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Though work is underway to improve and expand the concourse tunnel, the rail tunnel between new york and new jersey is in desperate shape. it was completed in 1910. and while crews have been patching it for years, it really needs a major overhaul. approximately 200,000 passengers travel through this tunnel every day. if there is a catastrophic failure, the death toll could be significant. >> were going from new jersey to new york. >> these engineers at amtrak are taking me on a guided tour of wh...

Watch this real quick, chris. >> so, right now were going from new jersey into new york city. thats the direction were going. >> correct, yes. >> reporter: sal rendino and mike are engineers at amtrak, taking me on a guided tour of whats considered to be one of the most pressing infrastructure problems in the u.s. >> if you look up, you see all the ice? thats all the water. >> all the water leaks. >> so, all that ice is coming down from the road? >> yeah, thats from the road because were not und...

Great example of that. so yes. but the problem is we have infrastructure problems, human infrastructure problems in this country right now and uncertainty and uncertain times breed extremism. >> stephanie, you know, this used to look easy. it used to be a burning cross, a white hood. its not that simple anymore. its people who look like us who go to work every day. these attitudes arent as easy to pick out. its the casual racism, frankly, that we hear the president speak of on his twitter feed e...

So we produced the democratic task force report that talked about the critical infrastructure problems we were having. we produced our report. generated legislation. and many of the recommendations that we put in that report ultimately came out in our legislation. we have to put investment in our election system. we have to coordinate with secretaries of state to make sure that their systems are as best we can have in terms of he can tamperproof. we came up with legislation and passed it. now it...

Search of the infrastructure, both from the air and on the ground, and they say that they see no major infrastructure problems. that is according to the los angeles fire department. also if you are headed towards ridgecrest, there are about 30,000 people who live here. lets zoom in a little bit closer. theres a state road that runs east and west through ridgecrest. there is currently a rock slide that has occurred on route 78. so they have closed that down. so if youve got relatives, friends, ex...

35% clans, the greatest chance in yellow to have $10 million and $100 million. it doesnt take long when you have infrastructure problems like the highway were seeing, insurance claims for any home or business thats been compromised could have more damage if these swarms of these he earthquakes aftershocks continue. also, there would be days and weeks of inspections going on. you can bet every hospital, home, big, school, bridge will be looked at. we still have the possibility to have at least on...

Issue, the crisis of the border, any city is concerned about an influx of infrastructure problems that can break down potentially this is considering all this and i believe the presidents right to push back any of this. to ease a bargain closer to the border, if it came to that would you be open to allowing the chopper ministration and dhs to move the migrants to district? >> temporarily, if thats what we have to do to resolve some of the capacity we are seeing at the border i think were open to...

For the night. >> but does a lid mean anything anymore? >> bret: he could pop up any time. but your talks as we wrap up this day? >> i would go >> thank you for pointing that out. if outcome here is if there is no collusion, and the report says there was none and we get to move on from this, there are big issues to deal with. last week on the show secretary nielsen was here talking about the homeland security issues and the cyber security that we are not prepared. we have infrastructure problems...

Rules, the way he does the wall. be fair, he is the one that made it a single point issue, not the democra democrats. >> democrats have also stated, $1.6 billion for this wall as well as other proposals to make sure. donald trump wants $5.6 billion for a wall, period. and the problem that i have is not only do you want to shutdown government and effect real americans that are working hard every day to enforce the policies, but you also are not focussing on the real issues and we actually have re...

Would give him $1.6 billion for the wall. as well as other proposals to make sure we have immigration reform. donald trump doesnt want anything else. he wants $5 billion for a wall. period. and the problem that i have is not only do you want to shut down government and affect real americans working hard every day to enforce policies. but also you are not focusing on the real issue. we actually have real infrastructure problems in the country. not drinking clean water. why are we spending money t...