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Community is moving on now. >> the border closure caused production disruptions for auto-makers costing the industry close to a billion in estimated closss. >> the bridge is open are you back in business. >> not 100%. >> reporter: paul russo is delivering delayed metal shipments to canadian auto plants. how long do you think it will take you to clear out the backlog. >> three weeks. >> reporter: you dont have the driver base. >> i used to move 30 loads aday to canada, now i have 15 trucks. >> re...

Stake. >> reporter: it really is. whats at stake, dana, is the ability to land lock states to get up to 2.5 billion tons of their coal to foreign markets. that means thousands of jobs. also, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to those states. now, two of the states are wyoming and montana. officials, theyre among sick states suing washington over denial of a coal terminal at the port of long view. the pun river base is the largest coal deposit in the entire country and supplies 40% o...