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Is to take care of the injured by completing a thorough search and rescue effort. in corporation with many of the areas emergency medical service personnel. we have continued this through the night and anticipate this effort will be going on for the next couple days. other cities and communities have stepped forward to help joplin during our time of distress. we have approximately 40 agencies helping with our public safety issues as well as our infrastructure needs. many public works crews have ...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...

About? >> i think its a great idea. we ought to be using our bonding power. you know, dylan, its interesting. only the federal government doesnt have a capital budget. every state, every county, every city has a capital budget where we go out and bond for our infrastructure needs. but the federal government doesnt. and to develop those bonds and use as an income stream for those bonds, bringing that money back from abroad, its a great idea. even the little thing that the obama administration did...

Infrastructure needs. >> but we have to borrow it to spend the money that creates the jobs and gets money coming in you have to borrow it before you can spend it, right? >>guest: the government has to invest money to create jobs but we have the wrong part of the equation we are talking only cutting not that there is a drag on the economy. we should be investing but with this promise, that is a good place to invest so we can create jobs and purpose the economy and get it moving. >>shepard: why di...

Hill. congressman, good to see you today. tell me a little bit, specifically the issues youre hoping to tackle. >> well, weve got a tremendous amount of interest in this years border conference. the conference was started 14 years ago so that we could bring information to capitol hill about the needs of border communities like the one i represent. this year in particular, we want to focus on, of course, the progress that has been made in helping mexico take on the cartels. we want to focus on in...

Survivors in the area. i think you and its an honor to be here and be able to support this and take the energy back to dhs where we will continue to work with the people of texas. thank you. i would like to turn it over to secretary chao. >> thank you. day has been a very emotional and yet inspiring day, as youve heard from the governor, the vice president, and also secretary duke. the department of transportation is doing everything possible to support governor abbott and the people of texas. w...

Survivors in the area. again, i thank you. its an honor to be here and be able to support this. and take the energy back to dhs where we will continue to work with the people of texas. thank you. i would like to turn it over now. >> thank you. thank you. you know, today has been a very emotional and yet inspiring day as you have heard from the governor, the vice president and also secretary duke. the department of transportation is doing everything possible to support governor abbott and the peo...

>> all right forget the whole debt grade situation. dennis said we have a serious problem in this country and if he had his druthers he would be spending on more to get those jobs. well have a congressman to join us. what would you do right now? >> we should be investing in america. if the feds can give money to the banks, the united states can create money and invest it in creating jobs. >> havent we tried that, congressman. only a fraction of that went to creating infrastructure jobs. we need ...