Roads Crumbling News Today

Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmor...

bermuda before moving out to sea. lets get right to puerto rico. you just got back from touring some of the serious damage with the national guard. what all did you see? >> reporter: we actually got our first chance to get into the interior part of the island. we went where we could see mud slides were blocking the road and keeping some communities out there isolated so we went in with the national guard as they tried to clean that up. where i am right now, ana, we are in the southern ...

its republican governor can make a midterm immigration point as a texas sheriff makes him the target of an investigation. ron desantis defends his move. >> they all signed consent forms to go and then the vendor that is doing this for florida provided them with a packet that had a map of marthas vineyard, the numbers for different services on marthas vineyard. >> what weve been able to do is show this border is a disaster. biden has failed on this as much or more than on any other poli...

We think weve been productive. we think weve put up a record of accomplishment that is good for the american people. well stay focused on those. >> senators, i dont think it matters whether youre driving through south dakota or worcester, massachusetts, or wherever, but this country is falling apart. bridges and roads crumbling. tom friedman raises an interesting issue in todays "new york times." the last time the gas tax was raised to support the federal highway fund was 1993. gasoline prices h...

Ideas for how to adequately fund road and bridge maintenance in oregon and the consensus was, why not do it like a utility? if you pay for your electricity as you use it why not pay for the number of miles you drive on the roads because that contributes eventually to the roads crumbling, so we need to keep them fixed up. >> explain how this works. this is, clearly, another way of getting more money. >> its a way of keeping up really, were not trying to increase the revenue more than we need in o...

Obama to run against is progress i was concerned, the most concerning candidate would be mike huckabee who is a populist, who is folksy. huckabee will not be able to get the nomination because wall street and the big correlations dont like his economic populism. >> who do you think would be the toughest competitor for president obama? >> you know, ill be honest. i dont see that tough competitor yet. i think -- im putting aside the personalities. heres the candidate i want is someone who is going...