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Catastrophe so far, and the response. >> john i think this could go down as one of the costliest disasters weve seen in the united states. katrina was very costly but this will take a long time to recover. and its going to be massive. and youre going to deal with infrastructure problems, street problems and road problems and bridge problems. so this is going to take some time to rebuild. and, you know, people will have to be patient. i know fema and the governor and everyone is working hard to s...

So as bad as it is right now, the potential tomorrow is to be a lot worse because we have more people without power and more people thats standing in water. i was noticing from your feeds coming in that these rural and small communities, that should take the power grid down. if you dont take the power grid down, as the storms come in, you are going to get fires and if you dont take the gas system down, homes are going to burn. so hopefully that will be something thats directed by the public serv...

Who is walmarts ceo. he issued a strong rebuke last night of the presidents response to the charlottesville protest. the president missed a critical opportunity to bring our nation together. those remarks made to walmart employees last night. theres other talk that members of the presidents council may be reconsidering their position since none have stepped down since this morning. >> shepard: what more can you tell us about the presidents statement on fixing the u.s.s infrastructure problems? >...

Director. so what we need to know is both what christopher wray was involved in in the early part of the bush administration when the terrorist attacks of 9/11 of course generated a lot of policies that became very controversial. the torture memos, that warrantless wiretapping of americans, so what his role as a justice department bureaucrat in those decisions were i think will be very important to explore. there are some serious infrastructure problems with the fbi. the fbi lab has had a host o...

You would be forgiven if youve missed entirely the presidents infrastructure week at the beginning of the month. after all, the week happened to coincide with the most anticipated testimony since watergate. jim comeys. trump announced that america deserves the best infrastructure in the world and said in a trumpian manner. >> its time to rebuild our country to bring back our jobs to restore our dreams and yes, its time finally to put america first. >> in calling attention to americas infrastruct...

Enjoy the relief. you would be forgiven if youve missed entirely the presidents infrastructure week at the beginning of the month. after all, the week happened to coincide with the most anticipated testimony since watergate. jim comeys. trump announced that america deserves the best infrastructure in the world and said, in his most trumpian manner -- >> its time to rebuild our country to bring back our jobs to restore our dreams and yes, its time finally to put america first. >> in calling att...

Infrastructure. the american society of civil engineers gives u.s. infrastructure, thats a pothole, a d plus grade. one innovative student in the netherlands has a creative situation to deal with potholes. asphalt with steel wool. you run a heater over it, it fills the cracks, fills the potholes and you can keep your roads in weathbetter condition we normally do it. >> heres a takeaway. thats super, super cool. are you going to put the money up for something amazing in the future. >> this is the...

Americas public transit systems received the worst grade. i would agree. airports got a d. the nations bridges improved from recent year. the highest grade was a b for the rail amount. this is a report from engineers. gue if you just take a drive across country or take a flight on an airplane. you know what were talking about. >> i dont think you suggest $1 trillion would figure our infrastructure problems. it is needed. "early start" continues right now. >> the white house ready for an earlie...

Back to work, and fixes a lot of infrastructure problems that make us less and less competitive. thats yet to be implemented and so you have to wait and see. >> richard, lets talk appointments here for a second. based on the cabinet secretaries that have been confirmed and nominated so far, there was this of course pledge made throughout the campaign to drain the swamp. there were promises that his cabinet his top level officials would reflect the support that he got from a lot of working class ...

Building. >> how much progress have you made? can you give us a percentage? >> we have made -- you know, i feel we have made a lot of progress in recovering the nine victims that we have, because thats going to provide closure or at least notification to those families so they can begin to start to heal. we dont even know how far into the process we are because we dont absolutely have a number of people that we know are deceased inside there. that will take quite a bit of time. so thats why we h...