our country. come investigate. >> the senate can take that up anytime they want to. >> your very qu...

>> rick: will the democrats go with his plans? >> if i were them, i would. if they want to save anything with their party, which is $3.5 million in dead and failing, i would get on board in terms of mobility. were 30, 40 years behind in our transit initiatives. you saw what happened when a bridge caught on fire. one bridge crippled the entire city. were so behind whether its light rail, bus systems, bridges built in the 60s. yeah, this is a win for everyone. so if i were them, i would get to the...

Operating from 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning to 9:00 or 10:00 at night. youre looking at 12 hours r for the time the public has access, not including the employees that get there before or stay after. these soft targets are going to stay soft. its not economically feasible to place the security on them. you have the commuter systems, the 3 1/2 million people in new york city that commute in and out of manhattan on the subway system. the number of entrances and exits to that subway system, bus sys...

thing. cnn newsroom continues right now with randi kaye. >> hi there, suzanne. thank you. well, three major stories on the radar this hour. starting with a major hurricane. category 3 irene batters the bahamas and eyes the carolinas. chad myers is watching that. a hostage ordeal is over in tripoli, but the fighting goes on, and moammar gadhafi still out of sight. and washington surveys the damage from the earthquake that shook the east coast almost 24 hours ago. i want to start w...

We talk to the bare foot bandit but terrorist could use the small plane. >> yes, a maul aircraft will not give you the same impact of 9/11. but if it is taking 500 pounds of nitrojen fertilizer or crop dusting. it could be dusting off a hole community of people using biological weapons. >> in tampa, florida, a small craft hit that building and everyone panicked and thought it might be a terrorist attack. but we get threaten worried about the nations railways and hold the same concern for our nat...

Security and the metro systems whether its seattle or portlandor sacramento or san diego that have light rail and bus systems they dont want them to physically intervene. thats whats wrong. whether its a stock guy in walmart or bank teller who captures somebody who just committed a crime these people get fired if they physically intervene. reminds me of that episode of "seinfeld" where theyre witnessing a crime do nothing and end up getting arrested. thats what should happen in our society if yo...