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As we continue to cover this massive storm affecting the midwest and east coast, this is hancock county, indiana, just to the east of indianapolis and central indiana and this is an area where interstate 70 goes east and west, one of the main arteries that connects the midwest, of course, with the east coast. you can see a lot of rail lines there and the live picture from a helicopter shows how much snow theyve gotten in central indiana. in the meantime lets move to the east coast now. this is t...

>> gregg: heavy snow crippling much of the mid-atlantic region, cutting power to half a million people from west virginia all the way to new jersey. massive power outages grounding hundreds of flights bringing major rail lines to a screeching halt. lets go to laura ingle live in the new york city newsroom that is following all of this. >> planes and trains and automobiles, not many are going places today as the mid-atlantic is getting slammed with snow. hundreds of thousands of people are withou...

Dollars in pauls roads and bridges between china and the west this week weve been looking at some of the stops along the route we finished at the end of one of the rail lines in the western german city of do its work home to the largest inland port in europe. it handles three point seven million containers a year making it an ideal hub for chinas new silk road project the rail link from china is already up and running and a two weeks for the journey cargo arrives there from china four times fast...

How could that happen? >> its really inexplicable in this day and change we dont have positive train control on all of the credit kritical pass lines. europe is different, the rail lines are state-owned ma tphaup tease, and here in the u.s. we have private entities, the railroads and the integration problems, and lets be clear, this is inexplicable and the engineer will face problems on this. >> yeah, if theres one thing you would want to avoid is this. how will they figure out what happened eve...

Im scared for my children, says tanya. we didnt want to leave, and im very sorry for the price i had to pay for leaving my own home. now they have to bear a journey west on rail lines that have themselves been attacked, and they take with them the traumas of this invasion. on board soviet—era carriages, they flee russias advance. many men have stayed behind, except those that have to hold their children alone. these patients now face a 20—hour journey to the west of here. with the kind of in...

Socialist to be tlair president. while chinas building up its roads, rail lines and free trade market, its radical left wing environmentalists rush to -- our economy is increasingly built on the government redistricting wealth instead of -- theyre building for a robust future, and as of this week, we should now realize that what were doing isnt working. surely america doesnt want to learn a new chant, were number two, its not about the mere pride of being first, its about having the economic fre...

Had the first inklings of what was really going on here. that in fact the occupy movement was never really just about protesting wall street. where did these days of rage start? they started on the west coast as part of an agitation with long shore workers unions in long view, washington. you remember the horrible stories that came out of there, mostly on fox news and alternative media. it was not covered in the mainstream where they were doing things like sabotaging rail lines and holding worke...

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Created by that earthquake that struck off the shores of japan. we saw images of cars. just like toy cars essentially being dragged inland miles it seemed. what are people doing right now? i mean, what is their state of mind? is there still panic or in an orderly fashion trying to get home, get to their families. >> reporter: we have to break it down into two different segments. in the area where im at in tokyo, it really is quite orderly. yes, people are frustrated. they are trying to figure ou...