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bidens conviction. can republicans, voters, and trump himself explain away how a justice system they say has been weaponized by biden convicted the president thes own sun. it took an effort of herculean proportions clearing 50,000 tons of steel from 500 feet of water in less than three months after the key bridge collapse in baltimore. how soon can they start the next massive undertaking rebuilding the bridge itself? transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins me to discuss it in j...

Shortage. this is that the price of crude oil is climbing, highest in seven years, will continue to go up. gas prices will be passed off to consumers for things we order, obviously. how much is that gas price impacting everything else that were seeing in terms of, you know, supply chain issues? >> yeah, so, i mean, gas prices will continue to climb as demand surges as we go into a colder winter. its partly supply and demand but partly supply chain issueses. were seeing supply chain problems acro...

More certainty. its every single piece of this incredibly complex process that gets goods often from abroad all the way into our homes, and some of these things have been years and years in the making, but as weve seen with the pandemic, as demand came back, income came back, people started ordering more goods than ever. the workers -- by the way, look at the long shore workers, for example. they have lost members lives to covid. yet through this period they have handled record levels of cargo. ...

Retailers and were keeping score. >> do you have enough long shore men and women? are there enough truckers? has the pandemic made a significant impact in the amount of personnel available to move products? >> it sure has. but there are three segments of workers. the long shore workers that we have here on the docks, marine clerks and floor persons, have been on the job an average of six days a week since the pandemic began. weve also hired about 1,000 more registered and casual long shore membe...

call." im carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. herman cain begins this week fighting off allegations of inappropriate behavior. political reports, at least two women accuse cain of sexually suggestive behavior when he was president of the national restaurant association in the 1990s. heres how he responded when confronted about those allegations. >> im not going to comment about two people you wont tell me who they are. thats like negotiating -- im not going to...

Long beach in southern california, part of the nations larmest shipping complex, not yet experiencing delays in cargo delivery from japan, the worlds fourth largest exporter of goods. >> there could be effect on number of employees, long shore workers, truck drivers or people in the distribution warehouses and all the people that deal with imported goods coming from all over the world. >> reporter: many of the containers slated to arrive in the coming days left japanese ports before the earthqua...

>> reporter: so far, its smooth sailing at the port of long beach in southern california, part of the nations larmest shipping complex, not yet experiencing delays in cargo delivery from japan, the worlds fourth largest exporter of goods. >> there could be effect on number of employees, long shore workers, truck drivers or people in the distribution warehouses and all the people that deal with imported goods coming from all over the world. >> reporter: many of the containers slated to arrive in ...

>> but, yet, something even more dangerous might be taking place under the ocean. >> absolutely. >> that what youre saying? >> bp has poured hundreds of thousands of gallons of it into the gulf not only by air but under water. that a process not only unprecedented but untested. now green wire reports bp has released monitoring data from as recently as june 29th. results of testing its cleanup workers and finding that 20% of offshore workers and 15% of near shore workers had ten parts per million...

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...